From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 12, 2009
One of the most depressing moments of my own political life came when I was given a Ph.D. thesis to read whose subject was the intellectual influences on American policy makers. In 1979, when the...
View ArticleHey, Hey, LBJ: How Many Kids Did You Starve Today?
President Lyndon Johnson and advisor Joseph Califano Jr. Last week, one of our hottest discussions on NewsReal involved the controversy over Bishop Thomas Tobin recommending that Congressman Patrick...
View ArticleCollector Conservatism, Part 3: The Consequence You Never Saw Coming
"Hoovervilles for everyone!" To read part 1, click here: To read part 2, click here: As the economy continues to slip towards the cliff-edge, financial institutions are becoming ever-more skittish...
View ArticleBeck Catches ACORN’s Bertha Lewis in a Lie
ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis is a liar, perhaps even a pathological liar. She lies about ACORN’s track record, its budget, its size, voter fraud, and so many other things. Glenn Beck nailed her...
View ArticleThe Depths of Demcare Demagoguery – by Michelle Malkin
How low can they go? The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance “holocaust in America” (Fla. Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson), lambasted...
View ArticlePoliticization of Middle Eastern Studies – by Brendan Goldman
“We overthrew a dictatorship only to go from bad to worse,” said Mansour Farhang, a prominent figure in the early Islamic Republic of Iran who now serves as a professor at Bennington College. Farhang...
View ArticleA Profile in Arrogance
Congressman John “Jack” Murtha, who died last week at the age of 77, represented western Pennsylvania’s Twelfth District in the House for 35 years. But Murtha’s impressive longevity belies his more...
View ArticleBook review: Why Intelligence Fails – WSJ.com
When we hear the sound of hoofbeats, should we think horses or zebras? The question is a classic problem of intelligence analysis. Too often in recent years the CIA, FBI and Department of Homeland...
View ArticleNo, Sean, Carter Isn’t Distancing Himself from Obama
Mediaite is calling Sean Hannity to task for a misleading characterization of recent remarks from former President Jimmy Carter. It seems Foreign Affairs recently warned that the worst-case scenario...
View ArticleBrzezinski: Failed Ideas Plus the Second Coming Equal Mideast Peace
Since seventies-retro foreign policy seems to be the rage lately, I guess there was no way to stop Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski from weighing in on the...
View ArticleFrom the Writings of David Horowitz: May 13, 2010
Following the liberation of Baghdad, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote, “President George W. Bush has made a fatal change in the foreign policy of the United States. He has repudiated the...
View ArticleWho Chose Hamas to Lead Them?
To understand the people of Gaza, who now lay claim to the passions of humanitarians-without-a-cause, one might begin by considering Gazans’ freely elected leadership: the Hamas terror network. And...
View ArticleObama’s Bin Laden Mission ‘Gutsy’— What About Bush’s ‘Surge’?
“When President Obama was faced with the opportunity to act upon this,” said Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan, “the President had to evaluate the strength of that information and then...
View ArticleThe Olive Tree Initiative and Terror
The danger of sending American college students on Olive Tree Initiative trips to the West Bank was underscored by the recent discovery of 13 Hamas terror cells and a foiled suicide bombing plot in...
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