Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service On Tuesday, several South Korean banks and television broadcasters were taken offline due to a “pretty massive” cyber attack. For the most part these attacks were just a nuisance, temporarily cutting off online access to bank accounts and freezing TV station computers, though not interfering with any […]
JENS NOERDAARD LARSEN/EPA/Newscom At yesterday’s debut showing of Silent Conquest: The End of Freedom of Expression in the West at The Heritage Foundation, one of the most shocking moments was a comment by Lars Hedegaard, a Danish historian and chairman of the Danish Free Press Society. Hedegaard was asked: Could the screening of this movie […]
Newscom What pain has sequester wrought at the federal Department of Education? Apparently, not much. The 4,200-person agency has just hired a new “executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.” Fox News reports that the position apparently commands a six-figure salary, as the new director—a former aide to Representative […]
The visit to Jerusalem of President Barack H. Obama will impact negatively on many residents of the city, but perhaps the worst hit by the visit are the residents of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City. Residents there, said an individual who lives there, are about to find themselves under a virtual “siege,” said […]
Tetra Images Tetra Images/Newscom One of Obamacare’s many failures is the temporary small business tax credit, which is intended to encourage small employers to offer health insurance to their employees by partially offsetting the cost. Thus far it has largely failed to do so. Initially, the IRS estimated that 4.4 million taxpayers could have been […]
Israel has rewarded a hunger striking terrorist prisoner with freedom – as well as a ten-year exile to Gaza. AFP reported that Ayman Sharawna, a prisoner who was on long-term hunger strike, arrived in Gaza on Sunday evening after inking a deal with Israeli officials. Sharawna reached a deal under which he was freed from […]
by Daniel Pipes March 18, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner How does one understand the U.S.-led expeditionary force that attacked Iraq exactly a decade ago, on March 18, 2003? Saddam Hussein’s regime was one of the most monstrous in human history, enslaving some 20 million people to his cruel and demanding will […]
(CNSNews.com) – As the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women tries to finalize a document on violence against women by the end of its two-week session Friday, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is leading a pushback by governments that accuse it of trying to undermine religious or cultural values. Egypt’s ruling Islamist party called on all […]
A petition signed by 3,000 Saudis has urged the Shura Consultative Council to debate on allowing women to drive in the ultra-conservative kingdom, Arab News daily reported on Monday. The newspaper, quoting Abdullah al-Alami, a signatory to the petition, said that the human rights committee of the council — also known as Saudi Consultative Council […]
March 17, 2013 17:44 by Pesach Benson The Daily Beast describes the Mideast equivalent of a professional wrestling cage match: Hezbollah squaring off against Jabhat al-Nusra. To Hezbollah’s displeasure, the Al-Qaida-linked rebels have taken over a few Syrian villages along the border: Few in the West may want to shed a tear over a full-scale […]
