The fundamental battle we face today consists not of bombs and rockets, but of ideas–the ideas of those who value human life on earth versus the ideas of those who oppose it.
September 11
Why the Left Loves Osama (and Saddam)
Has anyone noticed an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein? Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it "the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos." Eric Foner,...
They Hate Us, Too
The Sept. 11 attacks on America led many to ask, about the terrorists, “Why do they hate us?” Today, a similar question applies to those who virulently condemn a U.S. war against Iraq–along with a similar answer.
Washington, DC, at War
This isn’t the Washington of an eighth grade class trip — this is Washington at war.
The Snipers: Crazy or Jihadis?
'Why now? Why? Why? Why? Why? That's the question I think everyone is asking." So agonized the half-brother of Lee Malvo, the alleged 17-year-old sniper, baffled by the causes behind the Washington, D.C.-area shooting spree that left 10 people dead.One answer came...
Terrorism: The Second-Biggest Threat to America
Throughout the "war on terrorism," we have all heard our nation's leaders pay extensive lip service to "protecting America." But if "America" is just a collection of people on a slab of land somewhere, then there's no significant difference between the United States...
Who are America’s Greatest Heroes?
With the anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, Americans have remembered and lauded our fireman and police heroes, as we should. But now that the commemorative ceremonies are over, it is time to ask ourselves: who are America's greatest heroes?These firemen and...
One Year Later: Does Bush Really Understand the War?
The AP reports President Bush's overall approval rating has slid steadily downward over the summer, largely because of a withering of support in the way he is conducting foreign policy. According to a CBS News-New York Times poll released earlier this month, a...
9/11: Surrending the Domestic Front
After Osama bin Laden's hijack squadrons invaded our skies a year ago, America's military responded. Operation Enduring Freedom launched on Oct. 7, 2001. President Bush deployed thousands of troops to combat terrorist forces in the Middle East. By Memorial Day, dozens...
Forgotten Heroes of 9/11
The American way of life is, fundamentally, a life of individual liberty.
An America-free 9/11 Commemoration
Leave it to the folks at UC Berkley to make a muck out the upcoming 9/11 anniversary. According to the California Patriot, a student-run publication of the Berkeley Conservative Foundation, a university sponsored 9/11 "Day of Remembrance" will be devoid of any...
Are We Safer?
The carnage begun that awful day in the Iranian desert in 1980 will not run its course until Americans understand how much they need to fear and loathe militant Islam.
You Can’t Win a War without Going to War
The spirits are up at the White House these days: everybody's busy congratulating themselves for a war well fought and deservedly won. That we deserve to win the War on Terror is beyond respectable dispute (although, evidently, not beyond dispute altogether). But did...
Why The Insanity Defense Is Insane, Part II
A reader writes in: I respectfully disagree with your "shooting-from-the-hip" and "un-objective-like" quick analysis of the Yates killings (see Daily Dose column 2/28/02--"Why the Insanity Defense is Insane" ). I haven't had time to fully analyze the issue, but my...
Memo: Spit on the U.S. Diplomats and Sue the Saudis
To: 9/11 victims and their families From: Daniel Pipes Subject: Compensation You have been engaged in an unfortunate spat with the U.S. government over the money you deserve for your losses on 9/11, prompting anger all around. Here's a solution: Forget Washington and...
Multiculturalist Reporting: One Man’s News is Another Man’s Fiction
You may think you know what happened on Jan. 3, 2002 when Israeli Navy Seals seized the Karine A, a cargo ship carrying 50 tons of contraband Katyusha rockets, anti-tank missiles, mortars, mines, explosives, and sniper rifles. You may think the ship's captain...
Who Is the Enemy?
With whom, or what, is the United States at war? The answer to this question has far-reaching implications for strategy, for public diplomacy, and for foreign and domestic policy alike. It may seem that the answer is obvious; but it is not. In the first few weeks...
Sobering Up
When the stock market soared in the first two weeks of this new year, it seemed to validate a growing confidence that the economy was destined to overcome the tech-wreck and the recession, just as America had moved beyond the terrorist attacks of September 11....
Dealing with Terrorism
Q: How are people coping with the aftermath of the events of September 11th, so that the psychological impact of the terrorist events does not overwhelm them? A: In many different ways. At first, some found an oddly kind of pleasant escape in focusing on events in the...
De-mystifying Democracy
The United States should not be fighting for a democratic Afghanistan. In fact, it should not be fighting for democracy at all--not in Afghanistan, not in China, and not even in America. Democracy and dictatorship are not rivals; they are brothers. In Afghanistan, the...
Bush’s Un-American and Immoral call for ‘National Service’
Though he has pledged to defend America's freedom against terrorists, President Bush, in his State of the Union address, gave his unequivocal support to a different threat against our way of life: the "national service" movement. Adding his voice to the chorus of...
Enemies Within
Our war against terrorism is just a few months old, but already we have had two well-publicized young American traitors. One was captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan and the other deliberately flew a plane into a building in Florida, leaving behind a note...
Infallible Haters?
Anybody can be mistaken -- except haters, apparently. Whenever others express their hatred of Americans, in words or deeds, the hand-wringers among us want us to ask: "Why do they hate us?" Apparently we should automatically go in quest of those causes so dear to the...
Blame America First
I was in the university section of Pittsburgh for a meeting right after the attacks of September 11, just an hour after thousands of people had been burned alive or crushed to death or jumped to their deaths from the top of the inferno that had been the World Trade...
Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam?
The events of September 11 have intensified a long-standing debate: What causes Muslims to turn to militant Islam? Some analysts have noted the poverty of Afghanistan and concluded that herein lay the problem. Jessica Stern of Harvard University wrote that the United...
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
Bias by Bernard Goldberg meticulously documents what everyone outside the media and the Left establishment knows - that news coverage has a left-wing bias. Even more, this book makes clear the critical role the news media play in our lives, and the life-threatening...
Protect National Security and Individual Rights with Military Tribunals
On September 11th, Americans found their nation under attack. Terrorists hijacked civilian airliners, turned them into missiles, and used them to kill thousands of innocent Americans--men, women and children--as well as people from dozens of nations. Today, three...
Early Warning Signals: Bin Laden Before Sept. 11th
This article was first published as "Bin Laden and Herndon, Virginia" in the The Jerusalem Post (June 20, 2001). Unfortunately, no one listened to its dire warning until after September 11th.--Editor Islamist terrorism has afflicted nearly every Western country and is...
Day of Reckoning
"We will not rest until we stop all terrorists of global reach, and for every nation that harbors or supports terrorists there will be a day of reckoning," says President Bush. Let's hope he means it. Until we overwhelmingly smash every government responsible for all...
A New Era: Cleaning up Clinton’s Anti-American Foreign Policy
This year marked not only the beginning of a new millennium, but of a truly new era as well. In one sense, that era began on September 11th but, in another sense, it began on January 20th, when George W. Bush became President of the United States. The new...
University Professors vs. America
Many simply shake their heads in confusion and disbelief at reports of peace rallies on college campuses from coast to coast. At such an unprecedented time of pro-American sentiments, and in light of the magnitude of horror of September 11, it seems almost impossible...
Deflation: The Basics
Deflation is not falling prices. Deflation is not economic contraction. Deflation is when the Fed screws up. The idea of deflation has gotten more play in the press over the last two weeks than it has over the last ten years -- thanks to unusual negative readings in...