Whose Opinion Matters? Part 3: The Los Angeles Times July 24, 2013 10:21 by Yarden Frankl This is the third part of our series looking at how the opinion pages of the biggest newspapers in the United States cover Israel. In our previous studies, we concluded that the New York Times demonstrated a clear and […]
PASCAL SAURA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Following the failure of the July 5 intercept test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile defense system, Senator Dick Durbin (D–IL) commented that “this is a system that still hasn’t been proven to be able to protect America.” Durbin added that he does not see the value in allocating more funds […]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the State Department’s policy of refusing to list Israel as the place of birth on US passports for citizens born in Jerusalem. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson authored the decision by the three-judge panel, stating that the power to recognize foreign […]
(CNSNews.com) – The effort to derail Obamacare may run through the Internal Revenue Service, House Republican leaders say. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) says, “Republicans are really gearing up for one big week next week,” when they plan to introduce a bill — one of 11 — that would remove the IRS as the enforcer […]
What would it take to get you to enroll in Obamacare? A folksy song? A celebrity endorsement? An ad in a porta-potty? Taxpayer money may be used for all of those things and more as October 1—the date when the health insurance exchanges are supposed to open—approaches. But all the campaigns and millions of dollars […]
Obama’s Justice Department is fighting a recent Supreme Court decision—and picking a fight with Texas. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will ask a federal court to subject Texas to a pre-clearance requirement—something the Supreme Court just struck down—for all of its proposed changes to voting ordinances for the next 10 […]
It has been more than a year since Congressman Joe Garcia’s political operatives – led by his Chief-of-Staff, Jeff Garcia – committed absentee ballot fraud in an attempt to hijack last August’s statewide primary election. It has also been months since the congressman’s admission – in his own words – of the “well-intentioned effort to […]
Zbigniew Bzdak/MCT/Newscom President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that’s happened since he became President, and everything that’s still going to happen. If only more of it were true. Here are three major whoppers Obama tried to sell yesterday. 1. […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s agreement to free terrorist murderers in order to bring Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table has caused shock and consternation among surviving family members. “How is this possible? How?” demanded Mazal Karmani, whose son Ronen was kidnapped and murdered by one of the terrorists who is to […]
