Pelosi: “The Biggest Growth in Jobs” This Year Has Been in Health Care
(CNSNews.com) – When asked for her reaction to the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) saying the health care law will result in the loss of 800,000 jobs over the next decade, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said “the biggest growth in jobs in our economy” this year has been in health care. “Four […]
Shattered Lens: Part 6 – Photo Bias in Depictions of the IDF
Shattered Lens: Part 6 – Photo Bias in Depictions of the IDF It is very difficult to portray any military in a positive light for obvious reasons. Soldiers and weaponry are, by their nature, not conducive to creating positive imagery. The three international wire services, however, consistently employ photo bias to show IDF soldiers in […]
Lauding a Suicide Bomber
HR Comment: Lauding a Suicide Bomber Nothing prepares you for your first physical encounter with a terror attack. Walking up Jaffa Street, the main thoroughfare in the heart of downtown Jerusalem on January 27, 2002, I happened to bump into a friend. As we chatted, the shockwave of an enormous explosion made us instinctively cower. […]
Japan Nuclear Meltdown May be Underway
Shirakawa, Japan (CNN) — Japanese authorities are operating on the presumption that possible meltdowns are under way at two nuclear reactors, a government official said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters there is a “possibility” of a meltdown at the plant’s No. 1 reactor, adding, “It is inside the reactor. We can’t see.” He […]
Understanding Japan’s Response to Its Nuclear Reactor Emergency
The impact of the Japanese earthquake on its nuclear reactors continues to capture the world’s attention. Reports of radioactive releases, elevated radiation levels, and malfunctioning power systems all strike fear into the public as memories of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl quickly enter the national and global conscious. It is important, however, to understand what […]
Nuclear Nightmare: Japanese Reactor Meltdown Could Propel ‘Death Cloud’ to U.S West Coast
(CALIFORNIA) – Some Japanese officials have admitted that Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic reactor No. 1 may experience a total meltdown. That disaster would be followed by the release of a deadly radioactive death cloud that would drift over the Pacific and poison the people of the U.S. West Coast, Canada and Mexico. A worried […]
Japan Races to Avert Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns, Japanese ‘Chernobyl’ Feared
Japan races to avert multiple nuclear meltdowns this Sunday. An explosion caused by hydrogen buildup Saturday blew the roof off a concrete building housing the Daiichi plant’s No. 1 reactor. At a second plant, in Onogawa, excessive radiation levels also were recording radiation up 400 times. The Japanese government is assuming, but has not confirmed, […]
US DOJ: Muslims 1% of U.S.A = 80% of U.S Terror Convictions…
More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows. Though Muslims represent only 1 percent of the American population, they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases DOJ lists, or […]
Earthquake in Japan, Is California Next?
This weeks 8.9 Earthquake in Japan brings the question once again, when will the big one hit California? It’s conventional wisdom among California seismologists that Southern California will be hit by an earthquake similar to the one that hit Japan this week, know by locals as “The Big One”. In the last 5 years we […]
Saudi “Day of Rage” Is Subdued Affair
The March 11 “Day of Rage” demonstrations called for by political opponents of the Saudi monarchy did not materialize as anticipated. Turnout for the protests was sparse in the face of warnings from Saudi officials that laws prohibiting public demonstrations would be strictly enforced. On the day of the protest, the government ordered a massive […]
A Little Less Talk, a Little More Action on Gas Prices
A CNN report Friday revealed the stark reality that gas prices have risen by 37 cents since February 22, reaching an average of $3.50 per gallon nationwide. Prices are expected to follow an upward trajectory in coming months. At Friday’s press conference on rising gas and oil prices, the President correctly stated that families, consumers, […]
