Heritage Action for America announced Friday it will be scoring the House vote on legislation targeting President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, calling on members to vote “yes” on the measure. “Heritage Action supports the Blackburn bill and
GUSH ETZION, Israel — Hundreds of volunteers from all over Israel teamed up over the past few weeks to build a new Jewish cultural center in Gush Etzion, about 100 yards away from where three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and
Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, the head of Cuba’s Rosa Parks Civil Rights Movement aimed at organizing black Cubans against the communist regime of Raúl Castro, had a pointed message for the Congressional Black Caucus during a talk in Washington, D.C., this
James Cameron’s Avatar set new standards for both box office appeal and the power of 3D filmmaking. The epic also allowed the eco-friendly auteur to embed his environmental activism into the narrative. Will China’s answer to Avatar do the same?
The British government has announced a major climbdown on fracking by bringing in strict new rules on where it can take place. The Daily Mail says that shale gas extraction will be all but banned in National Parks and other
Fracking will be allowed in British national parks in “exceptional circumstances”, according to government guidelines announced on Monday as new bidding for exploration licenses opens. The extraction of shale gas through the controversial technique in national parks, world heritage sites
America’s National Hockey League has become the latest organisation to claim that global warming threatens its future. Despite the fact that most of its rinks are indoors, it is maintaining that rising temperatures may melt frozen lakes, thus making it
HOUSTON, Texas–Earlier this week the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lost a court battle to a Southern heritage group who seeks to have Confederate flags on license plates in Texas. According to the Los Angeles Times, there was a 2-1
A group of Islamist fundamentalists were able to infiltrate the management of at least 10 schools in Birmingham, UK, because council officials were too scared to confront them out of fear of being labelled “Islamophobic”. According to the Guardian, a
A Honduran Congressman of the far-left Freedom and Refundación Party (FREE) supportive of former President Manuel Zelaya was arrested yesterday after shooting and killing a taxi driver with whom he had a dispute. The Congressman, Luis Galdámez, claims he fired in
The Obama White House is preparing the ground for a late-summer fight with the GOP over the “highway trust fund” and infrastructure spending. In the next month or so, the federal “highway trust fund,” effectively, will temporarily run out of
Monday at the Heritage Foundation, Conservative author Ann Coulter’s spoke with the “The Daily Signal” about the unfolding humanitarian crisis of thousands of unaccompanied minors illegal migrants flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Coulter said of President Obama’s request for $3.7
The eruption of the third Gaza war since 2008 is yet another manifestation of the growing threat posed by Islamist militants within an increasingly unstable Middle East. In recent years, Al-Qaeda and other Islamist revolutionary groups have made major
The San Francisco Giants are considering a ban on fans wearing certain types of clothing because some fans passed around a Native American headdress at a game, USA Today reports. The Giants are responding to an incident at AT&T Park in which
Less than a month after the 100th anniversary of the single shot that set the world on fire, many scholars are comparing then and now. One of the most cogent assessments comes from Walter Russell Mead. In “Have We Gone From a
President Obama once described it as “little more than a fund for corporate welfare,” but now top Senate Democrats are touting their support for the Export-Import Bank as a way to siphon campaign donations from the GOP. The New Deal-era
LOS ANGELES — A line of eager patients snaked around three city blocks for the Independence Day opening of the California Heritage Market, the world’s first medical marijuana farmers market at West Coast Collective in Boyle Heights. Blunt smoke and
A deep divide is growing between Britain and the EU as the latter piles on regulations in the name of the Single Market. Jean-Claude Juncker’s “election” as President of the European Commission is just the latest manifestation of this. With an increasing
There is “no evidence of criminal wrongdoing,” the Internal Revenue Service assured Americans during an internal investigation of the agency’s targeting of conservative groups. Few will find comfort in those words, and understandably so. Last week, while seeking to reassure
This Independence Day weekend, Los Angeles will host the world’s first medical marijuana farmer’s market, a gathering where interested buyers can purchase cannabis directly from the source–the growers themselves. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the California Heritage Market seeks to foster
