Bank stocks went up after Obama’s so-called financial reform speech. That’s probably because his bill institutionalizes “too big to fail.” It doesn’t break up the banks and it assures them access to Federal Reserve loans as needed. It makes bailouts permanent. The Goldman Sachs scandal exposes a deep flaw in the bill that we believe […]
The Enquirer has been right about so many of these high profile sex scandals. Could this be true? If so, does he have the ‘Clintonesque’ charisma to deflect such an issue? Reports out of Washington, DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign […]
by Daniel Pipes National Post April 29, 2010 [DP note: The title is slightly changed] This month, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israel must withdraw from Palestinian territories. “The world isn’t willing to accept — and we won’t change that in 2010 — the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades […]
Two University of California professors warn that Jewish students face greater dangers as Muslim extremist organizations grow in campus influence. In an article on AmericanThinker.com, Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin – Professor Emeritus at the UCLA and Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, respectively – write of the growth of Al-Awda, the presence […]
Washington continues to ignore the illegal immigration problem By THE WASHINGTON TIMES To hear liberal critics talk, it would be easy to think the state of Arizona unleashed anti-Latino posses to detain all brown-skinned people, demand their proof of citizenship and toss them in jail if the answers aren’t satisfactory. The real story is more […]
by Daniel Pipes April 19, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online The New York Times ran a story today, “White House Quietly Courts Muslims in U.S.,” that contrasts the Obama and George W. Bush administration records with regard to American Muslims. The reporter, Andrea Elliott, sums up her argument with a quote from James Zogby […]
By: Ronald Kessler If songs extolling the virtues of America make you swell with pride, you will like this song. If you recoil at people who have nothing good to say about America, you will like it even better. Jon David, the writer of the song “American Heart,” has sung it at tea party rallies […]
With typical provocative arrogance, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said in a letter addressed to the US president that Barack Obama’s power and success depends on Iran. Disclosing this Friday, April 16, the Iranian leader promised to publish the letter soon. “Obama should start cooperating with us in practice,” he said. “We don’t need you […]
By: Jim Meyers Sen. Joe Lieberman says the world is at a “turning point in history,” and the United States should begin preparing plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program — and use that option if all diplomatic and other means fail. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax, the Connecticut independent discloses that he probably will […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 13, 2010 Things are not always as simple as they seem; the current crisis in U.S.-Israel relations has a silver lining. Four observations, all derived from historical patterns, prompt this conclusion: First, the “peace process” is in actuality a “war process.” Diplomatic negotiations through the 1990s led to […]
