When a suicide bomber struck a convoy in Afghanistan, a routine Marine patrol turned into a harrowing firefight. Michael M. Phillips with an eyewitness account of bravery and tragedy in the confusion of war.
A secretive network of left-wing billionaires and their political operatives descended on the luxurious Biltmore Hotel in Miami over the weekend to discuss strategy for the coming elections Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SE …
President Barack Obama’s decision in February 2011 to hold the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina looked like a bold move to reclaim a state he’d won in 2008. Today, it’s more like an awkward fit. The state’s Democratic Party is mired in a …
My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t—it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford). Here ar …
Israel may seem like Goliath vis-à-vis the Palestinians, but in a regional context it is David. Gaza is host to 10,000 rockets, many of which can hit Tel Aviv, and Hezbollah in Lebanon has 50,000 missiles that place all of Israel within range. Throughout the Middle East, …
Buffett is not the only famous presidential supporter to fall from business grace. Television titan Oprah Winfrey appears to have lost the golden touch that helped make her the richest self-made women in America and propelled Barack Obama from up-and-coming Illinois senator to …
A former White House Iran adviser said Monday that for Tehran to prove its seriousness in new talks over its nuclear program, it must take a step that “stops the clock” on its uranium enrichment.
Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential electi …
Former WSJ editor Naomi Schaefer Riley axed by Chronicle of Higher Education for criticizing black studies programs at U.S. colleges
France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today.
It's always interesting when an accepted fact becomes acknowledged. "Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam" is an example, Islamist Watch research fellow David Rusin writes this week at PJ Media. Those who follow the BBC have known for years that it treats Islam with greater de …
In a revealing new book, The Amateur, author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that …
Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5.
The House on Wednesday approved legislation aimed at reaffirming the U.S. commitment to Israel's security, in a unanimous vote that left no doubt where members of both parties stand on the issue.Members approved the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, H.R. 413 …
The gang also included Mohammed Sajid, 35, Adil Khan, 42, Abdul Quayyum, 43, Mohammed Amin, 44, all but one of whom are taxi drivers of Pakistani origin, and Hamid Safi, an Afghan asylum seeker. They were convicted of charges involving five gir …
There are many problems with the cycle of violence frame, not the least of which is that it does not actually describe the situation. Scholars who carefully tracked violence during the Second Intifada, for example, “found little evidence to suggest there is a cycle of vio …
...what exactly does this show about President Obama? Well, for one, it shows he is one hell of a political acrobat. More importantly, it shows us that he will do or say anything to win re-election. Same-sex marriage has fervent supporters and fervent detracto …
Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders defended his views about Islam in an intense and extensive interview with The Daily Caller. “Because I spoke out against the ideology called Islam already for almost 10 years now, I was marked for death,” Wilders, who …
For Benny Landa, it wasn’t enough that his Indigo digital commercial printers revolutionized the industry – making it possible to digitally print everything from photo albums to wine-bottle labels — after Indigo’s 2002 acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. &nbs …
After a top Hamas commander was murdered in his luxury hotel room, Dubai police used surveillance camera footage to "solve" the crime and place the blame for the 2010 assassination on a multi-member Mossad hit squad. Now an Israeli director has reimagined the real-life thrille …
The Tea Party, an unsteady movement that was beginning to resemble a wayward ship in 2012, found its north star in Indiana on Tuesday night. State Treasurer Richard Mourdock defeated six-term Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, a victory owing to the incumbent's inep …
So, according to the Times, the French Socialist is "closely aligned with," "naturally more palatable to," and "likely to hew closer to" the Obama administration on economic issues. Is, therefore, Barack Obama (more or less) a socialist? Quod erat demonstrandum.
Cheryl Bormann, counsel for defendant Walid bin Attash, attended the arraignment Saturday dressed in a hijab, apparently because her client insisted on it. She further requested that the court order other women to follow that example so that the defendants do …
Team Obama includes a self-identified “Muslim Palestinian-American” campaign fundraiser who has a history of blasting Israel in highly charged letters and newspaper articles about the Middle East conflict. Hala Hijazi, a Jordanian native and current San Francisco cit …
The Greater Middle East is in transition. We don’t know where it’s going. We need to pay close attention to the intellectual whirlpools that are developing throughout the region as democratic, Islamic, and other convulsive ideas collide. It’s way too soon to b …
When a suicide bomber struck a convoy in Afghanistan, a routine Marine patrol turned into a harrowing firefight. Michael M. Phillips with an eyewitness account of bravery and tragedy in the confusion of war.
Can the Liberals whip up enough faux outrage to pull Barack over the finish line? Here’s the latest farce: Jay Carney struggles after being hammered on hypocrisy of Obama attacking Romney’s Private Equity Work and attends fundraiser at Private Equity Exec’s home …
My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t—it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford). Here ar …
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hold assets worth between nearly $2.6 million and nearly $8.3 million, according to financial disclosure reports released Tuesday by the White House.
+ Justice has waited long enough. It’s time to pull the trigger on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for withholding documents from Congress in the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. Allowing further delay would only confirm what man …
Strange your suggestion of a freudian slip by Obama re: Muslim faith....In the confort of your home/desk, wherever w/o stress how could you type/say: 'inot' instead of in to?....what kind of slip was that...
ridiculous.
tj— tjay169
DBE928 is a member of the following groups:
Latest Comments
Liberal Outrage du Jour: Private Equity
Obama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies
Obama’s Contempt for the Voters
Egypt’s Brotherhood mobile FGM convoys condemned by women’s group - Bikya Masr
EDITORIAL: Hold Holder in contempt - Washington Times
Genealogist for Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Cherokee claim goes silent, source document shown false
Bill Clinton calls Obama an Amateur
President Obama's former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity -
Media Psychology 101 - What's Wrong With This Metaphor? Israel and the Cycle of Violence
Underwear bomb plot: British and US intelligence rattled over leaks