Photo credit: Newscom As wages in China rise with economic growth, some companies are beginning to look elsewhere for what was once China’s selling point: cheap labor. It just highlights the power that free trade provides—growing economies and raising living standards. Consider that wages in China are five times greater than they were in 2000, […]
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement Thursday expressing concern with the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent proposed update to the anti-conscience mandate in Obamacare. As Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, explained: [The proposal] appears to offer second-class status to our first-class institutions in Catholic health care, […]
Photo credit: Newscom Supporters of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) are turning up the heat ahead of another push next month to finalize the treaty. Oxfam America is second to none in its advocacy of this bad treaty, and on Wednesday released a paper accusing opponents of the treaty of mounting a “campaign of […]
Tel Aviv University archaeology researchers have discovered unprecedented desecration of Israelite holy sites 3,100 years ago, possibly by Philistines, who the Palestinian Authority say are the original Palestinians. The researchers uncovered a unique 11th-century BCE sacred compound at the site of Tel Beth-Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. The newly discovered sacred complex at the site of […]
Yesterday, world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson presented the keynote address at the 61st Annual National Prayer Breakfast. With President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other national leaders in attendance, Dr. Carson spoke plainly about the great challenges America faces today: “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.” “One of our big problems right now is […]
By J.B. Williams Over the last four years, the Obama administration has violated nearly every Article of the US Constitution and every Amendment in the Bill of Rights. They have worked to ignite racial tensions, class warfare, religious confrontations and political divisions far worse than those that led to the first American Civil War. Over […]
CA WANTS GUN OWNERS TO BUY ‘VIOLENCE LIABILITY INSURANCE’ AND SO DOES CT, MD, MA, PA AND NY!! DEMAND OUR STATES PROTECT THE SECOND AMENDMENT – STOP THE SELL-OUT NOW! URGENT: The leftwing enemies of the Second Amendment see their efforts to crush our ability to exercise our right to keep and bear arms stalling […]
Members of a Maine high school girls’ basketball team have been disciplined after a picture surfaced online of team members giving a Nazi salute. The picture shows two players of the Greely High School girls’ basketball team facing each other, smiling, and giving the Nazi salute with one arm in the air, while a third […]
The next time a cashier asks “paper or plastic?” think of Abbie Schoenwetter. He spent more than six years in federal confinement for shipping lobster in plastic instead of cardboard. There’s no American law against doing so. But thanks to a vague, overly broad, and otherwise unjust federal criminal law, the U.S. government claimed it […]
The breaking story of the former Los Angeles police officer who has gone rogue, allegedly shooting three officers and hunting others and their families after he was fired from the police force. The suspect, Chris Dorner, posted a manifesto on the web, but media are ignoring some of its key passages. Dorner’s rant begins with […]