DALLAS, Texas–On Friday, June 20, during the two-day Austin-held #CANiSEE The Solutions conference on Fed Led Ed, an impromptu press conference took place. Among the speakers were Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Dr. James Milgram–both were there to recount their experiences on
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty,
After Dana Milbank embarrassed himself earlier this week by dishonestly misrepresenting what transpired at an event held at the Heritage foundation, the New Republic’s Brian Beutler rushed to Milbank’s defense. Though Beutler wasn’t at the event, he argued that the
I had a ringside seat on Monday as a “mainstream media lapdog” performed for his masters in the Obama administration. What made it a man-bites-dog story, though, is that the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank was so abject in his submission
New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” vertical admits that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s Tuesday attack against the Heritage Foundation is riddled with inaccuracies but still insist he was right. In a post titled “Real-Life Muslims Like Saba Ahmed Pose an Existential
In response to It Took 645 Days to Arrest Benghazi Terrorist, 16 Days to Arrest Filmmaker: Funny you should mention that business where Khattala was hanging out with reporters and sipping frappes, because it’s one of the things mentioned by
Yesterday Dana Milbank wrote a column claiming a Heritage panel on Benghazi had devolved into “ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.” This being Dana Milbank it was inevitable there would be serious
Writing for a Washington Post that apparently decided his column was too good to check, columnist Dana Milbank attacked the conservative Heritage Foundation for bullying a female Muslim woman who expressed concern about Muslim stereotyping during a panel Monday night.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town for hours, killing those who couldn’t answer questions about Islam and those who didn’t know the Somali language, officials and witnesses said Monday. At least 48 people were
The head of one the Birmingham schools at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse’ controversy has revealed that parents of Pakistani origin wanted her to “get rid of the white kids” at her school. Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, head teacher at Anderton
— Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age… Carla Laemmle, who died aged 104 at her home in Los Angeles Thursday, was part of many firsts. Her uncle,
On June 10, South Carolina Solicitor General Robert D. Cook said the Confederate flag “displayed at the Citadel military college” can continue to fly and is protected by the 2000 “Heritage Act.” The flag is located at the college’s Summerall
OK, here’s a tough one. Which of these, would you say, is the superior culture? Culture A Produced Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Jane Austen, Newton, Wren, Darwin, Einstein, Watson & Crick, Magna Carta,
Sporting a bone through his nose, a jaguar’s tooth pendant, multicoloured feathers in his ears and tribal body tattoos, not many England fans would give credence to the footballing ‘expertise’ of Amazonian sorcerer Jaraquii. But the striking indian ‘Paje’ believes
On Saturday, a coalition of grassroots conservatives led by TEA party coordinators beat back the so-called “Texas Solution” at the Texas GOP convention held in Fort Worth. The margin of victory was a spread of slightly more than 1,000 votes
As the discussion about President Obama’s swap of five top Taliban commanders for AWOL U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl continues to play out, many are beginning to wonder why. Why did Obama liberate sworn enemies of the U.S. to bring
The Texas Liberty Movement’s corrective “woodshed moments” for the Austin political class began with the May 2012 GOP Primary Election when a dozen new constitutional conservative Texas House candidates and five Texas Senate candidates defeated moneyed special interests–and moved the
A replica of Egypt’s iconic Sphinx built in northern China will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure, state media said Sunday. A massive replica of the ancient statue was built in Hebei province, the official Xinhua
Boston Public Schools (BPS) has announced that it will be “improving and coordinating the use of instructional materials” by folding the subject area of History and Social Studies “under a Humanities umbrella,” along with English Language Arts (ELA) and World
A Basque terrorist whom authorities lost track of in 2008 after being sentenced to 3,000 years in prison in Spain for the murders of 25 people has resurfaced in Venezuela. Spanish television station Antena 3 published images of José Ignacio De Juana
