Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says he can work on key urban issues with some Democrats in the new House majority that takes over in January. “There are many other Democrats that will work with us,” Carson told The Daily Signal. “This is not a Democratic or Republican issue. This is about empowering […]
NOVEMBER 24, 2018 RAYMOND IBRAHIM The Jerusalem Post How can a fundamentally weak Muslim world be a threat to an economically and militarily superior West? One of the least explored answers to this conundrum revolves around an antithesis – namely, how the West portrays Islam today, compared to its actual historic experiences with Islam. In […]
“Sesame Street” is using its “food insecure” Muppet Lily to illustrate homelessness among children. Lily was introduced in 2011 as being a character who is “food insecure” because her family didn’t have consistent access to food. Lily’s plight with homelessness won’t be included in televised episodes, but it will be featured in new online videos, […]
Despite the claims of President Donald Trump, who may be referencing some new border fencing and renovation thereof, “not 1 inch” of his border wall has been built, said conservative author Ann Coulter, who also wondered if Trump’s supporters realize this fact. “Even a Washington Post reporter knows that not 1 inch of Trump’s wall […]
Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan met with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday evening. Erdan discussed with the Italian minister the cooperation between the two countries in combating terrorism, internal security and the struggle against the Hezbollah terrorist organization and the BDS movement. Minister Erdan referred to […]
One of the Senate’s conservative stalwarts, Mike Lee of Utah, says lawmakers should pass a criminal justice reform bill before the end of the year because it is necessary to the nation’s well-being. “We’ve seen what happens when we take away somebody’s brother or son or uncle or nephew or father and we warehouse them […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders is back again, with yet another attempt to indirectly mandate the $15 an hour minimum wage. It’s called the Stop WALMART Act, or Stop Welfare for Any Large Monopoly Amassing Revenue from Taxpayers Act. It would affect large (500-plus employees) companies, and among other things would prohibit them from buying back stock […]
First lady Melania Trump put her organizing and artistic skills to good use Tuesday when she visited the annual Toys for Tots event organized by the Marine Corps Reserve. Santa Claus also put in a special appearance, but it’s hard to upstage the first lady. “I have been looking forward to this event ever since […]
Some students at a Georgia college continue to call for removing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ name from a campus building, but aren’t able to say why. “We should probably just take his name off of the building,” a young woman tells Cabot Phillips, Campus Reform’s media director, in a video posted Monday by the conservative […]
Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland that “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” U.N. General Assembly President Maria Espinosa told the media that “mankind” […]
