By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann of newsmax.com

President Barack Obama has taken the United States one more giant step towards socialism by ramming through the Senate his financial regulation bill.

The bill authorizes the secretary of the Treasury — a political appointee — to seize any financial company (bank or nonbank) simply because, in his opinion, it is too big to fail and in danger of insolvency.

This power can be used for political retribution, pressure for campaign funding, or any other abuse bureaucratic whim or partisan politics can conceive. It is a power Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez would love to have! [Read more →]

by Michael Farris from parentalrights.org

On April 1, the Islamic nation of Maldives proudly announced a breakthrough in long-stalled negotiations to create an international tribunal to receive complaints from individual children.   For twenty years, internationalist efforts to create a new world tribunal for children to challenge the actions of their own governments have been thwarted by political division.  But, after a month of negotiations led by Maldives a unanimous agreement was reached on the components for a new optional protocol to be added to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Maldives is a curious choice to lead negotiations on a human rights treaty.  When Maldives signed and ratified the CRC in 1990-91, it boldly rejected any semblance of religious freedom—a central “right” in the CRC.  The Maldivian reservation proclaims: “The Government of the Republic of Maldives expresses its reservation to paragraph 1 of article 14 of the said Convention on the Rights of the Child, since the Constitution and the Laws of the Republic of Maldives stipulate that all Maldivians should be Muslims.”  [Read more →]

From Stalin to Obama, the mainstream media’s history of bias leaves us asking: Who can handle the truth? Andrew Breitbart’s newest venture, Big Journalism, arrives just in time — as Bill Whittle explains in the latest episode of Afterburner.

Kitty Werthmann was born in Austria and lived under Nazi rule for seven years, eventually immigrating to the United States in the 1950s. Currently residing in South Dakota, Mrs. Werthmann recently told her story to the South Dakota Family Policy Council, sponsored by Eagle Forum.

Download her story (PDF).

“It dawned on me. It’s freedom.”

Kitty Werthmann tells this story of her arrival in the United States:

“I was processed in New York. I stayed in a hotel the first night, and the next morning asked the concierge for directions to the nearest police station. I asked if it was in walking distance, and it was.

“I walked in and told the desk sergeant I wanted to register. He said,’What are you talking about?’ I said I wanted to register, so they’d know where I was. How would they find me if I broke the law? He said don’t worry, they’d find me. And then he said, ‘Lady, get *** out of here.’

“I walked outside and it was a January day with a blue sky.

“I looked up and said, ‘What kind of country is this?’ All of a sudden it dawned on me. It’s freedom.”

What is killing American confidence and innovation? Bill Whittle takes a look at the Leftist attitudes that threaten the ideals of optimism and progress in the latest Afterburner segment on PJTV.