Articles
July 31, 2006
Who killed the children of Qana?
James Lewis
The New York Times has announced that the entire world is outraged at Israel's behavior in bombing Qana. So it must be true. Or is it? Nothing is more heartrending than the suffering of children. Emotionally we all want to... More
July 31, 2006
Seattle's Culture of Victimology and the Shooting of Jews
Christopher Chantrill
How could it happen? In Seattle, of all places, a city of moderation and diversity? On Friday, July 28, a man barged into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. It is alleged that, armed with two handguns,... More
July 31, 2006
The Canary Keels Over
J.R. Dunn
Make no mistake — Israel's July 29th retreat from the village of Bin Jibeil marks the most serious defeat of Western arms to date in the War on Terror. Whatever occurs from this point on, the retreat (And it is a... More
July 31, 2006
Israel's Failed Munich Accord
Noel Sheppard
In 1938, the leaders of Europe got together in Munich to, for all intents and purposes, give Czechoslovakia to Germany in exchange for peace in the region. Given the recent events in the Middle East, it quite appears that Israel... More
July 30, 2006
Using innocents as tools of war
James Lewis
Embedded in Islamist ideology is the idea of using innocents as tools of war. It is their most effective weapon. The idea that killing innocents — children, non—combatants —— is moral and desired by God is embedded in the Quran.... More
July 29, 2006
News Flash: Conservatives Defend One of Their Own
James Lewis
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTY2OTBhOTYzY2NhZTE3ZWM1MDc0ODA3Y2EyNzA3NTE= When Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr., I seem to recall a curious silence in the media. Nobody danced in the street, exactly, but no keening was heard from Dan Rather at CBS, as the President fought... More
July 29, 2006
Indian Government in Denial after Bombay Train Blasts
N. S. Rajaram
Sonia Gandhi's softness towards Islamic Fundamentalists runs the risk of making India an attractive destination for the Jihadis. ...Sonia Gandhi, though not officially a member of the government has the responsibility for keeping the ruling coalition afloat. Her principal coalition... More
July 29, 2006
Ireland Today
Gene Lalor, Ph.D
'Dear, dirty Dublin,' James Joyce infamously maligned the capital of his native country, Ireland and, while it's still dear in many ways, his city and his country have come a very long way. More than a quarter century ago, inspired... More
July 28, 2006
The Real Battle isn't with Hezbollah
James Lewis
Will Israel pull the rabbit out of the hat again? We have come to expect near—miracles from the Israeli armed forces. From the hair—raising battles of the War of Independence to the destruction of Saddam's nuclear program in 1981, Israel... More
July 28, 2006
Israel's Strategy: Better a Poor Patton than the Full Monty
Glen Tschirgi
Recently, James Lewis posited that Israel's should the use the tactics of Gen. Bernard Montgomery rather than General George S. Patton in the current fight against the Islamofascists. In order to evaluate which tactics would be better suited to the current conflict... More
July 28, 2006
The Iranian Mullahs' Aim
Amil Imani
The world is presently at its most wicked. It is beyond human help. It requires only a nudge to implode and prepare for the divine ruler, the Saheb—ul—Zaman (the Mahdi, the Lord of the Age) to come and set it... More
July 27, 2006
The Ho Chi Minh Trail to Beirut
Marc Sheppard
A bizarre moral inversion grips most of the world's media, in particular America's legacy press.Those who defend against aggresion are castigated, while the aggressors are celebrated. Modern warfare involves information war, and the strategy and tactics of moral inversion derive from... More
July 27, 2006
Putin as the New Gorbachev
Douglas Hanson
There is an odd, nostalgic fixation on Mother Russia within the "foreign policy community." It's as if an overwhelming desire to return to the last days of the superpower standoff with an enlightened Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm of the... More
July 27, 2006
Meanwhile, Back in Baghdad
John B. Dwyer
The world's attention is now focused on the Israel—Hezbollah conflict between the region's only fully functioning democracy and the Shiite 'Party of God,' a terrorist group armed and supported by Syria and Iran, members in foul standing of the axis... More
July 26, 2006
A Few of the Basics of War
Greg Richards
The world's media are once again filtering warfare through their idiosyncratic perspectives. Most of them are shocked to discover that civilians are injured when terrorists locate military facilities in apartment houses, mosques, and other civilian locales. And they are doubly outraged... More
July 26, 2006
Winning the Public Relations War for Israel
Ned Barnett
If Israel wants to sustain US support for its efforts to defend its homeland from terrorists (which is what this current battle in the Middle East is all about), it needs to paint a word—picture that will cut through left/right... More
