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  • Mona Charen: Muslims versus Islamists

    Mona Charen

    Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

    The Obama administration is quite worried about stereotyping Muslims as violence-prone terrorists. They fear that any acknowledgment that some Muslims commit acts of terror because they are religiously motivated (however twisted the terrorists' interpretation of Islam may be) is to encourage a...

  • Michelle Malkin: Fetishizing murderous radicals

    Michelle Malkin

    Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

    There's a stomach-turning segment of the American population that sees surviving Boston bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a romantic maverick. The New York Times mused about the accused jihadist's "Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation." Pop singer Amanda Palmer wrote a fan girl "Poem...

  • Veronique de Rugy: Get Uncle Sam out of the green startup loan business

    Veronique de Rugy

    Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

    Meet the Solyndra of the electric car industry: Fisker Automotive. In 2009, the company was awarded a $529 million loan through the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. It is in bankruptcy, and has now fired 75 percent of its workforce. The reality, however failed to meet this...

  • David Limbaugh: Immigration bill ignores the American idea

    David Limbaugh

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    I think the current controversy over immigration reform points to a larger issue in America today, which is that Americans are essentially split on the very idea of what America is and should be. It used to be that Americans mostly agreed that in order to attain citizenship, immigrants had to...

  • Ron Arnold: Does Big Green care about people or nature?

    Ron Arnold

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    It's nothing new to see Big Green figures deploring the fact that people exist. Back in 1974, the elite Club of Rome published "Mankind at the Turning Point" with its infamous motto, "The Earth has a cancer and the cancer is man." Today it has become routine for some well-funded Big Green...

  • David Freddoso: A bonus for the 'fat cat banker'

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street," President Obama said in a December 2009 interview. Bankers, he said, are "still puzzled why is it that people are mad at the banks. Well, let's see. You guys are drawing down $10, $20 million bonuses ... and...

  • After Benghazi, there was Camp Bastion

    Michelle Malkin

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14? Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to grieve? What is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14? And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public? Benghazi isn't the only...

  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: There's a reason people are already talking 2016

    R. Emmett Tyrrell

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    WASHINGTON -- It has happened again! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication of George W. Bush's presidential library he invoked history with his usual mastery of detail. He placed President John F. Kennedy in Air Force One, "On the...

  • Steve Chapman: Stay out of Syria

    Steve Chapman

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    With the Iraq war behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand." They see a way to escape...

  • Gregory Kane: Maryland prison scandal shows gender matters

    Gregory Kane

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    Earth to Gary D. Maynard: gender does matter. Maynard is the Maryland secretary of public safety and correctional services. It's his department that runs the Baltimore City Detention Center. And it's his department that is responsible for the hot mess the BCDC has become. What happened at...