By Associated Press March 17, 2014 12:21 pm (File Photo, AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) WASHINGTON (AP) — In the most comprehensive sanctions against Russia since the end of the Cold War, President Barack Obama on Monday froze the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials, including top advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea’s […]
Ready to evacuate: The Rev. Gerard D. ”George” de Vuyst and family. / Family Photo A Christian missionary from America who has lived in Ukraine for two decades says in an email to The Foundry that he is preparing to evacuate his family from the Kiev area because Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to […]
(CNSNews.com) – “Today I’m going to use my pen to give more Americans the chance to earn the overtime pay that they deserve,” President Obama told a gathering at the White House on Thursday. To illustrate why overtime pay is so important, he singled out Nancy Minor who works at an oil refinery in Pennsylvania. […]
Stanislav Krasilnikov/ZUMA Press/Newscom Crimea has just announced the preliminary result of its forced referendum. Unsurprisingly, 95 percent of those taking part in the poll voted in favor of Crimea seceding from Ukraine and joining the Russian Federation. But the Crimea referendum was a farce, and the free world must unite in rejecting it and calling […]
Newscom It may seem a bit crazy to pour huge amounts of cash into lobbying efforts. But if you can spend a few hundred thousand dollars and make a billion, it’s probably worth the risk. As one savvy investor is well aware, it’s unusual to make that sort of return on investment by building factories […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 22, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Menendez-Kirk “Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013” (S. 1881) threatens the Iranian regime with additional sanctions and appears to be the only way to counter the Obama administration’s flaccidity vis-à-vis Tehran. I am skeptical, however, that it can do much […]
President Obama with Vladimir Putin. Photo: Pete Souza A great deal of ink has been spilt over the evolving situation in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s de facto annexation of Crimea. At present, Crimea’s parliament has called for a public referendum to consider formal secession from Ukraine—the vote will be held on March 16. […]
By Larry Elder March 13, 2014 12:23 pm When blacks gave 80 percent of their vote to the Democratic Party in 1964, black activist Malcolm X called them “political chumps.” White voters, X said, “are so evenly divided that every time they vote, the race is so close they have to go back and count […]
Insights into the inner workings of Al Qaeda were revealed Tuesday by a former British Al Qaeda terrorist turned witness, during the trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law. The Al Qaeda witness, Saajid Badat, testified by video in the New York trial of Suleiman Abu Ghaith. Arrested in 2003 for planning a shoe-bombing attack on […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace. “I think it’s a mistake for some people to be raising it again and again as the decider of their attitude towards the possibility […]
