Drug money is funding the Taliban's increasingly numerous and bolder attacks in Afghanistan. Yet, the United States has shifted its policy from eradicating poppy fields - the source of the high-grade cheap heroin that feeds at least 93% of the … [Read more...] about Defund The Taliban
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Is Sharia Banking Safe For Canada?
With the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation releasing a report this week that may pave the way for widespread availability of Islamic financial instruments in Canada, including Sharia-compliant mortgages, an expert on Islamic banking is … [Read more...] about Is Sharia Banking Safe For Canada?
Libel On Tour
Within minutes Monday a legislative committee repudiated both Islamic and British law. Neither, perhaps, represents an immediate threat to justice in Louisiana, but it was not entirely an alarmist and xenophobic stunt when the committee approved two … [Read more...] about Libel On Tour
Turning The Battle Against Drugs
On his recent surprise visit to Afghanistan, President Obama properly criticized the government for ignoring corruption and mismanagement. At the same time, the United States' current policy allows Afghan opium production, the major funding source … [Read more...] about Turning The Battle Against Drugs
Official Mudslinging – The Defenders Of MEK Versus The State Department
On March 9, Guy Taylor of the Washington Times reported that the Treasury Department earlier in the week began investigating former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell for trafficking with terrorists. Josh Rogin of Foreign Policy picked up the story a … [Read more...] about Official Mudslinging – The Defenders Of MEK Versus The State Department
Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Memo Approving The Protected Persons Status For Mek Personnel At Camp Asharf, June 2004
Click here to view the memo. *Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. … [Read more...] about Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Memo Approving The Protected Persons Status For Mek Personnel At Camp Asharf, June 2004
Jihad Jane’s Allies In The Courts
The zeal with which Colleen LaRose , aka "Jihad Jane," (above) pursued a fatwa to kill the publishers of the "Mohammed cartoons" - 12 drawings of a turban-wearing bearded man with a bomb, released in 2005 in Denmark , Sweden and elsewhere - comes as … [Read more...] about Jihad Jane’s Allies In The Courts
If We Want To Protect America’s Airports, We Must Profile
The Christmas Day attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 brought our minds sharply back to the threat our nation faces on a daily basis from terrorist organizations and financiers. In 2003, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, … [Read more...] about If We Want To Protect America’s Airports, We Must Profile
Libel Law: Agog At The Gag
Protesters outside the offices of Carter-Ruck, the London law firm that last year obtained a superinjunction for Trafigura, an oil trading company When Peter Carter-Ruck, Britain's most famous libel lawyer, died in 2003, it was as if an era had … [Read more...] about Libel Law: Agog At The Gag
Ehrenfeld: Ending British Abridgement Of Free Expression
Americans deserve immunity from 'libel tourism' The Senate Judiciary Committee recently concluded during a hearing on the Free Speech Protection Act (S.449) on Feb. 23 that "foreign libel lawsuits are chilling Americans' First Amendment rights." The … [Read more...] about Ehrenfeld: Ending British Abridgement Of Free Expression