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Congress cannot let Obama negotiate a free trade agreement without tough new rules

05/14/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Congress should not permit President Obama to negotiate a free trade agreement with Pacific nations without tough new rules to stop currency manipulation and other cheating on trade deals. Trade agreements eliminate tariffs and lower regulatory barriers to commerce—for example,…

An open letter to Barack Obama: World War III is here

09/03/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Dear Mr. President, It’s been quite a summer. The world is not a pretty place right now but I see you have had a chance to play golf. In fact you’ve played golf through the worst of it. Right after…

Penn State students are building a moon lander for Google’s Lunar X Prize

01/20/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Gretchen Buttorf, an Aerospace Engineering junior at Penn St., tests a student-designed rocket engine test rig for the Lunar Lion moonlander. (Penn State) Forget ‘rithmetic. For these students, it’s reading, writing and robotic moon landing. In their free time, most…

Japanese elderly fight ‘Americanized’ TV

06/28/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Imagine your television news sprinkled with words that sound vaguely English but are in fact a corrupted form of Japanese. You would surely be confused. That’s the problem facing Japan’s elderly when they tune into the National broadcaster NHK at…

How did $300M minesweeper become scrap metal? Navy wants answers

04/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The commanding officer and three crewmembers aboard a U.S. Navy minesweeper have been relieved of their duties amid an investigation into how the $300 million ship got stuck on a reef near the Philippines and had to be scuttled. The…

Thomas Friedman’s energy fantasies

02/20/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
You can tell an aging con man has run out of new ideas when all he can do is mindlessly re-peddle the old ones. Thomas Friedman’s predictable sneer at the Republican primary process in The New York Times on Feb.…