If black lives matter, and we all know they do, we need to work to end the unnecessary and early deaths of black people.  It’s not enough to look at one minor source of black mortality – shootings by law enforcement officers – and ignore the reasons for the vast majority of black deaths. While hard numbers are not readily […]

The libertarian-leaning Republican senator is breaking with many in the GOP—including several possible presidential rivals—to support President Obama’s new Cuba plan. On Wednesday, news outlets reported that the U.S. would reestablish diplomatic ties with Cuba for the first time in decades. The move was hailed by many pundits who believe it will open up the repressed country to market reforms […]

An important Obamacare deadline is approaching. People who don’t have health insurance have until February 15, 2015, to purchase a plan or they will face a hefty penalty doled out by the IRS in 2016, which will be either $325 per adult or 2% of a family’s income, depending on which is higher for an individual or family. The Hill notes that insurance […]

The latest FBI statistics are out, and they prove, yet again, what a myth “islamophobia” really is. The fact is that “islamophobia” is a device designed to crush any criticism of Islam. It is the knee-jerk response to jihad carnage — victimizing the victim. Islamic supremacists and their leftist shills now decry “islamphobia” during Islamic terror attacks. While the terror-stricken […]

Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations. This was early 2013. The script would periodically scan the popular online reservation service, OpenTable, and drop him an email anytime something interesting opened up—a choice Friday night spot at the House of Prime Rib, for example. But […]

[AP] – President Barack Obama issued an executive order Thursday to prohibit “transgender discrimination” in public employment, another unilateral move by the administration in the wake of the 2014 midterms. According to the new order, the Justice Department will now interpret the Civil Rights Act as covering transgender employees in workplace discrimination disputes, allowing the DOJ to bring suits against […]

Arabs attacked a southern Israeli bus traveling Thursday night from Arad to Be’er Sheva along Highway 31. The unidentified attackers hurled rocks at the bus, breaking the windshield and injuring a 60-year-old man. Israel Police launched a search to hunt for the terrorists. Numerous “unrecognized” Bedouin encampments and small villages are located among the hills that run alongside Highway 31 […]

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati deemed a law unconstitutional that kept a Michigan man who was committed to a mental institution from owning a gun. The three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that a federal ban on gun ownership for those who have been committed to a mental institution violated the Second Amendment […]

Rocket attack Friday proves mistake of EU removal of Hamas from terror list Wednesday says Danon, calls for strong response. Former Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) responded to the Gaza rocket attack Friday morning, linking it to the European Union’s (EU) removal of Hamas from its terrorist organization list on Wednesday. “This morning the Europeans received more proof that […]

[POLITICO] – The IRS is considering its own temporary shutdown due to recent budget cuts enacted by Congress, its chief said Thursday. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said furloughs — forced unpaid days off for employees as part of an IRS closure — is one idea reluctantly being tossed about to save money, though they are hoping they will not have […]

U.S. airstrikes have killed several top Islamic State leaders in Iraq in recent weeks, limiting the terrorist army’s ability to fight Iraqi and Kurdish forces, Pentagon officials said. Three top Islamic State leaders were killed in recent weeks, including multiple senior and mid-level leaders, said Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby. One of the leaders killed was Haji Mutazz, […]

So Obama is going to release 3 Cuban communist spies to mass murdering dictator Castro, but Jonathan Pollard is still in jail. From the New York Nazi Times: United States sent back three imprisoned Cuban spies who were caught in 1998 and had become a cause célèbre for the Havana government. They were swapped for Rolando Sarraf Trujillo, a Cuban […]

The congresswoman stood reverently in front of the painting on the office wall opposite her desk, staring intently with hands clasped tightly behind her back, plaintively confiding she just wished she knew what God wanted her to do next with her life. It was hard to tell if she was addressing God or the only other person in the room. […]

The current regime will do nothing to protect the Jews from the Arab Nazi mass murderers. They are full of broken promises and made it illegal for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. The only thing that will work is to throw the enemy out of Israel. [Ynet] – Heightened tensions in Jerusalem [from Arab Muslim Nazis] causes concern […]

Moshe Feiglin surprised everyone on Thursday morning after announcing that he is dropping out of the current race to be the head of the Likud party and the Prime Minister of Israel. [Jewish Press] – Feiglin has made it no secret that the Prime Minister’s chair and the head of the Likud party is his endgame. Feiglin will continue to […]

Former Mossad chief, British-born Efraim Halevy, has released an interview to Israeli media asking Israel to commit suicide and withdraw to the pre-1967 “Auschwitz borders”. He also attacked Naftali Bennett’s plan for an arrangement with the Arabs. Halevy looks like one of the figures created by Peter Simple, the Daily Telegraph‘s cartoonist. Or like Mrs Dutt-Pauker, who in the ’60s […]

