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Investor.com IBD editorials Posted 01/24/2012   Energy: The president might think that he's killed the Keystone XL pipeline, at least for as long as he's in office. But he could be very wrong. President Obama was able to snuff out the project and with it a vast supply of needed crude because the executive office [...]

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President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are entering negotiations over — or seeking ratification of — five treaties that could radically limit our national sovereignty and the reach of our democratic institutions. Particularly scary is that the treaties, once signed and ratified, have the same status as constitutional law and cannot be altered [...]

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed the key finding of Heritage Foundation research on federal employee compensation: federal workers are paid substantially more than comparable private-sector workers. Heritage Foundation economist James Sherk and his colleagues in Heritage's Center for Data Analysis provoked a firestorm on the left with their research in 2010 that showed [...]

AFJ (Armed Forces Journal) By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS   How military leaders have let us down I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over [...]

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. [...]

OIL – You better be sitting down when you read this !!!!!! As you may know, Cruz Construction started a division in North Dakota just 6 months ago. They sent every Kenworth (9 trucks) they had in Alaska to North Dakota and several drivers. They just bought two new Kenworth's to add to that fleet; [...]

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . Sowell was born [...]

From INVESTORS.com IBD Editorials Posted 01/12/2012 05:15 PM ET Environmentalism: As the light bulb phaseout goes into effect, you may be surprised to know the law also requires their already-costly replacements to be phased out too. That's right, new light bulb efficiency standards set by Washington also mandate light bulbs become 70% more efficient than [...]

The first ever AO(Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year. Jim DeMint, a Republican Senator, and Bernie Sanders, an independent Senator, led the charge for a Federal Reserve audit in [...]