July 26, 2006
Radical Islamists and Western Governments
Patrick Poole
A shocking program aired on British TV's Channel 4 recently that should give pause to every Western government concerned about their domestic terror threat and raise questions from citizens about who their elected representatives are seeking advice and guidance from... More
July 25, 2006
The African Connection: Rep. Jefferson and Joe Wilson
Clarice Feldman
The documents seized in the FBI raid on the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D—LA) remain unread by Justice Department investigators, pending a federal Appeals Court ruling scheduled for August 27. Jefferson is anxious to overturn the ruling of federal... More
July 25, 2006
No Cry for Jihad: On Religious War, Part 2
J.R. Dunn
Part 1 is found here. According to religious war theorists (they've clearly earned such an appellation by now), what's occurring in southern Lebanon is another step in the advance of jihad. Israel, battered on all sides, back against the wall,... More
July 25, 2006
We are Already in a Religious War
Bookworm
Five days after 9/11, George Bush stated "This crusade, this war on terrorism is gonna take awhile. And the American people must be patient. I'm gonna be patient." America has been running from that speech ever since. It doesn't matter... More
July 24, 2006
Israel is following Monty, not Patton
James Lewis
While General George S. Patton was winning public laurels for fast armored strikes against German forces in WWII, Field Marshall Montgomery ran a parallel British army that made haste slowly. Patton is often considered the most brilliant US Army commander... More
July 24, 2006
Wal-Mart Wins a Battle, but the War Continues
Christopher Chantrill
On July 19 a federal court judge struck down Maryland's "Wal—Mart Law." That's the law cooked up by the nation's labor unions to force Wal—Mart to pay 8 percent of payroll into employee health benefits or be taxed for the... More
July 24, 2006
Kofi's War
Greg Richards
Israel is being set—up in the world's media to meet an impossible standard. To its critics, if Israel does not instantly destroy all of Hizbullah and its fixed installations (and that 'instant' has now already passed) and do it without... More
July 23, 2006
Dealing with Hezbollah's Siegfried Line
Douglas Hanson
As James Lewis notes in his excellent article, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has had no luck in knocking out Hezbollah's multi—story bunkers in southern Lebanon. In one operation, Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter—bombers dropped 23 tons of ordnance on... More
July 23, 2006
Darwinian Conservatism
Jamie Glazov
How Darwinian science refutes the Left's most sacred beliefs. An interview by Jamie Glazov with Larry Arnhart, a professor of political science at Northern Illinois University, about his new book Darwinian Conservatism. Glazov: Larry Arnhart, thanks for taking the time... More
July 23, 2006
Know Who Your Friends Are
Ari Kaufman
As Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda and Islamic Insurgents target the peaceful way we all live on a daily basis, one would surmise that the American Jew, the most despised group of the terrorists, would be the most fervently supportive of... More
July 22, 2006
Iran Awaits Liberation
Nicole Sadighi
The red warning flags have been flying high far too long. Since the emergence of the Islamic Republic inside Iran there has been nothing but turbulence throughout the world and since its inception it has had time to propagate and... More
July 22, 2006
Evidence Accumulates that Ahmadinejad Really is Insane
James Lewis
The biggest foreign policy question today is whether the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is really as utterly irrational as he talks. When he calls for wiping Israel from the map, is he serious? When he talks about privately communing... More
July 22, 2006
Party of God, Proxy of Terror
Frederick J. Chiaventone
One of the primary players in the current round of fighting in Lebanon, indeed the instigator of this phase of conflict, is the organization called Hezbollah or 'Party of God.' Although few would be able to attribute anything Godlike to... More
July 21, 2006
Lebanon's Agony
Rick Moran
When Hezbollah launched their unprovoked attack on the Jewish State 9 days ago from southern Lebanon, they very well may have destroyed any hope for democracy to take root in the tiny country for the foreseeable future. Responding as they... More
July 21, 2006
Iran's Destabilization of the Middle East
C. Hart
Iran would like to see a new world order, controlling the entire Middle East region with its nuclear potential influencing moderate Arab countries and Israel alike. That's according to Dr. Guy Bechor, a leading military analyst in Israel, who has... More
July 21, 2006
Dear Muslims: What is It that You Don't Understand?
