Newscom The Obama Administration is on track to beat former President Bill Clinton for second-longest delay in submitting a presidential budget on time. First place for the latest budget in history? That also goes to President Obama. In 2009, he did not submit a budget until 98 days after the statutory deadline. Though the White House […]
Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R–AL) and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R–WI) sent a letter yesterday to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, urging the Department of Transportation to reject a $5.5 billion gamble on high-speed rail. The train, called XpressWest, would run from Victorville, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada. As Heritage Foundation […]
Newscom The Arms Sale Responsibility Act (H.R. 599), introduced by Representative Raul Grijalva (D–AZ), contains a number of flaws that call for caution on the part of Congress. The U.S. is widely acknowledged to have the most responsible system of controls on the export of arms in the world: The State Department refers to it […]
North Korean is raising the level of its anti-American rhetoric, threatening to cancel its decades-old armistice and launch a nuclear strike while accusing the United States of using military drills in South Korea to launch a nuclear war. The cease fire between Korea and America in 1953 ended the three-year Korean War, and if dissolved could lead to […]
The 2013 Index of Economic Freedom Advancing economic freedom around the world has markedly stagnated in recent years, particularly due to the lack of America’s leadership, says Terry Miller, chief editor of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, in a recent interview with the Langley Intelligence Group Network. According to Miller: Historically, the United […]
The Palestinian Authority cabinet on Tuesday decided to form a committee to prepare applications to register sites on UNESCO’s world heritage list, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. Omar Awadallah, the head of UN file in the PA’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the committee’s mission was to prepare heritage sites for the list […]
A United Nations agency is claiming that Israel “systematically” mistreats Palestinian Authority Arab minors. The accusation was published Wednesday in a 22-page report issued by UNICEF, entitled “Children in Israeli Military Detention.” The agency claimed in its report, “Ill treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized,” […]
The fugitive suspect in the hit-and-run that killed a young hassidic couple in Brooklyn over the weekend turned himself into police on Wednesday. Julio Acevedo, who for three days had eluded capture by the police, surrendered on Wednesday into the custody of plainclothes New York City detectives in the parking lot of a convenience store […]
(CNSNews.com) – During the month of February–as President Barack Obama was warning Americans they would see dramatic effects in their lives if “sequestration” of some planned federal spending kicked in–the federal government’s debt climbed by $253.5 billion. That one-month increase in the debt was nearly six times as much as the $44 billion in spending […]
March 4, 2013 17:06 by Pesach Benson The Commentator responds to Daily Telegraph coverage of so-called “apartheid” buses: The substance is drearily familiar, though it is particularly gratuitous. It is (yawn) an “Israel-Apartheid” story, and it pegs off moves by the Israeli authorities to take the completely reasonable step of introducing extra Palestinian buses to […]
