Hi, everybody. Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I’d work to change a tax code that too often benefited the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Burma (Myanmar) Army warplanes strike Kachin rebels in north Australians blame Chinese for shortage of baby milk formula Venezuela’s government vows unity as Chávez’s health deteriorates Bloggers reveal the pork and new spending in
The good news is that ignoring Andrew Sullivan will now save you $19.99 a year. The better news is that Sullivan’s decision to go the paywall route will further diminish whatever impact he has. According to Sullivan, though, it’s not
The Huffington Post published a stern rebuke to celebrities attacking the process of fracking one day before the release of Hollywood’s most strident anti-fracking feature. “Promised Land,” starring and co-written by Matt Damon, pits a small Pennsylvania town against a
FOX NEWS: VATICAN CITY – Despite the tension and violence that shook the Holy Land this year, Christians from around the world flocked to Manger Square in Bethlehem on Monday to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West
Later this week, roughly two dozen members of the House of Representatives will return to the sad task of clearing out their offices. Some of the departing incumbents deserved to lose. Some did not, and some will be sorely missed.
As a result of a falling birthrate that created a crisis in Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s government is already paying women to have a second child and trying to establish a system of payments for mothers who have a third
Left-of-center efforts to prevent the exploration, use, or building and bettering of domestic infrastructure needed for American energy independence have begun to follow the path of the Left’s other efforts — disingenuous re-framing and repackaging. After decades of efforts to
The federal government’s food stamp recruitment program SNAP, the AARP, and the Urban League are teaming up to end “senior hunger” in the nation’s capitol regardless of an individual’s income level. According to the D.C. Hunger Solutions website: DC Hunger
A divided Egypt is being called to vote in a referendum Saturday on a new constitution that the secular opposition fears will be used by President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood to usher in an Islamist interpretation of laws.
Watching Congressional Republicans participate in “fiscal cliff” negotiations resembles 10-year old boys playing a pick-up, tackle football game where the quarterback says “everyone go out.” However, this is an unfair comparison in some ways – the kids in the park
The university system, which has been run by leftists for years, has done its job well in fomenting hatred for Israel. After the California Assembly passed resolution HR 35, which “Calls upon officials of California public post secondary educational institutions
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is heading back to Cuba on Sunday for more surgery for cancer, announcing on television that the illness has returned after two previous operations, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Chavez acknowledged the seriousness
Nigel Farage has campaigned for 20 years to get Britain to leave the European Union, and he now leads the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing political party, the Independence Party, which is gaining strength largely due to Farage’s anti-European Union message. Farage’s
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUBAssociated PressRAMALLAH, West BankEuphoric Palestinians erupted in cheers, honked car horns and chanted “God is great” after the United Nations endorsed an independent state of Palestine, giving sweeping international backing to their demands for sovereignty
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com United Nations creates the nation ‘Palestine’ Mahmoud Abbas demands an end to the Israeli occupation Israeli ambassador says that Palestinians don’t want peace China to step up military confrontations in South China Sea Philippine
By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember
Following last year’s failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain admission to the United Nations as a full member state via UN Security Council vote (known as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, or UDI), PA President Mahmoud Abbas
(AP) Palestinians certain to win recognition as a stateBy EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state Thursday but success could exact a high price: Israel and the United States warn it could
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is Israel’s most decorated soldier but was also the Prime Minister who once offered Yasser Arafat 98% of Jerusalem, announced his resignation Monday. Barak said he wants to spend more time with his family.
The announcement by Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak that he will leave politics after Israel’s elections in January 2013 is being treated as a surprise by both Israeli and international media. Yet in reality, Barak’s departure–his second retirement, after losing
(AP) In shocker, Israel’s Barak quits politicsBy AMY TEIBELAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsraeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday abruptly announced he was quitting politics, injecting new turmoil into the Israeli political system weeks ahead of general elections. Barak, Israel’s most-decorated soldier and
Separatist parties in Catalonia have won a regional election, further pushing the leadership to consider holding a vote to break with Spain. Supporters of Catalan President Arthur Mas, who has moved from a moderate position to the separatist camp over
On Thursday, Mexico’s lame-duck president Felipe Calderon announced he will attempt to formally change the country’s name by taking “United States” out of it. Mexico is officially referred to as “United Mexican States” or “Estados Unidos Mexicanos.” Calderon would like
Nothing against the neighbors, really. Mexico’s outgoing President Felipe Calderon has suggested that the United States of Mexico change its name to, well, just plain Mexico. Mexico, which means Navel of the Moon in the indigenous Nahuatl language, was called
By AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROEgypt’s highest body of judges slammed on Saturday a recent decision by the president to grant himself near-absolute power, calling the move an “unprecedented assault” on the judiciary. The statement from the Supreme Judicial Council came as
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROSupporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give himself near-absolute power to root out what he called “weevils
By DALIA NAMMARIAssociated PressRAMALLAH, West BankThe remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed Tuesday as part of a renewed investigation into his death, a Palestinian investigator said Saturday. Arafat died in November 2004 in a French military
Retiring Texas Congressman Ron Paul (R) wrote on Monday that he felt secession is a “deeply American principle” in response to the petitions the White House has received from Americans from all 50 states asking to allow their states to
A bipartisan group of 18 senators, led by Sens. John Hoeven (R-ND) and Max Baucus (D-MT), wrote a letter to President Obama asking for a meeting about the trans-continental Keystone XL Pipeline. Moody’s, the ratings agency, forecasted the Obama administration
Catholic.org reported: Martin Luther King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” (April 16, 1963) is one of our nation’s elegant testimonies to the political implications of our Declaration of Independence: Indeed, there may be more theological letters written from the confines
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) hit the nail on the head on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday: “I don’t think it’s about the Republican Party needing to become more moderate. I really believe it’s the Republican Party becoming more
(AP) Puerto Rico vote endorses statehood with asteriskBy BEN FOX and DANICA COTOAssociated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto RicoPuerto Ricans have supported U.S. statehood in a vote that jubilant members of the pro-statehood party say is the strongest sign yet that the
Traditional Democrat spin dictates their party cares about the concerns of the poor, while Republicans care about the rich. However, the person who has been spending perhaps the most time addressing the problem of poverty in the United States is
By MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated PressMcLEAN, Va.Wars and video games seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. But those games usually involve tanks and machine guns and Tet offensives; not horses, bayonets and Bunker Hill. Now, though, one of the
Obama made a major immigration speech last year casting the need for reform in economic terms and explicitly connecting it to jobs and the middle class. But the glossy jobs booklet the President is promoting in swing-state appearances makes no
Thomas Jefferson understood that for our democracy to survive, the United States needed a free press to keep government and elected officials accountable. Indeed, Jefferson was such an outspoken proponent of free speech and a free press that he once
By BASSEM MROUE and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDYAssociated PressBEIRUTMilitants carrying assault weapons clear the area around a street, shouting in Arabic for people to get out of the way. A jeep pulls up: The world’s No. 1 jihadi has arrived for
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: England and Scotland agree to a referendum on Scottish independence European negotiations for Greece bailout will miss another deadline Germany does U-turn and rules out ‘Staatsbankrott’ for Greece England and Scotland agree to a
Amendment V in the Bill Of Rights states the government is not allowed to seize private property for public use without just compensation. Landowners on the border of America and Mexico claim the government is not compensating them to seize
