JERUSALEM—Knife-wielding terrorists are proof that Israel’s security fence saves thousands of both Israeli and Palestinian lives, the fence’s creator, Danny Tirza, tells Breitbart News. He also remarks that Barack Obama did not understand the need for Israel’s security system when he spoke with him several years ago.
Author: Ken Klukowski
Palestinian Lawyers Honor Terrorist for Suicide Murders
JERUSALEM—Muhannad al-Halabi was a Palestinian law student who was killed by Israeli authorities, following al-Halabi’s stabbing of two Israeli citizens to death in the Old City—which is part of Jerusalem—on Oct. 4, 2015. Al-Halabi is now being honored as a hero and a martyr for fatally stabbing the two Israelis. The Palestinian Bar Association is an official organization for lawyers in that area of the Middle East. It receives funding from the United Nations, as well as the European Union. According to news reports, the association recently announced that it is celebrating al-Halabi’s homicidal actions by conferring on him a law degree posthumously. On Oct. 10, the organization announced: “The Palestinian Bar Association decided in its meeting today to award an honorary law degree to the martyred hero Muhannad al-Halabi and to hold its next swearing in ceremony [for the bar] in [his] honor.” The Palestinian Bar Association further declared that “The martyred hero Al-Halabi was an outstanding student at the faculty of law.” The head of the bar association visited with the killer’s family to offer the organization’s condolences. Ken Klukowski is legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski
Supreme Court Faces Big Cases as 2015 Term Begins
WASHINGTON—Obamacare, religious liberty, Iran, and racial preferences are four of the major issues the justices will confront during the Supreme Court’s annual Term, which begins Monday, Oct. 5. The High Court will decide between 70 and 80 cases over the next nine months. The justices have already accepted 40 cases for arguments, typically by granting what is called a petition for a writ of certiorari. Over the next four months the Court will grant review of the remaining cases for this year’s Term. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a few months in what could be a watershed decision on racial preferences. Years ago, the Supreme Court held that the government’s preferring one race over another—under the euphemistic label “affirmative action”—can sometimes be constitutional to remedy past racial discrimination. In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court will determine whether such racial preferences in college admissions violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. In 2013, the Court sent this case back to the lower courts for a critical examination of the roll of race in admissions at the University of Texas. The High Court’s taking this case up a second time is widely considered to be
Court: Congress Can Sue Admin on Obamacare Subsidies
WASHINGTON—Congress can sue President Barack Obama’s administration over a key part of Obamacare, a federal court has ruled. Lawmakers are challenging federal agencies granting tax subsidies to Americans for purchasing healthcare policies, because Congress has never appropriated funds for this part of the president’s controversial namesake law.
Poll: Social Issues Surge in Importance to Voters
Establishment elites repeat in an echo chamber that voters don’t care about social issues or, alternatively, that voters favor liberal positions on these issues, so either way, Republicans should avoid them. But Republican candidates are ignoring this coastal-elite groupthink by tackling these issues, and polls show that voters do in fact deeply care about what kind of culture we live in.
Poll: Social Issues Surge in Importance to Voters
Establishment elites repeat in an echo chamber that voters don’t care about social issues or, alternatively, that voters favor liberal positions on these issues, so either way, Republicans should avoid them. But Republican candidates are ignoring this coastal-elite groupthink by tackling these issues, and polls show that voters do in fact deeply care about what kind of culture we live in.
NRA Targets 2016 Elections, Raising Massive War Chest
Leaders of the National Rifle Association of America plan an unprecedented year-long election campaign to protect the Second Amendment and America’s gun-owning heritage, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and his chief lobbyist Chris Cox informed the NRA board of directors at their Fall 2015 meeting last week in Virginia.
NRA Targets 2016 Elections, Raising Massive War Chest
Leaders of the National Rifle Association of America plan an unprecedented year-long election campaign to protect the Second Amendment and America’s gun-owning heritage, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and his chief lobbyist Chris Cox informed the NRA board of directors at their Fall 2015 meeting last week in Virginia.