British medical student ‘in Jihadi beheading video’: 20-year-old ‘appears next to Jihadi John’ in sickening film  —  A UK medical student was last night suspected of being in an Islamic State killing squad that murdered 17 hostages.  —  The father of Nasser Muthana said the 20-year-old appeared …

Delusions of the Democrats  —  DEMOGRAPHICS is not enough.  —  For years now, it's been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country's changing demographic mix.  The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos …

Partisanship Breaks the Government  —  This could be a rather heated winter.  All three branches of government are on course to collide over partisan politics, constitutional authority and scope of power, particularly as vested in the executive branch.  —  The president has wasted no time moving beyond the Democrats' midterm defeats.

Before the Beheadings  —  Remembering a time when Islamist extremists wanted to persuade reporters, not kill them  —  In the spring of 2000, I lived for a month in a Taliban madrasa, a religious seminary, located on the Grand Trunk Road outside of Peshawar, in Pakistan.

Romney says there are ‘more productive ways’ to fight Obama than shutdown  —  Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said Sunday that there are “more productive ways” to fight President Obama's immigration executive actions than shutting down the government.

GOP leaders set sights on tax reform but fret over newly combative Obama  —  Less than two weeks after Republicans won control of Congress, acrimony over immigration is dampening hopes for cooperation on more ambitious initiatives, with President Obama and GOP lawmakers bracing not for compromise but for combat.

SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare [VIDEO]  —  President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

‘Saudi prince paid for 9/11 pilots to learn to fly’: Incredible claims of ‘20th hijacker’ serving life in prison for terrorism as he asks to testify again in court and reveal all  —  A jihadist serving life in prison on terror charges brought in the wake of 9/11 has claimed the Saudi Arabian royal family helped finance the plot.

STATE DEPT COMPUTERS HACKED, EMAIL SHUT DOWN  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack.  —  A senior department official said Sunday that …

Dr Matt Taylor's shirt made me cry, too - with rage at his abusers  —  An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph  —  The other day the brilliant space scientist Dr Matt Taylor was asked to give a report on the progress of Philae …

The wacky economics of Germany's parallel universe  —  The Council of Economic Experts says nothing about investment.  It wants Merkel to be tougher  —  German economists roughly fall into two groups: those that have not read Keynes, and those that have not understood Keynes.

When Government Succeeds  —  The great American Ebola freakout of 2014 seems to be over.  The disease is still ravaging Africa, and as with any epidemic, there's always a risk of a renewed outbreak.  But there haven't been any new U.S. cases for a while, and popular anxiety is fading fast.