The death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials in Libya last Wednesday should serve to draw much-needed attention to an increasingly untenable contradiction in U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Even while it seeks to recover from this latest attack by Islamic radicals, the United States continues to support or tolerate the […]
Blame the movie. Blame the movie. Even though “the movie” was on YouTube for months prior to the collective indignation of thousands of Middle Eastern Islamists all coming together on the eleventh anniversary of September 11th (through a wild coincidence, no doubt), we are being told by our government and our media overlords that we […]
While the Internet has long been the battleground for opposing ideas, the most recent series of bloody protests has, once again, placed Google in the spotlight, forced to weigh the western value of free speech against Islam’s strict laws regarding blasphemy, at least as far as their own religion is concerned. The company has confirmed […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 11, 2012 Last week saw a dispute over Jerusalem at the Democratic National Convention that, in the context of similar incidents, provides an important insight into the party’s covert distancing of itself from Israel. The story broke on Sept. 4, when the Washington Free Beacon reported that “Jerusalem […]
Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis By Bob Woodward President Obama summoned the top four congressional leaders to the White House on Saturday morning, July 23, 2011. The night before, House Speaker John A. Boehner had withdrawn from negotiations to raise the $14 trillion federal debt limit […]
On Friday, Bloomberg News reported another embarrassing fact about the recently completed Democratic National Convention: it operated at a $15 million deficit. In a move certain to raise eyebrows at the Federal Election Commission, $10 million of that deficit was covered by a temporary line of credit from Duke Energy Corporation. Even with that borrowed […]
Wherever the government injects money in a specific industry, prices artificially climb quickly and a bubble of some sort ensues, one of many reasons the government need to stay out of commerce. The real estate bubble which was aided by government guaranteeing the risky loans that banks made to unqualified buyers, pushed and forced by […]
Today marks the second week of the 2012 Review Conference for the U.N.’s “Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects,” commonly known as the PoA. Unlike the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which collapsed for the time being in July, the […]
SOCIALIST TYPE GOVERNMENTS HAVE RESULTED IN A LOSS OF FREEDOM AND VERY HIGH TAX RATES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: WILL THIS BE AMERICA’S FUTURE TOO? Have you ever wondered what the real cost of those proposed socialist programs are going to be – once most of the programs of the Democrat-Socialists are fully implemented in […]
President Obama We Agree – “If I can’t have this economy turned around in my first term, it will be a one term proposition.” Please follow our lead, because the President hasn’t lead. Sign our Petition to President Obama at the White House and insist that he keeps at least one campaign promise; withdraw from […]
