Hard Questions for BDS Supporters in Europe
March 13, 2014 15:36 by Alex Margolin Alan Dershowitz asks some hard questions about Europe’s support for BDS. Any objective person with an open mind, open eyes and an open heart must see the double standard being applied to the nation-state of the Jewish people by so many of the grandchildren of those who lethally […]
U.S. Official: Malaysian Plane Sent Signals for 4 Hours
An American official said on Thursday that a Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, reports The Associated Press (AP). The comments echo ones made by United States investigators on Wednesday night. These […]
DeMint Answers the Critics: How Families and Communities Solve Problems Locally
As I’ve spoken to news commentators nationwide this past week about the themes in my new book, a question came up that is worth addressing. Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” posed it with his trademark tongue-in-cheek humor. I said, “We were built as a nation different than any other nation because we […]
Heritage Agrees With Schumer on Housing Finance Reform
Newscom Washington DC is abuzz now that Senators Tim Johnson (D–S.D.) and Mike Crapo (R–Idaho) have completed a bill to finally eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D–N.Y.) statement is completely correct in that “if there was ever a bill where the devil was in the details, this is it.” As […]
Rouhani Not Living Up to His Iranian Election Campaign Promises, Says UN Chief
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had failed to fulfill his campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression, Reuters reported. Ban also noted the sharp rise in executions since Rouhani’s election. He made the comments in a report to the UN Human Rights Council. “The new administration […]
Syrian Regime Starving ‘Palestinian Refugees’, Says Amnesty International
The Syrian army has been using starvation as a “weapon of war” in its siege of the Yarmouk camp for “Palestinian refugees” outside Damascus, Amnesty International said on Monday, according to AFP. In a report on the plight of Palestinian and Syrian civilians in Yarmouk, the group said nearly 200 people have died since an […]
Terrorists Have Not Claimed Responsibility for Malaysia Flight . Still Could be a Terror
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 on Saturday could be an act of terrorism. There has been one claim of responsibility: an email from an Islamic group called the Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade. But just how many acts of terrorism go unclaimed? Most of them. Credible perpetrators claimed responsibility for only 14 percent of the more than 45,000 […]
Democrats Ignore How Climate Change Regulations Hurt Americans
UPI/Kevin Dietsch Senate Democrats gave a series of speeches all last night to help prevent climate change, despite that there is no evidence yet that the planet is in imminent danger. Attempting to imitate the popular filibusters given by Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), twenty-eight Democrats took to the Senate floor to […]
Missing jetliner last tracked hundreds of miles off course.
Pictures are now available to two Iranian nationals that boarded the missing Malaysian flight. A fresh report has emerged claiming that the pair were in fact Iranian nationals. A BBC Persian report quotes an Iranian friend of one of the men, who said he hosted the pair in Kuala Lumpur after they arrived from Tehran in the days […]
Arab League Backs Abbas on Refusal to Recognize Israel
The Arab League on Sunday backed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Al-Arabiya reports. The head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, reportedly urged Arab countries to take a “firm stand” against Israel’s demand for the PA to recognize it as a Jewish state. Speaking at the […]
‘There Are Thousands of Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Gaza’
The head of a Gaza-based jihadist group warned on Sunday that there are several thousand Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in Gaza. Speaking to The Associated Press (AP), the terror leader, Abu Bakir al-Ansari, said that these terrorists pose a formidable threat to both Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Al-Ansari described a movement that is larger and better […]