The Importance of Ryan-Rivlin
The political ground has been shifting rapidly ever since the American people delivered a vote of no confidence on the current direction of public policy when they went to the polls earlier this month. Nowhere is that shift more evident than in the recent release of a bipartisan plan to dramatically reform the nation’s health […]
Car Bombs in Iran Kill Nuclear Scientist
Two explosions in Tehran Monday morning killed one nuclear scientist and seriously wounded another. Both were university lecturers and worked on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Both men, and their wives, who also were wounded, were attacked shortly before 8 a.m. as they drove to work. Iranian media said that the assassinations were carried out […]
Federal Regulations and Small Towns
When unemployment is reaching heights we have not seen in years, and cities are on the brink of bankruptcy, what is the Obama administration focused on? Street signs. Not the broken ones that need to be replaced, but all of them, even if they are brand new. The reason? Most of them are written in […]
Daily Telegraph Video: Context Tossed Out With Grenades
A Daily Telegraph online video report leads with the dramatic headline: “Israeli police use grenades in Jerusalem“. This might very well conjure images more attuned to a Rambo movie as Sylvester Stallone pulls the pin with his teeth before lobbing a deadly explosive towards his enemies. In fact, as the Daily Telegraph report says, the […]
Climate Change Is Still About Chinese Coal
The climate change conference starting in Cancun Monday is doomed to failure. Many factors contribute to this, such as a healthy skepticism about how much should be spent to remediate climate change, but one alone guarantees failure: Chinese coal production and policy. When climate change soared up the American agenda with the election of President […]
Major Republicans Fail to Beat Obama in Potential 2012 Matchup, Survey Finds
(CNSNews.com) – Major potential Republican presidential contenders do not prevail against a weakened President Barack Obama despite the fact that a plurality of Americans would vote to deny him a second term, a new Quinnipiac poll finds. Americans do not support a second term for Obama by a 49 to 43 percent margin, the survey […]
Canadian Reporter Engages in Anti-Israel Advocacy Journalism
News reporters are duty bound to avoid expressing their subjective viewpoint or wilfully promoting social and political causes. Yet sometimes reporters’ opinions and agendas, whether conscious or unconscious, are revealed in their news coverage. Instead of doing straightforward reporting, some reporters use the public platforms of the media outlets they work for to slip in their […]
U.S. Economy: Stand by for More Worse News
A top economic adviser to the Democratic Party, speaking on deep background, told WMR that the domino-like collapse of the economies of Iceland, Greece, Ireland, and, now, possibly Spain, is coming also to the United States. One of the triggering mechanisms will be at the end of this month when two million idled workers, now […]
U.S. Supreme Court confers on Obama eligibility
WASHINGTON – Is this the case that will break the presidential eligibility question wide open? The Supreme Court conferred today on whether arguments should be heard on the merits of Kerchner v. Obama, a case challenging whether President Barack Obama is qualified to serve as president because he may not be a “natural-born citizen” as […]
Has The American Dream Come To An End?
“For generations, parents have told their children about “The American Dream.” Basically it has meant building a life based on the foundational principles that created and have sustained America for more than 200 years.” Greater than any other country in the modern world, the United States offered, from 1776 to 2010, unprecedented opportunities to the […]
