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.
Pete King is getting a lot of flack for the direction his planned hearings on homegrown Muslim radicalization have taken. But one aspect of the hearings that should be getting more attention–and credit–than it is concerns the Muslim Brotherhood. It
We reported earlier that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had converted to Islam. Now she is touring Muslim countries with a radical group called Viva Palestina demanding that her in-law by tried for the invasion
President Obama declared last night that we are now in the midst of a “Sputnik moment.” Trouble is Obama doesn’t have a world-view or a grasp of history to understand what that really means. Sputnik grew out of the profound
In his State of the Union speech last night, the President stated: “The Afghan government will need to deliver better governance. But we are strengthening the capacity of the Afghan people and building an enduring partnership with them.” It is
James Agee’s novel, “A Death in the Family’” has a wonderfully illustrated nihilistic moment in which the father goes into the darkened bedroom of his child to console the child in an episode of fear of bogey monsters in the
The UK’s Telegraph reports that President Barack Obama will use the State of the Union address to raise the alarm about America’s global decline. As the Telegraph summarizes: “A briefing paper released by the White House in advance of the
Hezbollah poised to take over in Lebanon Let’s face it, the Muslim world plays a game with which America’s diplomatic and intelligence elites are totally unfamiliar. But that also prompts a question: OK, so what’s Israel’s excuse? By allowing D.C.
Rimjin-Gang is the project of courageous citizen journalists within North Korea. The following is footage taken from inside the country. The interview with the 23-year-old woman is heartbreaking. Rimjin-Gang reports that shortly after the interview she died of malnutrition. [youtube
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) offers a translation of a fascinating and candid piece published in the United Arab Emirates, written by Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Malik, a columnist for the daily Al-Ittihad. Listen to these strong words: “The
Yesterday Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media had a piece on the controversy surrounding CPAC and the American Conservative Union’s board member Suhail Khan. See a lot more on Khan’s troubling associations here, here and here. An alarming prospect: a widespread
South Sudan is posed to become Africa’s newest country following this month’s independence vote. But Sudan’s Islamist government and its Iranian ally may not let the south break away without a fight. Just as it has done in Lebanon, Iraq,
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold hearing today on “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action,” including recommendations to stop funding the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Perhaps now that the U.S. debt crossed 14 Trillion
Islamist militants from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus’ region are suspected in the bombing of a terminal and café in Moscow’s busiest commercial airport, the Guardian reports. The attack at Domodedovo airport is the second suicide bombing in a year targeting
The global elite gather in Davos, Switzerland this week. Basic Membership at the World Economic Forum costs $52,000. A ticket to the actual gathering is another $19,000. Ostensibly the event is about solving the world’s problems. Black Swan author Nassim
It’s time for The Gathering again, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Perhaps 2,500 people are expected to congregate and tell us how to fix our problems and ourselves. I’m not opposed to conferences and meetings to discuss
Even though it is President Obama who has ramped up the use of drone attacks to deal with militants in Pakistan, he is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs admits that $500 million
In the days after September 11, 2001 George W. Bush spoke at a Saudi mosque with some very questionable characters standing behind him, including the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad. Why would the President
Al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language online newspaper, alJazeera.net, recently published what can only be described as a targeted hit piece against Indonesia’s tiny Jewish community. The article (English here) describes them as, “…provid[ing] unlimited support to the Israeli occupation in Palestine,” and also
***Update: BBC has photos of the incident posted here. Caution: some are graphic. **Update: Russian investigators on Monday found a head of “Arab appearance” that is presumed to have belonged to the suicide bomber responsible for setting off a Moscow
First came Wikileaks which destroyed the meme that Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians is the prime irritant in the Arab world. Now the other shoe has dropped. Al Jazeera’s startling revelations yesterday on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations clearly show that neither
Big Peace has been tracking the challenges faced by American energy companies during the Age of Obama. The Wall Street Journal has a new piece today which highlights how the power of American energy companies is on the decline while
Fayetteville, North Carolina, home of Fort Bragg, is planning a 10-day celebration and homecoming this November to honor Vietnam Vets. Its a honor well deserved. These soldiers, marines, and other vets served our nation honorably. It’s not their fault that
Politico featured a story this week headlined “Muslim groups nervous about King hearings.” It went on to discuss Muslim apprehension regarding upcoming congressional hearings led by Rep. Peter King, R-NY, “on the threat posed by radical Islam in America.” That
Obama’s been in office for only two years and already they’re playing Red Chinese commie songs at State Dinners in the White House: The Epoch Times reports: Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it
Over the last few years, we’ve all become familiar with the sight of masses of Muslim men clogging up public spaces in major Western European cities with their posteriors pointed skyward as they pray towards Mecca. Paris is the most
