Tag Archives: private

Reason for Hope: The 10,000 Women Initiative

For as long as I can remember, we’ve been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations – nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects it…

Mysterious gray gunk killing hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay

Conservation officials aren’t sure what the gunk that is killing birds in the San Francsico Bay is. (AP) SAN FRANCISCO – Wildlife experts are scrambling to identify the mysterious gray gunk coating — and killing — hundreds of seabirds in…

ObamaCare’s whopping Cadillac tax under fire

Of all the taxes in ObamaCare, none is more onerous than the whopping 40 percent Cadillac tax on the more generous employer-provided health care plans, which often are union plans. The now-famous former outside adviser on ObamaCare, Jonathan Gruber of…

Reggie Bush’s comments on daughter could prompt investigation, experts say

Reggie Bush clarified his comments on Wednesday, saying his statements to New York’s WFAN a day earlier were taken out of context. He denied spanking the girl, Briseis Avagyan Bush, but acknowledging disciplining her “a bit” when she acts inappropriately.…

UN panel raps Iran over imprisonment of Christian pastor Saeed Abedini

Saeed Abedini has not seen his family in nearly three years, including young daughter Rebekka and son Jacob. (Fox News) A United Nations panel this week blasted Iran’s continued imprisonment of American citizen Saeed Abedini, who is serving an eight-year…

A ‘dog whistle’ to the left: Geithner and Obama

I am not a fan of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. He presided over the politically conceived, patently unconstitutional and anti-free market taxpayer bailouts of banks, automakers and insurance companies in the latter part of the administration of…

A new ‘Watergate’? Team Obama and the hunt for the truth about Benghazi

When the White House, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the fearless private watchdog group Judicial Watch, turned over an email about constructing the appropriate narrative response to the tragedy at Benghazi written by…

Race and freedom: Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling and Freedom of Speech

Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy…

Soviet-born congressional candidate looks to make history

Igor Birman, shown here, is running for Congress in California. (Igor Birman) During the darkest days of the Cold War, some in Washington feared a Communist infiltration inside the highest reaches of the government. It would have been unimaginable then…