SpaceX Capsule Set to Dock With Space Station
A private U.S. company — SpaceX — has sent the first of 12 resupply missions to the International Space Station. ...
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Global Warming? Blame the Tides
If climate change theorists want to blame man for warming conditions at Earth’s north and south poles, they may need to start blaming the man in the Moon. Long-term...
Islamists Murder Nigerian Christians
More than nine months after Boko Haram, an Islamist terror organization in Nigeria, demanded that Christians immediately vacate the northern states of that African nation, Christians are continuing to...
Egyptian President: U.S. Not Our Ally
After nearly two years of support from the Obama administration for the “Arab Spring” movement that Islamists used to gain power, the new president of Egypt is rewarding his...
Will Science Disprove God’s Existence? No.
Will Science disprove the existence of God? No, but that hasn't stopped atheists from continuing to make that claim for centuries. ...
Iranian and Pakistani Christians Freed From Imprisonment
In both Iran and Pakistan, important victories have been won in the conflict between Christian faith and Islamic persecution. In Iran, after three years in prison awaiting execution for...
State Department Teaching “Women’s Rights” to Imams
A story from CNSNews reveals that the U.S. Department of State has once again undertaken the dubious task of trying to reform Islam to fit the department’s international agenda....
Study Shows Global Warming Data Skewed by Bad Monitoring
A new study of the methodology and placement of weather monitoring equipment has found that misplacement of such equipment is giving a false estimation of the threat of global...
A Review of “Did Muhammad Exist?”
JihadWatch Director Robert Spencer has written a new work on Islam's founder, Muhammad, which calls into question whether he ever existed. The gravest difficulty that the author of Did Muhammad Exist? faces...
State Department Won’t Call Terrorists “Terrorists”
If the definition of the word “terrorist” has seemed somewhat flexible to many Americans in recent years, that state of befuddlement is shared by the U.S. government. The difficulties...
City of San Francisco Bans Apple Computers
The City of San Francisco, outraged at Apple's decision to depart from environmental standards, has announced its boycott of Apple's computers. San Francisco’s ban on the purchase of Apple...
Texas Deploys Gunboats to Patrol Rio Grande
Even as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is instructing U.S. Border Patrol agents to run away from violent criminals, the Lone Star State is preparing to meet force...
Egyptian President Calls for Terrorist’s Release
Newly-elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi shocked the Obama administration with a call for the release of the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the terrorist associated with the 1993 World Trade Center...
Mexican Presidential Election — Choosing the Lesser Evil
While Americans are embroiled in discussions of the various implications of this year’s presidential contest, very few of them are weighing the significance of a presidential election that will...
Court: Egyptian Military May Not Make Arrests
With the ascension of the Muslim Brotherhood to power and relinquishing of power by the military, Egypt's military will no longer be able to arrest protesters, but critics wonder...
Cartel Violence Kills Three in Mexico City Airport
Conditions in Mexico continue to demonstrate that almost no form of violent criminal activity is impossible in that failed state. Although the violent conflict between the Mexican government and...
Islamist Wins Presidency of Egypt
After 16 months of conspiracy theories directed against the Egyptian military predicting that the "democratic process" would be subverted to keep allies of former President Hosni Mubarak in power,...
A Review of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Apricot Jam”
In the years since his return to Russia in 1994 and especially since his death in 2008, the literary legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been an uncertain thing —...
Egyptian Election Chaos Feeds on Lack of Trust
With both candidates in the Egyptian presidential election claiming victory, while the commission overseeing the elections delays releasing the results, Egypt faces the possibility of further revolutionary chaos. ...
Low Voter Turnout as Egypt Chooses a New President
Approximately 18 months after the "Arab Spring" uprising began in Egypt, the final outcome of the rebellion that ended the reign of President Hosni Mubarak remains to be seen....