The price of oil plummeted once before and it can do so again — if we play our cards right. Do you think $140 a barrel is insane? Last week the president of OPEC Chakib Khelil predicted $170 a barrel by summer’s end. More sobering, this week the U.S. ...
How can we convince Saudi Arabia to pump more oil when it reaps the profits of pumping less? Speaking at a world conference summoned to discuss what to do about insane oil prices, Saudi King Abdullah went around the room telling representatives of 35 ...
Radical Islam is in conflict with America — and neither Barack Obama nor anyone else will change that. Muammar Qaddafi has scored so many loony tunes as Libyan despot that his recent musings about love and expectations from “our American Kenyan ...
Offensive comments by Bill Clinton recorded by a blogger - have inspired elite journalists to attack the presumably illegitimate amateurs encroaching on their turf. The “silly season” of journalism is a well-known phenomenon occurring in summer, when ...
Youssef Ibrahim, a risk consultant and the former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, says Gulf nations are trying to adapt to the flood of money pouring into their coffers. Some, like Saudi Arabia , are building new "economic cities" but ...
Is the debate among Islamists over violence a turning point in the War on Terror — or just another distraction? A fierce debate is brewing among jihadists, it seems. To hear pundits and the CIA boss describe it, the rupture is growing over ...
After decades of failing to reform Arab and Muslim societies, the U.S. should focus not on exporting democracy, but on bolstering it wherever it already thrives. Democracy may have been a paradigm once aspired to in the Arab-Muslim world, but the ...
Tired of political dynasties and beltway sleaziness? Then you should be worried that the Clintons still have even the smallest chance of returning to the White House. Saturday Night Live is on the money portraying the Clintons’ joint-presidency as a ...
Think America is fighting Islamists in Iraq and Afghanistan so we don't have to battle them here? Actually, we are fighting their poisonous ideology at home as well. In the very real war on terror, a nosy squabble over “fighting them there so we don’t ...
Self-delusion is reaching new heights as clueless Western elites defend Sharia, the "moderate" Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and "mild Islamism." Somewhere during Lawrence of Arabia’s blockbuster career, his bosses wondered if he was becoming “more Arab” ...
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