While the rest of the world is otherwise engaged, the peaceful religious people of Tibet are disappearing. They don’t qualify for a humanitarian mission such as the one in Libya. TIBET – CHINA Lhasa “has become a hell for Tibetans. Here’s how they live ” A rare eyewitness account of the life of the Tibetan…
The UN, that would be the UN which appointed Iran to the women’s rights council, is now faced with yet another enticing option. Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are to run unopposed for seats on the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council this year, reported the independent monitoring group UN Watch. “It’s an outrage,” said Hillel Neuer,…
The UK healthcare system is in trouble (you know, the system like the one we are going to get) because it is too expensive and the waits for care are too long. It is well-known that patients either seek private health insurance or die as a solution to the long waits so that is…
President Obama has been struggling to get the economy back because Bush did a worse job than he ever imagined and because the powerless House Republicans have been obstructionists. Wisely, the Senate coyly pays the bills without ever voting on a budget in violation of a law no one cares about apparently – makes them…
The Fed is writing sweeping rules in secret. They are currently rewriting the entire rule book governing the U.S. financial system without any public input. Dodd-Frank became law in July 2010 giving the government the largest regulatory role than at any time in history. As an example of their extraordinary powers, they can throw CEO’s…
Gallup’s 30-day rolling average tracking has unemployment at 8.9%, underemployed at 18.9% and full time employed is at 64.3% though the Bureau of Truth had it at 58.5% with1.2 million people disappearing from the work force in the month of January. As reported yesterday, long-term unemployed are leaving the work force to go on social…
Tunisia is one of the most liberal Middle Eastern countries. Women are granted equal rights. Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali was ousted last year and the recent election gave the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, the third largest party, a 40 percent share in the assembly, or 89 seats. They are charged with developing the constitution and have…
The HHS mandate forcing Catholic facilities to provide free contraceptives/abortifacients is about Obamacare, which forces everyone to pay for everyone else’s every healthcare need. It will take away our individual right to make choices about that which is most precious to us – our health. This mandate is about more than freedom of religion –…
Alert!!! National Popular Vote for the Presidential Election – New York State Bill S4208/AB489 There is an urgent matter at hand in New York — the National Popular Vote plan is about to come up for a vote and if you don’t ask your representatives to vote against it, the Presidential election could be changed…
In 2009, Obama appointed Obama directed the State department to create a new appointment, U.S. Special Representative for Muslim (Ummah) Outreach, who reports directly to the Secretary of State and he did so at the urging of the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who then pushed Obama to immediately meet with the Islamic bloc. Last December, he…
NYC has its rubber rooms and Long Island has its closets for teachers who need to be out of the classroom for a variety of reasons, most of them legitimate to serious. In the end, the taxpayer carries the debt. Long Island has been notorious for paying them to leave, offering them deals, and encouraging…
This is a good thing but when will we say we have won the war on poverty? The following list leaves out things like the home phone and smart phones we give away and pay the bills for. The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau as taken from various…
Oh, no, welfare checks cannot be spent in strip clubs or casinos if the mean House Republicans get their way. They have no pity for the downtrodden who need a little wholesome entertainment. Bad Republicans. We all want our tax money going to strip joints because that is who we are now. How do you…
The NY Post found some of the 1.2 million who disappeared from the work force in January. Long term unemployed who cannot find work have increased by 18% with 43% of them declaring mental illness as the reason for requesting social security disability. Long term unemployment apparently causes insanity. Interestingly, social security disability was one…
A month ago, I had the opportunity to join with hundreds of Middle Country School District residents at a planning meeting to discuss fiscal challenges facing the district. Confronted with a $10.3 Million budget deficit in the coming year, all options are on the table. As a representative from Assemblyman Al Graf’s office, I spoke…
Obama told us it would cost 850 billion dollars over 10 years, but now, The Congressional Budget Office tells us that it will cost 1.2 trillion dollars! Let’s check those figures again! Obama told us healthcare costs would go down! So, in its first year it rose substantially! Big deal! Obama told us that insurance…
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