The French press agency headline says it all: "Egypt's [President] Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh." Mursi has issued a decree giving himself virtually dictatorial powers and contradicting the assumption that he—and his Muslim Brotherhood organization—intend to rule democratically. Opposition forces said this constituted a coup. Mursi's spokesman explained...

  On the morning of June 24th, author, blogger, speaker, executive director, and co-founder with Robert Spencer of Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), Pamela Geller was denied her First Amendment Constitutional right of freedom of speech byThe Jewish Federation of Los Angeles – just hours before she was scheduled to speak at an event organized by the Zionist Organization of America –...

  In a provocative and well executed article in the July/August issue of the National Interest, "The Fading Arab Oil Empire," Paul D. Miller, assistant professor of international-security studies at the National Defense University, argues: The geostrategic importance of the Middle East is vastly overblown. The region matters to the United States chiefly because of...

  Above all, there is outright slavery. The dirty little secret is finally out. Even Robert Fisk, whose anti-Israeli credentials endear him to critics of the Jewish state, wrote in an article in The Independent, on May 7, 2012, of the pious silence by the politicians, prelates, and businessmen of Arab countries about the treatment of Asian domestic servants, and discrimination...

  Eight months after Muammar Qaddafi's overthrow, journalists seeking wars in Libya have to journey deep into the Sahara and beyond the horizons of most Libyans to find them. A senior official of Libya's temporary ruling body, the National Transitional Council (NTC), flippantly waved away an invitation to leave his residence at the Rixos, Qaddafi's palatial Tripoli hotel, to join a...