A report on Channel Two Monday said that the brother of Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah was killed recently in a fierce battle in the Syrian city of Al-Qusayr. Khader Nasrallah was buried in the village of Kfar Kana in south Lebanon on Sunday, Channel Two said. If true, it would make Nasrallah one of dozens, […]
Bill Clark/Roll Call Photos/Newscom Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), a fourth-generation farmer, is asking his House colleagues to separate the food stamp program from the “farm” bill. Stutzman said he filed an amendment that would allow the House to vote on a farm-only farm bill. Lawmakers begin debate on the bill Tuesday. Stutzman outlined similar concerns […]
A BBC documentary claims that Israeli spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller once worked for the CIA. Geller, counted a friend from personalities as diverse as singer Michael Jackson to author and lecturer Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, was alleged to have been also employed by Israel’s international intelligence agency, the Mossad. Some reports have also raised the question of […]
Newscom Organizing for Action, President Obama’s campaign group, is out this morning with its first advertisement promoting Obamacare. The ad claims to tell the “facts” surrounding the law, but here’s what it doesn’t tell you: Claim: “Free Preventive Care for 34 Million” Fact: Obamacare forces insurers to cover preventive services without a co-payment, but just […]
Israel issued an unusually blunt reaction to the election of Iran’s new president on Saturday by saying it was supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who decides on nuclear policy, not the president. “Iran’s nuclear program has so far been determined by Khamenei, and not by Iran’s president,” the foreign ministry said, after Hassan Rouhani was […]
A video uploaded to the internet Saturday demonstrates the extent to which the Syrian civil war has turned into a merciless religious war between the largely Sunni Muslim populace and the Alawite minority regime, supported by Shiite Iran and Hizbullah. The video shows the demolition of a Shiite mosque by rebel forces affiliated with Al […]
Even as the Left celebrates Obamacare’s expansion of health coverage, a Reuters story highlighted what kind of “insurance” people will receive under the law. First, the article noted that many large, national insurers have decided not to participate in Obamacare’s exchanges: The nation’s biggest insurers have decided against joining the exchanges on a large scale, […]
The House is expected to take up its farm bill this week. As it does, legislators should bear in mind the excessive costs of the bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected the last farm bill, in 2008, to cost $604 billion. The new House farm bill is projected to cost a whopping $940 billion. […]
This week, a federal appellate court struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “poster rule,” finding that the agency does not have the authority to issue such a rule. The poster rule requires more than 6 million employers to post notices at work informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, […]
Presidents Obama and Xi (No publication in Australia, Belgium, China, France, Poland and Russia) The White House is spinning the U.S.–China summit as “quite unique and important meetings” between Presidents Obama and Xi, which resulted in “quite a bit of alignment” on North Korea. Harvard Professor Joseph Nye gushed, “This was the most important meeting […]
