The bitter controversy over the building of a Muslim community center and mosque near the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, is sparking new fears of government snooping on Islamic holy places – which it now claims it can do without a...
Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this speech here. Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed “combat” troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering...
In an effort to introduce a story of "progress" into media coverage, Gen. David Petraeus's command claimed last week that the Taliban is suffering from reduced morale in Marjah and elsewhere, despite evidence that the population of Marjah still believes the Taliban...
You are not terrorists. Your religion is not evil. Your project is not a monument to murder. But since some believe otherwise, I propose a compromise: Get out. That is the message adopted by some liberals and their allies in the wake of smoldering conservative rage...
Suddenly, the “Kochtopus” is in the news – a subject about which I have first hand knowledge. That's because, for a year and a half or so in the late 1970's, I was part of it: part of the “family” of organizations funded by Charles and David Koch, two of the richest...
Channel 10, one of Israel's three TV channels, aired a report this week that surely frightened a lot of viewers. Its title was "Who Is Organizing the Worldwide Hatred of Israel Movement?" and its subject was the dozens of groups in various countries which are...
In the 1990s, I was a fan of economic humorist P.J. O'Rourke. One of his best books is Eat the Rich, which I described in a Fortune book review as an “Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations with a laugh on every page.” And if you think O'Rourke's understanding of the actual...
Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer M.J. Rosenberg told the Israel lobby to “pull the plug” on activities fanning the “anti-Muslim explosion that has seized this country over the past month.” The former insider charges organizations such as...
