Canada Tried to Deport Suspected Terrorist
Canada tried to deport one of the two terrorists it caught this week, CBC News confirmed on Thursday. According to the report, Canada tried nine years ago to deport Raed Jaser, one of the two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a passenger train, but authorities didn’t proceed and later granted him permanent […]
Bostonbomber was “angry that the world pictures Islam as a violent religion”
Murdering innocent people at the Boston Marathon might seem a strange way to persuade the world that Islam is not violent, but since it has led to an avalanche of mainstream media assurances that Islam is a Religion of Peace, it seems to have worked, as Mark Steyn notes here. “Boston Suspects Are Seen as Self-Taught […]
Michelle Malkin Wins 2013 Breitbart Award for Excellence in Journalism
ORLANDO—The Heritage Foundation and Franklin Center for Government Public Integrity presented the second annual Breitbart Award to Michelle Malkin, syndicated columnist and Fox News Channel contributor. Malkin was honored at tonight’s Krieble Dinner at Heritage’s Resource Bank. The award was presented by Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint and Franklin Center President Jason Stverak. The Breitbart […]
Internet sales tax embraced by “no-tax” Republicans
WASHINGTON (AP) — You don’t see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes. Anti-tax guru Grover Norquist isn’t happy about it and the conservative Heritage Foundation is questioning the senators’ conservative credentials. But the issue of taxing Internet […]
Iranian TV Claims Starbucks Blocks Its Website
A cup of coffee at Starbucks won’t buy access to Iran’s official Press TV website, the media outlet claims, based on a blogger. The website, a propaganda mouthpiece for the government, was blocked at a Starbucks outlet last year, according to the blogger, named by Press TV as “N. Salem.” He supposedly asked Press TV, […]
Erdogan’s Decade as Prime Minister of Turkey
by Daniel Pipes March 14, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has served longer than any person as prime minister of the Republic of Turkey, today marks his completion of a full decade in that office, having entered it on March 14, 2003. Born in February 1954, he is […]
PA vows to continue paying salaries to prisoners – among them terrorists
PA vows to continue paying salaries to prisoners – among them terrorists PA Deputy Minister: “Salaries and allowances to Palestinian prisoners will not be stopped, whatever the cost may be. The prisoners are our joy.” Head of Prisoners’ Club: “When salaries are paid to those working in government offices and institutions, they will also be […]
Tunisian Jews Hope for High Attendance at Annual Pilgrimage
Organizers of a Jewish pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian island of Djerba, said Wednesday they are hoping for a revival this year, after an Al-Qaeda attack in 2002 and post-revolution unrest caused a slump in attendance. Some 450 foreign pilgrims as well as Tunisian Jews are expected for the event that runs […]
Reid Suggests Exploiting Budget Gimmicks for Sequestration
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) is proposing not one but two old budget gimmicks to spend $85 billion more in 2013 than allowed under sequestration. Contrary to Senator Reid’s claim that “it wouldn’t add a penny to the deficit,” this spending would in fact add every single penny in foregone cuts to the deficit. […]
United Nations Official Blames Boston Terror on Israel-US Ties
A UN official Richard Falk blames the Boston Marathon attack on American support for Israel. The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. In some respects the United States has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and these may yet happen, especially if there is […]
Education by Murder in Boston
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times April 24, 2013 N.B.: Text differs slightly from the Washington Times What will be the long-term impact of the Apr. 15-19 Boston Marathon attack and the ensuing action-movie-style chase, killing a total of four and wounding 265? Let’s start with what its impact will not be. It will not […]
