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Another Stab in Israel’s Back

Saturday, March 31, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez

“The United States will always have Israel's back when it comes to Israel's security.” 

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We’re Number One – but, don’t expect a trophy

Saturday, March 31, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez

If only it was a very bad April Fool’s Day joke, but it’s not.  As of April 1, the U.S. will have sole possession of the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.  When the average tax that states add to the 35% federal corporate tax is included, American businesses are tagged at a 39.2% rate.  Japan is the latest nation to lower the tax rate on business and in so doing will relinquish the dubious top tax rate distinction to the USA. 
 

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Chu: Not the brightest bulb in the Administration’s Lamp

Friday, March 30, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez

During a recent committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) asked Energy Secretary Stephen Chu if he thought a $50 light bulb was “affordable” for American families.  

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Now there’s an idea – create jobs with affordable, plentiful energy

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez

You’ve heard the stories about the millions of dollars squandered by the Obama Administration on green energy projects supposedly to create vast numbers of new jobs in a revolutionary “green energy economy.”   But, all too often all that remains is a bankrupt empty building, or at best a handful of jobs – and, a heap of new federal debt.

 

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Open Mic, Open Mouth

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez

Mistakenly believing the microphone was off, Barack Obama confided to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he needed a little “space” to get through “his last election” and then he’d have “more flexibility” to free-wheel with Vladimir Putin on the critical issue of missile defense.  By some chance if you haven’t seen this rare look at the real Obama below is a video link to the conversation, and click here for more on the entire exchange. 

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Dems Still Attack More Energy Jobs

Sunday, March 25, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez
Sitting atop approximately one trillion barrels of oil and roughly 10 percent of the nation’s total reserve of shale gas, Colorado is poised to become a significant energy producer. But not if certain regulation-loving Democrats and their environmental cohorts have their way. 

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Politico asked about the "messaging" of ObamaCare

Friday, March 23, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez
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Shameless in Cushing

Thursday, March 22, 2012 | By Bob Beauprez

 

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N. Korea welshes on food aid deal: Satellite launch tests long-range missile

Thursday, March 22, 2012 | By A Line of Sight
By Peter Brookes

What's most significant about the news that North Korea is planning a civilian satellite launch next month isn't the glaring snub of Obama diplomacy, it's that Pyongyang is still honing its long-range missile program - aimed at us.

Of course, you can imagine how disappointed American diplomats must have been on hearing late last week that the deal they'd just struck with the hard-nosed North Koreans had fallen apart after just a few days.

The pact traded a North Korean moratorium on nuclear tests and work at the Yongbyon plant, long-range missile launches and the return of International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear inspectors for 240,000 tons of U.S. "nutritional assistance" (food aid) and other possible benefits.

Some wondered whether this was a good deal for Washington considering Pyongyang's proclivity for perfidy and already-existing United Nations resolutions banning, or condemning, these North Korean activities.

Nevertheless, the State Department cautiously touted it as a "first modest step in the right direction," which makes sense since Pyongyang had been unwilling to seriously engage with Washington since President Barack Obama took office.

In fairness, you can almost empathize with the administration's enthusiasm for the pact. Perhaps engaging the newly-installed North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, would orchestrate an opening to the outside world?

Or, maybe, down an unquestionably bumpy road, talks with the latest king of the communist "Kim-dom" would end years of hostility toward South Korea and the United States, finally reuniting the long-divided Korean peninsula?

Without question, it's fair for the Obama administration to test the diplomatic intentions of Kim Jong Un, exploring to see if the leadership change after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, would lead to other sorts of changes, especially of the positive kind.

Unfortunately, it seems the acorns don't fall far from the tree in North Korea.

But the cold dish of embarrassment Pyongyang served up to Washington with the breaking of the agreement is the least of the problems that we'll face from North Korea's planned "peaceful" satellite launch, set for around April 15.

While the shooting of a satellite into orbit to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong Un's grandfather and North Korea founder, Kim Il Sung, seems pretty harmless, it's anything but peaceful to American security.

The dirty little secret is that there is essentially no difference between being able to launch a civilian satellite into orbit and launching an ICBM at a target somewhere across the globe - like, say, from North Korea to the United States.

No surprise then that Washington sees the satellite launch as a deal-breaker - no matter whose birthday it is.

While it's believed North Korea probably has an ICBM capable of reaching the Western part of the United States, there are lingering questions based on its three previous, shaky operational tests, going back to 1998.

In the now-scuttled deal, Washington wanted to limit progress on Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, especially the development of an ICBM, capable of more accurately targeting an increasingly larger swath of U.S. territory.

Curtailing North Korean work on missiles and nukes would not only benefit American security (and that of our Asian allies), it might also undermine Pyongyang's profitable proliferation practices to places like Iran and Syria.

Now, it's unlikely Pyongyang will cancel the satellite launch despite protestations from Washington. But if its fourth attempt in getting a satellite into space is a charm, it'll be anything but a stroke of luck for us.  

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Tip-of-the Hat: Tom Tillapaugh, the StreetSchool Network

Monday, March 19, 2012 | By Site Editor

Tom Tillapaugh not only changes lives; he literally saves them. Lots of them.  

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