The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent a letter to Norwegian Minister of Justice Grete Faremo, following the hate crime on Monday, in which a 16-year-old Jewish student in Oslo was branded with a red-hot coin at a school barbecue. “We are shocked to learn of the fire branding of a Jewish boy at an Oslo secondary school barbecue […]
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s solid win in the recall election, despite the major effort invested by the public-service unions, has heartened Republicans, but also poses a dilemma: can the issue of state employees be transferred to the national stage? Does it pay for Mitt Romney to make it part of his campaign? Both Walker and […]
France is enforcing a ban on the “niqab” and not allowing Muslim women into the country if they refuse to take off a face veil upon request. Three women who arrived in Paris at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport were detained this week by immigration officials for the violation. The women disembarked Monday from […]
Der Sturmer in the UK? June 13, 2012 15:13 by Simon Plosker The following by HR’s Managing Editor Simon Plosker appeared originally on The Times of Israel. What would Israel do if a journalist from Der Sturmer was filing reports from inside the country? Despite the fact that there is remarkable press freedom in Israel, […]
Progress on the ability of U.S. firms to take advantage of new business opportunities when Russia joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) took a step forward yesterday when Senate leaders acknowledged that legislation to promote human rights will be a condition needed for permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to move forward, too. Senators Max Baucus […]
Venezuelan Ali Rodriguez, recently chosen to lead the Union of South American Nations as Secretary General In a ceremony in Bogota on June 11, the position of Secretary General of UNASUR passed from Colombian Maria Emma Mejia to Venezuela’s Ali Rodriguez. An ex-Marxist guerrilla, former foreign and energy minister, and former Ambassador to Cuba, the […]
In recent weeks a very dangerous pattern of personal attacks against conservative bloggers has occurred with increasing frequency. Combined with a related decision last week by a judge to place a gag order on a conservative blogger, we now face a real threat to conservative speech at the grassroots level just as the election season […]
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said on Friday that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives should include language in the next continuing resolution (CR) prohibiting the administration from enforcing a regulation that mandates that all health-care plans in the United States must cover, without any fees or co-pay, sterilizations, artificial contraceptives and abortifacients. “We should […]
The Knesset held a special discussion on Tuesday regarding the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide, also called the Armenian Massacres or the Great Crime, was the planned and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire around the time of World War I through massacres and forced marches. Between 1 and 1.5 million Armenians died during this […]
News article from CNN announcing President George W. Bush’s decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty Ten years ago tomorrow, the United States formally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which has defined strategic thinking for about 30 years. On Wednesday, The Heritage Foundation will host an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal […]
