The United States is facing the greatest crisis in the preservation of government of the people, by the people and for the people since the decades of the 1850s and 1860s.

The failure to think through and implement the necessary reforms of the 1850s led to the bloodiest and most difficult war in American history in the 1860s.

A case can be made that the crises we are drifting into are comparable to the combination of the rise of the dictatorships during the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, the relative scale of the American economy and the underlying strength of American patriotic belief made it likely that the United States would in fact ultimately triumph first over the Nazi Germans, Fascist Italians, and Imperial Japanese and then 50 years later over the Soviet Empire.

May 19, 2008
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com

CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded, in June of 1994, as part of a Hamas-related quad of groups known as the Palestine Committee.  Since then, CAIR has lost a number of its representatives due to terrorist activity, and it has been named by the U.S. government as a co-conspirator for a Hamas financing trial. 

Yet, of the four groups in the committee, CAIR is the only one that still remains in existence, leading to the question: If terrorism won’t bring down CAIR, what will?  The answer may very well be in its status as an American organization – its non-profit tax status.

May 17, 2008
From the CFR
The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs produced this report.

The introduction states,

"This is the first in a series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Committee) on the threat of homegrown terrorism inspired by violent Islamist extremism. The Committee initiated an investigation into this threat during the 109th Congress under the leadership of Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME).

Khalid Yasin is one of the most notorious Islamic hate sheikhs in the world today. He had been widely condemned from the US to Britain to Australia for his virulent Wahhabist extremism, his intense anti-Americanism (despite the fact that he is an American-born convert), his justification of Islamic terrorism, his wild-eyed conspiracy theories, and his outright racial and religious bigotry. And an Australian news investigation found that Yasin had claimed academic degrees that the schools had no record or, and also discovered that he had engaged in outright fraud in his building his international Islamic media empire.

May 13, 2008
By George Friedman

Edgar Millan Gomez was shot dead in his own home in Mexico City on May 8. Millan Gomez was the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in Mexico, responsible for overseeing most of Mexico’s counternarcotics efforts. He orchestrated the January arrest of one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, Alfredo Beltran Leyva. (Several Sinaloa members have been arrested in Mexico City since the beginning of the year.)

May 12, 2008
From the US Dept of Homeland Security
Update: ICE describes raid as 'largest in Iowa history'
Postville, Ia. – At least 300 people were arrested today at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat packing plant, federal officials said. The operation, which targeted people who illegally used other persons Social Security numbers and were in the U.S. illegally, was the largest of its kind in Iowa, said Claude Arnold, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The workers arrested so far were interviewed by agents with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Public Health Service. Public health officials were included to ensure that their humanitarian needs were being met, said U.S. District Attorney Matt M. Dummermuth.  (More....)

Coast Guard Interdicts, Repatriates 79 Cuban Migrants

May 10, 2008 (Miami, Fla.) - The Coast Guard Cutter Key Biscayne repatriated 79 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, who were interdicted in four separate events, some involving Customs and Border Protection aircrew

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Brooke M. Goldstein, a practicing attorney, the director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum and the director of the Children's Rights Institute. She is also an award-winning film producer of The Making of a Martyr, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and the 2007 recipient of the E. Nathaniel Gates Award for Outstanding Public Advocacy.

FP: Brooke M. Goldstein, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Goldstein: Thank you for having me.

FP: We're here today to discuss Islamist Lawfare. What do you think is the best way to start this discussion?

May 8, 2008
by Mary Madigan
Campus-Watch

As Israelis look towards the future in their celebration of the nation's 60th birthday, some Palestinians cling to the past by commemorating what they call the "Nakba" or "the catastrophe." A faculty panel discussion held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) last month and titled, "60 Years of Nakba—The Catastrophe of Palestine 1948-2008," was one of many similar lamentations held worldwide.