Here’s to hoping you were as grateful on Christmas as this kid was. Now that’s one eight year-old I won’t mind playing with on Xbox Live, he’s earned it.
A pigeon has defecated on a Google Street view camera. Photographs taken for Google's Street View service showed the pigeon defecting on the screen of the Street view car in Los Angeles. It is the latest mishap to hit the Street View service, which launched its British version earlier this year.
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck 270 km (168 miles) north northwest of Saumlaki in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A Gallup poll of Americans' attitudes towards religion finds significant recent increases in those responding either that they have no religious preference, that religion is not very important in their lives, or that they believe religion "is largely old-fashioned or out of date." In particular, only 78% of Americans now identify as Christian. […]
Is there any degree of radicalism that disqualifies someone from holding a sensitive government post in the UK? Probably. But it would be difficult to tell based on two recent stories. First, Treasury official Azad Ali has begun advising the Crown
Having discussed the inept reaction of government to the massacre carried out by Islamic radical Nidal Malik Hasan, we now compile insightful commentary on the response of American Muslims and those who claim to represent them: Steven Emerson of the
Countries from Italy to Sweden are debating the right of women to wear the niqab. Canada is the latest country to enter the fray, with the Muslim Canadian Congress desiring to ban it. Is such a ban possible in the U.S., where its prevalence is evident in
Major Nidal Malik Hasan's Islamist rampage at Fort Hood shocked the country, but the feckless responses from various levels of government will surprise no one. Consider these four cases of politically correct incompetence in action: DHS chief Janet
Islamists would not be Islamists without demanding that Muslims live by separate rules and that the rest of us modify our behavior to suit them. Male-female interactions form a common battleground in this respect, with even neighborly hellos to Muslim
It’s time to come back…. Over the next few weeks I plan on slowly ramping up my new site, The New School Republican…. look forward to seeing you there…. Ray PS..Headquarters (I.E my kitchen table) has moved from downtown Chicago to South Florida… Posted in obama
I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has spent time here at Chicagoans Against Obama. I want to let you know how much your feedback and participation has meant to me. When I started this site several months ago, I did so not knowing that this would turn into what it is today….truthfully, [...]
In an exclusive postmortem interview with Chicagoans Against Obama… Tom Bradley revealed to us that after several months of nonstop media speculation that we would see the Bradley effect adversely impact Barack Obama’s election night numbers…. he couldn’t help but feel disappointed that there was no such effect on the final election n […]
These two guys, along with the rest of the main stream media, will be cheering on an Obama victory all day long…..don’t listen to them According to the McCain Campaign Memo (Full memo Here) McCAIN CAMPAIGN MEMO: READING THE EXIT POLLS BILL McINTURFF, INTERNAL POLLSTER Mon Nov 03 2008 16:53:14 ET As we have seen in previous election cycles, the [. […]
Unreal… Go to CNN.COM….nothing but Obama is winning in a landslide….Sarah Palin got prank called On MSNBC.COM…..they are highlighting a breaking story about ” free sex toys for voting”…but nothing on Obama’s coal comments…. By judging from the response (Here) of the President of The Ohio Coal Association […]
By Jim HarperAlong with learning the factual details, it remains to be seen whether the effort by a Nigerian traveler to ignite some type of explosive on a U.S.-bound flight was an “attempted act of terrorism”—as it has been characterized by the White House—or a successful act of terrorism. Though it certainly helps, terrorism doesn […]
By Daniel J. MitchellEven though politicians already have flushed $400 billion down the rathole, the Obama Administration has announced that it will now give unlimited amounts of our money to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-created mortgage companies. While President Obama should be castigated for this decision, let’s not forget […]
By Daniel J. MitchellHere are a few stories to bring holiday cheer for taxpayers. First, we have an Associated Press report that several hundred thousand federal bureaucrats have serious tax delinquencies. The Department of Housing and Urban Development always ranks high on the list of government entities that should be abolished, so it’s interesting t […]
By Tad DeHavenThe White House is hinting that its fiscal year 2011 budget due out in February will be “austere.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn’t provide any specifics but recently said that “it will not look as it has in the past.” Well that’s a relief because the FY2010 appropriations process finally wrapped up and [...]
By David BoazToday’s question at “Politico Arena“: “Is the filibuster good or bad for America?” My response: The United States is a republic, not a majoritarian democracy. The Founders were rightly afraid of majoritarian tyranny, and they wrote a Constitution designed to thwart it. Everything about the Constitution — enumerated powers, separation […]
While the Obama administration and congressional leaders may justify renewed engagement with Syria with their desire to jumpstart the Middle East peace process, they ignore the very issue that lies at the heart of the Syrian threat to U.S. national
Haaretz reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Asharq Al-Awsat, "I negotiated with [Olmert] and felt we could have reached an agreement." Abbas said a meeting had been scheduled to take place between negotiators Shalom Turgeman and Saeb
Netanyahu's New Agreement with MitchellBY STEVEN J. ROSEN Foreign Policy DECEMBER 18, 2009 For a year or two at an early stage in his career, I commuted to and from our adjacent offices each morning and evening with Martin Indyk, later a top
For a year or two at an early stage in his career, I commuted to and from our adjacent offices each morning and evening with Martin Indyk, later a top peace-process official of the Clinton administration at the Camp David negotiations and now vice
The 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel took not only outside observers by surprise, but also Israel and the government of Lebanon. A day after an operation in which Hezbollah killed five Israeli soldiers and captured two others, the Israel Defense
Invited recently by the newly formed Pechter Middle East Polls to ask three questions of 1,000 representative Egyptians and 1,000 urban Saudis, the Middle East Forum focused on Iran and Israel, the countries that most polarize the region. The results are
Obama's Nobel "lecture" offers critics the usual cornucopia of opportunities for criticism but I shall focus on just two statements: "I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars." And here I thought there were three wars. Obama's two
[JP title: "Resistance to Islamization"] What importance has the recent Swiss referendum to ban the building of minarets (spires next to mosques from which the call to prayer is issued)? Some may see the 57.5 to 42.5 percent decision endorsing a
Tarek Mehanna, 27, was arrested on Oct. 21, 2009, in Sudbury, Massachusetts and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. He allegedly planned to launch terrorist attacks both inside and outside the United States, specifically
Richard T. Antoun, 77, a professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University, was murdered in his office yesterday, stabbed four times with a 6-inch kitchen knife. This atrocity recalls that, in addition to the figurative brickbats that go with
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