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An 11-year-old who shares a last name with the president has been punched and bullied at school because of his name, news outlets reported this week.

The Middle East is now teetering on the brink of war because a vast international mob has been unloosed, with the tacit approval of Barack Hussein Obama. That is the real meaning of the Gaza martyrdom stunt of May 31, 2010. That purposeful provocation is not past. The Gaza suicide operation is still being used all over the Middle East and Europe to whip up hatred and violence. As Mark Steyn just reported from a dingy cafe in Algeria, "I can just about make out the plasma TV up in the corner on which Jimmy Carter, dubbed into Arabic, is...

Lanny Davis, the former special counsel to President Clinton and White House spokesman, and Sarah Palin add to the backlash after video circulated of Helen Thomas saying that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Poland and Germany. The latest responses come the same day the agency that represents Thomas, Nine Speakers,dropped her as a client. Davis, not mincing words, dismissed Thomas’s apology as “not direct,” and -- comparing her statements to “asking Blacks to return to African” – said that “Helen Thomas, who I used to consider a close friend and who I used...

ALBANY - Hothead state Sen. Kevin Parker erupted again Tuesday, this time with a race-based rant that rattled even his supporters. "He needs help," said Sen. Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx), an ally who witnessed the latest angry outbursts. "He lost control of himself." Parker exploded in anger at fellow Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, who was questioning a nominee to the New York Power Authority. DeFrancisco, who is white, asked Mark O'Luck, who is black, about the nominee's prior claim that without programs for minorities, whites and the affluent "would have access to nearly 100%" of government funding. As DeFrancisco...