Those of us who man the watchtowers against the Islamic advance spend a lot of time training our binoculars on Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. It’s at least as important, however, to keep an eye on Turkey. The current AKP
This most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, author of Dupes, is a special Thanksgiving offering. Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, continues to share snippets from his new book
President Barack Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Continuing a decades-old White House tradition, Obama issued pardons Wednesday to a gobbler named ‘Apple’ and its alternate, ‘Cider.’
On this Thanksgiving holiday, the economy itself might be thankful if Congress would take a machete to the regulations strangling business and job creation. From transportation to trade, from communications to banking and from telecommunications to technology policy, policy makers
The Obama administration’s abandonment of their predecessor’s European missile defense arrangements was meant to gain something from Russia in terms of assistance on Iran and other desired areas of cooperation. That didn’t work out. Now, that action is having more
The map above shows the forty-seven nations that make up the membership of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe was founded in 1949 with ten original members, and added most of the rest of Western Europe over the
As we reported a few days ago, the Turkish ambassador to Austria caused an uproar in his host country when he spoke disparagingly of Austrians and criticized its internal political policies concerning Turkish immigrants. Our Austrian correspondent Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has
As I watched my favorite morning news show today, an item came up which caused me to execute a perfect Danny Thomas “spit-take.” Today is the publication date for President Obama’s new children’s book billed as “a moving tribute to
By now you’ve probably seen one of those TV ads where 84-year-old small-screen legend Andy Griffith blatantly shills for ObamaCare. If not, take a look below at the first spot, entitled “1965.” Put your feet up on the antebellum veranda
Last month I was invited to South Africa by the South African Zionist Federation. The visit, my first to the country, opened my eyes to the daunting challenges facing the country and its dwindling Jewish community of 70,000 16 years
President Obama’s major foreign policy initiatives–the “reset” with Russia, outreach to the Islamic world, and the end of combat operations in Iraq–have accomplished one undeniable achievement: they have brought Russia, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan closer to Iran. And just this
My previous post about the trial of Geert Wilders featured the expert witness Simon Admiraal. Mr. Admiraal’s testimony was followed by that of Wafa Sultan, the renowned Syrian-American psychiatrist who has repeatedly put her life in danger by vociferously opposing
For the last few weeks I’ve been focusing on the trial of Geert Wilders in Amsterdam. Mr. Wilders, as you all know by now, has been charged with “hate speech” for speaking the truth about Islam. It’s important to remember
Having done video coverage of almost 50 Tea Parties in over 45 cities in 25 states, it’s safe to say I know the Tea Party well. And as a 23-year-old coming from a generation primarily influenced by mainstream media, I
The demographic sophisticates who read this column know that the population bomb has fizzled, that the world’s population will never double again, and that birthrates are falling faster and farther than anyone imagined a half century ago. But they also
Should Republicans gain control of the House in November there will be several decisions they will be obliged to address. First and foremost is the Iranian nuclear weapons question. Iran probably has enough fissionable material to build a bomb, but
Thirty eight years ago today, on October 14, 1962 JFK’s National Security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, appeared on ABC’s “Issues and Answers” to rebut hysteria from some tinfoil-hatters of the time. “Nothing but refugee rumors,” sneered Bundy regarding reports from Cuban-
This really shouldn’t be all that surprising. The bad guys we have been turning into stains all over the Pakistani border areas have passports from just about every breeding swamp filled with the foul miasma of Wahabbist hate preaching. Wow,
Food and television go hand in hand. Those who doubt this fact need only look at the correlation between the proliferation of cable television by year then compare it with the obesity rate. The two seem to be related. The
Below is a news report from German television about the forced marriages and domestic violence that are a normal part of the parallel Turkish society in Neuköln. Many thanks to Hans Erling Jensen for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes
Part 9 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. The aftermath of World War I, with the defeat of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, saw the
Some 6,000 people gathered in central Stockholm square on Monday evening at 6 pm to protest electoral success of the far-right political party, Swedish democrats, shouting “No to racism!” according to Swedish Wire. “It has been a big shock for
Not long ago I posted a translation from Politically Incorrect about Turkey’s new muscular self-assertion as a would-be great power. Germany lies very much within Turkey’s sphere of interest. The Erdogan regime is attempting to exert maximum influence on Germany’s
‘Bridge builder’ Feisal Abdel Rauf of the Ground Zero mosque, has been exposed not as a man of goodwill, but as a cunning and calculating stealth jihadist who supports the creation of an Islamic State, ‘The Ummah’, right here in
Newt Gingrich stirred up a big of a controversy Friday night just by commenting on an article in Forbes Magazine by Dinesh D’Souza. The premise of the article is many of Obama’s positions were influenced by his dad. What then
