On Friday, Sweden — a nation that took a stance of neutrality during World War II, which was defined by the Holocaust and resulted in the extermination of 6 million Jewish people — said it recognized Palestinian statehood, making it
More than 800 parents, teachers, and citizens turned out for a filled-to-capacity town hall meeting this past week in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, organized by state Rep. Brett Geymann (R), a vocal opponent of the Common Core standards. The grassroots effort
Israel has hit out at Sweden’s newly elected prime minister Stefan Loefven over his decision to recognise a Palestinian state. “Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he regrets that the new prime minister was in a hurry to make statements
I’ve probably got enough material from various contributors to put together a symposium on the utterly stupid behavior of supposedly super-intelligent government. Let me loop David Harsanyi at The Federalist in to make one more point about the Ineptocracy: the
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators protesting China’s attempts to quash their rights to self government appear to be only the latest pro-Western group forsaken by the Obama administration. Meanwhile, its high volume criticism of Israel continues unabated. First, Hong Kong. Protests
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki admitted that the US did not “have a long-term plan” for Sunni tribes in Iraq to be engaged with the Iraqi Security Forces during Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department on Friday’s “America’s Newsroom”
Jessica Vaughan, the Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, argued that US Ebola patient Thomas Duncan never should have received a visa on Friday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Vaughan argued that Duncan was “profoundly unqualified to get
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced Thursday it was partially lifting its ban on sales of weaponry to Vietnam to help its maritime security in a sign of deepening ties between the former enemies. The move is intended to
Ebola is not easy to contract. Ebola is not easy to transmit. But the federal government is making it a hell of a lot easier for those who have contracted Ebola to transmit it here in the United States, if
Somewhere around 13,500 citizens from the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea currently hold visas to enter the United States as they wish, according to official government statistics. But the stats don’t account for how many people
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Wednesday that he was “dumbfounded” by the recent Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report that revealed President Barack Obama has attended just 42% of his daily intelligence briefings. “I am dumbfounded at that statistic,” said
President Barack Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Secretary of State John Kerry are directly responsible for allowing Ebola into the United States, the Center for Immigration Studies Director of
California has no money left in its firefighting budget just three months after the beginning of the 2014-2015 fiscal year, in the midst of a crippling drought and widespread fires. As a result, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration will have to
Earlier this year the President referred to ISIS as the “JV team” during an interview, but that designation is at odds with the placement of ISIS’ leader near the top of the State Department’s designated terrorist list in 2011. Abu
In an appearance on Tuesday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki to react to a report that President Barack Obama missed up to 60 percent of his intelligence briefings. That report published at Breitbart News on Tuesday
Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf said not only was U.S. intelligence caught off guard by the quick rise of ISIS in Syria and eventually Iraq, but ISIS itself was surprised. “The president said, for
State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf reported that the Iraq did not have intelligence showing a “direct threat to the United States” despite an earlier statement by the Defense Department that ISIS was planning an attack on Thursday’s broadcast of
While downplaying fears that the Islamic State, more commonly known as ISIS, has extended its reach to the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino promised safety for Pope Francis during his visit to the Philippines in January, following assassination threats from the extremist
A recently recorded speech distributed by the Islamic State called on Muslims living in Western countries to commit lone wolf attacks and wage jihad against innocent civilians. “Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone’s verdict. Kill
In the spring of 1918, the influenza that would become pandemic was first detected. It was initially known as “three-day-fever.” Its effects were such that it caused few deaths. Nobody paid it much heed. That fall, however, it reappeared in
A secret left-wing “Journolist”-esque group is not ready for Hillary Clinton in 2016. In fact, they think establishment Democrats like her who supported the Iraq War and are cozy with Wall Street should be “punished.” The Hill obtained and “reviewed hundreds
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Federal police on Thursday vowed to crack down on lawlessness and restore order in the hurricane-stricken resort area of Los Cabos after looting emptied store shelves and unnerved residents who worried their homes could be
This article was originally posted at Watchdog.org A high-profile academic center used federal funds to promote anti-Semitism on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles, a watchdog says. The university’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near East
The United States is taking the lead in an international coalition aimed at repelling and defeating the Islamist extremists marauding across parts of Iraq and Syria. Jihadists from the so-called “Islamic State,” still referred to by US officials by their
CNN’s “The Lead” anchor Jake Tapper argued that there were “very serious mistakes made by government officials” before the Benghazi terrorist attacks on Thursday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” “The problems were before Benghazi, there just was a lack of planning…an inability
