A pre-Christmas CNN/ORC poll conducted from December 16-19 reveals that the GOP now has a growing lead in the 2014 Congressional elections. The GOP received 49% of the votes in the poll, while the Democrats sank to 44%. A CNN
Former Seinfeld writer Dan O’Keefe took issue with Sen. Rand Paul’s reference to the classic sitcom through a series of Festivus-themed tweets. O’Keefe, interviewed on CNN, said, “When Rand Paul tries to seem relevant with 15-year-old pop cultural references, it reminds me
Forget celebrating the birth of Jesus in China this Christmas; the real gala celebration is the next day, Boxing Day, as thousands of Chinese people celebrate the 120th anniversary of one of the greatest mass murderers in history: Mao Tse-Tung.,
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is being urged to step down by one of three Turkish cabinet ministers who have resigned because they have been accused of corruption. Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar, who resigned along with Economy Minister Zafer
Four teenage members of the Norteño gang have been arrested as suspects in the December 19 shooting of a Fresno teacher, Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer announced on Christmas Eve. Two of the teenagers showed up in Edison trainer Steven
For those who believe that the deal struck with Iran in Geneva was a positive step rather than one towards a future disaster, they can credit Vice President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, who secretly met with Iranian officials
Pope Francis is planning a trip to Israel and Jordan in May, but it is only a two-day trip, and the one Mass he is poised to conduct will be in Bethlehem, a Palestinian stronghold. One Israeli news source commented,
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority acknowledged that it had thrown Israeli journalists out of Bethlehem so they could not cover Christmas celebrations. The decision was made at the behest of Palestinian journalists, who demanded that Israeli journalists be expelled from
Fifty-nine percent of Palestinians believethat the late Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned byIsrael, according to the AFPnews agency. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that only 21% of Palestiniansparty or group is responsible.” After
Asked in a recent interview to describe his belief in God, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer replied that he doesn’t believe in God, but he still fears Him. Krauthammer, who is Jewish, referenced Einstein and Newton in his response, but
For those who doubt the ultimate intentions of Hamas, the organization that rules the Gaza Strip, Hamas minister Fathi Hammad made their goals crystal clear in a recent public address, stating that first Hamas will eradicate Israel and then convert
The backlash against the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel is growing among the top universities in the country. Both Harvard and Yale have now condemned and rejected the Association’s boycott. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust stated, “Academic boycotts
A western Pennsylvania woman attempted to frame her estranged husband by putting child pornography on his computer. Meri Jane Woods, 42, of Cherry Hill Township, put the pornography on the computer on August 11 and then reported to state troopers
Those who defend the actions of the National Security Agency in collecting domestic phone record in gigantic numbers, including Barack Obama, usually cite the 9/11/2001 terror attack to justify the Agency’s intrusiveness. But Obama came up blank on Friday when
Appearing on Fox News with host Chris Wallace on Sunday, Lakewood church preacher Joel Osteen pooh-poohed those who think there is an effort in the U.S. to remove any religious meaning from Christmas. Osteen responded, “I think there are certain
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, trying to force a schism between Christians and Jews, made an outrageous claim in his “Christmas message,” saying that Jesus was a Palestinian, not a Jew. Abbas astonishingly continued that Israel is responsible for the
The Netherlands, which has espoused the benefits of the welfare state since the 1960’s, is swinging the pendulum back from its dependence on the welfare system. Once called a “comprehensive egalitarian social model” by the Financial Times, the system that
The Air Jordan 11 Gamma Blue sneakers, which sell for $185, went on sale to the public Saturday morning, and chaos and violence erupted across the nation at stores selling the shoes. At a Finish Line in Stockton, Calif., a
Critics contending that Barack Obama has caused the United States to lose influence around the globe are having a field day noting the consistent pattern of retreat. These critics note the many instances where the U.S. has weakened its position,
Al Qaeda, slowly realizing that its indiscriminate murder of civilians is counterproductive if the victims happen to be Muslims, apologized in a video for a hospital attack in Sanaa, Yemen that killed dozens of people on December 5. Qassim Al-Raimi,
Charlie Sheen, moral arbiter of our age, decided he would lend his intellectual firepower to the attacks on Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty with a twitpic rant that rivals anything Shakespeare ever wrote. Not. Sheen was reacting to the comments
New York City Councilman Ruben Wills, attempting to live the life of the homeless for three days in order to prove that the “system” does not work, didn’t quite make it-he caught pneumonia after two days. Wills didn’t pay his
During the last week, more than 1,500 staff and students at Indio High School in Palm Desert, California, were tested for tuberculosis (TB) because a student who attended the school from September to November was diagnosed with the disease in
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been targeting relatives of his uncle and former advisor, Jang Song-thaek, who was executed recently. Hundreds of relatives have been imprisoned or executed. The Daily Telegraph reported that the victims who are alive
Barack Obama, who admitted in his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, that he had used marijuana and cocaine (“maybe a little blow”), found room in his heart on Thursday to commute the prison sentences for eight people convicted of crack
