Photo: AFP PHOTO/STRINGERSTR/Getty Images A Twitter hashtag, #BringBackOurGirls, has forced the world to pay attention to a terrorist group and conflict that have been threatening the stability of northern Nigeria for some time. For three years, the U.S. State Department was unwilling to acknowledge the threat and legally define Boko Haram as a terrorist organization, […]
The wild west couldn’t be tamed without mothers. At least according to Ronald Reagan. In his radio address to the nation on Mother’s Day in 1983, he told Americans: “[The] Wild West could never have been tamed, the vast prairies never plowed, nor God and learning brought to the corners of our continent without the […]
The unelected Ukrainian leader Oleksander Turchinov warned pro-Russian eastern regions they would be stepping into the abyss if they voted for self-rule on Sunday in a referendum that has raised Western fears of a slide to full civil war. Barricades of tires and scrap metal blocked streets in the port city of Mariupol and in […]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not interested in helping Republicans uncover additional details on the events in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. “As somebody said to me yesterday,” Pelosi told reporters Friday, “either people have gotten tired of Benghazi or they never knew about it […]
Photo: Newscom Policy has consequences, and they’re often very predictable. For example, if you tax businesses more, they will be less likely to locate in your country. Heritage expert Curtis Dubay warned last fall that if Congress did not improve America’s punishing corporate tax situation, businesses — and jobs — would walk. Two big companies […]
Photo: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM/Getty Images While some predicted a harsh referendum on the President’s health care law, Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s first confirmation hearing to lead the Health and Human Services Department was free of congressional fireworks. Burwell, currently the director for the Office of Management and Budget, testified today before the Senate Health, Education, […]
A Christian minister who was forced off of the Temple Mount by Muslim officials has released a video of support for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, urging Jews and “the children of Abraham” throughout the world to stand together to end Islamist harassment and discriminatory measures on Judaism’s holiest site. Pastor Keith Johnson told […]
Audience for ‘Irreplaceable’ gathers in Louisville, Ky. (Photo: Steve Watters via Twitter) Crowds packed out 723 theaters coast to coast as the movie “Irreplaceable” premiered last night to a total audience topping 97,000, Focus on the Family said. Many showings in the “one night only” event sold out – in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Seattle, St. […]
We have been witnessing a growing assault on free speech in America by the Left and too often it is succeeding. The demand by members of the Rutgers University faculty that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice be disinvited to be the commencement speaker is the latest example and her decision to withdraw, while graceful, […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday. Abubakar Shekau for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, warning that his group plans to […]
