Why Kerry Was Wrong to Rebuke Israel With ‘Apartheid’ Comment

AFP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry undiplomatically declared that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” if it fails to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast reported that Kerry made the disparaging remark during a closed-door talk before members of the Trilateral Commission. Kerry told the […]

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This Man Quit Michael Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Just a Week After It Launched

Michael Bloomberg and Tom Ridge (Photo: Peter Foley/EPA/Newscom) Michael Bloomberg’s new $50 million anti-gun group is off to a rocky start just days after launching. Tom Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania and Homeland Security secretary, resigned from the organization, the Daily Caller reported. Bloomberg’s new group is called Everytown for Gun Safety, an umbrella […]

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NRA Leader: Media Are ‘One of America’s Greatest Threats’

NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre. (Photo: F. Carter Smith/Polaris/Newscom) Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association, blasted the media in a speech Friday, calling them “one of America’s greatest threats.” “Rather than expose government dishonesty and scandal the way they used to, the media elites whitewash it all,” LaPierre said at the NRA’s […]

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Watch Jake Tapper Call Out Obama for Breaking Promise on Genocide

CNN anchor Jake Tapper yesterday highlighted the 99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in light of President Obama’s broken campaign promise that the U.S. government would make a formal acknowledgment of the atrocities. As a candidate running for president in 2008, Obama promised the Armenian community “that he would use the g-word – genocide – […]

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Oregon’s Top IT Official Recommends Scrapping Obamacare Website

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oregon’s top IT official is recommending Cover Oregon scrap the state’s disastrous online health insurance exchange that failed to sign up a single resident, The Oregonian today reported. Alex Pettit, Oregon’s Chief Information Officer, this morning recommended to a 16-member technical advisory committee that Cover Oregon—the state insurance exchange that is […]

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Why Thousands of Americans Gave Up Their Citizenship Status Last Year

Photo: Alex Grimm/Getty Images Americans have always enjoyed the privilege of living abroad without losing citizenship. Think Hemingway and Fitzgerald decamping to write in Europe after World War I, or Gen. MacArthur spending decades in Asia around World War II. Expatriates remain Americans, and have generally been welcomed back to our shores with open arms. […]

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Filmmaker on Why Media Doesn’t Cover Gosnell Trial: ‘It Asks Too Many Awkward Questions’

Producer Phelim McAleer talked today at The Heritage Foundation about his new project, “Gosnell Movie,” which examines the case of criminal abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Speaking at Heritage’s Bloggers Briefing, McAleer mused about why the media had largely ignored the Gosnell case and trial: They just find more interesting stories when a story puts abortion in […]

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Taxpayer-Backed Loans to Foreign Companies Split Hill’s Republicans

Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Newscom With a deadline looming on the future of the taxpayer-funded U.S. Export-Import Bank,  congressional Republicans remain split on whether to reauthorize the bank’s charter. The 80-year-old Ex-Im Bank, which provides foreign companies with loans to encourage them to buy from American companies, has come under fire for promoting corporate […]

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Gosnell Movie Makers Speak at Heritage About Raising Over $1 Million

Gosnell, a movie in the works about notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell, has now raised over $1 million through a crowd funding campaign, making it the largest non-celebrity promoted film  of its kind.  The film’s co-producers, Phelim McAleer and Magdelene Segieda, will speak at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, April 22nd about the progress. McAleer has said it […]

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