Wisconsin: An Education in Special Interest Power
Early yesterday morning, the Wisconsin assembly passed Governor Scott Walker’s (R) budget repair bill, which includes language requiring public employees to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries to cover the cost of their pensions and pay 12 percent of their health insurance premiums. The measure also significantly limits collective bargaining for government employees, such as […]
China and Middle East Regime Change
Recent upheavals in the Middle East—including the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia and Egypt, riots in Bahrain, and near civil war in Libya—raise the question of what lessons the People’s Republic of China, and especially the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are likely to have learned. The concern focuses not only on whether the Chinese […]
Huckabee: ‘No Value’ In Republicans Attacking Each Other in Primaries; GOP Should Run Against Obama
(CNSNews.com) – Former Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) told reporters at the National Press Club that he sees “no value” in Republicans attacking each other in the primaries for the next Presidential election. Instead, Huckabee recommended that the GOP run against President Obama from the start. “I don’t see the other Republicans as […]
My Optimism About Europe
by Daniel Pipes February 8, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Perhaps alone in the coterie focused on the Islamist threat to Europe, I am cheerful these days. That’s because I see the anti-Islamist reaction growing even more quickly than the Islamist threat itself. The stirring speech by British prime minister David Cameron […]
New Soy Food Looks, Tastes & Feels Like Meat
In the following video, Israel National News TV visits “IsraFood Expo 2010” and meets the presenters of Chef-Man who are busy offering visitors a taste of their curry chicken, goulash and shawarma. The “catch” is that it is all non-meat products. Rather, they are all based only on soy protein. (IsraelNationalNews.com) Source material can be found […]
Abbas Fatah Faction Honors Olympic Massacre Planner
The Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting in Ramallah in honor of a senior planner of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympics at their Revolutionary Council conference. Abbas, who worked behind the scenes to fund the murder of 11 Israelis at Munich, earlier this year told […]
Egypt Mediating between ‘Twin Terrors’ Hamas and Fatah
The Egyptian effort to mediate between Hamas and Fatah has resumed, Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said Thursday. Abu Yousef said that senior Egyptian intelligence officer Muhammad Ibrahim will meet the Palestinian Authority senior leadership under Mahmoud Abbas next week, and will also confer with leaders of other “streams and […]
“Arresting” Lieberman: Journalism or Activism?
“Arresting” Lieberman: Journalism or Activism? On Feb. 22, Irish “journalist” David Cronin attempted a citizen’s arrest of Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the start of a press conference at the EU in Brussels. Cronin shouted: “Mister Lieberman this is a citizen’s arrest. You are charged with the crime of apartheid” while accusing Israel of […]
Obama Funds Gaddafi and Anti-Israeli Ship
Last year, right around the time Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi called Obama “our son,” Obama earmarked $400,000 for two Libyan charities controlled by Gaddafi. The money was divided between two foundations run by Gaddafi’s children; Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation, run by his son Saif, and Wa Attassimou, run by his daughter Aicha. What […]
Mugged in Buenos Aires: Obama’s Argentine Imbroglio
On February 10, a U.S., military C-17 touched down in Buenos Aires. On board were eight special forces soldiers and a medic en route to provide a hostage rescue training course for the police of Buenos Aires. Little did they know they would be stepping into a diplomatic ambush. In the aircraft’s cargo hold were […]
China Rattled by Middle Eastern Events; Fear Uprising
Coverage of the tumultuous events in the Middle East in the official Chinese press has gone through a few iterations. At first, the policy was no coverage or at best laconic coverage. Lately, due to internet postings and official nervousness the tone has changed to ‘ why it can’t happen here’ and ‘why it must […]
