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.
Former President George W. Bush and Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong recently went on a bike ride with wounded vets as part of the Wounded Warriors Project. The 15 vets rode 62.5 miles with Bush and were joined on
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Amb. Roger Noriega explains the implications behind China’s rise in Latin America along with the protests in Bolivia and U.S. treatment of its allies in the region. Also, check out Inter American Security
The New Black Panther Party threatened Philadelphia voters with billy clubs and Eric Holder’s justice department couldn’t be bothered. CAIR was accused of fundraising for Hamas, and Eric Holder shrugged. But back when Fidel Castro demanded the return of an
I don’t ever recall mentioning an article in The New Yorker as a must read. But this one is. It’s a devastating look at how Obama thinks (or doesn’t think) about foreign affairs. Writer Ryan Lizza tracks the chaotic course
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For the second time since the Egyptian upheaval began, the pipeline bringing natural gas from Egypt to Israel (and Jordan) has been shut down because of sabotage. The explosion took place early Wednesday morning rocked the area and caused 65-foot
Following several weeks of secret Egypt-brokered meetings in Cairo and Damascus, Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas announced on Wednesday that they have “reconciled” and that they will form a unity government, according to the Jerusalem Post. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
From the Marine Corps Times: Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen will be nominated to replace Army Gen. David Petraeus in Afghanistan and is expected to take command by September, a senior White House official said Wednesday. Allen will leave his
There has been closer cooperation between these two powers in recent years, but Russia is still concerned about Chinese ambitions. From Pravda: Teaming up….or not? China is trying to change its borders with Russia again. Spokesmen for the Border Service
My February 21st article in Pajamas Media exposes an American University Professor, Professor Akbar Ahmed, who has been concealing his 30 year relationship with a Muslim Brotherhood front group known as the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and the
The caption on this EPA photo is: “Afghan Army soldiers secure the military base after a shooting incident.” The killer of nine NATO troops and a contractor was an Afghan Air Corps officer. Is the base secure? — The carnage
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This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Egyptians appear prepared to end peace treaty with Israel Egypt and Israel Egyptians appear prepared to overturn the three-decade-old peace agreement with Israel, by a margin of 54% to 36%. Those with higher incomes
Yesterday, Wednesday 04/27/2011, Matt Lauer did us proud. He asked the question that the Media has thus far not dared to ask; is there anything to these incidences involving Afghan National Soldiers and Police turning their weapons on their American
Hamas and Fatah have signed a reconciliation deal in Cairo, agreeing to an interim government and setting a date for elections in a year’s time. The deal was brokered by Egypt’s intelligence service. In a statement carried by the Egyptian
Obama is saying he released his long-form birth certificate now because he didn’t want the issue obscuring the presidential political debate. But I don’t think the man is that chivalrous and the disclosure is actually a product of his own
There is no question that for a very long time, I wanted to see President Obama’s “Live Birth Certificate.” I did not want to see this to prove one way or another his citizenship rather wanted him to be treated
The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets are reporting that Pakistan, which receives billions of dollars in US aid every year, is encouraging another billion dollar aid recipient (Afghanistan) to weaken their ties with us and cozy up to
“I don’t think he has arrested the C.I.A.’s slide into becoming an ossified politically correct welfare bureaucracy resembling the Bureau of Labor Statistics. .. It is not the agile outfit that it was at the beginning of the Cold War
US home prices fell 1.1% in the one month period from January to February, according to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index for February. February’s data shows that the price declines are accelerating, according to CNBC. Housing prices continue to
Does this mean we should drop boxes of Viagra on terror camps as a counter-terrorism ploy? From the Daily Mail: A bummer when he finally meets those 72 virgins… “An Al Qaeda henchman used impotency injections so that he could
By rights, Obama’s escalating escapade in Libya should be offensive to his minions on the Left. Shades of Imperialism and Vietnam, what! But expecting ideological purity from that crowd would be asking too much. They know full well a comrade
“The Afghan troops are no where near ready to be able to take on this responsibility.” – Bill Roggio Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Bill Roggio, Editor of The Longwar Journal, reports on the escape of more than
The following comes from someone in the financial industry who for professional reasons must remain anonymous: Rep. Peter King’s congressional hearings last month on the radical threat from Islam has been on the receiving end of caterwauling from liberals, Muslim
There are some deep politics at work in the announcement that General David Petraeus is headed to the CIA and Leon Panetta, the current DCI, is headed to the Pentagon. Petraeus would be a natural to head up the DoD.
