Chuck Hagel stirs up India-US storm over Afghanistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21601120 Andrew North BBC South Asia correspondent New US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has stirred up a sudden storm in a chai glass here, with past suggestions that India has been using Afghanistan as a “second front” against its old rival Pakistan. “India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan” in Afghanistan, said […]
Small Business Administration: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
Smith/MCT/Newscom The White House warns that sequestration “would reduce loan guarantees to small businesses by up to $902 million”—loans that it claims are “investments that are helping grow our economy.” Setting this flawed Keynesian line of thinking aside, it’s worth investigating whether or not there is room to reduce spending at the Small Business Administration […]
Voting Rights at the Supreme Court Today
To understand what’s going on in the Supreme Court today, we have to go back in time. The year was 1965. Hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama, to march for black Americans’ right to vote. Some states, especially in the South, had set up obstacles to voting, such as charging would-be voters money or […]
Islamist Assassinations in the West
by Daniel Pipes Gatestone Institute February 25, 2013 Terrorism broadly takes two forms: against random individuals who happen to be at a market place or on a bus at the wrong time; or against specific individuals because of who they are. The latter in turn divides into two: against broad categories of people (the military, […]
Documents Stolen from Atomic Commission Worker
The senior Israeli Prime Minister’s Office employee whose documents were stolen in a home break-in has been identified as Dr. Shaul Horev. Dr. Horev is a member of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The bag the thieves took contained a wallet, as well. It was revealed Tuesday that Horev and his wife were at home […]
Oxford University Students to Vote on Israel Boycott
Students at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University will vote this week on a highly controversial motion to boycott Israel. The Oxford University Student’s Union (OUSU) is set to meet Wednesday to decide on a motion to join the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement “in protest of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its hindrance of […]
Senate Confirms Hagel as Secretary of Defense
The U.S. Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense on Tuesday, ending an acrimonious nominations process and giving President Barack Obama a victory as he fills his second-term cabinet, AFP reports. Senators voted 58-41, with four Republicans joining the majority Democrats to confirm the Republican former senator to replace outgoing Pentagon chief Leon […]
Benghazi Snags the Brennan Nomination
Pete Marovich/ZUMA Press/Newscom The White House reportedly agreed on Friday to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with documents on the terrorist attack against the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September. Getting to the bottom of the Benghazi affair has been like pulling teeth ever since that fateful night that cost the lives of […]
Where Could We POSSIBLY Cut the Federal Budget?
If you had to cut your family’s budget, where would you cut? Would you immediately start starving your children and stop wearing shoes? Of course not. You would look at the extras in your life—whether they were coffee shop lattes, movie tickets, or restaurant meals. It’s a good thing the President wouldn’t be handling your […]
Kerry’s First Overseas Trip: It’s Not Where He’s Going; It’s Where He’s Not Going
Patsy Lynch/Polaris/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry’s first overseas trip began by sending mixed signals before he even left U.S. soil—by not visiting key U.S. allies in Eastern Europe and Israel. Kerry’s first foreign trip commenced on Sunday and began with a stop in the United Kingdom. He will also visit Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, […]
Jihad or Criminality?
by Daniel Pipes February 24, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner A recent spate of killings in the United States of non-Muslims by Muslims has gone unnoticed by the major media. Here are four cases I know of: Feb. 5: Yusuf Ibrahim, 27, Egyptian born and living in Jersey City, stands accused of […]
