Recently added articles from Human Events:
Will Obama Put U.S. Under International Criminal Court?
Feb 16, 2009; ... Wateiboarding. Abu Ghraib. Detaining terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Dissing Hans Blix. These, as seen by the left, are the cardinal sins of George W. Bush's administration. Set aside the fraternity partylike nonsense that took place at Abu Ghraib and what's left are actions taken to protect U.S ....
Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform Successes
Feb 16, 2009; ... Welfare Spendathon adds $800 Billion Welfare reform in the mid-1990s was a major public policy success leading to a dramatic reduction in welfare dependency and child poverty. Little-noted provisions in the House and Senate stimulus bills actually abolish this historic reform. In ...
Mexican Meltdown Threatens America
Feb 16, 2009; ... The escalating brutality South of our border has now caught the attention of a branch of the Defense Department, if not our President The U.S. Joint Forces Command based in Norfolk, Va., has just completed an assessment of the world's most significant security threats. The intelligence report ...
Debating the Economic 'Stimulus' Package
Feb 16, 2009; ... With so much talk going on in Washington over plans to "stimulate" the economy, Human Events offers quotations from a number of key players about the proposals. "Republicans are ready to support a stimulus bill. But we will not support an aimless spending spree that masquerades as a ...
Capital Briefs
Feb 16, 2009; ... * KENNEDY 37 OBAMA 13: Reviews of the President's first-televised news conference last week were mixed, at least from many of the correspondents who were at the White House for the event. "Loquaciously professorial," is how ABC-TV's Jake Tapper characterized Obama's responses. One presidential ...
Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted
Feb 16, 2009; ... It's bad enough when illiterate jurors order damage awards in the billions of dollars because they don't grasp the difference between a million and a billion. Now it turns out the Democrats don't know the difference between a million and a trillion. Why not make the "stimulus bill" a ...
Majority Supports Teaching Both Sides of Evolution Debate
Feb 16, 2009; ... Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin Just in time for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of his Origin of Species, a new nationwide Zogby poll of likely voters indicates overwhelming public support for teaching the scientific evidence for and against Darwin's theory. The ...
Gaithner Gives Antidote to Confidence
Feb 16, 2009; ... The Birth of Trekonomics President Obama says we have to act boldly to solve the financial crisis. Last Tuesday, supposedly explaining the new and improved bank bailout plan, serial tax evader now Treasury Secretary Tun Geithner added that we have to try things that have never tried ...
Obama's Doomsday Scenario Doesn't Add Up
Feb 16, 2009; ... In Elkhart, Ind., last Monday, President Obama spoke as if America were approaching a doomsday that only a massive increase in government could avert. "The situation we face could not be more serious," he said. "We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the ...
Obama Administration Makes Power Grab on Census
Feb 16, 2009; ... "The American people deserve a non-partisan census in 2010, and we hope the committee will ensure that goal comes to fruition by holding an oversight hearing on the administration's potential plans to reduce the future secretary of Commerce's authority over the agency." So wrote Rep. Marsha ...
Taliban Outwits U.S. Eavesdroppers
Feb 16, 2009; ... Taliban and al Qaeda operatives have become increasingly savvy about how to defeat U.S. communications intercepts, making it more difficult to stop their attacks as the U.S. prepares to send up to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. A senior intelligence source said there are ...
Obama Cheers Jihadists by Taking Appeasement Path
Feb 16, 2009; ... According to a Syrian newspaper, the Obama Administration has agreed to sell airplane parts to Syria. If confirmed, this would be for the Obama team yet another departure from Bush Administration poli- cy, and an especially disquieting one. Syria is one of only four countries that the State ...
Obama Restores Era of Big Government
Feb 16, 2009; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill The debate between liberals and conservatives over President Barack Obama's so-called stimulus package boils down to a classic rightleft argument between those who yearn for big government and those who believe that big government isn't the solution, ...
Top 10 Confirmation Snafus
Feb 16, 2009; ... 1 President Nixon Had two Supreme Court nominees defeated, by the Senate: Clement Haynsworth (55-45) and G. Harrold Carswell (52-45). 2 President Ohama's nominees for secretary of Commerce (Bill Richardson) and Health and Human Services (Tom Daschle) withdrew before their ...
Obama's Socialism Won't Work
Feb 16, 2009; ... Obama's Socialism Won't Work With the title, James Delingpole tells readers almost exactly what they're going to find as they page through his sprightly, flip little book: Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn 't Work. Author Delingpole is one of those clever, witty ...
Obama Pursues Dangerous 'Idealism' Toward Iranian Mujahedeen
Feb 16, 2009; ... One of President Obama's first foreign policy initiatives was to open direct negotiations with the government of Iran. His action reverses the policy of every U.S. President since the seizure of American hostages by Iranian militants in 1979. Americans under age 30 probably do not ...
Gizzi on Politics
Feb 16, 2009; ... Putnam Says Goodbye When three-term Rep. Lloyd Bentsen (D.-Tex.) announced his retirement from Congress in 1954 at the age of 33, it was major news. Bentsen flatly told reporters that he could not maintain two residences and support his young family on a congressman's salary. So he left ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Feb 16, 2009; ... 1. Who was the first President to be the target of an assassination attempt? 2. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who was just appointed secretary of Commerce, will have served as congressman, governor, U.S. senator, and a Cabinet member (if, of course, the Senate confirms his appointment) ....
'Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny'
Feb 16, 2009; ... It was perhaps all too fitting that in honor of what would have been Ronald Reagan's 98m birthday, hundreds of admirers and onetime colleagues gathered to pay tribute to the late President at Washington's Kennedy Center to honor his memory with some wordy speeches and a quite admirable ...
Is Obama Truly Confused About Global Jihad?
Feb 09, 2009; ... Jihad Watch "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy." So said Barack Obama in his first interview as President, which, in a highly significant symbolic move, he gave to the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya network. For the new President, it ...