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  1. Hockey and minstrel shows—together at last!

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:56 pm MST

    I hate to admit how much time I spent trying to get this photo today, but Deadspin finally beat me to it. I saw this last night while watching the Habs’ game on RDS and had to pick my jaw up off the floor afterwards. For those of you who aren’t hockey fans, first things first: [...]

  2. Afghanistan, in Trust

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:24 pm MST

    This week’s must-read on the Afghan file, I think, is Brian Stewart’s column about the growing sense that Karzai is more a part of the problem than he is a partner in a lasting solution. He’s fantastically corrupt, questionably loyal, and poor (if not completely uninterested) in actual governance. And while there’s no question that [...]

  3. The Backbench Top Ten

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:40 pm MST

    And now the debut of a new weekly feature here at Beyond the Commons: a wholly arbitrary ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs, excluding the Prime Minister, cabinet members and party leaders. A celebration of all that is great and ridiculous about the House of Commons. Exact criteria will take [...]

  4. The Significance of Ralph Kramden

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:29 pm MST

    Noel Murray over at the AV Club has launched what promises to be a great new bi-weekly column, “A Very Special Episode.” He’ll be writing about various television episodes, from different eras and genres. As he explains, it’s not an attempt to pick the best TV episodes ever or even the best episodes of these [...]

  5. This actually happened

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:31 pm MST

    Mark Kingwell has an essay about political civility in the new issue of the Walrus that I encourage you all to read—though it doesn’t appear to be online yet—and which I’m going to write about next week. In the meantime, here is Marlene Jennings’ supplementary question yesterday. Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the calls [...]

  6. This week has four sketches

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:16 pm MST

    Our weekly look back at all we saw and heard. Monday. Adjust your cuffs and carry on Tuesday. ‘I have the feeling that nothing will satisfy the honourable gentleman’ Wednesday. Comedy, tragedy, but no inquiry Thursday. What this is about

  7. To Answer or Not to Answer the Census? That Is the Question, 3-11-10

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:41 pm MST

    by Hans A. von Spakovsky I have been deluged lately with requests asking me whether one has to answer all of the questions on the 2010 Census, particularly those about race and ethnic background. Like Mark Krikorian, I don’t like those questions and don’t think the U.S. government should be collecting that information — its only use is to continue to separate us on racial grounds, for

  8. What might have been (II)

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:08 pm MST

    The Globe looks at the concerns within NATO in late 2006. A memo obtained by The Globe and Mail shows that in 2006 the federal government was briefed on a lobbying campaign by NATO allies aimed at getting the Kabul government to create stronger safeguards for detainees after prisoner abuses elsewhere. “London, The Hague and Canberra [Australia] [...]

  9. Safe -- but where's the bunting?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 12 Mar 2010 | 11:12 am MST


    Good news: it appears that the BBC journalist Paul Martin, who was kidnapped by Hamas four weeks ago, has been released.

    What’s that – you didn’t even know a BBC journalist had been kidnapped by Hamas? This isn’t surprising. Virtually nothing has been written about this. And even now that Martin has been released, I can’t see any domestic coverage of this at time of writing -- not even on the BBC website home page, although it does appear on the BBC World Service page. Compare and contrast with the tsunami of coverage over the previous BBC journalist who was kidnapped in Gaza, Alan Johnston, and the enormous razmatazz over his release. At NRO, Tom Gross makes this key point:

    One of Hamas’ aims in detaining Martin was, of course, to further deter any brave foreign journalist on assignment in Gaza who might dare report the truth about the Hamas regime.

    Indeed according to the Palestinian Maan news agency (but not reported by most Western media) Hamas detained Martin because he ‘sought to distort the image of Palestinians by going to tunnels, trying to prove that Hamas



  10. Is this why the Palestinians 'deserve' a state, Mr Biden?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:47 am MST


    The New York Times reports that the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have dedicated a public square to the memory of a woman who in 1978 helped carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel’s history:

    The woman being honored, Dalal Mughrabi, was the 19-year-old leader of a Palestinian squad that sailed from Lebanon and landed on a beach between Haifa and Tel Aviv. They killed an American photojournalist, hijacked a bus and commandeered another, embarking on a bloody rampage that left 38 Israeli civilians dead, 13 of them children, according to official Israeli figures. Ms. Mughrabi and several other attackers were killed.

