Jeb Bush won’t hold President Obama responsible for the direction the country is heading under his watch. “I will not blame Barack Obama for anything,” Jeb Bush said to a N.H. crowd Sunday. “I got sick and tired of hearing him blame my brother and I will never do it to him.” In other words, the establishment candidate won’t throw the establishment president under the bus, even though a... 

General Christian Piquemal, a respected former French Legion commander, is among the dozens arrested during Europe-wide protests against the ongoing migrant influx. The arrest at the PEGIDA rally in Calais on Saturday was one of 20, and came as clashes erupted between the ‘anti-Islamization’ group and the police in the French port city. The troubles kicked off after the authorities canceled the... 

Britain says it rejects a UN panel ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the victim of arbitrary detention at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and insists he will still be extradited to Sweden if arrested in the UK. “This changes nothing,” a British government spokesman responded to the UN decision, adding that London will formally contest the ruling. The UK insists that Assange is voluntarily... 

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has urged a raw vote count release from the Iowa caucus, after results showed Hillary Clinton beating him by just .4 percentage points. Sanders spoke of an unfolding controversy at certain Iowa precincts which did not have enough Democratic party volunteers to report delegate totals. He called on officials to reveal underlying voter totals, a strategy which is... 

The European Commission has declared the Cologne sex attacks on New Year’s Eve have nothing to do with Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, describing such links as “false associations”. Internal minutes of a European Commission meeting held on January 13th illustrate the complacent attitude of senior European Union (EU) leaders to the Cologne sex attacks. They appear more concerned with limiting... 

A 17-year-old girl who was sexually attacked in Denmark may face charges herself after she used pepper spray against a rapist. “It is illegal to possess and use pepper spray, so she will likely be charged for that,” said a local police spokesman in Sonderborg, where the attack took place. After knocking the teenager to the ground and unbuttoning her pants, the victim was able to prevent being... 

Police in the German town of Kiel were told not to prosecute or arrest migrants for petty crimes, media have revealed. The instruction, which was filed weeks before the sexual harassment scandal in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, cited a lack of IDs among the migrants. The documents first emerged in Bild newspaper and local Kieler Nachrichten daily. According to the media, the official guidelines of... 

Parents of 10 year old children at a school in Austria are reportedly fuming after teachers assigned homework to learn the words to a Christian hymn.. except they substituted the word ‘God’ for the word ‘Allah’. Austria’s largest newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports that school officials claim to have made the change the words to the song ‘Gottes liebe ist so wunderbar’ (God’s love is... 

On Sunday, we learned that despite the best efforts of German cartoonists, some refugees are still having a hard time understanding how to behave at public pools. European authorities, increasingly desperate to salvage the “yes we can” refugee narrative in the face of mounting evidence that it may be well nigh impossible to integrate two vastly divergent cultures, have scrambled to put together... 

A lawsuit is challenging President Obama’s recent executive order, which attempts to expand government restrictions on gun sales. The lawsuit argues that the action illegally attempts to circumvent Congress’ legislative power. Conservative advocacy group Freedom Watch on Monday challenged Obama’s executive order on guns, which instructed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and... 

The European Commission has launched a “rule-of-law” investigation into Poland’s new legislation concerning its Constitutional court and media. The probe could eventually lead to the suspension of the country’s voting rights within the European Union. On Wednesday, the Commission decided to carry out a preliminary assessment of the controversial laws recently adopted in Poland that, according... 

Back in October I told you that Hillary Clinton’s email troubles were anything but over, and that the scandal over her misuse of communications while she was Secretary of State was sure to get worse. Sure enough, EmailGate continues to be a thorn in the side of Hillary’s presidential campaign and may have just entered a new, potentially explosive phase with grave ramifications, both political... 

President Barack Obama formally announced plans to expand background checks to buy guns and impose other restrictions on firearms through executive action. The order bypasses Congress, further feeding sentiments about the administration’s overreach. Obama’s emotional address, made from the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, was the latest in a series of attempts to make gun regulations... 

Amid the mounting refugee crisis caused by “NATO’s non-stop campaign of overseas military misadventures”, Europeans are becoming “increasingly wary of multiculturalism, neo-liberal reforms, austerity measures – and now, it seems, even NATO itself,” according to American writer and journalist Robert Bridge. Bridge cites as an example a recent raid conducted by the Polish military police... 

The British government is considering ‘excluding’ Donald Trump from entering the country. The announcement came in response to a recent petition signed by 565,000 citizens calling for a Trump ban. The UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced that she “may exclude” those who are not “conducive to the public good”. A statement from the Home Office declared that “The Home Secretary may...