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.

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 …

How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws  —  Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.

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.”

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 …

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.

Will the Obama coalition survive?  —  The coalition of voters that twice elected President Obama to the White House might not be there for the Democratic nominee in 2016, party strategists are warning.  —  Following their disastrous showing at the polls this month, many Democrats …

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.

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.

‘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.

As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37%  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.

The Progressives' War on Suburbia  —  Obama and the Democrats have embraced the argument that suburbs and sprawl are bad for you.  As the last election demonstrated, this is no way to get elected.  —  You are a political party, and you want to secure the electoral majority.