Taking America from Welfare State to Opportunity Society

“I must go to college!” insists eight-year-old Pierre William. Such planning may seem unusual in a second grader. But Pierre is lucky. He’s attending a private school in the District of Columbia using funds from the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. That’s opened his eyes to the possibilities that only a college education can provide. His […]

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ICE ex-chief: Obama’s Nondeport rules would’ve spared 9/11 hijackers

The former chief of deportations in the Bush administration will testify to Congress on Tuesday that President Obama’s new nondeportation policies would have let the Sept. 11 hijackers remain in the country even if they had been picked up in the months before their deadly attacks. And the current chief of the union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

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Seven million to lose insurance under Obamacare

President Obama’s health care law will force over 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage,  nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday. CBO said that this year’s tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less attractive to pay for […]

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Conspiracy Theories Triumphant in Turkey

by Daniel Pipes February 4, 2013 updated Feb 5, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner I wrote in The Hidden Hand, my 1996 book surveying conspiracy theories in the Middle East, that Turkey and Israel stand out as the only two Middle Eastern countries where leaders are fully accountable to electorates, where the […]

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Obama State Dept Funds Biased Education Report: Claims Palestinian Textbooks Rarely Demonize Israel

Israel’s Education Ministry has rejected the findings of a study funded by the U.S. State Department that determined that Palestinian textbooks rarely demonize Israel or incite hatred against the Jewish people and that both sides use the texts to present children and students with a one-sided view of their conflict. “Dehumanizing and demonizing characterizations of […]

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Ahmadinejad Marks First Visit to Cairo of Iranian President in Over 30 Years Due to New Islamist Govt

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in over thirty years. Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi welcomed Ahmadinejad at Cairo airport as he disembarked from the plane, Egyptian television footage showed. Ahmadinejad, who is the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the […]

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Eric Cantor Speaks on American Opportunity

Photo credit: Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom Fiscal cliffs, debt, and unbalanced budgets have made raising a family in America more difficult, but pursing opportunity-oriented policies centered on creating prosperity can turn uncertainty and struggle into hope again. That was the message House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) delivered in a speech at the American Enterprise […]

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Muslim Brotherhood Beats Naked Man Near Egyptian Palace to Strike Fear in Public

A former Egyptian presidential candidate told Al Arabiya TV in an interview on Sunday that the brutal dragging and beating of a naked man near the presidential palace last week was previously planned by the interior ministry in an effort to terrorize the public. Ahmed Shafiq, who lost the presidential race to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi […]

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State Dept Publicized Names of Benghazi Security Detail Before 9/11/12; Suppressed Their Identities Afterward

(CNSNews.com) – The State Department took two dramatically different approaches to dealing with the identities of the Diplomatic Security (DS) agents it sent to Benghazi, Libya, to protect Amb. Chris Stevens and the small number of other temporary U.S. diplomatic personnel the department rotated through what its own review board would later admit was a […]

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Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari

Iran: Israel will Regret Syria Attack

Israel will regret its latest “aggression against Syria”, a top Iranian official visiting Damascus told reporters on Monday. “Just like it regretted all its wars… the Zionist entity will regret its aggression against Syria,” said National Security Council head Said Jalili, a day after Israel implicitly confirmed it staged an air strike near Damascus last […]

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