The impetus to republish this 8 July 2005 piece comes on Sunni and Shi'a Islam comes from this, in the Times: The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid …
The Declaration of Independence: Our Foundational Document
In the early 1990's my wife and I had the pleasure of being on tour in the old Soviet Union with John Brabner-Smith, founding dean of the International School of Law at George Mason University, along with his wife Daniela. (The pleasure was being with the Brabner-Smiths; the Soviet Union was another story, but we …
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Tribute to the Heroes of Honduras
More from Miguel Alvarez: The Untold Story: Zelaya’s Agenda for Honduras
A follow-up to his article yesterday on this subject. Overview About the people. The people would give him absolute powers over the nation. The poor are the majority and have a very poor memory. He had to inject in them a sense of hopelessness, accuse the past and democracy of evildoing. He would have to …
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Triumph of Democracy in Honduras: Statement from Rev. Miguel Alvarez
I wanted an insider's view of this situation. I got one: this from Rev. Miguel Alvarez, a native of Honduras and the current Administrative Bishop of the Northeastern Hispanic Region of the Church of God. (He's also a good friend and a great guy.) From his Facebook note: Beloved friends, I write this note from …
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Is the Republican List of Presidential Candidates Really Shrinking, and Do They All Have to Go to Old Ivy?
Fox News thinks so: The Grand Old Party's 2012 presidential pool isn't looking so grand these days. Add Nevada Sen. John Ensign's and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's extramarital affairs to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's unconvincing TV speech and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's family dramas, and the Republican presidential herd is thinning fast -- leaving …
Making Capital Flight Harder: The Banana Republic Marches On
Yes, it does: Section 7874 was enacted to foreclose many tax benefits from the transfer of a U.S. corporate business to a foreign corporation or the insertion of a foreign holding company as owner of U.S. corporations. The rules also apply to similar partnership transfers. Two different sets of rules apply, depending on the percentage …
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To Do The Work
Originally posted March 2006. This issue has cost the Republican Party dearly, perhaps fatally. Had conservatives realised the reality of what they were defending, they might have taken a different view. Then again perhaps not... It wasn't so long after the first English settlers came to Jamestown, VA, that black slaves were forcibly brought from …
Public Education: A Christian Perspective
This article was originally published in the Winter 1990 issue of the National Forum of the Phi Kappa Phi honour fraternity. Â It was considerably reduced for publication; below is the complete text of the article. The subsequent history of the article is documented in a two-part series (Part I and Part II.)Â Also of …
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It Still Pays to be a Foreigner. Literally.
Back in April, I noted that the IRS, in a private letter ruling, had certain exemption from the tax code's excess compensation limits. (No, people, the concept of the government deciding what is excess compensation is nothing new.) Chuck Rubin, whose tax blog is great, reports that the IRS, in a different part of the …
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