In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Kate Aronoff, a student organizer with Swarthmore Mountain Justice and a board member at the Responsible Endowments Coalition, compared her organization’s fight for disinvestment in fossil fuel companies to the fight
An anonymous pollster has been calling New York City voters with a penetrating question: would they vote for Anthony Weiner for mayor? The unnamed pollster asked voters which Democratic candidate they would be likely to vote for: Public Advocate Bill de Blasio,
In San Francisco, the decline in newspaper circulation might mean the city is going to the dogs. San Francisco’s animal control agency is concerned that with the advent of digital media and the concomitant decline in printed newspapers, there will
California Governor Jerry Brown may boast about his efforts to keep California solvent, but the budget problems of the state are severe enough that there is no money to track down roughly 20,000 convicts and mentally ill citizens to confiscate
In an interview with Politico, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg displayed his own unique flair for eloquence and his amazingly self-serving view of the political scene around him. Referring to Joe Biden’s statements endorsing gay marriage that preceded Barack
Does Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City–a tight-ass on gun control, soda beverages, and assorted other basic rights–know another tight ass when he sees one? He does. In New York Magazine‘s profile of Christine Quinn, a mayoral candidate, Bloomberg
In a counterattack against the efforts by the White House and its minions in the mainstream media to eradicate Fox News, Kirtsten Powers, a liberal who works for Fox News, pulls no punches about how serious the situation is, saying,
In North Korea, while Kim Jong Un is spending a fortune on two rocket launches in recent months and taken food away from the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae to feed the people in the capital of Pyongyang,
How much will Barack Obama spend for a photo-op while he pushes his immigration policies? For his round-trip today to Las Vegas, where he will speak about immigration reform at a local high school, Obama’s trip on Air Force One
The draft of a U.N. climate change report due to be published in 2014 has been leaked, and it shows that the four temperature models the U.N. used from 1990 to 2012 vastly overestimated the warming of the earth during
So the ACLU has their own plans for immigration reform, and you’ll never guess what they want to do about border security. Oh, you guessed? They want to reduce it. In response to the proposal by the “Gang of Eight”,
China, whose government is short on cash, is disingenuously agreeing to join with other nations in pursuing reduction of emissions from its industries, but there’s a catch: they want U.S. taxpayers to buy more products from Chinese industries to offset
Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States with 1.2 million members, is convening an emergency summit meeting Monday in Washington D.C.; over 400 Christian leaders will urge their senators to vote against Barack Obama’s
There is another classic case of the UN trying to emasculate the United States’ power. The UN is launching an investigation into the use of drones for strikes in warfare. The drones are highly successful in striking opposing forces without
In Great Britain, which was heralded for centuries as the ancient model for chivalry, the time for men treating women with respect and class is over. A new survey reveals that women are suspicious when treated with kindness or generosity
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who is planning a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories next month, is trying to contest rumors that Barack Obama wants to “pivot” on foreign policy from the Middle East to Asia. Kerry said
Hillary Clinton’s State Department, still eager to gloss over their failure in Benghazi by downplaying the Islamist threat there, reiterated a previous travel advisory to Americans in Libya on Thursday, while Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands warned their citizens to evacuate the
The Obama Administration is urging Israel to subject itself to a review by the notoriously anti-Israel United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Although Israel is required as a member of the UN to undergo Universal Periodic Reviews of its human rights
Senator John Kerry, who has the same narcissistic belief in himself as his boss in the white House, is now claiming that he has his own secret sauce that will make a peace solution between Israel and the Palestinians palatable
You would think that the Secretary of State’s job would be protecting America’s interests first, but by picking John Kerry, a staunch believer in climate change, Barack Obama has made it clear that he is an internationalist first and an
Barack Obama, his Democratic Party, and most of the major groups that form the American Left thought that Obama’s election victory was a guarantor of virtually any agenda they wished to pursue in 2013. They’re finding out it won’t be
The United States stated its objection today to the Palestinians’ attempt to claim status as a state at the United Nations. Before the Palestinians’ address to the U.N.–their first since their status was upgraded from observer status to non-voting member
Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi told seven U.S. senators last week that the American Media is run by Jews and he is a victim of their control. The seven senators, John McCain (R-AZ), Chris Coons (D-DE), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Lindsey Graham
John Boehner, Speaker of the House, minced no words in his response to Barack Obama’s second inaugural address. Boehner said: Given what we heard yesterday about the president’s vision for his second term, it’s pretty clear to me that he
It didn’t take long for the media to start trumpeting Hillary Clinton 2016. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Clinton dominating Vice-President Joe Biden in favorability ratings. The favorable-unfavorable rating of Clinton was 67-26 percent, while Biden languished at
Mitch McConnell gave a speech Wednesday responding to Barack Obama’s inaugural speech, pushing back against Obama’s demonization of Republicans and their motives. Excerpts follow: President Obama may have been vague on details in his inauguration speech on Monday, but I’ll
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking on a Hezbollah-linked television station, claimed that Zionists worked with Nazis before World War II, spouting: “I challenge anyone to deny the relationship between Zionism and Nazism before World War II.” If anyone needs to
There’s good news for Barack Obama: the next time he travels, he can indulge his narcissism by reading an erotic novel–about himself. GuestHouse Games, published by uStarNovels, follows Barack and Michelle Obama while they are “alone in their isolated beachfront
It wasn’t enough for radical New York leftist Governor Andrew Cuomo to champion broad new restrictions on guns; now he has set his sights on allowing late-term abortion on demand. Cuomo’s State of the State address on January 9 contained
Paul Krugman, the economist whose writings have graced the pages of the new York Times for years, has now been placed in an arena which would be the logical place for his emotional gyrations: the opera. Last summer, Krugman engaged
How do you deal with Barack Obama? Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have found one reasonably successful way: stand tall and don’t back down, and your people will rally around you. Obama, believing Netanyahu would win reelection despite trying to damage
In five separate incidents, swans that reside along a waterway in the British city of Lincoln have been bludgeoned to death, at least once by a gang of men using a nail-studded baton. Authorities believe the birds are being taken
Barack Obama made a remark at an inaugural luncheon so disingenuous that the moment came when the rise of the oceans began to slow. Really. Obama said: “I know that former President Carter, President Clinton, they understand the irony of
At the Latino Inaugural 2013 Concert at the Kennedy center Sunday night, Vice President Joe Biden went over the top in thanking the Latino community for their help in getting his boss reelected to the White House. Biden pontificated that
Al Gore took time away from counting the cash in his bank account from selling Current TV to Al-Jazeera to compliment Barack Obama on the remarks in his inaugural speech regarding climate change. Gore had ripped Obama in the past
When people say that Barack Obama is the worst president since Jimmy Carter, they’re not kidding; a new Gallup Poll taken between January 7-10 shows that when Americans were asked whether they had a positive view of the country, only
Peter Beinart, hilariously regarded as an intellectual whose opinions matter, (remember how he once championed the Iraq war and using American power abroad but then suddenly “evolved” into your typical leftist Jew attacking Israel?) is now ludicrously claiming that Piers
Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense is now being challenged because of his record on defense and Israel, and also because of rumors of poor staff management. Rabbi Marvin Hier and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who run the Simon Wiesenthal
