MARCH 27, 2011 Defense Secretary Gates says Iran isn’t winning in the Middle East and explains why he regrets a much-quoted line in his recent speech at West Point. By BRET STEPHENS Aboard the National Airborne Operations Center Robert Gates is a compact and unassuming man, but a U.S. secretary of defense does not travel […]
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IBD Editorials By CHUCK DEVORE • DeVore served in the California Legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 1984-85. 03/24/2011First in a series
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August 31, 2010Bruce Cunningham Well, how interesting! It seems the U.S. Department of Justice has changed its website. Gone are the colorful red, white and blue U.S. flag decorations on the page, replaced by stark black and white. And at the top of the page, is a rather interesting quote: “The common law is the
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MARCH 6, 2011, 7:57 P.M. ET Will the U.S. let Gadhafi slaughter his way back to power? The battle for Libya has reached a bloody impasse. Moammar Gadhafi continues to hold Tripoli, but his sons and mercenaries have been unable to break the uprising or retake the country’s east. Having loudly declared that Gadhafi “needs
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BRIAN T. KENNEDY is president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. He has written on national security affairs and California public policy issues in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and other national newspapers. He sits on the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense and is
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FEBRUARY 26, 2011 A Democrat’s Triumphal Return to Cairo Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the former prisoner of the Mubarak regime, on the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s political future. By BARI WEISS For 18 days, the people of Cairo massed in Tahrir Square to bring down their pharaoh. Many carried signs: “Mubarak: shift + delete,” “Forgive me
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MIDDLE EAST NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2011, 6:54 A.M. ET By CHARLES LEVINSON and TAHANI KARRAR-LEWSLEY CAIRO—Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya Sunday, as the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule. Human Rights Watch said it had confirmed 233 deaths
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Secularists and the ACLU strip First Amendment of meaning By Robert Knight The Washington Times February 18, 2011 Christians, Orthodox Jews or anyone with traditional views of sex and marriage should be barred from state university counseling programs unless they agree to violate their beliefs. That’s the gist of theamicus brief the American Civil Liberties
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Will its new government come to resemble Pakistan? Indonesia? Turkey? Or something entirely different? By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Washington So what’s next for Egypt? When people talk about possible outcomes after the collapse of the Mubarak regime, they usually have other Muslim countries in mind. This crisis has been so unexpected that something
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This has the potential of becoming a huge human tidal wave and it is headed straight for Europe! EUROPE NEWS FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Tunisian Influx Taxes Italy By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—Political instability in Tunisia has unleashed a wave of migrants toward Italian shores, igniting a crisis that has exposed the pitfalls of Italy’s reliance on
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