by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
To posit the significance of Osama bin Laden’s demise, we must first decide which came first — the chicken or the egg? Continue reading “Was Osama Bin Laden the Chicken or the Egg?”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
To posit the significance of Osama bin Laden’s demise, we must first decide which came first — the chicken or the egg? Continue reading “Was Osama Bin Laden the Chicken or the Egg?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The full story is not out on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he is innocent of forcible sexual battery until proven guilty, but already the case has exposed an ancient abyss between European elite and American popular cultures — accentuated by the differences between New York’s rough-and-tumble media and legal worlds on the one hand and IMF technocracy and French privilege on the other. Continue reading “A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, “Islamists”), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: Continue reading “Muslim ‘Inferiority Complex’ Kills Christians”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The post-mortem revelations of Osama bin Laden’s daily habits have confirmed the orthodox narrative about the al-Qaeda chief. Continue reading “The Fellow Travelers of Jihadism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Gas Dreams Come True
High energy costs to the Obamites are only unfortunate in terms of overcoming short-term political challenges. Continue reading “Living the Obama Dream”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Osama bin Laden is dead. The Middle East is in chaos. And radical Islam is floundering Continue reading “Tough Times for Radical Islam”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Imagine if a top American historian appeared on the MSM insisting that the only reason Europeans conquered the Americas was to “defend” the Native Americans — who somehow had adopted Christianity centuries before Jesus was born — from being persecuted by heathen tribes. Continue reading “Were Conquered Christians Really Liberated Muslims?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Paradoxical President
The Obama administration has offered a number of recent fantasies. Here are a few examples. Continue reading “Fantasies, Present and Future”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
After mentioning the sort of atrocities Christians in Pakistan suffer — including being killed by “blasphemy” laws, constantly “abused in public and harassed in the street by groups of Muslim youths,” ostracized and impoverished by the government — a recent Fox News report reminds us that Christian persecution is further exacerbated by anti-Americanism: Continue reading “Islam’s Christian Scapegoats”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Every once in a while, the world is turned upside down in just a few years, whether by ideological ferment or force of arms. Continue reading “The World Turned Upside Down–Again”