Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
As President Obama prepares to address a joint session of Congress on Thursday night about jobs, the stakes for American workers as well as his 2012 re-election are high. Yet, as millions of Americans remain unemployed, President Obama continues to
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Turkey’s Prime Minister seems intent on pressuring Israel in other ways, as well: Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,
07 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan American troops have been losing their britches in combat. Until now, I’ve never seen so many troops exposing their hardware in battle. Many warriors go “commando” into the fighting, meaning that in the name
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, J.D. Johannes, documentarian and correspondent of Outside the Wire, just returned from the Sulaiman Mountain Ridge in Afghanistan and gives fill-in host Jim Hanson the perspective of the war on the ground. From
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – Crates of mortar shells sit unguarded and empty boxes for missiles to blow up tanks and bring down airplanes are strewn about arms depots around the Libyan capital. Former rebels say they took some ammunition for
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank asks, in ten years after 9/11, where do we stand? “Basically we are still in 1942,” says Dr. Walid Phares. The Professor at the National Defense University discusses the state of America
US election season is clearly upon us as US President Barack Obama has moved into full campaign mode. Part and parcel of that mode is a new bid to woo Jewish voters and donors upset by Obama’s hostility to Israel
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Turkey threatens military confrontation with Israel in Mediterranean * Turkey’s Erdogan may be backing off on threat to visit Gaza * Germany’s political turmoil threatens Greece’s next bailout payment * Switzerland takes the
US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, kicked up a political storm this week. On Tuesday, Ros-Lehtinen introduced the United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act. If passed into law it would place stringent restrictions
So, where are we ten years after 9/11? It is comforting that we have been blessed with a near-unbroken decade without further mass-casualty attacks since those that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, our government is pursuing
Louis Farrakhan gave a speech where he denigrated U.S. troops and rationalized Muslim Nidal Hasan slaughtering soldiers and civilians. I waited a few days to write about this because I wanted to see if our public officials and leaders would
Once wasn’t enough, it seems. In 1999, Clinton sent his top guns to help bring down Bibi Netanyahu and get Ehud Barak elected. Now Stanly Greenberg is back trying to pull Netanyahu down again. With the signing of the Oslo
The fruit of our “compassionate support” for the “oppressed” Islamic peoples of the world is now starting to show. In the past two weeks, both the United States and France have reached out to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC)
Military.com reports what sounds like a good rules change this year. Let’s test their skills–not their equipment. Snipers from around the world will soon shoot against each other at Fort Benning, Ga., but this year they’ll have to leave their
Wife-battering imam of the Darul Quran Mosque in Munich, Sheikh Abu Adam, is the face of Germany’s Islamic “Justice .” Adam gave a lecture at the city’s Catholic University entitled “An Islam which distances itself from violence,” shortly before being
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Doubts escalate about the latest bailout of Greece * Friday’s IMF walkout shows deep rift with Greece * German constitutional court ruling expected to limit euro bailouts * Iceland’s former PM Geir Haarde
Sergeant TJ Vowell insists he’s seen the mysterious big cats of Kandahar many times. Recently, Sergeant Vowell got shot. 06 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan 4-4 Cav, Bravo Troop, 2nd Platoon 2nd Squad There is much talk
While researching my forthcoming book, “Sharia Versus Freedom–The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism,” I discovered the work of an iconic contemporary Ismaili Muslim intellectual, Asaf A. A. Fyzee. As a law professor consummately trained in Western methods of research, he guided
The Center for American Progress (CAP) recently released a report demonizing conservatives and others on the political Right for standing for truth and freedom. Several outlets, including the Center for Security Policy, have reviewed the report and defended those who
I once had a conversation with a prominent and influential New Left-era individual about what the possible roots of our vast ideological differences between the two of us. I reasoned that my conservatism is more then anything else a product
“Parents of children at an elementary school in Colorado are furious after the American flag was lowered at the multi-cultural school and replaced with a Saudi Arabian flag. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, someone at Bauder Elementary School
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When is Ramadan? The Muslim world determines this by astronomy. Now some believe that the star-gazers got it wrong. “The Muslim world is in turmoil over the possibility that it may have misread the skies and mistaken Saturn for the
The Obama administration’s collaboration with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in combating “Islamophobia” may soon “result in the delegitimization of freedom of expression as a human right,” Hudson Institute scholar Nina Sheawrites at National Review Online. In March, the
Just this once, I want to respond to the anti-Israel obsessed idiot who does nothing but troll the comments section with his/her nonsense. From Bibi Netanyahu’s 5/23/2011 AIPAC speech: “I know these are tough economic times. So I want to
