6:05 PM, Oct 26, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.” So who […]
What a brilliant video. Watch the Obama supporters bad mouth Romney when they think they’re talking about his proposed policies. Only problem is… they’re being tricked by the interviewer and are caught stumbling for a response when they find out the policies they were just disgusted over are actually CURRENT POLICIES PUT IN PLACE BY […]
Iran is in possession of data transmitted by an unmanned Hizbullah drone that overflew “restricted” sites and bases in Israel this month, an Iranian defense official said. The drone “transmitted live data, photographing sensitive Israeli bases,” the chair of the Iranian parliament’s defense commission, Esmaeel Kosari, told Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam television. “The photos of restricted […]
Hurricane Sandy is battering the East Coast this morning, expected to wreak havoc for millions of people from the Mid-Atlantic to northern New England. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are affected by the storm. Please take care and be safe. Because of Sandy’s timing this late in October, the confluence of multiple items […]
The U.N. Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group reconvened last week in Geneva to examine the human rights records of 14 U.N. member states. The review was established as part of the new Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2006 and intended to review all 192 U.N. member states regarding their compliance with human […]
In their last-minute attempts to woo the young female vote, Democrats have crossed the line separating good taste from vulgarity and published a video that compares voting for Barack Obama to losing one’s virginity. The YouTube video featuring actress and filmmaker Lena Dunham has received a million hits in two days, but much of the attention is negative, judging […]
President Barack Obama is not doing well with white men, but the Democrats can take heart because the white male demographic is shrinking in the long run, according to an expert quoted by the CBS News website. Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, explained: “Democrats have a demographic problem with […]
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims to increase efforts to kidnap Westerners in exchange for imprisoned jihadists, citing the success in the abduction of American aid worker Warren Weinstein in Pakistan. In an undated two-hour video posted on jihadist websites, al-Zawahiri called for the abductions as part of a vow not to […]
It’s not every day that a Heritage scholar offers to help comedian Stephen Colbert make sense of how Christians, especially young evangelicals, can apply biblical principles to politics in our pluralist culture. But it’s good to share the burden of a neighbor — even one so “befuddled” as Colbert — Jennifer Marshall writes in her […]
Nations that embrace international trade enjoy significantly stronger economies, achieve lower rates of hunger, and maintain a better stewardship of the environment, according to new data published by Heritage for the forthcoming Index of Economic Freedom. There are, of course, other factors that contribute to such positive trends. But international trade undoubtedly plays a major […]
