Don’t have health insurance? Get ready to pay up. The ObamaCare-mandated fines for not having insurance are rising in 2015 — and for the first time, will be collected by the Internal Revenue Service. The individual requirement to buy health insurance went into effect earlier this year. But this coming tax season is the first time all taxpayers will have […]

Foreign Policy article examines number of times state department referred to “unacceptable” behavior this year; Israel ranked between North Korea and Pakistan. [Ynet] – The US State Department described Israeli actions as “unacceptable” 87 times in 2014, with only three countries being more “unacceptable,” according to a Foreign Policy article published last week. Journalist Micah Zenko searched the State Department’s […]

A day after a Molotov cocktail thrown at Ayala Shapira and her father, she remains in serious condition and will undergo surgery; doctors say they will have to eventually reconstruct her face. [Ynet] – The condition of Ayala Shapira, the 11-year-old Jewish-Israeli girl who was seriously wounded after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at her and her father while they […]

Two headstones were smashed at a Jewish cemetery in Vlissingen; one belonged to a director of the Royal Schelde shipyard. Two headstones were smashed and broken at a Jewish cemetery in the southern Dutch city of Vlissingen. The vandalism at the Jewish site was discovered last week, but it was not immediately clear if the incident was motivated by anti-Semitism, […]

Pope Francis will lead the fight against global warming junk science in a number of activities planned for 2015. The Guardian reported: He has been called the “superman pope”, and it would be hard to deny that Pope Francis has had a good December. Cited by President Barack Obama as a key player in the thawing relations between the US […]

Two Army captains were forced to do some last-minute scrambling when they found out they had to move their wedding because President Barack Obama wanted to go golfing. Bloomberg reported that Natalie Heimel and Edward Mallue Jr. were due to be married at the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course on Sunday when they were informed just one day out that they would have to […]

A contentious art exhibit at an Israeli community college near Gaza includes displays calling for the “slaughter” of the Jews and “in blood and fire we will redeem Palestine,” Israel’s NRG News said on Monday. “The Power of the Word,” set to open Tuesday at Sapir College, near Sderot,” is seen by some as encouraging incitement [duh!], though its [Nazi] defenders […]

We warned against the lunacy of giving Hamas and Fatah terrorists concrete and supplies to supposedly “rebuild Gaza”. Four months after the end of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas is back on track creating terror. As it commemorates 27 years since its inception, Hamas has begun to reconstruct the destroyed underground tunnels in Gaza and rebuild their weapons arsenal: IsraelDefense (29/12/2014) […]

President Barack [Hussein] Obama said Monday that Iran might join Cuba as a second rogue state to enjoy normalized diplomatic relations with the United States under his administration. In a 40-minute interview with National Public Radio conducted on December 18 – but held back for 11 days – the radio network´s senior morning host quizzed Obama in the Oval Office […]

The FBI has released its latest statistics on Hate Crimes in America and the numbers will certainly be ignored by some in the media. The first statistic that jumps off the page when reviewing the Bureau’s Uniform Crime Report Hate Crime Statistics, 2013 is that claims that America is a hate filled nation are wishful thinking lies. The total number […]

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[Jewish Press] – Sometimes I feel like Diogenes, the ancient Greek philosopher who famously carried a lantern around in the daytime looking for an honest man. This is what I felt like today as I read about the astounding number of Israeli politicians that are being accused of corruption. From JTA: Israeli police have detained 30 senior officials accused of […]

[Daily Mail News] – A gang of internet hackers claiming an affiliation with shadowy anarchist group Anonymous is claiming it has leaked the details of more than 13,000 users of Playstation, Xbox and online stores including Amazon. Hackers took down PlayStation and Xbox networks on Christmas Day  Now, hackers have released 13,000 passwords and credit card details Amazon, PlayStation and […]

George Will understands why conservatives are revolted by the Common Core standards. Jeb Bush either does not understand or, perhaps worse, does not care. Either way, Bush owns his insistence upon the highly controversial education initiative, a position that will likely cost him with most conservatives in a presidential bid, and should also matter to all Republicans. Writing at The Washington […]

[ISIS] Islamic State group jihadists have murdered nearly 2,000 people in Syria — half of them from an important Sunni tribe — since announcing their “caliphate” in June, a monitoring group said Sunday. “The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the execution by the Islamic State of 1,878 people in Syria between June 28 when it announced its ‘caliphate’ […]

