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Mon, 04 May 2009 17:32:14 +0000 – By Phil KerpenPolicy Director, Americans for Prosperity The central question in the debate over global warming and cap-and-trade has nothing to do with the environment or even with energy. It’s all about one thing: revenue. Kudos to Republican leaders for taking a clear …

Imagine that wherever you live in the United States you have only 15 seconds to reach a secure place to avoid a rocket or missile. Seriously, count down from 15 to 1, and think about what you would do. For more than 3.5 million Israelis, Jews and Arabs, their mental …

She fell and hurt her head, but Hillary Clinton’s chutzpah survived intact. In her latest defense of Benghazi, the former secretary of state comes awfully close to making herself the fifth victim. Not to worry — Libyan terrorists aren’t stalking her. It’s those evil Republicans and some in the media …

When Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill repealing Common Core national standards from her state’s schools, it was perhaps the most ironic moment in the fight over the initiative. Fallin is chairwoman of the National Governors Association, one of the private groups that hold the copyright of Common Core. …

Gittel Jaskulski was a mere infant when she was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. Her parents, ripped away from their newborn daughter and sent to Auschwitz in Poland, died a few months later – never knowing the fate of their baby girl. The German-born Jaskulski would …

Revenge is best served cold, as James Bennet’s blistering takedown of our former newspaper, The New York Times, shows in riveting detail. Bennet, the Times’ former editorial page editor now at the Economist, waited three years after being forced out of the paper in 2020 before describing how the Times …

The nuclear deal with Iran is one of the most significant nonproliferation agreements in history. It reduces the threat of an Iranian bomb and greatly increases our ability to monitor Tehran’s nuclear program. It deserves the support of members of Congress. The deal blocks Tehran’s pathways to nuclear weapons capability. …

In war and other forms of politics, what a difference a day makes. On Friday, Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi’s forces were en route to destroy the rebellion in Benghazi, with the “brother leader” himself vowing to show “no mercy, no pity” towards those foolhardy enough to challenge his 42-year rule. “We …

Well, America, we made it — for the moment at least. The government did not shut down last week. But we all known that even bigger fights are looming for us as we look ahead to the debate over raising the debt ceiling and the shape of the 2012 budget. …

The debate over this year’s budget is over. Next up: an even more contentious battle over raising the debt ceiling.For this fight, President Barack Obama’s strategy is three-fold. First, warn of catastrophic consequences if the debt ceiling isn’t raised by early July when the Treasury Department runs out of fiscal …