May 25, 2007 | ISLAM AND THE WEST, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Is presidential hopeful, Democrat John Edwards, wittily disingenuous or genuinely witless? Like Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis’ fictional 1920’s Bible-thumping huckster who preached what he rarely practiced, Edwards appears to have...
Feb 9, 2007 | ISLAM AND THE WEST, MEDIA BIAS, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Plenty know by now that in 2004 the progressive Pew Foundation published an extensive poll exposing the five-to-one ratio of liberals to conservatives in the news-reporting media. Strangely, media outlets must believe that we have...
Feb 4, 2007 | ISLAM AND THE WEST, MEDIA BIAS, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag This warning to the Washington Post is the journalistic equivalent to, “Your fly is open.” In other words, you missed a few things while rushing. No excuse is mitigating enough to forgive the Lilliputian thinking that approved...
Dec 14, 2006 | ISLAM AND THE WEST, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES, UNITED NATIONS, DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL LAW, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag The Observer in Britain reported on December 10: Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase “war on terror” and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in...
Sep 21, 2006 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, ISLAM AND THE WEST, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2006 The national argument has turned to guidelines for interrogating terrorist prisoners and instead of reaching a consensus that provides some legal specificity, our leaders are lunging for ambiguity in the name of international law. Their true...
Sep 3, 2006 | ISLAM AND THE WEST, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag At what point does an institution’s incompetence become so expansively documented and self-evident that even the most academically impoverished finally accept its life-threatening uselessness? A quick look back reveals much about...