Here a novel idea. Stop using Facebook! Facebook is in the news yet again over issues related to privacy violations. This time around a judge in California has ruled that the company must face a class action lawsuit over scanning the private messages of its users, according to the Los Angeles Times: Facebook will have to face a class action […]

Zoll is being placed on unpaid leave while disciplinary proceedings begin, according to the statement. A Ferguson, Mo., police spokesman has been put on unpaid leave after initially denying, then admitting that he referred to a memorial for Michael Brown as a “pile of trash” to a Washington Post reporter. Post reporter Jose A. DelReal called Officer Timothy Zoll, the […]

Thousands of NYPD officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as his speech at Officer Rafael Ramos’s funeral Saturday morning. Section of NYPD in Myrtle Av block from church turn their backs as Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks @ #RafaelRamos funeral pic.twitter.com/kfyEWZGFg0 — Joe Jackson (@joejackson) December 27, 2014 After initially facing forward nearly all NYPD & other […]

North Korea called President Barack Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy “The Interview.” North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures initially called […]

Fire starts on balcony but is extinguished, wounding none; law enforcement scan Jabel Mukaber in search of suspects; attack comes two days after 11-year-old girl seriously wounded by firebomb. A firebomb was thrown Saturday night at an apartment balcony in the Armon HaNetziv (East Talpiot) neighborhood of Jerusalem. A fire broke out on the balcony, but was extinguished shortly thereafter. […]

The propaganda unit of Hamas’s “military wing”, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, kicked into overdrive recently with a new film, which attempted to portray the terrorist organization’s Gazan fighting force as a modern Islamic army, exhibiting advanced weaponry training for a wide range of scenarios – and with its sights on Jerusalem. In the video a large unit of terrorists are […]

Another vehicular jihad — there has been a spate of these car attacks during Xmas week. Robert Spencer opines, “This may have been simply an accident. It may have been. But Islamic jihadists have recently called on Muslims to use their cars as weapons against the Infidels. And we have seen Muslims heed that call and run down pedestrians in […]

A Jewish publishing house joined a kosher restaurant and a synagogue as a target Gun shots were fired at a Paris publishing house owned by Jews on Thursday night, the third time since Monday that shots were fired at a Jewish institution in the French capital. Monday, a Paris synagogue was attacked and on Wednesday evening a kosher restaurant was targeted. In […]

MEMO TO: Comcast/NBC Universal Happy New Year. Now do yourself and your company a favor and fire the man identified by Mediaite as ..really…””the most powerful man in America.”  Who would that be, as described here, exactly? “Outside of the president, Al Sharpton might possibly be the most powerful man in America right now.” Mediaite’s Joe Concha made the point […]

More lies and taqiyya from the Taliban’s man in the White House. Were his “peace partners” blowing up another schools for girls when this clown made so ridiculous a proclamation. Yes, the Taliban will never strike again, and you can keep your doctor. How does he plan to make this happen? He’ll merely instruct the lapdog media not to report […]

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal touted Turkey as a “source of power” for Muslims on Saturday, praising Turkey for supporting the Palestinian cause. “A democratic, stable and developed Turkey is a source of power for all Muslims,” Mr. Meshaal said in an address to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s annual congress in the the conservative central Anatolian city of Konya, […]

[Politico] – As control of Congress shifts to the GOP next year, President Barack Obama said that also means a change in the Washington blame game. “Now you’ve got Republicans in a position where it’s not enough for them simply to grind the wheels of Congress to a halt and then blame me,” Obama said in an interview with NPR […]

Demonstrators participating in a “Black Lives Matter” protest in Oakland against police smashed store windows, injured a journalist, and vandalized the city’s main Xmas tree in Jack London Square in the latest violence associated with the movement. The protest was called “No Time Off,” in defiance of the holiday: “The idea is to give no time off to police in […]

In a recent interview with National Public Radio host Diane Rehm, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said his company “has a very strong view that we should make decisions in politics based on facts [except when it comes to fake global warming]. And the facts of climate change are not in question anymore. [Oh really? I have scientific facts that prove […]

Knife-wielding Arab terrorist catches officers by surprise and stabs them. Video has emerged showing the shocking stabbing of two Border Patrol officers, who were attacked by an Arab terrorist on Friday morning at a police security point near the Lion’s Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The attack occurred right after Muslim morning prayers concluded on the Temple Mount […]

