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. […]

A federal appeals court will reconsider a decision to order YouTube to take down an anti-Muslim video that allegedly sparked violence in the Middle East and led to death threats toward the actors from those who considered it blasphemous to the Prophet Muhammad. An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena will hear arguments Monday […]

John Boehner and the rest of the GOP RINO establishment didn’t have enough Conservative votes to pass their $1.1 TRILLION budget. That’s because while these so-called “Republicans” criticized Obama’s amnesty in public, their budget completely funded it. More than 60 Republicans voted against the spending bill, forcing Boehner to get approximately 50 Democrats to vote for it. GOP leaders blocked […]

7:31 UPDATE by Mary Chastain: The suspects’ intentions are unclear, though sources have told Australia’s news.abc.au that the men taking the café hostage are allegedly demanding to speak to Prime Minister Tony Abbott live on the radio. Black Islamic flag being held up in window of #lindt chocolate store in Martin Place, Sydney – hostages inside. pic.twitter.com/fAV7PEuY6P — Andrew Denney […]

Fridays’ 300 point plunge (-1.62%) for the Dow Jones stock index capped off a -3.52% weekly slump for U.S. stocks; the worst decline since May 2012. The week before, traders were celebrating a “Santa Clause Rally” that took U.S Standard & Poor’s stock index to an all-time-high on December 5. But when China announced on Monday that their trade surplus […]

[Debbie Schlussel] – Bill Bonds, who dominated Detroit television news in the ’70s and ’80s, is being mourned throughout Southeastern Michigan as some sort of great journalistic icon and saint. But Bonds, who died yesterday at age 82, was an open Nazi-lover, Jew-hater, serial drunk driver, shameless liberal news anchor, and all-around hypocrite, who should not be missed. He definitely […]

‘I don’t want to be inundated with a bunch of chatter about politics’ Do you remember this line? Obama repeatedly promised he would not rest until everyone has a job who wants a job. Yeah, that wasn’t true either. Barack Obama told ESPN today: “I spend most of my time watching ESPN in the morning.” MediaBistro reported: President Barack Obama […]

(CBS) – Kevin McCarthy of Thousand Oaks, California, was surprised last spring, when he learned his family doctor of 14 years could not accept the Blue Shield insurance he’d purchased under Obamacare. He said he was “outraged” because when he was shopping for his policy, Blue Shield confirmed his doctor was covered. “We were duped,” McCarthy said. “Hoodwinked is another […]

There is something shameful in the speed with which Europe, which expelled all the Jews and almost choked off its holy seed, now turns against Israel. In Ireland, taking the name of Israel means becoming a war criminal. A popular Dublin restaurant, The Exchequer, no longer stocks Israeli goods. In the Irish town of Kinvara, retailers, restaurants and pharmacies operate […]

Organizers also fired emcee Yanky Fachler, who hosted the event for a dozen years, because he complained about last year’s ban on mentioning the Jewish State. ext month, the Holocaust Educational Trust Ireland (HETI), will be hosting the country’s annual event commemorating the Holocaust. According to the British Jewish news site The JC, for the second year in a row they […]

Today Hamas held a rally in Gaza City celebrating its anniversary. Here was one of the featured events: The “coffin” that he is being burned on has a picture on the side: It is a representation of the Second Jewish Temple! Nah, they’re not antisemitic. They are pretending to murder religious Jews and destroy Jewish holy places because of, you […]

On the heels of a research paper published about a global Iranian hacking operation, Operation Cleaver, the FBI is now warning critical US businesses that they might be targets of Iran’s team of hackers. According to Reuters, the FBI has published a confidential report providing technical details about the Cleaver attack, as well as advice for companies that might be […]

New York City’s rank-and-file police union is urging cops to tell Mayor Bill de Blasio not to attend their funerals in the event that they are killed in the line of duty. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association posted a link on its website telling members not to let de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito “insult their sacrifice” should they […]

Arab car crashes into barriers at hitchhiking station in suspected attack attempt; soldiers not wounded, driver in moderate condition. An Arab car slammed into the concrete barriers placed at a hitchhiking station near the Samaria territorial brigade of the IDF on Friday morning. It is suspected the incident may have been a terrorist attack attempt to run over soldiers. An […]

When the UN Apes Al Sharpton, you get the likes of UN Human Rights honcho Prince Zeid. Among the familiar hucksters who sought to capitalize on the troubles in Ferguson, Missouri, came a new face: Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights and self-styled heir to the non-existent royal houses of Iraq and Syria. “I […]

Stealing another Western icon and perverting it, morally inverting a  Western ideal. Superheroes are the ideal man — the force for good with super powers, which they use to fight the forces of evil. The Muslims in Gaza have turned a wonderful idea into something evil and awful.  They didn’t have to invent such a man: Muhammad is that mass […]

Trusteer Rapport, a software package whose installation is promoted by several major banks as an anti-fraud tool, has recently been acquired by IBM and has an updated EULA. Among other things, the new EULA includes this gem: “In addition, You authorize personnel of IBM, as Your Sponsoring Enterprise’s data processor, to use the Program remotely to collect any files or […]

Time to tackle global warming running out, Pope tells UN climate summit. Tackling the problem of climate change is a “serious ethical and moral responsibility”, Pope Francis told negotiators from around the world meeting for a climate summit in Lima, Peru. “The time to find global solutions is running out. We can find adequate solutions only if we act together […]

In November alone, those who claim to be Islam’s Sunni holy warriors killed 5,000 people in the name of their God, according to a BBC study. The study found that in November, 5,042 people were murdered in 664 separate jihadi onslaughts, and the attacks took place in 14 different countries. The Islamic State ranked #1 in terms of killing in […]

