by Daniel Pipes | Mar 3, 2003 | POLITICS
TORONTO – How fares freedom of speech at Canadian universities? It looked pretty grim back in September 2002, when a mini-intifada prevented Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime minister of Israel, from speaking at Concordia. Then last month, Ali Hassan and his... by David Stanley Willenski | Mar 3, 2003 | POLITICS
One of the mantras that the protesters against war with Iraq are currently using, sadly with some success, is that such a war would be “preemptive”, rather than retaliatory and in defense of the United States, and therefore unjustified morally. Iraq, a... by Scott Holleran | Mar 2, 2003 | POLITICS
This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider its ruling striking down the Pledge of Allegiance. They were right to do so; the court’s decision is consistent with the nation’s founding principles, which are casually discarded by... by Andrew Bernstein | Mar 1, 2003 | Africa, POLITICS
A specter is haunting Africa-the specter of starvation. At least 2.5 million Zambians currently face famine, as do millions more across southern Africa-in Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The United Nations estimates that more than 14 million Africans face possible... by Don Luskin | Mar 1, 2003 | POLITICS
It’s almost painfully clich by James Phillips | Mar 1, 2003 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
The long-simmering Iraq crisis finally appears to be coming to a boil. Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, has ordered Iraq to begin destroying its prohibited Samoud 2 missiles. The Iraqis generously have offered to “study” the matter, although...