“We Win; They Lose”: The Staggering Simplicity of Reagan’s Grand Strategy
Rhetoric and material strength go hand-in-hand to form the core of any coherent foreign policy. Drawing on his vast wealth of experience as a career Foreign Service officer under President Ronald Reagan, Charles Hill recently discussed the importance of having a comprehensive grand strategy. According to Hill, “rhetoric is important, but it has to be […]
Author Peter Schweizer Exposes the Permanent Political Class
Peter Schweizer doesn’t have many friends on Capitol Hill these days. So few, in fact, that he was told not to even show his face at a congressional hearing on insider trading — even though that hearing was the direct result of his new book, “Throw Them All Out.” Schweizer, a fellow at the Hoover […]
Liberals, Conservatives and Human Nature
What explains such passionate philosophical disagreement between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party? The seemingly insurmountable divide between left and right is perhaps most clearly understood by their respective concepts of human nature. As understood by our Founders, human nature is innate. In the words of the Declaration of Independence, individuals are […]
Washington Post: Obama Waffling on Iran
The Washington Post castigated President Barack Obama in an editorial Friday for sending Iran “the wrong signals” in the showdown over its nuclear weapons program. “Iran has been showing signs of increasing nervousness about the possibility that its nuclear program will come under attack by Israel or the United States,” the editorial opined. “From the […]
Serbia to EU: While You Ponder Debt Crisis, What About Us?
While the main matter of business for the EU summit starting Thursday is to come up with another “ultimate” plan to convince investors that the EU has the economic crisis under control, the item of Serbia’s candidacy will also come up. The Serbs believe that they have played ball with the EU on a number of issues […]
Kuwait: 15 Years for Exiled Shia Cleric for Blasphemy – Insulting Mohammed and Islam
Just one day after Saudi Arabia sentenced an Australian national to 500 lashes for blasphemy, a Kuwait court on Wednesday sentenced a controversial religious figure to 15 years in prison for the same offense. A criminal court in Kuwait City found Yasser Al Habeeb guilty of insulting Aisha, the wife of Prophet Mohammad and daughter […]
Muslim Brotherhood to ‘Re-examine’ Camp David Accords with Israel
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt denies a report in Israeli newspaper Yediot Acharonot, according to which the movement has reached understandings with the United States and Israel, according to which the Muslim Brotherhood “understands the importance of safeguarding the peace treaty with Israel.’ Yediot Acharonot reported an alleged statement by Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant US Secretary […]
Food Stamp Fraud Costing Taxpayers Billions
The Washington Examiner recently reported that the two states bordering the nation’s capital are two of the five worst states for food stamp fraud. The above table shows the inverse relationship between the number of food stamp recipients and the percentage of cases investigated for fraud in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. While […]
Academic Study Exposes Reuters Propaganda
Reuters is one of our final three nominees for this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award by virtue of its appalling attempt to redefine the word “terror” in the aftermath of a Palestinian bomb attack next to a Jerusalem bus stop. Indeed, we’ve long criticized Reuters for failing to call terror by its name. But that’s not […]
Regulation: You Can’t Have Jobs and Eat Them, Too
As the debate swirls around regulations and jobs, it is refreshing to hear a businessman weigh in on the issue. This week, the CEO of Darden Restaurants, Clarence Otis, Jr., wrote that the excessive burden of new regulation makes it “increasingly difficult for businesses to see why and where creating new jobs makes sense.” Otis […]
Video: Iran Airs Footage of Downed U.S Drone
Iranian state television broadcast images this morning of what they purport to be a downed U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone. The host of the program in the video below stated the Iranian Army’s electronic warfare unit “hacked into the signal” and landed the drone, which explains why it looks to be in pristine condition. Certainly if […]