    To Israelis, hailing Ms. Mughrabi as a heroine and a martyr is an act that glorifies terrorism. But, underscoring the chasm between Israeli and Palestinian perceptions, the Fatah representatives described Ms. Mughrabi as a courageous fighter who held a proud place in Palestinian history. Defiant, they insisted that they would not let Israel dictate the names of Palestinian streets and squares.

    ‘We are all Dalal Mughrabi,’ declared Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, the party’s main decision-making body, who



  11. How Will They Write Off Katherine Heigl?

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 9:49 am MST

    If Michael Ausiello is right and Katherine Heigl will leave Grey’s Anatomy without filming another episode, it brings up the question: how will they get rid of her character? I don’t mean whether they’ll kill her off or have her move out of town, but how the news will be conveyed. Sometimes, actors leave a show [...]

  12. ‘Commonplace among the the majority of law enforcement institutions’

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:55 am MST

    As the Star notes, the U.S. State Department has released its annual human rights reports for the countries of the world, including Afghanistan. Human rights organizations reported local authorities tortured and abused detainees. Torture and abuse methods included, but were not limited to, beating by stick, scorching bar, or iron bar; flogging by cable; battering by [...]

  13. Mailbag: Luge etiquette, Helena’s rear end, Jaffer’s comeback

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am MST

    If the throne is a-oscillatin’, don’t come a-legislatin’

  14. Head Start Deserves an F

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 12 Mar 2010 | 4:36 am MST

    The federal government spent $25 billion of taxpayers' money on federal preschool and child care programs last year, but President Obama is calling for big increases in preschool spending. Before Congress spends any more on preschool and child care, it should evaluate whether the current programs are working. Topping the list of programs that should be reviewed is Head Start, which serves

  15. The Digital Skeptic

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Though overly pessimistic, Jaron Lanier raises important concerns about our technological future.

  16. Iran threatens genocide yet again

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:30 pm MST


    The Jerusalem Post reports:

    The Palestinians and the nations of the Middle East will be rid of a ‘bad omen’ once Israel is annihilated, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, in a speech communicated by Press TV. Israel, a foreign presence and a ‘Western prodigy’ in the region, had ‘reached the end of its road,’ Ahmadinejad told supporters in southern Iran.

    Well, I think that doesn’t leave much room for doubt.



  17. Ruling Kills an Option for Moving Health Bill

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:28 pm MST

    By David M. Drucker Roll Call StaffMarch 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m. The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday. The Senate Parliamentarian’s Office was responding to questions posed by the Republican leadership. The answers were

  18. Harper’s rut

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 11 Mar 2010 | 2:20 pm MST

    PAUL WELLS: Suddenly, things aren't so clear and focused

  19. Court approves pledge and motto

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 11 Mar 2010 | 1:02 pm MST

    The words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are an appeal to patriotism, not religion, and do not violate the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled today - the same court that declared the pledge unconstitutional in 2002.In a separate ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco upheld the placement of the national motto, "In God We Trust,"

  20. ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:44 pm MST

    Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID

  21. The Best—and Worst

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 11 Mar 2010 | 9:35 am MST

    SCOTT FESCHUK: Judging various elements of the Vancouver Olympics using a numerical ranking from zero to 10

  22. Feminists Consider Motherhood Oppressive

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:37 am MST

    I was flipping the channels on my television a couple of weeks ago and I stopped, as I always do, on CSpan Books. There was some feminist, whose name is not important, giving a five-minute rant against President Richard Nixon because he vetoed the bill proposed by Walter Mondale to make federal daycare for preschool children a new middle-class entitlement. Nixon's veto message, which actually

