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Even in the Byzantine world of Israeli politics, it came as news that the head of the Hatnua Party, Tzipi Livni, decided to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in its attempt to form a coalition.  Livni, who is far

Republicans, cognizant that they had a dismal record with minorities in the 2012 election, have created a new nonprofit organization called Insight which will target minorities, attempt to launch their careers in Washington and help them flourish once they get

Freshman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) has joined six other GOP House members to propose legislation that would place police officers in schools across the nation to help protect children. The legislation would cost $30 million and is called The Protect

A Colorado legislator stated Monday that women in college should not carry guns to protect themselves from sexual assault, because they may prematurely shoot harmless men they “feel” are dangerous. During a debate on gun control in the Colorado legislature,

Something strange is going on. Federal non-military agencies have bought two billion rounds of ammunition in the last 10 months. The Obama Administration says that federal law enforcement agents need the ammunition for “mandatory quarterly firearms qualifications and other training

After Marco Rubio took a drink of water during his response to the State of the Union address, MSNBC played the clip of Rubio drinking 155 times over the course of the next day. CNN showed it 34 times, while

The Los Angeles Times, ever eager to implicate the LAPD in anything it can get its hands on, is now questioning whether the use of a strong tear gas that can cause a fire was the right tactic for the

Lars Hedegaard, 70, a Danish historian and journalist was attacked by a murderous assassin whom Hedegaard described as a “typical Muslim immigrant” in his mid-twenties. Hedegaard heads the Free Press Society, which fights for journalists’ and cartoonists’ rights to free

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has rejected the Islamic group CAIR’s latest motion in their lawsuit attempting to silence critics.  In the suit brought by CAIR against Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris

On Thursday, Barack Obama told teachers in Decatur, GA that he was in favor of making school mandatory for children from the age of four, declaring, “The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future. So let’s fix this.

President Obama, still demagoguing the gun control issue, said Thursday that he didn’t want to ban handguns. Asked why he wanted to ban assault weapons, which cannot compare in number of gun deaths to the number of handgun-related deaths, Obama

Barack Obama said Thursday that he’d like to get rid of pennies, as they cost more to make than they’re worth. He said, “Any time we’re spending money on something people aren’t going to use, that’s something that should change.”

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told his colleagues Wednesday that Barack Obama and the Democratic Senate are “deluding” themselves regarding the national deficit.  Ryan said, “It seems as if they think the heavy lifting on debt reduction, deficit

Be careful on Valentine’s Day–the U.S. Centers for Disease Control just announced that the number of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has risen to 20 million nationwide each year.   15-24 year-olds are responsible for half of those infections, leading the

The University of Chicago, often compared to Harvard, Yale and Stanford for the level of its academic excellence, is hosting a Sex Week chock-full of events graphically teaching techniques that, in a more innocent time, were considered private matters. Some

The peripatetic Barack Obama is at it again, traveling away from the White House to sell the public on another plan he has for spending their money. This week’s stop was in an auto parts plant in Asheville, North Carolina,

The Southern and Southwestern United States can rest easy now; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that U.S. borders have “never been stronger.” Napolitano made her remarks during an immigration reform hearing in the Senate.  She argued:      

Americans are getting more and more tired of listening to Barack Obama.  The numbers are in, and for the fourth straight year, the number of people who listened to his State of the Union address dropped by more than four million

In his Tuesday State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama promised, “Let me repeat–nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime.” That line quickly proved to be typical political rhetoric, as he spent the rest

How did Barack Obama use his State of the Union address, in his own humble and prayerful way, to mark the fact that he is the 44th president of the United States? He used one pronoun 44 times. Guess which

During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Barack Obama boasted that he and NATO are planning to leave Afghanistan at the end of 2014 and leave the security of the country to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). There’s

Now that Pope Benedict XVI has resigned, the speculation about his successor is already heating up. What follows is a short list of those who have been mentioned as possible candidates. Two candidates from Italy are prominently mentioned, because Italians

Esquire magazine lied about a Navy Seal who helped kill Osama Bin Laden being ineligible for health benefits from the Veteran’s Administration–and they won’t fess up. In a story written by Phil Bronstein, who runs the so-called Center for Investigative

President Obama is expected to ignore calls from the American people to cut spending in his State of the Union speech. It appears that he will urge the government to spend more, while using euphemisms such as “investments” to obfuscate

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that there is so much violence in America that there is “a Sandy Hook-plus” of deaths every day.  He claimed that the White House proposals calling for an assault weapons ban and a ban

Contrary to prior statements Barack Obama made to John Boehner, the president now apparently does believe that the United States has a spending problem. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday: Of course, the president believes that we have

Friday night, on The Rachel Maddow Show, guest host Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez from the fourth congressional district told guest host Melissa Harris-Perry that he believed handguns should be banned. Harris-Perry asked, “What needs to be done if you’ve already

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) may have to borrow money from the U.S. Treasury in order to survive, which would be unprecedented. The FHA was created in 1934 and has always been solvent, but it guaranteed too many loans during

Truman Capote, who became famous when his 1966 book In Cold Blood was published and claimed that his book was “immaculate factual,” was lying. New information has been revealed in Kansas Bureau of Investigation documents that were kept by a

In a rather unsettling situation, an Iranian-American is functioning as an interlocutor between Iran’s leaders and the U.S. Defense Department. Amir Mohammad Estakhri, who lives in Southern California, has been an interpreter for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for interviews Ahmadinejad

Before you read this column, I would suggest reading its companion piece, “The Best Romantic Films of All Time,” to get a sense of what guided me in writing this piece. I was interested to note that out of curiosity,

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought it might be appropriate to write a column listing the ten most romantic films of all time. My qualification for writing this piece is simple: I’ve been in love with my first love

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