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WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Friday unveiled tougher fuel economy standards for vehicles reversing his predecessor Donald Trump's rollback of U.S. regulations aimed at improving gas mileage and cutting tailpipe pollution. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is announcing it will boost fuel efficiency requirements by 8% for both the 2024 and 2025 model years and 10% in 2026. That's slightly more aggressive than the agency's proposal outlined in August. The new rules are expected to reduce consumer fuel costs by $192 billion for new vehicles sold by 2030. The administration is eager to...

President Joe Biden’s fiscal budget for the year 2023 seeks to give the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $7.6 billion in taxpayers funds to “land the first woman and person of color on the moon.”

As the Biden border crisis rages on, the administration is looking for ways to make it even worse. The next item on the Biden agenda to further destroy America’s border security is to repeal the Trump administration’s Title 42 border restrictions, which prevented so-called asylum seekers from applying for protection within the U.S. With no plan to protect the border, the Biden administration is preparing to end Title 42 while publicly acknowledging the consequences. White House communications director Kate Bedingfield admitted to reporters yesterday; “Title 42 is a public health directive, it is not an immigration or migration enforcement measure,...

President Joe Biden said Thursday that record gas prices were caused by the pandemic and Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine as he unveiled a two-pronged plan to increase supply and reduce demand. He announced he would release a million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic reserve for the next six months and accelerate the switch to electric vehicle. But his analysis of the cause of the crisis will attract criticism for opponents who accuse him of shifting the blame for his administration's economic woes. 'The problem we're facing with gas prices has two roots,' Biden told reporters...

It gives me little comfort to say, “See, I told you so.” Starting in 2008, there were many voices warning what an administration headed by a radical, Chicago-style gangster like Barack Obama would mean for America. But none of those voices were as relentless and prolific as WND. We exposed his background. We exposed his associations. We exposed his policy positions as a “community organizer,” an Illinois state senator and during his brief career as a U.S. senator. We exposed the lies in his books. We exposed the still-unanswered questions and cover-up of his eligibility problems. We exposed his Marxist...

Since the president’s Arab Spring speech, friends of Israel have been nervous about at least two issues: the promise Israel would not have to sit down with those who seek its destruction and the negotiations based on the “1967 borders with land swaps.” This weekend it became apparent that there is much to worry about and that the Obama administration has been playing a game usually practiced by the Palestinians, namely telling its domestic audience one thing and the negotiating parties something different.

HONOLULU (AP) -- Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will end his quest to prove President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii because it's against state law to release private documents, his office said Friday.

<p>HONOLULU – A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.</p> <p>State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual's birth documentation without the person's consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday.</p>

Interview from today

In a remarkable move that has stunned the legal profession, the Department of Homeland Security is systematically dismissing pending deportation cases against illegal aliens, even when the offenders have been previously convicted of crimes in the U.S. The government agency charged with keeping America safe quietly began dropping cases against deportable illegal immigrants about a month ago, according to a story in Texas’s largest newspaper. The effort began in Houston and has baffled local immigration attorneys who say the government dismissed their clients’ deportation even when expulsion was virtually guaranteed. “It was absolutely fantastic,” said one lawyer who had three...

Hard on the heels of the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, significant numbers of Americans think President Obama is a Muslim. The uncomfortable fact for the White House is the more the American people get to know Mr. Obama, the more they think he is a follower of Islam.... Suspicions were raised by Obama presidential policies, such as taking a harder line on Israel, ordering that radical Islamic terrorists be referred to only as "violent extremists" and engaging in an unprecedented and obsequious outreach to Muslim countries. Mr. Obama's bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Custodian of the Two Holy...

QUESTION: Why has President Obama given Imam Rauf (leader of the Ground Zero mosque) a seat at the table with our FBI, DHS, Department of Defense (DoD) and State Department? ANSWER: “We are letting the enemy tell us how to fight them” to ensure that we do not offend them. We reveal every detail about our investigative techniques so that Imam Rauf can tell Hamas exactly how we operate. But it doesn’t stop there… “Hamas entities… are literally training our counter-terrorism forces” and our “intelligence professionals fear the current Attorney General [Eric Holder] more than they fear the people that...

The first response to publicist Maria Sliwa's e-mail queries to news organizations about whether they would like to receive a review copy of ``The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists'' came back from a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor. The answer was ``no.'' But it wasn't just ``no.'' The reporter called the book by journalist-author-WABC radio host Aaron Klein and researcher Brenda J. Elliott - at the time embargoed and thus unread - a name for toilet paper I'd rather not print. Reflexively, Sliwa hit the delete button (thus losing the reporter's name...

Aaron Klein has been promoting his newest book, The Manchurian President claiming to be the first to reveal ObamaÂ’s ties to a radical church in his childhood. In fact, in Obamanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House which was released in August, 2009, Joy Tiz wrote the following: ObamaÂ’s Other Crazy Church Long before coming under the spiritual tutelage of Wright, young Barry Obama was finding religion at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, sanctuary for military deserters and draft dodgers. Following little BarryÂ’s inculcation into anti-American causes at the Little Red Church in Washington, the youngster continued his...

My radio show producer Dave Logan beat me to it. Getting the news about tonight's show out there first. Now you're in the know too... (Be sure to click the links below to see how the "mainstream" media is reacting to the book... they're positively writhing and howling over it, and have launched a smear campaign.) Thursday, May 06, 2010 OBAMA'S TIES TO COMMUNISTS TONIGHT--Brenda J. Elliott will discuss her latest book, The Manchurian President. Even before the book's release, it was rejected by the left. Apparently the book's content is old news to them. THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW--9...

He talks to Hannity.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia and China about Iran's newly unveiled nuclear facility to get the two countries' leaders on board with new sanctions against Tehran, senior U.S. officials revealed Friday. President Obama speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, at the Group of 20 plenary session Friday. And the strategy to build a coalition with Russia and China "has already begun to bear fruit," one senior U.S. official said.

It’s always a bad sign when a US president gets several rounds of heavy applause at the UN General Assembly, as Barack Obama did this morning in New York. Needless to say, the loudest cheers from the gathering of world leaders came when he condemned the actions of a close US ally, Israel, in continuing to build settlements in the West Bank. You can always rely on attacks on the Israelis to generate the biggest roars of approval at any meeting of the United Nations, and Obama dutifully obliged.

Well, today in New York with his speech that actually was unremarkable in its genus except that it comes from a head of an erstwhile serious nation, President Obama continued his tour of singling out his own country, the greatest force for good the world has ever known, today implicitly pinning on us the global warming industry's hysterical claims of apocalypse. This set the tone for the UN's climate talks this week and related discussions at the G-20 in Pittsburgh. But it's got me wondering. The world's fourth-largest economy (way back behind #s 1 and 2) in the largest emitter...

President Obama was accused of caving in to pressure from Russia tonight after announcing he was abandoning plans for a US missile shield in Eastern Europe. The president’s decision to scrap George Bush’s controversial (pounds) 2.5 billion shield system in Poland and the Czech Republic was immediately welcomed in Moscow. But it left countries in the former Soviet sphere concerned that Mr Obama was less willing to stand up to Russia than his predecessors in the White House. Coming on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War Two, the timing of the...