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Reports are that the crew is fine. Witnesses report that the crew was rescued by a “plane that could turn into a helicopter.” Here’s a video of the crash site: [youtube 5TXk6SbigZs nolink] The Opsrey:

Here’s a fascinating display of Chicago’s Hometown Dissent. This clip of Louis Farrakhan verbally spanking President Obama climaxes with a truth no one on earth could disagree with: Dissatisfaction in America has reached the boiling point! Obviously, according to the

Writing for the European Council of Fatwa and Research (ECFR), a Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization headed by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Dr. ‘Ali Muhiy al-Din al-Qarah Daghi in his 2006 treatise “Al-mar’a wal-musharika al-siyasia wal-dimuqratia” (Women and Political and Democratic Participation) lists six

In the rush to act in Libya, some liberals have conveniently forgotten many of the arguments they made opposing American intervention in Iraq. Whether one agrees with the President’s current course of action, the left’s old arguments against intervention in

The use of military force against Gaddafi is welcome but simultaneously worrisome. Welcome in that American ground troops will not be landing in Tripoli and that US and a coalition of other nations are trying to stop Libya from a

Words of Wisdom: The American president defined the mission in Libya for himself and for the world: Protecting the Libyan people from the brutality of their leader, who massacred them on the streets of Tripoli and at the outskirts of

The United States, first under President George W. Bush and now under President Barack Obama, has blown it again. Rather than taking out the head of the snake — and the key to Middle East stability — which is the

So do we want him gone, or not? President Obama from South America: “U.S. President Barack Obama has declared that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi must relinquish power – but said the Western coalition will not force him to go using

The horrific photos of US soldiers posing with dead Afghan civilians should be rightfully condemned. That is not the sort of battlefield conduct we should condone by America’s finest. But what about the larger questions? What are the larger questions?

The Obama Administration has stumbled into a regional war (and potentially a world war) in the Middle East. Libya is not a case of democratic reform. And the casual language of “reform by protest” and so-called “universal values” has served

President Barack Obama is a fraud. The Libyan war (which I support) is proof. Obama never would have defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries in 2008 had it not been for his opposition to the Iraq War. Anti-war sentiment

It seems a strange juxtaposition that so many conservative pundits oppose the no-fly/no-drive intervention against Gadhafi after having touted American exceptionalism for years. If the United States is “exceptional” and we have a global reach military of air and sea

The US’s new war against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is the latest sign of its steady regional decline. In media interviews over the weekend, US military chief Adm. Michael Mullen was hard-pressed to explain either the goal of the military

On Today’s Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, LTG (Ret) Jerry Boykin, an original member of the US Army’s Delta Force and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence at the Pentagon, looks at Libya in terms of the mission

As Gazans are trying to find the courage to stand up to Hamas and demand freedom and basic human rights Hamas is responding with more violence. On Saturday a gathering of students in Gaza held a protest calling for unity

Israel has vowed to lash back at Hamas, after Hamas reversed a two-year old policy and took credit for launching anti-tank missiles and mortars into southern Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. Gaza Palestinians demand reconciliation between factions These were

Much was made this week about Barack Obama’s lack of priorities when he showed off his March Madness brackets for the ESPN cameras. Though the criticism was valid, he did tell us a little bit about how he thinks. In

Photo caption: “Forty-two years of nightmare…Now has come the time of Jihad!” — courtesy Uncle Sucker (photo via John Rosenthal) — Back in August 2005, I wrote a column on what was a particularly great day for sharia, or Islamic

The nation’s immigration policy debate has entered into a new stage. What’s being questioned is rather children of legal but visiting “non-immigrant” parents allowed birthright citizenship. Apparently, this happens more than realized. Temporary visitors such as students, workers, and extended

Our new Cowboy in the White House has declared war on Libya. One can just imagine the headlines in the New York Times if George Bush were to have taken the action he did. Dare we remember the outrage from

The military action in Libya undertaken by a “coalition of the willing” at the end of last week is, from an American perspective, as vexing as it is elating. On one hand it is good that the US came to

New protests erupted in Syria, while violence by the Yemeni government against protestors reached unprecedented levels. Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia’s monarch combined handouts and threats to insulate his kingdom from regional unrest. The emerging pattern of bullets and bribes has characterized

Translated from almoslim.net, 19 March 2011: Shaykh Hassan Demands Punishment for al-Jamal for Treating Lightly the Divine Islamic preacher Shaykh Muhammad Hassan criticized the comments of Dr. Yahya al-Jamal, Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt, in which he offended the divine.

Far be it from me to jump up in defense of President Obama. I can literally count on one hand how many times I’ve nodded with some degree of approval during his presidency. And just for the record, I was

Let’s hope not for the sake of those that are putting their lives at risk. But the Arab League, which endorsed the idea of a no-fly-zone over Libya, is now criticizing the air campaign. And Russia, which abstained in the