Politics

Climategate, Copenhagen and Cap & Trade

by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson January 5, 2010

2009 ended with a flurry of important events on the climate-change front.
In November, the Climategate scandal broke. An anonymous whistle-blower released over 1,000 e-mails from key scientists (both British and American) in the alarmist climate-change camp. The e-mails revealed…

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Latest “Human-Made-Disaster” Attack Succeeds

by Dr. Earl Tilford January 2, 2010

History holds that during World War II the Army executed only one American soldier, Private Eddie Slovik. There was another, a footnote to history.
In 1944, B-24 Liberators taking off from a base in Italy began exploding when they “rotated,”…

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Jihad 101

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. December 29, 2009

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came in for some well-deserved criticism for declaring over the weekend that “the system worked” with respect to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s effort to blow up the plane he was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit.  By…

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Niqabs or Burqas Banned at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

by Daniel Pipes December 28, 2009

Tarek Mehanna, 27, was arrested on Oct. 21, 2009, in Sudbury, Massachusetts and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. He allegedly planned to launch terrorist attacks both inside and outside the United States, specifically planning to attack…

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A Candle for Iran? A Reagan Lesson for Obama — from Christmas 1981

by Dr. Paul Kengor December 26, 2009

Twice last summer, I wrote about Iran — specifically, the dramatic June protests against the theocratic-totalitarian regime of Holocaust-denying despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More than that, I focused on President Obama’s reaction to the Iranian cry for freedom.
Obama’s initial response…

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Common Sense in Egypt and Saudi Arabia

by Daniel Pipes December 24, 2009

Invited recently by the newly formed Pechter Middle East Polls to ask three questions of 1,000 representative Egyptians and 1,000 urban Saudis, the Middle East Forum focused on Iran and Israel, the countries that most polarize the region. The results…

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Pollution a Solution?

by Tom Purcell December 24, 2009

If human activity got us into the mess, can human activity can get us out?
I refer to SuperFreakonomics, a hugely entertaining book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner.
Levitt and Dubner mine cold, hard…

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START Over

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. December 22, 2009

Amidst the late night machinations and parliamentary skullduggery that now passes for legislative process in what was once rightly known as “The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body,” a potentially decisive blow for freedom has been struck by forty-one Senators.
No, sadly…

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Praying for a White Christmas

by Tom Purcell December 19, 2009

The snow started coming down hard a few hours after we’d arrived.
It was Christmas Eve 1976. We were 20 miles from home, visiting my mother’s sister at her home in the country.
Earlier that evening, my mother, father, grandmother…

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Jefferson’s Warnings About Money and Banks

by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson December 19, 2009

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a dinner for 49 Nobel laureates. The occasion provided the opportunity for JFK to display his keen wit in the memorable quote, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of…

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