Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to cut $ 2 million from Israel’s payments to the UN, in light of the hostile proposals adopted by the UN Human Rights Council last week. This amount will be used to deepen and expand Israeli projects in the field of international […]
by Tyler Durden After starting the year at the fastest pace in almost a decade, existing-home sales slid in February some 3.7%, below the 2.0% drop expected, as 5.48 million existing houses were sold last month which was marked by a paradoxe: on one hand, NAR reported that the median existing-home price in February was […]
Two lawmakers have turned a government waste report into an online imitation of college basketball’s March Madness. Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., set up the #SourSixteen Tournament of Waste to highlight what they call some of the worst examples of how government spends taxpayers’ dollars. This was actually kind of fun. This is why […]
By: Daniel Horowitz | March 08, 2017 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (F, 16%) is famous for declaring health care a right. He is actually correct if we were to tweak his statement to read, “free market health care is a natural right.” Yes, we the people have a right to finally create a free market […]
A newly passed Israeli law prevents foreign nationals who have publicly called for a boycott of the Jewish state or work on behalf of an organization that advocates these measures from entering Israel. It has caused plenty of debate and criticism. That the New York Times, in a staff editorial, opposes the law, is not particularly […]
The Mortgage Professor Rising interest rates reduce the demand for housing by increasing the monthly payment on the mortgage most borrowers need to finance a purchase. In today’s market, a consumer with good credit and the capacity to put 20% down, looking to borrow the $200,000 needed to purchase a $250,000 house, can obtain a […]
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) announced the results of its online poll for the 2016 Porker of the Year. There were six worthy candidates who were guilty of bureaucratic mismanagement, financing wasteful boondoggles, and promoting patently flawed policies, but in the end, the “winner” was never in doubt. By a landslide margin, […]
(CNSNews.com) – Americans’ confidence in the U.S. economy reached a nine-year high in January. Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index averaged +11 in January, the highest monthly average in Gallup’s nine-year trend, the pollster reported on Tuesday. In fact, Gallup said some of the three-day averages in January “marked new highs in Gallup’s tracking,” which began […]
Barack Obama learns to kite surf while on vacation in Virgin Islands Former US President Barack Obama went on vacation as a private citizen to the British Virgin Islands, where he learned to kite surf. Obama’s friend, billionaire Richard Branson posted a video of a competition he and the former president held to see if […]
Two Republican senators voted against President Donald Trump’s secretary of education nominee Betsy DeVos Tuesday, forcing Vice President Mike Pence to cast a historic vote to break the tie to confirm her. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, and Susan Collins, of Maine, sided with every Democrat and two Independent senators to oppose DeVos. Pence then cast the deciding […]
