Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
The Labor Department, warning defense contractors against announcing impending layoffs as required by law, is elevating election-year politics above sound policy, according to a former top DOL official. Paul Conway, who served as chief of staff to Labor Secretary Elaine
The Obama campaign and the left are crowing, predictably, about a comment made by Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak to CNN’s ever-gullible Wolf Blitzer: “I can see long years [and] administrations of both sides of [the] political aisle deeply supporting
China is set to construct its first icebreaker for polar expeditions, state media said Tuesday, in a move it described as greatly boosting its ability to explore the strategic Arctic. Melting ice sheets in the far north have opened up
By BUSHRA JUHIAssociated PressBAGHDADBritain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what’s left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday. The British Defense
So the Palestinians are “outraged” that Mitt Romney intimated that their culture may be partially responsible for their economic woes? Romney, speaking to Jewish donors in Jerusalem, said: As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for
What Do Greece, the United States, and the Cayman Islands Have in Common? At first, this seems like a trick question. After all, the Cayman Islands are a fiscal paradise, with no personal income tax, no corporate income tax, no
By LORI HINNANTAssociated PressPARISThe widow of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday formally asked for a French investigation into his death, bringing a complaint of assassination weeks after raising new suspicions that the former Palestinian leader was poisoned before his 2004 death
The discovery of a suspected bomb triggered the evacuation of the area around the US embassy in downtown Oslo on Tuesday but it turned out to be a fake, police said. Police said earlier that it resembled a bomb and
There seems to be a lack of clarity in the foreign policy apparatus of the Obama administration. As a result, the U.S. is officially funding the Syrian opposition via the Free Syrian Army, expecting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to either vacate the
Gov. Mitt Romney received a lot of attention and praise for the words he spoke and the confidence he demonstrated while in Israel. Obama, on the other hand, has made it clear he will not visit Israel unless (and until)
Those journalists and critics knocking Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney for his statements praising Israeli culture betray their fundamental ignorance about Israel and what has made it a successful country. They have–deliberately, and at the urging of Palestinian propagandists–made up
ATHENS, July 31 (Reuters) – Near-bankrupt Greece is fastrunning out of cash while it waits for its next installment ofaid from international lenders, a deputy finance minister saidon Tuesday, sounding the alarm on the country’s precariousfinancial position.
(AP) Eurozone unemployment at record high in JuneBy PAN PYLASLONDONThe number of people unemployed across the 17 countries that use the euro hit a record high in June, official figures showed Tuesday, in a stark reminder that Europe’s debt crisis
Breitbart News’ Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro takes to the Jerusalem Post to further explain the $50,000 reward announced Sunday for the videotape of Barack Obama toasting radical academic Rashid Khalidi: The Times article notes the virulently anti-Israel discussion that took place at the
(AP) Iran bank chief calls sanctions akin to `war’By NASSER KARIMIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranIran’s central bank chief says tightening of Western sanctions is equal to a “military war” that requires new tactics to overcome economic pressures on Tehran. The official IRNA
(AP) Romney praises Polish spirit, creativity in WarsawBy KASIE HUNTAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandRepublican presidential contender Mitt Romney said Tuesday that Poland’s economy is a model of small government and free enterprise that other nations should emulate as they struggle with recession,
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised that he would not use his foreign trip to attack President Barack Obama, or to deliver major new foreign policy announcements. He kept his word–yet used his speech in Warsaw today to deliver a
In February, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Andrew Breitbart predicted that this would be the “dog whistle” election–that the mainstream media would accuse Barack Obama’s opponents of racism at every opportunity. Andrew’s warning has come to pass–first in the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: ECB plans to save the euro exacerbates Europe’s North/South fault line Greece and European officials fail to reach agreement Greece closes border with Turkey over Syrian refugees Postal Service expected to go into default
The Games have begun, in more ways than one. The opening ceremonies were broadcast on Friday evening. They began with forty-minutes of a British extravaganza that included dancing, fireworks and Mary Poppins (along with the Queen) dropping from the sky.
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, were greeted by cheering crowds and warm official welcomes on their visit to Poland today, the final leg of their foreign tour after Britain and Israel. Former Polish leader Lech Walesa
The Obama administration, trying to dig itself out of a hole with American Jews, just inadvertently dug itself in even deeper. Today, Mitt Romney spoke in Jerusalem, where he attributed Palestinian economic stagnation to cultural issues: Culture makes all the
As we all know, President Obama has spiked the football again and again regarding the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. “I did it…I did it…I did it” he can be heard saying in speech after speech, when the chips
(AP) QUITO, EcuadorThe mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says her son’s health is suffering after more than a month confined to Ecuador’s embassy in London. Christine Assange is in Ecuador to meet with officials about her son’s political asylum request.
As the U.S. women’s gymnastic team competed in the Olympics on Sunday, the encroaching egalitarianism of the international games was readily apparent. The rules committee has decided only two members of each team can advance to the all-around, meaning that even if
