The Lion's Den

Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.

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."

History and human nature say yes.

Unlike nearby Israel, which is also surrounded, Cyprus lacks either a military option or protective fences.

In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time

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

Other characteristically Muslim crimes taking place in Western countries include honor killings, female genital mutilation, and slave holding.

Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.

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

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

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.

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

Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.

"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."

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

Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.

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.

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

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

The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.

Dallas was a bastion of right-wing kooks with a vast legacy -- now, watch how this bastion gets blamed for the communist Oswald...

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."

If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.

Should the crackdown succeed in isolating, weakening, and destroying the Islamists, then others will replicate it elsewhere.

Both Salafis and mild reformers have gained strength.

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

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.

Surviving the strikes will permit Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.

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

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