Forty-one states continue to affirm that marriage exists to bring a man and a woman together as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children their union produces. In California, citizens voted directly to retain this understanding of marriage (after an activist court created a right to same-sex marriage) when they passed […]
(CNSNews.com) — Jeff Kent, the former professional baseball player who was voted off the “Survivor” television show, left with a parting shot at President Barack Obama — and the amount of tax he would have to pay if he had won the $1 million prize. “You know what pisses me off, is that I think […]
Although Jerusalem’s keeping quiet about Hugo Chavez’s death, Haaretz reports of Israeli hopes to “reboot” relations with Venezuela. For background on El Commandante’s animus towards Israel, see Israel HaYom. The JTA elaborates on Chavez’s strained relationship with Venezuela’s Jewish community. Repairing Israeli-Venezuelan ties isn’t far-fetched. Elections are supposed to be held within 30 days; the […]
by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2013 Many Western political woman have acquiesced to Islamist customs and donned hijabs, a subject I have been following in some detail. But what happens when a woman covers insufficiently for the Islamists? Well, they do the job for her. This blog reports on Photoshopped efforts by prudes in Iran, […]
by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com March 6, 2013 At 11:20 a.m. on Feb. 5, Lars Hedegaard answered his door bell to an apparent mailman. Instead of receiving a package, however, the 70-year-old Danish historian and journalist found himself face to face with a would-be assassin about one third his age. The assailant shot him once, narrowly […]
Gilad Schalit, who was held in captivity by Hamas for five years, called on Israelis to sign the petition calling upon U.S. President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard, who was jailed over 27 years ago for spying on the U.S. “I have signed the petition,” Schalit wrote on his Facebook page. “Please, sign as […]
UN Exonerates Israel in Gaza Child Death, Media Ignores March 10, 2013 17:37 by Simon Plosker Referring to the impact of Israeli air strikes on Gaza during November 2012?s Operation Pillar of Defense the BBC’s Wyre Davis wrote: In the BBC Gaza office, that feeling was most tangibly felt on the first day of this […]
by Daniel Pipes March 8, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The horrors of today’s Syria – repression, civil war, barbarity – resulted from many developments; one of the most important occurred 50 years ago today. That’s when the pedantically named “Military Committee of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba’th […]
Issa Karaka, the Palestinian Authority’s Minister for Prisoner Affairs, is urging PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to enroll the PA in as many international organizations as possible as quickly as is feasible, in order to capitalize on the recognition the PA received at the United Nations last year and use its standing in the international community […]
Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom As the U.S. commemorates the 40th anniversary of passage of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Authorization Act of 1973, it is worth remembering the challenges the project overcame and how they mirror the challenges facing the Keystone XL Pipeline today. An 800-mile engineering marvel, the Alaska Pipeline was completed in two years and two […]
