Jewish Victim of Palestinian Islamic Terror in Serious Condition
A Jewish man aged 50 is in serious condition at Tel Hashomer Hospital after a rock thrown by Arabs struck him in the head Saturday night as he was driving in a car near the Dolev-Talmonim Bloc in the Binyamin region. At the same time, more or less, Arabs attacked a group of Jews who […]
Immigration Group Tests Claim That Americans Won’t Do Some Jobs
(CNSNews.com) – Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has released an analysis showing that only 1% of the U.S. workforce is employed at jobs that are held by legal and illegal immigrants. Among the findings of the analysis: Of the 472 civilian occupations, only six are majority immigrant […]
Critics Looking at Old Data Instead of New Heritage Research on Amnesty
Some proponents of comprehensive immigration reform (including amnesty) are trying to find support for their position in Heritage Foundation papers from long ago. In the first paper they point to, from March 2006, Heritage rejected amnesty but also considered the economic effects of immigration. Since that time, there are two major differences to consider. First […]
Amnestied Immigrants Add $6.3 Trillion to Debt
Monday morning, the Heritage Foundation is releasing its long-anticipated study of the fiscal impact of providing illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship. Over their lifetimes, the newly legalized immigrants would add a net $6.3 Trillion to the public debt. Heritage notes that this is a minimum estimate. The Heritage study reports that newly legalized immigrants […]
Israel Bombs Syrian Missiles Marked for Hezbollah
Israel bombs Syrian Missiles Earmarked for Hezbollah. New York Times coverage lays out what was believed hit. An American official, who asked not to be identified because he was discussing intelligence reports, said the targeted shipment consisted of Iranian-made Fateh-110s — a mobile, accurate, solid-fueled missile that has the range to strike Tel Aviv and […]
Amnesty and the Welfare State Don’t Mix
Heritage’s highly anticipated report on the cost of amnesty, released earlier today, puts the price tag at $6.3 trillion—a figure that becomes available as the Senate prepares for a May 9 markup of the “comprehensive” immigration reform bill proposed by the “Gang of Eight.” Heritage, the only organization that has done an analysis of the […]
DeMint on Immigration Reform: ‘If People Read The Bill, It Will Be Blocked’
Former senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint on Sunday predicted that the Gang’s of Eight’s immigration reform bill would be blocked “if people read the bill.” “I think if people read the bill, that it will be blocked,” DeMint said on ABC’s This Week. “Because once you get into it, just like Obamacare, […]
Iran Denies Ahmadinejad Arrest
Iran has denied rumors that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was detained and investigated for seven hours by the Revolutionary Guards, Hurriyet daily news reported. The rumors were spread following a report by the American news site WND, which claimed that the Iranian president was taken to a secret Foreign Ministry office where he and his security […]
Explosions Rock Damascus, Israel Blamed for Second Airstrike
A series of explosions were heard in Damascus overnight Saturday, as the official Syrian news agency SANA claimed that Israel carried out a rocket attack on the Jamraya scientific research center in Damascus. The agency did not say whether there were any wounded or dead. Syrian television said “the Israeli attack aims at loosening the […]
Cloakroom: Priorities Edition
House Cloakroom: May 6 – May 10 Analysis: This week, the House is taking up bills to prevent sovereign default and allow families more flexibility in their work schedules. The Full Faith and Credit Act would ensure that as we enter another debt ceiling fight, America will continue to fulfill its debt obligations even past […]
Public school system gets A for arrogance
A controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of the Boston Tea Party as terror, and has referenced Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters, now has been found to be trying to charge parents hundreds of dollars to see the instructional materials being used by their own children, officials said. However, […]
