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Editorial: It Really Was The Spending, Stupid  - IBD Editorials

08/23/2011 06:32 PM ET - Big Government: The Tea Party has so influenced the national discourse that the question is no longer, "Is spending really the problem?" Now it's: "Which kind of government spending is worst?" Washington may just have felt a taste of what life on the Left Coast is like, with a 5.9 earthquake ... More »


Russian cargo flight to space station crashes: report - Reuters

(Reuters) - A Russian spacecraft supplying six astronauts aboard the International Space Station failed to reach orbit on Wednesday and burned up in the atmosphere, its debris crashing in Siberia, Interfax news reported...More>>


America's Green Quagmire - NRO
Obama’s energy agenda has been a very expensive failure.

by Jonah Goldberg
It was a massive flatbed truck, flanked by smaller vehicles brandishing “oversized load” banners, carrying a huge white thing.  I think the first one I saw was in Ohio. But I know that by the time I passed Grand Island, Neb., I’d lost count.
What was it? At first, it looked like it could be a replacement for the Swords of Qādisīyah — that giant crossed-blades sculpture in central Baghdad...More>>



Black Pols’ Anger at Tea Party Should Be Refocused on Obama - Hot Air Green Room

by Howard Portnoy
It’s a feeling sports fans know well. Your team has just had its head handed to it by its fiercest rival. You leave the stadium or arena tasting bile. If you’re an adult, you turn the page, vowing that your team (and you) will live to fight another day. If you’re not, you irrationally lash out at your opponent for having played a better game and stoop to name calling...More>>



Could Libya’s next rulers be worse than Gaddafi? - National Post

by George Jonas
Even allowing for the uneasy relationship between reporting and reality from both sides in Libya’s civil war, Muammar Gaddafi’s regime seems on its last legs. Feeling jubilant over the downfall of Libya’s tyrant wouldn’t be a hard task as a rule. A particularly loathsome specimen even by Middle East standards, Gaddafi’s departure would have felt like a net gain for humanity as well as for his own country in 1969, when he seized power; in the 1970s, when he was murdering his rivals and opponents; in the 1980s, when he was sponsoring and facilitating terrorism all over the world; and in the 1990s and 2000s, when he was merely assassinating dissidents while pretending to turn over a new leaf...More>>