Analysis & Commentary
Cash-for-Kofi
DESPITE FREQUENT DECLARATIONS OF REFORM, it seems that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has learned nothing from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food scandal, in which Saddam Hussein's billions corrupted the U.N.'s entire Iraq embargo bureaucracy. Earlier this month, Annan accepted from the...
Other Comments: World War of Ideas
It is one thing to tell the truth even when it damages your friends.
Hamas Wins, Peace Loses
Final results of yesterday's Palestinian legislative elections are still trickling in. But one thing is sure: Yasser Arafat's chickens have come home to roost. After decades of dictatorial and corrupt control by the late Fatah leader and his cohorts, vast numbers of voters in both the West...
Constructive Provocation
It could have been the embassies burning, or the pledges of decapitation for offending cartoonists, or the priest shot dead while praying in his church in Turkey.
Don’t Blame Democracy
Democracy is getting a bum rap. President Bush's insistence on promoting democracy abroad, critics chide, has now brought Hamas, a Militant Islamist terrorist organization, to power in the West Bank and Gaza. If this is democracy, they say, who needs it?
The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous
With the approval of the Bush administration, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over commercial management of shipping and stevedoring operations at six major American ports, located on the eastern seaboard and in New Orleans. When attention was suddenly drawn to...
Selling Out Moderate Islam
THE DANISH CARTOONS of the Prophet Muhammad, like Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 1989 fatwa against the British author Salman Rushdie and those who helped publish his Satanic Verses, have revealed more disturbing things about the West than they have about Muslims in Europe and the Middle...
Your Action Essential to End Darfur Tragedy
The heart and mind so seldom agree. But they can right now: If our government takes steps to halt genocide in Darfur, it stands not only to end the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the modern world but to improve global stability and enhance American security. In this case, the most...
Food for Nukes?
It's bad enough that North Korea's Kim Jong Il is starving his people while building nuclear bombs. But why are we helping him?
The Rising Tide of Islamism in Bangladesh
On August 17, 2005, three hundred bombs detonated almost simultaneously throughout Bangladesh. The massive attack sent shockwaves across Bangladesh, the third largest country in the Muslim world. Since then, Islamist-inspired violence in Bangladesh has escalated. At least five people were...
Humanitarians for Hamas
The new Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council is expected to be sworn in this Saturday. Both President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have made clear that the United States will move to cut off aid to any Palestinian Authority (PA) government led by Hamas --...
Checked and Unbalanced
As a reverent admirer of George Will, it pains me to say that his diatribe today against the National Security Agency's terrorist-surveillance program is an embarrassing magpie of hyperbole and error.
Were the Danish Cartoons “An Unnecessary Affront”?
Speech is not free if you have permission only to say things no one could find unobjectionable or offensive.
Your Honey Or Your Lyin’ Eyes?
So here we are again, a dazed planet brushing ourselves off and surveying the wreckage from the worst spree of Islam-inspired rioting, bombing, murder, and mayhem since … well, since the last one. And the one before that.
U.N. Procurement Scandal: How Far Did the Inside Information Travel?
UNITED NATIONS — On April 27, 2005, a U.N. procurement officer named Alexander Yakovlev was working unusually late.
Symposium: Banning Sharia?
Just recently, the Australian government informed its Muslims that those amongst them who want to live under Islamic Sharia law should leave the country. In other words: if secularism is not your cup of tea, Australia is not for you.
Cartoonish Hypocrisy
With all due respect for people of all religious faiths: what in Heaven's Name is going on?
The Cartoon Intifada
Muslim demonstrators have been torching embassies, stoning churches and threatening mass murder – to protest cartoons characterizing Muslims as violent extremists.
Aiding the Policenet
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiting Fellow at PNAC, he is the winner of "Spirit of Tiananmen" and "Chan's Journalism" awards in 2005....
Rage Against the Western Machine
“Rage over cartoons” has been the gist of many a headline over the past week describing the violence with which masked gunmen and arsonist mobs in the Islamic world have been protesting the publication in Denmark five months ago of political cartoons caricaturing Mohammed.
