FEULNER: Red tape on the rise Take notice of hidden taxes before they get out of hand By Ed Feulner– President of the Heritage Foundation The Washington Times Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Nobody enjoys paying taxes. Not the ones the government deducts from every paycheck. Not sales taxes. And certainly not the check millions of
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Old Problems With New Start The Senate shouldn’t ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty without guarantees that the administration will modernize weapons and improve missile defense. By R. JAMES WOOLSEY A number of years negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviets taught me that, when dealing with Russian counterparts, don’t appear eager—friendly
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Report cites 5 sites in Asia By Bill Gertz– The Washington Times November 14, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, left, shakes hands with President Barack Obama after the leaders declaration at the APEC summit in Yokohama, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010. China’s military can destroy five out of six U.S. bases in
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The problem with electric cars. Jonathan V. Last October 25, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 06 The age of the electric car is here. Everyone says so. There it is emblazoned on the cover of the latest Wired magazine: “The age of the electric car is here. CHARGE!” In the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The myth of an environmentally friendly People’s Republic. Ethan Epstein October 25, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 06 Beijing “There’s nothing we can do,” the taxi driver says in heavily accented Mandarin, as he shrugs and lights a cigarette, “this is Beijing.” His car is caught in a vast expanse
November 11, 2010 By ROGER COHEN LONDON — A world without nuclear weapons sounds nice, but of course that was the world that brought us World War I and World War II. If you like the sound of that, the touchy-feely “Global Zero” bandwagon is probably for you. I’m an optimist in general but a
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On Climate Change California Dreaming: Missing America’s Wake-Up Call Larry Bell, 11.10.10, 11:25 AM ET What happened to the notion that “where California goes, so goes the nation”? The Nov. 2 midterm election results demonstrated something very different: The Golden State zagged, while most of the country zigged. That dynamic applied pretty much across the
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ‘Net Neutrality’ Goes 0 for 95 Regulating the Web wasn’t a political winner last week. By L. GORDON CROVITZ As a reminder of unpredictability in politics, consider what happened when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee last month announced that 95 candidates for Congress had signed a pledge to support “net neutrality.” The
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WASHINGTON TIMES GAO: Border fence lagging, over budget Home Security mismanaged project, report says By Jerry Seper– The Washington Times October 24, 2010 The Department of Homeland Security has “largely defined but has not adequately implemented” controls over a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border promised for completion in 2009 and, as a result, the
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WASHINGTON TIMES Stopping the Next Stuxnet by Austin Bay October 20, 2010Can a worm bust a hydroelectric dam, on command? The cyber-warrior scenario goes something like this: If the worm is a computer worm (or other digital malware) infecting a dam’s computer system, it might be possible to use the malicious code to take control
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