The Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to ratify the treaty, after a 61-38 vote Tuesday.
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“Alger Hiss Day” a Reminder of U.N.’s Anti-Americanism
A communist assumed a major position of authority and power in the State Department and then used that influence to create a world organization that has been exploited for anti-American purposes ever since.
Krauthammer blasts Goldstone retraction: Ranks with the 19th century ‘blood libel’ against Jews
The UN report on Israel by the anti Semitic UN Human Rights Council known as The Goldstone Report has been renounced as fraudulent by one of its namesake. Charles Krauthammer weighs in.
Obama’s war on Arizona and America
Obama and many of his appointees “aim in particular to use American courts to import international law to override the policies adopted through the processes of representative government.”
Endowed With Inalienable Rights . . . By Whom?
The very first line of the (UN Human Rights) report states: “The story of the United States of America is one guided by universal values shared the world over–that all are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights.” Perhaps I’m being too picky or hypersensitive, but I couldn’t help but ask upon reading that sentence, “Would it have killed you to say that all are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights?” After, the Declaration of Independence (to which the report is plainly alluding) uses that language.
Another reason the UN has become counterproductive
U.N. Elects Iran which sees women as property to Commission on Women’s Rights. Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
Clinton State Department to use UN ‘Human Rights’ Council to push leftist causes in US
“It will give pretty left-wing groups a forum for criticizing the U.S.,” Ruse told CNSNews.com. That internal criticism will then end up at the U.N. Human Rights Council.