February 24, 2018

The Trump Factor and the Pashtuns

On February 6, 2018, the New York Times published a piece about social unrest by Pashtuns in Pakistan.  It gave some background on how the Pakistanis have been perpetrating human rights abuses against the Pashtuns for decades....

December 24, 2017

One single pro-US, pro-Israel Pakistani stands up against his countrymen

Earlier this month, the Pakistani National Assembly (N.A.) slavishly followed suit with most of the Muslim world and the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly in condemning United States president Donald Trump's declaration that recognized Jerus...

January 25, 2017

Brexit at bay

The expressed will of the voters in the United Kingdom has been put on hold.  On June 23, 2016, the British people stunned experts and the political establishment when they voted to leave the European Union, an act popularly dubbed Brexit. ...

March 23, 2016

ISIS has set up shop in India

In November, I asked if ISIS was establishing itself in South Asia and suggested that we will face severe consequences if we ignore this “possibly game-changing threat.” Having just returned from almost a month in South Asia, I can say co...

November 11, 2015

Is ISIS in South Asia?

Most of the focus on ISIS is in the Middle East, where its worst atrocities occur and where it has seized territory the size of Austria.  At this point, the extent of an ISIS presence in South Asia is unclear.  Area intelligence agencies in...

February 15, 2015

Indians call Obama 'Sanctimonious'

It was too good to be true. India’s Prime Minister and leader of the Indian right, and the most leftist US President in history seemed to be getting along.  Then on January 27, the final day of his three-day Indian trip, President Obama sp...

February 11, 2015

Out of Desperation, Indian Leftists Uniting?

Last Spring, India’s Gandhi-Nehru dynasty suffered its worst reversal in history.  Its ruling Congress Party, which has governed India for all but a few years of the country’s 67 year history, went from 206 seats to only 44 in the 54...

August 27, 2014

More hypocrisy from the Obama administration

In the August 27, 2014 edition of “Foreign Policy,” Gordon Lubold and Nathaniel Sobel have a piece about ongoing Islamist attempts to trade hostages for imprisoned terrorist Aafia Siddiqui.  She is currently in a Texas prison for att...

June 1, 2014

India's Modi carries out pledge to downsize government

In office only five days, India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is already showing people how a small government, conservative head of state acts.  Without even touching his people’s services or their quality, he began on his very...

May 19, 2014

India's New Prime Minister Bodes well for us

Since Friday when India’s election results were announced, pundits worldwide have been trying to tell us what should make of the landslide victory that made Narendra Modi Prime Minister (PM).  Most of it, however, is punditry through Googl...

May 10, 2014

Chicago suburb tells feds to keep their money -- and their regulations

A school district in Chicago’s northwest suburbs is quitting the National School Lunch Program over new regulations championed by first lady Michelle Obama.  The so-called Smart Snacks in School policy, set to take effect on July 1, is the...

May 7, 2014

Muslim Illegal Immigration in India Sparks Violent Resistance

India’s troops poured into violence-torn areas of India’s far northeastern state of Assam after several days of inter-communal violence left 32 dead and hundreds fleeing their homes.  By Monday morning calm was restored; relatives be...

May 1, 2014

India's Impending Conservative Victory

Few Americans are aware of the potentially earth-shaking events currently unfolding in India.  The left-center Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has ruled India for all but eight of its 67 years of national existence, is about to be voted out of power...

May 9, 2012

Michael Scheuer Peddling Nonsense

Listeners to Chicago's WLS Tuesday morning might have been shocked by comments from 22 year CIA veteran Michael Scheuer, had they not followed his sycophantic ramblings as a Ron Paul acolyte.  Discarding analysis for cant, he insisted on at leas...

March 9, 2011

What Do They Fear From Peter King?

I was educated as a social scientist; and as a social scientist, learned that if I wanted to understand a phenomenon and recognized a variable common to many examples of it, I would be remiss if I did not investigate it.  It would be foolhardy t...

