APRIL 9, 2011 The contradictory faces of political Islam in post-Mubarak Egypt. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Cairo Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner By Victor Davis Hanson Posted on April 08, 2011 1:10 PM At some point, the Obama administration is going to recognize a simple paradox that has been apparent to almost everyone but them: In theory, those pro-American autocratic regimes that are tottering or gone (the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt,
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APRIL 7, 2011 Mobs murder more than 20 innocents in the name of God—and the commander of Afghan forces rebukes a publicity-hungry pastor in Florida. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It must have come as a disappointment to the mullahs of Mazar-e-Sharif—who sent the faithful out on Friday with instructions to avenge the recent insult to the
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APRIL 7, 2011 Up to 200 Refugees Missing in Cold Waters, 15 Found Dead; Europe Struggles With Influx From Turbulent North Africa By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—Italian authorities were losing hope of rescuing more than 200 migrants who remained lost at sea on Wednesday after a boat that had been ferrying them from Libya to Italy
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By PETER KING April 7, 2011 On Monday, as Attorney General Eric Holder stood at the podium at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to announce that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists would be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo, he still insisted that he’d much prefer to try them in civilian courts.
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APRIL 5, 2011 The Jewish state has 250 billion barrels of oil shale. By BRET STEPHENS Jerusalem “That is beautiful product.” Harold Vinegar is holding a little vial of oil, light-brown in color, with a look of paternal pride. “It’s much lighter than typical crude,” he says, describing it as “the equivalent of Saudi extra-light.”
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APRIL 5, 2011 Mr. Goldstone Recants Now the U.N. author says he didn’t have the facts when he accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. Regrets, Richard Goldstone has a few, if you can believe it. The principal author of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s notorious “fact-finding mission” report on the Gaza war of 2008-09
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com April 5, 2011 4:00 A.M. Samantha Power’s Power On the ideology of an Obama adviser by Stanley Kurtz Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the author of Radical-in-Chief. A member of the president’s National Security Council who shares Noam Chomsky’s foreign-policy goals? An
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Human Event’s Uncommon Knowledge interview with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute
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