Newscom As a statesman, an author, and a friend of the United States, Winston Churchill was regularly called upon to offer his sentiments on the meaning of the Fourth of July. In his remarks over the years, as Lewis E. Lehrman points out, he emphasized a similar theme: Though the Declaration of Independence signaled the […]
Jim Gilmore. (Photo: Kim Morris/ZUMA Press/Newscom) The misnamed Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), commonly called the Internet sales tax, recently passed the Senate and awaits action in the House. If it becomes law, it would force online retailers to collect sales taxes from residents in states in which the businesses have no attachment. It would overturn […]
Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is believed to have spent the past two weeks at a Moscow airport while he seeks asylum. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daneil Ortega, made the asylum offers on Friday, shortly after they and other Latin American […]
(CNSNews.com) – Some of the most elite and influential news outlets in the United States gave far more coverage to the George Zimmerman murder trial in its first week than they did to the Kermit Gosnell murder trial in its first week, revealing a coverage disparity of 40.6 to 1, or the equivalent of giving […]
Join the Protest Against Photo Exhibit Glorifying Terrorism July 3, 2013 9:00 by Simon Plosker Last month HonestReporting condemned the Jeu de Paume museum of contemporary art in Paris for displaying a photographic exhibit that glorifies Palestinian terrorists. This “art” exhibit refers to Israel as a “colonial power” and Palestinian terrorists as “fighters” and “victims of […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times July 5, 2013 With Syria aflame and Egypt at the precipice, why did Secretary of State John Kerry disproportionately just devote his fifth visit since February to Israeli-Palestinian shuttle diplomacy? In part, because he and other liberals think that the Arab and Iranian (and now Turkish?) war on Israel […]
Today marks the anniversary of the first published post of The Conservative Papers appearing on the web. On July 7, 2009, The Conservative Papers came to fruition. With over 6,500 posts along with a growing library of content, we are slowly expanding our presence on the Internet and social networks. We originally created this website […]
Freedom’s future can turn on the actions of one. One hundred and fifty years ago, the fate of America was decided at Gettysburg. For three days, Union and Confederate armies fought the decisive battle of the Civil War. On the second day of the struggle, General Robert E. Lee ordered his troops to sweep behind […]
The violence that has been threatened for years by homosexuals who are intolerant of those who espouse an opposing world view turned real at a “gay pride” event recently in Seattle, where authorities arrested two men for attacking a preacher. According to the Twitchy site, the two men arrested included Jason Qeuree, who reportedly has […]
After decades of striving to obey the law and teaching his children to do the same, Lawrence Lewis turned to crime. His offense? Diverting sewage into a storm drain that, unbeknownst to Lewis, eventually fed in to the Potomac River. Lewis was born and raised in the brutal projects of Washington, D.C. Seeking to escape […]
