Posted by Dan Perrin (At 11;59 PM on 1/8 Moe Lane posted on this story, here. I’m just adding another log to the fire.) In a clear demonstration of the Speaker’s comment that we will do “almost anything” to pass health care, the Democrats have said they will delay seating Scott Brown, the GOP candidate […]
Posted by Moe Lane I was hoping for a drop down into single digits, even if it was a high one. But hope is not a plan, as the current ruling party seems determined to prove. Short version: we lost 85K jobs last month – they were expecting a gain – and the number is […]
The U.S. Army will double the amount of emergency military equipment it stockpiles in Israel. Jerusalem and Washington agreed that Israel will keep $800 million worth of U.S. equipment, according to Monday’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News publication, Haaretz reported. Israel would be allowed to use the equipment in a military emergency, according […]
The Iraqi government has filed a claim with the United Nations for financial compensation from Israel for bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981. Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki is seeking the compensation after the cabinet decided on November 25 to set up a “neutral committee” to determine the scale of compensation that Israel will […]
Posted by Erick Erickson While Americans are fixated on the weekend blizzard and the health care debate, the rest of the world is fixated on the disastrous “climate change” talks in Copenhagen. More importantly, though world leaders could not agree on much of anything significant, they could all agree on one thing: Barack Obama screwed […]
Like just about every other big, international conference, from world trade to human rights, it appears the Copenhagen climate summit has ended in a complete fiasco. BBC: Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after the African group withdrew co-operation. African delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish […]
Peter Schiff–Although Barack Obama has refrained, at least for now, from delivering triumphant speeches in a naval flight suit, there is nevertheless a strong tone of accomplishment emanating from the President and his deputies. Over the weekend, top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers even pronounced that the recession is now over. Without hedging his […]
by Daniel Pipes November 21, 2009 Since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. taxpayer has been rebuilding Iraq and – for just as long – I have been complaining about this being unnecessary and even counterproductive. (See here, here, and here for sample critiques.) Comes a report today by Timothy Williams in […]
With the federal government coming off a $1.42 trillion deficit (“roughly twice individual income tax revenue“) and Washington already another $292 billion in the red, the president and his allies are determined to ramp up government “stimulus” spending even more and turn the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) into a slush fund for politicians. But […]
A few media outlets cheered the announcement that Bank of America was repaying its $45 billion of bailout money ahead of time. Bank of America is now obviously healthy again, so it’s time to celebrate, right? Well, no. The main reason Bank of America paid back the money was to get out from under the […]
