Many observers are stunned that France has shown more backbone in dealing with Iran than the United States–especially given that France has a Socialist president. While most agree that the Obama administration has adopted a weaker posture in general, of
The Associated Press noted Tuesday that one part of Obamacare is going extremely well: new enrollments in an expanded Medicaid program. According to estimates, Medicaid has added over 400,000 new patients in ten states–roughly two million across the country, by
The controversial “Sugar Daddy” dating website SeekingArrangement.com, which pairs young women with wealthy men, has a new Obamacare-related marketing strategy: “Don’t Get Screwed by Obamacare, Find a Sugar Daddy.” Single women hit by higher-than-expected health insurance premiums through Obamacare are
“I understand the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva, as well they should because they got everything and paid nothing,” Benjamin Netanyahu said last week, in describing the “very, very bad deal” that the world was about to
Yossi Klein Halevi’s Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation is among the most beautiful and tragic books written about the history of Israel. It follows the lives of the young reservist
While the world’s attention is focused on the tensions surrounding the Iran nuclear talks, another drama is unfolding in Israel–one that may cause more immediate damage to U.S.-Israel relations than differences over the terms offered to Tehran in Geneva. Secretary
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter entertained an audience of 400 at the University of Southern California on Sunday night at an event co-sponsored by the USC College Republicans and the Hancock Park Patriots, a local Tea Party group. Fears of large
Five students gathered outside the Ann Coulter lecture at USC on Sunday evening to protest her views. They were respectful, and made it clear they did not want to shut her out, but to challenge her opinions. (Points for that.)
David Brock and Media Matters for America are enjoying a victory lap after forcing CBS News to retract its 60 Minutes story about Benghazi, which was based on a faulty source. He joined CNN’s Reliable Sources today to expand on the CBS’s
Recently re-elected New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made the rounds on Sunday news shows this week, and faced a tough question from ABC News’ George Stephanolpoulos: how could he oppose Obamacare, after having accepted Obamacare’s expanded Medicaid funding? The governor’s
Ted Cruz’s appearance last week on The Tonight Show was generally judged a success. He did very well in defending his record, and his position on controversial issues such as gay marriage, which the audience applauded. Yet there was something slightly
A proposed nuclear deal between Iran and the West fell through in Geneva on Saturday, despite widespread anticipation that an agreement would be reached. Diplomats in Geneva, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, said they would continue their efforts
A proposed California referendum to overturn AB 154, which allows non-physician abortions, could turn the abortion issue from a burden to a boost for Republicans. The law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last month, allows certified non-physicians to perform first-trimester
Anti-abortion activists may begin gathering signatures to place a referendum on the 2014 election ballot in California to overturn AB 154, a law permitting non-physicians to perform abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the law
Chris Christie’s re-election as governor of New Jersey has rallied the hopes of the GOP establishment. Not only did he carry a “blue state” by a wide margin, but Christie also won among Hispanic voters (even if he lost to
The Wall Street Journal published a devastating op-ed on Friday by the Hoover Institution’s Paul E. Peterson and Eric A. Hanushek pointing out that much of the improvement in education assessments for which the Obama administration is taking credit actually occurred
CNN has blamed Christians for the problem of Americans without health insurance, calling it “The Obamacare ‘scandal’ you haven’t heard about.” In an article on CNN.com’s Belief Blog, CNN writer John Blake says that, while famous pastors “preach in states
Noted defense lawyer, scholar, and pro-Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz has warned the Clintons that they will need to distance themselves from Sid Blumenthal unless he stops defending his son Max’s anti-Israel book. The book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel,
In a battle between Media Matters for America and the mainstream news networks, conservatives might be inclined to laugh and pass the popcorn. That’s what most of us did during the dustup over CBS News’ recent story on Benghazi on
Over fifty union activists were arrested by outside a new Walmart in Chinatown in Los Angeles on Thursday evening during a protest for higher wages against “the unequal distribution of wealth.” Similar protests have been taking place around the nation–almost
Benghazi is Hillary Clinton’s most important weakness, no matter whom she faces in the 2016 presidential election. Among Republican contenders, only Chris Christie can claim it as a strength. That’s because of his performance during Superstorm Sandy. Whatever his mistakes–i.e.
UPDATE (Nov. 8): As predicted below, the Iranian regime has been able to extract more concessions from the U.S. The proposed “freeze” on Iran’s nuclear program is anything but, and could allow Iran to accelerate its program in the future more
When I lived in Cape Town, South Africa, I occasionally listened to the local Islamic radio station, partly out of curiosity and partly because it was often left on in the background in the living room of the Muslim family
An internal audit of the Medicaid program in President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois has confirmed what was quietly known for years: a huge proportion of enrollees are not actually qualified for the program. At first, the proportion was
Tea Party favorite Ken Cuccinelli, abandoned by the Republican establishment as too “extreme” to win in Virginia, crushed Democrat Terry McAuliffe among independent voters by 9 percentage points, 47%-38%. The key to McAuliffe’s victory was that the Democrat–assisted by the
