Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EFE/Newscom This week on the big screen, martial arts master Jason Statham tangles with James Franco in Homefront. Statham’s on-screen backstory? He’s a British Interpol agent who retires to rural Louisiana, where he runs afoul of Franco and his gang. As a story, it’s not bad. But as a depiction of Interpol, it’s […]
It’s no secret that most terrorist attacks perpetrated by those we call “Islamic terrorists” occurred not in Europe or the USA- but in Iraq, Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria and other non-Western countries. The murders of Lee Rigby or the 52 people killed in London in 2005 are, of course, heinous crimes. But compared to hundreds that […]
December 11, 2013 14:36 by Pesach Benson Audit finds EU pays Palestinian civil servants in Gaza who haven’t worked in six years. AP writes: Some 65,000 civil servants and members of the security forces in Gaza stopped reporting to their jobs in 2007, when the Islamic militant Hamas seized the territory from Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
This is a proposal of how Atheism has become a religion. I am speaking of a specific kind of atheist, not a buddhist atheist, but an atheist who has faith in science, the scientific method, and worships these entities. Simply being an Atheist does not make one a religious-atheist according to this proposal. Some religions […]
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to vote to admit Israel to full membership in the organization, making it the first non-European member of the group. Israel has been a provisional member of the group for the past two years. CERN’s current main activity is the administration and experimentation work of a […]
Swedish socialist in Brussels, Cecilia Malmstrom (left), is an absolute lunatic. Her stupidity is so deep seated while it puts an entire region in danger. Danger of escalating rapes, terrorism, murders, attacks. European home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule pose at […]
, the noted economist who correctly predicted the U.S. housing bubble and its collapse, now sees an impending housing market train wreck of global proportions, with housing markets in 18 countries vulnerable to a meltdown. In a column for Project Syndicate, Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, wrote that “signs of frothiness, if […]
GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom The brutal dispersal of demonstrators in Ukraine last week led to dozens wounded—and a public protest movement which now surpasses the Orange Revolution of 2004. Demonstrators want Ukraine in Europe—and President Victor Yanukovich out of power. Ariel Cohen, Heritage’s Senior Research Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, gives some perspective on where […]
Human rights activists and Jewish groups sounded the alarm Monday over the surprise election of a Slovak neo-Nazi as regional governor, AFP reports. Marian Kotleba’s weekend victory appears to be due in part to his anti-Roma rhetoric. The move comes as several European nationalist parties, including France’s anti-immigrant National Front and Hungary’s far-right Jobbik, plan to join forces ahead of next year’s European […]
President Obama’s cowardly deal with the Iranian regime – a regime dedicated to the destruction of Israel, pursuing nuclear weapons in violation of multiple United Nations resolutions, and the persecution of Christians – marks the most ignominious moment in western foreign policy in decades. The easy comparison is to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement […]
