The Real Unemployment Numbers
“Not Counted by Obama” Discouraged Workers are Responsible for Reducing the Unemployment Rate, Not Job Creation. Friday’s farcical unemployment report has a lot of people scratching their heads. It’s a farce not because of how the rate is calculated, but because the media and the Obama administration are presenting the report as some sort of indication that […]
Exclusive Interview: Sen. Pat Toomey on the Super Commitee’s Failure
As one of the 12 members of Congress on the Super Committee, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) had a front row seat for all the negotiations. Since the committee’s announcement late last month that they had failed to reach a deal on at least $1.5 trillion in savings, Toomey has been very vocal that we cannot now ignore […]
Muslim Refugees, Yes – Persecuted Christian Refugees, No
Christians are in imminent danger across the world, and yet they are being refused refugee status, while Muslim refugee immigration goes on unimpeded. U.S. policy regarding refugee resettlement would shock most Americans if they only knew. The United Nations picks who gets to come to the U.S. as a refugee. The mandate of the U.N. High Commissioner […]
Euro Crisis: Italy is the REAL Problem!
If little Greece (11 m. people) and tiny Ireland (6 m. people) rattled Europe’s windows, because of their debts, Italy is about to blow up Europe’s shaky house. Here is why. Italy is huge (60 m. people, $2 trillion economy, $34,000 per capita GDP), and nearly bankrupt. Italy has the world’s third largest bond […]
6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street’s “Secret Government”
Top officials willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-’09 bailouts from Congress and the public. We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages […]
Bureaucrats Gone Wild: Will Congress REIN in the Administrative State?
Next week, Congress will have an opportunity to bring much-needed oversight to America’s regulatory process by voting for the aptly named REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny). If passed, this law would require any new, major regulation—defined as one that would cost more than $100 million, lead to a major increase […]
Mecca – Most Expensive Real Estate Market in the World
by Daniel Pipes July 28, 2011 That’s the conclusion of an article in Al-Arabiya by Sarah Sfeir: “Real estate experts say that the price of a square meter in the commercial area around the holy city, can be up to 375 thousand riyals ($100,000).” As a consequence, high-rise buildings are going up at a feverish […]
U.S.–Russia: A Stress Test over Afghanistan
Russia is trying to exploit U.S. vulnerability in Afghanistan by squeezing concessions on European missile defense. This is a disturbing development, potentially threatening security of the U.S. logistical operations. The campaign of anti-Americanism led by Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, culminated in his remarks before the Duma that Russia may link its opposition to […]
Romney Now Attacking Conservatives – to Fox’s Bret Baier: Your Interview Was ‘Uncalled For’
(CNSNews.com) – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, complained to Fox News Special Report anchor Bret Baier after an interview on Tuesday that Baier’s questioning had been “overly aggressive” and “uncalled for,” according to Baier. “He was irritated by the interview after we were done,” Baier said of […]
Can Social Protesters Survive and Thrive without Base Camps?
The Occupy Wall Street Movement was the first to set up a tent city in the heart of New York’s financial district encouraging copycat occupations in other American and foreign cities. The authorities originally tolerated the phenomenon but neighbors’ complaints, sanitary hazards as well as a sense that the movement was running out of steam […]
Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Kidnapping Jewish American
The Al Qaeda terror group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Jewish American man in Pakistan, according to an Internet statement released on Thursday. “Just as the Americans detain all whom they suspect of links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, even remotely, we detained this man who has had an active part […]
