Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Nuaimi, recently announced that he expected the price of oil to remain at unconscionably high levels of between $40 and $50 per barrel through 2005. Ironically, every American should be grateful. Friends Like These Such gratitude is not, of course, due the Saudis – who, we are endlessly told, are …
From the Editor’s Desk In October 2003, the government of Kano State in Nigeria stopped an ongoing polio vaccination program and did not allow it to resume until August 2004. As a result, a polio epidemic which originated in Kanohas now spread to 22 African countries, including ten who had been previously free of the …
Intrigue surrounding the disappearance of 377 tons of explosives from the al-Qaqaa facility in Iraq seems to be deepening, while preliminary reports that the material was lost due to American negligence appear to be among the least likely of explanations. As initially suggested to the public by the New York Times, large quantities of powerful …
Readers may recall a troubling warning issued on FrontPageMagazine.com last November by David Horowitz and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. (an editorial entitled "Why We Are Publishing This Article" that accompanied a long essay entitled "A Troubling Influence"). What made the warning so troubling was not just that its subject — a political influence operation being …
This article appeared originally at Front Page Magazine with the following statement from David Horowitz: Why We Are Publishing This Article The article you are about to read is the most disturbing that we at frontpagemag.com have ever published. As an Internet magazine, with a wide circulation, we have been in the forefront of …
(Washington, D.C.): Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last weeks massive, cascading electrical blackout was a wake-up call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster. The question occurs, however: Exactly to what is it that we …
(Washington, D.C.): Leading Democrats have served notice: They intend to run to the right of President Bush in the run-up to the 2004 elections by assailing him for failing to do enough to protect the homeland against future terrorist attacks. This would be an obvious political play. After all, the likelihood that there will be …
(Washington, D.C.): On 24 September 2002, the Center for Security Policy, the Heritage Foundation and the Potomac Institute co-hosted a most timely and topical Roundtable Discussion on the subject of “The V-22: Exemplar of Transformation or Its Next Casualty?” The Roundtable featured remarks by a number of those most immediately involved in determining the answer …
(Washington, D.C.): In the aftermath of the report by a Blue-Ribbon Commission asked by the Defense Department to evaluate the V-22 Osprey program, the Center for Security Policy brought together on 22 May more than 120 senior military officers, a leading Member of Congress and congressional staffers, policy and industry professionals to consider the case …
(Washington, D.C.): What the Wall Street Journal in today’s editions calls “morning- after realism” cannot set in too fast in light of the giddy response with which yesterday’s U.S.-Chinese trade agreement is being greeted. In fact, the promises being made about this agreement — for widespread opening of the PRC’s markets and extraordinary new business …