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North Dakota’s oil production has exploded in the past decade with improved horizontal drilling techniques into the Bakken shale and the Three Forks formation below it.

Eric Cantor says even Arab nations are questioning where America’s leadership is in foreign policy. Obama’s mistreatment of Israel is in the spotlight as Romney heads to Israel and other stops on a foreign policy tour.

What shouldn’t get lost in all this are the policies of the Obama administration that have helped facilitate the ascendency of the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly in Egypt.

We may soon find out what happened to much of Saddam’s WMD.

Opponents of Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) have secured enough votes to block ratification.

“Yes it is chaotic and tumultuous and dangerous, but what we’re feeling most is not just that tumult, we’ve been through tumult before. What we’re feeling is the absence of American leadership. Because, you see, when there isn’t a country that has a view of how human history ought to unfold, then no country, friend or foe, knows that there is indeed an anchor toward a better future.

And it is not that Obama had an anti-Zionist pastor in Chicago that bothers Jews or Israelis as much as it is the sense that Obama really stayed in that church and imbibed the anti-Semitism-tinged Black Liberation Theology thinking of Jeremiah Wright. No one forced him. He felt at home with the ideology.

This is Chavez who has invited Iran in, who has invited Hezbollah. Hezbollah, of course, being a surrogate and a proxy for Iran would potentially have access to weapons that could be used against us. This is Chavez who champions the Bolivarian Revolution movement and is spreading dictatorships and tyranny throughout Latin America. This is Chavez who supports FARC and other terrorist activity in nations like Colombia, that are our friends.

Everyone knows that Islam is violent in the deeper parts of their minds, where common sense observations directly gathered from experience go. Give people permission to point out the obvious and they will turn angrily on those who lied to them and manipulated them for decades. Worse still, they will brand them incompetent fools who cannot be trusted with the reins of government.

You’d think it would at least tie aid to Cairo to verifiable actions on the ground, not platitudes and eyewash for Western audiences. Instead, it’s already releasing $1.5 billion in no-strings-attached cash to the new regime. – IBD