The answer to that one is a big “no” by the way, but that certainly hasn’t stopped the usual green suspects trying to shoehorn the Malaysian tragedy into their grand universal theory of everything. Here’s how an enterprising environmental reporter
The de Blasio administration is frantically trying to undo the damage the mayor has done to his popularity by launching an offensive against New York City’s charter schools, according to a New York Times report. The Times reports that Mayor Bill
Today marks four years since President Barack Obama signed Obamacare into law. Although the impact on healthcare has been extensive, what he’s done since that day implicates every area of government and our national life. It’s time to shift our
First Lady Michelle Obama addressed students and faculty at Peking University in Bejing, China on Saturday and addressing free speech issues. The First Lady told the audience: That’s why it’s so important for information and ideas to flow freely over
Michelle Obama speaking at Peking University in China: Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela is getting increasingly desperate, as nothing they have tried has abated the wave of protests that began with the arrest of opposition leader Leopoldo López. After arresting two opposition party mayors this week, Maduro
The fight between mainstream New York Democrats and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s far-left coalition has escalated to new heights since his decision to rescind approval for three new charter schools. His plan is to raise taxes to fund a universal
Daniel Ceballos, the mayor of San Cristóbal, Táchira, was arrested late Wednesday night by Venezuelan secret intelligence agents as President Nicolás Maduro continues to crack down on members of the opposition party, Popular Will. Ceballos, who runs the city known
International journalists stationed in Kuala Lumpur international airport report that Malaysian police are deliberately keeping them from speaking to the families of the passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Reports follow a day in which police physically dragged relatives
The biggest, longest block party in the country kicks off Thursday and includes 10 days of community gatherings at arenas, sports bars and offices over the next three weeks. Even the prep for this block party is big – ESPN’s
This was yet another weekend of failures for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but you would never know it from reading the New York Times. While the mayor lost his bid to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers
As I mentioned in my daily column yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Beast have both used an obscure pastor and blog post to trash conservatives in general, and religious Christians specifically, as gay-panicked over Disney’s animated hit “Frozen,” which
The Venezuelan National Guard actively aims to disfigure the faces of protesters as their repressive acts torture, injure, and kill dozens of anti-socialist student protesters. Survivors of government attacks tell Latin American news outlets that police shoot for their faces,
It was in the Brooklyn GOP Radio party on Saturday night that the Brits and Europeans who ventured to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) really made their mark. Okay that’s probably not fair, since Daniel Hannan, Syed Kamall and others
Harold Ramis dies. Conservatives declare their love for him and his films. It is therefore only a matter of time before Ramis is smeared as racist. The Village Voice did the honors last week by lashing out at one of
NEW YORK (AP) — The shirtless warriors of the “300” sequel “Rise of an Empire” ravaged the post-Oscars box-office weekend with a domestic debut of $45.1 million but an even bigger international haul of $87.8 million. Seven years after the
Thanks to a number of unmeasurable factors including three brutal winter storms, New York City is enjoying a significant drop in violent crime, including robberies and murders. The New York Times has made of this occasion an “I told you
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has managed to make Andrew Cuomo look like a near-right moderate. The New York Governor took to the streets alongside charter school parents yesterday in a clear stand against de Blasio for shutting
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama pushed for at least $750 million in targeted funds in his $3.9 trillion 2015 budget to lay the foundation for universal preschool programs. Obama spoke at a D.C. elementary school that participates in a pre-kindergarten
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio previously announced that as a display of solidarity with LGBT groups who are not allowed to openly join the festivities he will not attend the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. He did, however,
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to rescind approval for the establishment of three charter schools has parents worried the mayor will leave their kids out on the street. “I would love for our son to be like
From the days after the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary until now, Democrats have relentlessly pushed “expanded background checks” as a necessary part of preventing further gun violence. In so doing, only a few of them have been honest
Members of the strongly pro-Putin Just Russia Party are introducing a bill in the Duma that would make it easier for Russia to annex territories that vote to join the nation. According to the drafters of the bill, the objective
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a “moratorium” on charter schools almost as soon as he arrived in office, and now he is making good on his promise to limit parents’ choice of schools. The New York Post
On Tuesday night’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, former “The Tonight Show” producer Dave Berg, author of “Behind The Curtain: An Insider’s View Of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show,” attributed Jay Leno’s departure from late night television to Comcast’s take
SOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — Rep. John Dingell, who played a key role in some of the biggest liberal legislative victories of the past 60 years, said Monday that he will not try to add to what is already the longest
Harold Ramis was a god. Not THE God, but a god. That is me paraphrasing one of dozens of forever-quotable lines scripted by comedy writer/director/actor Harold Ramis, who died today at age 69. When it comes to an artistic career
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Feb. 24 (UPI)–NBC says it has ordered a 13-episode miniseries based on the U.S network’s canceled science-fiction drama “Heroes.” The program will premiere in 2015, with original creator and executive producer Tim Kring at the helm, it
In 2007, Missouri rescinded the state’s “universal background check” requirement and witnessed a murder rate that grew fifteen percent slower than it had in the previous five years. In the five years prior to rescinding the law, Missouri’s murder rate
Bill de Blasio is being hit from all sides of the political spectrum for his multiple failures as a mayor, from forcing small children to brave a blizzard to the fact that no one in City Hall seems to know
The Irish Times newspaper has issued an editorial saying that it will no longer use the term “pro-life” to describe people fighting the country’s legalisation of abortion. The paper described it as a ‘loaded’ term, not fit for a news
President Obama’s FY 2105 budget will drop the one concession he had made to Republicans on entitlement reform. Under pressure from Congressional Democrats, Obama’s budget will not contain a proposal called “chained CPI” which changes the calculation of cost-of-living increases
In the first installment of this trilogy, we explored how many big decisions in America are made as the result of institutional behavior, as opposed to any sort of ideology, left or right. That is, institutions have their own gravity,
Venezuela’s largest newspaper El Universal reports that, while President Nicolás Maduro might not be especially popular in his own country, he at least still has a friend in Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian leader reportedly sent a telegram to
After all the gossip and speculation it’s time to come clean: Scarlett Johansson and I are more than just good friends. Much, much more. Yes, we have shared moments of intimacy – not, alas, together, or even at the same
Jimmy Kimmel might have been briefly forgotten amidst the hoopla surrounding Jimmy Fallon’s ascension to The Tonight Show throne. Last night, Kimmel reminded audiences both how a comedian can speak truth to power and that Jay Leno’s legacy of mocking
Will gun control ultimately include arrests for possession of broken, historic military firearms? Breitbart London reports this is exactly what’s happening to John Carter, a Freeman of both Coventry and London, who faces five years imprisonment for possession of “a
Many met the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio with concern, expecting his radical progressive agenda to ravage New York City. Instead, de Blasio’s tenure is being defined by what he is not able to do. With reports of confused staffers
Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-OR) is intending to draft a law that would entitle every child born in the United States to a $500 savings account of their own. Wyden stated that if there were universal savings accounts for newborns, it
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has a violent situation on his hands, as protests against the socialist regime escalate and the death toll rises. Reuters reports that protesters have vowed to continue until Maduro resigns, but Maduro has only escalated the