Labor head is told in opinion piece one of his MKs is ‘in the closet’ and must come out, or he faces a serious ‘gay problem.’ An unusual opinion piece was written on Thursday by homosexual journalist Gal Ohovski in Channel 10‘s Mako Magazine, in which he warned leftist Labor party head Yitzhak Herzog that he has to make changes – or […]

Like we said all along… In the month prior to the 2010 midterm elections, Internal Revenue Service investigator Lois Lerner met with Justice Department officials to discuss the criminal prosecution of tax-exempt political groups. It had previously been revealed that Lerner investigated avenues for prosecuting certain tax-exempt status applicants upon the suggestion of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) when the watchdog […]

The courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently recounted that at a speech in Washington not long ago, she met Vice President Joe Biden. Biden seized the opportunity to tell her that “ISIS had nothing to do with Islam.” Hirsi Ali politely disagreed, whereupon Biden began a lesson in the teachings of the Religion of Peace: “Let me tell you […]

[Open lesbian] Rosie O’Donnell is selling artwork on her website embossed with messages acutely critical of Israel’s actions during this summer’s hostilities with Hamas. The photo she’s using, however, was taken in Syria. Two collage-like pieces created by O’Donnell currently for sale on her website include a photo implied to have been taken in Gaza this summer — but is […]

Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA “torture” report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I’m going to address Jonathan Gruber’s confirmation that he believes we’re all stupid. Assuming you are not under any rocks or haven’t been in an underground bunker without access to media, […]

[Huffington Post] – Congressional leaders have quietly deleted a measure meant to stop the National Security Agency’s “backdoor” surveillance of American communications from a major spending bill. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in June to ban the NSA from searching for Americans’ communications in surveillance collected while targeting foreigners. But the omnibus spending package unveiled Tuesday night — a […]

[Jewish Press] – From the drive for Israel to accept a suicidal so-called “two state solution” to nuclear talks with Iran, Hillary Rodham Clinton is endorsing President Obama’s [anti-semitic] Israel-related positions. Clinton, who was Obama’s secretary of state during his first term, spoke Friday night with Haim Saban, the Israeli-American entertainment mogul who through the Brookings Institution convenes an eponymous annual […]

Terror group meets with its top weapons benefactor. Leaders of the terror group Hamas traveled to Iran this week to rebuild relations with one of its top benefactors and leading weapons suppliers, according to regional experts and reports. Key Hamas leaders held meetings with top Iranian lawmakers and officials in a bid to repair “historic relations” with Tehran, according to […]

On December 10, PEW Research released a poll showing Americans’ are more concerned with protecting gun rights than with passing more gun control. And this degree of focus on defending gun rights instead of “[controlling] gun ownership” has not been seen in over 20 years. According to PEW, “52 percent” of respondents “[said] it is more important to protect the […]

Today, the Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah Lee James, came out in support of lifting the military’s ban on transgender service. In an interview with USA Today, when asked about the current ban, she said, “From my point of view, anyone who is capable of accomplishing the job should be able to serve.” She also said the current ban […]

I received this flyer from an Atlas reader who got this in her post box in Cape Town, South Africa today. “KILL ONE JEW OR CHRISTIAN AND GET REWARD OF JANNAH” There are contact details of locals on the back of the flyer. Jihad in spreading in South Africa. For years, jihad camps tied to al Qaeda have continued to grow, […]

President Obama, on the heels of announcing his executive actions on immigration, teased Republicans about the immigration debate — saying some of them think he’s an “illegal immigrant.” The president made the wisecrack at a town hall meeting in Nashville on Tuesday. Discussing the immigration debate, he urged Republicans to work with him. “Now, does that mean everybody is going […]

Pages 958 and 959 of the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Speaker John Boehner include a provision that gives Social Security benefits to illegal aliens under President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. The seemingly wonky legislative language in that relevant section reads: None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of Social […]

A guest on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” Wednesday told guest host Michael Eric Dyson that after activists deal with police brutality, they need to deal with “the oppressive force” of capitalism. DYSON: The problem extends beyond police departments. What is the next institution that needs to be isolated and challenged?     “HIP HOP ACTIVIST” ROSA CLEMENTE: The economy. Capitalism! […]

[Yahoo News] – U.S. criticism of Israel’s settlement policies has slowed down construction in the West Bank, Israel’s defense minister said in comments broadcast Wednesday, adding that he hopes the slowdown will be “temporary” because the Obama administration “won’t be around forever.” The minister, Moshe Yaalon, has previously derided U.S. peace efforts in the Middle East, calling Secretary of State […]

There is no such thing as a “Palestinian”. This is a dangerous propaganda lie. The [so-called] Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research just released their latest poll on Arab attitudes. Here is one of their findings: 80% support and 20% oppose attempts by individual “Palestinians” to stab or run over Israelis in Jerusalem and the rest of the West […]

Yet another legal hurdle was placed in front of campaigners pushing to expel four senior Hamas leaders from Jerusalem Tuesday, after the High Court postponed a hearing on the issue that was set for today. No alternative date has yet been offered by the court, which means that the four – Khaled Abu Arafa, Muhammad Abu Tir, Mohammed Totah and […]

Obama, who as a Senator expressed the same concerns, also said that it is “legitimate” to be concerned about whether new immigrants will suppress wages, “particularly in the low-wage sectors of the economy.” “We have to be just as civil in addressing those questions as we expect people to be when we are talking to them,” he said. Those like […]

Taught by Planned Parenthood without parents’ knowledge. Students at one northern California high school are learning more than just the birds and the bees. Along with local area groups, some parents are irate that their children’s sex ed class at Acalanes High School in Lafayette is being taught by employees of Planned Parenthood without their prior knowledge. They are also […]