Marooned in Moscow, Snowden Running Out of Options
Professed intelligence-leaker Edward Snowden, who remains in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, faces a decreasing range of options as he attempts to evade U.S....
View ArticleBloomberg: 'The Numbers Don't Lie' on Stop-Question-and-Frisk
The Wall Street Journal reported today that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stepped up his defense of the city's police department and its stop-question-and-frisk procedure, responding to critics...
View ArticleSenegal's Sall Spars with Obama over Homosexuality
During his joint press conference on June 27 with Senegalese president Macky Sall, President Barack Obama extolled the right of homosexual couples to marry -- and was swiftly if courteously rebuked by...
View ArticleCornel West: Blacks 'Being Pushed to the Back of the Bus' in Favor of Gays...
It's been a great week for gay activists, but Dr. Cornel West is not happy. As the postmodern professor par excellence explained to radio host Tavis Smiley last Sunday, the advances made by gays and...
View ArticleGeneral Mills Celebrates Gay-Pride Month with New Lucky Charms
General Mills is celebrating gay-pride month with one of its most famous breakfast cereals. The Huffington Post reports that the Minnesota food conglomerate is bringing Lucky Charms out of the closet....
View ArticlePro-Abortion Protestors Chant 'Hail, Satan' . . . Really
With the second special session of the Texas state legislature under way, the state capitol rotunda in Austin is filled with competing pro- and anti-abortion demonstrations. Yesterday, blogger Cahnman...
View ArticleThe State Department Spent $630,000 on Facebook 'Likes'
"It's free and always will be," runs the longtime slogan on Facebook's sign-up page. Taxpayers, however, have shelled out $630,000 on a campaign to boost the number of people who 'like' the U.S. State...
View ArticleBolton: 'This Coup Was the Right Thing'
Speaking by telephone on Fox News' The Five, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton praised the Egyptian military as "the greatest force for stability in Egypt" and declared that "we...
View ArticleEgyptian Military Announces Transitional Government, Clashes With Muslim...
Gen. Abdul al-Sisi, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, announced earlier this afternoon that the military has removed Mohammed Morsi. For the most recent update, scroll to the bottom of...
View ArticleSelf-Evident Truths
Thomas Jefferson’s opening lines of the Declaration of Independence are not the only immortal words associated with the Fourth. Today, when you’re not out grilling hot dogs, setting off fireworks, or...
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Terry McAuliffe and the Rise of the House of Ugland
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic fundraiser-turned-gubernatorial-candidate, is closely linked to a company headquartered in a Cayman Islands building long derided as a tax shelter by President Barack...
View ArticleMore on Leaf Clean Energy
I wrote this post for the Corner last night. Jim Potochny, the chief financial officer of Leaf, writes in to object to a number of points: 1. Terry McAuliffe does not have and has never had any...
View ArticleGOP Congressman Mocks Pelosi, Administration
During this morning's House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Representative Peter Roskam (R., Ill.) reminded the committee of former House Speaker...
View ArticleHatch: 'I'd Fight to My Death for the Rights of the Minority'
Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) defended the filibuster this evening in remarks to the press, and he decried a threat by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) to invoke the so-called nuclear...
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Update on Leaf Clean Energy
Last Wednesday evening on the Corner, I wrote this post about the connections between Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia, and Leaf Clean Energy Co., a firm headquartered...
View ArticleTrey Gowdy: House Can't Just Defend the Status Quo on Immigration
Representative Trey Gowdy defended efforts by the House GOP to pass an improved version of immigration reform. The South Carolina Republican, who has criticized the comprehensive immmigration bill...
View ArticleMark O'Mara: Zimmerman Retains His Second Amendment Right, Though He'll Never...
Attorney Mark O'Mara dismissed criticism of the return of George Zimmerman's handgun following his client's recent acquittal, explaining that his client "has his Second Amendment rights intact," but...
View ArticleIn Honor of Bill Clinton, EPA Pushes ATF Hero Off Building, Into Pool
To the catchphrases Whitewater and Troopergate, the transformation of Monica Lewinsky into a household name, and the use of national television airwaves to discuss the meaning of the word "is," former...
View ArticleLieberman: In Zimmerman Trial, 'The System Worked,' But a DOJ Investigation...
Joe Lieberman, the former U.S. senator from Connecticut, said of the recently concluded George Zimmerman trial, "I thought the system worked, and one of the things that struck me was how different what...
View ArticleLieberman Breaks with McCain: Don't Cut Off Egypt Aid
The retired Democratic-turned-independent senator expressed guarded optimism about the state of affairs in Egypt, and declared that, contra his former ally John McCain, the U.S. shouldn't cut off its...
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