We wrote earlier this week about the ways Obamacare discourages marriage and work. These aren’t the only traditional values it undermines. Obamacare goes against two values that should be no-brainers: prioritizing American citizens over non-citizens, and prioritizing help for the disabled over assistance for able-bodied adults. Prioritizing Non-Citizens Over American Citizens Obamacare includes special provisions […]
Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will take up two cases challenging the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate that employers must provide health insurance coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilizations. Over 80 lawsuits with more than 200 plaintiffs have been filed by religious organizations and other private employers to block the mandate from going […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online November 22, 2013 In three main ways, the JFK murder still has repercussions for Americans and the world. It also has a unique place in my life. First, had the assassination attempt not succeeded, arguably neither the Vietnam War nor the Great Society expansion of government would have afflicted […]
The leader of Syria’s most powerful Kurdish faction has warned of a possible future war against “Arab settlers” in Kurdish areas of the country, only weeks after his party declared the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region. Salih Muslim, who heads the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its powerful militia, the Committees for the Protection of the […]
Human rights activists and Jewish groups sounded the alarm Monday over the surprise election of a Slovak neo-Nazi as regional governor, AFP reports. Marian Kotleba’s weekend victory appears to be due in part to his anti-Roma rhetoric. The move comes as several European nationalist parties, including France’s anti-immigrant National Front and Hungary’s far-right Jobbik, plan to join forces ahead of next year’s European […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama, came out in support of Senate Democrats using the “nuclear option” Thursday to push through the president’s judicial nominees over Republican filibusters. However, in 2005, then Sen. Obama took to the Senate floor to oppose GOP use of the “nuclear option” in order to push through President Bush’s nominees when Senate […]
Embassy Bomber ID’ed as Palestinian November 21, 2013 16:12 by Pesach Benson One of the suicide bombers from this week’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut is Palestinian, according to the Daily Star. Michael Totten and NOW Lebanon look at Hezbollah’s fears of more suicide attacks. And the Times of London piles on with a new irony you gotta […]
The Obama administration feared an Israeli airstrike on Iran more than it feared Iran building a nuclear weapon, and that’s why it pushed for a deal to reduce sanctions against Iran, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton writes in The Weekly Standard. “Buying time for its own sake makes sense in some negotiating contexts, but the […]
Geneva, 24 November 2013 Joint Plan of Action Preamble The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek or develop any nuclear weapons. This comprehensive solution would build on these initial […]
by Daniel Pipes November 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner “For the first time in nearly a decade we have halted parts of Iran’s nuclear program” announced a jubilant Barack Obama after the news of the just-signed Geneva six-month interim agreement with Iran. But the American goal for the accord was that […]
