(Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has signed into law a new Islamist-drafted constitution he says will help end political turmoil and allow him to focus on fixing the fragile economy. Anxiety about the deepening economic crisis has gripped Egypt
The tyranny is in full swing in Egypt, where the government has now banned anyone wanting to leave the country from taking more than $10,000 with them. This is the same measure used by the government of Iran to prevent
(AP) UNITED NATIONSThe U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to hold a conference in March to try to reach agreement on a U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. A resolution approved late Monday by a vote of 133-0
The intense battle over hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is now taking place on screen. Two films that take opposing sides on the issue are going to war. The first is the anti-fracking film “Promised Land,” opening nationwide Friday.
Jon Hammar, the twenty-seven year old Marine who was imprisoned in the notorious CEDES jail in Mexico for four months, arrived home at his parents’ home in Florida Monday in time for Christmas. His mother Olivia, when she heard that Mexico
(Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will have little time to savor victory in pushing through a new constitution as it may have cost the Islamist leader broader support for urgent austerity measures needed to fix the creaking economy. By
Reuters – President Barack Obama and his family are slated to depart for his native state of Hawaii on Friday evening, the White House said shortly after Obama delivered a statement on the fiscal cliff standoff. Read the rest of
On Tuesday, California released a report that revealed state tax revenues have plummeted even further below Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) estimates, even after residents voted to increase taxes via Proposition 30 in November’s elections. At the end of November, “taxes were 3% short
The Mayan calendar, which some claim predicts the world tomorrow will end tomorrow, December 21, 2012, is now wreaking havoc in Communist China. A group called “Almighty God”, which takes the Mayan prophecy seriously, is fighting with government law enforcement
Canada has officially withdrawn from the controversial Kyoto Protocol Treaty after it was changed to enact harsher restrictions on businesses. Both Russia and Japan have expressed intentions to also withdraw. The treaty is often touted by supporters as a last
Last week, Ana Marie Cox of The Guardian blasted Breitbart News for commenting on a California program that would give free cell phones and service to the homeless. The article suggested that the phones could be called “Obamaphones,” in recognition
Today, ABC News finally reported the blindingly obvious fact that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s beloved assault weapons ban – a piece of legislation now favored by President Obama – would not have prevented the Sandy Hook shootings. Here’s what they said:
On Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a bill that would have allowed Michigan residents to carry concealed weapons in the state’s churches, schools, and daycare centers. Snyder said after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, he wanted to take a more
In the aftermath of the Benghazi attack, Ambassador Susan Rice told multiple Sunday shows that the attack on Benghazi was “spontaneous” or a “response” to a protest held in Cairo over a youtube video no one had ever heard about
The New York Times is trying to squeeze every possible political gain imaginable from the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Their latest ruse is to take a cherry-picked collection of “facts” and choice studies, that are
That Joe Scarborough would make a grand announcement first chance Monday morning to renounce his previous stand against gun control surprised absolutely no one. But without even a hint of evidence, before we even know what motivated the wicked loser
(Reuters) – Unburdened by re-election worries and empowered by law to act without Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama could take action to improve background checks on gun buyers, ban certain gun imports and bolster oversight of dealers. Prospects for gun
(Reuters) – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined loved ones of victims of shootings from Colorado to Virginia to blast U.S. lawmakers on Monday for being too cowed by the firearms lobby to pass gun control laws that could save
(Reuters) – The number of active concealed weapons licenses in Florida, already home to more owners of such registered weapons than any other U.S. state, is expected to reach the 1 million mark next week, a state official said on
Over the last two years, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has begun violating conservative monetary policies by funding a third of the Obama Administration’s $5.4 trillion deficit-spend-a-thon through multiple rounds of money printing, called Quantitative Easing. After thirty years of
Judicial Watch achieved a significant legal victory last week – and it may lead to cleaner elections. On December 10, 2012, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, denied Indiana’s motion to dismiss our
Today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his colleagues at Mayors Against Illegal Guns released a statement demanding that federal legislators take stringent anti-gun measures. Bloomberg said: “What happened in Newtown was an unspeakable crime – a mass murder
America may yet “frack” its way to prosperity. According to Dow Chemical, in the past two years, manufacturers have poured $90 billion in U.S. investments into natural gas, sparking what the Financial Times calls a “shale revolution” that “appears to
Nascent anti-Semitism is alive and well in Hungary, where 500,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. The Jobbik party, which is the third largest party in the Hungarian parliament, has openly used anti-Semitic slurs in its campaigns, and the leader
(Reuters) – Actor Gerard Depardieu, accused by French government leaders of trying to dodge taxes by buying a house over the border in Belgium, retorted that he was leaving because “success” was now being punished in his homeland. A popular
