The horrific terror attacks in Norway Friday, and that’s what they were just terrible. Whether perpetrated by Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, or home-grown extremists as it appears to be in this case, led to a lot of initial knee-jerk bigotry. Blame in on the Christians, leftist and Muslims are using this as a platform to promote anti-Faith […]
Boehner Responds to Obama’s Address: ‘The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the People’ In his response to President Obama’s televised address to the nation Monday night, House Speaker John Boehner stuck to his guns, giving no indication he would be willing to compromise with the President on a debt deal. During his address, Boehner asserted […]
Falling mail volume and soaring red ink may soon doom Saturday mail delivery and prompt three-day-a-week delivery within 15 years, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warns. Donahoe’s forecast is based on a projected $8.3 billion loss this year as the drift from paper to electronic communication hammers the Postal Service. “On Sept. 30,” he told the […]
“When a country is indebted to the degree that we’re indebted, the country always defaults. We will default because the debt is unsustainable,” Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on the House floor yesterday. “If we don’t understand this, this default will not be because we don’t send out the checks. We will send out the […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that was trying to gather information on an underground uranium enrichment site, a state-owned news site said Wednesday. Lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari said the drone was flying over the Fordo uranium enrichment site near the holy city of Qom in central […]
The US is indebted mainly to …well.. Americans. Still, foreigners hold about 47 percent of the national debt, with China and Japan owning the biggest chunks, but not the majority. The U.S. owes somebody a whole pile of money. You knew that, right? Years of deficit spending have run up the national debt to a […]
Israel will probably attack Iran in September, a former CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East, including in Lebanon and Syria, has told a Los Angeles radio show. While Robert Baer didn’t reveal the sources behind his prediction, he referred to former Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s warnings of an Israeli attack on […]
As America’s poorest wait for Social Security checks that may never come on Aug. 3, President Barack Obama will be out celebrating a milestone birthday at a party where tickets cost up to $35,800 each. Obama has chosen the first day of the potential default to throw his 50th birthday bash, combining it with raising […]
After working hard to compile a list of Obama’s rather questionable record of fiscal promises and actual executions, the gist of which is represented best by the violent clash between myth and realty in Christina Romer’s “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan” whose epic failure is defined by one simple chart, […]
This past week, the Obama administration informed Congress that it had approved the sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams Tanks to the new unknown government of Egypt. The question of just who is running the government of Egypt was apparently insignificant to Obama and the decision-makers. This goes to the heart of the problem, as the […]
