Understanding Female Suicide Bombers

by Daniel Pipes The Smarter Bomb, Women and Children as Suicide Bombers October 2012 By Anat Berko Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 212 pp., $42 ISBN: 978-1-4422-1952-6 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442219540 [N.B.: This is the author’s original, unexpurgated text, different from the one edited down by the publisher] Anat Berko has spent the past fifteen years in jails interviewing […]

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VIDEO: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn’t

Steve Forbes believes the free market is getting a bum rap. Thanks in part to demagoguery from Washington’s political class and outright vilification from Hollywood, there seems to be little to like. The two-time presidential candidate and magazine executive wants to change that perception. Forbes, author of “Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn’t,” visited […]

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The Washington Post Agrees: It’s Time to Make a Down Payment on Medicare Reform

The editorial board of The Washington Post, no organ of conservative opinion, is absolutely right: “Medicare as we know it is not sustainable,” and the “ultimate solution” is structural reform. Bingo. The right structural reform is to expand Medicare’s defined-contribution financing (routinely called “premium support”) as it broadly exists today in Medicare Part D to […]

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Biden: Obama To Use Executive Order on Gun Control

Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with gun control. “The president is going to act,” said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. “There are executives orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided […]

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Planned Parenthood Sets Record for Abortions and Government Funding

Planned Parenthood reported receiving record taxpayer funding last year, while also performing a record number of abortions, according to the organization’s new annual report released this week. The nation’s largest abortion provider maintained its infamous title, performing 333,964 abortions—a record for the organization that received 45 percent of its revenues from taxpayer-funded government sources during […]

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Using Cold War Tactics to Confront Iran

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times January 9, 2013 As Americans seek to find an alternative to the stark and unappetizing choice of accepting Iran’s rabid leadership having nuclear weapons or pre-emptively bombing its nuclear facilities, one analyst offers a credible third path. Interestingly, it’s inspired by a long-ago policy toward a different foe – […]

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Israel Leads By Example: Bans Animal-Tested Products

Companies that test their products on animals needn’t bother trying to ship them to Israel, because, starting New Year’s Day, the country banned the import, sale, and marketing of animal-tested cosmetics, toiletries, and household cleaners. Previously, in 2007, the Israeli government had banned using animals to test personal-care and household products within the country. But […]

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A Brief History of Deregulation

As a nation clasped to its capitalist foundations, the United States is unquestionably the global leader for free market policy and laissez-faire economics. The egalitarian, people-first actions of our forefathers and country leaders have helped establish what we’ve long considered to be the land of opportunity. Perhaps nothing has exemplified this more recently than the […]

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