Amil Imani
We, the non—Muslims—the infidels, heathens, unbelievers, apostates, enemies of Allah, najis (soiled), as you prefer to call us—would like to know what is it that you don't understand and what is it that makes you behave so badly toward us?... More
July 20, 2006
American Political Wars and Israel's War with Hezbollah
Richard Baehr
The Sunday talk shows and the evening cables news show have devoted much of their time this week to the Israel/Hezbollah conflict. As if required by law to demonstrate perfect balance, the talk shows always find a Republican and a... More
July 20, 2006
Islam Is Not Medieval
Jonathan David Carson
Please do not call Islam "medieval." Islam never made it to the Middle Ages, and if it is stuck in the past, it is stuck in the ancient world from which it arose, the decadent Hellenism it ill understood. Calling... More
July 20, 2006
The Man From Wapakoneta
Christopher G. Adamo
It was a time when America desperately needed heroes. As the institutions and beliefs that formed the heritage of the nation were being systematically dismantled by counterculture revolutionaries, those who held such things in high regard fervently sought for inspiring... More
July 19, 2006
The New York Times and the Jews (2)
Ed Lasky
[Editor's note: this is the second of a two part series. Part 1 is found here.] The New York Times garners a strong measure of loyalty from American Jews. A large part of this loyalty clearly stems from a perception... More
July 19, 2006
The War Zone Within the New York Times Company
Rosslyn Smith
The New York Times Company is reeling, as bad news for both shareholders and employees accumulates. Cash is being pulled out of production facilities and being funneled, by the hundreds of millions of dollars, into a lavish new billion dollar... More
July 19, 2006
A "Disproportionate Response"
Rachel Neuwirth
Buzzwords plague discussion of the Middle East conflict. For too long the buzzword phrase was the so—called 'occupied territories.' But today the new buzzword is 'disproportionate response,' meaning that Israel is being admonished to not overreact to an act of war... More
July 18, 2006
Downsizing the New York Times
Thomas Lifson
A profitable company is to shutter a factory it built in 1992 as part of a much—hailed visionary strategy to take advantage of technology. But now it is just a cost to be cut. Eight hundred jobs, many of them... More
July 18, 2006
The Syrian Option
Ed Lasky
As Israel battles the Shiite terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, many analysts have begun to wonder if there is another enemy that should be directly engaged: Syria. A harmonic convergence of factors has anathematized one of... More
July 18, 2006
A Warning from the Army Chief of Staff
Douglas Hanson
The Army's Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker, has recently done something extraordinary within the realm of Beltway politics — he told the truth about our Army's readiness. His message before the House Committee on the Armed Services was simple and... More
July 18, 2006
Hezbollah's attack a Wake-up Call for the World
Noel Sheppard
On September 11, 2001, as planes slammed into New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, the earth seemed to stop spinning for a few hours, and the planet's billions immediately realized that the world had changed forever. A similar shudder happened... More
July 17, 2006
Religious war
Michael Geer
[Editor's note: The question of religious war haunts the world today. Some, but not all, Muslims believe a religious war is long underway and will continue until the entire world submits to Allah. Last week, J.R. Dunn began a... More
July 17, 2006
It's a War, Stupid
Christopher Chantrill
The cycle of violence folks are out again. They are worried about the escalation of violence in the Middle East, that is to say, the current skirmish in the ongoing war between the people of Israel and the Iran—backed forces... More
July 17, 2006
Apocalyptic Muslim Jew-hatred
Andrew G. Bostom
