The better man lost the election
There will be scores of books written and words piled up alongside the mounting American debt to fathom the results and consequences of the...
Anti-Semitism widespread in Muslim world
A Jan. 21 item in the Jakarta Globe from Indonesia reported a speech by Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, at a...
Empty church discloses a harsh reality
ALGIERS, ALGERIA - Notre Dame d’Afrique sits on top of a cliff overlooking Algiers. It was completed in 1872 and since then has been one...
Is majority possible without Quebec?
On the last weekend ahead of Canada’s 41st general election, the politically smart or cautious view is the outcome will be more or less...
Barack Obama ‘concept’ goes stale
Four years later and what a difference this makes in the cycle of America’s presidential election.
Four years ago enough Americans decided to vote into...
Gadhafi not ‘delusional’ — he’s evil
The Obama administration's envoy to the UN in New York, Susan Rice, described Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi as "delusional."
David Pryce-Jones — author of The...
Pakistan: Deceit from the beginning
As the story of Osama bin Laden unwinds, the bigger story is about Pakistan and what it says about the idiocy of the...
Lobby’s arguments don’t add up
The main argument of the pro-immigration lobby, as I pointed out last week, is the net economic benefits from immigration outweigh social costs over...
Arab Spring now a Christian nightmare
In the 1990s, western democracies stepped forward to stop ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia by dispatching NATO forces in support of UN peacekeeping operations...
Tunisia just one Arab regime going stale
The hasty departure of Tunisian strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali for a life in exile reveals how brittle and lacking in public support are...
Women stand to lose most in Arab Spring
The monthly journal Foreign Policy recently published an essay by Mona Eltahawy titled “Why Do They Hate Us?”
Eltahawy is an American of Egyptian origin,...
Pakistan a breeding ground for Islamism
The portrait of the naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin arrested for last weekend’s failed car bombing in Times Square exposes once again the...
Bloody start to New Year
The New Year’s Day bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, leaving at least 23 dead and scores wounded, and the murder of...
Muslims fear Muslims more than Jones
Over the past few weeks the mainstream media in the U.S. provided a textbook lesson of how to inflate an obscure story, and by...
Lies, damned lies and multiculturalism
Maybe, just maybe, the old lion of the sceptred British Isles is showing some signs of vigour. Maybe it will yet rouse itself in...