National Security

While everyone’s eyes are on Egypt and its possible Islamization, something even more significant is going on under the wire in Turkey. The government of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan took a major step towards consolidating its regime by conducting

President Barack Obama pushed for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and stood with the protesters in Cairo. Will he do the same for those fighting for freedom in Iran against the Mullahs? Protests have now broken out in

Egypt’s largely peaceful ousting of its longtime president might be a template for a flowering of freedom in the Middle East – or, it might be the first act in a slow moving disaster for Egypt and peace in the

Remember, they are there to make you safer. A report: A TSA supervisor stole money from passengers who went through his security checkpoint and accepted bribes and kickbacks from a colleague. Michael Arato, a supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport, admitted

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America’s borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives

Over at Ruthfully Yours, Ruth King sums up the all-important and distressing implications of the “Trojan” Brotherhood at CPAC: The really disturbing news about CPAC and the ACU is not about crackpot Ron Paul winning in a straw poll or

The latest health evaluation of North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il points to the fact that the man is dying because of his overindulgence. At least his father, who was also an iron-fisted dictator, occasionally exercised. South Korea’s Chosun reports: “North

I’ve received a number of questions about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood logo Here’s one that arrived today: “I subscribe to your RSS feed and happen to find your analysis interesting. However, I am curious how you can

The way our system of governance is set up, the President is given lots of discretion in foreign policy. Which in Obama’s case means a license to mess up. Compounding matters, Obama’s Republican opposition is focused on repairing the damage

Thousands poured into the streets of Tehran and other major cities in defiance of the Iranian rulers. They were chanting: Mubarak, Ben Ali, now its the turn for Seyed Ali, referring to the deposed dictators of Tunisia and Egypt saying

The awe-inspiring convergences of eternally American symbols and imagery in the seemingly sudden appearance of Herman Cain at the CPAC meeting?! This is beyond God’s call for “Check!” to the American Progressives. Herman Cain is God’s call of “Check-Mate!” Pair

Tehran Times reports: Hanin Zoubi , an Arab member of Israel’s parliament (Knesset) has predicted a Palestinian revolution, modeled after the one in Egypt, which terminated three decades of dictatorship. “Israel has been relying on the weakness of the Arab

Today the economic stats are official: China has surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Predictions are that if current trends continue, China will pass the United States in 2030 to become #1. But what does this

Pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas Professor Bassam Frangieh, head of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Claremont McKenna College, delivers a twenty-minute rant at the University of Bridgeport in 2007. Frangieh claims, among other things, that Islam is “very democratic” and that Saddam

The Army Times has the goods on a new weapon tested in Afghanistan. It performed flawlessly and has our soldiers asking for more. The XM-25, Counter Defilade Target Engagement System with 25mm rounds, is semi-automatic, and includes fully integrated day/night,

For the third time, Egyptian officials have postponed the reopening of the Cairo stock exchange. It was closed on January 27 after having fallen 20% in a few days. It’s now scheduled to reopen on Wednesday. Cairo / Dhaka stock

The Texas State Senate is now officially complicit in the furtherance of stealth Jihad in America. It makes no difference if its recent actions demonstrate willful collaboration or willful ignorance; the result is the same. Shamefully, the facts behind Senate

With Hosni Mubarak stepping down Friday, Egypt’s future remains uncertain. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces has taken temporary power with expectations of elections still set for the fall. “Egypt is free!” chanted the hundreds of thousands of people gathered

Reuters: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Sunday urged Palestinian refugees to take advantage of current unrest sweeping across the Arab world and stage a march on the Palestinian territories. “In the context of the popular Arab revolutionary movement, the Palestinian

Yesterday I called my friend Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, President Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations. She was busy leading a contingent of folks speaking with Saint Peter about reducing the media budget of the socialist parties that run a blog

We reported earlier on the sad spectacle of rich Westerners golfing in the middle of the North Korean police state. Now comes this update. Could the participants not be aware that they were essentially be tended to by slaves? Note

A Gaza-based radical leader says it is permissible to kill Jewish and Christian civilians while carrying out jihad, according to a document translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Abu Walid Al-Maqdisi, leader of the Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad

There must be something extremely frustrating about being a public opinion pollster: they constantly have a grasp on the pulse of the American people, yet they are typically uninvolved in actual activism. One would think that informing Americans where others

Egypt has been thrown into completely unknown territory by the decision of Hosni Mubarak to resign as President. Somber Omar Suleiman, vice-president of Egypt, delivering Mubarak’s resignation announcement Vice president Omar Suleiman delivered the following extremely dramatic address, according to

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress yesterday that the Muslim Brotherhood was a “heterogeneous, largely secular” organization that “eschewed violence” and “decried al Qaeda.” The ignorance exhibited in this statement has been widely and properly vilified. As our