The White House responded to the coordinated church bombings in Nigeria on Christmas Day with a routine condemnation. “We condemn this senseless violence and tragic loss of life on Christmas Day,” read the White House statement. British Foreign Secretary William Hague labeled the attacks cowardly as did UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Boko Haram a.k.a. People Committed to the […]
How does marriage fare as the nation heads into the new year? Unfortunately, the most recent government data indicate that U.S. marriage rates are at an all-time low. Today, a little more than half of all Americans are currently married, compared to more than 70 percent five decades ago. Additionally, the age at first marriage […]
In a damning report, The Washington Post details its investigation of President Barack Obama’s much-hyped green jobs program. Its findings? Politics, not policy, underpinned the White House’s calculations. From The Post report: Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found […]
Hizbullah on Saturday blamed the United States for Friday’s twin car bombings in Damascus that killed at least 44 and wounded at least 100, saying Washington was the “mother of terrorism.” “These bombings which resulted in the death and injury of dozens of people, mostly women and children, are the specialty of the United States, […]
by Daniel Pipes December 22, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Military relations have been at the core of the Ankara-Jerusalem entente. These took off in February 1996when the two sides signed a military training agreement that had Israeli air force jets flying over Anatolia, making the Turks the first Muslim-majority people to establish a […]
(CNSNews.com) – A number of big names from the entertainment industry have contributed to President Barack Obama’s campaign for a second term in office and to the Democratic National Committee. According to the campaign contribution data on the OpenSecrets.org Web site, actor George Clooney is renewing his support for President Obama in 2011 with a $2,500 contribution for the primary […]
Let us turn one more time to Ronald Reagan, in his centennial year, for some Christmas cheer. President Reagan loved America, his shining city on a hill, but he loved one thing—or rather one person—more: Nancy, his wife of more than 50 years. Theirs was a marriage of affection and devotion and commitment, captured in […]
“Occupy” protesters wear their movement’s leaderless decentralization on their collective sleeve. The attitude fits with a group that claims “democracy” as its chief political end. But it also makes ascertaining their conctete political objectives far more difficult, since, in theory, there can be no established political platform. Polling conducted at some of the Occupy tent […]
What would the U.S president be like if we had a Muslim President in the White House? What would he do? Would he ignore Christian holidays such as the National Day of Prayer, yet celebrate Ramadan, and certainly they would never attend church services while in office. Maybe he would commit our military forces to […]
Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery. In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism […]