  23. Sign the Declaration of Health Care Independence

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 3:38 pm MST

    "In order to retain the Blessings of Liberty as secured to us by our Founding Fathers and as expressed in our Constitution. We the People reject the imposition upon us of a new, Washington-controlled system of government-run health care. We demand Constitutional protection of the right to make our own health care decisions and our own healthcare choices free of government denials, bureaucratic

  24. Cong. Todd Akin Hosts Town Hall / Protest of Obama's Visit to St. Louis

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:21 pm MST

    Over 2,200 people attended a rally organized by Missouri Congressman Todd Akin this morning at the St. Charles Convention Center. As you can see in the photo on the right, the hotel staff worked to open up a new section to accommodate the overflow of attendees. Jamie Allman, from 97.1 Talk FM, MCed the event that included a teleconference and Missouri officials: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, Sen. Rupp

  25. No wonder he's smiling...

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:14 am MST


    Israel is in the doghouse with America because it revealed during the visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden that it was building more houses for Israelis in east Jerusalem. According to Biden and outraged western received opinion, this ‘undermines peace efforts’.

    Why? To be more precise, why does this initiative – or indeed any of the ‘settlements’ -- undermine peace efforts while the actual reason for the absence of peace, the fact that the Abbas administration has said it will never accept a Jewish state of Israel and refuses to renounce the Arab aim of ending Israel's existence, the sole reason for eight decades of aggression, terrorism and war in the Middle East, is not even mentioned?

    Biden also said:

    the Palestinians deserve a ‘viable’ independent state with contiguous territory

    Why? What have they done to deserve it? In what other conflict in the history of the planet have people who have waged a war of annihilation for eight decades and continue to do so been considered to ‘deserve’ anything, let alone an ‘independent’ existence the sole purpose of which is a military beach-head to finish the

  26. U.S. Supreme Court to hear vaccine case

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 9:58 am MST

    For most of their 18-year-old daughter Hannah's life, Russell and Robalee Bruesewitz have been engaged in legal battle over compensation for her seizure disorder, which they believe was caused by a vaccine. On Monday, the Mt. Lebanon family learned that they'll be taking their fight to the highest level. The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear their case, in which the family argues

  27. Obama Panders to the Feminists

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 4:38 am MST

    The American public was outraged when it became known that Majority Leader Harry Reid got the Senate health care bill passed by putting into the bill gigantic benefits for Louisiana and Nebraska only, which would be a big political benefit to Senators Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson. Those earmarks were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to those states only. Now we find that President Obama

  28. On Biden in Israel

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Joe Biden's trip to Israel fits neatly into the context of the Obama administration's internal struggle over Israel policy. The far left prevailed initially, as evidenced by Hilary Clinton's May 2009 declaration that Obama "wants to see a stop to

  29. Getting It Right on Obesity

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Conservatives should promote responsible health choices.

  30. Just when did the EU sign up to this?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:22 pm MST


    The drug legalisation lobby group Transform purrs on its website:

    As Steve Rolles heads off for California, I am at the UN's annual Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna for which Transform has ECOSOC special consultative status. We are here as more than just spectators. In addition to attending a range of meetings that I will report on over the next few days, we have co-organised our own event, as part of the rapidly growing campaign for an Impact Assessment of drug policy, with our colleagues at the International Drug Policy Consortium. We are particularly pleased Carel Edwards the Head of the EC's Anti-Drugs Policy Unit has agreed to speak, as well as the Chair of IDPC Mike Trace, and myself (details below).

    What is the EU’s top drug policy official doing sharing a platform with drug legalisers?



  31. The president who made his country a global mockery

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:57 pm MST


    As predicted here, Obama’s foreign policy has collapsed in total ignominy. We are now all very much less safe than we were before this man was elected to the White House. A new poll -- for the Democrats, forsooth -- suggests that a majority of Americans think the USA is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security.

    You don't say.

    As this piece in American Thinker observes:

    Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable.’ He repetitively offered Iran ‘engagement.’ He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months.

