The Solyndra Legacies
The Obama Administration has been knee-deep in scandal after green energy “model” Solyndra went bankrupt less than two years after receiving a $500 million loan guarantee from the federal government. Now, they are up against another controversy. Days before a recent deadline, the Department of Energy brazenly approved two additional loans for more than $1 […]
China’s Law of the Sea Treaty Double Game
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and former Defense Department official Dan Blumenthal have written an interesting and timely op-ed about China and the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). In “Time to Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty—Again,” the authors describe the duplicitous double game that China plays in the […]
Obamacare’s Soaring Price Tag
On January 21, 2009, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and, in his inaugural address, pledged to America that he would “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” What he did wield, of course, was a 2,000-page bill known as Obamacare. More than a year on, […]
On “Costless” Benefits for Public Workers
In our work on public sector compensation, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and I have routinely counted enhanced job security as a benefit for public workers, and we have tried to quantify just how valuable it can be. Some critics have argued that public workers actually have no extra job security, but this […]
The Attack on Israel’s Embassy in Cairo
by Daniel Pipes September 28, 2011 Western diplomats and journalists fell for Stalin’s show trials but eventually learned not to accept developments in the Soviet Union at face value. In the Soviet Union’s later years, a crowd assaulting a foreign embassy would have been assumed to have state approval. Other autocrats engage in similar tricks […]
The Cruise Control Act of 2011
By Tom McClintock Federal spending has ballooned 28 percent during the Obama Presidency while the government has amassed more debt than it acquired from the first day of George Washington’s administration to the last day of George H. W. Bush’s. Our nation is racing toward a fiscal cliff. Yet, as Sen. Jim DeMint noted, instead […]
Why a Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian Statehood is a Bad Idea (VIDEO)
Why a Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian Statehood is a Bad Idea If the consequences weren’t so serious, it might just be funny. Sign the petition: http://www.aish.com/September2011 Please watch the video below: [youtube HF3KWiUWz2A nolink]
Obama campaign redoubles effort to hold on to Jewish voters
By Greg Sargent In the wake of the Dem loss in the heavily Jewish district of NY-9 — which has been widely trumpeted by Republicans as a sign that Obama will lose Jewish support — the Obama campaign is redoubling its efforts to prevent defections among this core Democratic constituency, suggesting they take this possibility […]
Agenda 21 Creeps Into California Land Use Policy
Private property rights in California are being subjected to Agenda 21, a United Nation’s declaration on the collective society’s right to control private property. To learn more, watch the video! [youtube Cg_hckM27A0 nolink]
Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write
By Jack Cashill, American Thinker On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action. Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick’s biography of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen […]
White House Plot to ‘Humiliate and Destroy’ Birthers
Another brave Patriot is speaking out against Obama’s vital records. A Hawaii source with inside knowledge has asserted that Obama supporters placed a forged long-form 1961 birth certificate in the vault of the Hawaii Department of Health. Talk-radio host and former Nixon White House operative G. Gordon Liddy recently announced that one of his trusted […]
