MAY 17, 2010 Islam, Obama and the Empty Quarter By SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM The term Empty Quarter refers to a desolate stretch of land in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. More recently it is aptly used as a metaphor to refer to the quarter of the Muslim world that is still undemocratic. Other […]
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MAY 17, 2010 Farewell to America’s China Station By MARK HELPRIN Excerpt from article: ” None of this was ever a historical inevitability. Rather, it is the fault of the American people and the governments they have freely chosen. Perhaps five or 10 years remain in which to accomplish a restoration, but only with a
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MAY 12, 2010 Shahzad and the Pre-9/11 Paradigm By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Some good news from the attempted car bombing in Times Square on May 1 is that—at the relatively small cost of disappointment to Broadway theater-goers—it teaches valuable lessons to help deal with Islamist terrorism. The bad news is that those lessons should already
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MAY 8, 2010 The Markets Have Good Reasons To Be Nervous By ANDY KESSLER Nathan Rothschild famously quipped, “Buy when there is blood in the streets,” but he never said anything about firebombs thrown at Greek riot police, a trillion dollar easing of the money supply, or synthetic collateralized debt obligations. And so, after facing
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MAY 10, 2010 Islam’s Nowhere Men Millions like Faisal Shahzad are unsettled by a modern world they can neither master nor reject. By FOUAD AJAMI ‘A Muslim has no nationality except his belief,” the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb’s “children” are everywhere now; they carry the nationalities of
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EUROPE NEWS MAY 9, 2010 World Races to Avert Crisis Europe’s Leaders Discuss €600 Billion Bailout Plan for Euro Members; Obama Rings By STEPHEN FIDLER And CHARLES FORELLE Associated PressFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures while speaking during a final press conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Saturday. BRUSSELS—The European Union on Sunday was
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MAY 6, 2010 The President and the Politics of Civility By KARL ROVE Last Saturday, Americans were again instructed on their political manners by their Moralizer in Chief. While delivering a commencement address to the University of Michigan’s graduating students, President Barack Obama’s comments were really meant for the nation’s political class. His speech dealt
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MAY 7, 2010 Why the AMA Wants to Muzzle Your Doctor It is always ethical to tell patients the truth, which is what doctors are doing by educating them about ObamaCare. By HAL SCHERZ The American Medical Association (AMA) is putting the doctors of America on notice. A major cheerleader for ObamaCare, the organization is
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MAY 6, 2010 New U.S. Push to Regulate Internet By AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON—In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks. The decision, by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, is likely to
MAY 6, 2010 Professor Mearsheimer and His Useful Jews By DANIEL BALSON At some point in the early part of the 20th century, the Tsarist authorities deemed my great grandfather to be a “useful Jew.” He was a pianist and his musical talents fit nicely with Russia’s classical preoccupation with high European culture. And so,
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