The UN Human Rights Council displayed a display at their headquarters in Geneva last month that promoted the elimination of Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported: Incitement against the Jewish state is directly related to the stabbings, raping and killing of Jews inside and outside of Israel. But doing something to stop it requires confronting a very troubling fact: the global […]

[Yahoo! News] – Former President Jimmy Carter says he is “proud and grateful” for the president’s efforts to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba. Carter calls the shift in policy “courageous.” Carter rejects accusations that President Barack Obama is appeasing Cuba’s communist leaders. He said Thursday on MSNBC that the best way to bring democracy to Cubans is to let Americans […]

The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly on the verge of fining Sprint $105 million for cramming charges that brought complaints from tens of thousands of customers. The $105 million fine would match one levied on AT&T, which was accused of the same illegal practice. The US government has also sued T-Mobile over cramming charges. The FCC has not confirmed the action […]

So much for real alternative energy sources… Today, the health commissioner of the state of New York, Howard Zucker, announced that he has completed a study into the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing for the recovery of natural gas. Although there are few demonstrated health risks, Zucker noted that there are a great many uncertainties about the process, and these […]

Hillary Clinton insulted the United States claiming the police force is violent and racist against blacks. Clinton, a former first lady, New York senator and U.S. Secretary of State, is considering another run for president and is viewed as the likely Democratic nominee if she runs. She was honored at the Kennedy organization’s star-studded Ripple of Hope Award ceremony. Clinton […]

The Obama administration is considering sanctions against Israel, but renewing ties with evil dictator mass murderer Fidel Castro. Obama said he and Castro spoke Tuesday in a phone call that lasted about an hour. Obama announced Wednesday a sea-change policy shift in US relations with Cuba, issuing a series of orders — including establishing normal diplomatic relations — meant to […]

The Obama administration overturned a ban preventing a wealthy, politically connected Ecuadorean woman from entering the United States after her family gave tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns, according to finance records and government officials. The woman, Estefanía Isaías, had been barred from coming to the United States after being caught fraudulently obtaining visas for her maids. But […]

Hamas: We Thank Iran For Supplying Us With Weapons, Missiles http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8336.htm On December 12-14, 2014, Hamas celebrated its 27th anniversary with numerous marches and rallies throughout the Gaza Strip, attended by tens of thousands of people. The central rally in the north of the Strip was reportedly attended by nearly 100,000.[1] The anniversary celebrations also included a large military parade […]

More memoranda than any other president in history [USATODAY] — President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders. When these two forms of directives are taken together, Obama is on track […]

Police arrested a Jewish boy Wednesday morning who had planned to go up to the Temple Mount. In the boy’s bag police found a Chanukiah, oil candles and matches, according to Tazpit News Agency. Clearly the boy wasn’t familiar enough with the original story of Chanukah. When the police began to approach him, he should have started to play with […]

In Gaza, there is no serious reconstruction and certainly no disarmament. Instead, the Hamas-ruled enclave is gearing up for its next war against Israel. Three months after Operation Protective Edge, nothing has changed in Gaza. … Reconstruction funds totaling USD $5.4 billion that were promised during negotiations in Cairo this summer continue to exist only on paper. “Palestinian” [Fatah] Prime […]

The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed the recognition of a “Palestinian state in principle” on Wednesday, following a series of votes on the issue in EU nations which have angered Israel [and has put innocent Jewish lives in severe danger]. Lawmakers approved the motion by 498 votes to 88 with 111 abstentions, although it was a watered down version of an […]

The European Union “Court of Justice”, so to speak, took Hamas off its list of declared terrorist organizations Wednesday, accepting Hamas’ claims that the court did not have enough evidence to justify the classification. Israel and the United States led an effort in 2003 to place Hamas on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations, but the court ruled Wednesday […]

A federal judge has declared parts of President Obama’s immigration executive actions unconstitutional, in the first court opinion to tackle Obama’s controversial policy changes. In an opinion filed Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Schwab, in Pennsylvania, said Obama’s immigration actions are invalid and effectively count as “legislation” from the Executive Branch. “President Obama’s unilateral legislative action violates the separation […]

Learn and Return, an organization that works to prevent Jewish women and girls from getting trapped in abusive relationships with Arab men, has uncovered the shocking truth of an epidemic of young Jewish girls being forced into drug use and prostitution by older Arab men. Mishmar Ezrachi, of Beersheva in southern Israel, reported to Learn and Return’s rescue counselor how […]

Next week history will be made as experts reveal – and light – a batch of pure olive oil precisely as it was used in the Temple – the first in 2000 years. Jews throughout the world are ushering in the festival of Hanukkah Tuesday evening with the lighting of the hanukkiah – the 9-branched candelabra often referred to as […]

