The bipartisan budget deal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the next two years is worse than you think. Not only would it bust the budget caps that have long kept federal spending under control. It also would renew a package of expired tax subsidies, marking the return of a corrupt ritual of […]
China’s official news agency on Jan. 21 criticized the U.S. government shutdown, claiming that it exposed “chronic flaws” in the U.S. political system. China has often extolled its political and economic system as a potential alternative to the U.S. free-market republic, but serious human rights abuses in China are an ever-present disqualifying challenge to that […]
The state of North Carolina has restored lost salary and retirement benefits to a former magistrate whom officials forced out because she wouldn’t abandon her religious beliefs to perform civil marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples. Gayle Myrick won $300,000, including $122,660 in back pay, in a settlement agreement made public Wednesday by her lawyers at […]
The radical Marxist state of California wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw. The far leftist Democratic majority leader in California’s lower house, has introduced a Marxist like bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under California law, a waiter who serves […]
The U.S. government announced on Friday a unilateral arms embargo on the war-torn East African country of South Sudan. The embargo will not end the terrible fighting in the world’s newest country, now at war for the majority of its existence, but it should make it harder for South Sudan’s armed groups to devastate the […]
The Heritage Foundation announced Tuesday that Kim R. Holmes, a longtime scholar and leader at the think tank, would become the organization’s next executive vice president. Holmes’ unanimous selection by Heritage’s board of trustees comes about a month after Kay Coles James began her tenure as president of Heritage. “Kim has long had a profound […]
Videos shared on social media show women burning the Muslim headscarf The hashtag #NoHijabDay followed the international #WorldHijabDay last week Women are protesting enforced headscarf in several Middle Eastern countries By SARA MALM Videos showing women burning the hijab are being posted on social media in solidarity with a protest movement against enforced headscarf in Iran. […]
We may be 16 years removed from 9/11, but make no mistake—terrorists are still trying to enter the United States. Kirstjen Nielsen, the new secretary of Homeland Security, made it clear as day in a recent speech on her department’s anti-terror efforts: On an average day, [Homeland Security] encounters seven individuals on the terrorist watch […]
There are few journalistic lapses more obvious and unprofessional than simply making up a statement by a public figure. Yet Newsweek’s serial offender Tom O’Connor has done exactly that: again. Tom O’Connor In his Newsweek article entitled, “Middle East’s Next Oil War? Israel Threatens Lebanon Over Hezbollah and Natural Gas,” O’Connor fantasizes that at the Institute […]
(CNSNews.com) – Criticizing the “hypocrisy” of feminists, an Iranian women’s rights activist says Western media outlets will report on a Barbie doll wearing a headscarf, but avoid devoting coverage to real-life women forced to wear one, for fear of being accused of “Islamophobia.” Masih Alinejad told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Iranian women have lived in […]
