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Toyota, which employs over 35,000 workers in the United States with factories in eight states, is the target of a government-led and union-supported attack due to recent recalls. In the U.S., it is estimated that 15,000 Lexus HS250h and 133,000 Prius models will be recalled due to gas pedal issues, with another 500,000 Prius and other gasoline-electric hybrids needing anti-brake software modification. As unfortunate and inconvenient as recalls can be, this not the first, or last time an automobile will need to be brought back to the shop for a quick fix. One might think this is the first auto...

A U.S. peace envoy has suggested that the U.S could penalise Israel financially to force it into making concessions in the Middle East peace process. Over the past two decades, Israel has benefitted from U.S. guarantees covering billions of dollars in loans, a move which has enabled it to raise money overseas more cheaply.

One would think that dignity is an easily understood concept, an equally easily understood word, and to retain one’s dignity an easy thing to do, as it is a self-determined activity. Will someone please explain this to our fearless, Ivy League over-educated, leader? Photo-ops at the Delaware Air Force base at the return home of an American warrior who did not survive his last battle; Michelle in scruffy shorts descending the steps of Air Force One; brazen million dollar shopping trips by ‘the family’ in Paris and London; flying Chicago pizza chefs to Washington for the weekly gigs at the...

So now the cat is well and truly out of the bag. For years, as the number of immigrants to Britain shot up apparently uncontrollably, the question was how exactly this had happened. Was it through a fit of absent-mindedness or gross incompetence? Or was it not inadvertent at all, but deliberate? The latter explanation seemed just too outrageous. After all, a deliberate policy of mass immigration would have amounted to nothing less than an attempt to change the very make-up of this country without telling the electorate. There could not have been a more grave abuse of the entire...

Obama’s Failure of Moral Courage Posted By Timothy Birdnow On June 27, 2009 @ 12:05 am “Courage,” according to Merriam-Webster, means “mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” Courage was considered the prime virtue through most of recorded history among virtually all peoples on the Earth, and has only recently been displaced by liberal Western concepts such as tolerance and comity. Children are no longer instilled with the desire to express courage — moral or otherwise — but instead are taught to value “openness,” “diversity,” “conflict resolution,” and other liberal forms of pacifism designed...

Memo to Obama attack dog Robert Gibbs: stop pooping on our lawn Posted By: James Delingpole at May 29, 2009 at 10:47:47 Memo to US Press secetary Robert Gibbs 1. Congratulations. Your presidential regime has managed to secure the most supine, slobbering, spineless, unquestioning media coverage since Enver Hoxha's Albania. A report last month by the Center for Media and Public Affairs said Obama has received more coverage than his two predecessors combined. On ABC, CBS and NBC news the majority of evaluations - 58 per cent - have been favourable. (Compare GW Bush - 33 per cent; Bill Clinton...

<p>For five days, the massed firepower of the US war machine, embodied by the colossal destroyer Bainbridge, seemed helpless -- unable to do anything against three Somali pirates in a lifeboat.</p> <p>Instead, it was the smallest of powers -- three men, three guns, three shots -- which ended the standoff and rescued American Captain Richard Phillips.</p>

Barack Obama has undercut any claims of meritocracy with at least one choice: the woman who will delivering his inaugural poem. Aside from the fact that she has known Obama since they worked together at the University of Chicago, one is hard-pressed to find a rationale for this honor. Only the fourth poet to participate in a presidential inauguration, Elizabeth Alexander is no Robert Frost, nor even Maya Angelou. Alexander is an unpoet who arranges words into impenetrable jumbles flecked with juvenile imagery, inappropriate word choice, an obsessive PC view of race and "gender," a dubious take on miscegenation, and...

Selected, Not Elected Politics Bob Parks, Featured Writer June 12, 2008 A fair amount of people (those who seldom agree with me on anything) take issue with my use of the phrase “Affirmative Action president” when referring to Barack Obama. Like many who even today receive preferential treatment in hiring or admissions because of their race or gender, Obama hasn’t put in the time, thus is considered vastly inexperienced when it comes to his applying for the top job in our nation. And the perception is he is receiving a lot of support where it shouldn’t be coming from. According...

The Latest Islamic Suicide Attack By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | 6/11/2008 Who is responsible for the June 2 suicide attack against the Danish Embassy in Pakistan that killed six people? An increasing number would say that the Danes themselves are responsible, or at least the Danish government, for its obstinate attachment to that irritating little principle of free speech. On Wednesday, June 4, a web posting claiming to be from Al-Qaeda said that the bombing was fulfillment of Osama bin Laden’s vow to exact revenge for the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad that ran in a Danish newspaper in...

