Venezuela’s Collapsing Health-Care System
Some of Venezuela’s public hospitals are closing. Others are ridden with crime. Many physicians are quitting medicine — starting new careers in Venezuela or immigrating abroad, upset at being paid a...
View ArticleBagging Bin Laden: The Wasted Years
In the months leading up to the September 11 terror attacks, the Bush administration had Osama bin Laden on its radar. He was not a household name in America yet, but top administration officials...
View ArticleEurope’s Communist Past Haunts Euro-Zone
It’s an overlooked aspect of the euro-zone debt crisis and Greece’s probable default: the hand that former European communists (now top members of the European Parliament) had in creating the...
View ArticleThe Slave Reparations Racket
In another case of anti-Western grievance-mongering at the United Nations, the leaders of two Caribbean nations are calling for slave reparations from Western nations that profited from the...
View ArticleHugo Chavez: Sick in Mind and Body
In a Havana cancer ward, as Hugo Chávez contemplates his final days, the truth about his medical condition — mental and physical — is coming out. His face grotesquely bloated, Hugo Chávez has been...
View ArticleHonor Killing Adoption
A British court recently made legal history — ordering the adoption of an out-of-wedlock Muslim baby to prevent it from suffering an “honor killing.” Britain is abuzz over this bizarre and...
View ArticleU.S. Jamaican Embassy Honors Stalin Propagandist
In a ceremony befitting President Obama’s vision of a repentant postmodern America, a section of the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica has been named after a propagandist for Stalinist Russia and...
View ArticleWhy the Left Loves the Titanic Disaster
The Titanic sank exactly 100 years ago this week – a disaster exploited over the years by Hollywood and the ideological left. Their narrative bears little resemblance to what in fact happened in the...
View ArticleHugo Chavez: ‘I Am Not a Socialist!’
Yes, Hugo Chavez really said it: “I am not a socialist!” Not recently, to be sure, but 14 years ago when Chavez – as a cashiered Army paratrooper who’d led a failed military coup in February 1992 —...
View ArticlePiers Morgan and the Failure of British Gun Control
It’s a strange omission: liberal pundits like CNN’s Piers Morgan are fulminating over America’s “gun culture” following Newtown’s school massacre — yet they seem blissfully ignorant about what happened...
View ArticleCastro Fuels Rumors of a Chávez Death Watch
Rumors are flying in Venezuela that Hugo Chávez is on his death bed – fighting a respiratory infection in a Havana oncology ward that, according to official statements, developed after his fourth...
View ArticleThe Next Generation Searches for Answers for 9/11
It’s been a heartbreaking scene at 9/11 ceremonies in recent years: children honoring mothers or fathers they can’t remember – yet desperately want to know. Emma Kathryn Hunt is one of them. On...
View ArticleChavez’s Successor to Obama: ‘Yankee Go Home!’
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro has expelled three top U.S. Embassy officials, accusing them on Monday of fomenting economic sabotage, including all-too-frequent power blackouts, in the oil-rich yet...
View ArticleHugo Chavez Successor: Loot the Stores!
Hugo Chávez must be rolling over in his grave — convulsed with laughter. Bread-and-circuses socialism has hit new heights in Venezuela as Chávez’s hand-picked successor Nicolás Maduro ordered the...
View ArticleMedia Blackout of the ‘Knockout Game’
It’s an infuriating example of political correctness: Most of New York City’s media outlets have sanitized the nature of a spate of unprovoked attacks upon hapless pedestrians — all recent victims of...
View ArticleSix Cubans Perish at Sea
President Obama gave the Castro brothers a when shaking hands with counterpart Raul at Nelson Mandela’s funeral. But that propaganda victory for the communist tyranny meant little to six ordinary...
View ArticleTimes Puts ‘Guns & Ammo’ Magazine in Crosshairs
Guns & Ammo magazine has fallen into the liberal cross-hairs of The New York Times – the target of a bogus scandal the Gray Lady dished up as part of its anti-gun crusade. “Banished for Questioning...
View ArticleCan a Beauty Queen’s Murder Bring Down Socialism?
Beauty queens are revered in Venezuela, none more so than those crowned “Miss Venezuela.” So when a beloved former “Miss” named Mónica Spear and her ex-husband were murdered by highway bandits, the...
View ArticleThe Kennedy-Chavez Oil Subversion Campaign Lives On
Venezuela’s economy is on life support, yet its pretensions of humbling the United States persist. This is underscored by its plans to continue Hugo Chávez’s showcase anti-American propaganda program...
View ArticleVenezuelans Bleed Under Socialist Oppression
Massive and bloody anti-government protests have been roiling Venezuela for more than a month – provoked by an out-of-control murder rate, food shortages, and myriad instances of inept governance. But...
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