    Iran contemptuously and repetitively responded that it had no intention of abandoning its nuclear program. Obama’s Iran policy is collapsing to the accompaniment of open mockery around the globe. Obama assured us that his ‘engagement’ would make it easier to enlist other countries to stop Iran. The result is the opposite. Virtually every country Obama approached has rebuffed him. Without a



  32. Iraq's Cosmetic Election

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    "It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq's national elections." So writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board today. I'm no cynic, but my mood about Iraq could variously be described as depressed, despairing, despondent,

  33. The jihad in Nigeria

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:44 am MST


    Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead. The media have described these events as ‘riots’; I would call this a jihadi pogrom. It is but the latest episode in what the media persist in characterising as inter-ethnic violence, but which is in fact a systematic attempt by Muslims to murder and ethnically cleanse the Christian community. The onslaught is described as ‘retaliation ‘ for violent attacks in Jos last January, in which the majority of the victims were Muslim. But as the Barnabas Fund reports, there is evidence that those January attacks were in fact Christian retaliation against Muslim aggression -- in particular on that occasion an attack on a church -- which has been going on for years.

    The fact that the jihad in Africa is widely ignored in the west is not just a moral dereliction of duty. It is a refusal by the west to understand what it is actually up against. What is happening to Nigeria’s Christians makes a mockery of the frenzied western obsession with

  34. Supply-Side Financial Reform

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Congress should unleash free markets to help protect consumers.

  35. A rational article provokes bigoted frenzy at the FT

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 10:26 am MST


     A few days ago, the historian Andrew Roberts wrote a piece in the Financial Times trenchantly defending the presumed assassination by Israel in Dubai of the Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Habhouh. In this article, which was itself a response to two examples of standard boilerplate bigotry that the paper had run about this, Roberts wrote:

    All that the Dubai operation will do is remind the world that the security services of states at war – and Israel’s struggle with Hamas, Fatah and Hizbollah certainly constitutes that – occasionally employ targeted assassination as one of the weapons in their armoury, and that this in no way weakens their legitimacy. As for the ‘separation walls’ and checkpoints that one sees in Israel, the 99 per cent drop in the number of suicide bombings since their erection justifies the policy. There is simply no parallel between apartheid South Africa – where the white minority wielded power over the black majority – and the occupied territories, taken by Israel only after it was invaded by its neighbours. To make such a link is not only inaccurate, but offensive.

    Not nearly as offensive,

  36. This sceptr'd isle

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 5:34 am MST


    Last night I was chatting with a friend, a distinguished writer. He told me the following anecdotes. His son had taken his children back to their boarding school after the half-term break and was driving straight back home, around 50 miles away. He had consumed neither drink nor drugs and was driving steadily and carefully while listening to music. He became aware of a car following him closely for most of the way; to his astonishment, when he pulled into his drive the car followed him and out got two police officers. They claimed he had been driving in a lane where he should not have been. He denied this. After some further questioning they then asked: ‘Have you had a domestic?’ (police vernacular for a row with the wife). Upon being answered in the negative, the officers insisted on going into the house and asking the astounded wife whether she and her husband had had a row. Upon being answered again in the negative, they departed and no more was heard.

    This was not the only strange recent adventure involving a roadside encounter with the police to disturb my

  37. How New York Could Lose by Winning

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 4 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    The state doesn't deserve a dollar in Race to the Top funds.

  38. What Drives Us

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 4 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Fulfillment, not money, says Daniel Pink's new study.

