Understanding Post-Mubarak Egypt
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 26, 2011 As Egypt lurches into a new era, a look at its complexities and subtleties helps to understand the country’s likely course. Some thoughts on key issues: The spirit of Tahrir Square is real and alive but exceedingly remote from the halls of power. Revolutionary ideas – […]
China’s Bullet Train Fiasco: A Warning to America
Well, the Chinese finally have a green-energy idea worth stealing: arrest government officials who foist overpriced, underperforming, debt-ballooning, money-losing projects on taxpayers. Earlier this year, Liu Zhijun, Minister of Railways in the People’s Republic of China, was arrested following investigations into cost overruns and poor performance of the ministry’s showcase bullet trains. To be fair, […]
“Assad is World’s Most Dangerous Man”; Obama Silent as Syrian Death Toll at 400; Video: Tanks Shoot Civilians
Syrian President Bashar Assad is the world’s “most dangerous man,” according to Pulitzer Prize winner journalist Joel Brinkley, who added that the Obama government has “delusional views” of the dictator. Writing for Tribune Media Services, Brinkley said Assad overshadows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for being dangerous because the “duplicitous dictator…has duped presidents and prime ministers […]
Terrorist Attack on Egyptian Pipeline Stops Supply to Israel
Terrorists, described in foreign media as “armed gangs,” attacked the Egyptian-Israeli gas pipeline early Wednesday, halting supplies to Israel. It was at least the third attack on the pipeline this year. The blast, near El-Arish and approximately 30 miles south of the Israeli border, forced the evacuation of nearby residents from their homes. Unlike the […]
The Palestinian Authority Carries out Ahmadinejad’s Threat and Wipes Israel Off Map
The Palestinian Authority has carried out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threat to “wipe Israel off the map” and literally has done so by displaying maps of “Palestine” covering all of Israel at the same time its leaders talk about “two states for two people.” PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement that controls […]
Iranian Nuclear Program Hit By Second “Cyber Missile” Virus
Iranian civil defense commander Gholamreza Jalali said Monday the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program has fallen prey to a computer virus called “Stars,” Reuters reports. The Stars virus is the second in the cyber war against Iran’s bid for nuclear capability, following after the much-reported Stuxnet virus, Jalalai said the introduction of the new virus is […]
Afghanistan: Is Pakistan on Board with U.S. Objectives?
Today’s Wall Street Journal carries a stunning piece about a meeting that took place on April 16 in Kabul between Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The article asserts that Gilani sought to convince Karzai to break relations with the U.S. and instead seek an alliance with Pakistan and China, […]
Obamacare, the Supreme Court, and Recusal
Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied Virginia’s motion to bypass the appellate court and go directly to the Supreme Court in its challenge to the Obamacare litigation. The Court’s decision not to hear the case, delivered in an order without comment, was not surprising. While the procedure exists for the Court to hear cases after a […]
Obamacare Takes a Double Shot at the Economy and the American Dream
In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Kessler, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, describes how the new health care law’s subsidy program to help low- and middle-income Americans purchase health insurance will have severe economic consequences. These will include discouraging work for qualifying individuals and other taxpayers, disrupting America’s labor […]
Obama Greets Muslims on Ramadan, Forgets Easter Greeting
Presidents have always on many holidays and commemorations of events made statements recognizing them. Which are largely perfunctory and symbolic gestures, many about events or holidays that nobody cares about. The White House has never forgot to release statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, […]
United States to Give $2.8b for Oil Refinery in Columbia
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent agency of the federal government, is now planning a $2.84-billion loan of borrowed money, for a massive project to expand and upgrade an oil refinery in Cartagena, Colombia. The money would go to Reficar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecopetrol, the Colombian national oil company. This isn’t even the […]
