Many a truth is said in jest. Tonight at the Annual Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel…… Mitt bested Obama. Mitt channelled Carson, Obama ….. Willy Loman Mitt Romney, Barack Obama to trade jabs at Al Smith dinner The two presidential candidates took a break from the caustic criticism of the campaign trail to score […]
On October 16, Cuba’s official newspaper announced that the requirement of an exit visa to depart the island will be lifted on January 14. A future Cuban traveler will have to present only a renewed passport and a visa from his destination country in order to depart Cuba. Permissible periods of time abroad without loss of […]
In a file photo taken on January 20, 2009, British hacker Gary McKinnon leaves the High Court in central London. (Photo: AFP) On Tuesday, British Home Secretary Theresa May announced in the House of Commons that Gary McKinnon, who has acknowledged hacking into U.S. government computers, would not be extradited to the U.S. because he […]
Gallaudet University put its chief diversity officer, Angela McCaskill, on paid leave last week for the offense of joining 200,000 other Marylanders in signing a petition supporting a ballot referendum over Maryland’s recently adopted same-sex marriage law. “I thought it was important that as a citizen of the state of Maryland, I could exercise my […]
By Dinesh D’Souza In recent times, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as “End of Faith” author Sam Harris puts it, “the most potent source of human conflict, past and present.” Columnist Robert Kuttner gives the familiar litany. “The Crusades slaughtered millions in the name of Jesus. The Inquisition brought the […]
In last night’s presidential debate, Governor Mitt Romney said that if elected, he would eliminate “magnets” that attract people to illegally reside in the United States. One magnet that he mentioned was the ability of undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. Luckily for Governor Romney, he would not need Congress to pass another law to […]
Words played an important role at the second presidential debate, but images mattered as well. Given the town-hall format, both President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney moved around, engaged each other and attempted to connect with the 82 undecided voters at Hofstra University as well as the millions watching from home. The following are […]
The people who shot this video decided to conduct a social studies experiment and see what sort of reaction Israeli Flags would provoke among the students at Fordson High in Dearborn Michigan. He wasn’t disappointed. The mere sight of the flags resulted in a violent response from these “All American High Schoolers”. In his own […]
The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a study that grossly misrepresents the premium-support model of Medicare reform and apparently misunderstands normal market dynamics and the differences between efficiency, choice, and higher premiums. The Kaiser study assumes that an entire class of Americans—senior citizens—is insensitive to price. In reality, seniors are price sensitive when they are […]
The treatment inflicted on 41 Russian journalists in Moscow’s Radio Liberty office is nothing less than scandalous, and it threatens to silence American broadcasting into Russia for good. But what is even more scandalous is that it was not the Russian government that, without warning, shut those journalists out of their offices on September 20 […]
