Dean Cheng, senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, has been in Singapore, where he was a guest at the region’s premier security conference, the Shangri-La Dialogue. With the close of the events here in Singapore, Southeast Asia and regional security analysts are busily mulling over this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue. The Dialogue […]
Making clear its official stance against Operation Choke Point, the House passed a measure that prohibits the Justice Department from using any funds to carry out the controversial program. Critics say it unfairly targets legal businesses like pawn shops, gun dealers and payday lenders. On Wednesday, lawmakers approved the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which […]
A blogger using the pen name emilysuzanne11 has received over 4,000 reply’s to her post on why Bruce Jenner is not a Hero. On her blog https://emilysuzanne11.wordpress.com this is what she wrote: I generally try to steer clear of controversial issues on here. Most are so deeply embedded in presuppositions that writing about them generally just generates […]
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are twisting arms to get to 218 votes—the magic number needed to pass the Senate-approved version of the “Trade Act of 2015” (H.R.1314), which merged Trade Promotion Authority with the ineffective and harmful Trade Adjustment Assistance program. This would be a mistake. Trade Adjustment Assistance provides generous income […]
Senatobia, Miss. (CBS HOUSTON) — Four people who cheered at a Mississippi high school graduation may be thrown in jail after police issued warrants for their arrest. The superintendent who filed the charges said it’s a necessary move and he is demanding order at the ceremony. Senatobia Municipal School District Superintendent Jay Foster filed “disturbing the […]
Daniel Greenfield Progressive America has a fever and the only solution is more welfare. Celebrities are trying to buy only $29 worth of fair trade arugula at Whole Foods and then taking snapshots of it in a mistaken effort to show how little food stamps buy. Obama is urging more social welfare spending as the […]
by Daniel Greenfield What is Islam? The obvious dictionary definition answer is that it’s a religion, but legally speaking it actually enjoys all of the advantages of race, religion and culture with none of the disadvantages. Islam is a religion when mandating that employers accommodate the hijab, but when it comes time to bring it […]
The Silver State just struck gold. Nevada has just become the fifth state to enact groundbreaking education savings accounts (ESAs), which will enable families to harness the funds that would have been spent on their children in their assigned pubic school to craft a customized education plan. The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice earlier this […]
May marked Baltimore’s deadliest month in more than 40 years as three men were fatally shot yesterday, bringing the month’s homicide toll to 43. The Baltimore Sun reported the two separate shootings Sunday—the first killing two men after they were fatally shot in the head, the second killing one man and leaving another injured after […]
By Doug Hagmann Most Americans obviously don’t know their history for if we did, we would be much more outraged and disturbed about the Jade Helm 15 military operation. Why? Because we’ve seen eerily similar situations play out in our nation before. In fact, this situation was a precursor to the first American Revolution. Concurrent […]
