(CNSNews.com) – On August 16, 2012–a little less than a month before the terrorist attacks on the U.S. State Department and CIA facilities in Benghazi, Libya–Amb. Chris Stevens sent a cable to State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. stating that a CIA officer on the ground in Benghazi had briefed a State Department officer in […]
Newscom Food stamp rolls have been growing rapidly. But what many may not realize is that participation among able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) has been skyrocketing compared to the total number of participants. That’s just one reason Congress should reform the food stamp program in the farm bill now under consideration. In just four years, […]
(CNSNews.com) – “You have given up your freedom of choice,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned Americans on Tuesday, as the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal released their latest Index of Economic Freedom. The Index shows that the United States no longer ranks among the top-ten freest economies in the world. When President Obama […]
Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN), one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack, told The Foundry that she was misled in the aftermath of attack and still lacks key details of President Obama’s response. “It appears he was AWOL,” Bachmann said. In an exclusive interview with The Foundry […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times December 27, 2013 The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of the Canaanite Temple in Newark, New Jersey. That was the very earliest form of an indigenous African-American Islam, one completely distinct from normative Islam, the 1,400 -year-old religion from Arabia founded by Muhammad. From this […]
Former minister Rafi Eitan, the former handler of Jonathan Pollard, believes that this time, Israeli efforts to win Pollard’s freedom may yield results. Pollard is serving a life sentence in prison for sharing classified United States intelligence information with Israel in the 1980s. Israeli activists have sought his freedom for many years. They have increasingly […]
by Daniel Pipes January 11, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner A survey conducted in seven Muslim-majority countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Pakistan) finds that a median of 10 percent of the respondents prefer women to wear either a niqab (#2) or burqa (#1) when in public. The specific […]
Documented evidence doesn’t stand in the way of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s claims regarding the attempted lynching of 25 Jewish residents of Samaria by an Arab mob from Kusra last Tuesday. In talks with Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem on Saturday, Abbas declared “the residents (of Kusra) caught settlers and besieged them, and they […]
January 13, 2014 15:30 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. BDS Stories: 1. Modern Language Association (MLA) proposes an anti-Israel resolution but stops short of calling academic boycott. The proposed resolution, reached after hours of raucous debate, calls on the US State Department to […]
Increases funding for Head Start and Early Head Start by $612 million, to $8.6 billion. Head Start has been evaluated by the Department of Health and Human Services and deemed ineffective at improving child outcomes on numerous measures. In December 2012, the HHS released a highly anticipated evaluation of the program. The scientifically rigorous evaluation […]
