The two men who opened fire on a security guard at an anti-Muslim event in Garland, Texas, Sunday were Islamic terrorist wannabes, and one, Elton Simpson, had been in the FBI’s crosshairs for nearly eight years. Simpson, 30, known to friends as Ibrahim, and his roommate, Nadir Soofi, 24, were gunned down by police after shooting a security guard in […]

With free scholarships, affirmative action free jobs over more qualified candidates, black colleges (could you imagine the outcry if there was a white college?), tax breaks to start new businesses, and so many other privileges, it’s hard to hear the very racist term ‘white privilege’ putting the blame only on the lowest crime, lowest rape, lowest theft group of people […]

The health law was supposed to reduce pressure on emergency care facilities. It hasn’t. govIn September, 2009, President Obama gave a prime time speech to the joint Congress making the case for the health care law that would come to be known as Obamacare. Much of the speech was devoted to explaining and justifying the law’s major components. Subsidies, he […]

In January, Kurdish troops launched a major offensive that broke Islamic State’s lines in northern Iraq. In response, the jihadist group sent 14 giant tanker trucks loaded with explosives and bolted-on armor to launch a counter-attack. Kurdish fighters have faced terrifying attacks like that before — though not on this scale. Fortunately, before any of the trucks made it to the Kurdish […]

A Texas traffic cop saved untold lives Sunday night when he took down two heavily armed men bent on storming a building where a ‘Draw the Prophet’ Muhammad contest was taking place, killing both before they could make their way inside. The police officer, who has not been identified by Garland Police Department officials, “probably saved lives,” said police spokesman […]

Two Muslim gunmen ‘carrying explosives’ attack anti-Islam art contest in Texas: Suspects dead and security guard wounded. Two armed men were killed after opening fire on a security guard outside an exhibit of artistic depictions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in suburban Dallas Sunday evening. The City of Garland said in a statement posted on its Facebook page that the […]

Anti-Semitic violence continues to spike in France as two Parisian Jews beaten in broad daylight on Paris street with many Jewish stores. In the latest violent anti-Semitic incident in France, two Jewish residents of Paris last Friday were assaulted on a street in the city in the early afternoon by a gang of no less than 40 people, according to JSS […]

On the educational benefits of the campus boycott Israel movement The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is a worldwide effort to turn Israel into a pariah state. I have written about it, and its foothold on American college campuses, here. South Africa has been a moral center of the movement. The BDS campaign is modeled on the campaign to end […]

Israeli soldiers overpowered two Palestinian Authority terrorists who tried to stab them to death Sunday night near the community of Yakir in northeastern Samaria. Soldiers disabled one of the terrorists and later caught the second man after he escaped. The terrorists are being questioned, and it is not yet known if they were acting on their own or were linked […]

Jewish immigration into Israel has surged more than 40% this year, but it is Ukrainians and Russians who are responsible for the rise, not western Europeans fleeing after the Paris attacks. Between January and March, 6,499 Jews arrived in Israel, the vast majority from Europe. But the figures produced in an interim report by the Jewish Agency for Israel, an […]

The movement among parents to refuse to allow their children to take Common Core-aligned standardized tests has been growing in a number of states, as recent Answer Sheet posts have chronicled (here and here, for example). As opt-out numbers have grown, so too has reaction from officials who argue that frequent testing is valuable and that school districts could loss […]

Faced with criticism from lawmakers and civil rights groups, the U.S. Department of Justice has begun a review of the secretive use of cellphone surveillance technology that mimics cellphone towers, and will get more open on its use, according to a newspaper report. The cell-site simulators, also referred to by other names such as “IMSI catchers” or Stingrays, operate by […]

Last October, in response to the outrage provoked by “structuring” cases in which the government took people’s money because their bank deposits were too small, the IRS said it would no longer do that unless there was evidence that the money came from an illegal source. In March the Justice Department announced a similar policy for seizures based on structuring, which […]

Senior cleric says Kerry told Zarif he ‘wished US had leader like Iran’s supreme leader,’ adding ‘US, Israel never were so weak.’ A senior Iranian cleric claims that US Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif that he “wished the US had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in comments made during the negotiations […]

UPDATE, 11:37 PM:  Mayor Bill de Blasio said that shooting the NYPD plainclothes officer was “unconscionable” at a hospital presser. “It is a painful for all of us … for all members of the #NYPD” — @BilldeBlasio — Azi (@Azi) May 3, 2015 “this was an unconscionable act of violence … against the values we hold dear” — @BilldeBlasio re: […]

The charges in the Freddie Gray’s death have catapulted six police officers with a mix of experience patrolling Baltimore’s hard streets from obscurity to notoriety. Prosecutors charged the officers with a litany of offenses Friday, including murder, involuntary manslaughter, assault and false imprisonment. They say Gray suffered a severe neck injury in the custody of the six cops and was […]