There are short—term reasons behind the attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas. But underlying all the geo—strategy is a solid foundation of fanatical Jew—hatred, dating back to the founding of Islam. There is literally nothing Israel or Jews can do... More
July 15, 2006
Calling Ahmadinejad's bluff
James Lewis
Iran's President Ahmadinejad has been making murderous threats against the Jewish state for months and months. The Israelis don't like big rhetorical gestures, but they know perfectly well that leaving Ahmadinejad's genocidal boasting unanswered would send a signal of lethal... More
July 15, 2006
Get Real on Gasoline Prices
Tim McNabb
A new oil shock is underway. Turmoil in the Middle East is inevitably going to result in higher prices at the pump. On my morning bike ride, gas was 2.85 a gallon. On the way home, there were signs offering... More
July 14, 2006
License, Insurance Card, and Race, Please
Marc Sheppard
Suffolk County, NY, police have announced a pilot program in which officers are recording the race of drivers stopped for routine traffic violations. The initiative, which requires that officers make a visual determination of the suspect's race, is aimed at... More
July 14, 2006
Hey, Big Spender
Peri Bertram
There's that old saying that 'Money talks,' and when it did recently it reminded conservatives of what we always ignore: President George W. Bush is a big—spending liberal. The White House Office of Management and Budget released its mid—session review... More
July 14, 2006
Geopolitics Is on Putin's Mind at G-8 Summit
James Holmes
Say what you want about his authoritarian leanings, you have to respect Russian President Vladimir Putin's political and public—diplomacy skills. He is using flattery and espousal of certain fashionable causes with little impact on his nation to build capital among... More
July 13, 2006
On Fanatics, Religion, and Islam
Jacques Dhervillez
Some people—those who assume that all religions are irrational superstitions—contend that any serious religious devotion is fanaticism. On the contrary, a logical analysis would seem to indicate that the term 'religious fanatic' is an oxymoron, like 'poor billionaire' or 'honest... More
July 13, 2006
Battle Hymns of the Madmen in Tehran
Slater Bakhtavar
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, a little—known clandestine Islamist group remerged from the ashes. Formed in 1953 with a radically anti—Bahai and anti—Sunni ideology, the Hojjatiehs flourished during the Revolution that ousted the Shah. The fiery, respected Sheik... More
July 13, 2006
Outrage, Apathy and Elections
Andrew Sumereau
Bush approval ratings are up! The Democrats are in disarray! The Republican leadership announces, happily, that they have been buoyed by recent events regarding their chances in the upcoming elections. They are kidding themselves. Tragically, the damage done to the... More
July 12, 2006
Novak Speaks: New Questions for Fitzgerald and Comey
Clarice Feldman
Yesterday, Bob Novak reported that For nearly the entire time of his investigation, Fitzgerald knew —— independent of me —— the identity of the sources I used in my column of July 14, 2003. A federal investigation was triggered when... More
July 12, 2006
Enjoying the Academic Freedom to be an Idiot
Rick Moran
Is this a great country or what? Where else can a lecturer with marginal credentials, deep paranoia, and a self righteous streak a mile wide, play upon a gullible press eager for controversy to become an instant celebrity and a... More
July 12, 2006
Fasting Like They Fight
Russ Vaughn
It is almost comic, nah, hell, it's hilarious, to watch the Moonbats, led by their batty high priestess, Cindy Sheehan, undertake a new attempt to garner media attention. When I first heard about their planned Troops Home Fast, my immediate... More
July 11, 2006
Allah Will Know His Own: On Religious War, Part 1
J.R. Dunn
On the morning May 20, 1631, the army of the Habsburg Holy League, commanded by Count Tilly and Graf Pappenheim, breached the works of the city of Magdeburg. Desperate last—ditch sorties by the defenders were swept aside, and two of... More
July 11, 2006
Netroots Civil War: Is the Bloom off the Kos?
