The West has long had a thing for Che Guevara, a doctrinaire Marxist and homicidal maniac of particular note. In the more than four decades since his death, his iconic countenance has adorned tee shirts, caps, and mugs, and companies have used his face to sell their products. This past January, in fact, Mercedes-Benz’s chairman, …
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Did you read about Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, and his call this month to “destroy all the churches of the region?” You might think that’s big news – big enough to garner some attention from America’s leading media – especially because the Grand Mufti is among the Muslim …
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While the United States and its allies dither over whether to materially support the Syrian opposition and, if so, how, Western leaders should recognize that the bloody conflict raises a larger question: Will the West defend freedom at a potential turning point in global history, or will it cede this and future battles to autocratic …
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Welcome to budget week in Washington: President Obama proposes his budget, his opponents slam it, and the inter-party slugfest over fiscal policy resumes. But, if you want to understand the fiscal paralysis in Washington, dispense with this week’s theatrics and read the insightful story that the New York Times ran this past weekend about the …
Have you ever heard of Irena Sendler? During the Holocaust, this Catholic social worker saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death by convincing their parents, who were trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, to let her smuggle their kids to gentile families on the outside. She risked her life every day for months, sneaking the kids …
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Perhaps the most depressing story on American politics in recent days adorned the Washington Post’s front page. The dateline was Laurens, South Carolina, and the story began this way: Once upon a time — oh, about two presidential elections ago — Dianne Belsom would get up in the morning and read the paper, taking in …
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The West is entering a particularly dangerous period in its confrontation with Iran, but due less to rising tensions between the two sides than to a concerted push by mushy-headed “experts” on how to defuse them. In its efforts to convince Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons pursuit, the West remains in a race against …
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