The Obamacare Big City Bailout
Newscom Bloomberg reports this week on the latest Obamacare trend sweeping across the country: Cities and states may soon attempt to unload unsustainable health costs on the federal government by dumping employees and retirees onto exchanges. Both Chicago and Detroit have explored using the exchanges to reduce massive budget shortfalls, and it could set an […]
Even The Communists Say Obama Is A Communist
The famed Russian news site “Pravda,” which ironically was formed as the official Communist publication of the former Soviet Union, released a scathing opinion column entitled, “Obama’s Soviet Mistake,” in which the author unabashedly labels the U.S. president a “Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so.” The author, Xavier Lerma, goes on […]
Obama on July 4: Americans Free to ‘Worship’–But Not Freely Excercise Their Religion
In a special weekly address, celebrating the 4th of July, President Barack Obama said that Americans are free to “worship” as they please–which mirrors language in the Iraqi constitution, but contrasts with the First Amendment to our own constitution which denies government any power to prohibit “the free exercise” of religion. Obama’s reference to freedom […]
In Israel, doctors quietly treat injured Syrians
Israel, which has never been reticent about publicizing its rescue missions when disaster strikes in far-flung corners of the globe, is being unusually discreet about its aid to victims of the fighting in neighboring Syria. For the past four months, doctors in the Jewish state have been quietly offering medical treatment to a small number […]
Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
From the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com comes a galvanizing and alarming look at the strategy and tactics of leftist thuggery.They bullied people the last election to vote for Obama, now these same liberals are complaining that their paychecks are smaller. The left like to pretend that they oppose bullying with all their hearts and souls, the […]
Threats of ‘lynchings’ over Trayvon verdict
Ihe Trayvon Martin case, in which neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman is on trial for murder, could go badly. “The public mind has been so poisoned that an acquittal of George Zimmerman could ignite a reaction similar to that, 20 years ago, when the Simi Valley jury acquitted the LAPD cops in the Rodney King beating […]
Pope Francis: Marriage one man and one woman for nurturing children
ROME, ITALIA (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his first encyclical letter, released this morning, Pope Francis has reiterated that marriage is a union of one man and one woman for the procreation and nurturing of children. This lifelong pledge is possible only in the light of a greater plan for marriage, he said: “Promising love for ever is […]
Obamacare Strikes: Part-Time Jobs Surge To All Time High; Full-Time Jobs Plunge By 240,000
As a reminder: jobs have quantity and quality components. The quantity component was good enough to convince the 10 Year the taper is imminent (if not stocks, which continue to trade dislocated from any and all fundamentals). But how about the quality? In a word: not good. In June, the household survey reported that part-time jobs soared by 360,000 […]
Iran in Latin America: State Department Ignores Allies
Newscom The State Department recently released a report to Congress assessing the threat posed by Iran in the Western Hemisphere. Regrettably, it seems that the State Department neglected to consult with U.S. allies in Latin America and ignored research that contradicted their assertions. Indeed, the report paints a rosy picture, suggesting that Iran’s influence in […]
The NSA Trained Edward Snowden To Be An Elite Hacker
In 2010 the National Security Agency (NSA) taught Edward Snowden how to turn the world’s largest spy agency inside out. Snowden, through a NSA course that trains security professionals to think like hackers, acquired the skills he needed to quietly slip into NSA computer systems and gather the highly classified surveillance documents he leaked last month, Christopher Drew […]
When states monitored their citizens we used to call them authoritarian. Now we think it keeps us safe
America controls the sky. Fear of what America might do can make countries divert planes – all because Edward Snowden might be on one. Owning the sky has somehow got to me more than controlling theinternet. Maybe because I am a simpleton and sometimes can only process what I can see – the actual sky, rather than invisible […]