Greece Government Nears Total Collapse
ATHENS — The Greek government was plunged into chaos on Tuesday and faced an imminent collapse, as lawmakers rebelled against Prime Minister George Papandreou’s surprise call for a popular referendum on a new debt deal with Greece’s foreign lenders. Such a collapse would not only render the referendum plan moot, it would likely scuttle — […]
Canada’s Muslims, Not of One Mind
by Daniel Pipes Macdonald-Laurier Institute November 2011 Comment on What Do Muslim Canadians Want? The Clash of Interpretations and Opinion Research By Christian Leuprecht and Conrad Winn Macdonald-Laurier Institute November 2011 Press release: http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/much-good-news-and-some-worrying-results-in-new-study-of-muslim-public-opinion-in-canada/ Text: http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/What-Do-Muslim-Canadians-Want-November-1-2011.pdf In their study for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, “What Do Muslim Canadians Want? The Clash of Interpretations and Opinion Research,” […]
Politicians Forget Why We Need A Strong Balanced Budget Amendment
The purpose of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution (BBA) is to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Some politicians seem to have forgotten that goal. According to USA Today there are 18 pending proposed amendments to the Constitution that purport to be balanced budget constitutional mandates. The House will be […]
Palestine Membership: More Trick Than Treat for UNESCO
As expected, “Palestine” succeeded in gaining membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on October 31 with a vote of 107 in favor, 14 against, and 52 abstentions. The result was a foregone conclusion after UNESCO’s 58-member executive board voted 40–4 with 14 abstentions earlier this month to let the membership […]
Cyprus on the World Stage
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 11, 2011 Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change. As it belatedly makes its grand debut on the world stage after domestic Greek-Turkish communal issues have consumed its first 51 years of independence, it faces […]
Although He Is Sure to Win, Putin Fights Charge of Stagnation
One would be justified in wondering, what makes Vladimir Putin feel he has to campaign? The opponents of his United Russia party and the added popular front are harassed even when they only want to make fun of Putin and compare him to Dracula. Only a tame or a discredited opposition like the Communists is […]
The Real Racism: Expecting Jews to Die Meekly
Into the Fray: Israel needs to once again convey, unapologetically, to the world the rationale for its founding. Talkbacks (100) The most accurate way to describe Israel today is as an apartheid state… 3.5 million Palestinians and almost half a million Jews live in the areas Israel occupied in 1967, and yet while these two […]
U.S. Government Accountability Office: Whitehouse Violated Law
It’s not every day that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the Executive Office of the President violated federal law, but that’s the conclusion the GAO released in a report this month, after reviewing bilateral talks with the Chinese government hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The White […]
More Than 150,000 Mexican Cargo Trucks to Enter United States
MEXICO CITY – Eleven Mexican trucking companies hope to join a pilot program that could see more than 150,000 vehicles delivering products to destinations deep inside the United States by year’s end, the vice president of the Canacar transport association said. Eight of the 11 firms have already submitted applications and are awaiting a response […]
Arab Spring to an Islamist Winter
by Khaled Abu Toameh The “revolutionaries” who sodomized and lynched Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi chanted the famous Islamic battle cry “Allahu Akbar!” [Allah is Greater]. When the leaders of the revolution announced Gaddafi’s death at a press conference, even secular Muslim journalists started chanting “Allahu Akbar!” A few days later, the leader of Libya’s National Transitional Council, […]
What Is America? Hamilton and Reagan Got It
What is America? What is this country fundamentally about? By and large, pundits and politicians on the right and the left don’t seem to get it. Some come close, but there is a widespread failure to explain why the Founders established this republic. On this date in history, two of the clearest expressions of the […]
