Despite the extensive problems associated with Obamacare — both those known at the time of enactment and those discovered since — one significant perversity that disproportionately affects the poor seems to have gone largely unnoticed. During these busiest two weeks of tax season, when up to 25 percent of returns are filed, our attention turns to compliance. Many Americans are […]

(Reuters) – A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday ruled that California must provide sex reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate, calling denial of the procedure a violation of constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar wrote in his 38-page order that the state was violating the constitutional rights of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who was convicted of second-degree murder in […]

Obama and Kerry want the suicidal Iran deal so bad, they are just giving Iran a nuclear program that will start a Muslim arms race between terrorists. Never make a “deal” with evil. U.S. negotiators reportedly lowered the bar for their own goals during talks over Iran’s nuclear program in response to resistance from the Tehran team. And, on the heels […]

A lawyer who worked in the IRS ethics office was disbarred Thursday by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which concluded she misappropriated a client’s funds from a case she handled in private practice, broke a number of ethics rules and showed “reckless disregard for the truth” in misleading a disbarment panel looking into the matter. The lawyer, Takisha […]

International negotiators on Thursday announced a preliminary agreement on Iran’s nuclear program sketching the framework for a final deal, capping days of exhaustive and tense talks that blew past their original deadline. At a press conference in Switzerland, negotiators unveiled the framework that would guide the next phase of talks. The U.S., Iran and five other world powers plan to […]

The Justice Department has declined to pursue contempt of Congress charges against Lois Lerner for refusing to testify about her role at the IRS in the targeting of conservative groups.  The department announced the decision in a letter Tuesday to House Speaker John Boehner, whose Republican-controlled chamber made the request to prosecute, after holding Lerner in contempt for refusing to […]

Brussels’ metropolitan area is a quarter Muslim. The number of Muslims in Brussels—where roughly half of the number of Muslims in Belgium currently live—has reached 300,000, which means that the self-styled “Capital of Europe” is now one of the most Islamic cities in Europe. In 2013, Muslims made up approximately 26% of the population of metropolitan Brussels, followed by Rotterdam […]

Houthi forces pulled back from positions in central Aden after air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition at dawn on Thursday. A new video posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute shows a group of Houthi children in Yemen calling for the destruction of America and Israel. In a report which aired last week on the Houthi-owned Al-Masirah TV network, […]

The Fatah terror group in its Facebook page Wednesday called on Jews to leave Israel, and “take their dead with them.” The message came on the 26th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in Israeli history, when 37 Israelis were killed and 70 injured in an attack on a bus in 1978. According to Palestinian Media Watch, the post was […]

On Tuesday, Iranian Commander Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of the Basij paramilitary forces was quoted as saying, “The destruction of Israel is non-negotiable and the freedom of Palestine is one of our highest priorities.” On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back, saying, “Yesterday an Iranian general brazenly declared,’Israel’s destruction is non-negotiable.’ But evidently giving Iran’s murderous regime […]

Last month, as well as for the two previous months, the [so-called] “Palestinian Authority” was only able to pay 60% of normal salaries to its workers because of its precarious financial situation. Yet today, they announced that the families of “martyrs” will receive their full stipends this month, just as they did last month. The decision was made by the […]

First Georgia Republicans cut a deal with Democrats. They would kill Georgia’s RFRA legislation in exchange for Democrats supporting roughly a billion dollar tax increase. Not content to deprive [religious Jews and] Christians of religious protection, Georgia Republicans have decided to go after [synagogues,] churches and other non-profits directly. They’re going to do it via “definitions” in a new piece […]

As much of New England continues to dig out from late winter’s massive snowstorms, the climate change lobby is doubling down. When Boston was inundated with snow in January and February, they were quick to blame – what else—global warming? That’s still the favored explanation. Beantown got nearly two more inches on March 20, the first day of spring, and […]

Rights for all? All except Jews and Christians. On Thursday, Indiana Republicans in the state legislature caved to pressure from the left regarding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which simply preserved the right of religious people to act according to their rights in their businesses, so long as those principles did not conflict with a “compelling state interest.” The amendment […]

The attack by homosexual activists and their supporters on the ability of religious people (primarily Christian [and Jewish] because they are afraid members of some other religions might blow them up if pressed) to practice their faith as anything but a cultural artifact on Sundays and a few holidays has reached full-throated roar over laws passed in Indiana and Arkansas. […]

The White House released a list of its high-ranking officials who took part in a video conference with President Obama late Tuesday. Among them appears Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, who apparently has formerly worked for the National Iranian-American Council. The White House brief, which was disclosed by The Daily Beast, listed Sahar Nowrouzzadeh as the National Security Council Director for Iran. Nowrouzzadeh […]

The commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable,” according to an Israel Radio report Tuesday. Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen “will have a fate like the fate of Saddam Hussein.” Naqdi’s comments were made public as […]

[Shlomo: There is no such thing as a “Palestinian”.] Barack Obama wants to fundamentally transform something besides America. As most informed Americans know by now, Barack Obama is a man with grandiose visions of himself. According to Barack Obama, President Obama’s accomplishments have vaulted him into the pantheon of the greats: Lincoln, Roosevelt and Johnson. His nomination victory speech marked […]

The FBI has identified two people who were shot outside the National Security Agency’s headquarters on Monday after allegedly stealing an SUV they were driving from a motel. Kevin Lamont Fleming, 20, and his friend Ricky ‘Maya’ Shawatza Hall, 27, were allegedly picked up in Baltimore by another man on Sunday night before ‘partying’ at nearby lodgings in Howard County. […]

A new study out of Germany casts further doubt on the so-called global warming “consensus” by suggesting the atmosphere may be less sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide emissions than most scientists think. A study by scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology found that man-made aerosols had a much smaller cooling effect on the atmosphere during the 20th […]

A new report claims that Facebook secretly installs tracking cookies on users’ computers, allowing them to follow users around the internet even after they’ve left the website, deleted their account and requested to be no longer followed. Academic researchers said that the report showed that the company was breaking European law with its tracking policies. The law requires that users […]

Now that we’ve demonstrated that the passage of the Affordable Care Act has resulted in a declining quality of life for average Americans since 2009, we thought we’d next discuss how that outcome came to pass, but first, we thought we’d first illustrate the trade off that American consumers are being forced to make using a production possibilities frontier curve […]

And they want even more of our money. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday that service at his agency has gotten so bad that they are ignoring more than 60 percent of taxpayers’ phone calls during this tax season. Speaking at the National Press Club, Mr. Koskinen pleaded with more money, saying a budget boost would help them staff their […]

Jews can’t build new homes in Jerusalem… but Arab Muslims can. The Jerusalem Municipality has approved a project to build 2,500 housing units in Jabel Mukaber, in southern Jerusalem. This will be the largest construction project for Jerusalem Arabs since 1967. Jabel Mukaber borders the neighborhood of East Talpiot. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/322330

Opponents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules aren’t giving up, with a conservative advocacy group saying it has collected more than 540,000 signatures on a petition asking Congress to overturn the agency’s action. American Commitment, a group with connections to Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, delivered those petitions to Congress this week. Each petition […]

At least 68 churches, two of which were Baptist, have been burned in the West African country of Niger. Panlieba Tchalieni, president of the Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Niger, reported that the church burnings, carried out by Muslim [terrorist] group Boko Haram, occurred in the Zinder region and Niamey. “In terms of Baptist churches in Niger, we have […]

Recent statements from United Nations officials, that Iran is already blocking the U.N.’s existing efforts to keep track of what is going on in its nuclear program, should tell anyone who does not already know it that any agreement with Iran will be utterly worthless in practice. It does’t matter what the terms of the agreement are, if Iran can […]

The Student Government of Loyola University in Chicago narrowly passed a resolution to divest from companies that do business with Israel. The vote on March 26 was 15 to 15, with two abstentions. The speaker of the student senate broke the tie with a vote in favor of the resolution. More than an hour of public debate and three hours […]

Photos tweeted out from the Islamic State in Syria in the last few days showed the terror group’s latest “graduating class,” which included dozens of foreign [terrorists] who came to Syria to join the Islamic caliphate. The graduation pictures capped 18 months of training in ideology and weaponry at a university in Deir Az-Zour, in northern Syria, and grads are […]

“I’m not making a political statement, I’m making a Jewish statement.” The Jerusalem Post reports that Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, recently compared President Obama to Haman the Agagite, who planned to destroy all Jews, as is chronicled in the Book of Esther in the Old Testament. “The president of the United States is lashing out at Israel […]

Seriously? Democrats hope to put a “human face” on abortion. What sick people. Liberals hope to put a “human face” on abortion with new abortion spas. The Washington Post reported: With its natural wood floors and plush upholstery, Carafem aims to feel more like a spa than a medical clinic. But the slick ads set to go up in Metro […]

Yesterday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency appeared to be the first media outlet to notice a disturbing tweet from Comedy Central’s new hire Trevor Noah, who is pegged to replace Jon Stewart as host of the Daily Show: South Africans know how to recycle like israel knows how to be peaceful. — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) June 2, 2010 Late this evening, […]

Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 21 percent in 2014, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitism. The organization counted 912 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 751 in 2013, with the period surrounding last summer’s Gaza war seeing a surge of incidents. The tally included 36 cases of assault or other violence, 363 incidents of […]

The Arab Muslims rolled burning tires and threw rocks at soldiers at the central Gaza security fence. Israeli soldiers shot and wounded at least one Arab when approximately 40 Gazans rioted near the security fence at Khan Yunis in central Gaza Monday. An IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press, “Soldier shot warnings in the air and when the protesters did […]

Hotel accommodations for First Lady Michelle Obama’s two-day trip to Cambodia required 85 rooms and cost taxpayers $242,500, according to a government contract released Friday. Mrs. Obama traveled to Siem Reap, Cambodia on March 21 to promote a girls education initiative. A contract was awarded on March 3, citing the “unusual and compelling urgency” of the First Lady’s trip. Mrs. […]

Two men dressed as women tried to ram the gate of the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade with an SUV Monday morning, resulting in a shooting that left one person dead, according to an official and sources familiar with the investigation. After the gate was rammed around 9:30 local time, a guard reportedly got into an argument with […]

US Vice President makes shocking statement, telling American Jews ‘no matter how involved you are in the US, the only guarantee is Israel.” An incredible admission by US Vice President Joe Biden has been revealed, in which he told Jewish leaders that should the American Jewish community be in danger, it has only Israel to rely on – and not […]

And these are the ones who admit it! Almost three-quarters of [Israeli Muslim] Arabs support Hamas in its “armed struggle” against Israel, a recent poll reveals Monday. According to the poll, conducted by the “Palestinian Center for Political Research”, 74% of [Arabs in Israel] support Hamas’s fight against Israel. 56% of [Israeli Arabs] support adopting Hamas’s strategies in its “struggle” and […]

As Iran and world powers face less than two days to reach a framework nuclear deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday again attacked the emerging agreement for serving as “a reward for Iran’s aggression.” Netanayhu, who has maintained a staunch stance against a nuclear Iran, warned that Israel among other “moderate and responsible” states in the Middle East would […]

Your tax dollars hard at work. Earlier this week a bill prohibiting federal employees from looking at porn on government computers and devices passed through the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It’s quite a sad commentary on the state of government affairs that this bipartisan bill’s advancement is news, let alone good news. So, why was it necessary to begin […]

For so many years, JTF told you so! JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was convicted Monday of unlawfully accepting money from a U.S. supporter in a retrial on corruption charges, the latest chapter in the downfall of a man who only years earlier hoped to lead the country to a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians. The […]

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said the United States should not be attempting to tell Israel how to negotiate peace with the [Arab Muslim terrorists in Israel], and he wouldn’t do so if elected president. “Israel is a sovereign nation, and I trust the leaders of Israel to determine whether they want to adopt a one-state solution or a two-state solution,” […]

When people defend abortion, this is one of the consequences. I’m not sure the Planned Parenthood, pro-infanticide crowd sees this as a feature or a bug: A former nurse’s aide will not face murder charges for allegedly cutting and removing an unborn baby from the mother’s womb, Boulder County, Colorado, prosecutor Stanley Garnett said Thursday. The mother, Michelle Wilkins, answered […]

Members of the US House of Representatives hoping to get a look at Hillary Clinton’s personal email server just got a big disappointment. Clinton’s attorney has confirmed to a House committee on Benghazi that, after handing over work-related email to the State Department, the politician both “chose not to keep” personal messages and set a 60-day limit on what the […]

In the online digital world we have been googling everyone and every thing.  But long before the means of our eventual capture crawled under the gate on its belly,  we should have been googling—-Google. The mighty corporate techie giant with assets of $131 billion has nestled so long among us it is almost like family. Website owners tell people who […]

CAIRO (Ma’an) — Egyptian border guards claimed Sunday to have uncovered a 2.8 km-long tunnel under the yards of three homes in Rafah near the Gaza border. Egyptian military sources told Ma’an that the tunnel was three meters underground and was being used to smuggle people, ammunition, weapons and goods. They said it was the longest tunnel uncovered between Egypt […]

I have predicted that these Muslim “grooming gangs” would not be limited to Britain, and now here is one in Canada. Not a day goes by in the UK, where islamization is much further along, that these monstrous news stories emerge of sexploitation of non-Muslims by Islamic supremacists. The Brits have 20 years on us, but Obama is working hard […]