  39. The verbal pogrom

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 12:09 pm MST


    A propos ‘lawfare’ and Anti-Israel Pogrom week, here are two excellent articles. Alan Dershowitz calls for a real ‘apartheid week’, protesting at the exclusion and oppression of Jews, women, gays and others in Muslim lands:

    The current “Israel Apartheid Week” on universities around the world, by focusing only on the imperfections of the Middle East’s sole democracy, is carefully designed to cover up far more serious problems of real apartheid in Arab and Muslim nations. The question is why do so many students identify with regimes that denigrate women, gays, non-Muslims, dissenters, environmentalists and human rights advocates, while demonizing a democratic regime that grants equal rights to women (the chief justice and speaker of the Parliament of Israel are women), gays (there are openly gay generals in the Israeli Army), non-Jews (Muslims and Christians serve in high positions in Israel) and dissenters, (virtually all Israelis dissent about something). Israel has the best environmental record in the Middle East, it exports more life saving medical technology than any country in the region and it has sacrificed more for peace than any country in the Middle East. Yet on many



  40. Gordon Brown’s cry of impotence

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 4 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am MST

    MARK STEYN: If he rages naked at his aides it’s because he can do nothing about anything that matters

  41. Cuomo's Well-Paved Road to Albany

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 2 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    The attorney general has caught one break after another.

  42. Crisis in Turkey

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 2 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward

  43. I didn’t medal because your pants are snug

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 1 Mar 2010 | 2:04 pm MST

    Scott Feschuk on blamers vs. complainers

  44. What has changed in Ottawa in two months?

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 1 Mar 2010 | 9:28 am MST

    Parliament’s first week back will see a war of narratives as Harper fires up his big guns: the budget and the Throne Speech

  45. Tiger’s a lot of things, but he’s not sick

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am MST

    Woods spent 45 days in therapy. But is ‘sex addiction’ really an illness?

  46. Cheering for our athletes and ourselves

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Feb 2010 | 8:40 am MST

    ANDREW COYNE: We have all, to a greater or lesser extent, undergone a change in national temperament

  47. Signs of life for Michael Ignatieff

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    Prorogation allowed Ignatieff to see through the fog of his foibles and find his vision

  48. Rotten

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 25 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Led by New York, big-government blue states sink deeper into corruption.

  49. Who's Winning the Race to the Top?

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 25 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    An assessment

  50. A missed opportunity for diversity

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 25 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am MST

    Mark Steyn on the opening ceremonies: Where was the genuinely bizarro cavalcade?

  51. I feel pity for Colonel Williams if he’s guilty

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 23 Feb 2010 | 6:41 pm MST

    Barbara Amiel on the blessing and the curse of human sexuality

  52. Should We Believe Rashad Hussain?

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 16 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Rashad Hussain, Barack Obama's special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has run into a problem: He appears to be an Islamist. The evidence largely concerns a public statement he made six years ago, as Josh Gerstein reports in Politico

  53. Keith Ellison, Where Are You?

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 16 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    The leftist magazine Tikkun, in its January–February 2010 issue, carries an "Interview with Keith Ellison" in which the magazine's editor asks the Democratic congressman from Minnesota about my recent article "Islamism 2.0": MICHAEL LERNER: You are aware

  54. In Mideast, Bet on a Strong Horse

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 16 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    The violence and cruelty of Arabs often perplexes Westerners. Not only does the leader of Hizbullah proclaim "We love death," but so too does, for example, a 24-year-old man who last month yelled "We love death more than you love life" as he crashed his

  55. Reflections on Iran's Islamic Republic

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    As protesters prepare to gather and the regime flexes its muscle, where does Iran stand? The regime, its grip there, its place in the world? The democracy advocates'? National Review Online asked our experts to assess the situation in Iran and how the

  56. Sarah Palin Endorses 'Bomb Iran'

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 8 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    My National Review Online column last week carried the provocative title, "How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran," and provoke it surely did. Leftists on websites like ThinkProgress and DailyKos reacted voluminously and in slightly crazed ways,

  57. Western Civilization on Trial: Why We Should Be Watching Geert Wilders

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 7 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    As the Geert Wilders case goes into pre-trial, National Review Online asked our experts: Is there any legitimate reason he's in court? What are the implications of such a trial being held, never mind its outcome? (For replies by Bat Ye'or, Paul

  58. How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 2 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    I do not customarily offer advice to a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear, and whose policies I work against. But here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects the United



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