Gingrich’s ‘Food Stamps’ Answer that Received Standing Ovation at Debate Becomes New South Carolina Ad (VIDEO)

  Newt Gingrich’s latest campaign ad is the former House Speaker’s “food stamps” answer taken directly from Monday’s debate in South Carolina. Called “The Moment,” the ad hopes to build on Gingrich’s fiery performance in which he at one point received a standing ovation from the crowd. “More people have been put on food stamps […]

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Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Ransacked

by Daniel Pipes January 16, 2012 updated Jan 17, 2012 Egypt Independent reports on vandalizing, looting, and fighting at the nuclear power plant being built at El-Dabaa, a town in the desert to the west of Alexandria. The account draws on an unnamed source at the Ministry of Electricity and Energy who accused security authorities […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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