The House of Representatives is expected to vote for the 40th time this week to repeal ObamaCare, not because anyone believes the 40th time will be the charm, but because the exercise will enable Republican freshmen to vote for repeal and brag about it during their campaigns next year.... Read more»
Nigeria has charged former Vice President Dick Cheney with corruption in a case involving his old energy firm, Halliburton. Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency charged Cheney as the head of Halliburton when its engineering subsidiary, KBR, allegedly paid bribes totaling $180 million.... Read more»
The arguments against the DREAM Act have never been particularly persuasive. It’s hard to make a straight-faced argument against providing kids who lack immigration status through no fault of their own an opportunity to go to college or serve the country in the military.... Read more»2
The Blue Dog PAC raised more than $2.5 million over 2009 and 2010, almost entirely from PACs. But ultimately 58 of these special interest PACs also decided to donate to individual opponents of Blue Dog Coalition members.... Read more»
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on Tuesday morning after a Swedish arrest warrant was issued. Assange said he would fight extradition. He was denied bail and will remain in custody pending his return to court Dec. 14.... Read more»
Though successful in covering the gruesome aspects of the cartel-related carnage in Mexico, the U.S. press falls short in exposing the muzzling of its Mexican counterparts at the hands of organized crime, says one expert.... Read more»
As winter settles across Afghanistan, American M-1 Abrams tanks are just about to roll in, right past the bombed-out hulks of Soviet tanks scattered across the rugged landscape as rusted symbols of the failures of the last empire that tried and failed to occupy Afghanistan.... Read more»
When “Swastika” was shown at the 1973 Cannes film festival, scuffles broke out and someone threw a chair at the screen. The reason for the furious reaction was that the documentary appeared to humanize Adolf Hitler.... Read more»
Is the WikiLeaks dump of diplomatic cables a victory for transparency? Will it change the way governments deal with each other? Will it be seen as a new and better form of journalism? I think we have already seen enough to know the answer. It’s clearly no. So what exactly does it all add up to?... Read more»
Conservative opposition to extending the Bush-era tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 but allowing them to expire for those making more shows their lack of seriousness about tackling the deficit and how utterly uninterested they are in the public’s preferences on taxes.... Read more»
It’s safe to say that Lord Focko had no idea the village named after him would one day become a sanctuary for English-speaking sex tourists. This Austrian village attracts plenty of sophomoric humor.... Read more»7
“Don’t touch my junk” probably wouldn’t translate well into all 23 official languages of the European Union. But Europeans don’t need a rallying cry to resist what the TSA calls “enhanced pat-downs” and aggrieved travelers are calling “government-approved groping” — it’s not happening in Europe.... Read more»
Lead poisoning usually causes life-long debilitating illness, not immediate death. Yet in the state of Zamfara, a poor, arid region in northern Nigeria, lead poisoning has killed more than 400 children in the past six months.... Read more»
I must say I wasn’t sorry to leave Karachi, Pakistan’s crumbling, seaport city and financial center on the Arabian sea. A city of more that 18 million, Karachi is rife with violence and may be home to more Al Qaeda leaders than Waziristan on the frontier with Afghanistan.... Read more»1
Republicans are planning their next moves to challenge the new health law.... Read more»
“The Restored New Testament” seeks to restore the original message after centuries of distortion that feeds hatred among religions with a shared heritage.... Read more»
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