Obama Secretly Planning To Go Forth With a Fourth War
WASHINGTON — The Warlord Obama administration is starting another American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. The acceleration of another American war in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has […]
Why Isn’t the National Debt a Sexy Story?
Speaking at yesterday’s Bloggers Briefing, conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon held up a copy of USA Today to demonstrate the challenge of getting Americans to take seriously this country’s debt crisis. On the front page was a banner headline, “U.S. owes $62 trillion.” Underneath the headline and above the fold was a photo of a tearful Rep. […]
Something Just Happened: Big-Time Drop In The Dollar
Financial market weirdness had to ruin a perfectly quiet start to Wednesday, look at this 5 minute drop, right off a cliff! Notably, there was just a major drop in the dollar (against the yen) today. This drop off a cliff is mainly because of the U.S Federal Reserves Q&A on Tuesday. The market tanked […]
China Warns U.S: “Stop Playing With Fire” On Debt Ceiling
(Reuters) The U.S. is “playing with fire” over its debt ceiling debate and, “there is a risk a U.S. debt default may happen,” according to Chinese central bank advisor Li Daokui. Speaking at a conference in Beijing, Daokui said, according to Reuters: “If a default happens, the Chinese government should have a consultation with the […]
Obama’s Transparency on Science Doesn’t Include Nuclear
Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology released a comprehensive report that details the Obama Administration’s attempt to prematurely and unnecessarily shut down the used nuclear fuel repository at Yucca Mountain. The report demonstrates that issues surrounding opening Yucca Mountain are purely political and not one bit scientific and technical. Perhaps the most […]
20 Ways That The U.S. Economy Has Gotten Worse Since Obama Became President
By almost any measure that you can think of, the U.S. economy has gotten worse since Barack Obama became president. Unemployment is higher, the cost of food and gas are skyrocketing, the number of Americans living in poverty has spiked dramatically, the housing market is in nightmarish shape and our national debt has absolutely exploded. […]
PODCAST: Unemployment
In a recent Heritage in Focus, Heritage expert James Sherk discusses the recent unemployment report. Listen to the full podcast, here. The recent jobs report released was extraordinary. For the first time in its history, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that the average length of unemployment was nearly 40 weeks – the longest […]
The Emptying of Yemen; Yemen Now Threatens the Outside World
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 7, 2011 For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal ways. First, even before the current political upheaval began there on January 15, violence emanating out of Yemen impinged on Westerners. As President Ali Abdullah […]
Rep. Paul Ryan: America Exceptional at Home and Abroad
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the champion of necessary but unpopular fiscal reform, spoke this month about America’s exceptional political ideas and how they should be reflected in our foreign policy. In so doing he rejected isolationism and reinforced the Founders’ commitment to making America an indispensable nation for the cause of freedom, by maintaining American […]
USA Won’t Participate in Racist & Anti-Semitic UN Durban III Conference
Following Canada and Israel, the U.S.has now announced that it will not participate in the racist UN-sponsored World Conference Against Racism – also known as Durban III. The conference is scheduled to be held in New York City on September 21, mandated by a UN General Assembly Resolution in 2009 to mark the 10th anniversary […]
Obama Continues US Routine of Keeping Embassy out of Jerusalem; Gives No Explanation
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday continued a long-standing U.S. policy of exercising a waiver to a Congressional law that provides for the embassy to be moved to Jerusalem. The presidential decision came two days after the Israeli holiday celebrating the reunification of the capital in the Six-Day War in 1967. The law requires presidents […]
