The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas sat down with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) to talk about the rise of the Tea Party and its confrontation with the Washington establishment. “The Tea Party movement has been enormously constructive,” Toomey said the in the interview. “After we had the most liberal elected government in the history of the […]
By Jim Wolf and Nicola Leske (Reuters) – The Obama administration cleared the way for states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling. A Justice Department opinion dated September and made public on Friday reversed decades of […]
by Jeff Kunerth The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that the Department of Defense will begin allowing Muslim and Sikh students who wear an Islamic head scarf (hijab) or a turban to participate in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC). “We welcome the fact that Muslim and Sikh students nationwide will now […]
Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools are teaching children how to cut off a thief’s hands and feet under Sharia law. The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell teenagers that Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be ‘put to death’. Recent editions were obtained by […]
The Palestinian Authority is beginning to prove Abraham Lincoln’s adage, “You can’t fool all of the people all the time.” Chicago Sun-Times columnist Steve Huntley didn’t buy inherent contradictions made during an interview with a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official. Maen Rashid Areikat, the representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, recently met […]
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe Ya’alon, spoke on Sunday at a Likud Anglo event in Jerusalem. In his talk, Ya’alon spoke about the security issues Israel currently deals with. Addressing the relatively calm security situation right now, despite the rocket barrages coming from Gaza once in a while, Ya’alon said that […]
Dis-Chem, a pharmacy chain in South Africa, is embroiled in a spat with a Durban woman over its decision to sell Israeli-made skin care products. According to a report in the South African-based IOL News, the spat began when Fathima Moosa visited a branch of Dis-Chem and noticed that Dead Sea products made in Israel […]
The White House responded to the coordinated church bombings in Nigeria on Christmas Day with a routine condemnation. “We condemn this senseless violence and tragic loss of life on Christmas Day,” read the White House statement. British Foreign Secretary William Hague labeled the attacks cowardly as did UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Boko Haram a.k.a. People Committed to the […]
How does marriage fare as the nation heads into the new year? Unfortunately, the most recent government data indicate that U.S. marriage rates are at an all-time low. Today, a little more than half of all Americans are currently married, compared to more than 70 percent five decades ago. Additionally, the age at first marriage […]
In a damning report, The Washington Post details its investigation of President Barack Obama’s much-hyped green jobs program. Its findings? Politics, not policy, underpinned the White House’s calculations. From The Post report: Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found […]
