May 2007

Is the Sky Falling on America?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The suicide-murders and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan sicken Americans. Soon-to-be nuclear Iran seems loonier than nuclear North Korea. American debt keeps piling up in China and Japan. And we think of angry Venezuela, the Middle East and Russia every time we fill up — if we […]

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Crying Wolf

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. Share This

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Another Month in the War

This is a baffling sort of “containment” we’re seeing. 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. Share This

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Seeking Sympathy from the Infidel

Zawahiri invokes the language of social justice. 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

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Islamic Apologetics

Ignore history and focus on platitudes of peace and love? 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. Share This

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Al Qaedism, Again

Another straw on the back on the proverbial American camel. 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

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200 Million Minority

Islam’s apologists completely miss the point. 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

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