About: James Heiser
Posts by James Heiser
Geert Wilders and the Fate of Western Liberty
While many American and European politicians have responded to the Jihad currently being waged against the West either by denying its Islamic character, or by seeking to engage in...
Physicist Hawking Mocks Religious Faith
Even as the news media reported on a study conducted by Oxford University which found that faith in God appears to be an innate trait for human beings, theoretical...
NASA’s Endeavour Begins Final Mission
As the Space Shuttle Endeavour began its final mission on May 16, the future of NASA’s human space program remains uncertain. The space shuttle program is steadily approaching its...
Mexicans Take Up Arms in Self-Defense
Five years into President Felipe Calderon’s war with the drug cartels, a growing number of Mexicans are tired of shopworn excuses from a government which appears to be incapable...
Drug Cartel Kidnaps 11 Mexican Police Officers
Less than a month after Mexico’s highest-ranking law-enforcement official declared it would be at least four more years before drug violence begins to subside, 11 members of one police...
Pakistani Pastor Targeted by Jihadists
While the world is distracted by the spectacle of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, what remains unchanged in the ongoing Jihad is the brutal persecution of Christians in...
Nigerian Muslims Riot After National Elections
In Nigeria’s contested presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan has been reelected, and the reelection of a candidate from the Christian region of southern Nigeria is being received by Muslims...
Egyptian Islamists Seek Overthrow of Coptic Governor
Islamic extremists are continuing to press their advantage in the new, post-Mubarak Egypt, and are now demanding that one of the few Christians serving in the government be removed...
Four Companies Win NASA Funding for Space Program
Private industry is making progress toward lowering the cost of space flight, and NASA would like to come along for the ride. Among the earliest actions of the Obama...
UK community Bans Easter Parade
Are Easter observances a threat to public safety? The Council for the London Borough of Brent apparently thinks so, and has refused permission to church leaders who were planning...
Russia’s President Announces Plan for Moon Base
This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant milestones in the “Space Race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it comes at...
Illinois House Acts to Protect Gun Owners
The Illinois legislature has taken an important step to protect the rights of gun owners, reining in a move by state Attorney General Lisa Madigan which disclosed the names...
Bolivia Pushes for Equal Rights for Mother Earth
The Plurinational State of Bolivia is presenting a message to the world via the United Nations: Nature should have just as many rights as human beings do. Air has...
A Review of John Adams’ “Revolutionary Writings”
The declining rate of literacy in this nation has hardly proven itself an impediment to the production of books by American Presidents past, present, and (according to authorial intention)...
Media ignores Islamic Views of Brazilian Murderer
The horrific, premeditated massacre of nearly a dozen children at a school in Rio de Janeiro was the work of a Islamic extremist — but the English language press...