When President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” many didn’t realize he was inaugurating a new credo for governance. Rahm’s statement was originally understood as the administration’s intention to capitalize on actual crises while they were hot, to promote legislation liberals had […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online March 19, 2013 Why does Barack Obama focus so much on Israel and its struggle with the Arabs? It’s not just that he’s spending days in Israel this week, but his disproportionate four-year search to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. His first full day as president in 2009 saw him […]
A CNN poll released on Monday shows that a majority of Americans disagree with the way President Barack Obama is handling illegal immigration. Fifty percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling immigration reform, while only forty-four percent approve. Six percent of Americans are unsure. While the majority of Americans still disapprove of the […]
Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don’t always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than Federal Reserve Notes? Well you might be part of […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will offer Turkey to play a role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported on Saturday. The report said that Kerry plans to make this offer during his visit to Turkey on Sunday and that the offer will be made because […]
Cancer clinics nationwide are turning away thousands of Medicare patients due to the sequester budget cuts that Obama put in place in the summer of 2011. The Washington Post reported the reduced funding, “which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially.” If we […]
The Obama Administration Wants Banks to Stop Being So Uptight About their Mortgage Underwriting. How Crazy is That? Here we go again The Washington Post reports that the administration is pushing for banks to loosen their lending standards in order to make more home loans to buyers and minorities with poorer credit and lower incomes. […]
Stimulus funds fed minority businesses that served as middlemen. WB Construction & Sons Inc. is a 10-employee, minority-owned firm that received $7.5 million in five stimulus contracts from the federal government, but it did not do close to that much work. Every one of the stimulus contracts it received followed a pattern: Win a contract […]
North Korea’s threats should be countered with reassuring signals of resolve, said Heritage’s Bruce Klingner on PBS “NewsHour.” “We’re sending a signal to North Korea that we will defend our South Korean allies, we have the capabilities to do so, and we have the resolve to do so,” said Klingner. The U.S recently deployed a […]
In the ongoing debate over deficit reduction, President Obama and his colleagues in the House and Senate incessantly call for tax increases as if our budget problems persisted because of taxes being too low. If only the federal government could usurp more of taxpayers’ hard earned money, the line of thought goes, Washington could get […]
