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Thomas Sowell: How Foreign is Our Policy?

 Many people are lamenting the bad consequences of Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and some are questioning his competence. There is much to lament, and much to fear. Multiple setbacks to American interests have been brought on by Obama’s policies in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Crimea and — above all — in what seems almost certain to […] Continue reading →

Obama’s pathetic response to Putin’s invasion of Crimea

Charles Krauthammer Early in the Ukraine crisis, when the Europeans were working on bringing Ukraine into the EU system and Vladimir Putin was countering with threats and bribes, one British analyst lamented that “we went to a knife fight with a baguette.” That was three months ago. Life overtakes parody. During the Ukrainian prime minister’svisit to Washington last […] Continue reading →

9 Million Lbs. of “Diseased and Unsound” Meat May Have Reached 35 States, Says USDA

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton  Petaluma, California’s Rancho Feeding Corporation recalled 8,742,700 pounds of meat products in February after the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined that the meat came from uninspected, “diseased and unsound” animals. “Thus, the products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food […] Continue reading →

Dumbing Down: Florida Schools Ban Low Grades

B. Christopher Agee America’s already sub-par educational standards continue to be lowered in districts across the nation. Along with the introduction of federal Common Core curriculum, teachers are becoming far more interested in dispensing leftist propaganda than instilling actual knowledge. Nowhere is this depressing trend more apparent than in Lake County, Florida. According to a […] Continue reading →

Threats at Sochi expose �a larger agenda,

Northeast Intelligence Network – by Douglas J. Hagmann  “Knowing about the terror threat to the Olympic games at Sochi is one thing. Understanding the threat and what’s behind it is quite another. There’s a very important back-story that no one is reporting,” stated this source. “Understanding what’s happening behind the scenes will put things into […] Continue reading →

Why the Pentagon�s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing

Time and again, programs to modernize Defense Department record-keeping have fallen prey to bureaucratic rivalry, resistance to change and a lack of consequences for failure. ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - The U.S. Air Force had great expectations for the Expeditionary Combat Support System when it launched the project in 2005. This accountants’ silver bullet, the Air Force […] Continue reading →

Kid Cages at School Bus Stops Spark Outrage

David Spady Environmentalists have galvanized behind a movement to resurrect wolf populations in rural America. Public support, particularly from urban regions, appears to favor the idea of returning this iconic symbol of the wilderness to America’s rural landscapes. Unfortunately there is a lack of public awareness to the real life consequences for those living with […] Continue reading →

What if Obamacare Software Crashes and Burns?

Amid all the tussling over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling, a couple of bombshells went off in the blogosphere that may prove of more enduring importance. They suggest that there is a nontrivial possibility that Obamacare may implode. The first bombshell went off on Tuesday, from Ezra Klein of the Washington Post’s Wonkblog. […] Continue reading →

The new vicious cycle of student loan debt

By: Tom Toth  Generally, the idea of going to college is not to just get a job but to begin a career. School loans are assumed to be worth the investment because of all the businesses waiting to accept entry-level graduates into their companies with open arms offering salaries, health, eye, dental, and Christmas bonuses. […] Continue reading →

Washington Post shocked that gun companies were serious about leaving anti-gun states

Someone please inform the Washington Post that their order of schadenfreude is ready. Gun companies were not kidding when they said they’d leave if states passed anti-gun laws that outlawed their products. Apparently, the concept of companies being honest is alien to those poor souls trapped inside the Beltway: It’s not uncommon for businesses to […] Continue reading →

The �consequences

CNN lists the details of the wonderful new U.S.-Russian “deal” over Syrian chemical weapons, which mostly consists of Russia tossing a couple of sound-bite bones to the hapless Obama Administration while securing Bashar Assad in power and locking down Russia’s new dominance in the Middle East: The four-page “Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons” […] Continue reading →