Iraq’s Cosmetic Election
by Daniel Pipes March 9, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online “It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq’s national elections.” So writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board today. I’m no cynic, but my mood about Iraq could variously be described as depressed, despairing, despondent, dejected, pessimistic, melancholic, and […]
Objection, Your Honor: European Courts Placate Islamists
by David J. Rusin • Mar 5, 2010 at 10:39 am Even as Shari’a courts sprout up like mushrooms on UK soil, secular ones across Europe increasingly bend to an Islamist worldview. Consider the phenomenon of exempting Muslims from the standard practice of rising before judges. In January, seven radicals on trial for shouting insults […]
It’s Rahm vs. Axelrod, and Rahm Is Winning
In the days of the old Pravda, one could determine who was winning secret Politburo power struggles by just looking at the official Soviet newspaper. Those winning simply got better press. Perhaps it may be no different here in the United States. This week two of the heaviest guns in American media, The […]
Riot’s in Greece Coming Soon to a State Near You!
Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attacked police. In our own country, students, teachers and administrators […]
United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policies against Jew
The authorities of the United Arab Emirates made an unusual decision. Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan al-Tamim said on March 1 that anyone who looks or sounds like a citizen of Israel will be blocked from entering the country, even if a suspected individual produces a passport of a different state. “It is easy for […]
Obama Stimulus funds pays for Cocaine and Monkey’s
Monkeys are getting high on Cocaine in North Carolina, thanks to Obama. An analyst at the Civitas Institute seized on that image when selecting a cocaine addiction study at Wake Forest University Medical School as No. 1 on a list of the “10 worst federal stimulus projects in North Carolina.” Civitas’ Brian Balfour takes swipes […]
Massa Details Naked Shower Fight With ‘Son of the Devil’s Spawn
Embattled Rep. Eric Massa used his final hours in office to settle scores with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and other Democrats he claims are pushing him out of office to clear the way for health care reform. It sounds like the kind of bad dream that only […]
36 States Fight Obama’s Socialized Healthcare
States have an extensive and complicated shared power relationship with the federal government in regulating various aspects of the health insurance market and in enacting health reforms. As part of state-based responses to federal health reform legislation, individual members of at least 36 state legislatures are using the legislative process to seek to limit, alter […]
U.S. lawmakers launch push to repeal NAFTA
By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A small group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement in the latest sign of congressional disillusionment with free-trade deals. The bill spearheaded by Rep. Gene Taylor, a Mississippi Democrat, would require President Barack Obama to give Mexico and Canada […]
LAST DITCH EFFORT TO SAVE CALIFORNIA FROM FINANCIAL RUIN
STATE-WIDE TAXPAYERS REVOLT UNDERWAY! GOLDEN STATE GRINGOS LAST GULP! Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.- thelastcrusade Immigration limitation activists have initiated a statewide petition drive to get the California Taxpayer Protection Act on the ballot. If passed, the measure will serve to eliminate the lure of birth tourism and to limit the financial, social, and vocational benefits […]
Israel Apartheid Week Comes to Town
The insidious analogy returns to college campuses as part of the campaign to delegitimize Israel. The false analogy between apartheid South Africa and Israel – particularly since the UN’s racist 2001 Durban Conference – has played a key role in the campaign to delegitimize Israel and threaten its existence. The strategy of boycotts, divestment and […]
