This afternoon, the House voted to restore the work requirements that the Obama Administration has attempted to gut from the 1996 welfare reform law. The breakdown: 250 Republicans voted for restoration and 164 Democrats voted against the resolution. The 1996 reform inserted work requirements into the largest federal cash assistance welfare program, replacing the old […]
The White House, after insisting for eight days that the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a “spontaneous” act, conceded Thursday that it was “self evident” that it was an act of terror. “It is, I think, self evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack,” White House Spokesman Jay […]
Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by investigators showed that Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency. Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs […]
“The death of U.S. public diplomacy” was how one Twitter user last Tuesday described the now-infamous apology from the U.S. embassy in Cairo for the ill-conceived movie Innocence of Muslims. Strong words, but there is no doubt about it: The need for American public diplomacy in the Middle East needs to be rebooted and rethought. […]
Blame the movie. Blame the movie. Even though “the movie” was on YouTube for months prior to the collective indignation of thousands of Middle Eastern Islamists all coming together on the eleventh anniversary of September 11th (through a wild coincidence, no doubt), we are being told by our government and our media overlords that we […]
There’s a report that the Obama administration knew of the attack 48 hours before it happened. Obama cannot blame this one on George Bush. The Independent, a UK news source, reports the following “According to senior diplomatic sources within he Obama administration, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in […]
An eruption of violent unrest across the Middle East is confronting President Barack Obama with the most serious challenge yet to efforts to keep the Arab Spring from morphing into a new wave of anti-American radicalism – and Obama has few good options to prevent it from spiraling further out of control. Less than two […]
Prime Minister Netanyahu is fighting for the very survival of the Jewish State: “Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.” But Obama responded, “NO red lines”for Iran. Then, President Obama refused to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu but […]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202441/We-freed-Now-want-destroy-Killing-American-ambassador-written-isolated-incident.html No coincidence attack took place on anniversary of September 11 Radical Libyan groups fiercely hostile to American and the West By John R Bradley PUBLISHED: 01:34, 13 September 2012 | UPDATED: 01:34, 13 September 2012 The murder of Christopher Stevens, pictured, who died alongside three other US embassy officials, cannot be written off as […]
With reports of a draft executive order on cybersecurity being circulated, it now seems likely that President Obama will go forward with this flawed approach. The peculiar thing is that the order does not seem to add anything new. If that is true, why is the President expending political capital to pursue it? The Cybersecurity […]
