Leftist LA Times Concedes Serious Diseases Coming From Mexico, Central America
by TONY LEE During last summer’s border crisis, left-wing and mainstream media outlets mocked conservativeAmericans who were concerned that illegal immigrants may be carrying disease like Tuberculosis. But in a story downplaying the measles threat from Mexico and Central America, the Los Angeles Times concedes that, “beyond measles, however, there are some serious diseases that are brought […]
‘We Love This Land’: Iraqi Christian Men Fight to Keep ISIS Away From Homes
Athra Kado had never shot a gun before, let alone seen a battlefield. Until recently Kado, 25, spent his young career in a classroom, teaching high school students how to speak Syriac, his native language. But Kado is one of hundreds of Assyrian Christian men—many with no military experience—taking up arms to protect their towns […]
The big lie of Gaza
By Daniel Mandel As a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is hammered out, much talk is heard about aid packages for Gaza, as though none previously existed. The refrain is heard that Gazans are living in a teeming, open-air prison. Repeated endlessly by those under obligation to know the facts, the myth has it that Gaza […]
How One Nebraska Woman Lost Her Health Insurance Three Times Under Obamacare
Dec. 26, 2014, was strike three for Pamela Weldin. The day after Christmas, Weldin, of Minatare, Neb., had logged on to Facebook to find a message from a friend of hers. Included in the note was a link to an article from the Omaha World-Herald announcing that CoOportunity Health, a nonprofit health insurance company offering plans […]
Obama Regime No Longer Updating Israel on Nuclear Talks with Iran
The US administration under President Barack Obama has stopped updating Israel on the progress of talks with Iran over that country’s nuclear program, in retaliation for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s intention to speak in Congress March 3 at the invitation of Republican Speaker John Boehner. According to Israel’s Channel 2, Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, […]
HAPPY PRESIDENTS’ DAY! Judge Issues Injunction Against Obama Amnesty!
By John W. Lillpop Barack Obama’s President’s Day was perhaps ruined, but at least made less happy, by a heroic judge who put the brakes on Obama’s unlawful and unconstitutional usurpation of immigration laws via Executive Orders. As reported at the reference: A federal judge in Texas on Monday granted a temporary injunction halting President […]
How High Costs Killed This Clean Coal Power Plant Project
FutureGen is dead. Again. The Department of Energy pulled the plug on this $1.1 billion project in Illinois: a “clean coal” power plant that would capture carbon dioxide and store it underground. President George W. Bush proposed the carbon-free power plant in 2003 but shelved the project five years later because of cost overruns. President […]
Boehner: House ‘Has Done Its Job,’ Homeland Security Funding Up to Senate Democrats
House Speaker John Boehner said today that if funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires on Feb. 27, then the responsibility lies with Senate Democrats. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said he is “certainly” prepared to allow the agency to shut down because Senate Democrats “would be to blame.” “The House has done […]
Just as Loose Lips Sink Ships, Meek Talk Lets Terrorists Walk
By Judi McLeod The safety of civilians who gather in all corners of the world is truly paramount to Western leaders, they should look at the possibilities of expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s ( NATO’s) mandate to one that can keep close watch and regulate with full authority any and all elected officials who […]
Are We Seeing History Repeat Itself?
By Alan Caruba “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is the famed quote of George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher (1863-1952). I am beginning to think that the world is making its way toward a future that repeats the horrors of the last century’s wars and earlier times when Europeans […]
Obama’s At It Again, Now He’s Preaching Religious History
By Jerry McConnell Our feeble-minded usurper POTUS just won’t quit. Just last week, I pointed out his inability or just outright refusal to learn. Then to prove me right Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast and his extreme reticence to give voice to coupling the words Islam and terrorism in spite of its overwhelmingly obvious […]