Chart of the Week: Defense Budget Cuts Gamble with National Security
The third and final presidential debate between President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney will feature several different questions on the role of America abroad and other aspects of foreign policy. Obama and Romney will likely address the nation’s impending spending crisis and automatic defense budget cuts, known as sequestration. Heritage senior research fellow Steven Bucci […]
The reasons Obama has Failed us
By Gordon Smith– This week, I decided to list the reasons I would not vote for Barack Obama in the next election. A few months ago, I said I would never join the “Anyone But Obama” crowd. Now I must eat my words. Having lived under the rule of this egotist for three and […]
Second Circuit Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act
On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was the latest to issue a ruling on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Over a strong dissent by one of the judges, it ruled that section 3 violates equal protection and thus is unconstitutional. Section 3 […]
3 Questionable Foreign Policy Statements in the Second Presidential Debate
The second presidential debate is done, and the pundit debate regarding its meaning continues. President Obama made three questionable statements relating to national security, and as the foreign policy debate approaches on Monday, these are worth addressing: “I ended the war in Iraq.” This one is a stretch. The surge that really ended the war […]
President Obama’s Misleading Account of Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Case
In the second presidential debate, when the issue of equal pay for women came up, President Obama responded with an assertion that was flat-out wrong. He said that he signed the Lilly Ledbetter bill because the Supreme Court had ruled that Ledbetter, who claimed in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. that she was paid […]
Employees at Fed-Funded ‘Green’ Energy Company Openly Admit They Watch Movies, Play Cards Because ‘There’s Nothing to Do’
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:09pm by Becket Adams President Barack Obama in 2010 spoke at LG Chem subsidiary Compact Power, an electric battery plant in Holland, Mich., to tout his administration’s decision to pour millions and millions of taxpayer’s dollars into the clean energy industry. “Our goal has never been to create a government […]
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
By Michael Kelley | Oct. 19, 2012, 8:45 AM The official position is that the US has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria. But there’s growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels. In March 2011 Stevens became the official […]
A Cuban immigrant to the US speaks about Obama’s “Hope and Change” similarity to Castro’s..
A Cuban immigrant to the US speaks about Obama’s “Hope and Change” similarity to Castro’s. A Cuban refugee draws a striking comparison between the policies of Barack Obama and Fidel Castro. Is Barack Obama the next Fidel Castro? [youtube 0uANo3t1mUo nolink]
Minnesota Bans Free Online Courses
Almost as heartbreaking as burning books, a move by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education will rank among those incomprehensible moments in human history when we seem to be handicapping ourselves for no reason. Lifelong learners, students wanting supplemental courses, professionals, and Americans across the country interested in enrolling in physics, history, music, and a […]
National Geographic Channel ‘bombarded with TERROR threats from Muslims over Bin Laden raid movie
The National Geographic Channel’s Washington, DC headquarters has increased security after being inundated with terror threats over the upcoming release of the film Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, according to a source. The full-length feature film is the first dramatization of the U.S. special forces operation that killed the mastermind of the September […]
Arabs Are Brainwashed, Terrorism Is Inevitable
At a press conference with foreign journalists Thursday, Director General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs Yossi Kuperwasser said that he believed that only foreign pressure on Hamas would put an end to the current round of rocket attacks by Gaza Arab terrorists against Israel. A major IDF campaign against Gaza would do little, if […]
