On Tuesday, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents the world’s most advanced economies, advised the U.S. to eliminate the debt ceiling, warning that repeated crises over the debt limit threatened the global economy. Instead, the OECD suggests,
President Barack Obama will attempt to convince Senators from both parties today that Congress should not slap new sanctions on Iran for failing to halt nuclear enrichment. But there are many reasons to reject the president’s request, especially the fact,
Jewish leaders are feeling misled by the White House over the terms of a proposed deal with Iran on nuclear enrichment, according to the Times of Israel. Specifically, they are upset that they were urged not to lobby for new
During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel’s Prime Minister, Golda Meir, pulled the plug on a speech to the nation by Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, on the advice of journalists who had interviewed him earlier in the day. Dayan’s
On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Organization for American States that “The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.” After the assembled delegates applauded, Kerry proceeded to misquote the doctrine as “a United States declaration about how
When former Obama adviser and campaign manager David Plouffe said on Sunday that running against Obamacare would be an “impossibility” for Republicans, his reasoning seemed dubious. By the fall of 2014, Plouffe insisted, “millions of people will be signed up,”
Last month, the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating essay by Peter Savodnik about Lee Harvey Oswald’s time in the Soviet Union. It reveals much about Oswald’s essentially introverted, tortured character, and provides a basis for understanding why the simplest explanation
With Obamacare imploding, the unthinkable has become possible: the law could be repealed. Not just after the 2014 midterm elections, or after a new president takes office in 2017, but in the very near future. That is because many Democrats
President Barack Obama has elected not to attend the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address on Tuesday, Nov. 19th. Instead, he will be meeting with Senators at the White House to persuade them not to impose new sanctions on Iran,
My colleague Matt Boyle takes issue with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for focusing on minority outreach when he and Mitt Romney failed to turn out the Republican Party’s base in 2012–by which I take him to mean white voters. Respectfully,
For weeks, rumors have flown about a “purge” of senior military officers by the Obama administration. The tone was set in 2010, when President Barack Obama fired General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, over insults about
Bill de Blasio, mayor-elect of New York City, told private real estate developers before the election that he was every bit the communist they feared. According to Charles Gasparino, writing in the New York Post, de Blasio–who supported the Castro
On Oct. 14, Breitbart News recalled that Congress once repealed Ronald Reagan’s “signature” health law. The article was inspired by the spurious arguments then being made by Democrats that President Barack Obama could not accept any changes to his own
Breitbart News has been reporting the likelihood that an Israel-Saudi alliance against Iran would emerge as a result of the Obama adminstration’s weakness in the face of Iran’s nuclear program. Now, the London Sunday Times reports that there are intelligence documents
Pat Buchanan has come in for quite a bit of criticism over the years for remarks about Israel and American Jews. He’s still a sharp observer of the political scene, though, which is why MSNBC hired him several years ago
The arrival of French President François Holland in Israel on Sunday afternoon is more than just a routine visit. It marks the end of an era in which the U.S. was thought to be Israel’s best friend and guardian. With
David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s adviser and former campaign manager, told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ This Week Sunday Morning that it would be an “impossibility” for the Republican Party to run against Obamacare in the 2014 midterm election because
We conservatives can be forgiven for enjoying some amusement in the spectacle of Obamacare’s collapse, but overall the failure of Obama’s signature policy is cause for deep concern. Not because, as David Brooks suggests, because Americans have lost faith in
According to the official website of the House GOP, the 2010 pledge to “repeal and replace” Obamacare was fulfilled on January 19, 2011. “President Obama’s Job Destroying Health Care Law was repealed by the House of Representatives,” the website boasts,
On Tuesday, a 39-year-old African-American male was killed in Bastrop, Louisiana, according to local police and media reports. Shot in a friend’s driveway. One of those things, right? The sort of tragedy that leads the evening news, but in the
That crazy Ted Cruz. The Texas freshman Senator (R-Tea Party) tried to defund Obamacare, then accepted a one-year delay in the individual mandate as a compromise position. But you can’t govern from one House of Congress, and the one he’s
An interpreter at the UN accidentally revealed the truth about that organization: that it is obsessed with singling Israel out for alleged human rights abuses, but ignores real abuses in every other part of the world. UN Watch notes the
There is considerable consternation among conservatives that Republicans are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again, this time by trying to “fix” Obamacare–bowing to pressure from the media and other sources to take some joint ownership
If the 2013 elections sent a message to the Republican Party, that message was more about social conservatism than the Tea Party. Ken Cuccinelli nearly won the Virginia gubernatorial race because he embraced, belatedly, his own legacy as one of
On Thursday, during a press conference of House Democrats reacting to President Barack Obama’s proposal to “allow” insurance companies to un-cancel individual health insurance plans, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) had an interesting way of referring to Obamacare. He did not
During his press conference today on his administrative decision to allow insurance companies to extend existing individual health insurance plans for a year, President Barack Obama said the following: What is true is that, as I said before, our IT
In announcing that he would “allow” insurance companies to extend current individual health insurance plans for another year (an impossible task for many), President Barack Obama made several excuses for himself and his party in an attempt to minimize the
President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the rest of the administration’s foreign-policy team has been urging Congress not to add new sanctions on Iran for its continued enrichment of uranium in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
Lou Cannon of State Net Capitol Journal writes of Wednesday’s abysmal Obamacare enrollment numbers that California offers the “best hope of salvaging” the policy. He points out that the number of California enrollees, 30,830, exceeds the 27,000 who signed up on the
Palestinian Authority textbooks are notorious for leaving Israel off maps of the Middle East, or labeling it “Palestine.” Occasionally, such deliberate errors make their way into American texts as well. The latest example is an archaeology-themed children’s book, Thea Stilton
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said on C-SPAN Wednesday morning that the Independent Payments Advisory Board (IPAB)–the so-called “death panel” of Obamacare, which will cut Medicare costs by restricting care–should be “revisited.” His comments came as more Democrats are joining calls
A storm of debate has erupted over President George W. Bush’s scheduled address Thursday to a group whose aim is to convert Jews to Christianity. The Messianic Bible Institute‘s mission is training “leaders who will establish Messianic Jewish congregations and ministries
Secretary of State John Kerry will tell the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday that Congress should withhold any new sanctions against Iran to allow diplomacy a chance to succeed. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki put the case more bluntly, saying that
Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, stopped by the Breitbart News offices recently to share some of what his organization has been doing. You might recall PalWatch.org’s work from such classics as “Farfur,” the Mickey Mouse-like character that Hamas
First conservatives speculated that as many as 600,000 Californians could lose their individual health insurance policies because of Obamacare. Then the state’s Obamacare exchange director told the San Francisco Chronicle it could be up to 900,000. Both of those projections turned
Many observers are stunned that France has shown more backbone in dealing with Iran than the United States–especially given that France has a Socialist president. While most agree that the Obama administration has adopted a weaker posture in general, of
The Associated Press noted Tuesday that one part of Obamacare is going extremely well: new enrollments in an expanded Medicaid program. According to estimates, Medicaid has added over 400,000 new patients in ten states–roughly two million across the country, by
The controversial “Sugar Daddy” dating website SeekingArrangement.com, which pairs young women with wealthy men, has a new Obamacare-related marketing strategy: “Don’t Get Screwed by Obamacare, Find a Sugar Daddy.” Single women hit by higher-than-expected health insurance premiums through Obamacare are
“I understand the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva, as well they should because they got everything and paid nothing,” Benjamin Netanyahu said last week, in describing the “very, very bad deal” that the world was about to
