What is the real scandal in the World Bank?
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank has nothing to do with his alleged misdeeds. Continue reading “Crying Wolf”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank has nothing to do with his alleged misdeeds. Continue reading “Crying Wolf”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
May was another normal month in the war against Islamism. At home, a delusional Rosie O’Donnell was back at it. Continue reading “Another Month in the War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners?
They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn’t quite match their professed dogma. Continue reading “The New Penance Doesn’t Offset Much”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
In an unprecedented effort to rally popular support, al Qaeda is apparently trying to refashion its image from an ultra-conservative, radical Islamist group with clear and precise goals — the ultimate being to implement sharia law around the globe — to what the liberal West has long had a soft spot for: a romanticized revolutionary movement of the “Ché” variety, fighting to overthrow oppression and exploitation (which, as the usual story goes, are products of U.S. greed and aggression). Continue reading “Seeking Sympathy from the Infidel”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
They didn’t ask necessarily for this war; but nevertheless our soldiers and officer corps brilliantly defeated Saddam Hussein in three weeks under the strict parameters set by political leaders. Continue reading “There’s a War Still Going On…”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
Islamic apologist extraordinaire Karen Armstrong is at it again. In an article entitled “Balancing the Prophet” published by the Financial Times, the self-proclaimed “freelance monotheist” engages in what can only be considered second-rate sophistry. Continue reading “Islamic Apologetics”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
“This war is lost,” Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid recently proclaimed. Continue reading “Your War, Not Mine”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers? After all, the United States — not bin Laden’s rag-tag jihadists — saved Bosnia and Kosovo? And we did that by bombing the capital of a Christian European nation. Continue reading “Al Qaedism, Again”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
For three consecutive days, April 10-12, Tariq Ramadan, the controversial Muslim activist who was denied a U.S. visa for questionable activities (such as making “charitable” donations to the terrorist organization Hamas, which regularly commissions suicide-attacks), was invited by Georgetown University to give a one-way talk live via satellite — a move which many, including several Georgetown faculty, protested. Continue reading “200 Million Minority”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Americans for weeks woke up and went to bed to news updates about Anna Nicole Smith’s death and the fate of her daughter. Continue reading “Hooked On Trivia”