It is not unheard of for Nobel Prize winners to do things that call their early achievements into question. It’s easy to name examples among the Peace Prize laureates–who are but politicians, after all–but the intellectual winners do it, too. Chemist
Caroline Glick has a masterful analysis this week of Stephen Harper’s visit to Israel. The Canadian Prime Minister thrilled his hosts (well, most of them) with a pro-Israel tour de force at the Knesset, then wowed them with his musical exertions. For
Here in the Breitbart News office in LA, every desk faces a bank of flat-screen televisions on the south wall that show every major cable news network–and, during baseball season, the Dodgers. As a result, we see the same ads
George Tsunis, a businessman and lawyer from Long Island, NY, donated $50,000 to John McCain’s campaign for president in 2008. In 2012, he switched sides, and bundled nearly $1 million in donations for the Obama campaign. So, naturally, like other
After Iran’s foreign minister declared to CNN yesterday that under the interim nuclear deal, “we did not agree to dismantle anything,” an Obama administration official told CNN’s Jake Tapper: “We expected the Iranians would need to spin this for domestic
As radical demonstrators continue to target Google’s private buses in the San Francisco area, accusing the company and other tech giants of “gentrification,” some far-left activists have gone a step further: targeting Google employees at their homes. A group calling
Citing an unnamed Obama administration official, Israel Radio reported Thursday that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry blame the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for encouraging American Jews to criticize the White House for its
Iran’s “moderate” president, Hassan Rouhani, has gone from celebrating the “surrender” of the world’s great powers to schmoozing them at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He told those assembled there that “Nuclear weapons have no place in our
California Gov. Jerry Brown used yesterday’s “State of the State” address to congratulate himself on his state’s recovery: “A million new jobs since 2010, a budgetary surplus in the billions and a minimum wage rising to $10 an hour!” Yet
Contrary to the claims of the White House–which, as the Weekly Standard notes, refuses to release the text of the nuclear deal with Iran–the Iranian regime has not agreed to dismantle any part of its nuclear program, according to Foreign
Google and Facebook may be the brands most associated with America’s “progressive” high-tech elite, but in the left-wing mecca of San Francisco they have become the prime targets of populist outrage. The so-called “Google buses,” which transport tech workers from
Governor Scott Walker will propose $800 million in tax cuts Wednesday evening, representing most of the state’s $912 million revenue surplus. Half of the cuts will be achieved through property tax reductions, and the other half will consist of lower
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were the first victors in the Tea Party wave, riding fresh conservative enthusiasm–and outrage over Obamacare–to victory in November 2009. The left, predictably, is trying to link Christie’s bullying
Former Virginia governor and Republican presidential hopeful Bob McDonnell tried to argue, in response to a fourteen-count federal felony indictment Tuesday, that he had done no worse than President Barack Obama in helping his donors. Yet McDonnell’s real model is
Isaac Chotiner has penned a worthy deconstruction of David Remnick’s interview of President Barack Obama for the New Yorker. He notes that Obama condescends to Americans, speaking to us like children: “Remnick’s piece, in fact, doesn’t show Obama’s complexity; it
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, now facing 14 felony counts on corruption charges, offered up what may be called the “Obama defense” in his response: “If it were applied as the law of the land, then nearly every elected official,
Talks on the future of Syria opened in Geneva today, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry among the many foreign ministers present. Iran will not be participating after the United Nations withdrew a formal invitation under American pressure–an invitation
Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife could be facing lengthy federal prison terms if they are convicted of some of the felonies with which they are accused in today’s indictment. The crime of making false statements on a
In a a move that would surprise exactly no one, President Barack Obama is reported to be considering using his executive powers to relieve some sanctions on Iran, regardless of whether Congress passes new bipartisan sanctions currently under consideration that
Kevin Baker, a 19-year-old student at Harold Washington College, was the kind of kid who focused on his schoolwork, despite all the dangers and distractions of the South Side. He followed the rules and didn’t take any risks when two
Iran is sending its first flotilla of warships to the Atlantic Ocean, consisting of a helicopter carrier and a destroyer, and passing through the Mediterranean, the Times of Israel Reports. Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Moussavi declared that the mission will
Officials in Florida are concerned that a large number of non-Jewish inmates are demanding kosher food. The number of “kosher” convicts vastly exceeds the number of Jewish prisoners, and the state government worries about the cost of the meals, which
South Africa’s Department of Arts and Culture has written to the sculptors of that country’s official statue of former President Nelson Mandela, demanding that they remove a small rabbit that they moulded in Mandela’s ear. The sculptors, Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan
Arab members of the Israeli legislature, the Knesset, heckled Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper several times during his address on Monday, the Jerusalem Post reports. Harper, whose conservative government is widely acknowledged as the most pro-Israel in the western world,
South Africa’s Department of Arts and Culture has announced that it will be joining local celebrations of the life and work of Amiri Baraka, the African-American jazz poet known for his improvisational verse–and also infamous for his hatred of Jews,
