Israelis Experience Obama’s Charm Offensive
KOBI GIDEON/G.P.O./SIPA/Newscom President Obama wowed his youthful audience in Israel on Thursday. Having arrived on Wednesday with a mere 10 percent approval rating, Obama clearly hoped to win Israeli hearts and minds with his almost hour-long speech. He went straight to the Israeli people with his pitch, eschewing a more traditional and formal address toIsrael’s […]
The Arms Trade Treaty, Day Four: As a New Draft Arrives, China Speaks and the EU Begs
Arms Trade Treaty conference session (Photo by Ted Bromund) The fireworks at the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference in New York started late on Wednesday. By Thursday afternoon, the atmosphere, which had in previous days been calm, felt like last July, when the last negotiating conference collapsed into failure. The fun began with an […]
Obama’s Middle East policy in tatters
U.S is now less popular in the region than at the end of the George W. Bush administration. The White House has been lowering expectations for Obama’s trip to Israel all this week. If Israelis don’t like Obama, Palestinians are even less favorable. Obama has to assure Israelis and Palestinians that he is still engaged. […]
Academy of Pediatrics Endorses Same-Sex Marriage, but Science Not So Sure
Newscom The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a policy statement yesterday indicating its support for same-sex marriage. Based on “extensive research,” this statement from a scientific organization may seem authoritative. In reality, however, the AAP’s position is based on ideology, not science. The AAP claims that children “receive similar parenting whether they are raised […]
Five Media Spins to Watch for During Obama Visit
March 20, 2013 17:40 by Alex Margolin With President Barack Obama touching down in Jerusalem for his first official visit to Israel, the Middle East is once again the top story in the international press. While most media reports ahead of the visit noted the Obama administration’s desire to “reboot” relations between the US and […]
President Obama’s Middle East Trip Underscores Need for Economic Freedom
Newscom President Obama is in the Middle East this week, two years and three months after Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi unleashed the Arab Spring by protesting against his lack of economic freedom. Mohamed’s father died when he was three years old. When his stepfather became ill, Mohamed quit school to support his family by […]
Lord Ahmed’s Anti-Semitic Axis at the heart of British politics
In 2007 the Daily Mail’s Richard Littlejohn investigated the anti-Semitism which had become an essential feature of the British political Left. His research was broadcast in July of that year on Channel 4, with the programme The War on Britain’s Jews. Normally the anti-Semitism of the Left is couched in anti-Zionism. Yet it is […]
Colorado Shooter James Holmes Converts to Islam
The Daily Mail is reporting that James Holmes, the infamous murderer who opened fire on a crowded movie theater in Colorado, has converted to Islam. I’ll have to see a few more sources reporting this story before I start taking it seriously. But we’ll see what happens. James Holmes, the gunman behind the Dark Knight […]
Obama to let Muslim passengers skip normal US passport controls
The Obama administration through the Department of Homeland Security program intends to give “trusted traveler” status to low-risk airline passengers to Muslim travelers from Saudi Arabia. Obama is bending over backwards in accommodating a country that produced 15 of the 19 hijackers behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Sources voiced concern about the decision […]
Obamacare: Penalized for Not Divulging Weight
Programs aimed at reducing employer health costs could become more common under Obamacare. Employees of the national pharmacy store chain CVS just got a hard pill to swallow. Workers who use the company’s health insurance plan were told to get a doctor’s assessment of their weight, blood pressure and other health indicators to turn over […]
North Korea Ups the Ante with Cyber Attack
Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service On Tuesday, several South Korean banks and television broadcasters were taken offline due to a “pretty massive” cyber attack. For the most part these attacks were just a nuisance, temporarily cutting off online access to bank accounts and freezing TV station computers, though not interfering with any […]
