Mocking Muhammad Is Not Hate Speech

by Daniel Pipes FoxNews.com September 24, 2012 To stop Islamist violence over perceived insults to Muhammad, I argued in a FoxNews.com article on Friday, editors and producers daily should display cartoons of Muhammad “until the Islamists get used to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.” This appeal prompted a solemn reply from […]

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Rep. Tom Price: Obama Needs to “Press the Reset Button”

President Obama’s refusal to balance the budget will soon leave Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security bankrupt. That’s according to Representative Tom Price (R-GA), who spoke at The Bloggers Briefing yesterday and sat down for an interview with Heritage’s Jackie Anderson. Price and other congressional leaders have been advocating a strategy to balance the budget and save […]

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Focus on Turkish Airlines’ Fashion

by Daniel Pipes February 10, 2013 updated Feb 11, 2013 In an upbeat 2008 article, “When fashion meets the skies!” the THY in-flight magazine Skylife celebrated 75 years of stewardess fashion with pictures and prose. Some excerpts from the airline’s fashion history: Hostesses first graced our planes with their presence in the late 1940’s. Since […]

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The Legend of Abraham Lincoln: Fact or Fiction?

Photo credit: Paul Horsted Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Representative Joe Courtney (D–CT) recently penned an open letter to the man who wrote the movie Lincoln. The film depicts a divided Connecticut state congressional delegation, with three members voting to uphold slavery. Courtney declares that cannot stand. He clarifies that, in 1865, Connecticut’s representatives voted unanimously to […]

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Innocents Abroad Build Foreign Armies

by Daniel Pipes February 10, 2013 In the near-century that the United States has been a great power, it has developed some original and sophisticated foreign policy tools. Examples include the Marshall Plan, special forces, and satellite imaging. At the same time, the country’s naiveté remains firmly in place. For example, the notion persists that […]

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Massive Cyber-Espionage Campaign Targeting US

A new intelligence assessment has concluded that the United States is the target of a massive, sustained cyber-espionage campaign that is threatening the country’s economic competitiveness, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed officials. According to the newspaper, the National Intelligence Estimate identifies China as the country most aggressively seeking to penetrate the computer systems of […]

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