According to Bill Gertz, there are as many Russian spies in the United States today as there were during the Cold War. A review of his new book, Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets–and How We Let It Happen.
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Both Castro and Pinochet were ruthless tyrants who were responsible for imprisoning, torturing and murdering those who disagreed with them. [...] The life and death of Jesus altered the course of history more than any other person who has ever lived. [...] When every ACLU lawyer who appears on TV to announce the latest attempt to remove Christian symbols and traditions from America seems to be Jewish, and when it’s a rabbi in Seattle who threatens a lawsuit if a menorah doesn’t take its place among the airport’s Christmas trees, it’s all too easy for Christians to [...] By any reasonable reading of the WTO rules, Chinese currency intervention is an export subsidy. The result is that a lot of blue collar workers are losing jobs in industries where the United States enjoys a comparative advantage. [...] Where a Maxwell Perkins could nurture, cajole, develop, and protect his stable of writers, publishers today have been forced to go in directions earlier editors and publishers might have thought untenable and inappropriate. [...] For all of those Enlightenment thinkers who owed so much to the foundation Descartes laid down for them in the new science – the new science that reduced man to mere matter — political order or the ontological ranking of things in the world could no longer be natural to man. [...] Wonder what future historians will say about the presidency of George W. Bush? It all depends on how far away you live from the blast zone. [...] How is it that Western power is so easily projected upon those it purportedly admires? What is the mechanism behind this cultural imperialism? A review of Roger Sandall's The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays and Gita Meta's Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East. [...] Muhammad Ali was the first to realize that, much like today’s entertainers, racism sells and, when combined with cartoon-like displays of narcissism, it sells like hotcakes. [...] As the details of his past are revealed, conservatives around the nation find it increasingly difficult to join the Mitt Romney camp. [...] George W. Bush might be accused of excessive idealism, incompetence, perhaps even criminal negligence. But he cannot be accused of doing nothing in the face of Saddam’s ongoing brutality, defiance of UN resolutions and horrific human rights record. [...] In the war of words against Israel, one series of charges is frequently made: The Jews close ranks to defend the Jewish state, even when Israel's conduct is indefensible. In so doing, they put their community allegiance above universal values. To get away with this inexcusable political stance, they silence critics through the powerful arm [...] While the Pope knew he would disappoint many Catholics and non-Catholics in the West for what appears as unnecessary humiliation and capitulation, he also knows that the West, given its rejection of Truth and Reason and its fixation with the ratiocination of modern science, is simply incapable of defeating Islam. [...] Move over, Mumia. City College of New York has named its student community room after cop-killer Assata Shakur, convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. [...] The patriarchy is apparently already trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. [...] Hate speech laws are an inevitable consequence of the embrace of hate crime laws. [...] The dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semetism is no longer a significant problem in society; it’s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. [...] The concern of modern liberals is the material well-being of its citizens; the conservative sees man’s ambition, his aim, his purpose as equally important. [...] With an elected Shiite-dominated government in control and the U.S. concentrating on the Sunni-led insurgency, Iran has used its influence inside of Iraq to undermine democratic institutions and step up sectarian violence. [...] This holiday travel season, Santa Claus is not the only one who is checking to see whether you’ve been naughty or nice. [...] To James Baker and Lee Hamilton, borders and discrimination based upon the geography of a man's birthplace appears to be the most irrational of ratiocinations possible. [...] FEMA's Individuals and Households Program (IHP) and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) purchase card program have resulted in significant fraud, waste, and abuse. [...] To those of us in the West, the idea of killing oneself for the purpose of killing others and doing so for the goal of driving them from one’s country, is utterly foreign to our moral and ethical values. It is, however, a very effective weapon of the weak. [...] The Baker – Hamilton Iraq Study Group’s recommendations are, in sum, delusional. [...] |
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