
By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff May 3, 2012 A very wise cleric once said to me, “Sometimes the answer to your prayer is no.” For someone who has not stepped into a house of worship for a very long time, except to attend the occasional funeral, it may seem inappropriate for me to be writing about [...]

By Jim Kouri GCC/Staff May 2, 2012 While President Barack Obama took several bows over the weekend and on Monday for allowing U.S. special forces soldiers to surreptitiously enter Pakistan and kill Osama bin Laden, a U.S. law enforcement commander and current as well as former members of the U.S. Navy SEALs slammed Obama over his eligibility to have [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff May 2, 2012 Most Americans assume that they have a right of privacy guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and, while several of the Bill of Rights imply this right, it is not specifically expressed. However, it is understood. In a Supreme Court case, Meyer v Nebraska, 1923, Justice McReynolds perhaps said [...]

by Amil Imani GCC/Staff May 2, 2012 I was born in a Muslim family that did not push religion down the kids’ throats. Yet, religion always cast a big shadow on everything. I just had to deal with it and couldn’t simply set it aside. And Islam, the Shiite Islam was the most pervasive religion [...]

By Jim Kouri GCC/Staff Apr 30, 2012 The United States is a safer place since Navy SEALs located and killed al-Qaeda’s infamous Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan on May 1, 2011 [May 2 in Pakistan], according to Pentagon and Justice Department officials on Saturday. Today, nearly a year after bin Laden’s demise, the United States and its allies continue to hunt [...]
By Gadi Adelman GCC/Staff Apr 30, 2012 “It is important to the national security interests of the United States to provide funds to the Palestinian Authority.” With that, Obama sidestepped Congress who recently froze $192 million in aid to the PA . So how does this help our National Security? The AFP reported on [...]

By Townhall Apr 30, 2012 Your doctor won’t tell you this when you’re sitting in his office, so I will: He hates Obama care. It’s time you know why your doctor is concerned about Obama care. Doctors already live in constant fear of malpractice lawsuits. The last thing they want to do is stick their [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 30, 2012 So much in life depends on the “what ifs.” When it comes to American politics, however, the outcomes can be disastrous. It’s a lesson that we need to address more often. I got to thinking about this as the news of the John Edwards trial continues. For me, [...]

By Jim Kouri GCC/Staff Apr 26, 2012 Eight U.S. Supreme Court justices listened to legal arguments regarding Arizona’s immigration enforcement law (SB 1070) on Wednesday. Only Associate Justice Elena Kagen was absent after she recused herself due to her input on the Obama administration’s case while she served as Solicitor General. During the long anticipated Arizona v. U.S. case, the constitutionality of Arizona state’s [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 26, 2012 It’s a pleasant fiction that think tanks are places where scholars spend time in dusty libraries. They are places of great intellectual ferment, but one hardly thinks of them of places were battles rage with infiltrators and propagandists, but The Heartland Institute, a 28-year-old national non-profit organization, is [...]