As a short diversion from the world of politics, I was excited to read on Arutz 7 the news that Jerusalem beat London, Paris, and many other prominent cities to earn a ranking at #17 on the list of best tourist cities in the world in this year’s Travel and Leisure Magazine poll. Only... »
Archive for July 15th, 2009
Tort Reform, Not Healthcare Reform
Philip K. Howard writes in today’s Wall Street Journal something that we on the right have been advocating for a long time: until we reform the tort system, the healthcare system can never be fixed. The problem, as Howard points out, is that our current tort system is skewed so heavily in favor of... »
Terrorists Go Free: Appeasement
Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review Online has posted something quite shocking, considering you generally haven’t heard anything about this in the mainstream media. Well, you might have heard from AP that Obama has freed five imprisoned Iranian “diplomats”. What AP and the rest of the media is conveniently forgetting to mention is that... »
Revisionist Obama
Liz Cheney penned a great piece in The Wall Street Journal the other day about Obama’s penchant for rewriting history on his World Apology Tour. I wrote on this blog previously about his speech in Cairo, which Liz talks about as well, but his latest stop on the World Apology Tour is Moscow, where... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]