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Islam's War Doctrine Ignored
by Raymond Ibrahim

Do the Right Thing - Start Drilling
by Victor Davis Hanson

Reply to Patrick J. Buchanan
by Victor Davis Hanson

Iraq in Review
by Victor Davis Hanson

Gone, but Not Forgotten
by Victor Davis Hanson

Euromania?
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Bad War?
by Victor Davis Hanson

When Success Is the Orphan
by Victor Davis Hanson

All About Me
by Victor Davis Hanson

Why International Borders Remain in Flux
by Victor Davis Hanson

Do We Still Have Grants and Shermans?
by Victor Davis Hanson

Beneath the Hope...
by Victor Davis Hanson

Appeasement and Its Discontents
by Victor Davis Hanson

The War Over the War
by Victor Davis Hanson

Obama Rules
by Victor Davis Hanson

What's Wrong with Democrats
by Victor Davis Hanson

What's Wrong With Republicans
by Victor Davis Hanson

Presidential Pariah
by Victor Davis Hanson

More Blaming the Messenger
by Victor Davis Hanson

How Oil Lubricated Our Enemies
by Victor Davis Hanson

The New Learning That Failed
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Half-Won, Half-Lost War
by Victor Davis Hanson

No Country for Old Liberals
by Bruce Thornton

Orwellian Times
by Victor Davis Hanson

A New Environmentalism
by Victor Davis Hanson

Jihad Studies as Trivia
by Raymond Ibrahim

The Second Coming of McGovern
by Victor Davis Hanson

That Old Isolationist Tug
by Victor Davis Hanson

Casualties of the Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Portrait
by Victor Davis Hanson

Leaving the New Episcopal Church
by Craig Bernthal

Islam's Public Enemy #1
by Raymond Ibrahim

Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
by Victor Davis Hanson

Why Orwell Matters
by Victor Davis Hanson

Back to the Good Ole Days Before Dubya
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Year That Wasn't
by Victor Davis Hanson

Nothing Succeeds Like Success
by Victor Davis Hanson

Treat Breast Cancer?
by Linda Halderman

Real Talk?
by Raymond Ibrahim

Spitzer's Comic Fall
by Bruce Thornton

A Speech Sen. Obama Could Have Given
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 10
by Victor Davis Hanson

Ten Things a Candidate Might Promise
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Obama Crash and Burn
by Victor Davis Hanson

Hope and Change Amid Despair
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Old Script
by Bruce Thornton

The Speech
by Victor Davis Hanson

An Elegant Farce
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Tired Gaza Two-Step
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Wrong Wright
by Victor Davis Hanson

Mirror, Mirror
by Victor Davis Hanson

Paying the Piper
by Craig Bernthal

No Small Word
by Raymond Ibrahim

Let Obama Be Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson

An Endless Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 9
by Victor Davis Hanson

The World in 2009
by Victor Davis Hanson

Dispatches from the Front
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 8
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Future with Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson

Ivy League Populism
by Victor Davis Hanson

Yippy Ti Yi Yo, Europe!
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 7
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Candidate
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 6
by Victor Davis Hanson

Our Ailing Meritocracy
by Raymond Ibrahim

Iraq Is Not the Worry
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 5
by Victor Davis Hanson

Weird Times, Weirder Election
by Victor Davis Hanson

A Modest Proposal
by Victor Davis Hanson

Muslim "Moderates"
by Bruce Thornton

Democrats Want to Lose...
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Week 5
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Moral Economy
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 4
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Bill Show
by Victor Davis Hanson

Swords into Plowshares?
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Use and Abuse of Reagan
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season: this Week's Blog
by Victor Davis Hanson

Living History
by Victor Davis Hanson

Nonviolence Nonsense
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Messy Politics of Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season 2
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Crying Game
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Queen Is Dead
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Old Warhorse
by Victor Davis Hanson

Campaign Season
by Victor Davis Hanson

A Pyramid of Choices
by Yishai Kabaker

Voting the War
by Victor Davis Hanson

A Happy New Year Abroad
by Victor Davis Hanson

Common Sense
by Raymond Ibrahim

Straight Talk
by Bruce Thornton

California Healthcare Reform
by Linda Halderman

An Encouraging Revelation
by Raymond Ibrahim

Epistles to the Muslims
by Bruce Thornton

Poor, Not Dumb
by Linda Halderman

Revisionism and the Iranian Non-Bomb
by Victor Davis Hanson

A Few Good People
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Looking-Glass War in Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson

