Although Washington DC has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, the Navy Yard shooter proved once again that even this amount of gun control cannot stop a criminal intent on carrying out his crime. While Breitbart News
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reveals Americans are unconvinced that Obamacare will improve the country’s healthcare system. Only 12% say the law will have a positive effect on their family and even the uninsured are skeptical Obamacare will do
Former Secretary of the Treasure Lawrence Summers has officially withdrawn his name from contention for the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, the Wall Street Journal reports. Summers called President Barack Obama on Sunday to inform him of his withdrawal, and
On September 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release part of their fifth assessment report on climate change. For the first time since 1990, this report will scale back the hysteria on global warming. Matt Ridley at
Officials in the Middle East claim Syria’s elite Unit 450 “has been moving stocks of poison gases and munitions to as many as 50 sites to make them harder for the U.S. to track.” This not only serves to hide
With the emphasis on a U.S. strike dissipating in the wake of Russia’s actions on Syria’s behalf, is it now possible that Bashar al-Assad will create “linkage” between Syria and Israel and emerge from the last two weeks stronger than
The revolving door between the field of journalism and the Obama administration spins again as Richard Stengel, Time Magazine’s managing editor, quits his journalism career to join Obama’s Department of State. If he is confirmed by the Senate, Stengel will
Wall Street Journal: Congress’s investigation into the IRS targeting of conservatives has been continuing out of the Syria headlines, and it’s turning up news. Emails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee between former Director of Exempt Organizations Lois
A Wall Street Journal editorial on Thursday observed that Democrats are a bit touchy these days. Apparently, questions about the $67 million spent on ObamaCare “navigators” are a no-no. The “navigators” are non-government groups, like Planned Parenthood and Migrant Health Promotion,
Big Labor is reportedly building a huge campaign war chest which it says will help “build a firewall” around Senate Democrats who are believed to be vulnerable in the 2014 midterm elections. According to Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner,
Jen Rubin points out that Obama’s decision to go to Congress about Syria was made Friday afternoon after a long walk with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough: He went with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough, on a
This week, one is again reminded that America would be a better place if it its citizens assimilated into the melting pot as seamlessly as college football fans embrace their traditions. Technology, multiculturalism, and the breakdown of families and civic
America’s third largest health insurer, Aetna Inc., has announced it will not sell insurance on New York’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, the fifth state the company has pulled out of in the last few weeks. The other states Aetna has
WSJ: The National Football League and 4,500 former players suing the league over concussion-related issues reached an agreement on a settlement Thursday. The agreement, which came as a surprise, calls for the league to pay $765 million for medical benefits
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released soon after the George Zimmerman verdict showed that while a majority of Americans feel that their fellow citizens are judged by their character, black Americans felt strongly that race was a decisive factor.
While over 100,000 people were expected to show up at today’s ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, late estimates put the crowd numbers at 20,000. Mike Levine of ABC News reported
The terrorists who helped execute the Benghazi attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans are now training Syrian Islamist rebel groups. Veteran intelligence reporter Bill Gertz says earlier this month U.S. intelligence agencies uncovered new evidence that the
Last week, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, fresh off its controversial decision to sue the state of Texas of its voter identification law, sued the state of Louisiana to block its school voucher program largely designed to help minority children.
The Obama administration has reacted to Syria’s announcement that it would accept a UN investigation of alleged chemical weapons attacks by rejecting the inspections, saying that they are too little, too late. It is a striking gesture of defiance from
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood finds itself tested after security forces arrested leader Mohammed Badie Tuesday and aired a video of him under guard. According to The Wall Street Journal, “Badie, along with five other prominent leaders of the Brotherhood, have been
Federal agents on Wednesday arrested dozens of people in Puerto Rico in what may be one of the biggest disability scam busts ever. The Puerto Rico U.S. Attorney’s Office says three doctors–Wildo Vargas, Rafael Miguez Balseiro, and Erica Rivera Castro–allegedly
Sarah Palin tells the truth, and the truth is setting wild-eyed leftists like Noam Chomsky and Howard Dean free–to agree with her about Barack Obama. Chomsky, the hard-left MIT linguistics legend, told Democracy Now: I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when
Suddenly, some of the “neoconservatives” who support the cause of democracy in Egypt and the Middle East generally are suggesting that it might be better for the U.S. to support the Egyptian military, though it came to power through a
Update: Folkenflik has responded on Twitter that his interview about Knell’s departure on Monday’s edition of All Things Considered (versus his story on Tuesday’s edition of Morning Edition) did mention the O’Keefe sting (though did not credit O’Keefe by name): Makes
More than half of all homes sold last year and so far this year have been “all-cash” purchases. The Wall Street Journal reports that an analysis by economists at Goldman Sachs estimates that though 20% homes sold before the housing crash
Two reporters are dead after the Egyptian military began a violent crack-down on protestors this morning in Cairo. XPress, a United Arab Emirates newspaper, reported via Twitter that one of its journalists, Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, had been shot dead: #XPRESS
The Sacramento Bee recently published a long discussion on the “hopes” that gays have that their churches will sanction gay wedding ceremonies. It is a piece filled with all sorts of arguments in favor of churches “changing” on the issue.
According to the Wall Street Journal, traffic in China is now approaching the levels in Los Angeles. “China has about 200 cars, as many as in Los Angeles, which has some of the worst traffic in the U.S., according to
Last year I was told, “You need a party bus to get people to the School Choice rally.” My response was, “Please tell me you are not talking about a bus with a pole in it.” Now people want dancers,
Jim Messina likes to talk about punching people. In August 2009, while serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama at the White House, he told Democrats to “punch back twice as hard” if they were “hit” by
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted one the nation’s 143 oil refineries an exemption from costly ethanol blending requirements but refuses to say which one or why citing “confidentiality restrictions,” reports the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel. Page 11
The Wall Street Journal reports that food stamp-usage is on the rise and so are the number of people on the food stamp rolls. Compared to the previous May, food stamp-use jumped 2% this year, and the number of people
While Obama sees an Al Qaeda “on the way to defeat,” former FBI agent and interrogator Ali Soufan sees an Al Qaeda that has been rebuilt. According to Soufan, the terror group was able to rebuild itself because of the
So what made President Barack Obama suddenly talk about housing reform this week? After literally years of ignoring the housing mess and allowing some of the worst perpetrators of securities fraud walk away scot-free, Obama is now starting to talk
In a speech on homeownership in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said House Republicans should pass comprehensive immigration reform in order to boost America’s home prices. “When more people buy homes, and play by the rules, home values
Despite President Barack Obama’s repeated claims that al Qaeda was supposedly “on the run,” it appears the terror group is now running the show in Yemen and elsewhere. The Wall Street Journal reports the U.S. State Department issued an August 6
On August 5 the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) carried a column suggesting that influences other than Islamism may have impacted the thinking of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Among these influences were magazines the Boston bomber was able to read
Television has been a mainstay of American life since the late 1950s, but nothing lasts forever and one CEO of a major cable company is hinting that the end of TV could come sooner than we think. In a revealing
Director Masha Savitz’s new film reveals a side of China many of her peers ignore in their push to crack that country’s lucrative film market. Red Reign explores how Chinese officials persecute members of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement which
American and European officials believe Iran may be switching to a different technology for nuclear weapons development and “could be producing weapons-grade plutonium by next summer.” According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States and other Western governments have been
