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.
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Mark Steyn previews his latest book After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. A follow up to his best-selling book America Alone, Steyn now explains the existential threat that entitlements and globalization pose to
On August 5th Cuba’s Stalinist regime upheld their sentence of 15 years for U.S. citizen Alan Gross, a contractor for USAID jailed in Cuba since December 3rd, 2009 for bringing cell-phone and internet equipment into Castro’s fiefdom. Mr Gross was
The mainstream media has begun to notice the millions of Americans concerned with the anti-Constitutional character of Shariah, or Islamic law. Predictably, they’re intent on smearing these people, and cooking up sinister Koch Brothers-like figures they intimate are pulling the
For the past few months President Obama has called for massive taxes on the US oil industry and to eliminate oil industry tax breaks. It is self evident that President Obama has no idea what are the consequences of such
Actually, that was the position of New York Times columnist Gail Collins in November 2008 concerning President George W. Bush. The economic situation was so bad, she wanted Bush to resign and step aside so that the economic problems could
Times of London photo: Admiral William McRaven on Nanawate Day, 2010 — From the St Pete Times: Just days after 30 U.S. troops, including 22 Navy SEALs, died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, Adm. William McRaven took
Not too many of us… The answer, in short, is not very often. As Foreign Policy points out today, as of 2009 only 6,868 cops in all of England and Wales are even authorized to carry guns. Within London’s Metropolitan
The common everyday U.S. citizen will likely never be able to make sense of this weekend’s devastating loss of some of America’s finest military warfighters in Afghanistan. Words cannot describe the magnitude of this tragedy. Many would like the “why”
World stock markets give all appearances of being in free fall, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 519 points, down 4.6% in another roller coaster day, and has now lost more than 2,000 points since July 21, according
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Taiwan exhibits anti-ship missile as China’s aircraft carrier leaves port
The remains of the 30 Americans killed in the recent crash in AFPak returned to the US today, and that return was the occasion for a cynical photo-op that ignored the wishes of both the Pentagon and the fallen warrior’s
So far in 2011, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has posted 30 video clips from 24-hour news networks to its official YouTube channel. Six were from CNN and two were from Fox News Channel. The remainder must be from
For the first time during Assad’s assault on his own people, his neighbors and historical allies are calling for him to step down. Most notably was Turkey’s decision to go public by asking Assad to step down so that his
Florida Family Association reports a discouraging development in its request to re-open the investigation of the death of Fatima Abdallah, the Palestinian woman who died under very suspicious circumstances in Tampa in August of 2009. Prior articles related to this
[youtube 5b-Pjo9XgGw] Egyptian Shaykh Muhammad Hassan, who is one of the most popular and well-known Islamic clerics in Egypt and even throughout the Islamic world (there is even a campaign in Egypt to try to get him to run for
Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav offers a blunt defense of himself in the face of convictions on charges of sexual harassment, rape, and indecent acts. He was sentenced to 7 years in jail. His lawyer says that this was more
Okay, you are friends; but holding hands is a bit creepy… We have reported here on the warming relationship between Pakistan and China. Pakistan sees the US as an unreliable ally. And China sees an opportunity to expand its influence
The conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung offers solid advice: Time to get tough? “Certainly talk will once again turn to the high unemployment rate among young people, their social exclusion and lack of opportunity. These are the catch phrases always
From the Tehran Times: Let me teach you something about human rights… TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday advised the British government to exercise self-restraint and refrain from using violence against protesters. According to Reuters, the
If this report is true, to say that Syrian President Assad was less than pleased with his Defense Minister, Ali Habib, would be an understatement. Less than 24 hours after Syrian Defense Minister Ali Habib was fired – he has
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Retired LTG William “Jerry” Boykin, one of the original members of the US Army’s Delta Force, discusses the recent helicopter crash in Afghanistan that led to the deaths of 30 American soldiers, 22
There’s an interesting theory circulating out there: the riots in the UK are actually the result of a shortage of illegal drugs. The British police have been so successful at clamping down on the drug trade that drug gangs and
2011 has been an eventful year – too eventful some would say. It seems the world is losing its balance – as dramatic events unfold one after another, we are unable to maintain focus and solve the issues at hand.
From the UK’s Daily Mail: The story is here.
In the wake of Anders Breivik’s massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the
