Anarchy, the New Threat
by Daniel Pipes Jan 28, 2012 updated Nov 28, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online The scourge of the twentieth century was overly-powerful governments; could the looming problem of this century be too-weak governments? The political scientist R. J. Rummel estimated, in his evocatively titled study, Death by Government (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1994), that […]
Kevin Chavous on His Tireless Efforts for School Choice
Few legislators have done more to advance school choice than Kevin Chavous. As a city councilmember in Washington D.C. from 1992 to 2004, and a chairman of the council’s Education Committee, Chavous was instrumental in implementing the city’s landmark Opportunity Scholarship Program. A partnership between the federal and city governments, the DC OSP was one […]
Debt Limit Increases to Nearly $16.4 Trillion
At the close of business, the federal government’s debt limit will increase by another $1.2 trillion, the final installment in a series of hikes that started last summer. This last increase, from $15.194 trillion to $16.394 trillion, was essentially granted in the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011, passed August 2 at the culmination of […]
New Asteroid/Comet Detection System Needed Now
By Peter Paton There is an urgent need for mankind to come up with a sophisticated and elaborate asteroid and comet tracking system, which would allow sufficient time for successful interception, destruction or deflection of these terrifying and colossal bodies which threaten the existence of the planet and all its inhabitants. The terrifying Meteor strike […]
Newt Pledges Moon Base By Second Term
Newt Gingrich took the opportunity of being on Florida’s space coast to revisit one of his favorite topics: space exploration. “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich said to applause. He said the development would include commercial and private […]
Florida primary pits tea party vs. cocktail party
TAMPA, Fla. — As the Republican race moves to a state defined by the extremes in recession-era America — where the underwater and unemployed live just a few miles from the 1 percent — a sharp class divide is emerging between the two top contenders. Mitt Romney’s crowds look like something out of the president’s […]
Biden Does Fake Indian Accent During Outsourcing Speech?
BIDEN: Even call centers, even call centers rushed over seas, hundreds of thousands. How many times you get the call, ‘I like to talk to you about your credit card’? Or that ad on TV, what is it? ‘Nancy, this is Nancy, can I talk to a supervisor?’ Right? Ok? Well, it’s a little overdone […]
Green Energy Irony: Obama’s 22-Vehicle Fossil Fuel Motorcade (VIDEO)
Yesterday, President Barack Obama rolled through Las Vegas to push for federal investment in clean energy vehicles, making his pitch at a UPS plant, escorted by a motorcade of 22 fossil fuel-burning vehicles. We haven’t seen anything this ironic since Al Gore hopped on a private jet to promote his global warming flick “An Inconvenient […]
Report: White House Misled Public on Gulf Spill Volume
According to information obtained by a liberal environmentalist group, the White House deliberately misled the public about the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010. The month after the spill, the administration announced that about 25,000 barrels per day of oil was being leaked into […]
Jewish Leaders Protest Mitzpe Avichai Eviction; Israel Persecuting Jews & Siding with Muslims
25 leaders of Kiryat Arba and Hevron have gotten together to sign a letter of protest following the brutal expulsion of residents of the nearby Mitzpe Avichai outpost two weeks ago. The letter states, “Two weeks ago a serious and shocking incident occurred at Mitzpe Avichai: In the dead of night, in two degree weather, […]
State of the Housing Market: New Refinancing Promises?
During his State of the Union speech, President Obama introduced a new plan to save responsible homeowner $3,000 a year on their mortgages by refinancing at historically low interest rates. Americans would be wise to be cautious, however, about the new efforts by the federal government. The federal government’s previous intervention in the market has […]
