Politics & Rights

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending May 15, 2011 A Congressional Resolution Regarding Iran—and Some Marked Suggestions for Improvement Syria: Iran’s Best Friend and Critical Crutch Bin Laden Had Nothing on the Muslim Brotherhood Obama’s Chicago-Style Campaign Tactics Boehner Vows Big Cuts, Rules Out Tax Hikes: We…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending May 8, 2011 Note: Due to a scheduling conflict, the publication day of WiR has been changed from Sunday to Monday. One Islamist Fed to Sharks, a Few Islamist Regimes to Go The Keystone-Cops Administration Navy SEALs: Gods among Men The…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 24, 2011 The Syrian Rebels’ Efforts and America’s Self-Interest Will Libya be Obama’s Vietnam? Phantom Federal Budget “Cuts” Peter Schiff: S&P Late to The Party . . . Once Again The United Nations “Climate Refugee” Prediction . . . D’oh! 1. The Syrian Rebels’…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 17, 2011 1. Atlas Shrugged Opens in Theaters Across America A movie version of Ayn Rand’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged opened in more than 300 theatres last Friday and is receiving a great deal of attention, positive and negative. Sales of…

The Green Movement in Iran, which arose in 2009 when the regime rigged the presidential “elections” to keep Ahmadinejad in place, has been struggling—with no moral support from the Obama administration—to free the Iranian people from the religious dictatorship that oppresses them. Because the Iranian regime is the main state…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 10, 2011 1. The Budget Showdown The top story of the week is that Republicans in Congress—having been elected in large part on their promise to cut this year’s federal spending by $100 billion—and having then retreated to $61 billion—finally…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 3, 2011 1. Islamist Fantasies toward Future Atrocities FrontPage Magazine reports that the Iranian government has produced a “documentary” claiming that “Ayatollah Khamenei, President Ahmadinejad, and Hassan Nasrallah are talked about in Islamic prophecy as leaders who will wage war…

With a showdown over the budget looming, The Tea Party has one clear message to the GOP: "Cut it or shut it." As the Washington Times reports: [H]undreds of tea partyers gathered across the street from the Capitol for a “Continuing Revolution” rally, sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots, where…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending March 27, 2011 1. Crappy Birthday, ObamaCare On the anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare, Pete Du Pont provides a summary of the political and economic havoc the law has wreaked and will wreak, and he calls for its repeal. Unfortunately,…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending March 20, 2011 Another Selfless War… The biggest news item of the past week is that the Obama administration has entered the United States into yet another selfless war, this one with Libya. The administration has done so not with the…