Raymond Ibrahim on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide: Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the Armenian genocide that took place under Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire, during and after WWI.  Out of an approximate population of two million, some 1.5 million Armenians died. If early 20th century Turkey had the apparatuses and technology [...]

The great Oleg Atbashian at The Peoples Cube has written how Margaret Thatcher changed his "Soviet" heart and mind. It wasn't just Margaret Thatcher's steadfast economic and foreign policies that helped to defeat the Evil Empire and to bring down the Iron Curtain. She also changed hearts and minds — and this author, who grew up [...]

Last week it was the tale of two black women in Cuba. This week it's the tale of two rappers. Well, that was fast, huh? You wrote a real good rap song, real good rap song, Jay-Z. It's all about his trip to Cuba and his transforming and enlightening experiences there. Must've wrote it on [...]

The longer this lopsided debate (I say 'lopsided' because those who can immediately, wrongly and unconstitutionally end it with one executive order are in near total power) the more the pro-Constitution voices state perfectly and eloquently the truth that keeps us free in the face of those voices that intend to make us less free [...]

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. [...]

There are few men and women who will risk everything to be free. Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet dissident, who turned 70 last Sunday, is one of those. Our own brothers and sisters in Cuba who oppose tyranny, living or killed by the regime are our modern day Bukovskys, Solzhenitzyns, Sakharovs, and Sharanskys in Cuba. We need many [...]

This is one of the major reasons businesses are laying-off or reducing employees from full-time work to under 30 hours a week. Today Rush Limbaugh visited "Realville" with Betsy McCaughey's warnings about the realities of ObamaCare. I don't think there are many, if any, who have read, re-read and re-read again and again the massive [...]

Oh hell, why not, eh? I mean, they must be well-tired of denying the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and the Jewish history and rights to Jerusalem, Israel before "the Palestinians" even existed... (CNSNews.com) – An English professor at Montclair State University said that during his years of research, he did not find “one crime” [...]

A couple weeks ago Ziva posted about Human Rights Foundation CEO Thor Halvorssen's open letter to Ted Marlow, the CEO of Urban Outfitters, about the store's line of mass murderer Che Guevara merchandise. Now it looks as if Thor can claim a victory... The defiant portrait of Che Guevara has long been used for merchandising [...]

Relieved that their oil supply is safe, at least for now, the Castro's are busy at what they do best: Complaining about the non-existent embargo, promoting failure as accomplishment, and repressing peaceful unarmed women wearing white. From Capitol Hill Cubans: AI Concerned For Safety of Ladies in White Amnesty International Calls on Cuba to Allow [...]

If you have followed me since the Babalu family adopted me and invited me to post on their blog you know I am the parent of a 12-year-old Down Syndrome daughter. Pitbull/George alerted me to this in the latest of Obama's pathetic "read-a-letter-sent-to-me" political tactic... In its latest effort to slap Mitt Romney's "47 percent" [...]

Prayers for Sonia Garro's health and safety... Sonia Garro, a female pro-democracy activist and member of the Ladies in White, was imprisoned on March 18th of this year. According to Garro's sister, she has been receiving numerous death threats at the women's prison of "El Guatao", where she remains incarcerated without charges or trial. She [...]

Former Obama advisor, Steven Rattner, wrote an op-ed a few days ago, "Beyond Obamacare", that went unnoticed by the MSM (i.e., buried) that everyone needs to read. Love or hate Glenn Beck, nothing gets past that man and his eagle eye behind those Ralphie Parker glasses... Oh, BTW, Sarah Palin was right. Rattner insists, "We [...]

This week it is the annual Star Wars bar scene in New York City as leaders of the not-so-free world gather for the UN General Assembly. In the past we have been treated to Hugo Chavez's nosey observations, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hopeful prayer to hasten the arrival of that ever elusive "12th Imam" to whip everyone [...]