They betrayed their voters, country, friends, and the unborn. Last night, the U.S. House passed a Resolution (H. J. Res 43) to disapprove of a law passed by the District of Columbia that seeks to do two things: •    Force pro-life and religious organizations to pay for abortion coverage for their employees •    Force these same organizations to employ individuals […]

“Including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar” Leading Persian Gulf states want major new weapons systems and security guarantees from the White House in exchange for backing a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to U.S. and Arab officials. The leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, plan to use […]

Remember last year’s New York Times warning about the end of snow? Then we were told that 2014 was the hottest year on record. Well, goodbye to all that and hello to snow in May! In May? Yes, in May. The Associated Press is reporting that many New England snow resorts are still open…in May. Despite all the dire warnings […]

“Less than 10 percent are really interested in marriage” The only other member of the Supreme Court who might surprise some with his decision is Chief Justice John Roberts. On Wednesday, the New York Times suggested that Roberts may vote to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide because of a possible gender discrimination issue. “I’m not sure it’s necessary to get into sexual orientation […]

WASHINGTON – A leading figure in the fight against China’s mass fetal genocide says China doesn’t need its deadly one-child policy anymore.  In fact, the communist superpower now faces a population shortage, not a population excess. Human rights activist Reggie Littlejohn, head of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, accuses the Chinese Communist Party of using the outdated policy to terrorize the […]

When last we left our good friends of the New Black Panther Party, they were in Ferguson, MO attempting to kill the prosecutor in the Michael Brown case and trying to blow up the Gateway Arch. The FBI stopped those plots in their tracks, and the NBPP disappeared from the media for a few months. You just knew they couldn’t keep […]

Baltimore’s top prosecutor announced criminal charges Friday against all six officers suspended after a man suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody, saying “no one is above the law.” “Mr. Gray’s death was a homicide,” State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby declared. His arrest was illegal and his treatment in custody amounted to murder and manslaughter, she said. The announcement came […]

In the run-up to next week’s UK general election Gulzabeen Afsar, a Conservative Party candidate in the simultaneous local council election in Derby, wrote on her Facebook page about the Labor Party leader Ed Miliband: “Never ever will I drop that low and support the Al Yahud!” Al Yahud is Arabic for “the Jew.” Ms. Afsar was promptly suspended by […]

Nearly 100 Baltimore cops have been injured in the riots that began Monday following the funeral of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died of a spinal injury in police custody. According to NBC News, Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said at a Thursday press conference that 98 officers were injured overall. Of those, 43 required emergency medical treatment at a […]

Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea left earlier this week on a nine-day tour through Africa with a plane-full of family foundation donors and Hillary Clinton supporters in tow, adding jet fuel to accusations that contributors are getting rewarded — and courted for even more money. Those on the four-country tour are expected to observe foreign projects the Clinton […]

Just when you think you’ve heard it all from the Rev. Al Sharpton, who combines his liberal activism with hosting the weekday PoliticsNation program afternoons on the MSNBC cable channel, he comes up with another absurd demand that leaves people of all races shaking their heads in disbelief. His latest outrageous comment came on Thursday, when Sharpton met with Stephanie […]

Witnesses and police say a mob of 60 black teens took to the streets of Charleston, South Carolina, to unleash attacks on unsuspecting drivers and pedestrians, all but one of whom were white. Still, police aren’t concluding the attacks were racially motivated or that they came in angry response to the Baltimore-rooted protests over Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man […]

He assures that he is not a bird of evil omen, that he just wants to “tell the truth”. Christian Estrosi, the UMP (center-right) Member of Parliament and Mayor of Nice, head of the regional party branch in the next elections, has delivered a pessimistic analysis of the national security situation during an interview this Sunday with France 3 (State […]

Medical examiner ‘found Freddie Gray’s catastrophic head injury was consistent with bolt in the back door of the police van’ Sources told a Baltimore television station that the medical examiner found Freddie Gray died as a result of slamming his head against the inside of a police van, breaking his neck. The local ABC affiliate WJLA reported sources said the […]

It doesn’t matter that Freddie Gray deliberately may have been trying to injure himself, banging about in a van.  It doesn’t matter because the truth doesn’t matter to those rioting in the streets.  It doesn’t matter because the violent protests in Baltimore have zippo to do with Gray’s death but everything to do with the anarchy that seeks to replace […]

Drip, drip, drip.  Last week, we learned that the Clinton Foundation had failed to report tens of millions of dollars in foreign government donations in their tax filings, a revelation that has forced them to go back and amend at least five years’ worth of documents. In three of those years — all during Hillary Clinton’s tenure at State — the […]

New photos purport to show ISIS training at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, in what may be yet another sign of the black-clad jihadist army’s expanding reach. The pictures, obtained by a Pakistani journalist earlier this month and published by the military blog The Long War Journal, show apparent ISIS radicals training, marching in formation and […]

