Photo: Zhou Ke/Newscom With much faster growth rates between 2011 and 2014, China is now being forecast to eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy sometime this year. The U.S. has been the world’s largest economy since the 1870s when it overtook Great Britain. Before the current revisions were released this week, it […]
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call As has been widely reported, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the following at a speech in Ohio last week when talking about his colleagues and why they didn’t want to move on immigration reform: “Here’s the attitude: ‘Ohhh, don’t make me do this. Ohhh, this is too hard.’” Boehner […]
(CNSNews.com) – Five meters of ice– about 16 feet thick – is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea region along Alaska’s Arctic coast, according to Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia who has studied polar bears for most of her 35-year career. That’s because the thick ice ridges […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Air Force conducted a rehearsal last week for an event in which an enemy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) infiltrates Israeli airspace. Both jet fighter and combat helicopter squadrons took part in the rehearsal, and practiced interception of a UAV near Israel’s border, reported the Air Force website. The IAF sees the threat as a […]
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 […]
When Bin Laden was killed, the Muslim American Society defended his goal of creating an Islamic state in Afghanistan. BY RYAN MAURO Tue, April 22, 2014 The Muslim American Society, which federal prosecutors confirm was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America,” is boasting on its new website of how it’s been embraced by the U.S. government and […]
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 – […]
An exclusive report based on newly declassified documents obtained by the Clarion Project BY RYAN MAURO Wed, April 23, 2014 Newly declassified documents obtained by the Clarion Project show that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) misled members of Congress in 2012 about its involvement with Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities. Further, the documents show […]
