October 1, 2013 13:48 by Pesach Benson While President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu met (CBS News nailed the nuance), Bret Stephens (Wall St. Journal via Google News) argues that Israel needs to strategically distance itself from Uncle Sam and not rely on American diplomacy or promises of military action to deal with Iran: That […]
Israel is keeping up the pressure on the West to demonstrate that it has learned the lessons of history, as it engages Iran at the P5+1 talks currently underway in Geneva. In remarks broadcast on Wednesday by Army Radio, International Relations Minister MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud) compared the talks between world powers and Iran with the 1938 […]
(CNSNews.com) – A United Nations’ review of the United States’ compliance with international human rights norms will not happen as scheduled because of the partial government shutdown, and the chairman of the reviewing body blames the Republican Party. The Geneva-based Human Rights Committee was due to have examined the U.S. record on Thursday and Friday, […]
To hear Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tell it, America’s long national nightmare is over. Except…it’s not. Our national nightmare isn’t the government shutdown; it’s Obamacare. Congressional leaders have been congratulating themselves on reaching a deal to spend more of our money—a deal that keeps their own special Obamacare treatment. But while […]
Newscom/Olivier Douliery/ABACAUSA.com President Obama said that once the debate over Obamacare and the debt limit subsides, he’s planning to make a push for immigration reform. But a pro-reform conservative in the U.S. House said Obama’s recent actions have made an immigration deal impossible. Representative Raul Labrador (R-ID), a proponent of immigration reform, urged his colleagues […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters on Monday that he’ll wait to see the details before deciding whether to delay a Senate vote on an emerging deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit. “We need to see what the details are,” Politico quoted Cruz as saying. The idea that […]
Newscom The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center recently released “A New View of Asia: 24 Charts That Show What’s at Stake for America,” an annual publication highlighting the critical importance of U.S.–Asia relations. The report documents in graphic form important economic, geographic, military, and political trends in the region and emphasizes the need for the […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday. The Aug. 4 attacks on unarmed civilians in more than a dozen villages in the coastal province of Latakia were […]
Timing is everything. And just as Congress’s focus seems to be drifting from Obamacare’s ravages on the economy, Americans are learning the reason this law’s implementation was postponed until after the presidential election. That reason is becoming clear as person after person opens the mail. Insurance costs are going up. For many, not just going […]
(CNSNews.com) – If Congress passes legislation deferring a decision on the debt ceiling and stopgap government funding, Republicans should anticipate another crisis in six to eight weeks, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said on Monday. “We have to anticipate Ted Cruz is going to try to do this again. Ted Cruz and 30 or 40 people […]
