By Jonah Goldberg One of the great differences between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives will freely admit that they have an ideology. We’re kind of dorks that way, squabbling over old texts like Dungeons and Dragons geeks, wearing ties with pictures of Adam Smith and Edmund Burke on them. But mainstream liberals from Franklin […]
By BENJAMIN E. SASSE & CHARLES HURT Call it President Obama’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department. Only this isn’t some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term. A massive amount of […]
A taxpayer-funded program seeks to foster “new perspectives” on the Middle East. by Patrick Poole Pajamas Media April 30, 2012 A group of six Ohio colleges in the Cleveland area are working together to help provide “new perspectives” about the Middle East and to confront “misinformation” about the region and about Islam specifically. However, the […]
At this week’s meeting of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), J Street’s regional director said that in the event that war broke out involving Israel, J Street would not necessarily support the Jewish state. In an open letter published in the Boston Jewish Advocate, Paul Sassieni, treasurer of the JCRC, states that J Street’s […]
By Peter Wehner One of the things that have puzzled political commentators is why President Obama is running the campaign he is. Rather than tacking to the center, as Bill Clinton did, Mr. Obama is running a campaign that is based on stoking class resentments and raising taxes on the rich. Rather than laying out […]
After five days of implacably delivered gut-wrenching testimony, Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik listened silently Tuesday as others described the mayhem caused by his 22 July 2011 bombing in Oslo. One witness described the 22 July 2011 scene where eight people were killed in a bombing in Oslo as a “war zone.” Forensic experts […]
The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism—it’s become an economic suicide pact. And we’re here to challenge it. Visit www.freemarketamerica.org. [youtube CZ-4gnNz0vc nolink]
Today, sixty-two Members of Congress sent a letter to the IRS demanding that the agency stop its intrusive and abusive treatment of Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status. From every corner of the country, Tea Party groups are coming forward with complaints of burdensome questionnaires — in some cases seeking donor lists and copies of […]
Anti-Zionists sprayed hate slogans on Ammunition Hill and tried to burn an Israeli flag, two days before Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers. The site was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles in the Six-Day War in 1967. The pre-dawn vandals sprayed, “Guenther Grass was right,” referring to the German poet. Another slogan stated […]
From canceling oil leases in his second week in office to denying the XL Pipeline this year President Obama and his administration have offered up a non-stop assault on affordable energy. Now that high gasoline prices have come home to roost, the president is flailing around for an energy policy. His recent attempts at energy […]