Soft Neocons
by Victor Davis Hanson

Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus
by Bruce Thornton

Iraq's Savage Ironies
by Victor Davis Hanson

Bateman Encore
by Victor Davis Hanson

Bateman Files - Case Closed
by Victor Davis Hanson

When Good News Is No News
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Fascistic Mind
by Raymond Ibrahim

Freedom, Even from Fear
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Oil Hydra
by Victor Davis Hanson

Dictators and Democrats
by Victor Davis Hanson

Liberal Racism
by Bruce Thornton

Please -- Not Another Farm Bill
by Victor Davis Hanson

Squaring Off
by Victor Davis Hanson

Squaring Off Part II
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Old Schell Game
by Victor Davis Hanson

Healthcare's Fake Facelift
by Linda Halderman

So Who's Afraid of an Iranian Bomb?
by Victor Davis Hanson

Hardly Turkish Delight
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Legacy of the Bush Administration?
by Victor Davis Hanson

At the Eye of the Storm in Baghdad
by Victor Davis Hanson

Congress' New Role
by Victor Davis Hanson

Patients without Doctors
by Linda Halderman

Yearning for Democracy
by Yishai Kabaker

Noble Nobel?
by Bruce Thornton

Hope Yet for Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson

Newsworthy Reconsidered
by Victor Davis Hanson

Hillary-care
by Linda Halderman

Charge It, America!
by Victor Davis Hanson

The Two Faces of Al Qaeda
by Raymond Ibrahim

Winning Ugly
by Victor Davis Hanson

Europe Whimpers
by Bruce Thornton

Peace to Whoever Follows Guidance
by Raymond Ibrahim

Fighting at a Disadvantage
by Bruce Thornton

Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0
by Raymond Ibrahim

War and the Fallacies of Our Critics
Interview by Bernard Chapin

Faith and Altruism?
by Raymond Ibrahim

Waning Support for Suicide-Attacks in the Muslim World?
by Raymond Ibrahim

American Culture
by Bruce Thornton

By the Sword
by Bruce Thornton

The Passsion of the Left
by Bruce Thornton

Wanted
by Raymond Ibrahim

Murder in Gaza
by Bruce Thornton

Crying Wolf
by Bruce Thornton

France Sans Socialism
by Sarah Bernthal

Seeking Sympathy from the Infidel
by Raymond Ibrahim

Islamic Apologetics
by Raymond Ibrahim

200 Million Minority
by Raymond Ibrahim

Hydra of War
by Raymond Ibrahim

Suffering Mascots
by Bruce Thornton

Communiversity
by Craig Bernthal

Imminent Danger
by Bruce Thornton

What Do Muslims Want?
by Raymond Ibrahim

Fighting Faith
by Raymond Ibrahim

Third-Worldism
by Bruce Thornton

Fair or Foul Play?
by Raymond Ibrahim

The Word Police
by Bruce Thornton

Bureaucratic Bog
by Sarah Bernthal

The Stink
by Bruce Thornton

Do No Harm
by Dr. Linda Halderman

D'Souza Knows Not
by Private Paper's Reader

The Truth about Tolerance
by Bruce Thornton

Relieving California's Healthcare Crisis
by Dr. Linda Halderman

Just Deserts
by Bruce Thornton

A Sense of Good
by Bruce Thornton

Qassams Fired on Central California
by Dr. Linda Halderman

A Symphony Unheard
by Craig Bernthal

High Anxiety
by Bruce Thornton

Holy Wisdom
by Bruce Thornton

Conquest and Concession
by Raymond Ibrahim

Vanity Care
by Dr. Linda Halderman

Twisted Proverb
by Raymond Ibrahim

The Sage and the Sword
by Bruce Thornton

Total Silence
by Bruce Thornton

Warning: Quote History at Your Own Risk
by Raymond Ibrahim

Islam's Appeal
by Raymond Ibrahim

Dearest Illusions and Dangerous Mistakes
by Bruce Thornton

Where the Illiberalism Is in Liberalism
by Bruce Thornton

Inside the "Cease-fire"
by Bruce Thornton

Peace Frogs
by Craig Bernthal

No Resolution At All
by Bruce Thornton

The Impossible Peace
by Bruce Thornton

Red-Carding America
by Sarah Bernthal

