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Fall Out From Bin Laden Troubles Relations With Pakistan

Even as Massachusetts Senator John Kerry was on his way to Islamabad on a mission to mend deteriorating relationships between the United States...

Jack Kenny May 15, 2011

China Continues Totalitarians’ Historic Oppression of Christians

Bruce Walker May 15, 2011

Every incarnation of totalitarianism must eventually war with Christianity. Sometimes this is simply outright persecution of any type of Christianity. More often, though,...

Canadian Judge Reveals Bias Against Homeschooling

Raven Clabough May 13, 2011

Judges across the world have proven to be enemies to the institution of homeschooling, and Judge Nicole Bernier of Québec, Canada, is no...

West Bengal Set to Vote Out Communists

Bruce Walker May 13, 2011

Communism is, by any sensible standard, the worst theory of government in modern history. However, its slavish supporters — refusing to accept that...

Greece is Out of Options

Bob Adelmann May 12, 2011

Writers for The Wall Street Journal’s lead article on Tuesday expressed surprise that Greece’s fiscal problems are “coming to the boil once...

Appeal for “Kidnapped” Swedish Homeschooler Draws Supporters

Alex Newman May 11, 2011

As the now-infamous case of Swedish homeschooler Domenic Johansson (at left, with his parents) — seized by authorities because of homeschooling almost two...

Muslim Mob Kills 12 Christians in Attack on Church in Egypt

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. May 11, 2011

Essam Sharaf, Egypt's prime minister since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak on March 3, 2011, convened an emergency cabinet meeting after 12 people...

Merkel Could Face Prison for Cheering “Criminal” bin Laden Hit

Alex Newman May 10, 2011

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the subject of a criminal complaint after commenting publicly that she was “glad” Osama bin Laden had been...

Greek Tragedy: EU Mulls Another Bailout of Greece

Bruce Walker May 10, 2011

There seems no end to the Greek tragedy unfolding within the European Union. One year after a staggering €110-billion ($160-billion) bailout by the...

Brits Reject Change in Voting System

Bruce Walker May 9, 2011

Opinions differ widely among nations as to which voting system is best: the American arrangement wherein two-parties are dominant or the multi-party system in...

EU Considers Stiffening Border Controls

R. Cort Kirkwood May 9, 2011

Europe's open borders insanity may finally be coming to an end. Last week, a commission of the European Union proposed allowing union members...

India Lets Its Daughters Die

Bruce Walker May 5, 2011

One of the great ironies of the feminist movement is that it stiffly maintains that the Judeo-Christian moral and theological traditions are a...

Drug Cartel Kidnaps 11 Mexican Police Officers

James Heiser May 5, 2011

Less than a month after Mexico’s highest-ranking law-enforcement official declared it would be at least four more years before drug violence begins to...

Will Portuguese Bailout Unravel the EU?

Bruce Walker May 5, 2011

The bailouts of the four "PIGS" countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) continues apace within the European Union. Only days after grim news...