The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security from the Whitehouse amid rising fears of spillover violence and drugs. This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to cross the border legally from Mexico without a customs officer in sight. […]
The Washington Post castigated President Barack Obama in an editorial Friday for sending Iran “the wrong signals” in the showdown over its nuclear weapons program. “Iran has been showing signs of increasing nervousness about the possibility that its nuclear program will come under attack by Israel or the United States,” the editorial opined. “From the […]
Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department and the Obama administration for classifying the Fort Hood terror massacre as ‘workplace violence’, she suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation’s Armed Forces at home. Collins a Republican from Main also referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood […]
by Jonathon M. Seidl December 6, 2011 at 2:55pm We’ve all seen spoofs of bands who greet their adoring fans by declaring how great it is to be in their city, only to make a mistake and name the wrong city. And if you haven’t, today President Obama gave an example while delivering his “class […]
One of the biggest political changes that 2011 brought — in large part due to the tea parties and their effect on the 2010 election — is the centrality of the Constitution to our public discourse. Lawmakers and citizens no longer consider simply whether a given bill or policy proposal is a good idea but […]
The White House hurriedly distanced itself from an ambassador’s blaming Israel for fueling anti-Semitism because of the standoff with the Palestinian Authority. Howard Gutman, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, told a conference of Jewish lawyers last week, ““A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems […]
“Not Counted by Obama” Discouraged Workers are Responsible for Reducing the Unemployment Rate, Not Job Creation. Friday’s farcical unemployment report has a lot of people scratching their heads. It’s a farce not because of how the rate is calculated, but because the media and the Obama administration are presenting the report as some sort of indication that […]
The Occupy Wall Street Movement was the first to set up a tent city in the heart of New York’s financial district encouraging copycat occupations in other American and foreign cities. The authorities originally tolerated the phenomenon but neighbors’ complaints, sanitary hazards as well as a sense that the movement was running out of steam […]
The Al Qaeda terror group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Jewish American man in Pakistan, according to an Internet statement released on Thursday. “Just as the Americans detain all whom they suspect of links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, even remotely, we detained this man who has had an active part […]
Russian anchorwoman Tatiana Limanova was taken off the air after she made an unacceptable gesture when she said the name of US President Barack Obama on Thursday. Limanova, an award-winning journalist and host of a news show on the REN-TV private channel, made an unacceptable gesture when presenting a story about the APEC summit in […]
