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.
Writing at The Corner, Nina Shea recaps the latest in the saga of Terry Jones, who has been trying to take a peaceful, non-flammable protest of sharia and jihad to the sidewalk outside the largest mosque in America in Dearborn,
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Today, the Palestinians celebrated “Passover” by once again desecrating the Tomb of the Biblical Joseph, as they have done three times before. A group of Breslov Hassidim’s regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus came to a
Ynetnews, 4/24/11 1 killed, 5 injured in shooting near Nablus Group of Israelis heading to Joseph’s Tomb for prayers comes under Palestinian fire, which leaves one dead, five in serious to mild condition. IDF, PA investigating: Shooters believed to be
America is the land of the free. This is the very first statement written in the meat of my children’s book American Patriotism. As simple as it sounds, this statement is extremely complex. Stickers can be found on the back
Peter Gubser has written an extraordinary book on Saladin (depicted below), the 12th century warrior-king Middle East leader who was the great Muslim opponent in the Third Crusade. Gubser died just before his exceptional book was published in late 2011.
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In an event apparently designed to bring the Vatican into the 21st century, Pope Benedict XVI answered questions from Roman Catholic bloggers and Facebook users last week, according to the Telegraph. Pope Benedict XVI answering questions from Facebook users (Telegraph)
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This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Christians in Philippines re-enact Jesus’s crucifixion in Easter ritual If you have a weak stomach, then you may wish to skip this one. On Good Friday, nearly two dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses,
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The political sensation of the moment in Austria concerns the appointment of a very young man to the important position of assistant to the new interior minister. Our Austrian correspondent Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has compiled a report on all the controversy.
If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral impetuses to its foreign policy. Today, US forces are engaged in a slowly escalating war on behalf of al-Qaida penetrated
Next week, the United Nations will release a report accusing both sides in the Sri Lanka civil war of war crimes. The report is threatening to cause a breach between Sri Lanka’s government and the U.N. Areas of conflict in
The Daily Mail reports: A Pakistani victim of a village council-sanctioned gang rape, who became a symbol of the country’s oppressed women, says her life is in danger after the Supreme Court acquitted 13 men accused of the crime. The
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Michael Ledeen, author of Accomplice to Evil Iran and the War Against the West and Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, lays out the path to nonviolent regime change in
While the national seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is 1.5 percentage points higher than during President George Bush’s last full month in office, life is surprisingly good for folks living near the Beltway. On an unadjusted basis and as of February 2011,
Branches of al-Qaida in the Middle East and North Africa are hoping to make advances amid civil unrest, particularly in shaky Yemen. The organization appears willing to use tactics that it has traditionally shunned, such as strategic limitations on attacks
On Friday April 22nd, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported that the Iranian Defense Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is scheduled to pay a visit to the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad in the near future. A high-ranking delegation, including military and
Russia’a Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the current plan for Britain and France to send military advisers to Libya was going beyond the UN Security Council mandate, and was dragging the world into a ground war of indefinite duration.
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This is “postcard” from Afghanistan by Paul Avallone, someone who has drunk more than his share of cups of tea there, first as a Green Beret and later as a photojournalist. Readers will recall his pungently evocative writings and photos
He joined in the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, enduring a beating from Hosni Mubarak’s forces while trying to topple a dictator. Mahmoud Salem’s hopes for Egypt’s future have everything to do with pluralism and economic growth and nothing to
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Over 90 killed in massive street protests in Syria On Friday, tens of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets after midday prayers in cities across the country and chanted anti-government slogans, “Freedom, freedom,”
Americans who follow current events must admit these are strange days indeed. We are witnessing a surreal situation where the 44th President of the United States conducts himself in a manner that is not only out of synch with the
