Religious freedom advocates are flagging a mostly-missed moment from last week’s Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, calling it a warning sign. They point to an exchange between Justice Samuel Alito and the administration’s top lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.Alito asked if, in the event the Supreme Court holds that there is a constitutional right to same-sex […]

The mayor called on federal investigators Wednesday to look into whether this city’s beleaguered police department uses a pattern of excessive force or discriminatory policing. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said even though complaints of excessive force and lawsuits alleging misconduct our down over the last few years, “we all know that Baltimore has a fractured relationship with community.” The mayor’s request […]

Claiming that the murdering of unborn children is an effective form of “birth control” is just pure evil. The DC City Council passed a law with the Orwellian name of  “Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2014” (RHNDA). The bill seems sort of innocuous. I mean how often is anyone really fired because of their method of birth control? How […]

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh asked if the same media criticizing the Mohammed Art Exhibit would stop advocating gay marriage because that could also be provocative to [Muslim terrorists] on Wednesday. Rush said, “Islamists command us not to draw cartoons or any other kind of picture of the prophet Mohammed, and our Drive-By Media and Democrat Party readily agree, ‘Ain’t […]

“You do not get elected president with a number like that.” Even the left-wing media seem to be losing their confidence in Hillary Clinton. With recent polls revealing substantial drops in Clinton’s numbers in such essential areas as honesty and trustworthiness, the media are sounding the alarm; CNN chief national correspondent John King declared on New Day that the results […]

Private genetic-genealogy data tags innocent man as murder suspect. Americans curious whether any of their ancestors may have come over on the Mayflower or signed the Declaration of Independence should consider the legal nightmare the genealogical website Ancestry.com created for a New Orleans man. Someone else’s DNA sample, a few Facebook friends who lived over 1,500 miles away, a few […]

If you need further evidence that egalitarianism is off the rails, down the rabbit hole, or just insane, check out the profile at Australia’s ABC of two British political philosophers who fret that good parenting is giving some kids an “unfair” advantage over kids with crappy parents. I kid you not. It’s praiseworthy to want to improve opportunity for kids—kudos […]

LAS VEGAS –  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that any immigration overhaul must include a path to “full and equal citizenship,” drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans who have promoted providing a legal status or blocked efforts in Congress to address the nation’s immigration system. “This is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make […]

It seems the left hand never tells the right hand what it’s up to down at Foggy Bottom. Within days of the foiled terrorist attack outside the exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas, comes the news that the United States is offering “big payouts” (“strictly confidential”)  to anyone who has “information” on key ISIS leaders. “The […]

Breach of free speech, freedom of worship, as youth arrested over Facebook post joking his prayers will ‘set Middle East on fire.’ A young Temple Mount activist was arrested on Tuesday night after joking on Facebook about the paranoia of the government and the police regarding the Temple Mount, where they have allowed the Jordanian Waqf to maintain control and forbid […]

In Pakistan Tuesday, around 200 Muslims held a gathering to honor the jihadis who attempted to carry out a terror attack against a free speech event on Sunday in Garland, Texas. The terrorists, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (the latter of whom has Pakistani roots), attempted to storm a “Draw Muhammad” event promoting free speech, just as it was ending, […]

There are just 57 days days before the June 30 Iranian nuclear deal deadline. Negotiations are ongoing and debate about the lifting or easing of economic sanctions is getting louder. More on that from CSM: In public statements, Mr. Obama said the sanctions would be phased out after Iran’s steps were verified, while Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said […]

Only the left would do something so disgusting. An Austrian men’s magazine has printed an entire issue using HIV+ blood as “ink.” The magazine’s co-publisher, Julian Wiehl, said the purpose was to make a statement about the stigma associated with the virus. You won’t see “The Vanguardist” on the newsstands, the issue can only be ordered online because of the […]

TEL AVIV – In an extraordinary move that could mean billions lost to the American economy, Gulf monarchs meeting Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, took a closed-door decision to potentially withhold investments from U.S. military firms if the terms of any final agreement with Iran causes significant harm to the Sunni Arab states. The meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council […]

The IRS issued $5.6 billion in potentially bogus education tax credits in a single year — more than a quarter of all education credits claimed by taxpayers, a government watchdog said Tuesday. A new report by the agency’s inspector general says questionable credits were issued to more than 3.6 million taxpayers in 2012. Most of them went to students even […]

A recent article in The Economist, in stating that Hillary Clinton starts as the favorite to win the 2016 presidential election, posed the question: What does she stand for? To which the author answered: Competence and experience, say her supporters. As secretary of state, she flew nearly a million miles and visited 112 countries. If a foreign crisis occurs on […]

Police in Baltimore are now afraid to do their jobs for fear they could be prosecuted if someone complains about them, a shift supervisor told Fox News. Baltimore Police Lt. Ken Butler told Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File” on Monday that he and a co-worker were “disappointed” and “fearful” after State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges against six police […]

New report by Prague’s Jewish community finds significant increase of harassment and threats against Jews last year. A new report by Prague’s Jewish community finds a significant increase of cases of harassment and threats against Jews last year, The Associated Press (AP) reports. The annual report on anti-Semitism released Monday says such attacks, including anti-Semitic letters and emails, verbal attacks […]

Barack Obama attacked the nation’s police today during his speech at the launch of My Brother’s Keeper. Obama accused police of disproportionately stopping and arresting young men of color. Of course, Barack Obama is once again using bogus statistics to push an agenda. Yahoo-AP reported: In a deeply personal response to outbreaks of racially motivated protests, President Barack Obama on […]

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 […]