The treatment inflicted on 41 Russian journalists in Moscow’s Radio Liberty office is nothing less than scandalous, and it threatens to silence American broadcasting into Russia for good. But what is even more scandalous is that it was not the Russian government that, without warning, shut those journalists out of their offices on September 20 […]
by Daniel Pipes October 14, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Shimon Shiffer reports in Yedioth Ahronoth that in secret talks in 2010 via U.S. government mediator Frederic C. Hof, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed in principle to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights to the June 4, 1967, lines in […]
Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, a challenge to Arizona Proposition 200, which requires prospective voters to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Like a litany of other states, Arizona passed this common-sense reform to prevent noncitizens from illegally voting in elections and to ensure the integrity […]
The United States and Israel have come closer together in recent days, in their views regarding an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to Foreign Policy magazine. “According to a source close to the discussions,” writes David Rothkopf, “the action that participants currently see as most likely is a joint U.S.-Israeli surgical strike targeting Iranian […]
by Daniel Pipes October 12, 2012 Cross-posted from History News Network Three reactions to the Joe Biden-Paul Ryan debate last night: Middle East dominance: The foreign policy aspects of the debate focused almost exclusively on Libya, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Binyamin Netanyahu’s name was invoked eight times, far more often than any other […]
Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beytenu) said Sunday that not making the right decisions, coupled with an unwillingness to adopt new anti-Iran sanctions, will bring us to the edge of a new reality, like that of the 30s, in which the West decided to appease Hitler instead of nipping him in […]
CBS News and “60 Minutes” reporter Lara Logan has lambasted the Obama administration for pushing what she called the “major lie” that the Taliban has been weakened in Afghanistan by the U.S. military. According to a Fox News report, Logan spoke last week to a crowd of about 1,100 at last the Better Government Association […]
The call to eliminate federal subsidies to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), such as Governor Mitt Romney’s recent statement, shouldn’t ruffle the famous fowl. After all, not only does PBS not need taxpayer support, but because it inevitably entangles Big Bird in politics, it does him more harm than good. Federal contributions to the Corporation […]
Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are “the way of the future,” writes Matthew Ladner in a new report released this month. While vouchers give parents the ability to choose private schools for their children, ESAs allow parents to receive the state education dollars designated for their school-age children in savings accounts that they can then access […]
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch opined on the upcoming U.S. presidential election via Twitter Saturday morning, calling an Obama victory a “nightmare” for Israel. Medialite.com reported that Murdoch began airing his views on the subject with the following Twitter message at 11:09 a.m.:”White House still lying about Benghazi. HAD to know truth, or is whole […]
