The Mortal Threat From Iran; How to Stop Iran and the Possible Ramifications If We Don’t
To assume that Iran will not close the Strait of Hormuz is to assume that primitive religious fanatics will perform cost-benefit analyses the way they are done at Wharton. They won’t, especially if the oil that is their life’s blood is threatened. If Iran does close the strait, we will fight an air and naval […]
Is Coal de Minimus? The Problem with the Alabama Ethics Commission
In the wake of a number of corruption scandals, the Alabama legislature endeavored to reform their system by enacting tough ethics laws. But does that mean that a student can no longer give a teacher a Christmas gift? For some students and parents in the Yellowhammer State, that may mean flirting with serious jail time, […]
Georgia Judge Subpoenas Obama, Demands ALL Vital Records
In just ten days, Barack Hussein Obama will be held accountable to the American people after nearly four years of dodging our demands for his long-form birth certificate. At stake: His citizenship eligibility to be President of the United States… YOU READ THAT RIGHT. A Georgia Judge has issued what appears to be a subpoena demanding […]
Getting the Facts Straight on the Taliban
The relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda was one of the hot topics of Monday night’s presidential debate. Candidate Ron Paul downplayed the dangers of the Taliban, declaring the “Taliban used to be our allies when we were fighting the Russians… The al-Qaeda wants to come here to kill us. The Taliban just says we […]
Ending the Palestinian “Right of Return”
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online January 17, 2012 Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision […]
Taiwan KMT Victory: A Vote For Status Quo Or Creeping Unification
The elections in Taiwan are over and incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou has won a second and final term of four years. In addition, his Kuomintang Party (KMT) preserved its legislative majority. In the post-election aftermath, attention shifts from who will win and by what margin to the question of what these elections meant. While President […]
Turkey Out of NATO: Other Voices Discuss Turkey’s NATO Membership
by Daniel Pipes November 9, 2009 updated Jan 17, 2012 I raised the issue of Turkey’s continued membership in NATO in April 2009 at “Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO?“; here I will collect others who agree that the issue at least needs to be raised. While it’s still too early to write Turkey out […]
Islamic Extremism Norway’s Biggest Threat
Oslo (AP) — Islamic extremism remains Norway’s biggest terror threat, but the danger of lone wolf attacks has also increased in the aftermath of a massacre by a homegrown anti-Muslim extremist, Norwegian security service PST said Tuesday. Agency Chief Janne Kristiansen told local news agency NTB that over the past three to four years there […]
Muslim War in Gaza: Hamas Assaults Shi’ite Muslims
Police in Gaza, ruled by Hamas’ Sunni Muslims, broke the bones of several Shi’ite Muslims last week, a further sign of a break between Iran and Hamas. Iran drastically reduced funding to Hamas this past summer after the Gaza regime did not back Iran’s support for beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, a key ally of […]
Russian Billionaire to Challenge Putin for Presidency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Mikhail Prokhorov, a super-rich tycoon challenging Vladimir Putin for Russia’s presidency in March, said his country faced the danger of violent revolution if it did not break conservative resistance and move quickly to democracy. Prokhorov, a billionaire bachelor long seen more as playboy than politician, told The Freeland File on reuters.com Russians […]
Rick Santorum, Felon Voting, and the Constitution
Last night’s Republican presidential debate raised the issue of felon voting. Rick Santorum was challenged over his vote for federal legislation that would automatically restore the voting rights to felons as soon as they are released from prison and have completed any required probation or parole. As I testified nearly two years ago before the […]
