Yesterday, Obama-approved Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi declared that he would have a referendum on December 15 to greenlight the newly rammed-through draft constitution that enshrines Shariah law in Egypt. Morsi has bought the support of the military via
Today, columnist Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports and formerly of the Kansas City Star, blamed the Second Amendment to the United State Constitution for the murder/suicide of Jovan Belcher, linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs. Calling for the NFL to
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never been a friend to Israel. Today, speaking at the 2012 Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, a liberal organization, she railed against Israel for supposed insensitivity, lack of empathy, and lack of generosity with
We may be watching the end of Western civilization’s growth, if a new study from the Brookings Global MetroMonitor is any indicator. According to Brookings, the top 50 fastest-growing cities, ranked by GDP per capita, are located in Asia, except
Today, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner visited with Senate Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), where he proposed $1.6 trillion in tax increases, a one-year delay in scheduled $1.2 trillion cuts to defense and domestic spending (which would only give Obama
Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner had supposedly offered a plan in secret that would solve the fiscal cliff impasse. The details of the plan itself were not released; as per the usual
According to a new study from 24/7 Wall Street, California is the worst run state in the nation … for the second year in a row. The best run state is North Dakota. What went into the calculation? 24/7 Wall
States across the nation rely on poor suckers to fund their spending. No, we’re not talking about taxpayers – we’re talking about lottery ticket purchasers. According to new studies, households earning $13,000 per year spend almost $1,170 per year on
In yet another sign that Republicans are willing to cave on everything their base is not, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said that he would consider disgraced UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s
Today, President Obama announced at yet another one of his campaign events/photo ops at the White House that he would “go anywhere and I’ll do whatever it takes to get this done. It’s too important for Washington to screw this
In a little-noticed move that bears significant ramifications for fiscal cliff negotiations, President Obama quietly signed a bill today excluding US airlines from any European carbon emissions fee. While environmentalists were pushing Obama to allow Europe to tax the hell
According to multiple media outlets, former NBCUniversal head Jeff Zucker is in negotiations to take over the top job at CNN. CNN could hardly make a worse decision; Zucker’s record at NBCUniversal was overwhelmingly awful. While Zucker did a bang-up
Following on their meeting with UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John McCain (R-AZ), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) released a statement bashing her performance and stating that President Obama had serious questions to answer about Rice’s statements in
Over the weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that the gossip website TMZ was looking to launch a drone to monitor celebrities. According to the Chronicle, “Paparazzi are already using small drones on the Riviera to shoot photos of celebrities
Today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney blithely announced that Obamacare shouldn’t be on the table for deficit reduction because “the Affordable Care Act reduces the deficit considerably.” Unfortunately, as Philip Klein reports, that just isn’t true. In order to
Reported incidents of sexual violence against women in the newest round of Egyptian protests are rampant across Twitter. Many are blaming the Muslim Brotherhood for the assaults. Some are suggesting that female journalists are being targeted – a specter reminiscent
Leave it to former Utah governor and presidential reject Jon Huntsman to defend lying diplomat UN Ambassador Susan Rice. Today, Huntsman interviewed with the Huffington Post, where he told Sam Stein that criticism of the Obama administration over the murder
America has a debt crisis. And Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) has a solution: a commission! The last fiscal commission President Obama tried was Simpson-Bowles, which called for serious entitlement reform and massive spending cuts. Obama rejected their recommendations.
Nothing says seriousness and respect for the political process like invading the office of the Speaker of the House in the nude. And nothing says great media like covering such a protest by laughing along with the protesters while playing
Kevin Clash, the former voice of Elmo who recently resigned from “Sesame Street” amid allegations of sex with underage males, has now been accused again of having sex with an underage boy. A lawsuit filed yesterday alleged that Clash had
With Americans shopping for bargains at record levels in a down economy, online shopping skyrocketed on Cyber Monday this year. According to estimates from IBM, Cyber Monday online sales were up 30%. While consumers spent less per order this year
As Lachlan Markey of Heritage Foundation reports, unions have violated federal law a myriad of times this last year – and these are merely the tip of the iceberg, if President Obama’s incestuous relationship with the unions is any indicator.
Today, two Chicago men were shot outside a funeral home on the poverty-ridden South Side of the city. The two men were at a funeral for another man who was shot to death last week on the South Side; the
In a move that shocked precisely no one, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) announced today that he had filed paperwork to move forward with a re-election bid. His likely opponent will be Newark Mayor Corey Booker, a dynamic African-American politician with
A New York Times story about the lone island of Mitt Romney support in the vast blue sea of New York City buried the lead: that island is heavily Orthodox Jewish. Many Americans constantly ask why Jews consistently vote Democrat,
