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Now here comes a rollicking great read: Newt Gingrich’s latest in historical fiction. He continues his series on George Washington with Valley Forge. Here’s a excerpt from chapter 1, courtesy of the authors. Near Middle Ford of the Schuylkill River,

President Obama may have tried to give the impression that he understands the message America sent him on Tuesday, but you wouldn’t know it from his comments just hours ago about the START treaty. Many serious questions have been raised

With the appointment of Xi Jinping as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Military Commission (CMC), the People’s Liberation Army is gaining further clout in China. That’s the conclusion of this report by Willy Lam of the Jamestown Foundation.

So here’s a new twist for a terrorist defense: YouTube made me do it. In Great Britain Roshanara Choudhry has been jailed for attempting to murder Member of Parliament Stephen Timms. She attacked him with a knife, stabbing him in

Breaking news out of Israel, where a leading paper is reporting: “Hezbollah is planning to seize control of the Lebanese government if charged by International Court of Justice over the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, security sources in

This is good for our country and good for our foreign policy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is overseas as America elects a new Republican Congress–but she doesn’t trash the Tea Party or the newly elected members of the House

A big priority for the new Republican majority in the House will hopefully be to dramatically cut government spending. Welfare, waste, and corporate welfare are easy targets. But what about defense spending? Does it need to be cut too? Libertarians

In Massachusetts, perhaps only Massachusetts, local voters report from the 8th Suffolk Representative District that the following “Public Policy Question” #4 was on the ballot–even though it was never approved to appear on the ballot. “Shall the state representative from

With Republicans expected to take the House of Representatives, attention will soon be turning to who on Capitol Hill will be calling the shots on defense and foreign policy. Foreign Policy magazine offers a summary of who’s-who. An excerpt: Foreign

Terrorist groups are constantly probing, looking for soft spots. They don’t have the capability to fight western democracies head on, so they need to search for vulnerabilities. On September 11, 2001, they found in civilian airplanes when they used box-cutters

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Concludes that terrorist threat is unlikely to be an election issue. Do you agree? An excerpt: “Media reports that several suspicious packages were plucked from cargo planes today puts terrorism — or at least potential terrorism — on the front

The New York Times is reporting: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean troops fired two machine-gun bursts at a South Korean guard post across their heavily militarized border on Friday night, and soldiers from the South returned fire with three

and he will have a budget of more than $1 billion a year to work with, Melanie Phillips reports in The Spectator (UK). An excerpt: “People like myself who have warned for some years now about the steady Islamisation of

It used to be that America’s economic performance garnered us credibility with the rest of the world. But now the world is increasingly looking to China and other countries as a model for prosperity. The reason? America’s creative business leaders

Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports: “WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it had no problem with Iran sending bags of cash to President Hamid Karzai but hoped that this assistance would not have a ‘negative’ influence on Afghanistan.” There,

The U.S. Constitution makes a civilian, the President, our commander in chief. This is a good thing. But it also means that our civilian leaders often come up with some crazy, stupid, and dangerous ideas. Foreign Policy has come up

Dubai’s Khaleej Times reports: “Afghan President Hamid Karzai has admitted that his chief of staff received ‘bags of money’ from Iran but insisted the payment was transparent and a form of aid from a friendly country. Cash payments ‘are done

An analysis of Al-Qaeda propaganda to Muslims around the world signifies a change in their strategy toward the United States. As MEMRI reports: “Al-Qaeda is striving to place the responsibility for jihad in America upon the Muslim community in the

If you want to see an example of a naive reporter trying to cover the horrors of a totalitarian state, look no further than this recent dispatch from AP reporter Jean Lee who ventures into North Korea. The report offers

President Obama and the Democrats are in for a thumping in the forthcoming mid-term elections. The economy is in rough shape and people and furious at Washington’s power grab from health care to finance. So what is Obama to do?

France is ablaze with violent protests, Greece is broke, and the British government is going to lay off half a million workers. Missed from the headlines is the biggest casualty in all of this: the death of the “European model.”