March 3, 2011

Jihad Has Come to India

Jihad has come to India.  The Obama administration and the State Department will tell you that it is nothing more than isolated acts by individuals.  The government in New Delhi will say you are stirring up anti-Muslim sentiment.  The ...

September 17, 2010

All Factions Need to Heed lessons from Delaware

There was a great deal of concern expressed earlier this week about reports that Delaware and national Republican leaders would not support GOP Senate nominee, Christine O'Donnell.  Fortunately, it seems that most of the Republican establishment...

August 14, 2010

Illinois Democrats Dare Jews to vote Republican

Citing "prior commitments," Democrat candidate for the US Senate from Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias, abruptly backed out of a debate with his Republican opponent about Israel and the Middle East.  Curious though, "Giannoulias, his R...

June 20, 2010

World silent as 12 Kurds die in Turkish bombings

Turkish forces carried out a deadly attack on Kurdish freedom fighters who have been trying to end Turkey's occupation of their ancestral homeland. "Turkish warplanes pounded" the region, according to The New York Times News Service,"...

February 14, 2010

American Islamist Headley reportedly cased sites for India terror attack

An Islamist terrorist struck India today, bringing death and destruction in the western city of Pune, a financial hub 58 miles from Mumbai.  According to the Indian Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), which has taken charge of the case, terrorists left an ...

February 13, 2010

Another Victory for Strength over Appeasement

When Islamists attacked Mumbai, India's New York, many people called it that country's 9/11.  Although it certainly was the most high profile attack, it was far from the first in this country of over a billion people.  India faces terrorist...

February 13, 2010

Pakistan agrees to talk, sort of

Pakistan has agreed to hold talks with India -- sort of.  The office of Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani released the following statement.  "It was decided that foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries would ...

February 8, 2010

Pakistan cancels talks with India on Mumbai, Kashmir

"Pakistan Shows its True Colours," screamed angry headlines here this morning after Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi abruptly and defiantly refused to schedule talks with India about the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mum...

June 12, 2009

Obama's Address to Muslims misses the Point

When President Barack Obama made his long-awaited speech to the Muslim world on June 4, he was excruciatingly careful to demonize those Muslims he termed "violent extremists" and praise other practitioners of Islam.  While the distinct...

March 28, 2009

Obama Afghan-Pakistan Policy Already Unraveling

DELHI, INDIA,  United States President Barack Hussein Obama unveiled his much awaited South Asian strategy in a globally televised speech last night (Indian time).  Today many Indians told me, as one put it, that Obama "lived up to his...

March 14, 2009

Obama's futile search for 'moderate radicals'

The words we use are important, and each has its own specific meaning.  So when the Obama Administration said that it was open to dealing with "moderate Taliban," people should ask what in the world it means.  The Taliban is by de...

November 17, 2008

Barack O'Bama and the Luck of the Irish

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama from relative obscurity to the United States Presidency in a brief four years is a political phenomenon unlikely to be repeated in our time.  We can attribute Obama's success to his oratorical skills, a seasoned...

September 19, 2008

Our Allies Want McCain

The Obama campaign and Democrats in general point to the cheering European crowds that greeted their presidential nominee, Barack Obama, as evidence that he would “win back” the admiration and cooperation of world opinion.  They coul...

May 31, 2008

Indian Conservatives Struggle to Build Alternative Media

Amitabh Tripathi is convinced his nation of India is under attack; so he did something few people are willing to do.  He abandoned a promising freelance career with India's mainstream media (MSM), so he could he could write openly as a conservat...

March 24, 2008

Barack Obama Would Let Shoaib Choudhury Die

Like everyone else, I have my own political principles and beliefs; and I feel very strongly about them.  But when I began fighting for anti-Islamist Muslim journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury [see AT Sunday edition], I knew that I could no...

March 23, 2008

The Man Islamists Cannot Silence

He fired the first salvo in 2003 and has been sticking his thumb in Islamist eyes ever since.  Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury describes himself as a "Muslim Zionist."  He is unabashedly pro-US, pro-Israel, and...