On Friday, the 16th, Obama signed a new Executive Order into being and this one’s timing is very curious. Ed Morrissey (who I highly respect) of Hot Air says that it is simply a reissue of an EO that is 18 years old, that was issued in 1994 by Bill Clinton – EO (12919). I find myself mostly in ...

Read more: Obama Preps for a ‘Non-Emergency’ Named Iran

While terms like "The Marketplace of Ideas" are still tossed about occasionally like confetti out of a tenth story window,  they mean about as much as the soiled mass of tape that everyone has stepped on by the time the parade is over. The age of ideas, when issues might actually be debated, ...

Read more: The Consensus Wants You

When I went to sleep last night, little did I know that while outside sirens competed with car alarms in the symphony that is New York City, I had already been declared a hate group.  

Being declared a hate group wasn't in my plans for the day, but like winning the lottery, it seems to be one ...

Read more: How I Became a Hate Group

As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region's well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to ...

Read more: Free Markets Can Transform the Middle East

Between the modern and the post-modern worlds, peace negotiations took on the fevered air of senseless enthusiasm that was once the sole preserve of wars. Once upon a time it was treasonous to oppose wars, now it is virtually mandatory to do so. Today it is treasonous to oppose peace processes, no ...

Read more: The View from a Broken Bridge

The West is desperately in need of the wisdom and courage of diplomats such as Layard (below), and his colleagues. 

There is almost nothing I can add to my colleague Diana West’s brilliant analyses (here, here, and here) which capture—and eviscerate—the delusive, self-abasing dhimmitude ...

Read more: Proper "Apologizing" to Islamdom: A Timeless Lesson for US Leadership

Daniel Greenfield's Friday Afternoon Roundup - 

THE IRAN WAR MYTH

In 2007, Israeli Air Force jets crossed into Syria and destroyed an Iranian-backed nuclear reactor. The operation had the backing of the United States and employed intelligence derived from an Iranian defector. There was no ...

Read more: Myths, Lies and Fairy Tales

Some 8,000 people die in the UK every year due to what is being called "Fuel Poverty", or more simply when it costs too much to heat your home. Naturally the left is already on the case, staging "Die-Ins" outside energy companies and demanding that carbon credits be used to make homes "super-energy ...

Read more: Dying to be Green