Noel Sheppard
It appears that the post—Yearly Kos month from hell is continuing for Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the proprietor of the Internet's premier liberal blog Daily Kos. After receiving some extremely negative press from major publications such as the New York Times,... More
July 11, 2006
Letter to the Hunger Strikers
Vasko Kohlmayer
Dear Friends, I was very impressed with your hunger strike protest in front of the White House on July 3. I was especially stirred to learn that a number of you have pledged to take the protest all the way... More
July 10, 2006
Who's Dysfunctional?
Christopher Chantrill
How would you define a dysfunctional family? Probably, like Wikipedia, you would say "a family in which conflict, misbehaviour and even abuse on the part of individual members of the family occur continually, leading other members to accommodate such actions." You... More
July 10, 2006
Justice Breyer's Active Liberty and bin Laden's Chauffeur
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
In a five—to—three decision the United States Supreme Court struck down the current use of military commissions to try al Qaeda detainees (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Case No. 05—184, 2006 US LEXIS 5185). This case arose from a challenge to the... More
July 10, 2006
Here Comes Gen Net
Ken Yarmosh
Teenagers are as familiar with the web as they are with television. When someone asks for their address, they think e—mail first. Computers without the Internet are useless to them and the frustration on their face shows it. When they... More
July 09, 2006
The Hope and the Siege
Richard Baehr
Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah, ("The Hope"), was written in 1886 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet, originally from Bohemia. Or it may have been first written in 1878 by Imber, a Galician, while living in the Ukraine. With google... More
July 08, 2006
Paying Women Less is Not Always Sexist
Chad Kent
"Equal Pay for Equal Work" has become the Eleventh Commandment in the Western world. It is a fine sentiment. But when is work "equal"? The realm of sport provides some interesting perspective on the matter. On June 26th, Venus Williams wrote an article in... More
July 08, 2006
No Contest: the War on Competition
Nigel Assam
The world's most widely—viewed sporting event will take place tomorrow in Germany, as Italy and France compete for soccer's World Cup. Athletic competition comes naturally to all children, and as adults we love to vicariously participate. Yet there are some... More
July 07, 2006
Take One, They're Free
Steve Feinstein
The Democratic Party probably thinks that this year's November elections will herald their return to Prime Time. Faced with a Republican Party beset by deep divisions over immigration reform, their all—too—well publicized difficulties on Valerie Plame, Hurricane Katrina, the NSA... More
July 07, 2006
Europe's Leviathan
Alvino-Mario Fantini
BRUSSELS —— I'm standing somewhere between the Maelbeek and Schuman metro stops in the so—called European quarter of this city wondering: Who are all the slim, nattily—dressed men running around the glass and metal buildings here? They —— and their... More
July 07, 2006
Al Gore's Green Money Machine
Christopher Alleva
As Al Gore's global warming alarm tour winds down for the summer, let's pull back the curtain and see the real wizard. After you get past all the scare mongering, what is left is a giant scheme to tax the... More
July 06, 2006
A Small Detour on Our Road to Dictatorship
Rick Moran
Many on the left tell us that our republic is held in thrall by a mass—murdering dictator. He regularly tramples on our constitutional guarantees of privacy. He flouts the law at his pleasure. With a crack of his whip, he bids... More
July 06, 2006
Does World Opinion Really Matter?
