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NYMag: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez bumped into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brazil this weekend at the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, and the two shook hands and chatted. “She had a very spontaneous smile and

Five Things We Should Worry about in 2011

The mid-term elections were a rejection of President Obama’s big-government agenda, but those results don’t necessarily mean better policy. We should not forget, after all, that Democrats rammed through Obamacare even after losing the special election to replace Ted Kennedy

Shariah Adoption Laws: Incompatible with American Law and Society

Yesterday’s Washington Post‘s feature story, “Muslim orphans caught between Islam and the West“– about Muslim orphans who cannot find adoptive homes because of Islamic law– highlights once again the incompatibility of shariah with U.S. law and societal norms. The heart-wrenching

ABC News Continues Lobby Effort for ObamaCare

ABC News continues to behave like they are working hand-in-hand with the Obama Administrations’ health care take-over message machine. The latest effort came from ABC News Political Director Amy Walter as she offered a harsh warning to Republicans: Don’t mess

ABC News Staffer Warns GOP Against ObamaCare Repeal

More analysis at Big Journalism: ABC News Continues Lobby Effort for ObamaCare ABC News continues its policy of just reporting the facts without any bias or agenda. Remember, ABC News was the venue for President Obama’s highly publicized and unchallenged

Congress Leading Border Patrol Down Wrong Path

Less than a week after another Border Patrol agent was killed by Mexican bandits, Congress forwarded to the White House a bill that, within two years of its enactment, will result in Customs and Border Patrol heading down the same

How to Cultivate a Food Crisis

Buried beneath the avalanche of press coverage about the lame-duck Congress, I found a story about President Obama’s mid-December meeting with twenty corporate CEOs. The purpose of this Blair House get-together was to discuss how to jump-start our still-ailing economy.

NYT Paints Fairy Tale Caricature of Obama

How on earth do you not challenge a statement like this? “I think it speaks volumes about the man’s temperament,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential historian. “He doesn’t crave the spotlight the way some of these other presidents have. They

Antiquated Rule Penalizes Women In RNC Chair Race

Buried within the news that Jim Bopp is endorsing Reince Priebus for RNC chair, one discovers how an antiquated rule meant to demonstrate the importance of women within the GOP has helped to change the GOP’s image from the leader

Surprise: Chicago Election 'Official' Clears Rahm's Run for Mayor

From Politico: Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel won a crucial ruling from Chicago election authorities Wednesday night, when the official charged with hearing challenges to Emanuel’s residency determined the mayoral candidate should be allowed to appear on

START Vote Expected Today; Ratification All But Certain

The National Journal reports on the vote: Members of both parties said the White House now has enough GOP support to ensure ratification. All 58 Democrats appear set to back the agreement. “The question is not if it passes, but

CSP Responds To WaPo

To the Editor: Yesterday’s feature, “Monitoring America,” by Dana Priest and William Arkin, intentionally distorts the role of outside experts training local law enforcement in matters related to terrorism. In an effort to smear the Center for Security Policy, Arkin

Reid and Pelosi Finally Get Mugged by Public Opinion

From Michael Barone’s in the Washington Examiner: It is a source of continuing fascination for me to watch the interaction between public opinion, as measured in polls and election results, and the actions of members of Congress, elected in one

Big Dupes at Big Peace: 'Progressives' for Stalin

This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries