In a ruling last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia largely sided with the Association of Private Colleges and Universities, which had sued the U.S. Department of Education and Education Secretary Arne Duncan alleging that rules promulgated by the Secretary unfairly discriminate against for-profit institutions. For-profit colleges have become a popular […]
Today marks the anniversary of the first published post of The Conservative Papers appearing on the web. On July 7, 2009, The Conservative Papers came to fruition. With almost 5000 posts along with a growing library of content, we are slowly expanding our presence on the Internet and social networks. Today we face a growing […]
Four days after Mexico’s presidential and national elections, Mexico’s independent electoral institute ordered a swift recount of votes cast in 78,012 of its 143,132 polling stations. It swiftly confirmed that the candidate of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), Enrique Peña Nieto, scored a 6.6 percentage point advantage over the candidate of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary […]
Various Syrian opposition groups met in Cairo this week to sketch out a draft of a potential constitution and lay out the steps of a political transition, but they could not agree on the more basic and concrete issues of whether to support armed resistance to the regime or call for Assad’s removal. The Kurdish […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 26, 2012 [N.B.: This version differs slight from the Washington Times text] How will Iranians respond to an Israeli strike against their nuclear infrastructure? The answers to this prediction matters greatly, affecting not just Jerusalem’s decision but also how much other states work to impede an Israeli strike. […]
Several hundreds of people staged a protest march in Pretoria, South Africa, against South Africa’s plans to label products made in Judea and Samaria as “Made in the Palestinian Territories.” Around 300 members of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and the Inkatha Freedom party marched peacefully and handed over a petition against the labeling […]
One of the more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and companies which WikiLeaks began exposing on Thursday reveals that Finmeccanica, an Italian defense giant with extensive interests in the UK, supplied communications equipment and expertise about helicopters to the Syrian regime, even after it had launched a violent crackdown on peaceful […]
After a quiet afternoon Thursday, the third day of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty conference closed with a bang. The conference president, Ambassador Roberto Garcia Moritán, again tried to persuade the delegates to accept his proposal that, on Friday, they split into two working groups, one to consider the treaty’s scope and implementation and the […]
There is a growing trend among young Muslim German men to become jihadi fighters, Germany’s Deutche Welle news agency (DW) reported on Monday. According to German security services, since the beginning of the 1990s, around 235 “people with German connections and Islamic terrorist backgrounds” have at least attempted to acquire paramilitary training. There is tangible […]
Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday addressed his past praise for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in light of Robert’s deciding vote in favor of upholding the healthcare legislation. “He’s a very bright person and I look for people who follow the Constitution,” Romney said on CBS News‘s “This Morning.” Romney on his website […]
