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Canada’s Terrorist Takedown
A foiled plot to bomb the British Columbia legislature confirms that Canada has learned some hard lessons in counter-terrorism and is now outpacing the United States in such operations. Canadian Muslim...
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Thomas Sowell Deconstructs Diversity Dogma
“Intellectuals and Race“ by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, 2013, 184 pages, $25.99. Thomas Sowell, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is not a newcomer to the theme of intellectuals and race. In his...
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Tsarnaev, Hasan and Deadly Political Correctness
On Wednesday Dzhohkar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 counts in the Boston Marathon bombings and jury selection began in the case of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, accused of murdering 13 at Fort Hood,...
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U.S. Allies Lead in Female Genital Mutilation
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has issued a new report on FGM/C, female genital mutilation/cutting, that raises troubling questions about the practice and the American response to it,...
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No Justice for Victims of Terrorist Nidal Hasan
“I hear someone yell ‘Allahu akbar,’” Sergeant Shawn Manning told Army Times. “Usually something bad is going to follow after that, so I look up at him and he started shooting. He probably fired five...
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Rats Are Still Comrades
“The California prisoners’ hunger strike is a courageous call for the California prison system to come out of the shadows and join a world in which the rights and dignity of every person is respected.”...
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Death For Hasan
On Wednesday a panel of 13 military officers handed down a death sentence for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist who at Fort Hood in November 2009 killed 13 people and wounded 32...
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More Than a Memorial Day
September 11 is more than a memorial day for the thousands who perished, including a friend of this writer, a passenger on American Airlines flight 77, the Pentagon plane. Potential victims might also...
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Kennedy Family Rules
On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down John Fitzgerald Kennedy as his presidential motorcade passed the Texas Book Depository in Dallas. The assassination was captured on film and so was...
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Jonestown Revisited
Clinton veteran John Podesta recently joined the Obama White House and quickly caught the spirit of the place, describing the house GOP as a “cult worthy of Jonestown.” Podesta apologized to House...
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Dennis Rodman and Other Stalinist Fellow Travelers
The antics of former NBA player Dennis Rodman in North Korea have puzzled many observers but should come as no surprise. Rodman is actually part of a longstanding American tradition of propping up...
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Obama’s Road to Serfdom
Barack Obama has his pen and his phone and as this report notes, the President of the United States is poised to bypass Congress and “use his control of federal agencies to impose his progressive...
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Soft-Pedaling Stalinist Genocide
Max Fisher, foreign affairs blogger for the Washington Post, recently posed “nine questions about Ukraine you were too embarrassed to ask.” Fisher’s answers are informative but someone with a master’s...
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NBC Olympics Coverage: Burying Cold War History
NBC sportscaster Bob “pink-eye” Costas has taken some heat for portraying Russian strongman Vladimir Putin as an amiable and evenhanded diplomat. But that was far from the only snow job in NBC’s...
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Lessons on the New Left from the Hanoi Hilton
C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb recently interviewed Lee Ellis, author of Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton. The book is a valuable primer on history that many Americans have forgotten...
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Ninth Circuit Turns First Amendment Inside Out
On May 5, 2010, Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill California celebrated Cinco de Mayo supposedly a Mexican holiday. That day five Live Oak students wore T-shirts bearing imagery of the American flag....
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Reductio ad Hillaryum
Hillary Clinton has waded into the Ukrainian crisis by invoking history. Referring to Vladimir Putin’s plans to provide passports to Russians outside the nation’s borders, she said: “Now if this sounds...
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FBI Bags Aspiring American ‘Assad’
A federal grand jury has indicted Nicholas Michael Teausant for attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization. In recent months, “Assad Teausant bigolsmurf,” as he called himself online,...
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Remembering Vietnam War Hero Jeremiah Denton
When Jeremiah Denton passed away at 89 on March 28 President Obama issued a statement: “The valor that he and his fellow POWs displayed was deeply inspiring to our nation at the time, and it continues...
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Rocky Mountain Low
Steven F. Hayward is the author of Greatness: Reagan, Churchill and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders, Age of Reagan (two volumes) and other acclaimed books. Last year the University of Colorado at...
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