In December 2011, former House Speaker and presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich made the following observation regarding the Arabs in Israel; Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community… That comment […]

They still collect all your data, emails, and telephone calls. This is just a publicity stunt. The National Security Agency has released heavily redacted accounts of its employees’ violations against Americans’ privacy after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the agency was required to file the reports with the Intelligence Oversight Board, […]

Paige Stalker might be alive today had she learned about Routine Activity Theory. But she is dead and two of her friends are critically wounded, the latest poster children for R.A.T.:  White people in black neighborhoods should expect to be the victims of racial violence. Paige was one of five teenagers from an upscale neighborhood in nearby Grosse Point who […]

[Jerusalem Post] – Eight tires of cars belonging to Israeli-Arabs were pierced overnight in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amud. Motives for the act remain unclear. An investigation into the incident has been opened.

Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie, don’t look like a typical refugee family. All well dressed — even the Chihuahua, Micky, wearing a chic dog jacket — they might not seem out of place mingling with Kiev’s oligarchs. But the truth is that the family, Ukrainians of Jewish heritage on one side, has lost almost everything since clashes between pro-Russian […]

A kosher restaurant is the scene of the second shooting incident at a Jewish site in Paris this week. [Jewish Press] – Bullet holes were discovered Wednesday, Dec. 24, in the front window of a kosher restaurant in Paris. The holes in the Al Haeche restaurant appeared to have been made by an air gun, which is also the suspected […]

An Israeli driver and his 11 year old daughter were attacked by Arab terrorists who threw a firebomb at his vehicle Thursday night. An Israeli driver and his 11 year old daughter were attacked by Arab terrorists who threw a firebomb at his vehicle Thursday night. The two suffered burns, but managed to escape from their burning vehicle. They were […]

The Jew-hating BBC is partially responsible for European anti-semitism. The BBC paid £200,000 to ‘cover up report on anti-Israel bias.’ Still, Jews belong in Israel. ‘I’ve never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the UK as in the last 12 months’ The director of BBC Television said rising anti-Semitism has made him question the long-term future for Jews in the […]

[Jewish Press] – The CAMERA watchdog organization has posted five new billboards in midtown Manhattan to spread the message of The New York Times’ slanted reportage on Israel. The organization, officially known as the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, still posts a billboard opposite the newspaper’s headquarters with a message that reads, “The New York Times […]

France is providing us with a very good case study on what happens when you raise taxes too high. The 75% tax rate imposed upon the richest French residents* was a centerpiece of Socialist Francois Hollande’s campaign for the French Presidency. At any rate, having found out just what happens when you raise taxes to such draconian levels, the country […]

Israel’s Civil Administration announced its intentions to renovate the Tomb of Samuel, the traditional burial site of biblical Hebrew prophet Samuel (Shmuel), which is located in the Arab village Nabi Samwil in Judea. Samuel’s Tomb, situated atop a steep hill 1.3 kilometers north of Jerusalem neighborhood Ramot, has some severe safety problems. These include very steep stairs to reach the underground […]

A strong correlation exists between religiosity and personal happiness, according to a new study by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture. The study found that people who attend religious services on a weekly basis are nearly twice as likely to describe themselves as “very happy” (45%) than people who never attend (28%). Conversely, those who never worship […]

A Brooklyn judge cut loose a gang member who had posted online threats to gun down cops in the hours after two NYPD officers were executed in their patrol car — ignoring prosecutors’ pleas to keep him behind bars, The Post has learned. Criminal Court Judge Laura Johnson let Devon Coley, 18, waltz free without bail despite the fact that […]

[The Guardian] – Israel’s police have said they are investigating dozens of public figures and politicians in a major corruption case that could affect upcoming elections. The politicians involved were not named in Wednesday’s announcement, but after a year-long covert operation, police said they are investigating 30 suspects including a deputy minister, a former minister, mayors and others. In a […]

Remember that “arson attack” last month by “Jewish extremists” against a West Bank mosque? Remember how that outrageous assault made headline news around the world? Remember how it showed that “both sides” –not just the Arabs– are guilty of violence, and “both sides” –not only Israelis– are suffering? Well, guess what: it was a lie. The period from late October […]

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