Bombing Survivor: ‘I Couldn’t Even Scream or Cry’
Sixty-six years have passed since the most deadly terrorist attack in Israeli history: a bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem that murdered 58 people. Nitza Meyuhas-Alber was just three years old when the bomb went off, a short distance from her family’s home. For hours she was trapped under the rubble, unable to move […]
Next Shoe To Drop: Obamacare Will Increase The Cost Of Employer-Sponsored Insurance
Yesterday, the Obama Administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a six-page report predicting that Obamacare could cause premiums to increase for nearly two-thirds of small- to medium-sized businesses. “This results in roughly 11 million individuals whose premiums are estimated to be higher as a result of the ACA and about 6 million individuals […]
Susan Rice embodies America’s decline
Susan Rice ought to stay off “Meet the Press.” The last time she was on, she misrepresented what led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. On Sunday she was back, this time misrepresenting critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy. Last time her misrepresentation was unintentional. This time it wasn’t. I prefer […]
Federal Reserve to Cut Off Europe to Support U.S. Borrowing
Janet Yellen, newly confirmed Federal Reserve (Fed) chair, announced February 19th that America’s central bank is moving to cut off the massive financial lifeline that has been subsidizing the European banking system since the beginning of the global financial crisis in March of 2008. By delaying foreign bank compliance with the stringent capital and borrowing […]
Arizona Bill Does Not Give Businesses License to Discriminate Against Gays
Some have claimed that a bill recently passed by the Arizona legislature would give businesses broad license to not serve someone for being gay. This claim, though, may be a misreading, according a CP legislative analysis. While the bill is an attempt to broaden who is covered under its religious freedom protections, in all cases […]
India campaigners push for anti-racism law
BBC NEWS ASIA 17 February 2014 Nido Tania was killed two weeks ago in an apparently racially-motivated attack in Delhi Campaigners in India are pushing to introduce anti-racism legislation after the recent killing in Delhi of a college student from north-east India, the latest in a series of apparent hate crimes. India […]
Sorry, Obamacare: Private Health Exchange Captures Young Adults
Pete Souza As Obamacare marketers step up efforts to enroll more young adults, private health exchange eHealth announced that four out of every 10 of its new customers in the final quarter of 2013 were in that coveted category. According to Kaiser Health News, eHealth CEO Gary Lauer said in an earnings call last week that […]
The Middle East’s Real Apartheid State
There is a country in the Middle East where 10 percent of the population is denied equal rights because of their race, where black men are not allowed to hold many government positions, where black women are put on trial for witchcraft and where the custody of children is granted to the parent with the most […]
Politico just doesn’t get it about conservatives; Again
The inside-the-beltway publication that keeps tabs on all of the “inside baseball” minutiae of Washington’s permanent political class does not understand why it is smart for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to oppose his party’s leadership, which he was elected by Texans to do. In previewing its newest magazine article about Cruz, Politico tweeted, “Ted Cruz […]
High tech in vehicles puts drivers’ privacy up for grabs
(DETROIT) Every time a motorist slides in behind the wheel, odds are that car or truck is gathering information: How aggressively the driver accelerated, whether the speed limit was observed, how hard the brake pedal was applied. And beyond driving habits, where and when the car was driven, what route was taken and whether the […]
Out of Control Federal Government adds new regulation every 3 hours…
Last week Mother Nature shut down Washington’s government offices for a day, but the extreme weather was no match for federal regulators inflating the government at rates never seen before. Over that time period, 1,516 new pages and 56 additional final regulations and laws were published in the Federal Register, according to the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute. Broken down, […]