Edward Bernard Glick
Since September 11, 2001, I have often wondered how, say, Frenchmen, Britons, and Swedes, would have behaved if, instead of destroying New York's World Trade Center, terrorists had killed nearly 3,000 people in attacks on the Eiffel Tower in Paris,... More
July 06, 2006
Of Mayonnaise and Minorities
Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick
A recent article in the UK Telegraph offered insights into the many ways that Islamists in Baghdad are making life, by increments, miserable for citizens of the city. Ice producers, crucial in helping people survive in Iraq's 115 degree summer heat,... More
July 05, 2006
Convict, Correct, but Never Apologize
Richard Baehr
In recent months, the cable TV shows, newsweeklies and large circulation newspapers eagerly jumped into a story about an alleged rape of an exotic dancer by several Duke lacrosse players. The media storyline fit the theory of the case put... More
July 05, 2006
The Tides Turn in Favor of Bush and the GOP
Noel Sheppard
Did you hear that sound on Thursday, June 29? That was millions of conservatives gasping in horror when the Supreme Court issued its Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision seemingly giving the Bush administration a stunning defeat over terrorist detention centers at... More
July 05, 2006
Canada's Prime Minister Harper Adds Military Muscle
Paul Jackson
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government is quickly fulfilling campaign promises to rebuild the nation's military by going on an unprecedented $15 billion peacetime spending spree on heavy transport planes, helicopters, ships and trucks. That plan will surely get... More
July 04, 2006
Why Europe doesn't 'get' America
Peter C Glover
In December 2005 the 1,000th prisoner was executed in the USA since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Of the six men currently on military death row in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the leading candidate for execution... More
July 04, 2006
The Real Story of "My Country, Right or Wrong"
J. R. Dunn
Quotations, particularly quotations with political content, often seem to end upmisrepresented and mangled, their meaning twisted if not completely reversed. Consider only 'The business of America is business', 'War is politics carried on by other means', or 'Truth is the... More
July 04, 2006
Patriotism and Anti-patriotism
Bookworm
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" —— Nathan Hale, upon his execution in 1776. "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ——... More
July 04, 2006
Reconnect with Our Founding Document
John B. Dwyer
'We have it in our power to begin the world over again,' wrote Tom Paine on February 14, 1776. 'A situation, similar to the present,' he continued, 'hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of... More
July 03, 2006
The Worst of (the) Times
Ari Kaufman
It has become more and more transparent that the New York Times leans not only left, but far enough away from mainstream America so as to reach out to our enemies in the War on Terror. To then defend themselves, arrogantly... More
July 03, 2006
Liberals and Babies and Trust Cues
Christopher Chantrill
Nicholas Wade's new book Before the Dawn offers a fascinating review of recent science in human prehistory. Genetic analysis of human remains can now tell us a lot about how humans spread across the world, starting about 50,000 years ago. But... More
July 03, 2006
Cheating
Christopher J. Alleva
Bronx native, Vince Ferrari pulled off one the best publicity stunts of the year catching an AOL Time Warner representative on tape attempting to prevent him from canceling his AOL Internet account. Ferrari spent more than 21 minutes being left... More
July 02, 2006
Peddling PC to the Alumni
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
Publications sent by colleges and universities to their alumni are meant to be soothing. We are treated to profiles of accomplished alumni, hard—working and reasonable professors, and those students whose futures are so bright we gotta wear shades. Alumni don't... More
July 02, 2006
Clouds
John B. Dwyer
Borne by soft southern breezes on a June afternoon, armadas of cumulus clouds sailed majestically across the sky. Or on another day, it seemed as if across the azure vault cloud battalions marched east on a summer's zephyr. Empires of... More
July 02, 2006
Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (6)
James Arlandson and Soliman al-Buthe
Part One, which has a brief Introduction; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five This part completes the seven questions and concerns found in Part Five. JA (2005) 4: You write [in your Open Letter quoted in Part... More
July 01, 2006
The Case of Robert Schofield
Clarice Feldman
One of the main failings of American culture, it seems to me, is the tendency to underestimate the practical problems of management. The failure is especially pronounced in government where Congress exercises little oversight of enormous federal programs and agencies... More
July 01, 2006
EMP and the Unfought Victory
Timothy Birdnow
"Thus one who excels at employing the military subjugates other people`s armies without engaging in battle, captures other people`s fortified cities without attacking them, and destroys other people`s states without prolonged fighting." Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Sun Tzu... More
July 01, 2006
Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (5)
James Arlandson and Soliman al-Buthe
Part One, which has a brief Introduction; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four Soliman al—Buthe (or al—Buthi) wrote an Open Letter to Congress in 2005. Then he initiated a dialogue with me, so we decided on this sequence. 1. In... More
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