You read that right. Kerry Picket of The Washington Times notes an alarming radio interview with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In it, Pelosi calls for an investigation–presumably, by Congress–of the massive grassroots opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque.
Washington Times: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, called for an investigation of those who are protesting building the Ground Zero Mosque on Tuesday.
The Chinese are already discomfited by the spectre of U.S.-South Korean naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, but now their anxiety is increasing over the U.S. plans for drills in the South China Sea. The giant nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS
What else is the State Department larding out, at hard-pressed taxpayers’ expense, to facilitate “understanding” with the Muslim world? What else, that is, in addition to Ground-Zero-Mega-Mosque Imam Rauf’s likely fund-raising gig in five, oil rich countries? Just as it
Your tax dollars at work: hoop dreams, 2010: Even Dana Milbank of the in-the-tank, corrupt Washington Post — Ground Zero of the JournoList — can’t take it any more: While President Obama’s wife and younger daughter were conducting international relations
The Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy has led tens of millions of couples to abandon or abort baby girls and created a huge and growing surplus of men. What does this all this excess testosterone mean for China and, more
Julie Murphy is only seven years old, but she embodies the classic American zeal for entrepreneurship. She learned about lemonade stands after seeing one in a cartoon. She got excited and wanted to open one of her own. And so
I know the issues involved with trying to improve the ability of deployed soldiers and civilians to actually get an absentee ballot in sufficient time to vote it and return it are multi-jurisdictional, cost money, require civil servants at the
The “appearance of impropriety” is often considered the Washington standard for corruption and misbehavior. With that in mind, alarm bells began ringing in my head when I read this Washington Times report about Jacob Lew, Obama’s nominee to head the
The Washington Times reports the supposedly conservative U.K. government is going to continue Britain’s war on free speech (and Dr. Savage): He’s still on Britain’s least-wanted list. Talk radio host Michael Savage has waged a vigorous fight against the British
The left is jumping up and down screaming “Gotcha!” over a post at American Prospect by Adam Serwer that purports to debunk the New Black Panther voter intimidation story. Serwer’s headline: “When Was the Black Panther Case Downgraded” is an
Last Thursday President Obama acknowledged during his speech on comprehensive immigration reform that under Washington’s failed leadership legal immigration had become a fallacy as we have been reporting here and here. As the President stated, “More fundamentally, the presence of
You probably don’t recognize the name J. Christian Adams Mr. Adams name, but you will very soon. Adams recently resigned from his position as Attorney in the Voter Rights Division of the Department of Justice to protest the racism, perjury,
Last week, at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo., a conference on the Korean War saw the CIA release of a large volume of long-classified documents. One of them led to this revelation: Declassified Documents Show CIA Blunders in
When Washington opened the doors to taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street firms they set off a modern day gold rush for lobbyists, corporations and unions looking to get their piece of the pie. The car companies lined up for their
Thirty little buses in New York City…my, how they roll. Through our organization Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer and I have placed ads on New York City buses, offering help to Muslims wishing to leave Islam. Our ads ran
Suzanne Fields in the Washington Times: Punditry and wonkery are great fun, and occasionally get things right, but a man named Jonathan Kahn actually represents something new for conservatives to sing about. He’s on his way to becoming an authentic
This piece originally ran on the Opinion page of the May 17, 2010, edition of the Washington Times. Elena Kagan’s problem is not that she has too much empathy but that she has too little. President Obama famously made “that
With the latest crisis that can’t go to waste, the Obama Administration is now using the Arizona immigration law to codify the Latino vote against Republicans in an attempt to save the Democrat majority. I guess one could say it’s
As our readers have already learned, Rep. Andre Carson gathered Capitol Hill reporters around him and told the tale of racial slurs and menacing crowds on the verge of hurling rocks at the congressmen. Our first few videos showed the
Mexican President Felipe Calderon asked for it when he attacked Arizona’s new immigration law as a “violation of human rights.” Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R) and others responded to Calderon’s attacks by pointing out the hypocrisy. Anyone who has compared
Last night (Tuesday) on his TV show, Glenn Beck dropped another bombshell — on Thursday, Congress will take up a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Why is our Congress doing this now? Secretly? Quickly? If it hadn’t been
Since I began blogging about the dysfunctional, bloated bureaucracy at the Central Intelligence Agency, I have been inundated with phone calls and emails encouraging me to keep it up. Not surprisingly, many of them are from people fed up with
Voter intimidation is a serious threat to our democracy – a parasitic anomaly that many Americans have sacrificed a great deal to prevent. It is unconscionable that we live in a modern society in which such overt thuggery coexists with
Ever wonder what it must be like to be standing right in the middle of the action when a huge story breaks? Thanks to Kerry Picket at the Washington Times, you can come close to that experience. Except, in this
President Obama, speaking at a rally in Iowa City on March 25, challenged opponents of Obamacare who have vowed repeal. To repeal advocates, the President said, “Go for it.” Before the first light of dawn on the morning after this
Once again The New York Times misses the big picture in its coverage of organized labor. The Old Grey Lady reports: [U]nion leaders had amassed an armory of research on derivatives, mortgage foreclosures and even Wall Street pay as part
Since its founding, ShoreBank has been a progressive-minded bank focused on community development. However, it soon adopted the progressive commitment to environmentalism after founders Ron Grzywinski and Mary Houghton were approached in 1993 by Ecotrust, an environmentally-conscious firm focusing on
The Conservative 100, DBKP’s bi-weekly ratings of the most popular conservative websites came out today, and though the top ten places stayed the same, there were plenty of changes elsewhere. Fox News, Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, The Drudge Report,
In his first interview since resigning from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yosi Sergant blames both the White House and right-wing media for the NEA Propaganda Scandal, as the controversial August 10th conference call has come to be known.
From today’s Washington Times: If your finances looked like the federal budget, you wouldn’t get elected. You’d get arrested. Under the Democrats’ iron-fisted, one-party rule of Washington, family budgets shrink and the federal budget bloats: The deficit, the debt and
One in five democrats in Massachusetts is going with Scott Brown. That’s bad enough. Now there’s more bad news for democrat Martha Coakley… Scott Brown is holding a press conference at 4:00 PM EST. (From contacts in Massachusetts) He may
From the U.K. Telegraph: 2009 was the breakout year for the irrepressible Andrew Breitbart, 40, a conservative firebrand operating deep in enemy territory in Los Angeles, and the sky will be his limit in 2010. A regular presence on Fox
From the U.K. Telegraph: 2009 was the breakout year for the irrepressible Andrew Breitbart, 40, a conservative firebrand operating deep in enemy territory in Los Angeles, and the sky will be his limit in 2010. A regular presence on Fox
The Soros-linked far left Media Matters today announced that the Kevin Jennings GLSEN scandal reported here on this blog and at Big Government is a non-scandal that was rightfully ignored by the state-run media. Here’s a question: If it is
Today, the Obama White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen Aponte as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. It is not Ms. Aponte’s first brush with an ambassadorship. In 1998, President Clinton nominated her to be Ambassador to the
Washington Times: The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot
Actor Robert Davi feels a responsibility to tell you what he thinks about the latest headlines. He just happens to do so from the Right. The actor, best known for roles in “License to Kill,” “Die Hard,” “The Goonies,” and
On November 12 2009, the federal government moved to seize four mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by the Alavi Foundation, a group allegedly under the direct control of the Iranian government. The following day, the Washington Times
From the Washington Times: Sen. Jim DeMint says Washington politicians are like fruit on the vine: the longer they hang around, the more rotten they get. The South Carolina Republican – hearkening back to the days of the party’s “Contract