by John Bragg | Feb 19, 2003 | POLITICS, War with Iran
“Iran’s Hardliners Renew Calls for Rushdie to Die”–headline, The Independent (UK), 2/15/2003 In 1989, the government of Iran sentenced author Salman Rushdie to death for writing arguments offensive to their interpretation of Islam in his book,... by Robert W Tracinski | Feb 19, 2003 | POLITICS
The outbreak of doctors’ strikes in America is spreading. So far, doctors in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida and New Jersey have held temporary strikes to protest the prohibitive cost of medical malpractice insurance. Now, doctors in Illinois have announced... by Daniel Pipes | Feb 18, 2003 | POLITICS
Outsiders wonder if the U.N. Security Council will endorse Washington’s goal of toppling Saddam Hussein. But policy insiders assume an American war and an American victory, followed by Iraq’s rehabilitation. For insiders, the main issue is the extent of... by S.M. Oliva | Feb 18, 2003 | POLITICS
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell seems to long for his days as an antitrust lawyer in the Clinton Justice Department. According to news reports this week, Powell directed FCC economists to devise “an objective scientific formula”... by John Bragg | Feb 18, 2003 | Terrorism
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of the Palestinian Islamic terrorist group Hamas, has called for Muslims to attack American and Western interests if the United States attacks Iraq. From the New York Times, February 7, 2003: In an open letter released today, the... by Ralph R. Reiland | Feb 18, 2003 | POLITICS
The big news earlier this month was that a North Korean rocket can hit Hollywood. Two days before the chief of the CIA released that bit of newly declassified intelligence, Richard Gere was in Berlin saying there wasn’t “any sort of basis” for... by John Bragg | Feb 17, 2003 | POLITICS
We face an enemy that believes deeply that God is on their side. Our enemies fight both because they hate us and because they believe that, with God’s help, they will triumph over us one day soon. For our enemies, this is not simply a platitude, a statement of... by Paul Blair | Feb 17, 2003 | POLITICS
Richard Perle is the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Department of Defense advisory panel made up of leading figures in national security and defense; he is also a resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. In the Reagan Administration he served as... by Dr Michael Hurd | Feb 17, 2003 | POLITICS
Mistake # 1: A debate is underway as to whether or not we should go to war. We’re already at war. On 9/11/01 this became abundantly clear. We are not merely at war with al Qaeda. We are not merely at war with terrorist organizations. We are first and foremost at...
