September 11, 2013 13:30 by Simon Plosker It’s easy to produce an anti-Israel libel that is subsequently debunked after the damage has been done. This was graphically demonstrated in the past few days. Anti-poverty organization Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Ben Phillips tweeted the following: There exists a symbiotic relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer to supply Iran with S-300 air defense missile systems, and to build a second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, Russia’s Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday. Citing a source close to the Kremlin, the publication reported that Putin will renew an offer to supply Iran with five S-300 ground-to-air […]
Bashar al Assad marked his 48th birthday Wednesday, gifted with the momentum gathering behind a Russian-brokered deal that could prevent a U.S.-led strike on his regime. Despite the fact that over 100,000 Syrians have been killed in the country’s civil war, with two million having fled and a further four million citizens displaced inside the country, […]
Dr. Tim Shepherd talks about his patients like they’re his own family. He gets emotional when he thinks about a patient he’s been treating for 20 years, and talks about a new patient who’s making progress like it’s his first grandchild. He says his favorite part about being a doctor isn’t having specialized knowledge or […]
(CNSNews.com) — The Senate Conservatives Fund website shows that 1.2 million people have signed a pledge to defund the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. But a number of top Republicans apparently have refused to sign the pledge, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.). […]
Heritage’s billboard in New York City’s Times Square. (Credit: Nick Montalvo) A new poll released today from CNN shows public support for Obamacare plummeting below 40 percent, a significant drop that comes as Congress considers defunding the unfair, unworkable and unaffordable health-care law. In January 51% said they favored all or most of the provisions […]
President Obama’s speech tonight makes one thing clear: Despite all his bellicose rhetoric, he never wanted to strike Syria in the first place. Yes, he has focused on making a case for military action, but the real action now will be diplomatic—responding to the Russian proposal to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons. There’s only one problem: […]
Look down at your shoes. Could you break into a run in those if you needed to? Twelve years ago, the men and women getting ready to go to work at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon didn’t know they would be running that day. For many New Yorkers, the shoes they picked up […]
by Daniel Pipes August 28, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win – rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one’s morality. Yet, these latter are precisely what several Western states will […]
by Daniel Pipes August 18, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Just days after his apparent victory, Cynthia Farahat and I expressed our skepticism about the validity of these election returns: SCAF exploits the Muslim Brotherhood and other proxies as its civilian fronts, a role they are happy to play, by permitting Islamists […]
