For The New York Times, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal penned an apologia for the progressive media’s disinterest in covering the abortion trial of Kermit Gosnell and essentially claimed that the trial is a meaningless incident when all things are
On Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Jason Reyes reported a wide disparity between the number of people known dead in West, Texas, and the number who remain missing. While only twelve deaths were confirmed by Reyes in the
At two different points during the tense weeks of the gun control debate, the Wall Street Journal missed the value of the gun control filibuster initiated by Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Mike Lee (R-UT). For example,
Four senior U.S. intelligence officials say there are “increasing suspicions” the Assad regime has used “small amounts of chemical weapons” during recent fighting. Their suspicions are shared by British officials who say that “witness accounts and preliminary testing” show that
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama paid an effective tax rate of just 18.4% in 2012 federal income tax. The figures, released by the White House, come as Obama included in his recently released budget the so-called “Buffett
As tax day approaches and American’s struggle to pay their growing “total tax burden” the hard-earned taxpayer dollar is the currency of cronies. Taxpayer funded support of cronies in Washington DC is breaking America’s piggy bank. Now visas may also be
Though the proposed Toomey-Manchin gun control legislation states that it hopes to “protect Second Amendment rights” while it “prevents individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm” from doing so, the bill could actually deter mentally ill people from
In 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California vetoed a measure that would have stocked the state’s prisons with condoms for inmate use. Now, the measure is back. A bill making its way through the Assembly would distribute condoms throughout the
An assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) claims that North Korea “may have developed a nuclear device small enough to mount on a ballistic missile.” The DIA, a U.S. military intelligence agency, delivered its findings during an April 11
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds Obama’s job approval continuing to slip in the months after his successful reelection. Today, only 47% of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing, while 48% disapprove. It is the first time
The Senate is working on a three-step immigration proposal that will enable illegal immigrants in the country to apply for provisional legal status and, eventually, green cards only after officials have determined various “border-security” targets have been met, American businesses
J.C. Penney Co. has ousted Ron Johnson after only a 17-month stint as company CEO. The Wall Street Journal reports that the former Apple chief executive’s overhaul of the company’s stores has led to a 25% drop in sales in
After spending a year studying political intelligence firms that gather insider political tips and sell them to investment firms, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a 34-page report that named few names and contained no recommendations for how to crack
Roughly 40% of the 11 million undocumented workers in the United States are foreigners who came legally mostly through visas but have overstayed the length of the visas or overstayed their legal residence here, the Wall Street Journal reported on
After the Associated Press on Tuesday decided to drop the term “illegal immigrant” and expunge it from its style guide (used by nearly every journalist), activists then immediately began to demand other publications follow suit. Jose Antonio Vargas, the illegal immigrant who has gained
On Friday, the Labor Department reported that non-farm payrolls grew by just 88,000 in March, a number far below expectations. Just a few weeks ago, economists predicted a gain of around 200,000 jobs. The unemployment rate is at 7.6%. Average hourly
The trustee for the now-defunct U.S. brokerage firm MF Global, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, issued a 124-page investigatory report blasting former MF Global CEO and Obama bundler Jon Corzine for “negligent conduct,” employing trading strategies with lax oversight, and
One hundred and thirty-nine pages of gun and ammunition control measures have now passed the Connecticut General Assembly–the senate passed the measures at 6:30 p.m. on April 3 and the house passed them at 2:26 a.m. on April 4. These
The United States is preparing to send one of Lockheed Martin’s THAAD missile defense systems to Guam to protect U.S. interests from rocket launches by North Korea. The missile defense system was already scheduled to be deployed to Guam in
Even as the Obama White House prepares for a star-studded White House concert featuring Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, and Justin Timberlake, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that roughly 50 million Americans–one in six–now live below the poverty line.
In what may mark the beginning of a historic shift, Australia appears ready to bypass the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and allow for the direct convertibility of the Australian dollar into the Chinese yuan. “Reserve currency” is
Lowering the bar to participate in these programs is a big part of the problem. Obama did this reversing course on Clinton’s welfare reforms. Many states including Republican-controlled states went along with this. Italicized paragraphs as reported in the Wall
When Rep. Don Young (R-AK) slurred Hispanics in an interview on Thursday by referring to migrant Hispanic workers as “wetbacks,” which is a term as offensive and inappropriate as “beaners,” Republicans condemned his remarks and forced him to apologize. House
On Tuesday, March 26, the Italian Supreme Courtdecided to order a new trial in the case against Amanda Knox, theAmerican exchange student charged with murdering her British roommate inItaly. Knox was convicted of the murder in 2009, but that conviction
In response to Cults and Factions, American Style: Further to the discussion Ace and Jerome were having about factionalism, here’s the latest fundraising missive from Obama operative Jim Messina, chair of the immortal campaign fundraising octopus currently known as “Organizing
