www.conservativewomensforum.com Say what you will about John McCain, but I believe he would have been a decisive president if he had won the 2008 election. As a result of that election, the United States has a president that is reluctant to provide American leadership at a time when the world is in dire need of a strong, guiding and reassuring presence. What Obama […]
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MARCH 15, 2011 By ANGUS MCDOWALL, ALEX DELMAR-MORGAN And ADAM ENTOUS ReutersAnti-government protesters block the roads from riot police at the junction of Bahrain Financial Harbour in Manama March 14. MANAMA, Bahrain—Saudi military forces in tanks and armored personnel carriers crossed the 16-mile causeway into the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain to defend the Sunni
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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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FEBRUARY 22, 2011, 11:56 P.M. ET Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Oil Soars, Stocks Fall as Libyan Rebels Take Energy Zone; Shipments Are Halted By LIAM PLEVEN, JONATHAN CHENG And GUY CHAZAN Libya’s descent into violence rattled global financial markets Tuesday, sending oil prices surging to their biggest gain in more than two years and driving
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011 The U.S. Can Help Libyans Defeat Gadhafi If mercenaries are arriving to save the dictator, the U.S. and U.N. need to mobilize to stop the slaughter. By PAUL WOLFOWITZ EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Later on Sunday the State Department started to play catch-up, issuing a statement that called upon Libyan officials to
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February 22, 2011 What has happened in Bahrain is a tiny but telling shot across China’s gigantic bow. By BRET STEPHENS Bahrain is an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf with a population of about 1.2 million. The People’s Republic of China is 12,000 times as large and 1,000 times as populous. Yet what is
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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 By AMIR TAHERI ‘Hang them! Hang them!” the mob shouted while goose-stepping towards the podium. Some beat their chests and others raised clenched fists. “Allah is the greatest!” chanted the turbaned clerics. This was the scene Tuesday in the Islamic Majlis, Iran’s ersatz parliament. Members raged against the “heads of sedition,” calling
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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Lawrence Kudlow Feb 2 2011 Did Bernanke and ethanol sink Egypt? Decades of autocratic government and a lack of free elections are, of course, the main drivers of the political upheaval in Egypt. But did the sinking dollar and skyrocketing food prices trigger the massive unrest now occurring in
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 In 1979, Western thinkers were quick to call the Ayatollah Khomeini ‘moderate’ and ‘progressive.’ By BRET STEPHENS It’s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a “Times Classic.” On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law
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