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Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
Michael Barone on polls showing the Obama enthusiasm deficit among young voters.


Seth Lipsky: Benzion Netanyahu, Scholar and Father

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
Bibi Netanyahu's father doubted that his son was tough enough to lead the Jewish state.


Blahous and Capretta: Exposing the Medicare Double Count

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
The same money can't be spent twice. ObamaCare tries to do precisely that, and the government will have to borrow the difference.


Top House Republican cleared of insider trading

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has been cleared of allegations that he used his position to engage in insider trading and improperly profit from the 2008 market meltdown.
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Jenkins: Finally, Airline Consolidation

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
The Obama administration doesn't mind a cartel as long as it's a labor-run cartel.


Beijing's Financial Scapegoat

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
A tycoon takes the fall for China's flawed banking system.


Coal, gas exports meet tough environmental resistance

Global demand for American natural gas and coal is booming, but recent clashes on both U.S. coasts underscore that getting American supplies to eager foreign buyers will be anything but easy.

Last week, the Sierra Club announced that it would use a unique 1970s environmental agreement to halt the construction ...

Obama in Kabul

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
The President gives his first major Afghan remarks since June.


The Senate's Pony Express

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
Blocking reforms that even the Post Office wants to make.


Jury convicts Taliban ally in subway plot

NEW YORK | A New York man was convicted Tuesday of plotting an aborted suicide mission against New York City subways in 2009 a case that featured the first-time testimony from admitted homegrown terrorists about al Qaeda's fixation with pulling off another attack on American soil.

A jury found Adis ...

Obama tells the troops 'thank you'

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
President Barack Obama address the troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
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American Scene: Facebook makes it easier to become organ donor

NEW YORK — Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign ...

Obama's Kabul trip praised, blasted

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
A roundup of reactions to President Barack Obama's unannounced visit to Afghanistan, where he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed an agreement on future ties:
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When Stalinism was in Vogue

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
Lillian Hellman disdained a system that made her fabulously rich while romanticizing one that made its citizens spectacularly poor.


Ellison: Get troops out of Afghanistan now

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison says: We accomplished our mission in Afghanistan; bin Laden is dead, al Qaeda is scattered. For the sake of our economy and security, it's time to leave.
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Obama: Afghan partnership looks to peace

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
President Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan is marked with the signing of a new strategic partnership for peace.
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Occupy forces re-gather on May Day

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy protesters in several cities leading demonstrations against major financial institutions.

In Oakland, stinging gas sent protesters fleeing a downtown intersection where they were demonstrating. It was unclear whether police fired the ...

Best of the Web Today: A Giant Leap for Richard Nixon

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
Obama manages to turn the killing of bin Laden into a political liability.


Obama pledges to 'finish the job' in Afghanistan

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
President Barack Obama, speaking early Wednesday in Afghanistan at the tail end of a surprise visit there, discussed how the war will end and promised a steady drawdown of U.S. troops.
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Romney: 'Would have ordered' hit on bin Laden

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:33
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says "of course" he would have ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
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