Israel’s Defense Minister, Moshe “Boogy” Ya’alon, is facing criticism from the opposition after slamming U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported earlier on Tuesday that the outspoken Ya’alon had said that Kerry, who recently completed his tenth
An exclusive report by the Reuters news agency says that Egypt’s military leaders plan to “undermine” the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, after “crushing” the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the
Iran’s “moderate” president, Hassan Rouhani, tweeted this morning that “world powers,” including the U.S., had “surrendered” to the “Iranian nation’s will” in confirming a six-month interim nuclear deal that will allow the Iranian regime to continue its advanced centrifuge program
The Jerusalem Post reports that Palestinians fired two rockets near the funeral site of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was laid to rest at his farm in southern Israel with dozens of foreign dignitaries present. In response, the Israel Air
Less than a year ago, President Barack Obama predicted that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would be Speaker of the House of Representatives again after the 2014 elections. Less than two months ago, he was still fundraising for Democratic candidates
President Barack Obama offered a polite (if generic) salute to the late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Saturday, and Vice President Joe Biden honored Sharon (and Israel) by participating in today’s funeral. Yet both Obama and Biden actually betrayed
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s allies seem so worried about his political future, and so desperate to save him, that they are willing to trade away key issues to restore his image, now severely damaged since it emerged last week
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was laid to rest on his family farm in the south of Israel. Grieving relatives were joined by international leaders and officials representing the Israeli government and military. Among the most memorable eulogies of
The negotiators from the P5+1 nations (the U.S., plus the other permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) have managed to make the bad deal reached with Iran in Geneva in November over its nuclear program even worse.
I’m observing a conference in Los Angeles today organized by the American Freedom Alliance and Freedom Advocate entitled The Globalization of California: Will an Unelected, Unaccountable Bureaucracy Soon Be Running Our Lives?. It is well-attended and well-organized, as American Freedom
This morning, at 10:12 a.m. PST, I spotted a rare funnel cloud over Los Angeles, CA. The air was calm and the temperature was about 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), with mostly overcast skies and high ceiling. The cloud
Conservatives are eagerly anticipating the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’s hearing later this year of a lawsuit, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, brought by a group of public school teachers against the state’s powerful union over the collection of dues
The post-Ariel Sharon Middle East really began eight years ago, when he was incapacitated by a stroke. Within less than seven months, Israel’s enemies struck: Hamas in a daring attack from the Gaza Strip that resulted in the kidnapping of
I had the rare opportunity to meet with Prime Minster Ariel Sharon for roughly 45 minutes in 2005, in the company of South Africa’s then-opposition leader, Tony Leon, for whom I worked at the time as a speechwriter. It was
Former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon has passed away at the age of 85. The former prime minister, defense minister, and general had been comatose since Jan. 2006, when he suffered a series of strokes that resulted in his permanent hospitalization.
It would be easy enough, at this stage, to add to the voluminous commentary on Gov. Chris Christie’s bridge scandal. But there is not much new to say, other than to observe that petty political retaliation is what blue-state conservatives
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addressed a crowd of journalists in Pasadena, CA on Friday morning at an event to promote her new Sportsman Channel show, Amazing America, which will launch in April. The channel, billing itself as “a leader in
President Barack Obama has nominated economist Stanley Fisher, the previous head of the Bank of Israel, to replace incoming Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as the second-in-command at the Fed. Fischer, a former MIT professor was widely praised for his
California Gov. Jerry Brown released his new budget proposal on Thursday, and it tells two stories. On the one hand, Gov. Brown wants to spend more than anyone in California’s history, using a surplus that is the result of voter-approved tax
President Barack Obama is fond of a rhetorical device called the “false choice.” He marks out two straw men on opposite extremes, then claims his own (staunchly left-wing) “compromise” position is the only sensible route. Occasionally, however, there really are false
Noted defense attorney, legal scholar and liberal Democrat Alan Dershowitz has concluded that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie “may well be liable for the damage caused by the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge” under “existing criminal and civil
The Associated Press reports that former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was incapacitated by a series of strokes in the winter of 2005-6 and has been comatose ever since, is in a “grave” condition. The Sharon family has been
A leading foreign policy analyst has written that “post-American Afghanistan” is becoming a “flashpoint”–not just in the region, but in the world, as emerging powers jockey for position amidst declining U.S. influence. Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, notes
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s press conference on Thursday, called to deal with revelations that members of his staff ordered lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last year to punish the Democrat mayor of Fort Lee for failing to
Twenty minutes before a scheduled press conference, the New York Times reports that the U.S. Attorney will open an investigation into allegations that aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ordered lanes closed on the George Washington Bridge as a form
