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The New York Post: The following is excerpted from Charles Krauthammer’s remarks upon receiving the 2009 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, named for The Post’s late edit orial-page editor, yesterday in Washing ton. AT a time when awards in the humanities are a near-monopoly of the left — Nobel peace prizes awarded [...]

POLITICO: President Barack Obama eats his vegetables and exercises every day — and he really wants you to do the same. From the White House garden to his picks for top health jobs, Obama is telling America’s McDonald’s-loving, couch-dwelling, doctor-phobic populace that things are about to change. Don’t be fooled by the presidential burger runs. [...]

The Weekly Standard: When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet. Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The economy’s sharp downhill slide eased in the late spring and hopes for future business activity improved, suggesting that the worst of the recession has passed. A Federal Reserve snapshot of economic conditions issued Wednesday found that five of the Fed’s 12 regions said that the “downward trend is showing signs of [...]

Boy, the recession really does hit everyone, doesn’t it? Counter Terrorism Blog: The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new audio message from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (a.k.a. “Shaykh Saeed”), during which Al-Qaida’s No. 3 in charge desperately begs for cash donations in order to fund continuing jihadi operations in Afghanistan. In May 2007, Al-Qaida’s official [...]

PajamasMedia: I am afraid I no longer believe . . . …That we have an inquisitive American media as we once knew it. There has emerged something as bad as state-sanctioned coercion—which we could at least identify, and thus struggle against. Now comes a more insidious, brave new self-imposed censorship of the Orwellian mode. It [...]

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WorldNetDaily By Pamela Geller If anyone thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim now, there is no one to blame but Barack Obama. In his speech in Cairo, Obama said that he had “known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.” Obama didn’t say that he had come [...]

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DETROIT (AP) – Italy’s Fiat is the new owner of most of Chrysler’s assets, closing a deal Wednesday that saves the troubled U.S. automaker from liquidation and places a new company in the hands of Fiat’s CEO. The deal creates a leaner company known as Chrysler Group LLC, which is not in bankruptcy protection and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the Obama administration doesn’t want to place caps on executives’ pay—even though it believes excessive compensation led to risk-taking that contributed to the financial crisis. Geithner said the administration will seek legislation that will permit shareholders to vote on executive pay packages, but the results would not [...]

June 10 (Bloomberg) — Edward E. Whitacre Jr. built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career. By his own admission, he becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. knowing nothing about the auto industry. The 6-foot-4-inch Texan nicknamed “Big Ed” said steering the nation’s largest automaker after bankruptcy is “a [...]

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Climate Realists: “To show you how ridiculous this is getting, the EPA has got the proposed regulation imposing a cow fart tax of $175 a year on every head of dairy cattle in the United States and $80 for beef cattle, $20 per head of hogs,” Rep. James Sensenbrenner, (R-Wis.) said. Breitbart .

Eric Cantor America’s Right Eric Cantor and House Republicans quietly wage war with congressional Democrats over a war supplemental provision that could put billions of American taxpayer dollars in the hands of terrorists worldwide House Republican Whip Eric Cantor has been ruffling feathers on the House floor over the past few weeks, most recently going [...]

WBAL Ron Smith via Free Republic Here is the column that was submitted by Ron Smith, a weekly Baltimore Sun columnist, to the newspaper. However, The Sun decided not to run the piece today for various reasons. Decide for yourself whether the decision makers at The Sun made the right decision. Because of all the [...]