
Andreas Lubitz, copilot on Germanwings flight 9525, waited until his captain left the cockpit, then deliberately locked the door and changed the code. Once that was done, he cold-heartedly programmed the plane into a steep descent. After that, he breathed easy.
by Sam Sorbo3 Apr 2015, 9:14 PM PST0

Immediately after Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif announced that all sanctions that were previously imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran would be “terminated,” thousands of Iranians took to the streets to celebrate what they perceived to be a victory for the ages.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Apr 2015, 8:56 PM PST0

Army soldiers at Fort Gordon, GA, were inappropriately shown a slide about “white privilege” during a diversity training briefing, according to an Army spokeswoman.
by Edwin Mora3 Apr 2015, 5:29 PM PST0

The long-gestating Greek financial meltdown looks to be getting underway, as the socialist government makes a few final efforts to scare Europe into giving them more money and lays plans to nationalize the banks as they begin dropping out of the Eurozone.
by John Hayward3 Apr 2015, 3:43 PM PST0

The French delegation in Switzerland felt the outline for a nuclear deal with Iran was “not solid enough,” and wanted to improve upon the deal before signing off on the accord, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio on Friday.
by Jordan Schachtel3 Apr 2015, 11:38 AM PST0

Another day in the Islamist paradise created by ISIS, as women in the captive city of Mosul find themselves surrounded by billboards announcing the body-bag look is the hot new summer fashion, it’ll be in style forever, and fashion crimes will be punished.
by John Hayward3 Apr 2015, 11:01 AM PST0

Kurdish and Iraqi forces drove out the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants from Jalawla, which is 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, on November 23, 2014. While it should be a joyous occasion, residents cannot enter because a fight over the town is brewing between the victors.
by Mary Chastain3 Apr 2015, 10:34 AM PST0

The Vatican is offering a course on exorcism—or casting out demons—this April to teach priests and laypeople how to recognize and fight demonic possession.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Apr 2015, 9:50 AM PST0

One of the details investigators of the Germanwings crash have been trying to nail down is whether co-pilot Andreas Lubitz planned his mass murder/suicide in advance or made a spontaneous decision to bring the plane down.
by John Hayward3 Apr 2015, 9:42 AM PST0

Turkish authorities arrested ten Westerners and four Russians who attempted to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain3 Apr 2015, 9:27 AM PST0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his cabinet on Friday, who unanimously opposed the framework Iran deal reached Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland, and said that any final deal must include Iran’s recognition of Israel.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Apr 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

In the wake of the Iran “framework” agreement Thursday, President Barack Obama celebrated–but the Iranian regime pushed for more concessions, disputing the White House’s “fact sheet” on the deal and insisting the parties had agreed to end sanctions immediately. Iran’s reaction was a clear sign that between now and the end of June, an already-bad deal is going to get worse as the Iranians see just how much Obama wants an agreement, and use that to make new demands.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Apr 2015, 6:41 AM PST0

According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the majority of Americans have a favorable impression of Pope Francis.
by William Bigelow3 Apr 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

Left-wing Israeli writer Ari Shavit, an ardent advocate of Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, has blasted President Barack Obama’s “framework” deal with Iran, saying that Obama is making the same mistakes for peace that George W. Bush made for war. Just as Bush launched an invasion of Iraq with no clear idea of the strategic consequences, Shavit says, Obama does not realize the deadly results of a bad deal with Iran, including a nuclear Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Apr 2015, 6:19 AM PST0

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world and, if current trends continue, will pass Christianity somewhere in the middle of this century, before going on to become the world’s dominant religion by 2070.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Apr 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

The ambulances come and go through the gates of Garissa University College, as townspeople strain from a distance to see what’s going on.
by Breitbart News3 Apr 2015, 6:01 AM PST0

Al-Shabaab kills 147 mostly Christian students in Kenya school; Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Killing Jesus’ and 1960s-style activism
by John J. Xenakis3 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Several years ago, two professors co-wrote a book, The Israel Lobby, that repackaged Zionist conspiracy theories in the respectable garb of academic prose. The authors, Stephen M. Walt of Harvard and John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, claimed that Israel, through its network of American supporters, pushed the U.S. to go to war with Iraq and were about to do the same with Iran. On Thursday, President Barack Obama gave his endorsement to that theory.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0