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The New York Times Slams Obama Foreign Policy Speech

The New York Times Slams Obama Foreign Policy Speech

President Obama delivered a speech yesterday on foreign policy, and the New York Times was not impressed. In their May 29 print editorial, the Times editors write that Obama’s speech at West Point “provided little new insight,” relied on “hackneyed phrases,”

New Proposal: Block Immigration Enforcement In Courthouses

New Proposal: Block Immigration Enforcement In Courthouses

Courthouses should be off limits to officials looking to enforce immigration law, amnesty advocates are arguing.  According to a New York Times report the number of activists calling on the Obama administration to deem courthouses a “sensitive location” — where

Populists' Rise in Europe Vote Shakes Leaders

Populists' Rise in Europe Vote Shakes Leaders

This article originally appeared in The New York Times BRUSSELS — An angry eruption of populist insurgency in the elections for the European Parliament rippled across the Continent on Monday, unnerving the political establishment and calling into question the very

Window Into the Future

Window Into the Future

The problems with the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) giving inferior and delayed care to veterans is a good window into the future of Obamacare. Both the VA and Obamacare suffer the endemic problems of a government-run single-payer system (a.k.a. socialism)–no

Detained Immigrants Often Used as Cheap Labor

Detained Immigrants Often Used as Cheap Labor

About 60,000 immigrants, many facing deportation, worked at the nation’s system of 250 detention centers last year for $1 a day. The cheap labor, which the government says is legal, saves taxpayers millions of dollars every year. Private companies, which

UN Torture Report on Vatican Due Friday

UN Torture Report on Vatican Due Friday

It’s been slightly more than two weeks since the Holy See stood in the dock before the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva and was told the Church may be in violation of international laws against torture. On Friday, the

8 People Who Wanted America to Adopt the VA Health Care Model

8 People Who Wanted America to Adopt the VA Health Care Model

President Obama rightly noted yesterday at his super-duper-ultimate-anger press conference that the current scandal engulfing the Veterans Administration – delayed care, cooked books, deaths – is nothing new. “[C]aring for our veterans is not an issue that popped up in

Semicentennial of LBJ's War on Poverty

Semicentennial of LBJ's War on Poverty

This year, the cheerleaders for big government are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the launching of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. This should be an occasion for mourning, not celebration, because that was the most expensive legislative failure in our

AP Sources: Justice Dept. to Disclose Drone Memo

AP Sources: Justice Dept. to Disclose Drone Memo

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration plans to disclose a secret memo describing its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism overseas. The Justice Department has decided not to appeal a court order requiring disclosure