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.
If we wish to be free–if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and
When I was teaching at West Point I took a group of cadets to Normandy to study the battlefields of World War II. We stopped at the US military cemetery on the bluffs overlooking ” bloody ” Omaha Beach. As
Will the Fourth of July become a vanishing holiday? That thought came to mind when I read of a May 2011 study by Harvard academics titled “Shaping the Nation: Estimating the Impact of Fourth of July Using a Natural Experiment.”
Why do the liberals rage so about July 4th? They mock it as sophomoric, anachronistic, xenophobic. The holiday touches some primitive emotion within them and they explode. Forty years ago, the most radical of them used tear gas in an
The 4th is a celebration of patriotism and patriotism is defined as love of country. Why do we love, those of us who do, the United States of America? Is it freedom, liberties beyond anything this globe has ever known,
Independence Day represents the spirit of those courageous souls, with their deep devotion to God, who made great sacrifices to make America the greatest nation on earth. People from all parts of the world came to America to pursue the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Yingluck Shinawatra wins decisive victory in Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra (Bangkok Post) Yingluck Shinawatra led her Pheu Thai (“For Thais”) to a decisive victory in Sunday’s elections, making it all but certain that she will
When Cuban refugees by the thousands landed amidst “gun and religion-clinging people” with ingrained “antipathy to people who aren’t like them,” the potential for trouble was enormous. When young southern Americans just starting the travails (and joys) of careers and
Today, more than ever before, the freedoms celebrated by Americans on Independence Day appear to be at risk. Among the most important are some freedoms I remember growing up with in Enid, Okla., during the ’60s and ’70s. The people
I smiled when I saw a recent headline “Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing.” I’m a product of Middle America, not quite a TV sitcom from the fifties, but my dad worked hard at a commissioned sales job, and my
On June 30th 2011 the US administration confirmed its recognition of the Muslim Brotherhood as an entity that we can negotiate with in Egypt. In Libya, they are our official allies in the effort to unseat Gadhafi from power. Over
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When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for an operation, gave a pre-recorded TV address on Thursday evening to announce that he had cancer, said that he was fine, and that he was still running the country as a long-distance
Before and after President Barack Obama announced the new U.S. strategy on Afghanistan, I engaged in a variety of media panels and private discussions with commentators and analysts from Arab and Muslim-majority regions of the world. Some of the individuals
In Brussels, last week the UN debated the creation of a new state to a group of crazed Arabs intent on killing Jews and calling it Palestine. These are the same Arabs who celebrated 9/11 by dancing wildly in the
“Reformist” Yadh Ben Achour made the announcement rejecting “any form of normalization with the Zionist State,” …Yadh-a, Yadh-a, Yadh-a…. Res ipsa loquitur, from ANSA Med: Tunisia‘s commission of political reform announced that it adopted (by majority) a “republican pact’” that
Civil War reenactments are growing in, of all places, Germany. Germany’s English language newspaper The Local has an interesting account of how this hobby has caught on. This weekend they are reenacting the bombardment of Fort Sumner and the Battle
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel, Greece and Turkey cooperate to stall the Gaza flotilla The U.S. flotilla ship ‘Audacity of Hope’ is being kept from leaving port for Gaza by Greek coast guard A growing strategic relationship between
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The United Nations report on the assassination of popular former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 was just released. As expected, Hezbollah was implicated in the assassination in which a one-ton truck bomb was detonated, killing 22 people and
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) was released from jail on his own recognizance on Friday, after being jailed and confined for six weeks, thanks to sexual assault charges by a chambermaid. However, now the prosecutor, Cyrus Vance, is indicating that the accuser,
The New York Times recently reported that June was the deadliest month in 3 years for U.S. troops fighting in Iraq. (To the families of those who were lost, I can never express to you the pride I take in
From Ynetnews: A defiant Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to carry out attacks in Europe unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya. Gaddafi delivered the warning Friday in an audio message played to thousands of supporters
The Obama administration chose the eve of the holiday marking our Nation’s birth to acknowledge publicly behavior in which it has long been stealthily engaged to the United States’ extreme detriment: Its officials now admit that they are embracing the
