Victory for Free Speech in Texas
In a major victory for the increasingly embattled freedom of speech, the Texas Supreme Court has just denied a petition by the Islamic Society of Arlington, Texas and six other Texas-based Islamic...
View ArticleA Massachusetts Miracle?
The big news about today’s special election in Massachusetts is that it is big news. The contest between state Attorney General Martha Coakley and her Republican opponent, once-obscure state senator...
View ArticleBin Laden endorses bomb attempt on US plane – AP
CAIRO – Osama bin Laden endorsed the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and threatened new attacks against the United States in an audio message released Sunday that appeared...
View ArticleAfter Brown victory, Obama struggles to control message – AP
With the president’s State of the Union address coming up on Wednesday, the White House appears to be struggling to find its feet. Republican Scott Brown’s surprise victory in liberal Massachusetts...
View ArticleSt. Louis U’s Inverted Values
On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week I was in Washington, where I visited with three U.S. Senators and three Congressmen, including the whips of both houses. I was meeting Eric Cantor for the first...
View ArticleThe New Cold War
The People’s Republic of China has denounced the meeting of Tibet’s Dalai Lama with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb.18. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu...
View ArticleSymposium: Is Hannah Arendt Still Relevant?
In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have invited two distinguished guests to discuss the question: Is Hannah Arendt still relevant? We ask this in the context of whether Arendt’s...
View ArticleThe Appeaser
The National Security Strategy (NSS) released by the Barack Obama administration on May 27 is not so much a look forward as a look back. It is an attempt to return to the optimistic days following the...
View ArticleWalker’s Second Victory
In what is viewed as a victory for Governor Scott Walker and his attempt to limit the power of government unions, it appears incumbent David Prosser has defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in the...
View ArticleUnited Nations MIA on Syria
The United Nations Security Council has reverted to its usual modus operandi: inaction. On April 27th, after receiving a detailed report by the UN’s Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, Lynn...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda Eyes Yemen
President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s recent return to Yemen has been met by continued massive, violent protests calling for his immediate ouster. With separatists and al-Qaeda insurgents continuing to gain...
View Article‘A Stew of Anti-Muslim Bile and Conspiracy-Laden Forecasts’
At 11:20 a.m. on Feb. 5, Lars Hedegaard answered his door bell to an apparent mailman. Instead of receiving a package, however, the 70-year-old Danish historian and journalist found himself face to...
View ArticleSecurity reviews under way after airliner attack – AP
Investigators piecing together a brazen attempt to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner said Sunday the suspect tucked a small bag holding his deadly concoction on his body, using an explosive that...
View ArticlePreventing the Next Terrorist Attack – by Andrew Cline
Additional security measures reported in the aftermath of the Christmas bomber’s failed attempt to down a U.S. airline will amount to naught because they don’t address the central security failure....
View ArticlePanic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin – Times Online
Just when Denmark thought the worst was over, Islamic fury has come back to haunt it with an assassination attempt on the artist whose cartoon of the prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber had an...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: Hollow Words on Terrorism
WASHINGTON — Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over...
View Article“Shock” U.S. report due on attempted airline attack – AP
WASHINGTON Reuters – The White House was poised to release a report on Thursday that top aides said will shock Americans about security lapses that allowed a Nigerian man to come close to blowing up a...
View ArticleTerror in the Skies Requires Real Action on the Ground – by Michael Reagan
This country is on alert now in a way it has not been for almost nine years. Between the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack, the bombing of the CIA headquarters in Yemen, and near-daily airport...
View ArticleObama takes steps to bolster security – latimes.com
Declaring that “the buck stops with me,” President Obama on Thursday released the results of an internal investigation into the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt and ordered a series of incremental...
View ArticleBeing Safe While Isolated
Originally published by the Jerusalem Post. Yehudah Glick has spent the better part of the last 20 years championing the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – Judaism’s holiest...
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