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CAIR Pressures Tennessee Lawmakers to Drop Key Counter-Terrorism Bill

From Act for America: Washington, DC: Today, ACT! for America rebuked efforts by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a front group for the terrorist organization Hamas, and other so-called “civil rights” groups to stop the passage of Tennessee’s “Material

Did WikiLeaks Cause the Explosion in the Middle East?

That’s the fascinating question that Tally Helfont of the Foreign Policy Research Institute raises in a fascinating piece. Given that Wikileaks exposed the dirty secrets of leaders across Islamic world right before the place erupted, did those revelations push things

Video: US CIA Contractor Interrogated in Pakistan

This is a portion Raymond Davis’ interrogation by Pakistani police. He is being held on murder charges in Pakistan for shooting two individuals who he says were trying to rob him. He was carrying a Glock and a telescope when

'How Obama Blew It' On Egypt

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson schools MSNBC’s Mika on what has happened in Egypt and Obama’s incompetence. Just devastating. And this guy teaches at Harvard. [youtube V9sMo-LTdSc nolink]

Israeli MP Predicts 'Palestinian Revolution' Like Egypt

Tehran Times reports: Hanin Zoubi , an Arab member of Israel’s parliament (Knesset) has predicted a Palestinian revolution, modeled after the one in Egypt, which terminated three decades of dictatorship. “Israel has been relying on the weakness of the Arab

Happy Valentine's Day? Mass Protests Planned For Iran on February 14

We’ve reported here before that the Iranian government is taking credit for supporting and inspiring the uprisings taking place in Tunisia and Egypt. Now here’s an interesting development: opposition forces in Iran are planning demonstrations in Tehran to show their

Rumsfeld: Saddam Put Bounty on Bush Daughters and Mine

Report: Donald Rumsfeld has revealed that Saddam Hussein took out a $60 million hit on his daughters in revenge for the slaying of his two sons. The ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense said that the former Iraqi dictator offered the bounty

Egypt: Where Things Go From Here

The best analysis I’ve see so far of what the future holds in Egypt comes from Benny Morris at the National Interest. He rightfully points out that Hosni Mubarak is done and in the short-term the political center of gravity

Liberals Are Naive About Egypt

A writer in Israel gets it right. It might be easier for the radicals to take over in Egypt now than it was for Khomeini in Iran back in 1979. Be sure to read the whole thing. “It would be

Why Protests in Egypt, But Not in Iran?

It probably has something to do with the fact that the Iranian mullahs are willing to be as brutal as necessary to stay in power. Reuters is reporting that a Dutch citizen arrested after the Iranian protests of 2009 has

Is Egypt Descending Into Chaos?

Events are moving rather quickly. Police have arrested leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, five former members of parliament, and they’ve disrupted internet service. The latter is because the evidence is pretty strong that Facebook and Twitter have been very powerful

Iran and the Plunging Neckline

Catherine Ashton of the European Union paid a visit to Iran. Apparently she was too hot to handle for Iranian censors. Here’s a photo of that visit from Reuters: And here’s same scene, with a different neckline, published in the

Why Does the American Conservative Union Welcome Suhail Khan?

Yesterday Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media had a piece on the controversy surrounding CPAC and the American Conservative Union’s board member Suhail Khan. See a lot more on Khan’s troubling associations here, here and here. An alarming prospect: a widespread

The Muslim Brotherhood's Bank in US and Canada

The following is an excerpt from Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. Here, we explore the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the Muslim Brotherhood front that dominates the

Iraq War Post-Mortem: We Lost, Iran Won

Big Peace contributor Ted Galen Carpenter has an important piece at the National Interest where he assesses Iraq then and now. He argues that however you want to slice it, the war has made us worse off. He makes some

This Reggae Singer and Hasidic Rapper Walk Into a Bar…

Here’s an interesting story, about the son of Jamaican superstar Bob Marley and his collaboration on a reggae song with…..Hasidic rapper named DeScribe. I’m not a fan of rap or reggae, although the video below is catchy. But I found

The Saga of Suhail Khan and the Muslim Brotherhood

The following was written by “David Meyers” a former intelligence officer. The past month or so has proven to be a difficult one for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States as it continues to be exposed for what it