War of Tweets: The State Department Takes on Islamists
Newscom Twitter and other social media are the new battle ground in the war of ideas between Islamist radicals and the U.S. State Department. Since July 17, Islamist tweeters and the State Department’s Digital Outreach Team (DOT) have been dueling on Twitter. The DOT is part of the State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication. […]
Five Lessons from Egypt and the Arab Spring
By Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 1. Don’t Believe Anything You Hear Egyptian liberals allied with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow Mubarak and challenge the military. In those heady Tahrir Square days, they ridiculed the idea that the Muslim Brotherhood was part of the protests and that Mubarak’s overthrow would benefit it. Now […]
Obamacare: IRS Squeezes $13 Billion from Americans’ Health Spending Accounts
The 30-35 million Americans who use a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) at work to pay for their family’s basic medical needs face a new Obamacare cap of $2,500. This will squeeze $13 billion of tax money from Americans over the next ten years. (Before Obamacare, the accounts were unlimited under federal law, though employers […]
Hundreds of Women Protest Contraception Mandate at White House
The media has proclaimed that conservatives and proponents of religious liberty are engaging in a “war against women.” Conservatives, so the narrative goes, fired the first shots by opposing funding of contraceptives and abortifacients under the HHS Mandate, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2014. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) first claimed Republicans were engaging […]
On Closed Embassies, the Worldwide Travel Alert, and Wimpitude
by Daniel Pipes August 3, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner In April, the city of Boston was effectively under military curfew because two terrorists were on the loose. Now, fears of al-Qaeda attacking has led the U.S. government to close 21 U.S. embassies in Muslim-majority countries and then issue a worldwide travel […]
Obama Leaking Info on Israeli Strikes in Syria
The U.S. intelligence community has been leaking information on Israeli air strikes in Syria, and U.S. President Barack Obama is behind the leaks, according to a report in the World Tribune. Diplomats told the Tribune that the Obama administration has enabled the U.S. intelligence community to disclose details of Israeli military operations against the armed […]
Learning from Detroit’s Mistakes
Detroit is the poster child for economic decline. The city’s policies and politics over the past half-century should serve as a “do not” guide for policymakers across the country. There’s a great deal lawmakers in Washington can learn. The first is understanding that Detroit’s demise was the result of big-government, liberal policies promoted by self-interested […]
Egyptian anti-Obama video goes viral, blames him for siding with Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptian army chief in interview says Defense Secretary Hagel calls him almost every day, but Obama has not called. US President Barack Obama appears to have angered supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, as well as supporters of the army coup that toppled him on July 3. [youtube WL_mEYP8N-A nolink] Leaders of the Muslim […]
Indiana Set to Withdraw from Common Core National Assessments
Stacy Revere/ZUMApress/Newscom Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) announced that the Hoosier State will be withdrawing itself as a member of the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Governing Board, effective August 12, 2013. For Indiana, this is one more step toward reclaiming control over what is taught in Indiana schools. […]
Surgically Implanted Bombs: Muslim Terrorist Developed Techniques to Defeat Detection
Almost two dozen U.S. embassies and consulates across the Islamic world are closed following the identification of a significant threat from an al-Qaeda Islamic terrorists. Muslim al-Qaeda operatives could be heard talking about an upcoming terrorist attack. The official described the Muslim terrorists as saying the planned attack is “going to be big” and “strategically […]
When a Muslim Terrorist “isn’t” a Muslim Terrorist
If someone looks like a Muslim terrorist, identifies as a soldier of Allah, is mentored by a Muslim terrorist and then slaughters Americans on a military base in cold blood in the name of Allah, that person is obviously a Muslim terrorist—unless, of course, that person is Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused Fort Hood mass […]
