Everyone says it when they see the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. And so did President Obama. “It’s awe-inspiring,” he exclaimed as he gave those wonders of the world a final glance before bringing his one-day visit to Egypt to an end. “Alright, I guess we got to go back to work,...

Oooh, will he also send a picture of himself making his “stern” face? North Korea Nukes The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday at an international conference. “We will not stand idly by as North Korea bui...

President Obama’s endorsements of Bush-Cheney antiterror policies are by now routine: for example, opposing the release of prisoner abuse photographs and support for indefinite detention for some detainees, and that’s just this week. More remarkable is White House creativity in p...

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1. Watch Out For The ZOMBIES! Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London. Aft...

Obama Says Swine Flu ‘Not a Cause for Alarm’ Oinker!!! President Obama said on Monday that the growing number of cases of swine flu in the United States and abroad was “not a cause for alarm,” but he sought to assure Americans that the government was taking precautions to prepare for...

FBI hostage negotiators joined U.S. Navy efforts Thursday to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. A U.S. destroyer and a spy plane kept a close watch in the high-seas standoff near the Horn of Africa. The pirates took Capt. Richard Phillips hosta...

There is a new acronym in the lexicon of Obama administration national security moguls. “AfPak” stands for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The term denotes the administration’s desire to take a unified approach to policy and strategy for these two countries. President Barack Obam...

For all of the keen intellect that President Barack Obama showed in his online town hall meeting, he didn’t seem to know much about reefer economics. When asked whether legalizing marijuana might be a stimulus for the economy and job creation, he played the question for laughs. PRESID...

North Korea will be launching satellite rocket into space in early April – at least that’s the official version. Intelligence sources say that this may be a cover-up for launching of a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska. Long range missiles and satellite rockets use a ...

Nouriel Roubini, a/k/a “Dr. Doom,” is giving the Obama administration’s new plan to buy toxic assets the thumbs up. That may be surprising given how critical Mr. Roubini, the bearish economics professor at New York University, has been in the past regarding various government plans to...

Standing in the security line Thursday morning, waiting to get into the federal courthouse in Manhattan, I started chatting with the man behind me. He looked to be in his early 60s, and though he was well dressed, he looked a little haggard. I asked him if he was a victim of Bernard L. Madof...

Feasting on a celebratory spread of pastries, sheet cake, and foil-wrapped chocolate eggs, Harvard scientists watched in rapt silence, smiles spreading over their faces, as President Obama yesterday lifted eight-year-old restrictions on stem cell research and announced a broader commitment t...