On Thursday, the Senate approved two resolutions making both temporary and permanent procedural changes—to the detriment of the rights of the minority party as well as individual Senators on both sides of the aisle. The first resolution was in the form of a standing rule to be in place for two years that addresses a […]
Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command. With President Obama back in office and his life-saving “fiscal cliff” bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters. “What happened that my Social Security withholding’s in my […]
by Daniel Pipes Commentary January 2013 To see the replies of 52 other writers to this same question, click here. Like so many other conservatives, I had come to assume that the Tea Party, the 2010 election results, Solyndra, 8 percent unemployment, Benghazi, and an aroused opposition (said one Romney adviser: on election day, “you […]
Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach in the U.S. nearly ninefold to about 40 million liberal households. With a focus on U.S. news, it plans to ‘re-brand’ the left-leaning news network that cofounder Al Gore couldn’t make relevant. Glenn Beck’s Blaze […]
Just as many Second Amendment advocates have anticipated, gun control legislation being proposed by Senator Feinstein has gone far beyond what has become known as “assault rifles”. In fact the proposed law would ban almost every type of semiautomatic gun on the market including handguns and shotguns. Feinstein is clearly trying to expand the definition of assault […]
Californians voted for massive tax increases by approving of Proposition 30 in November, the state’s tax revenues declined in November by $806.8 million, or 10.8%. As California residents flee the state, and take their tax dollars with them. California has continued to engage in deficit spending. This has resulted in the state’s budget deficit for […]
BY: JOSH BERNSTEIN America was founded on Judeo-Christian values. Those values are written in freedom’s blood in our Constitution. Our rights come from God not our government. Our founding fathers believed in conservative values. Those values that our nation was founded upon are center right values. But a funny thing happened on the way to […]
After Kristallnacht, US cartoonists tried to mobilize sympathy for the plight of the Jews.FDR was not impressed and the doors stayed shut. (Dr. Medoff is coauthor, with comics historian Craig Yoe, of the forthcoming book, Cartoonists Against the Holocaust, from which this material is excerpted.with permission.) On November 9, 1938, mobs of Nazi stormtroopers unleashed […]
Republicans seized the opportunity Monday after CBS News released portions of a “60 Minutes” interview with President Obama that shows him vacillating on whether to call the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, an act of terrorism. “In new 60 Minutes clips released by CBS, Obama refuses to call Benghazi attack […]
by Daniel Pipes November 3, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That’s because news reports blare out what’s not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate up 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent), biographical […]
