By Matthew Vadum Forcing Americans to vote under threat of legal penalty would help to fundamentally transform America, President Obama told a town hall-style meeting in Cleveland yesterday. It is the latest radical leveling scheme that flows from the president’s totalitarian impulses. It is also consistent with his support for “Net Neutrality,” which is a […]
by JOEL B. POLLAK Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise victory in the Israeli elections grew even bigger overnight. Not only did his Likud Party edge the opposition Zionist Union in the exit polls after trailing roughly 25 seats to 21 seats just days before the election, but the overnight vote total was even more staggering: 29-30 seats […]
Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has officially been reelected as Israel’s Prime Minister for the fourth time. The election race came down to the wire. As of 5:25 a.m. (Israel time), with more than 99.5% of the ballots having been counted, Likud was in the lead with 29 seats – five more than Issac “Bougie” […]
BY: Adam Kredo JERUSALEM—A group of Iranian dissidents and political prisoners have lashed out at the Obama administration, lambasting its ongoing diplomacy with Iran, according to two open letters sent to the White House in recent days. As Tehran and the United States move closer to a final deal aimed at stalling Iran’s nuclear breakout […]
Barack Obama is a huge fan of power. He believes power is a good thing. And there is no such thing as too much of a good thing. Obama wants the power to effectively repeal deportation laws. He wants the power to hire terrorists. He wants the power to determine foreign elections. He wants the […]
Paul Craig Roberts According to the payroll jobs report today (March 6) the economy created 295,000 new jobs in February, dropping the rate of unemployment to 5.5%. However, the BLS also reported that the labor force participation rate fell and the number of people not in the labor force rose by 354,000. In other words, […]
George W. Bush’s national security adviser, Condi Rice, warned Americans that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction could result in a mushroom cloud going up over an American city. Yet today a very real threat exists over all American cities. In in October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union were at the brink of war […]
Paul Craig Roberts As Jesus told the people of Nazareth, a prophet is without honor in his own country. In the United States, this is also true of journalists. In the United States journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations. Anyone who tells the truth, whether journalist or whistleblower, is […]
By Judi McLeod Was Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invitation to address Congress a pre-arranged ‘Swan Song’ hidden under a hypocritical ‘bipartisan’ welcome by the U.S. Congress? Was the celebrated address craftily arranged to galvanize the anti-Israel sentiment at work in today’s international politics? Up until the March 3 address, Netanyahu was leading election polls […]
By Douglas V. Gibbs The true enemy is statism. We can argue ideology, Democrat versus Republican, liberalism versus conservativism, or left versus right all we want, but in the end “big government,” especially in a manner that is in direct opposition to the rule of law, and the United States Constitution, is the enemy. Every […]
