Obama’s Virtual War on Israel
By Alan Caruba.
This is hardly the best week to demonstrate his intense hatred of Israel, but since he has devoted 18 months to a fruitless and foolish negotiation with Iran, one can understand why Barack Hussein [...]
Who Are the Nuclear Scofflaws?
By Lawrence S. Wittner
Given all the frothing by hawkish U.S. Senators about Iran’s possible development of nuclear weapons, one might think that Iran was violating the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [...]
Don’t be an April “Earth Month” Fool
By Alan Caruba.
The annual calendar is filled with days and months designated for the purpose of calling attention to some event, personality, or cause. The U.S. celebrates the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington [...]
Natural born mockery
By Allen Schmertzler.
In the world legislated by a God of evangelical religious thought, fairness would rule. And, Rafael Edward Cruz would deserve to be treated as the flimflam circus act that he is, wagoning his vitriol around [...]
Be Informed and Watch Government “Like A Hawk!”
By Richard Larsen.
It’s inevitable that citizens would often feel frustrated with their elected officials. After all, it’s impossible to please all the people all of the time, and if they are, they likely aren’t doing their [...]
Terrifying the republican establishment
By Alan Caruba.
Would you vote for a man who openly says he would repeal ObamaCare?
Would you vote for a man who openly says he favors a fair tax and wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service?
Would you vote for a man who opposes [...]
GoDaddy, the Teamsters Union and Defamation
By Susan Brenner.
This post examines a recent opinion from the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Second Circuit: Ricci v. Teamsters Union Local 456, 2015 WL 1214476 (2015). The court began its opinion by explaining that
[p]laintiffs [...]
Libya Is the New Syria: How ISIL Exploited the Post-Gaddafi Vacuum
By Michael Hughes.
The Obama administration, and its French and British lackeys, heralded the toppling of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 as a humanitarian triumph. However, predictably, the decapitation of the Libyan [...]
Is Obama Anti-Semitic?
By Alan Caruba.
President Obama made no secret of his displeasure that Benjamin Netanyahu was reelected to be Israel’s Prime Minister. Only David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister and one of the nation’s [...]
One Galvanizing Issue Can Rocket Launch a Potential Presidential Candidacy: Scott Walker Is One Example
By Rich Rubino.
On election night 2010, Scott Walker’s victory in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial sweepstakes flew under the national radar. More national focus was thrust upon Texas Governor Rick Perry’s successful re-election [...]
Poetry of Sorrow and Hope
By Lawrence Wittner.
David Krieger’s new book of poems―Wake Up!―shows us that poetry engaged with world affairs can be very powerful.
In a brief introduction to the book, Krieger―the president of the Nuclear Age Peace [...]
Contempt of Congress by Any Other Name
By Frank Salvato.
Initially I was going to start with the line, “It is stunning to think,” but then I remembered I was opining about the Obama Administration, of which I have come to expect the unexpected, especially when [...]
Killing Off Myths
By James Zogby.
Some of the myths that drive Arab discourse about American behavior in the Middle East are fascinating for what they say about our relationship with the region. Though often profoundly wrong, [...]
Independent Sector Should Stop Pushing Self-Regulation
By Pablo Eisenberg.
Last month Independent Sector, the coalition of big foundations and nonprofits, held a major event on Capitol Hill calling attention to newly updated guidelines on accountability it hopes every nonprofit [...]
Could Sunni-Shiite Rift make Tikrit a Pyrrhic Victory? Al-Azhar & Shiite Militias
By Juan Cole.
The foremost Sunni Muslim seat of learning, al-Azhar University in Cairo,has stirred controversy by issuing a considered legal opinion (fatwa) condemning the Shiite militias or “Popular Mobilization Forces” that [...]
Arab malicious dance
By Mehssen Macary.
“On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence and return to the ways of peace. You may claim to seek justice. I too believe in justice and seek justice. But violence only [...]
Ferguson is NOT America
By Alan Caruba
The wounding of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and earlier in New York City the assassination of two police officers are disturbing events for all Americans as they represent a hostility that [...]
Globalization is irrevocable
By Lars Erik Lundin.
My vision for the OSCE in a 40-year perspective: focus on good governance and anticorruption. Globalisation is irrevocable.
(OSCE Parliamentary seminar organised by the Swedish institute for International [...]
Common Core’s Fundamental Problems
By Richard Larsen.
Common Core State Standards for education were advanced as a holistic reform intended to raise academic performance based on standardized achievement results. When reading the standards themselves, and [...]
Duty to Country Is Deadly Business
By Frank Salvato.
I awoke to the news that 7 Marines and 4 Army soldiers went missing, all presumed dead, after a special operations training mission helicopter crashed not far from where I live; not far from the pristine [...]