Why Kerry Was Wrong to Rebuke Israel With ‘Apartheid’ Comment

AFP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry undiplomatically declared that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” if it fails to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast reported that Kerry made the disparaging remark during a closed-door talk before members of the Trilateral Commission. Kerry told the […]

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This Man Quit Michael Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Just a Week After It Launched

Michael Bloomberg and Tom Ridge (Photo: Peter Foley/EPA/Newscom) Michael Bloomberg’s new $50 million anti-gun group is off to a rocky start just days after launching. Tom Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania and Homeland Security secretary, resigned from the organization, the Daily Caller reported. Bloomberg’s new group is called Everytown for Gun Safety, an umbrella […]

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NRA Leader: Media Are ‘One of America’s Greatest Threats’

NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre. (Photo: F. Carter Smith/Polaris/Newscom) Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association, blasted the media in a speech Friday, calling them “one of America’s greatest threats.” “Rather than expose government dishonesty and scandal the way they used to, the media elites whitewash it all,” LaPierre said at the NRA’s […]

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Watch Jake Tapper Call Out Obama for Breaking Promise on Genocide

CNN anchor Jake Tapper yesterday highlighted the 99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in light of President Obama’s broken campaign promise that the U.S. government would make a formal acknowledgment of the atrocities. As a candidate running for president in 2008, Obama promised the Armenian community “that he would use the g-word – genocide – […]

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Israeli-American Journalist Disappears in Ukraine

April 23, 2014 15:29 by Pesach Benson Ukraine separatists said holding American-Israeli journalist: Simon Ostrovsky, of Vice News, hasn’t been seen since Monday. The “people’s mayor” of Slaviansk insists that Ostrovsky is now helping the separatists, but judging from the reporter’s last tweet from a separatist press conference, that’s a pretty dubious claim. More at The Wire.

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Oregon’s Top IT Official Recommends Scrapping Obamacare Website

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oregon’s top IT official is recommending Cover Oregon scrap the state’s disastrous online health insurance exchange that failed to sign up a single resident, The Oregonian today reported. Alex Pettit, Oregon’s Chief Information Officer, this morning recommended to a 16-member technical advisory committee that Cover Oregon—the state insurance exchange that is […]

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Ex-Ambassador: Time for Israel to Return to Pre-Oslo Days

Yoram Ettinger, the former Israeli consul in Washington, DC, is unfazed by Mahmoud Abbas’s threats to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) if negotiations with Israel are discontinued. Ambassador Ettinger told Arutz Sheva that Abbas is well aware of Israel’s fear of taking control of Judea and Samaria. “He knows that the Israeli leadership gets weak-kneed […]

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