Although there are far too few voices of reason in the Islamic world, there are those who do have the courage to speak out against the violence being perpetrated in the...

Ronald Reagan was a leader for the ages. A man who stood for principle and brought the nation to his side when most establishment-types dismissed him as a has-been...

Kuwaiti women will be able to obtain their own passport without the consent of their husbands, following a ruling by the country’s constitutional court.

A soul who always carried the vision of a unified nation, an individual who left the British baffled by his display of non violence and someone who initiated the...

I just came back from a journey abroad. My travels took me to two continents. But it was one question that followed me all through: what happened to America? Those...

The is no more legendary an investor than Warren Buffet. Buffet started life as a simply newspaper boy and grew to manage the most successful [in terms of returns]...

No one man did more to popularize the ideals of libertarianism than Milton Friedman. A distinguished Noble laureate, Friedman was an economist by training and quickly...

Anyone even remotely familiar with Saudi Arabia knows the country to be a staunchly and awfully conservative Kingdom where a clerical elite negates every aspect of...

President Obama finds himself in a bit of a bind when it comes to Iran. And the dilemma he faces is not unlike that faced by many policy makers when it comes to the...

Welcome to the Chez Israel where watching T.V. is prohibited, where plates need to be buried and sex only to be had through a sheet. These are some of the novelties...

Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...

In its report on censorship in the Arab world, it is not surprising that the repressive rule of Ben Ali in Tunisia was singled out for dishonorable mention by the...

When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that...

There exist many kinds of freedom that is because like many other terms, freedom is an ambiguous word which means it can and often is defined by each of us as we so...

There is no good dictator and there never was a good dictator, perhaps, some dictator was more benevolent than was another dictator but the, fact of the matter was and...

In today’s world parents always claim that they have given EXTRA freedom or the right to decide things in their life. I would certainly not agree to this notion....

I am a Zimbabwean. Yes - I may have been born in the United Kingdom, but I was but an infant when my family left to live in (then) Rhodesia. I grew up in Africa, have a...

With the recent courageous, albeit incoherent, youthful protests in Moldova against the Communist government, the free world should stand with the opposition. [The...

This is the year, it seems, of mock elections in the Meghreb. First on the list is Algeria, which is scheduled to hold a presidential vote a few days from now on...

The exception that as Tunisian President Ben Ali sought a third term the autocratic regime would be more inclined toward human rights because Tunisia has greatly...