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.
In her new book, Quiet Hero: Secrets from My Father’s Past, Rita Cosby tells an incredibly moving story of patriotism and pain. A chance discovery reveals that her estranged father was a prisoner-of-war in WWII, and inspires her to reach
From the Daily Mail: A Saudi Arabian student is facing hate crime charges after she allegedly spat on several ‘white people’ in her local Walmart because a ‘higher authority’ made her do it. Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi, 21, an engineering student
A few weeks ago, I filed suit in Washington, D.C., against Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook for endangering his fellow Jews and others by allowing postings by radical Palestinians calling for a so-called “Third Infitada.” These postings called for the
Germany’s Der Spiegel has an interview with Bernd Goken, head of the German relief organization Cap Anamur. He recently returned from an 8-day visit to North Korea. What he discovered is shocking, as is his claim that North Korea’s sponsor
Following up on our earlier report, we are glad to pass along this from the Marine Corps Times: “SAN DIEGO — The Navy’s purported decision to name a new cargo ship after the late civil rights leader and union activist
On Monday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told Xinhua, “We are proud to have China as our best and most trusted friend and China will always find Pakistan standing beside it at all times.” Chinese warship docked in
On Thursday, President Obama will “reach out” yet again to what he insists on calling “the Muslim world.” Think of it as the 2.0 version of his much-ballyhooed, but seriously deficient, 2009 speech at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. His message
In the next several days, President Barack Obama will deliver two major addresses on the Middle East. The first, to take place on Thursday, will renew his effort to reach out to the Muslim world, in the wake of the
Drudge, correctly, is trumpeting the White House shut out of the Boston Herald from pool coverage of a Boston fundraiser the President is attending today because the tabloid ran an op-ed by Mitch Romney on its front page ON MARCH
From the UK’s Daily Mail: A 13-year-old boy was interrogated at his school by Secret Service agents without his mother’s permission after posting a message about Osama Bin Laden on Facebook. Following the Al Qaeda leader’s death, Tacoma schoolboy Vito
Barack Obama is a president at odds with himself. On the one hand, he and his aides are carefully cultivating his new image as the gritty and decisive Commander-in-Chief, making the call to take out Osama bin Laden for the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. EU official proposes ‘soft’ default of Greece’s debt Top level European officials have been studiously avoiding any suggestion of a default on Greece debt, for fear that stating the obvious would panic investors. Instead,
His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama spoke on May 3rd to an audience of some 5,000 people at USC’s Galen Center and, as one might expect, had plenty of thoughtful and insightful words for attendees. Whenever in the presence of
Recently on Fox Business I offered up about today’s members of Congress that I cannot believe they occupy the positions once held by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and the rest. What got my goat was the absolute waste of tax-payer
Much of the idealism and the promise of unity that emerged from the massive populist uprising that captivated Egypt and swept longtime President Hosni Mubarak from power in February seems to have been lost. In the three months since, the
Europeans are coming around to the idea that a new bailout of Greece will only pile on more debt, only making the euro / Greece financial crisis worse. Greece’s problems are compounded by the weekend arrest of IMF chief Dominique
Cutest story of the day comes from Iran’s PressTV. Headline: “Iraq to expand military ties with Iran.” Isn’t that cute? Meanwhile, American officials have been in and out of Iraq begging Maliki, pretty please, to let our roughly 47,000 troops
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From the Associated Press: SAN DIEGO — The Navy is considering naming a cargo ship that’s being built after farmworker activist Cesar Chavez. James Gill, a spokesman for General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, said Monday the company suggested the
It is a universal truth that some are won over by love and others through fear. Those without a natural malice toward others are naturally drawn by acts of love and charity. Those who harbor ill-will and whose natural tendency
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. borrowing exceeds the debt limit The U.S. Treasury Dept. reported that new debt auctions of $72 billion will push the debt past the debt limit by Tuesday morning, meaning that the Treasury can’t
From AFP: Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for “sometime” before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday. “I have exact information that bin Laden was held by
Imagine a scenario in which the media outlet most afflicted with Barack Obama Sycophancy Syndrome (BOSS) – the place Chris ‘thrill up my leg’ Matthews calls home – presented a ‘smoking gun’ that could implicate the Obama White House in
This is but the latest example from the consequences of years of defense cutting in Great Britain and across Europe as a whole that highlights the dwindling effectiveness of NATO. The respective governments are so consumed with public entitlements on
From the Associated Press: A Miami imam and two of his sons have been arrested on federal charges they provided financial support to the Pakistani Taliban, while three others in Pakistan have been indicted on charges of handling distribution of
