CROSSING THE LINE – THE INTIFADA COMES TO CAMPUS
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Crisis in Turkey
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online March 2, 2010 The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward Islamism or reverts to its traditional secularism. The […]
A Brief Taxonomy of Campus Free Speech Foes
by David J. Rusin • Feb 28, 2010 at 11:04 pm Efforts to suppress politically incorrect speech on campus continue apace, as seen in the hostility directed toward Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., during a lecture on February 8 at the University of California, Irvine. Based on this and other recent events, one […]
Barack Obama ‘destroys first year in office’
WHEN Barack Obama took office last year he was compared to Superman, even joking at a dinner that he had been “born on Krypton and sent here … to save the planet Earth”. Last January he appeared on the cover of Spider-Man. Now, with his legislative agenda in tatters, the president has moved from comic-strip […]
Is There a Philosophy of Hypocrisy?
by Victor Davis Hanson Here are a few things that I think don’t quite compute. 1) The now familiar Palin/Edwards dichotomy. John McCain was damned for picking Sarah Palin who had not finished her first term as governor, and had previously only been elected to local political offices and served on a state commission. Her […]
California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP Morgan chief
Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece’s current debt woes. Mr Dimon told investors at the Wall Street bank’s annual meeting that “there could be contagion” if a state the size of California, the […]
City of Angels on brink of abyss
Los Angeles, the second-largest US city, is facing a crisis of funding not seen since the darkest days of the Great Depression Two and a half years after the official start of the worst economic downturn and fiscal crisis in nearly 80 years, America’s economy is supposedly growing again, the stock market is halfway recovered […]
America the Ungovernable?
In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary […]
Muslims burn down churches, shops
Melee reportedly broke out with no provocation from Christians An angry Muslim mob attacked Christian-owned shops and houses, burned down eight churches and injured several people in the northern Nigerian town of Kazaure. But the melee was prompted by a Muslim police officer who had a dispute with a Muslim citizen, according to a group […]
Obama Administration Did Not Consult Its Own Homeland Security Secretary Before Deciding to Try KSM in NYC
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate Homeland Security committee hearing on Wednesday that she has not been consulted and has not met with Obama administration officials about trying terror suspects on U.S. soil. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – At a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee […]
Socialized Mortgage Lending has Landed in the USA
If you watched with alarm as the government took over General Motors and Chrysler, and as Democrats tried to increase government’s role in the health care industry, you should be scared to death by the discussion of the mortgage markets. The unspoken, bottom line: The federal government has already nationalized the housing industry. We’re not […]
