The recent decision by renowned physicist Stephen Hawking to boycott the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference, co-sponsored by Shimon Peres and Jerusalem's Hebrew University, is being touted by the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement as a great victory. Yet...
One child was killed and 11 others were wounded when a bomb targeting a Sahwa commander exploded in Hawija. In Mosul, security forces killed a suicide bomber attempting to strike a federal police base. A gunman was killed when he tried to attack a separate checkpoint....
It should come as no surprise that President Obama told Ohio State students at graduation ceremonies last week that they should not question authority and they should reject the calls of those who do. He argued that “our brave, creative, unique experiment in...
In the vast and ever expanding firmament of Western Human Rights NGO’s, PEN, America Center, the writers’ organization, is far from the most luminous and ordinarily barely visible. But a dark side of PEN came clearly into view with the hiring of Suzanne Nossel as its...
What do Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan have in common? Although it’s true that the United States has conducted recent military interventions in all of them, the more fundamental answer is that they are all artificial countries. That is, they are...
Poor Carla del Ponte – as soon as she let the cat out of the bag on the Syria "sarin gas" hoax a flurry of articles appeared in the mainstream media reporting panicked denials by UN officials and reminding us all of her past sins. John Hudson, writing in Foreign...
In Mosul, a sticky bomb planed on a provincial councilor's car killed her driver. A policeman was gunned down. A roadside bomb wounded two policemen. Security forces killed two gunmen. A roadside bomb killed a man and wounded a woman. Gunmen attacked a Tikrit...
Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria. According to the Huffington Post poll, Americans oppose U.S. air strikes on Syria by 3-to-1. They oppose sending arms to the rebels by 4-to-1. They oppose putting U.S. ground...
WASHINGTON -- In a burst of springtime whimsy, the principle of a private Christian school in Seattle last week looked at the bright, warm forecast and decided to call off school for a ‘Sun Day.” Principal Bob Sampson said he wanted to give students some time to...
