Different Views

The Israel - Hezbollah conflict should be enlightening to Americans and others who can't seem to understand the nature of the threat of radical Islam. Alas, I fear it is not.

It has recently been reported that the Department of Justice, headed by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is pressuring the CEO’s of the major Internet service providers to retain logs of their customers’ online activities.

With the "Hitler-like" rhetoric coming from Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his denial of the Jewish holocaust seems to have German chancellor Angela Merkel screaming for action.

New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton would seem to have the inside track to the Democratic nomination for 2008.

Former vice president Al Gore has gone on a global warming crusade with warnings of consequences so dire that it almost makes one want to hide under the bed.

With the Middle East gripped by another war in which the direct combatants are deliberately targetting each other's civilians and civilian infrastructure and mounting casualties, it is imperative that the violence be halted as soon as possible through resolve, courage, and fairness. My 7-Point Plan built upon these concepts along with needed U.N. reform are perhaps the best ways of accomplishing a lasting peace in which neighbors can live in peace and even friendship.

Whether the Bush presidencies should be called a dynasty is up for debate. What's probably not up for debate is likelihood that there would have been no Bush presidencies had it not been for the events of a cold night in Iowa back in the winter of 1980.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city of San Francisco is poised to become the first in the nation to offer universal health care to all residents regardless of income, immigration status or pre-existing medical conditions.

As the Muslim population continues to expand within Europe, concern from certain sectors of society has been growing.

This Independence Day, as we celebrate the founding of our nation, let us remember the things that set the United States apart from other nations, namely that we can tolerate dissent and protest, even if that protest is of a disgusting nature such as the desecration of the flag.

Now that al-Zarqawi is dead, the only thing the Dems can say was that his demise was "largely symbolic.

With the rise of an overtly belligerent foreign policy under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian regime has quickly made a carefully calculated move to project its virulent Islamic fundamentalist ideology to Muslim countries throughout the Middle East and beyond. If successful, this would have perilous repercussions for regional as well as global peace and security.

The recent debate between Michael Rubin and Iranian-Americans such as Jalal Arani and Dr. Ali Safavi, as well as Clare Lopez of the IPC, illustrate just how significant the Mujahedeen of Iran are in the Iranian puzzle and how urgently the US needs to get its policy house in order.

Who could have predicted that a few cartoons could cause such an uproar? Yet the controversy has something profound to teach us about the two-way connection between religious followers and their leader--be it Muhammad or Jesus Christ.

The Internal Revenue Service reported last week that $345 billion (not a misprint) in taxes owed for 2001 has not been collected. Not to worry, the report also indicates that IRS enforcement efforts will recover approximately $55 billion of this "tax gap."