‘Israel Should Divide the Palestinian Authority into Emirates’
As hype and hysteria over the Hamas-Fatah (PLO/PA) unity pact continues, many experts are concerned over Israel’s future. But at least one expert has said that the unity pact will work in Israel’s favor: Arutz Sheva columnist Dr. Mordechai Keidar, an expert on the Israeli-Arab sector, and an Arabic literature professor at Bar-Ilan University. “I think […]
Gunman kills 3 Americans at Kabul hospital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three Americans — a pediatrician and a father and son — were killed by an Afghan government security officer at a hospital Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on foreign civilians that has rattled aid workers, contractors and journalists. Another American, a female medical worker, was wounded in the […]
Oregon’s Top IT Official Recommends Scrapping Obamacare Website
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oregon’s top IT official is recommending Cover Oregon scrap the state’s disastrous online health insurance exchange that failed to sign up a single resident, The Oregonian today reported. Alex Pettit, Oregon’s Chief Information Officer, this morning recommended to a 16-member technical advisory committee that Cover Oregon—the state insurance exchange that is […]
Ex-Ambassador: Time for Israel to Return to Pre-Oslo Days
Yoram Ettinger, the former Israeli consul in Washington, DC, is unfazed by Mahmoud Abbas’s threats to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) if negotiations with Israel are discontinued. Ambassador Ettinger told Arutz Sheva that Abbas is well aware of Israel’s fear of taking control of Judea and Samaria. “He knows that the Israeli leadership gets weak-kneed […]
Nigerian Terrorist Leader Tells Obama to Go ‘To Hell’
(CNSNews.com) – The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist group in a weekend video claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb attack in Abuja last week, taunting the government for its failure to defeat the Islamist group and telling President Obama and other world leaders to go “to hell.” “To hell with Obama!” Abubakar Shekau said […]
‘Smart on Crime’ Means Get Out of Jail for Thousands of Drug Offenders
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama signed legislation four years ago to reduce “unfair disparities” in drug sentences, but even so, “there are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime,” Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday. Because of when these drug offenders were sentenced, they will spend more time […]
Members of Congress Urge Court: Rule on Obama’s ‘Stunning Disregard for Law’
(CNSNews.com) – Dozens of members of Congress are asking a court to rule on the Obama administration’s attempt to “rewrite the Affordable Care Act on a wholesale basis.” They say the Office of Personnel Management, which is part of the Executive Branch, showed a “stunning disregard for the law” when it restored taxpayer-funded health care […]
Orphans of Perfection
In the pallid light of America’s last election, how then shall we make sense of such a monumental absurdity, where half our countrymen broke ranks with reason and saw fit to continue on a course that most assuredly will send us on an accelerated course over the falls? What psychic lure has propelled the Progressives […]
Why Thousands of Americans Gave Up Their Citizenship Status Last Year
Photo: Alex Grimm/Getty Images Americans have always enjoyed the privilege of living abroad without losing citizenship. Think Hemingway and Fitzgerald decamping to write in Europe after World War I, or Gen. MacArthur spending decades in Asia around World War II. Expatriates remain Americans, and have generally been welcomed back to our shores with open arms. […]
Retail Store Closures Soar In 2014
by Peak Crackers And so it starts …Keep in mind the US econ is built on 80% consumer consumption ..Remember Jr Bush words after 911..” Go shopping ” ZeroHedge What a better way to celebrate the rigged markets that are telegraphing a “durable” recovery, than with a Credit Suisse report showing, beyond a reasonable doubt, […]
Obama Calls For Highest Sustained Taxation In U.S. History
(Terence P. Jeffrey) In the budget proposal he presented to Congress last month, President Barack Obama called for what would be the highest level of sustained taxation ever imposed on the American people, according to the analysis published last week by the Congressional Budget Office. Under Obama’s proposal, taxes would rise from 17.6 percent of Gross […]
