National Security

Al-Jazeera English is showing live broadcasts from the Egyptian capital, where law and order appear to be breaking down. Protestors have been ordered home under a 6 PM curfew. Al-Jazeera English is reporting that many people are trying to force

Sobering words are coming out of the mouths of Israeli security experts who worry that unrest from Egypt to Yemen may bring radicals to power. The Jerusalem Post reports: “While no analysts here predict any immediate ramifications for Israel’s national

He is a popular speaker at Islamist gatherings and hailed in the New York Times as being among a group of “leading intellectual lights for a new generation of American Muslims looking for homegrown leaders who can help them learn

Events are moving rather quickly. Police have arrested leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, five former members of parliament, and they’ve disrupted internet service. The latter is because the evidence is pretty strong that Facebook and Twitter have been very powerful

The Washington Post, which never passes up an opportunity to attack Sarah Palin, has gone after her for criticizing President Barack Obama’s “Sputnik” reference in the State of the Union Address. Palin noted accurately that what Obama was calling for

For Israelis, the American Left’s assault on Sarah Palin and the conservative movement in the wake of Jared Loughlin’s murderous attack in Tuscon, Arizona was disturbingly familiar. Just as the American leftist media and political leadership immediately sought to blame

A few days ago I ran into friend who I hadn’t seen for a while; catching up on our lives and knowing I have a son who just returned from Afghanistan he asked me, “Why are we in Afghanistan?” That

I now turn to the other side of the coin, the efforts of the Soviet Union to create a power bloc in Eastern Europe, with a small aside into the Soviet Union itself. The Iron Curtain – Post-World War II

A radical imam deported from Canada in 2007 was arrested by U.S. border authorities who found him hiding in trunk of a BMW near the U.S.-Mexican border earlier this month. Authorities say Said Jaziri paid $5,000 to members of a

If you get the paper edition of The Wall Street Journal you probably won’t be able to ignore a full-page ad signed by 400 rabbis and paid for by a group calling itself Jewish Funds for Justice. The ad takes

Tweedle-dee, Tweedle-dumb, and…huh? Barack Obama’s handlers and speech writers revealed their re-election strategy last night in his State of the Union speech. The Obama clique thinks they are replicating Slick Willy Clinton’s (and Dick Morris’s) triangulation strategy after the electoral

The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Obama Administration is pressing the government of Afghanistan to release two men who converted to Christianity. Both are under a death sentence. Here’s what an official at the Afghan “Justice Ministry” has

HuffPo reports: WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans stand behind President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), which will prevent the war from becoming a “domestic political football” like the war in Iraq.

Ten years’ worth of previously secret documents on the Mideast peace process from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah have been leaked to Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera has been releasing them from Sunday through Wednesday as a series of “revelations.” They were

On this week’s special edition of the Stakelbeck on Terror show, I sit down with bestselling author and investigative journalist Edwin Black to discuss his new book, The Farhud. The book outlines the history of Islamic anti-Semitism in the Middle

You have to love the American spirit of ingenuity. And yes, it will be available thru Apple soon. Just don’t use it on your unruly neighbors. The UK’s Daily Mail reports: “An iPhone app that tracks down the Taliban has

Professor Bruce Fleming is not your typical US Naval Academy (USNA) Professor. He teaches English and he also happens to be a liberal. I’ve written favorably in my books about his work because he also happens to believe in speaking

From Milton to Hedegaard: “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” The Kafka-esque trial proceedings against Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard today included a final statement by the

The United States and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned remarks by UN human rights expert Richard Falk about “awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations” of the 9/11 terror attacks. The US ambassador to the United Nations also

We regularly hear the term “nation building” these days, but there is a woeful lack of discussion of the history of the practice. Given how rarely it has happened that is understandable, but there are valuable lessons to be learned

Pravda has an interesting article on China’s new stealth fighter and the current state of American combat aviation. So how does Moscow think things stack up? One analyst seems particularly bullish on Beijing: “Alexander Khramchikhin, deputy director of the Institute

Last night’s Secure Freedom Radio broadcast had a quality that could not be found in the President’s State of the Union Address. Particularly, there was a discussion on what our nations priorities should be in terms of national security which

Catherine Ashton of the European Union paid a visit to Iran. Apparently she was too hot to handle for Iranian censors. Here’s a photo of that visit from Reuters: And here’s same scene, with a different neckline, published in the

The “fix” to securing our border was supposed to be SBInet, a high-tech integrated system that was supposed to blanket the area with sensors, camera and radar. Now, the Department of Homeland Security has figured out that…ah, well, terrain might