Celebrating six months on the road, Heritage’s nationwide tour Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote rolled on to its 20th and 21st states this week: Illinois and Michigan. A joint project of The Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council, the tour has hosted events in 77 cities across the nation with more than 38,000 attendees. While […]
NGO also lists as past or present funders: The French consulate, the Italian Institutions Union, the Swiss Development Agency and others by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik A Palestinian NGO, the Burj Luq-Luq Social Center Society organization, performed a puppet show for children in East Jerusalem to promote non-smoking. The educational message delivered by […]
British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned on Friday Israel’s plans to build hundreds of new homes in Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron), The Press Association reported. In a statement issued by the Foreign Office in London Hague said, “I condemn the announcement by Israel to authorize the building of 851 new settlement units across […]
If Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi were to become president, Egypt’s capital would no longer be Cairo, but would be Jerusalem, a prominent Egyptian cleric said at a presidential campaign rally, which was aired by an Egyptian private television channel. “Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca or Medina. It shall be Jerusalem with God’s […]
Thousands of people demonstrated in Egypt on Friday, to demand that former President Hosni Mubarak’s last Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, be banned from a run-off presidential election. AFP reported that the protesters also denounced verdicts in the trial of Mubarak and his security chiefs, amid reports that the ailing strongmen sentenced to life in prison […]
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran has no intention of building nuclear weapons – but fear is not the reason. Ahmadinejad’s comments ahead of June 18-19 talks with world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program marked a toughening of rhetoric. The P5+1 – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany – want […]
An orthodox police recruit has been fired from the NYPD academy for refusing to trim his beard to the regulation 1 millimeter length. Rabbi Fishel Litzman, 38, was fired by the New York Police due to his refusal to shave his beard. Rabbi Litzman was soon to graduate the police academy. According to the report, […]
President Obama took to the national stage today and again repeated his claims that administration policies are producing a robust economic recovery. However, public opinion polls and recent election results underscore a very different perception: working Americans see an economy still deeply depressed in key sectors and much slower everywhere than it should be. In […]
President Obama’s latest speech laid out some policy retreads for tackling the tepid recovery, while he lectured Europe to get its act together. He is right about the sorry state of the U.S. economy, which has proven highly resistant, if not downright impervious, to his past stimulus efforts. And he is right about the threat […]
Yesterday, the Obama Administration hosted a health care town hall that was intended to focus on Obamacare’s impact on women’s health. Top Obama Administration officials participated, including the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius. The discussion was heavy on emotion and light on the details of Obamacare’s provisions—and surprisingly […]
