Government Report Warns Obamacare Subsidies Are Ripe for Fraud
For months, Heritage scholars have warned that the Obama Administration created incentives for fraud by allowing Obamacare insurance subsidies to basically operate under an “honor system” instead of requiring the IRS to verify incomes of Americans eligible for subsidies. The Treasury Department’s watchdog confirmed those fears by warning that Obamacare subsidies may be vulnerable to […]
Issa: FBI impeding inquiry into IRS targeting of conservative groups
The House’s chief investigator says the FBI is stonewalling his inquiry into whether the agency and the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative group True the Vote for special scrutiny, and Rep. Darrell E. Issa is now threatening subpoenas to pry loose the information from FBI Director James B. Comey Jr. Mr. Issa, California Republican, and […]
The Majority of Obamacare sign-ups are in Medicaid
The first month of the new health law’s rollout reveals an unexpected pattern in several states: a crush of people applying for an expansion of the free government funded Medicaid and a trickle of sign-ups for private insurance. This Obamacare imbalance , nine out of 10 enrollees are in Medicaid — has taken some experts […]
Congress Approval Ratings Lowest Ever, Lower Than Car Salesmen & Gonorrhea
A year ago, in December 2012, a Gallup Poll revealed that the only profession that had a lower approval rating than Congress was a car salesman. Congress’s rating was 10% and car salesmen had a rating of only 8%. In January 2013, a poll showed that the approval ratings of Congress compared to a number of other […]
Saudis Bristle at Obama’s Outreach to Iran
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times December 3, 2013 The “Joint Plan of Action” signed with Iran by the so-called P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.) on Nov. 24 in Geneva caused Shiite Arabs to celebrate, Sunni Arabs to worry, and Saudis to panic. The Saudi response will have far-reaching and […]
Israel Protest Against Palestinian Terror: End Rock Attacks by Firing Back
Roughly 100 Israelis from Shilo and surrounding communities in Samaria held a protest Saturday night calling to use force to stop rock and firebomb attacks. The protest was held along the highway, in the spot where the Har-Melekh family was attacked by terrorists in 2003. The attack killed young father Shuli Har-Melekh. Protesters explained that […]
Beware a Global Housing Market ‘Train Wreck’
, the noted economist who correctly predicted the U.S. housing bubble and its collapse, now sees an impending housing market train wreck of global proportions, with housing markets in 18 countries vulnerable to a meltdown. In a column for Project Syndicate, Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, wrote that “signs of frothiness, if […]
Q&A on the Crisis in Ukraine
GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom The brutal dispersal of demonstrators in Ukraine last week led to dozens wounded—and a public protest movement which now surpasses the Orange Revolution of 2004. Demonstrators want Ukraine in Europe—and President Victor Yanukovich out of power. Ariel Cohen, Heritage’s Senior Research Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, gives some perspective on where […]
Will Christians pay for a nuclear deal with Iran?
The Lebanese are wondering what the recent interim deal over Iran’s nuclear program means for them. There is a proverb that says, “If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.” In Lebanon, sit by the river long enough, and you will see the region’s bodies […]
Report: Gun Bans Result in Higher Murder Rates
A report issued by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows that gun bans result in higher murder rates. The report looks at the January 1997 “handgun ban in England and Wales” to substantiate this. Between the time of that ban and 2012, the “homicides rates” rose, exponentially at times, and fell, but they only […]
September 2013: A Month of Horror for Christians
“We shall come for you…you are polluting our religion.” — al-Shabaab, Somalia “It seems great crackdowns on churches and extraordinary waves of arrest of Iranian pastors and Christian converts have not been effective.” — Mohabat News, Iran The same month that Obama tried to wage war on behalf of the jihadi rebels in Syria (citing […]
