Diana West

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Piracy on the high seas and on U.S. soil

The State department's silence about the Somali community

Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008

“What is up with Somalia?” I say this given the disjointed but unmistakable prominence of Somalis in recent news. Or, rather, in what would have been recent news, maybe, if the media weren't preoccupied with more weighty stories such as which Washington private school the Obama girls will attend next semester.

WEST: Obama is a man, not a cultural judgment

Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008

If we really inhabited a "post-racial" world, the news of the week would be that a Democrat has won the White House. But since we don't inhabit such a world, there is much more to the news, even more than that an African-American, far-left Democrat has won the White House.

WEST: Obama's Muslim outreach?

More questions about Obama's radical politics

Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008

Colin Powell got all the airtime, sure, but his isn't the only Barack Obama endorsement worth talking about lately. There was Ali Larijani, for example, the Hezbollah- and Hamas-supporting speaker of Iran's parliament, who voiced Iran's preference for a “more flexible and rational” Obama over John McCain, not that he got what you could call a media roll-out. Nor did America's own anti-white, anti-Jewish Louis Farrakhan, who recently heralded an Obama presidency as the coming age of the “the Messiah.” There was a newsflash for fluffy-con endorsements at home and abroad, arcing and sputtering on a thin mix of elitism and naivete, but virtually no one seems to have noticed an Obama endorsement that came in from the National Association of Muslim American Women (NAMAW).

We interrupt this election

Imagine the tables turned on Obama

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008

We interrupt regular column writing to... imagine John McCain ahead in the polls.

WEST: Real reasons ignored

Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008

The conventional wisdom is that the economic crisis is the reason Sen. Barack Obama is up in the polls. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Not about Obama being up in the polls, of course, but about why that is so.

European 'democracy'

Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008

I have been all but transfixed by events unfolding in Cologne, Germany. With the unabashed fascination of the rubbernecker, I have watched in horror, combing online foreign press reports and a few favorite blogs (Brussels Journal, Gates of Vienna, Atlas Shrugs), as local authorities yielded their charge of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly indeed, yielded civic space and civic peace to a lawless band of violent leftists, who, in their weekend stint of mob rule, successfully prevented a political rally against the Islamization of Europe from taking place.

WEST: Creeping Islamization in Europe

Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008

With Wall Street convulsing, and the White House race intensifying, the question “Who lost Europe” is on no one's lips, let alone minds. Indeed, the question begs another, "Is Europe lost?" The answer to the second question is, "No, not yet." And losing Europe, I would add, is by no means inevitable.

WEST: Media wars

Hard on Palin, soft on Obama

Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008

Alas, we have just passed another marker on the way down. That's "we" as in "We, the people," and that's "down" as in "glug, glug." This marker will stand as a testament to the savage zeal with which our mainstream media gentlemen (hah) and gentlewomen (double hah) of the Fourth Estate, cosseted darlings of the Free World standing ever-vigilant to ensure that truth will out (hah hah hah), have sunk their teeth into the Palin family.

WEST: Obama the great

Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008

The star of the Democratic National Convention wasn't Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hillary's husband, certainly not Joe Biden or even Barack Obama. The single-most riveting presence at the Democratic gathering possibly the entire Democratic political season was that kooky-bizarro set with the faux-marble columns straddling the 50-yard line of Invesco Field in Denver. In this veritable neo-Graeco-Roman-Graceland temple, the Anointed One became the Nominated One.