Success Strategy for Dealing with Hostage Takers
By Peter Paton The highly successful and professional job done by the Algerian Forces in dealing with the Algerian Hostage Crisis, should be the future template for all Western democracies to emulate, in the continuing War on Islamic Terrorism. The Republic of France should be proud of its Mali Mission, honor its fallen soldiers and […]
The Giglio Smear: When Faith Is Called Bigotry
Pastor Louie Giglio, whose Passion Movement has raised millions of dollars toward ending sex trafficking, removed himself from offering the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration after previous statements on biblical sexual ethics came to light. On January 9, the liberal political blog Think Progress brought attention to a sermon from the 1990s in which […]
Generation Y: A Taste of What Is To Come for Generation Debt
Moment/ZUMA Press/Newscom You may be wondering whether anyone, after all, went over the fiscal cliff at the end of December. News reports about Congress’s last-second legislation certainly conveyed the impression that everyone stepped away from that fateful edge. However, if you are under the age of 35, that rushing sound you hear right now is […]
Global Warming Alarmists Pick and Choose Data to Support Theory
The “think globally” people become very parochial when the global warming story isn’t as scary sounding as the local one. Climate change activists took the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) recent report showing 2012 to be the warmest on record for the continental United States, did a little geographic sleight of hand, and spun […]
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 […]
How Morsi Took Power in Egypt
by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat The Washington Times November 14, 2012 WT title: “Morsi could discredit Muslim Brotherhood rule” Earlier this year, most analysts in Egypt assessed Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi as the key figure in that country’s politics and President Mohamed Morsi as a lightweight, so it came as a surprise when Morsi […]
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 […]
Glorification of Violence: M75 Snow Missile Made Near Temple Mount in Israel
Some children ventured out across the snow-covered regions of Israel Thursday to build snowmen and igloos while other took a more shocking and sinister interpretation on the idea of a snow sculpture. A picture has been circulating online Thursday, featuring a snow missile, built near the al-Aqsa mosque, with M75 written across. The “M75” missile […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
