On May 2, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made history by naming the first woman — Joanne Deborah Chesimard — to its Most Wanted Terrorist list. This distinction puts Chesimard in fitting company and includes a $2 million reward for information leading to her arrest. It is high time that Chesimard pay for the heinous crimes she committed.
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint prefaced his condemnation of immigration legislation this week with the same form of inoculation conservatives often use on such occasions: He quoted Emma Lazarus.
The Constitution Project was recently released to the public. According to this report, the torture and abuse of enemy combatants detained in Guantánamo was “unquestionably” committed. In this report, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers who serve the United States in uniform were also implicated in doing harm.
Along with a boosted Buick LeSabre, another incident listed on a crime report Sunday in Arlington County, Va., was a creepy attack by a man on a woman.
For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West.
As media websites throughout Florida told of the end of the notorious “parent trigger” bill for this year, one state senator nailed the problem — the law already allows parents to get involved in fixing failing public schools, but few of them bother to do so.
The Rev. Jim Wallis is a man of the left — perhaps the defining figure of the evangelical left. So it is not surprising that I should find some of the policy views expressed in his new book, On God’s Side, badly mistaken. But this does not prevent Wallis from being resoundingly right in his central premise: that American politics would be elevated by a renewed commitment to the common good.
Last week, I was proud to visit Mexico for the fourth time as president and to meet with Central American leaders in Costa Rica. It was a chance for me to reaffirm our friendship with a region to which tens of millions of immigrants and Americans trace their roots.
John Kenneth Galbraith once observed that “the enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.” And events have finally caught up with the oft-repeated claim that torture doesn’t work and that it especially didn’t work in tracking down Osama bin Laden.
Perspective is everything. When you’re outside looking in you see one thing, and when you’re inside looking out, you see quite another.
The road ahead for women in the Middle East is not just long and winding. It is breathtakingly steep.
People are skeptical that Congress can really fix our dysfunctional immigration system. And with good reason. In the late ’80s, Congress enacted immigration reform, but the problem of illegal immigration didn’t stop, it only grew.
As the facts behind Nicolás Maduro’s fabricated electoral “victory” on April 14 are disclosed, his legitimacy and ability to govern will be decimated. Reams of confidential official documents obtained from Venezuelan sources reveal the existence of a sophisticated political machine — developed and managed by Cuban advisors — that gives Chavista party bosses an unfair advantage in mobilizing their voters and manipulating election results.
They lost me at the word “women.”
The Florida Senate last week passed a bill to speed up executions entitled, the Timely Justice Act. It was sponsored by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach. He’s the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee chairman. The House had passed the bill earlier by an overwhelming margin after members quoted from scripture.
She stepped out onto the front porch, poured grease out of a frying pan for the dogs and “heard the gun go off.”
Stop the executive search! The Beacon Council should suspend the search for a new executive director. Now is an ideal time to explore a merger of the Beacon Council, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and the World Trade Center of Miami.
The country is all “abuzz” about Jason Collins’ historic announcement that he is gay. As the first active professional gay male athlete in the United States to go public about his sexual orientation, he has owned recent headlines across the country and generated an almost unanimous wave of support from the media, fellow athletes, celebrities and political leaders. Wow!
I wasn’t trying be subversive when I hired a male babysitter this month. But it is apparently something that few parents would do.
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