Nothing tells the story of the tragic crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 like pictures from the still-unsecured site, where passengers’ bodies, personal effects, and remnants of the plane lay strewn on the ground. The most troubling thing about the
Tel Aviv, Israel — Midday Saturday, a Hamas terror cell attempted to infiltrate Israel through a tunnel network in the Gaza Strip. They were met by Israeli forces, who reportedly exchanged fire with the jihadis and pushed them back underground.
Seemingly no campaign for President of the United States is complete without a schmaltzy campaign song written by well-meaning, if not exactly musically proficient, supporters. Elizabeth “Liz” Warren’s campaign seems to be no exception. But what might set this song
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said President Barack Obama’s lack of leadership amid a whirlwind of crises is equivalent to Nero” fiddling “while the world burns.” The Wisconsin lawmaker blasted the president for attending fundraisers in New York on the same
Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) claimed on Friday that four women served on the Supreme Court while discussing the recent Hobby Lobby ruling. This would come as a surprise to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the three woman currently holding
As Obama takes heat from his inaction on the illegal immigration surge across the southern U.S. border, a Washington Post columnist thinks it’s the GOP that needs criticism because lawmakers haven’t been to the border enough times to suit the him.
Friday in Raleigh, Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) was at a re-election event with Planned Parenthood officials to discuss their next steps after the defeat of the bill she and others introduced in the U.S. Senate in an attempt to override the Supreme
The Minnesota Vikings suspended special teams coach Mike Priefer for three games on Friday for making an anti-gay comment in 2012. The disciplinary action comes as a result of accusations made by disgruntled cut punter Chris Kluwe against his former
Back in 2007 Forbes magazine purchased 51 percent of the then-wildly growing website RealClearPolitics.com. Now, in 2014, a Chinese company has purchased a majority position in Forbes itself. A highly visited site, RealClearPolitics.com was created in Chicago in the year
Friday when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke at Netroots Nation, a progressive convention for online activists, she stuck her usual populist tone, arguing, “the game is rigged” in Washington against the little guy and in favor of big banks. The Massachusetts
President Obama discussed his love for chips and guacamole at the first “Kids State Dinner” in the East Room of the White House Friday, which treated the 54 children who won a nationwide healthy meal recipe contest sponsored by the food
Friday First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the first “Kids State Dinner” in the East Room of the White House, which treated the 54 children who won a nationwide healthy meal recipe contest sponsored by the food magazine Epicurious and the
Thursday in Iowa while campaigning for incumbent Gov. Terry Branstad, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blasted the Obama administration for the their “awful” response to the humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children flooding across the U.S. Mexico border. The republican governor
Russia Today reporter Sara Firth quit Thursday because of the network’s coverage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster. She is the second RT reporter to leave since the crisis started in Ukraine in November 2013. I resigned from RT
Friday during a Pentagon press briefing, Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said the missile that downed Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was “a sophisticated piece of technology,” so he added, “It strains credulity to think that it could be used
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton said the US has “a policy of appeasement” towards Russia under President Obama, and “it is entirely understandable that something like [the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine] has happened because of
The RT Network’s coverage of the Malaysian plane disaster was the last straw for longtime anchor Sara Firth. Today she quit and made clear on Twitter it was about the network’s penchant for dishonest coverage. I resigned from RT today.
Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul M. Barrett described Ted Nugent as a “crazy” gun nut who spews “racist venom.” Gun Owners of America’s executive director Larry Pratt was described as a zealot who, like our Presbyterian forefathers along the New
Bill Maher can say almost anything about anyone and not worry about the P.C. police storming his home or office. He’s a reliably liberal voice in popular culture, and he routinely says the ugliest things about conservatives like former Gov.
On July 17, the Massachusetts Senate passed a “sweeping overhaul of the state’s gun laws,” but not until after senators removed the aspects of the bill worrisome to law-abiding gun owners. According to The Washington Times, a measure contained in
A Michael Bloomberg-funded analysis of “mass shootings” between January 2009 and July 2014 found that 110 “mass shootings,” where at least four people were killed, were carried out during that five-and-a half-year period. On June 12, Breitbart News reported that a
At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said the United States “cannot rule out” assistance from Russia in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing all 295 passengers. Power said the
In the aftermath of the horrific fall of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine Thursday, the United States Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines not to fly over that airspace, and it received voluntary agreements from airlines that they would not. But
Thursday night on Fox New Channels’ “Hannity” a frustrated Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacted strongly to President Obama attending a fundraiser in New York City last night after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala
Politicians here have not even figured out how yet to implement their new law requiring us to pay for everybody else’s health care, and already people are clamoring to legalize drugs that are, at the very least, hazardous to their
