Draconian Defense Cuts Will Reduce Safety
There are many ways to balance a budget. Most of us, for example, spend 30 percent or more of our income on housing. Skipping mortgage payments is a sure-fire way to make ends meet – until they take your house away. Health insurance can be a real waste, too, if you’re healthy. Dropping it may […]
Obama Hugs Erdogan, Leader of Hostile State
by Daniel Pipes November 3, 2011 Hillary Clinton’s high-five in June with her Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, prompted me to write that she “should be ashamed of herself, horsing around like this with the representative of a hostile state.” What to say in November with Barack Obama hugging his counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Perhaps that […]
Occupy Heading Toward Total Social Decay and Violent Riots
By B Lopiccolo In the past few weeks Americans have watched with interest, bemusement and anger as protests and sit-ins on Wall Street have sparked similar demonstrations around the country. With vague goals of combating corporate greed and calls to rectify all manner of social and economic inequality, this movement seems, to the press at […]
33 Senators Who Know What America Needs
As Washington ties itself up in knots over what the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the Supercommittee, will recommend to Congress, thirty-three Senators are standing tall against continued overspending and overborrowing. In a letter of November 3, 2011, to the Members of the Supercommittee, Senators Jim DeMint, John Cornyn, Kelly Ayotte […]
Small Town Bucks the Economic Trend with Energy Production
Kenny LeBaron, left, and his brother Joshua moved to North Dakota from Minnesota to take advantage of higher salaries due to an oil boom there. Here they service a gas and oil well near Watford City, North Dakota, on September 27, 2011. (Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT) As goes Williston, North Dakota, so goes the nation? […]
Obama, UK Plan to Bomb Tehran Amid New Nuclear Fears
US and Britain’s armed forces are stepping up their contingency planning for potential military action against Iran amid mounting concern about Tehran’s nuclear enrichment programme, the Guardian has learned. The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Obama presses ahead it will seek, […]
New Libyan Prime Minister is a United States Citizen
TRIPOLI—Libya’s leaders on Monday elected a U.S.-educated engineering professor Abdurraheem el-Keib to serve as prime minister during the critical postwar period, in which the country will try to create an army out of hundreds of ragtag militias and launch its first democratic elections. It is hardly democracy if he has been selected by a few […]
Face the (Family) Facts
FamilyFacts.org has increasingly become a trusted hub for policymakers and researchers searching out the latest charts and social science research on family, religion, and community issues. One factor spurring this growth is an informative short feature now airing on more than 370 radio stations nationwide, also called Family Facts. Marriage and Poverty As Heritage’s Family […]
Name a Single Palestinian Compromise
“It’s time to put the blame where it belongs!” explains Jeremy Gimpel, relating to the new video clip produced by TheLandofIsrael.com. “UNESCO has accepted the Palestinian Authority (PA) as an official member,” Gimpel says, “pressure on Israel is mounting, fingers are pointing at the Jewish State, and the layers of the blame are those who […]
Eurocrats are Terrified of Democracy
Greece’s prime minister George Papandreou is in the doghouse only because he dared to offer voters a choice. Shall I tell you the truly terrifying thing about the EU? It’s not the absence of democracy in Brussels, or the ease with which Eurocrats swat aside referendum results. It’s the way in which the internal democracy […]
Muslims Firebomb French Newspaper
The offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo has been firebombed by a Molotov cocktail by Muslims, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue. The fiercely anti-clergy magazine said the move, which included renaming the publication “Sharia Hebdo”, was intended to “celebrate” the victory of Islamist party […]