Boise mayor lays out welcome mat: ‘Diversity isn’t a buzz word. It’s our birthright’ The multicultural transformation of Idaho will continue with a planned infusion of hundreds of refugees from Muslim countries over the next one to three years. A local newspaper in Twin Falls reported that city will receive 300 mostly Syrian refugees over the next fiscal year starting […]

Republican Rep. Mo Brooks on Thursday opposed a Democratic amendment to a $612 billion defense spending bill approved by a House committee that would allow illegal immigrants to serve in the U.S. armed forces because it would replace Americans who are being downsized. “It makes no sense to me that, at the same time the Army is downsizing and issuing […]

The toothless United Nations, which loves to throw its weight around whenever the West does not kowtow to the numerous Islamic states that dominate its proceedings, issued a threat to Australia, giving the country 180 days to provide an “effective and enforceable remedy” for expelling an Iranian sheikh in 2010, accusing him of being a threat to national security. On […]

If there is a single, unifying theme to draw from the spate of negative stories that have dogged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign so far, it is that the Clintons do not care for transparency. That’s the main thing we learned from the story that Hillary Clinton, while serving as C-SPANSecretary of State, relied exclusively on a privately run nongovernmental email […]

On Tuesday evening, the undergraduate student government at UCLA unanimously voted for the Election Board to investigate charges that the LET’S ACT! Slate used illegal fundraising tactics in numerous campaigns, according to the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper. Documents were released on Monday that seemed to indicate that Let’s Act, a group closely allied with the anti-Israel hate group Students […]

Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died of a spinal cord injury sustained while in Baltimore police custody, was banging against the walls of the police van he was being held in, according to testimony from another prisoner in the van, The Washington Post reported Wednesday night. The prisoner, who was the only other prisoner in the van, was […]

John Kerry has a disturbing habit of kissing up to foreign despots, particularly the Middle Eastern variety. Back in 2011, when the Syrian civil war was still just mass demonstrations, he went on record praising Basham al-Assad. Then, there was the time earlier this year he extended an over the top message of condolences to the Iranian Supreme Leader Hassan […]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared Wednesday that 11 million immigrants in the country illegally should have an opportunity to stay, wading yet again into his party’s contentious immigrant debate. In tone and substance, Bush stands out among the many Republicans lining up for the GOP’s next presidential primary, where conservatives who oppose an immigration overhaul often hold outsized influence. […]

Four people were shot Tuesday night, and five more Wednesday. At least two were fatal. Residents were milling around Wednesday morning along a Northwest Baltimore shopping strip where two people were shot the night before, including a 42-year-old man who died. An apparent blood trail dotted the sidewalk along a strip of mostly shuttered businesses. Joseph Patrick took down crime-scene […]

On Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz minced no words, accusing President Obama of stoking racial tensions during his tenure. Speaking at a U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce forum, Cruz asserted,  “President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader. He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.” He added, “He has not used his role […]

In the Wednesday edition of bias by omission, five of the English and Spanish network evening newscasts again refused to report on a troubling sign for the U.S. economy while all six omitted any mention of a new development in the IRS scandal. After completely ignoring the story all together Wednesday morning, the CBS Evening News stepped up to mention […]

Fight over federalized testing escalates. Parents in South Carolina who are part of a nationwide revolt against Common Core say they are being threatened with “criminal accountability” if they prevent their children from taking the tests required by the controversial educational-standards program. Tamra Hood, a member of South Carolina Parents Involved in Education, said the state Education Department’s Chief Operating […]

So, while some might scoff at Sen. Bernie Sander’s (I-VT) self-described “democratic socialism and think it won’t resonate with the electorate, let’s not forget the Reason-Rupe poll that showed just as many Democrats who viewed capitalism favorably, viewed socialism with the same regard. Philip Bump at the Washington Post noted this flashback today, but also included that self-avowed socialists have done miserably in national […]

As National Guard troops responded to rioting in Baltimore, President Barack Obama said Tuesday there have been too many troubling police interactions with black citizens across America in what he called “a slow-rolling crisis.” But he said there was no excuse for rioters to engage in senseless violence. Obama said those in Baltimore who stole from businesses and burned buildings […]

The United States Senate on Tuesday rejected legislation that would require that any nuclear agreement with Iran be approved by Congress, hours after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid warned Republicans not to use the bill as a “platform for their political ambitions.” According to Reuters, the Senate voted 57-39 to reject the measure, which Republican Senator Ron Johnson offered as […]

It’s an Obama world. The Obama State Department today refused to condemn the seizure of a Marshall Islands ship by the Iranian regime. Jeff Rathke from the State Department briefing refused to condemn the actions: Reporter: What do you consider the Iranian act? Is it a — an act of piracy, act of violence? Rathke: Again, I’m — this I […]

I’m honestly surprised it took 72 hours for the narrative to play out this way. That seems like an inordinantly long time for this particular President to take to blame the opposing party – which has been doing an excellent job, of late, proving that it was Harry Reid who was the cornerstone of the do-nothing Congress – for the […]