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Farrakhan Demands Reparations from Jews

Louis Farrakhan recently sent a three-page letter along with two books to the heads of sixteen Jewish organizations. Dated June 24, 2010, the letter is resplendent with a crescent-and-moon flag and Farrakhan’s impressive-sounding title (“National Representative of the Honorable Elijah

Smells Like a Cover-up at Obama White House

Has Congressman Darrell Issa’s request that White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard explain his failure to report a $37,000 payment from his previous employer SEIU[i] Local 1199 evolved into a cover-up? It’s beginning to smell like it! Rep. Issa’s request

The NAACP Acting Stupidly (Again)

I must admit, I didn’t think the NAACP could top the whole Hallmark-card-is-racist fiasco, but never underestimate the power of stupidity. One thing progressives are very good at is using black people and they’ve found some that are willing enough

Romney: New Treaty is a Non-STARTer

Mitt Romney, the once and future presidential candidate, is the biggest gun so far to come out against the New START arms control agreement. In a no-so-subtlety titled opinion piece “Obama’s worst foreign-policy mistake” in The Washington Post, he flatly

Get Ready for Donald Berwick to Run Your Health Care

On this week’s Health Care News podcast, Avik Roy, one of the most insightful writers about health care policy today, took the time to discuss with me the White House’s decision to bypass the nomination process of the U.S. Senate

Obama's Recovery Summer and Leaders With Plans

This marks the 150th episode of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca. It’s been our pleasure to grow from a few hundred to a few thousand listeners over the past two years, and we’d like to thank

ShoreBank Fiasco Reveals Rift on the Left

The Hill revealed yesterday that Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and three other Chicago Democrats have written a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, asking him to release $70 million in federal TARP funds to bail out ShoreBank. ShoreBank’s

NASA's Neanderthals

It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the pillars of Obama’s post-American presidency is to be the islamization of America. How bad is Obama’s obsession with ceding the free world to the umma (the Muslim world community)? Chilling to

CNN's Octavia Nasr Commits Twittercide

Just a few short days after Octavia Nasr tweeted her fondness for the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, she’s out of a job. The offending message? “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One

NASA: Oh, How We've Fallen

How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals? Kennedy said in his speech to a Joint Session of Congress in May 1961: “First, I believe that this nation

The Religious War: Insidious to the Ignorant

As Netanyahu returned to Washington and met again with Barack Obama on Tuesday, it’s important to recall what neither man would mention: the specific reason for the war between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. It’s a religious war, just as

Heritage Foundation Remembers the Gulf

It is Day 79 of the BP oil spill, and just this weekend tar balls from the spill washed up on Texas beaches. Over a hundred million gallons of oil have been released into our waters. And yet where is

One Nation against the Obama's Chicago Machine

Last week, I reported how the Chicago Democrat machine had injected itself into neighboring Will County in attempt to knock me on the ballot. My candidacy against a legacy politician, the specially appointed AJ Wilhelmi, was too much of a