The press has barely been able to contain their excitement over President Obama's trip to Africa. Their glee is understandable. America's first black president is returning to the land in which his ancestors were born. The story is beautiful -- poetic, really. But what few people are asking is, "Why...

Update: The public email and phone number for The Valley Swim Club is 215-947-0700 and info@thevalleyclub.com. The President of the club is John Duesler.

Updated July 9: The Michael Smerconish Program interviewed an eyewitness named "Jan," who is a member of The Valley Swim Club. Jan says the...

It was September 2008, and Barack Obama was still the Senator from Illinois. He spoke to a very appreciative audience in New Philadelphia, Ohio. "If we don't take our government back, then none of these changes are going to happen," he said, "I need your help doing it."
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In Greek mythology, Orthrus is a nasty two-headed dog that is captured and tamed by Oedipus, the dude who killed his father and nailed his mother. That gives you a basic understanding of the unhealthy mindset of Orthrus, the dog that could only be tamed by an incestuous murderer.

America...

With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.

Iran's nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised...

It has been widely reported that Iraqis are celebrating the withdrawal of US forces from their country. But what the media has failed to emphasize is that 130,000 residual forces will still be operating inside of Iraq, and that President Obama intends to keep as many as 50,000...

The contested election in Iran received widespread attention from both the traditional U.S. media and new media sources including blogs and micro-blogs such as Twitter. Americans wishing to show solidarity with the Iranian people tinted their Twitter avatars green and also wore the trademark color of resistance. The media told...

General Electric has become the biggest beneficiary of one of the rescue programs originally designed for banks, according to the Washington Post. However, GE has also managed to avoid the restrictions and regulations placed upon the financial institutions by exploiting a loophole in the rescue program, and claiming two...

NPR is asking listeners to out known health care lobbyists:

When 22 senators started working over the first health care overhaul bill on June 17, the news cameras were pointed at them -- except for NPR's photographer, who turned his lens on the lobbyists. Whatever bill emerges from Congress...

The Wall Street Journal is giddy with happiness this morning because the European left has "collapsed."

Across the Continent, the left is in disarray. Frances Socialist Party, which last won a Presidential election in the 1980s, refuses to move to the center -- and further sinks in the polls....

John Kerry writes in today's New York Times:

We are all inspired by Iran's peaceful demonstrations, the likes of which have not been seen there in three decades...

There's just one problem. If we actually want to empower the Iranian people, we have to understand how our words...

Once again, the government is suppressing information in the name of homeland security.

Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that her committee can't publicly disclose the location of...

The public finally got a look at Senator Kennedy's behemoth 615-page health care bill, a document so gargantuan that Huffington Post put out an SOS to readers to help the editors read it. During the lead-up to the health care war, Kennedy promised Americans that the conversation about their...

Johann Hari has written an excellent piece about the decline of Gordon Brown and the rise of the British National Party. In it, he advises liberals not to dismiss British National Party supporters as a bunch of racists (emphasis mine).

[I]t is not the case that 10 per cent...

Thousands of Peruvian activists have been protesting against a series of laws that will threaten their land's natural resources. The Peruvians protest in a show of solidarity for Amazon tribes, who have been on strike more than month.

Privatization is the heart of the conflict. The tribes object to...

The New York Times has been criticized in the past for its use of anonymous sources. There was the debacle with the anonymous government officials who said Saddam was on a worldwide quest to build an atomic bomb. Of course, we all know that turned out not to be true,...

President Obama's speech in Cairo focused on the themes of brotherhood and bridging the divide between the west and Muslim world. Obama explained away the agony of the occupied by essentially arguing that all individuals resisting or angered by American occupation are radical Muslims, who think the west is modern...

Man, it's sweet to be a corporation like GM in America.

Only in this country would a corporation's executives have the nerve to close factories and relocate them to Mexico to exploit cheap labor, systematically work to suppress public mass transit and fuel-efficient vehicles, shelter its revenues from...

If this story sounds familiar, it's because this has all happened before. Recently, Pakistanis learned that almost half of the $1.9 billion approved by the US House of Representatives for aid will instead go toward "a new secure embassy and consulates" in their country. Of course, the United States...

President Obama has selected Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court judge. As Salon's Glenn Greenwald wrote this morning, Sotomayor's appointment is encouraging news. She's a smart, capable judge.

Of course, the right is already ripping out their hair in hysterics. Glenn Beck's Twitter -wondered...