VIDEO: Britain’s Liam Fox Warns America: Your Debt Is a Threat
Britain’s Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former U.K. secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America’s debt is a national security issue. Watch the full 45-minute speech, “Warning to a Superpower” [youtube […]
The GOP Presidential Nomination Fight Ain’t Over
In 2008, many conservatives secretly thought to themselves that while electing Barack Obama would be the worst thing that could happen to the country (and it was), electing John McCain would be the worst thing that could happen to the conservative movement (and it would have been). Well, as Yogi Berra said, it’s déjà vu […]
Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction
by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2012 updated Feb 26, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia: Since the end of the cold war, many Americans have a sense of being so strong, they don’t need […]
Syria Storms Out of UN Human Rights Meeting
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva threw a tantrum and then stormed out of an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday. Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui charged that sanctions imposed on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its brutal year-long crackdown on civilians, prevented Damascus from buying medicines and fuel. […]
The Chinese Economy at the Crossroads
The World Bank’s latest report sounds a warning on China’s future economic growth, reiterating critical recommendations concerning the Chinese economy by The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. The report makes a strong case that, if China is to keep up growth rates at even half the level it has managed over the past 30 […]
Car Jack Used to Breach Border Fence: Video Shows Drug Smugglers Easily Crossing Border (VIDEO)
Our southern border with Mexico is far from safe. In a shocking video taken along the border in Arizona, a group of drug smugglers from Mexico use a car jack to lift open a portion of the border fence and sneak in hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs to the U.S.! With no border patrol […]
Report: Iran Research Center Played Key Role in Nuclear Program; Shows Israel Right on Iran
A Washington-based institution is warning that an Iranian research center has more to do with the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program than was previously believed. The Associated Press reported that the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said Wednesday it had new indications of hidden weapons work by Iran. According to the report, a cache […]
Jewish Groups Appalled at Harvard’s ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Abe Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), wrote a letter to the President of Harvard University, Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust last week, condemning the “One State Conference” scheduled to take place at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government on March 3-4. The conference, organized entirely by student groups that advocate an ideology […]
Netanyahu Slams Abbas’ ‘Contemptible’ Doha Speech
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had fiery words for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Sunday evening after a day in which the Fatah and PLO leader delivered a speech that attempted to deny the ancient Jewish roots of Jerusalem. Abbas told Arab leaders in Doha that visiting “occupied Jerusalem” was the goal of every Muslim, Arab […]
“Pro-Zionist Rats”: Venezuelan Media Attack Chavez Opposition
This article has been adapted from an original communique courtesy of ReporteHonesto, HR’s Latin American affiliate. With elections approaching in Venezuela, opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski – and especially his Jewish background – has become a lightening rod for criticism from state run media and supporters of Hugo Chavez. Some of it clearly crosses into […]
AU Peace Keepers Seize Major Al-Shabab Terror Base
Ethiopian and Somali troops took a strategic base of the Islamist al-Shabab terror militia in south-western Somalia on Thursday. About 50 vehicles, including some 20 tanks, entered Baidoa before troops spread out to secure the environs surrounding the town. After the southern port of Kismayo, the town was the most important al-Shabab base. Al-Shabab, which […]
