When Pope John Paul II visited Damascus in May 2001, Bashar used his welcoming speech to denounce the Jews, saying, “They tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”   read more

Military commandoes may be great at taking down terrorists in the dead of night, but they’re not so good when it comes to financial oversight. An investigation by the Defense Department’s inspector general found the U.S. Special Operations Command...   read more

Turns out the man advising President Barack Obama on rescuing the failing auto industry once had a significant financial stake in two of the “Big 3.” An investment banker, Steven Rattner was until recently an investor in Cerberus Capital Managemen...   read more

No matter how much some conservatives despise left-wing environmentalists, it is still possible for the two sides to find common ground where commerce and renewable energy meet. Such is the case in the Texas panhandle, a hardscrabble stretch of ea...   read more

The case in which 25 alleged CIA agents are being prosecuted in Italy for the 2005 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric was complicated to begin with. A recent lawsuit has added to the complexity. Sabrina De Sousa, one of the American officials accuse...   read more

Widespread public support for a young “heroine,” who killed a local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, has left the Party uneasy and flustered. On May 10, 2009, Deng Guida, Deng Zhongjia, and Huang Dezhi, three officials of Badong County in H...   read more

A Nicaraguan journalist and political opponent of President Daniel Ortega, Georgina Lupiac, has been granted political asylum in the United States. Lupiac was able demonstrate to the U.S. Immigration Court that she had in the past been a victim of...   read more

In the early days of World War II, thousands of American soldiers captured in the Philippines were force-marched 65 miles by the Japanese army, enduring starvation, exhaustion and brutal treatment that included beheadings and stabbings. Those who ...   read more

This week could reveal whether Judge Vaughn Walker of the Ninth Circuit court of appeals is through playing nice with the Obama administration. Twice since the beginning of this year Walker has told the Department of Justice to work out a way so t...   read more

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the crushing of the Chinese pro-democracy movement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), culminating in what came to be known as the Tiananmen Massacre. In China the CCP, which controls all media and all tex...   read more

Banks rescued by the highly controversial $700 billion bailout plan continue to find loopholes for their retiring executives, like paying them to not do anything…literally. Associated Banc-Corp’s president and chief operating officer, Lisa Binder,...   read more

Whereas many see 17-year-olds as lazy, apathetic or disengaged, Nancy Lublin sees them as individuals who deserve the right to vote. The CEO of the youth-oriented non-profit DoSomething.org argues the negative labels placed on this age group are u...   read more

Last month’s announcement by the Armenian Tashnaq party in Lebanon of its intention to support Hezbollah in the upcoming parliamentary elections could provide the crucial votes needed for Hezbollah’s coalition to inch ahead of the current pro-West...   read more

The Shia minority in Saudi Arabia, who live in the oil-rich region of eastern Saudi Arabia and along the southern Saudi-Yemeni border, are calling for an end to decades of discrimination. Saudi Arabia is one of the United States’ major sources of ...   read more

Just how dangerous is the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border? In recent months numerous media outlets have run stories warning of growing violence in American communities in the Southwest, a result of the so-called “spillover” from Mexico’s ba...   read more

For all the talk about increased spending by the Obama administration and its consequences on the national debt, it needs to be pointed out that a hefty chunk of debt got dumped on the country just last year. According to an analysis by USA Today,...   read more

A new study by political scientists has confirmed the idea that in a Supreme Court case, the party that gets the most questions is most likely to lose. The idea was first introduced by Sarah Levien Shullman when she was a second-year law student a...   read more