Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament and one of Great Britain’s rising conservative political stars, reminds us that the fundamental error of the left is its “elevation of motive over outcome.” This leads to development assistance policies that are at least doomed to fail and may actually increase poverty. There are many reasons: […]
Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, now the USA has approved the use of drones for domestic surveillance. Then there’s the “Stingray” tool used by the FBI to track your cell phones. It’s enough to make even those who’ve gotten nothing hide feel nervous. New York-based artist Adam Harvey doesn’t like it […]
Islamist terrorists have abducted at least two foreign nationals in eastern Algeria, according to the UK Foreign Office. One person was killed during the attack on an oil in the town of In Amenas, according to local media reports. The installation is jointly operated by BP, Algeria’s Sonatrach state oil company, and Norway’s Statoil firm. There […]
LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the U.S. over his gun control views. Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Last week, he called a […]
The British government is planning to exclude Hebrew from its list of officially recognized languages for primary schools, in a move that could damage Jewish education in the country, the Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported. Education Minister Elizabeth Truss announced plans last month to make it compulsory to teach a foreign language to children aged seven […]
As the fiscal cliff approaches, Congress and President Obama continue to debate tax increases, even though spending is the problem. Investor Warren Buffett recently opined that tax hikes on the wealthy would not curtail investments or hurt the economy. His logic, like President Obama’s, assumes that incentives don’t matter. Oh really? News that Great Britain […]
After Kristallnacht, US cartoonists tried to mobilize sympathy for the plight of the Jews.FDR was not impressed and the doors stayed shut. (Dr. Medoff is coauthor, with comics historian Craig Yoe, of the forthcoming book, Cartoonists Against the Holocaust, from which this material is excerpted.with permission.) On November 9, 1938, mobs of Nazi stormtroopers unleashed […]
A small British company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Air Fuel Synthesis in Stockton-on-Tees has produced five litres of petrol since August when it switched on a […]
November 19, 2012 17:16 by Simon Plosker As Operation Pillar of Defense continues, here are the Top 5 Media Fails as HonestReporting inaugurates its Hall of Shame. 1. Jon Donnison, BBC for retweeting a dramatic photo of two children wounded in war without making any effort to verify the photo’s authenticity. Turns out the children […]
The Obama campaign has recently been accused of violating campaign rules and accepting donations from foreign citizens. According to the New York Post, a British citizen living outside of London was able to recently make two donations to the Obama campaign, through his re-election website, using his real address in England but with a New […]
