Only in America 1) Only in America could the President talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund-raising event. 2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the […]
The Telegraph recently made headlines with a survey that suggested that a fifth of the European Union will be Muslim by 2050. This is if anything an understatement of the situation, since once you subtract Eastern European states and focus in on Western European countries such as England, France and Italy… or Sweden, Islam will […]
We may not agree with his politics, but we never wish this terrible disease on anybody. We can say a prayer for Hugo and his family and wish for the best. A high profile Venezuelan reporter has been told that the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has Metastatic Rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that has “entered the […]
President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82-year-old labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. Huerta is also an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA describes itself as “the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of […]
A corrupt and brutal regime is uprooted by a military coup promising clean and responsible government. The streets are filled with outpourings of joy from all sections of the population. It does not take long for this to be dashed as the friendly image is replaced with that of ugly brutality so much that people […]
The elections in France ousted from power one of the leading opponents of Turkish accession to the European Union- Nicolas Sarkozy. Although the new French President, Francois Hollande, ruled out the possibility of Turkey entering the European Union during his five-year term the Turks are optimistic enough to reopen their entry bid. There are three […]
By Roy A. Barnes COMMENTARY | CBS News reported Friday that President Barack Obama held a fundraiser in Los Angeles at the home of movie actor George Clooney Thursday, and raised about $15 million. Yet the most troubling part of the report was the following words, “The star of the evening, the president, arrived at […]
Now we have the new French socialist president, Monsieur Hollande, and this guy hates the rich. This guy despises the rich and wants to tax them 75%. Hollande has promised tax increases on the rich and to hell with austerity. We’re not cutting spending. We’re raising taxes and we’re gonna spend and spend and that’s […]
This is the third of our four-part series on Occupy Wall Street, transcribed from a recent Heritage Foundation event on the movement. In part three, Ben Domenech, research fellow at the Heartland Institute and editor of The Transom, reflects on his own interaction with Occupiers and explains why he’s not ready to write them off. […]
A new study by the Urban Institute reconfirms a vital fact: Medicare’s massive increase in enrollment, largely attributable to retiring baby boomers, is driving its fiscal instability. This is an important finding, because during the health care debate of 2009, advocates of Obamacare insisted that excess health care cost inflation was the more urgent problem […]
