Archive for: May 2011

Any further negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are dead and buried.

This is the only conclusion to be drawn from the recent signing of a reconciliation agreement between rival Palestinian factions – Hamas and Fatah – intended to end …

By: Kevin Schmiesing

The headline of a report on a recent survey summed up its findings: “Capitalism Against Christianity, Americans Believe.”

Is that good news or bad news? What should Catholics think? Does Catholic social teaching imply opposition to capitalism?

Superficiality is a necessary part of liberal-progressive-socialism. Without bothering to determine how deep the water or how many boulders lie just below its surface, liberal-progressives are ready to leap head first off the cliff into any pool that looks …

It’s been two weeks since Osama bin Laden was killed.  Missing from the news is how enhanced interrogation techniques led to his demise.

People not familiar with the United States Intelligence Community wonder why it took so long to find Osama bin Laden. Some don’t realize that gathering vital intelligence on the location of the world’s most wanted man is a little tougher …

American-born terrorist, Abu Mansur Al Ameriki, a member of the Somali al-Qaeda affiliate group Al Shabaab, said at a meeting yesterday in Mogadishu that the death of Osama Bin Laden will not weaken Jihad against the United States and Israel, …

The rising price of oil has a negative impact on our economy and threatens to stifle our anemic recovery from the government produced and bureaucratically fostered Great Recession.  How did we get here?  Has anyone ever pinpointed the …

President Obama omitted any mention of the negative consequences of illegal immigration while intentionally confusing illegal aliens with legal immigrants as he pushed for Amnesty in El Paso this week.

This news story totally infuriated me. Headline: Van Jones’ Political Group Targets ‘Celebrity Apprentice’.

During her testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano unveiled President Barack Obama’s plans to develop a “border security index” to measure enforcement progress along the Southwest border.

The virus plaguing our public schools have excelled to epidemic proportions. Every year our children are subjected to the spread of this contagious disease throughout our educational environment reducing the art of learning into total oblivion. It’s the same old …

When April’s deadly tornadoes touched down in the Birmingham area, citizens turned to local broadcasters for lifesaving information.

“How people managed to stay alive during the storm was to watch James Spann,” commented Mike Murphy. Murphy is the general manager of …

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced at a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday that, as the result of a previous Committee hearing, President Barack Obama ordered the Department to devise a new system to assess border …

The conventional wisdom concerning next years Presidential election is that President Obama has nothing to worry about. The power of incumbency and the lack of a prominent challenger will assure that he is reelected next November. Some of that is …

On Tuesday, the Beltway insiders were all abuzz over President Barack Obama’s visit to southern Texas to discuss immigration and border security. Fresh from his Osama Victory Tour, Obama capitalized on his increased popularity since the killing of terrorism chief …