The City Council of Berkeley California failed on Tuesday to pass a resolution inviting detainees from the Guantanamo prison facility to settle in their community. Only one council member had the courage to stand up for their convictions and vote to support their brethren in Guantanamo. Four council members voted to abandon their brothers and [...]
President Obama stated this week that under his proposed budget, “We will not be adding more to the national debt.” Unfortunately, Barack’s words are not backed up by his own numbers. Let’s look at the numbers which the White House has posted: Year Public Debt 2010 $9.019 trillion 2011 $10.856 trillion 2012 $11.881 trillion 2013 [...]
The federal government has lately slid from being ignorant of the Constitution, to ignoring it, to being openly hostile towards it. President Obama himself stood before Congress and verbally abused the Supreme Court for enforcing the First Amendment — this from a man who swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of [...]
A recent poll by Pew Research was intended to highlight the differences between mainstream Republicans and Tea Party Republicans. While it achieved minor success at doing that, it also pointed out something far more significant — the Democrats still do not “get” the fact that the United States federal government is spending the nation into [...]
In July of last year, the University of Maryland commissioned Zogby to poll the people of Egypt. Here are a few of their findings: 85% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable attitude toward the U.S. 87% of Egyptians have no confidence in the U.S. 92% of Egyptians believe the U.S. is one of two nations that [...]
A British court sentenced Ashraf Azad to only six months in jail for torturing his sister for three hours and threatening to murder her. Afshan Azad, the young British actress who played Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” movies, was beaten and tortured in London because she was caught talking to a Hindu boy. Her [...]