Huck Finn and the Nuremberg Rally
by Bruce Thornton

The West's Multi-Headed Monster
by Raymond Ibrahim

Lying, Defying, and Demoralizing
by Raymond Ibrahim

A Panhandler's World
by Bruce Thornton

What Would Mohammad Do?
by Raymond Ibrahim

Fig-Leaf Diplomacy
by Bruce Thornton

Sword Without Leniency
by Bruce Thornton

The Caldron of Anti-Semitism
by Bruce Thornton

The Jackal and the General
by Bruce Thornton

Nothing Nuanced
by Bruce Thornton

Absolute Certainty
by Bruce Thornton

Sexual Harassment or Censorship?
by Bruce Thornton

Unreported History in Baghdad
by Lt. Col. John M. Kanaley

The Indictment of the West
by Bruce Thornton

Denial of the Truth
by Bruce Thornton

Truce or Taqiyyah
by Raymond Ibrahim

Bad Science
by Bruce Thornton

Reflections on 1862
by Bruce Thornton

Straight from the Front
Ltc. John M. Kanaley

The Purple Finger
by Bruce Thornton

A Time for Real Indians
by Bruce Thornton

All the Wrong Reasons
by Raymond Ibrahim

Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
by Bruce Thornton

Troubling "Facts" of Paris Riots
by Bruce Thornton

Our Damocles' Sword
by Bruce Thornton

The Folly of Apology
by Bruce Thornton

An Honest Missive
by Bruce Thornton

Al Qaeda's Offensive Rhetoric
by Raymond Ibrahim

Webchat with VDH
by U.S. State Department

Sobriety Lost
by Bruce Thornton

The Blame Game
by Jennifer Heyne

From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror
by Ray Ibrahim

Gaza and Victory?
by Joey Tartakovsky

America's Historian in Chief
by Alan W. Dowd

Broadcasting Grief
by Bruce Thornton


Doublespeak Unveiled

by Bruce Thornton

Dishonest and Deadly
by Bruce Thornton

Jihad is Knocking
by Bruce Thornton

Odyssey to Nowhere
by Jennifer Heyne

Lo, the U.N. By What Name Do We Call Thee
by Bruce Thornton

Muslims Have Desecrated Bibles and Churches
by Bruce Thornton

Suicidal Tendencies in the West
by Bruce Thornton

Something Is Terribly, Terribly Wrong'
Interview by Marvin Olasky

A Smoking Gun at Columbia University
by Bruce Thornto

Athletes Crossing the Threshold of Hope
by Honora Howell Chapman

Spiritual Parasites
by Bruce Thornton

Commentary

June 19, 2008
Islam’s War Doctrines Ignored
by Raymond Ibrahim
MESH (Middle East Strategy at Harvard)

At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)...

May 1, 2008
No Country for Old Liberals
by Bruce Thornton
Private Papers

According to liberals, they are tolerant, open-minded, sensitive to complexity and nuance, and wary of simplistic explanations. So why is a column by the liberal Michael Hirsh, in the liberal newsweekly Newsweek, so intolerant, close-minded, simplistic and bigoted?
April 25, 2008
Jihad Studies as Trivia
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers


This article was first published in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.

A new article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title — not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same old mantras prevalent in modern academia’s study of jihad and jihadists.

April 17, 2008
Leaving the New Episcopal Church
by
Craig Bernthal
Private Papers

Most Christians in America probably don’t know much about what is happening in the Episcopal Church (TEC).

April 15, 2008
Islam’s Public Enemy #1
Coptic priest Zakaria Botros fights fire with fire.

by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online

Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world.

April 3, 2008
Treat Breast Cancer?
Not in My Backyard.
by Linda Halderman, M.D., FACS
Private Papers

In November 2007, the Canadian NRU nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario shut down for five days of routine maintenance.

