Scores of copies of Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” kept in public libraries across Tokyo have been vandalized, officials said Friday, sparking alarm amid a rightward shift in Japan’s politics, AFP reports. Pages in at least 250 copies of the diary or publications containing biographies on Anne Frank, Nazi persecution of Jews and related materials have been torn, the council of […]
By Washington Times (DC) February 18, 2014 6:55 am The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “Animal Farm” gave us the word “Orwellian.” That adjective reflects a vast government’s efforts not just to deceive and control the people, but also to do so by reinventing the meaning of ordinary words […]
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler focused his latest Fact Checker column on The Heritage Foundation analogy that suspending the debt limit is like giving a “blank check” to President Obama. Kessler gave us two Pinocchios. We decided to turn the table and look at Kessler’s arguments. Kessler acknowledges that Congress’ debt limit waiver has “received […]
By Washington Times (DC) February 18, 2014 12:27 pm When Frank Sinatra sang “New York, New York,” he may have been on to something. A movement is afoot to split New York into two regions – upstate and downstate – to acknowledge the gaping philosophical differences and improve representation. “I’ve lived in New York all […]
Pete Souza / White House Photo Speaking to patrons of a Minneapolis coffee shop on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden moved the goal post further back on how many Americans would enroll in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges before the March 31 deadline. “We may not get 7 million, we may get to five or […]
The chief archivist of Russia’s counterintelligence service said it will continue searching for clues about the mystery of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who vanished while in Soviet captivity, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Lt.-Gen. Vasily Khristoforov said that his agency, the Federal Security Service, has no reason to withhold information about the Swedish diplomat from […]
The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media. Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party complained that it was being targeted by […]
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation held a hearing Sunday on the bill to prevent Israeli Arab terrorists released as a “gesture” to the PA from receiving social security and income support. “The situation whereby a terrorist who has not served the full term of his sentence and is released receives full social security and benefits […]
Germany’s parliament on Friday debated a law to help return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners or their heirs, following the recent shock discovery of a stash of long-lost masterpieces, AFP reports. The draft bill brought by the southern state of Bavaria, where the art hoard was found in a Munich apartment, would remove a […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 14, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Twenty-five years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini brought his edict down on Salman Rushdie. Iran’s revolutionary leader objected to the author’s magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses because of its insults to the Muslim prophet Muhammad and responded by calling for the execution of […]