John Cusack's Imaginary War Profiteers By Steven Zak FrontPageMagazine.com | 6/6/2008 From the safety of his stateside home, actor John Cusack has produced, co-written and stars in a movie, "War, Inc.," deriding firms like Blackwater, whose employees, at great personal risk, provide a service to their country in time of war. Since they make money, he brands them "war profiteers" who deserve to be treated as criminals. In an interview in the Los Angeles Times, Cusack assails corporations that profit during war. "Corporations have privatized the war to the point where the war itself is the cost-plus business," he rants....

Why Obama Must Go to Iraq By PETE HEGSETH June 5, 2008; Page A21 Earlier this year, I spent five days in Iraq, walking the same streets in Baghdad where I had served two years earlier as an infantry platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division. The visit reinforced for me not only the immense complexity of the war – so often lost in our domestic political debate – but also the importance of taking the time to visit Iraq to talk with the soldiers and Marines serving on the front lines in order to grasp the changing dynamics of...

A Messiah in Our Midst? By Jonah Goldberg Friday, June 6, 2008 Is Barack Obama the Messiah? Before we answer that question, let me vent for a moment. In 2000 I was cruelly denied the Pulitzer despite being the only columnist in America to ask the pressing question: Is Al Gore an alien? The evidence was there for all to see. He was born nine months after the mysterious alien sighting at Roswell, N.M. His weird syntax and verbal rhythms are otherworldly. He often refers to "earth" or "this planet" as if he's just passing through, and he once angrily...

A Big Dog in Winter By Rich Lowry New York Post | 6/5/2008 FEW things are sadder than former greats past their prime: a bloated Elvis Presley in a sequined suit; a diminished Michael Jordan making one last comeback with the Washington Wizards. And now a gaunt Bill Clinton desperately plugging his wife's doomed presidential campaign- the Big Dog in winter. With his media enablers gone, with his most faithful constituency (African-Americans) lured away by another, with the prospect of again attaining the commanding heights of American politics lost, with his magic touch in abeyance, Bill Clinton has been whittled...

Loyalty to Self Over Country The Fifth Column Frank Salvato, Managing Editor May 30, 2008 Like it or not, the reality is that we live in an extremely self-centered society. If you take issue with this statement just watch how pedestrians enter into crosswalks during rush hour. Ignoring that pedestrians only have the right of way when they are within the crosswalk, today’s bipeds don’t hesitate at all to walk directly in front of moving vehicles, expecting to be protected from trauma by their imagined “right” to occupy a space versus a 4,000lbs vehicle. While this example illustrates how being...

Wrongs & Wright Culture War Bob Parks, Featured Writer March 18, 2008 Six years ago, I was inspired to become an opinion columnist so I could attempt to give a different perspective on current events. Six years later, while watching Monday morning’s Good Morning America segment with Democrat operative Donna Brazille and NPR’s Juan Williams, I see there is still a lot to do, especially when countering the leftist representation of Black opinion in the United States. Sure, while 90-95% of Blacks vote Democrat, it is because of the inaccurate repetitions conducted daily by the mainstream media and those they...

We the People Culture War Amil Imani, Featured Writer February 14, 2008 In the United States, the oath of office for the President of the United States is specified in the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1): “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” For other officials, including members of Congress, they "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support the constitution." They must recite an oath to...

From Stupid to Dangerous USA Gabriel Garnica, Featured Writer February12, 2008 Print version sponsored by Precision Payroll of America, LLC If there is one thing that we can count on, it is the radical Left’s penchant for predictability regarding its inane approach to illegal immigrants and terrorists. In both cases, the Left has decided that coddling the culpable is the best way to go. In both cases, that strategy has not and will not work. The only difference between the two cases is that while this strategy begins as insulting and moves toward stupid with regard to illegal immigrants, it...

A Day in the Life of a Gaza-Belt Israeli Community By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, January 18, 2008 Early this week Netiv Ha’asara was in the news again—just barely, a passing mention—when a mortar shell fired from Gaza lightly damaged a house there. Netiv Ha’asara, a moshav (cooperative farming community) of 550 people, is the closest Israeli community to Gaza, a scant 100 meters from the northern border of the Strip. It was formerly one of the Sinai settlements and was reestablished at its current location in 1982 after those were torn down at the behest of Israel’s...

War Clouds over the Golan By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/15/2007 Ehud Barak, Israel’s seemingly discredited former prime minister and current defense minister, seems ready to steer Israel toward yet another destructive fad. First it was making peace with terrorists—an idea still popular in the Israeli government though less so among the public. Then it was the separation fence that would hermetically seal Israel from the violent Middle East. Now—with missiles’ ability to surmount a fence constantly and graphically on display in the Gaza arena—it’s missile defense, another supposed cure-all that Barak is already pushing. Barak is described in...