April 2, 2008
Real Talk?
The Saudi king ought to stop killing non-Muslims first.

by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online

According to the Associated Press, Saudi King Abdullah, in an unprecedented move last week, “made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians, and Jews” — going so far as to refer to the latter two as “our brothers.” The Jerusalem Post states that such talks would be geared to developing “respect among religions.”

April 1, 2008
Spitzer’s Comic Fall
To understand the disgraced governor, brush up your Aristophanes.

by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal

Commentators are already calling the rise and fall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer “tragic.”
March 21, 2008
The Old Script
Does Obama really think he settles racism with relativism?

by Bruce Thornton
Private Papers


Barack Obama’s attempt to defuse the crisis in his presidential campaign caused by videos of his “spiritual mentor’s” bigoted sermons has been spun as “the most significant public discussion of race in decades,” as The New York Times gushed.

March 13, 2008
Paying the Piper
by Craig Bernthal
Private Papers

Temperance is not high in the current list of American virtues. We are the 9th most obese people on earth, according to the World Health Organization, with 74% of American’s over 15 identified as overweight.
March 11, 2008
No Small Word
Biblical meaning of Amalek not lost.

by Raymond Ibahim
Private Papers


During the eulogy of the eight slain students of the March 6 terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva school in West Jerusalem, highly-respected Rabbi Ya’akov Shapira made, for the average gentile, a rather illusive allusion regarding the attack: “The murderer did not want to kill these people in particular, but everyone living in the holy city of Jerusalem.

February 27, 2008
The Future with Europe
The Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit interviews VDH

Private Papers

JF: Professor Hanson, you criticize U.S. immigration policy in your recent book Mexifornia. What is it that bothers you about the development at the Southern border?

February 15, 2008
Our Ailing Meritocracy
Merit takes second place to gender and religion

by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers

When all the political sophistry is said and done, there is no denying that the claim to fame of the Democratic Party’s two superstar candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, is that the one is a woman, the other black and from something of an “ambiguous” religious background (little wonder bland John Edwards stepped out, with the jocular yet true remark during January’s CNN Democratic Debate that being white and male wasn’t helping his cause).

February 6, 2008
Muslim “Moderates”
What's in a word?

by Bruce Thornton
Private Papers

The war against Islamic jihad continues to be compromised in the West by the dominant narrative that supposedly makes sense of the conflict.

January 4, 2008
A Pyramid of Choices
by Yishai Kabaker
The Stanford Review

Egypt is still a land of pharaohs. Its complex and multi-faceted society has always thrived under strong central leadership.

December 28, 2007
Common Sense
Who needs "intelligence" to know Iran wants nukes?

by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers

Much of the current debate surrounding Iran’s nuclear aspirations centers on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report which “judge[s] with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.”

December 26, 2007
Straight Talk
Podhoretz corrects the record on Islamic terrorism.
by Bruce Thornton
Private Papers

A review of World War IV. The Long Struggle against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz (Doubleday 2007, 240 pp.)

World War IV is an indispensable book for these times.

December 19, 2007
California Healthcare Reform
Revisiting the Governor’s plan

by Linda Halderman, M.D., FACS
Private Papers

One twelfth of the United States is poised to adopt a sweeping program, making some dubious assumptions about funding along the way.

December 16, 2007
An Encouraging Revelation
Bin Laden’s Latest Message in Context

by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers

Full of the same old complaints, threats of retaliation, and victim status role that have become mainstays of al Qaeda propaganda, Osama bin Laden’s latest release would seem to offer nothing new.

December 11, 2007
Epistle to the Muslims
Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam.
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal

On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.”

December 6, 2007
Poor, Not Dumb
A New Model for Sensible Reform of Healthcare

by Linda Halderman, M.D., FACS
Private Papers

Within the national debate over healthcare reform, an assumption has been revealed in several proposals: Healthcare decisions for poor Americans are best left to the U.S. Government.

November 25, 2007
Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus
The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers.

by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal

Many observers noted that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Columbia University took place at about the same time that the University of California at Davis canceled a speaking appearance by former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, citing his remarks in 2005 about the underrepresentation of women in the sciences.

November 22, 2007
Bateman Encore
by Victor Davis Hanson
Pajamas Media