When does a civilization become incompetent? I’ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist who can neither be charged nor released, think rationally about climate change, or rebuild Ground Zero in an acceptable time frame. But [...]
The jihadist who attempted to murder Motoonist Kurt Westergaard had something in common with…Jack Nicholson. This superb piece by Thomas Landen highlights the absurdity of the Islamic rage over these cartoons — a rage that continues — and the supine response to that rage by Western authorities. “Heeere’s Muhammed!,”…
In “Europe’s looming demise” in the Washington Times today, Pamela Geller discusses a little-noticed initiative that could open the floodgates for jihad in Europe: Come Jan. 1, 2010, a disastrous and suicidal pact called the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Europe/Mediterranean) goes into effect with little fanfare or examination. It boggles the mind…
The EU pressures Israel to surrender its capitol.
On November 18, Iran’s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected a proposal that his country should export some 70 percent of its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad. On November 20, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany met in Brussels and urged Iran to reconsider. “I continue to hold out the [...]
