The White House on Monday issued an attack on the counter-offer from House Republicans on debt talks, saying it failed to “meet the test of balance.” Whoa. Obama wants to increase taxes $1.6 trillion, will not countenance any suggestion of
It is becoming clearer and clearer that Barack Obama wants America to charge over the fiscal cliff so he can indict Republicans later. After House Speaker John Boehner submitted the Republican proposal, senior administration officials blustered that Boehner’s proposal wasn’t
The New York Times published a piece Monday attacking Texas for giving financial incentives to companies to encourage them to move to the southern state. This article follows only one day after the Times published a piece that attacked states in general
The British government, short of cash, has ordered their Army to take 25 days off for Christmas. The 110,000 military and civilian personnel who represent the entirety of the British Army are being forced to take ‘block leave’ from December
When the conservative movement has a summit of its wealthy donors and supporters, the mainstream media frantically hyperventilates. Coverage of Mitt Romney’s donor retreats and summits associated with the Koch brothers are portrayed as deep, dark, secretive meetings where plots
The outgoing chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission decided as one of her last acts to delay a rule that could affect hundreds of billions of dollars of private offerings by companies, partly because of concerns about her personal
We’re melting! We’re melting! Actually, we’re not, but you couldn’t tell from the gaggle of climate change geese flying to Showtime. The pay cable network is producing a documentary series about climate change titled “Years of Living Dangerously” which, Showtime
When the nation’s teachers and the curricula they teach are not doing the job, parents are uninvolved, and students are not learning the way they should, what should be done about it? If you’re Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, or
Suddenly, the Left is claiming that crony capitalism is a bad thing. The Toilet Paper Roll of the Left (The New York Times; no matter how it’s perfumed it still stinks) published an interminably long piece decrying crony capitalism. This
The Arab Spring is bearing more bitter fruit in Tunisia, as fanatical Islamic Salafists prepare to take over the country. It has been almost two years since the Jasmine Revolution brought down the government, and last week there were more
Finally, those in the West can take their blinders off. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has taken off the veil and articulated what the real war is between Islam and the West: not a war over the land of Israel
Thomas Lopez-Pierre, an African-American candidate for a seat on the City Council in New York City’s 7th Council District said he was opposed to the candidacy of his Jewish opponent, Mark Levine, whom he called a “White/Jewish candidate” who was
Harvard University is famous for its secular leftism, and now they have approved a student organization which will give Leftists (who do champion the counterculture) a club where they can indulge their fantasies: the Harvard College Munch for Bondage/Discipline/Sadism/Masochism. The
The UN is now echoing noted libertine-turned-martyr Sandra Fluke: the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) recent State of World Population report states that access to contraception is a “universal human right.” Where do you start in attacking this tripe from
Barbra Streisand, noted political scholar and high school graduate, cannot shut her yap when it comes to waxing eloquent on politics. At her favorite watering hole, The Huffington Post, Streisand castigates Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for “fueling the flames of
John McCain, at a farewell for retiring Senator Joseph Lieberman, decided to make some jokes about Lieberman’s orthodox Judaism for the star-studded crowd, which included former vice president Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,
In an affront to religious Jews and religious Christians everywhere, ABC News has chosen vehemently anti-Israel and anti-Christian journalist Christiane Amanpour to host a two-part primetime special about the history of the land of Israel that will air December 21
According to a Gallup poll conducted November 18-19, more than half of Democrats (53%) approve of socialism, which isn’t surprising, but almost one-quarter of Republicans (23%) also do. What the poll reveals is that there is a significant difference between the
Vast swaths of the American public regard the Wall Street Journal as one of the last bastions of conservatism and a strong supporter of Israel. This perspective is flawed; the op-ed page is consistently conservative and supports Israel, but the
Remember the brutal slaughter of the Fogel family in Itamar, Israel in 2011 when Palestinian terrorists murdered the family of five, including one infant, while they were sleeping in their beds, stabbing them to death, and Gazans celebrated by passing
California private health insurers are looking to substantially raise their rates in the coming year. The largest for-profit insurer in California, Anthem Blue Cross, wants to raise its rates an average of 18% for roughly 630,000 individual policyholders. Aetna, the
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has his eyes set on the presidency, has puffed himself up enormously by declaring on Monday that while Hurricane Katrina was deadlier than Hurricane Sandy, the latter storm was “more impactful” over all and “affected
As controversy rages over U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, her messaging in the wake of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11, and her potential nomination as the next Secretary of State, President Obama continues to laud the embattled official. President Obama
So how’s that extension of lower interest rates on student loans workin’ for ya? Can you say $1 trillion? Student loan debt throughout the nation is fast approaching $1 trillion. According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, student loan
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, attempting to rule Egypt with an iron Islamist hand, lavishly praised his benefactor, Barack Obama, in an interview with Time Magazine. Morsi cooed: “President Obama has been very helpful, very helpful.” Morsi continued, “And I can say really that
