The Lion's Den

You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.

Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.

If Hamas knows it cannot defeat the Israel Defense Forces and will get a bloody nose for its efforts, it obviously has motives other than victory in mind.

His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.

One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas, as many terrorists and criminals have repeatedly done.

What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?

Obama got away with saying that he had characterized the attack on the Benghazi consulate as a terrorist incident because the moderator confirmed his point; in fact he misrepresented the facts when he said "The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that … this was an act of terror."

Special Ops used to be about capturing or killing enemies; now it's about shaping public opinion.

Barack Obama has a weak record in the Middle East, but one would not learn this from the debate, where Mitt Romney praised Obama's achievements ("It's wonderful that Libya seems to be making some progress"), agreed with Obama more than he disagreed, and rarely pointed out his failings. Presumably, Romney took this mild approach to establish his likability, competence, and suitability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force commander and former president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, actually won the presidential race by a narrow margin.

Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.

Secure Freedom Radio Originally published at Daniel Pipes

Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.

Both law enforcement, the media and elected officials are reluctant to give out information about the attackers' religion, much less their motives.

The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.

The point of having embassies in the first place is for them to remain open...

Erdoğan can be seen as the anti-Atatürk, the leader who seeks to undo substantial parts of his predecessor's legacy, especially Atatürk's rejection of Shari'a, or Islamic law.

By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.

The sort of reasoning going around in Turkey regarding the Israeli strike in Syria can quickly leave one with a sore head.

Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.

Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.

In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.

The Nation of Islam's historic role as a bridge between American blacks and Islam ended in 1975 when W. Deen Mohammed followed his father, Elijah Muhammad, as leader of the Nation and immediately disavowed his father's folk religion, bringing his followers to normative Islam, the Islam of the Middle East. From then on, despite the theatrics of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation has been in a long downward trajectory. Now comes evidence, thanks to Tony Ortega in the Village Voice and Eliza Gray in The New Republic, of a jaw-dropping turn by Farrakhan, 79, to Scientology; as Gray's subtitle puts it, "America's two weirdest sects join forces."

The 25-minute show was the most hare-brained and loony of my 35 years going on television.

What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.

The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment...

It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That's because news reports blare out what's not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate up 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent), biographical irrelevancies (claims that Romney outsourced jobs to other countries when at Bain Capital), and forgettable gaffes (Obama saying that "Voting is the best revenge"). This limited discussion misses the main points.

Middle East expert Daniel Pipes' thoughts on the Biden-Ryan debate.

Both Salafis and mild reformers have gained strength.

As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister