IN THE SHADOW OF SHIVA

"I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."In the wake of 9/11, much has been written of the link between religion – specifically, Islam – and the rise of the terrorist threat: the religion of Mohammed, we are told, represents a dire threat to...

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Unsolved Mysteries of 9/11

The horror of 9/11 was bad enough, but what makes it worse is the positively sinister undertone of what we are coming to learn about the events surrounding that singular event. In reviewing my "what's up with that?" file of 9/11 news stories, it looks like I...

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Who Is Ariel Sharon?

I apologize to our non-American readers, but in the US it’s the Memorial Day weekend, and everyone is on vacation. So instead of writing a column that only half my regular readers will see, I’ve decided to run an "oldie but goodie" – written...

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The Palestinian Pimpernel

Yasser Arafat just can't get no respect. And it isn't only the Israelis and their international amen corner who hate him. Check out this leftist diatribe in the [UK] Guardian aimed at the President of the Palestinian Authority: "T. E. Lawrence wrote of the Arab...

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Investigate 9/11

We are now hearing calls for a national "blue ribbon" commission to investigate what really happened on 9/11, and answer the question "what went wrong?" Don't fall for it. An investigation is the prerogative and responsibility of our elected...

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America Awakes

Howard Kurtz characterized the abruptness of the sea-change that has taken place regarding the great mystery of 9/11. "In a single day," he wrote in Friday’s Washington Post, "the capital's media climate has been transformed," going from...

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Israel’s Taliban

The Israeli Taliban had its national convention the other day, and the nutballs won out: the Likud party went on record as declaring that it would never accept the legitimacy of a Palestinian state. In a stemwinder of a speech, ultra-rightist Benjamin Netanyahu gave...

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Spinning a Spy Scandal

Israel's internet amen corner is going ape-sh*t this morning [May 12], with James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web" and his blogger-clone, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, both taking out after the Israeli "art students" story...

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The Fearmongers

Although Warren Buffet gets first prize for the most irresponsible statement by a public figure in recent days – for saying that a future nuclear attack on the United States is "a virtual certainty" – Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida) comes in a close second....

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Global Interventionism: The Price We Pay

As Justin completes his upcoming book on Murray Rothbard, we present a Classic Raimondo piece from last year. July 28, 1999While the United States government is touting the so-called Clinton Doctrine, which projects American power all over the world in the name of...

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