Muslim Russia?

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times October 21, 2013 The stabbing murder on Oct. 10 of an ethnic Russian, Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, apparently by a Muslim from Azerbaijan, led to anti-migrant disturbances in Moscow, vandalism and assaults, the arrest of 1,200, and brought a major tension in Russian life to the fore. Not only do […]

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Qatar Warned Over Disrespecting Israeli Swimmers

Swimming’s governing body on Wednesday formally warned officials in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates for disrespecting Israeli swimmers at World Cup events. FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu told The Associated Press that the two organizing committees apologized for the incidents in the past week. Israel’s team protested when the country’s name and flag appeared […]

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European Parliament Applies Brakes to Promoting Abortion As a Human Right

(CNSNews.com) – European pro-lifers celebrated a rare victory this week when the European Parliament voted not to advance a controversial draft report that would promote abortion as a human right and “regulate and monitor” conscientious objection. In a 351-319 vote Tuesday, the parliament in Strasbourg, France, sent the measure back to its committee on women’s […]

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Liberalism’s War on Women

As Bob Filner, San Diego’s former progressive mayor, pleads guilty to charges stemming from his attacks on women, his essay, “Why I am Pro-Choice” still decorates the website of Planned Parenthood. A year ago, Filner had appeared at a Planned Parenthood rally while running for mayor of California’s second largest city to accuse his opponent […]

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3 Ways Obamacare Is Like Healthcare.gov

The abject failure of the Obamacare website, Healthcare.gov, is proving quite the analogy for Obamacare itself—with good reason. CNN reported yesterday: “Experts say the major problems with the Obamacare website can’t reasonably be solved before the end of 2013, and the best fix would be to start over from scratch.” In fact, the best fix […]

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How Obamacare Hurts You If You’re Looking for a Job

America is hurting for jobs. And if you’re looking for one, here’s how Obamacare is hurting you. Obamacare is keeping businesses from hiring. We already knew that many employers plan to cut workers’ hours to stay under the threshold of Obamacare mandates. This makes full-time jobs—much less full-time jobs with health benefits—harder to come by. […]

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Tech Expert: HealthCare.gov Discredits Liberalism

Credit: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom The Internet does weird things to people. One of those weirdnesses comes from the tech-savvy community on the left, who sincerely embrace an agile, entrepreneurial, bottom-up culture in their professional and voluntary pursuits, yet forcefully argue for the top-down paternalism of forcing people to buy health insurance, imposed by a bureaucracy […]

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Obama Said This with a Straight Face

“Thousands of people are signing up and saving money as we speak.” Yes, President Obama actually said that yesterday about Obamacare. As we all know, for the vast majority of people, the opposite is true. SIGNING UP? Most people have found it impossible to sign up for coverage through the Healthcare.gov website. In fact, some […]

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