Amanda Knox: Probably Guilty as Sin
Despite liberals’ desperate need for Europeans to like them, the American media have enraged the entire nation of Italy with their bald-faced lies about a heinous murder in Perugia committed by a fresh-faced American girl, Amanda Knox. The facts aren’t elusive: In December 2009, the Italian court released a 400-plus page report detailing the mountains […]
Was Scarlett Johansson Wrong to Dump Oxfam? Ask SodaStream’s Palestinian Workers
While the likes of MSNBC’s Chris Hayes are criticising actress Scarlett Johansson’s decision to stand by SodaStream and Israel and ditch the politicking Oxfam, there is another group of people whose opinions on this issue should be heard: the Palestinians employed by SodaStream in the West Bank. Earlier this month, Johansson and Oxfam came to […]
Live Zombie Insect Found in Eastern US
A fly called Apocephalus borealis, lays its eggs in a bees’ abdomen. The eggs take about a week to hatch during which they disrupt the neurological function of their hosts. The larvae then enter the world from their hosts’ body through the head. These bees suffer from a parasitic infection that disrupts their neurological functions, […]
Obama, IRS Continue to Keep Conservative Nonprofits from Forming
James Madison had it exactly right. Referring to infringements on our freedoms, the Father of the Bill of Rights once wrote that such encroachments were more often “gradual and silent” than “violent and sudden.” That’s exactly what we’re seeing with President Obama’s proposed regulation on so-called 501(c)(4) groups: a stealth attempt to stifle the ability […]
Immigration officials warn of amnesty ‘overload’
The officers who would be charged with approving millions of applications from illegal immigrants for legal status warned Congress this week that they can’t handle the workload, and said the change would guarantee criminals and others would be approved to remain in the country. In a letter to House Republicans, who are planning to announce […]
Obamacare’s Unpopularity Rising
As the deadline for 2014 enrollment nears, Obamacare is increasingly growing unpopular, especially among the uninsured. A new Kaiser Family Foundation survey finds that about twice as many uninsured people have an unfavorable view of the health-care law than have a favorable one. Among the uninsured, 47 percent view Obamacare in a negative light versus the […]
Scarlett Johansson Cuts Ties with Oxfam Over BDS
January 30, 2014 15:38 by Alex Margolin Scarlett Johansson broke ties with Oxfam because of “fundamental differences” between her and the NGO on the issue of Israel boycotts. “Scarlett Johansson has respectfully decided to end her ambassador role with Oxfam after eight years,” the statement said. “She and Oxfam have a fundamental difference of opinion […]
Meet Preet: Obama’s Hatchet Man Against Filmmakers
By Washington Times (DC) January 30, 2014 12:20 pm Meet Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza on campaign finance charges. Mr. Bharara is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder’s junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer of President Obama’s thorniest political problems. Mr. D’Souza very well […]
Ted Cruz on Absence of Charges Against IRS: ‘Two hundred and eighty days have passed…’
By Washington Times (DC) January 30, 2014 12:25 pm Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that there is still a chance the government would file criminal charges against Internal Revenue Service employees who targeted tea party groups for special scrutiny, disputing press reports that the criminal probe into the tax agency has already decided […]
The Arabs as Seen Fifty Years Ago
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times March 6, 2012 “Once mellowed and moldering, the far-flung civilization of the Arabs is being swept today by invigorating winds of change. A fruitful kind of disorder is replacing the old fixed patterns of life.” Those contemporary-sounding words were published in 1962, in a glossy, picture-laden, 160-page book titled […]
Culture of Sexual Promiscuity Leads to Trouble
Much of the sexual harassment/assault/rape culture today is a result of the sexual liberation of women promoted by feminists and Democrats for decades now. In many cases women’s own behavior leads to their victimhood. How? Let’s look at the facts. If an unmarried female with her feminist-granted right to unlimited sexual pleasure is sitting at […]