Roger Hedgecock has the top story at Human Events today. Though private fraud gets the bigger headline (think Bernie Madoff), fraud in federal government programs is now so pervasive that even the Obama press is taking notice. The scope of fraud in all federal programs dwarfs the corruption in the private sector the media loves to sensationalize. Consider the fraud in the Wall Street bailout. | Read More »
Here is today’s top story at Human Events. One of the most revealing things about liberals is their insistence that only they can define a “real” minority or a “real” woman. In the eyes of the left, Clarence Thomas, Ken Blackwell and J.C. Watts will never be “real” black men. Likewise, Michele Bachmann, the smiling firebrand conservative congresswoman from Minnesota, and Sarah Palin, the popular | Read More »
Jed Babbin has the top story at Human Events today. Scattered among the first breaking news reports of the Fort Hood massacre were statements by FBI sources that there was no terrorist connection to Maj. Nidal Hasan’s jihadist murder of his fellow soldiers. Why? Three days after the murders, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told a CNN interviewer, “Our diversity, not only in | Read More »
Here’s the top story at Human Events today. How do you solve a problem like Nidal Hasan? This was the question that U.S. Army Captain/Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan’s fellow students in medical school and his superiors at the Walter Reed Medical Center asked themselves over and over. In the long run, all were afraid to confront and deal with both his poor performance as a | Read More »
Rep. Connie Mack has the top story at Human Events. Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez — together with the likes of Cuba’s Castro brothers, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega — is spewing a populist, leftist, and strongly anti-American brand of politics that is spreading throughout Latin America. There, a rebellion against Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution is gathering that the Obama administration seems eager to quell. | Read More »
Ross Kaminsky has the top story at Human Events today. It is well worth a read. 2010 — The year in which Democratic health care “Reform” plans will raise your taxes, impose penalties on your company, and cause your health insurance premiums to increase dramatically, a remarkable achievement given that it is three full years before the plans suggest making any substantive changes to our | Read More »
Reporting from Afghanistan. Amid the debate in Washington over whether or not to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, it would be easy to overlook the fact that there are thousands of soldiers from other countries in the field with their American counterparts. There are the British, with thousands of Tommies on the line and a flow of body bags to prove it. So, too, | Read More »
Jed Babbin has the top story at Human Events today. Compared to Nancy Pelosi, former House Majority Leader Tom “The Hammer” DeLay was a pussycat. Speaker Pelosi means to force doubtful Dems to vote for the health care nationalization bill this week or next. But her tactic is anti-historical: she doesn’t remember that in World War Two, Japanese kamikaze pilots were all volunteers. Pelosi | Read More »
John Gizzi gets top billing today at Human Events and is covering NY-23. “The mayor of Plattsburgh just endorsed us and ten more [Republican town] committee members came out for Doug. And ten more congressman endorsed him today. We’re on a roll! The debate’s starting — gotta go.” That was my conversation yesterday with Rob Ryan, spokesman for Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in | Read More »
W. Thomas Smith, Jr. has the top story at Human Events today. Test pilot Jon Beesley — one of only two men on the planet to have flown both the F-35 Lightning II and the F-22 Raptor — says aerial combat is not two gunfighters facing each other in the middle of the street, drawing pistols, and shooting it out. “That’s High Noon, that’s | Read More »
Alexander Deane has the top story at Human Events. I’ve written previously on HUMAN EVENTS about the state of Big Brother Britain, and things are only getting worse. News broke this week that the police have a series of databases recording the personal details of thousands of people who attend protests or rallies, which are searchable by a number of officers and come complete with | Read More »
Over at Human Events, Richard Tomkins is delivering on the scene reporting from Afghanistan. The young Army captain lit a cigar, inhaled and took in the night sky. It had been a vexing week. His outpost had been attacked by extremists using rocket propelled grenades, a platoon had been fired upon while on an intelligence-gathering mission and people in the nearby market place, once friendly, | Read More »
Oliver North takes after the President today: It’s already the front edge of winter in America’s Great Plains. Here, where the air is clear and crisp, there is a passion for walking behind a good dog while hunting pheasants and a good “alibi” for missing a fast-flying bird is an art form. “It was too low for a good shot,” or “I didn’t want to | Read More »
How many more soldiers will needlessly die before Obama makes up his mind on Afghan strategy. President Obama’s announced decision this week to remain undecided on new troops in Afghanistan for weeks, or even months, rejects his top commander’s determination that without urgent reinforcements the war may be lost. At yesterday’s White House press briefing, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs reconfirmed that President Obama had not | Read More »
Read this at Human Events please. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has turned his back on the latest science, economics, the Republican Party, and American national security, by announcing his new partnership with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) to find “the winning formula” to pass global warming cap-and-trade legislation. Graham is now touting his view that man-made global warming fears are real and can be “solved” by | Read More »
Rowan Scarborough has the top story at Human Events today. The political Left is now attacking Gen. Stanley McChrystal over his proposed troop surge in Afghanistan in the same way it tried to besmirch the character of Gen. David Petraeus when he promoted the successful Iraq reinforcement. The lesson: when a four-star commander wants to win a war with more troops they get profiled by | Read More »
Elisabeth Meinecke has the top story at Human Events today. It’s about Rush and the Rams. For all the fuss over Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to buy the NFL’s St. Louis Rams franchise, you’d think he’d been torturing dogs or accidentally firing pistols in nightclubs. Oh, wait: those are the players. All Rush Limbaugh has done is work hard for decades to build his personality | Read More »
God help us. Another Obama advisor is defunct in the head. Robert Spencer has the top story at Human Events today about this one. Dalia Mogahed, Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, appeared on British television last week, where she said: “Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.” How have we misunderstood Islamic law? We have associated it | Read More »
Jed has today’s top story at Human Events. What is the life of an American soldier worth? President Obama apparently values it as little as he values defeating our enemies in Afghanistan. The gap between President Obama’s thinking on Afghanistan and that of his chosen commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has grown from a crevice to a canyon. Unless President Obama is quickly brought to | Read More »
Today’s top story at Human Events is an interview with Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell.
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