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Ben Shapiro

Humanitarian Aid in Syria Leads to War

The White House has led from behind on the Arab Spring, and the results show it; instead of U.S.-backed liberal democrats in the Arab world rallying to victory, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have all turned strongly Islamist (and Iraq is well on the way). Now the U.S. is leading from behind again, this time on [...]
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Andrew G.  Bostom

Ataturk and Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad”

Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad”, re-issued in a paperback edition, which features captivating—and humorous—animation. embedded by Embedded Video Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand Jihad” by Karen Lugo recently published at The American Thinker and a review I had published when [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

JFK’s Insider Cigar Deal

From the Daily Mail: President John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as he could just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo – which subsequently made them illegal. Kennedy asked his head of press and fellow cigar smoker Pierre Salinger to obtain ‘1,000 Petit Upmanns’ on February 6, 1962, [...]
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Sun Tzu

Last Known WWI Veteran Florence Green Dies at 110

LONDON (AP) – Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets. But Green, who has died aged 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women’s Royal Air Force as a waitress at an air base in eastern [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

Proposed Explanation For Repeated Jewish Persecution Throughout History

Throughout my lifetime, one historical question I’ve heard raised over and over again involved the Nazi Holocaust: How was it possible that ordinary Germans participated in the genocide of millions of perfect nice, loyal German citizens, simply because they were Jewish? One might attribute the attitude of Adolf Hitler himself to some kind of [...]
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Spyridon Mitsotakis

Minimum Wage in Southern Africa Results in Apartheid, Blood Diamonds, War

Before Mitt Romney further commits to raising the minimum wage, he should take a trip back in time and across the ocean to witness what it can do to a society. David R. Henderson, “formerly a senior economist on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers,” wrote in Fortune (April 23, 1990): The orthodox view holds that [...]
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Walid Phares

The Lesson of the Past Decade: Ideology Is Al Qaeda’s Power, Not Leaders

Ten years have slipped by since Osama bin Laden’s jihadists massacred thousands of men, women and children in the northeastern United States, prompting the start of what Americans came to know as the War on Terror. The current administration, however, insists on more benign terminology, choosing for political reasons to describe the conflict as an [...]
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Ron Capshaw

‘Heinrich Himmler: A Life’ Review: Portrait of a Monster Brought Down to Size

In Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle,” an alternate history of the Nazis winning the war, a Japanese businessman barely manages to bolt from a conference room before vomiting. The cause of this is a speaker outlining the biographies of Hitler’s inner circle, which releases into the [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

New York Times Laments Income Loss for Afghan Businesses

After ten years of nearly constant derisiveness and complacency toward force protection and convenient ignorance of policies that have caused the severe wounding and killing of thousands of American Servicemen, The New York Times took the time to write about the loss of income for business in Afghanistan...
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Spyridon Mitsotakis

Has Kim Jong Il’s Death Caused a Breakthrough in Burma?

While it has largely been out of the public eye, big things are happening in Burma. After decades of war and military dictatorship, the government and rebel groups have signed a series of ceasefires and have begun to release political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi (whose National League of Democracy, as Kim Kardashian concisely [...]
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