Wax dummy WASHINGTON – In soaring rhetoric, Barack Obama ran through his logic for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, deliberately planting himself on the middle ground between his conservative critics—led by Dick Cheney—and those to the left who accuse the new president of failing to restore American justice for all. Obama slid easily back into [...]
HAWAIIAN GARDENS, Calif. (AP) – A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city’s black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday. Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 [...]
Obama lost. “Deal with it”. Worse, it’s America that stands to lose. We all have to deal with that. Denzel Washington in “Man of Fire”
These are extraordinary times for our country. We are confronting an historic economic crisis. We are fighting two wars. We face a range of challenges that will define the way that Americans will live in the 21st century. There is no shortage of work to be done, or responsibilities to bear. And we have begun [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic: I stopped by to see John McCain this afternoon in his Senate office. I haven’t seen him for several months, and was glad to see that he seemed rested and ready, if not tan. He was in high spirits, and we talked for a while about the Obama Administration’s embrace [...]
CNS News: When asked by CNSNews.com to comment on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Claif.) statement at her press conference last week that the CIA “misleads†Congress “all the time,” two Democratic congressmen briskly walked away declining to answer. One of the two–thinking better of it–quickly returned to say that he believes in the speaker.. A [...]
Computer virus strikes US Marshals, FBI affected WASHINGTON (AP) – Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective measure after being [...]
by John Nolte http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ “The world’s in bad shape, Father. Who wouldn’t welcome a savior right now?†Aliens arrive offering “hope†and telling us not to be afraid of “change.†To grab power they set out to manipulate the media and create a culture of devotion around themselves. But they are not who they appear [...]
William Kristol in The Weekly Standard: I’ve read both speeches. Obama’s is the speech of a young senator who was once a part-time law professor–platitudinous and preachy, vague and pseudo-thoughtful in an abstract kind of way. This sentence was revealing: “On the other hand, I recently opposed the release of certain photographs that were taken [...]
The Australian US President Barack Obama is expected to outline a far-reaching proposal for a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement in Cairo next month that will flesh out the Saudi-initiated Arab Peace Plan proposed in 2002 in a way that makes it more palatable to Jerusalem but also requires the Jewish state to make major concessions. Under [...]
Ayn Rand Center Take a look at this opening to a recent editorial in the most prestigious American newspaper. It epitomizes how far this country has strayed from its founding principles. From a recent New York Times article about the government’s commandeering of Chrysler entitled “So Far So Goodâ€: Less than three weeks after Chrysler [...]
By LEON WATSON http://www.thesun.co.uk/ THE teenage student who sold her virginity for £8,800 could have to hand over half of her earnings to the taxman. Alina Percea German inland revenue investigators are studying reports that Alina Percea, 18, was paid in cash for a weekend of sex with a middle-aged Italian businessman after auctioning her [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The same day Dick Cheney delivered a major speech on the battle against terrorism, a new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Wednesday morning, indicates that a majority of Americans still have an unfavorable opinion of [...]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has approved plans for the United States to help the United Arab Emirates become the first Arab nation with a nuclear power industry that will fuel the country’s growing demand for electricity. Obama’s official backing of the pact, known as a “123 agreement,” is being praised by pro-business groups that [...]
Click Here to watch live. Thank you all very much, and Arthur, thank you for that introduction. It’s good to be back at AEI, where we have many friends. Lynne is one of your longtime scholars, and I’m looking forward to spending more time here myself as a returning trustee. What happened was, they were [...]
