The Middle East Forum has announced Jihad Intel, a project to provide law enforcement with detailed information on violent Islamist groups. MEF writes, “ Not only does the FBI admit that the threat of ISIS attacks in the west is ‘not even close to being under control’ but there are hundreds more jihadi organizations, with […]
Archives for May 2015
The Job Destruction Act
U.S Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA) and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Raise the Wage Act on April 30. They promised that the bill would “raise wages for nearly 38 million American workers,” as well as phase out the subminimum tipped wage and index the minimum wage to median wage growth. But […]
Pedro Martinez: Born to Pitch
You were never in doubt who was in charge when Pedro Martinez took to the mound for the Boston Red Sox. A review of his memoir in the WSJ: In “Pedro,” Mr. Martinez’s memoir written with longtime Boston Herald baseball writerMichael Silverman, we learn that Mr. Martinez was fueled by rage. He hated the many scouts, […]
Huckabee—Ill-Informed and Fanatical
Read striking commentary from conservative writer Daniel Larison on Huckabee’s promise in his presidential announcement speech: “As president, I promise you that we will no longer merely try to contain jihadism. We will conquer it.” Larison continues: This is in keeping with Republican hawks’ allergy to the concept of containment in any contemporary context, but […]
RIP Paris Based Antiwar Correspondent William Pfaff
Scott McConnell tells readers in theamericanconservative.com, “There are plenty of smart people who write both columns and books. But Pfaff was unique in excelling at both, as well as being ‘prematurely’ correct on the two biggest American foreign policy disasters of his lifetime, Vietnam and Iraq.” Regarding Pfaff, McConnell writes, “But really nowhere in the […]
NFL Draft: How’d Your Team Do?
You get the last 25-years of first-round picks and their bust rates courtesy of NFL analyst Brad Gagnon. This isn’t the final word on your team’s first-round pick(s) by any means. But it does provide the risk of drafting certain positions over the last 25-years. As you can see RBs and QBs top the list. […]
Stand with Rand
Rand Paul is standing strong against Hillary. He leads the GOP field in a general election poll. The last thing we need is another Bush or Clinton. According to the WSJ: In those matchups against four potential rivals, Mrs. Clinton topped Messrs. Bush and Rubio by 49% to 43%, and she topped Mr. Walker by 50% […]
“Peace, Commerce and Honest Friendship”
“It’s time for a debate about global interventionism,” writes the Cato Institute’s David Boaz, who hopes that Rand Paul will open the discussion on why peace and neutrality should be the United States’ cardinal principle. “Historical data show a strong correlation between U.S. involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the […]
John Steinbeck on California
From WSJ: John Steinbeck, writing about California’s Salinas Valley, where he grew up, in the novel “East of Eden” (1952): I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle. There would […]
India Clearly Outperforming China
The National Interest explains that India’s advantage “can be summed up in one word: freedom.” The progress of India in the twenty-first century will not so much be the story of a newly emerging economy, but instead the reemergence from foreign domination of one of the oldest and most dynamic societies in the world.
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