A well-known Egyptian Salafi preacher, Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam,” posted an online video on Wednesday on his private television channel in which he said the women protesters who were raped and sexually harassed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square
President Barack Obama met Tuesday with the usual suspects of left-wing advocacy groups to discuss immigration. The White House calls them “progressive and labor leaders” and “business leaders.” The White House described the summit this way: In the afternoon, the President
Jamie Foxx and Cedrick the Entertainer are going to join an event remembering Trayvon Martin in Miami called the “Day of Remembrance Community Peace Walk and Forum.” Martin’s parents created a foundation that is sponsoring the event. This is not
Findus, a frozen foods manufacturer, has acknowledged that the frozen lasagna it offers has been using 100 percent horsemeat–and it all comes from France. The French company Comigel pounded the horsemeat into the lasagna in its plant in Metz. Great
Chicago is emerging as the city on the cutting edge of Muslim outreach in America. The Inner-City Muslim Action network (IMAN) is one Muslim institution that is offering a free medical clinic in a poor neighborhood. IMAN has existed for
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is boasting that the negotiations he is conducting with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce regarding immigration reform are “going well.” The AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which both represent labor, are trying to
Though the Obama Administration is attempting to make accommodations for religious groups in order to win their support for the HHS mandate, the U.S. Conference of catholic bishops, which condemned the mandate last year, isn’t buying the mandate yet. New
In an interview published by the Los Angeles times, former Vice-President Al Gore admitted that despite the fact that he likes to lecture people about changing their lifestyles to save the planet and downsizing their expectations, he has a solar-powered
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who is leaving his post, is confessing that the roads of America are crumbling because there simply isn’t enough money in the government’s coffers to fix them. LaHood said, “America is one big pothole right now.
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-Washington), one of the farthest-left member of the House of Representatives, threatened on Tuesday that the U.S. could become a mob scene if there is no “equity” in society. Now, we’re in a very difficult period right
Just as international credit ratings agencies have been caught whitewashing their subjects’ records in order to make a profit, colleges are now caught in a scandal because they are inflating the scores of their incoming students in order to obtain
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who is the first Iranian leader to visit Egypt’s capital Cairo since the 1979 Iranian revolution, spoke of a reconciliation between the two formerly contentious countries. He is trying to normalize relations that have been
Chuck Hagel is stonewalling Republican questions about his nomination for Secretary of Defense, refusing to release the details of the foreign funding for corporate and nonprofit organizations in which he has served since 2009 when his Senate term expired. [T]he information you
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, revealed on Wednesday that he will not only vote against the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense but also actively work to defeat the nomination. Inhofe
The ratio of Americans working full-time to those collecting disability has shrunk radically, with the latest evidence showing that the number of Americans on disability has reached a record high. In January, 8,830,026 Americans received disability payments, while in December 8,827,795
The Congressional Budget Office is offering a bleak picture of the exponential growth of entitlement spending over the next decade, stating that 53% of all federal spending in that time, amounting to $24.9 trillion, will be due to entitlements and
Some California Democratic lawmakers are introducing a bill that would force the state’s gun owners to buy liability insurance in case the weapons they own cause damage or injuries. Assemblyman Philip Ting of San Francisco, who introduced AB231 along with
The U.S. is enhancing the efforts of Mexican military officials in their fight against the Mexican drug cartels, and there is some concern that the enhanced techniques may not only lead to more human rights abuses by the Mexican military
The White House said Tuesday that Barack Obama will visit Israel for the first time since traveling there as a presidential candidate in 2008. March 20th has been reported as the tentative date for the trip. After Benjamin Netanyahu won the
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made remarks about the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense that indicated he might be leaning toward rejecting the nomination. Graham said: I thought his confirmation hearing was disturbing. We don’t have enough information.
Ohio’s heretofore conservative governor, John Kasich, has decided he will accept federal money to expand Medicaid benefits–a move that puts him on the side of ObamaCare. Conservatives are furious: Chris Littleton, the Ohio director for American Majority Action, said, “The
That didn’t take long: since leaving her post as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has launched a new website, HillaryClintonOffice.com, that is linked to her 2008 campaign website, HillaryClinton.com. The new website features a picture of Clinton and a form to
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs) is in a big hole–and they want the teachers, school districts and the state to cough up a lot more cash so they can continue paying off benefits. Calstrs says it needs $4.5
The money California taxpayers pay that funds CalFresh, the food stamps program, may be earmarked so that the recipients of government largesse cannot use the food stamps to buy sugary sodas and other beverages that have more than 10 calories
The average price of a gallon of gas in Los Angeles passed $4 in the last week, and the rest of the state is almost there, too. According to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report, gas in Los Angeles reached an