If this is what they do to each other, imagine what they want to do to us – the non-Muslims. An assault led by the Taliban on a Pakistan military-run school Tuesday left 141 people dead, 132 of which were children, officials say, in the worst attack to hit the country in years. The horrific attack in Peshawar, carried out […]

The usual suspects are attacking Ted Cruz for doing his job. Republicans and a chorus of conservative commentators are dumping on the sole conservative Republican senator from Texas because – the horror! – he dared to force his Senate colleagues to publicly take sides on President Obama’s shameful extralegal unilateral immigration amnesty. Apologists for Republican cowardice claim to be upset […]

If the supposed “homosexual gene” is really passed down [from evolution], then how does that work when all homosexuals are born from non-homosexual reproduction between a male and female? Only normal reproduction creates children. New billboard challenges fundamentals for homosexuals An organization supporting what has been called the least protected of all minority groups has thrown down the gauntlet in […]

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) predicted that the president’s executive action on immigration would be the “insurance policy” “that Democrats, in the future, will, in all likelihood, win every presidential contest from here on out” on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” “What the ruling class in Washington have just decided is that we will have open borders, we will not have any […]

ISA claims pre-planned attack to douse Israeli motorist with tear gas, steal a vehicle is a ‘crime’ and ‘not terror’. The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Israel Police’s Central District have declared a hit-and-run in Samaria a crime – not a terror attack – Tuesday, despite repeated claims by the victim’s family that the accident was […]

The defense lawyer accuses the government of ignoring radical left-wing extremists [who are often violent and actually do support Arab terrorists]. [Jewish Press] – Israeli police Monday night arrested Bentzi Gopstein, chairman of the right-wing Lehava group, and nine other Lehava members in a nighttime raid and charged them with “incitement” and “encouraging violence and terror” [because they are protesting […]

The Arab Muslims in Israel were terrorist murderers before President Johnson began supporting Israel by selling her airplanes in 1968, and they were already committing terrorist acts before Israel took over Judea, Samaria and Gaza during the Six Day War in 1967. When asked by Chuck Todd on Sunday’s “Meet The Press” whether the drone program or the CIA enhanced-interrogation […]

If there was any good news to come out of this weekend’s CRomnibus festivities, it was that you can now make any Democrat immediately cringe by implying that Eizabeth Warren is their side’s equivalent of everyone’s favorite showboating Republican Presidential contender, Ted Cruz. But that’s about it. The rest of the CRomnibus is just an endless string of soul-crushing spending […]

Privacy advocates are appalled by what they see as the quiet endorsement of a controversial executive order. With nearly no public notice or debate, Congress on Wednesday approved legislation that critics say blesses the warrantless collection, dissemination and five-year retention of everyday Americans’ phone and Internet communications. The controversial language was quietly incorporated into an intelligence authorization bill that passed the […]

The Obama administration’s original government website promoting Obamacare has been deleted. On the last day of the Obamacare enrollment period, uncovered records reveal the deleted website assured Americans they could keep their existing health insurance plans. HealthReform.gov was the first major online messaging project of Kathleen Sebelius’ Department of Health and Human Services. It was later replaced by the glitch-ridden Obamacare […]

Police say three people are dead — including the gunman — after authorities stormed a Sydney cafe early Tuesday, bringing to a dramatic end a 16-hour standoff in which a jihadist and murder suspect had held 17 hostages in a scene much of the world watched on television. A series of explosions, believed to be gunshots and flash grenades, came […]

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Religious singer on Far East tour recounts how he left cafe just minutes before jihadist terrorist entered and took hostages. As the drama continues to unfold in Australia, where a Sydney cafe was taken over by an armed jihadist terrorist currently holding several people hostage and demanding to speak with the prime minister, for Israeli singer Benny Elbaz the incident […]

Arab spokesmen, unlike their Israeli counterparts, are not ashamed to be “intransigent” or to cherish territory. Arab spokesmen, unlike most of their Jewish counterparts, are not ashamed to make the Temple Mount the center of their new war against Israel. Arab spokesmen care so much about the site that they can claim that Abraham wasn’t a Jew, that Jews never […]

The scariest words uttered during Jonathan Gruber’s recent appearance before the House Oversight Committee were “positive selection.” They were read aloud by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, from a 1997 paper the professor co-authored concerning abortion. The opus in question made the Congressman uneasy because of the following passage: “By 1993 all cohorts under the age 19 were born under legalized […]

In an article for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, a well-known Canadian bioethicist – Udo Schuklenk – argues that aborting a child after birth is moral. Naturally, Schuklenk draws his own arbitrary lines as to when after-birth abortion is moral. He says that when a baby’s life contains “overwhelming pain and suffering,” it would be a moral choice. […]