Ending the ‘special relationship’
Incredible is the word for the news that the Obama administration has warned Britain against betting on American backing if it withdraws from the European Union. In all of President Obama’s leftism,...
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‘I hate my policies’
Attorney General Eric Holder says (or had his flunkies say) he only understood the severity of his own actions against Fox News reporter James Rosen when he was sitting at his breakfast table reading...
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Sure, we’d like the terror war to end
“This war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.”— President Obama at National Defense University, May 23, 2013 They say all is fair in love and war...
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Worse than A’jad
Iranians may soon regard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eight-year presidency as “the good old days” — for the man tipped to be imposed as the next president of the Islamic Republic has unveiled a program that...
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How immigration helps the eldery
Here’s a thought: If Medicare pays your medical bills, thank an immigrant for making it possible. For all the loose talk about how immigrants burden our social welfare system, it turns out that when...
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The Lois Lerner state
It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration — the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless...
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Deep fiscal denial
In September 2008, Lehman Bros. collapsed, sending the world into economic meltdown and calling time on a quarter-century-long Wall Street boom. But the crash of New York City’s gravy train hardly...
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Gov. Cuomo’s big abortion-bill lie
Gov. Cuomo is trying to sell New Yorkers a bill of goods about his abortion legislation — claiming it would just codify federal law. That’s a lie. The governor and his allies say the bill would merely...
View ArticleObamaCare: Talk to your doctor now
Have you had “the conversation” with your doctor yet? I don’t mean the conversation you used to have with your pre-pubescent kids before the Internet and Facebook took over sex education; I mean the...
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Peacekeepers in flight
At 6 a.m. last Thursday, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger called UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to report his government’s decision to pull out its troops from the Golan Heights, where...
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‘Debauchery’ you pay for
It’s going to be quite something to see what the taxpayers of New York are going to make of the spectacle opening today at the Park Avenue Armory. It’s a work called “WS” by the artist Paul McCarthy,...
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Families & America 3.0
The Fourth of July weekend is always an occasion to think about what the United States of America has been, is and will be. A good way to reflect on that is to pick up a copy of “America 3.0” by James...
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The rapid collapse of ObamaCare
Washington is riven by conflict and deep-seated division. It is rare indeed that both sides can agree on anything consequential. Therefore it is incredibly heartening that there is now bipartisan...
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Mad man
The simply isn’t enough lipstick for this pig, but the Obama administration is bound and determined to try. Even as the Obama administration was coming to the belated realization that ObamaCare’s...
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Our forgotten historia
Having passed the Senate, immigration reform appears stalled in the House. One of the objections is that naturalizing a number of people from Mexico and Latin America will somehow change the character...
View ArticleLost decade of jobs
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 195,000 jobs were added last month — significantly better than the consensus forecast of economists (165,000). While the news isn’t bad, we shouldn’t be...
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Military gets what it wants in Egypt
Looks like a duck and walks like a duck; so it must be a duck! This is what comes to mind when one watches army-controlled television channels in Egypt these days. Generals, some wearing more medals...
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Jenny from the Bloc
Blog: Movies You would think the star of “Gigli” would be careful to have her name associated with any more human-rights abuses, but you would be wrong. After Jennifer Lopez flew to Turkmenistan to do...
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Lost cities
Over the past few months, a spate of reports has emerged about the discoveries of several so-called lost cities — most notably Ciudad Blanca in Honduras, Heracleion off the coast of Egypt and Chactun...
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