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.
Sent from Larco Lomayatdit, Juba, South Sudan, Thursday, January 6 to his readers (H/T Faith McDonnell Director, Religious Liberty Programs and Church Alliance for a New Sudan, The Institute on Religion and Democracy): Even Hollywood movie star George Clooney is
Very interesting piece in Vanity Fair about why the news media has turned on WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. The story tells us as a lot about Assange..and the news media. Part of the falling out has to do with the
When the Senate ratified the recent Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) during the lame duck session, the only reason it got the 67 needed votes was because thirteen Republican Senators believed Barack Obama when he assured them that language in
The HMS Invincible during her glory days…now in mothballs Defensetech has the bizarre story of the efforts to buy the British HMS Invincible, now retired, by a Chinese businessman. As they note, we’ve seen this before: “Well, it looks like
Charles Jacobs from the American Anti-Slavery Group reporting from the front lines of freedom as South Sudan prepares for a historic vote on Sunday. [youtube t0f1YD3lEOw nolink]
A group of family members and victims of the FALN faced terror on Wednesday, January 5, in the Federal Prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. We met face to face with FALN terror leader, Oscar Lopez Rivera, (U.S. Bureau of Prisons
The general concept of deterrence doesn’t seem too difficult to understand does it? It is more cost effective to have the biggest and strongest military so that ‘competitors’ don’t find value in investing in trying to beat us. It looks
American-Muslim groups were swift to issue statements condemning New Year’s Eve bombing attacks at a Nigerian army barracks and at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. But those same groups have been silent since Tuesday’s assassination of a moderate Pakistani
As we look ahead at the beginning of a new year and a new decade, there is increasing talk again about whether America is in inevitable decline. It’s the sort of talk that has emerged before. In the 1970s and
On Sunday, January 9th, 2011, the people of Southern Sudan – Christians and animists, or practitioners of native faiths – will have the chance to vote to form an independent nation. The election was stipulated in a 2005 Comprehensive Peace
That was fast. Sunday, the Virginian-Pilot posted a montage of lewd, “morale-boosting” videos that Capt. Owen P. Honors starred in, directed and broadcast to the crew of the USS Enterprise dating back to 2006-2007 when he was the ship’s executive
“Trust us…no, really” Americans are frustrated with China. Big time. The most recent leaks of State Department documents reveal Peking with explicit complicity in arming Iran with ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons technology. An article also appeared in the Washington
More than 200 people, many of whom were veterans, descended upon downtown St. Charles, Mo., at noon Thursday to counter a 30-minute protest by three sign-carrying members of the controversial Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church, a group most well-known for
We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York’s Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack, or attempted attack on our homeland. You’ll recall that on Christmas day, 2009,
January 7, 1959, marks a milestone in U.S. diplomatic history. Never before had the State Department extended diplomatic recognition to a Latin American government as quickly as they bestowed this benediction on Fidel Castro’s that day. At the time, Castro
A Penn State student who penned songs praising terrorists on jihadist forums sits in jail tonight following his arrest earlier this week after a confrontation with two FBI agents. On Dec. 22nd I reported here exclusively at Big Peace on
On today’s edition of Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank was joined by NY Congressman Pete King. It is incredible when you think of all that’s happened on the homeland security front since the Dems took the House and even
We will be providing extensive on-the-ground coverage of the historic vote in Sudan. This comes from Charles Jacobs, who is en route to Sudan. [youtube 31uvdzswW3Y nolink]
Despite communist North Korea topping the list for the ninth consecutive year, the most dangerous countries in which to practice Christianity are overwhelmingly Islamic ones, according to the annual Open Doors World Watch List. Of the top 10 countries on
Friends of Israel have long fumed over what they felt was the human rights community’s disproportionate and unfair criticism of the Jewish state: Major rights organizations typically portray Israel as among the cruelest of nations, while this planet’s actual dictatorships
At the Center for Security Policy’s recent Mightier Pen Award in New York City, the first National Security and New Media Conference addressed several problems in mainstream media reporting on national security topics, including: the sheer neglect of national security
Islamist lawyers showered Mumtaz Qadri with roses when he arrived in court on Wednesday to face charges of having assassinated Salman Taseer, the governor of the province of Punjab in Pakistan, according to Dawn (Pakistan). And MEMRI has translated a
A previous blog of mine featured Allen West’s candid remarks about the living legacy of jihad during a forum in early 2010. Below are extracts from an interview West gave with Frank Gaffney, subsequently, after his election to Congress, this
Germany’s Der Spiegel publishes an interview today with the Egyptian Ambassador to Germany about the massacre of Coptic Christians in his country. Clearly, denial and double-speak are official government policy. Listen to what Ambassador Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy says: SPIEGEL ONLINE:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s letter to President Obama requesting a pardon for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the former Naval intelligence analyst at the Naval Investigative Service (NIS), is the latest in a stream of communications urging the President to
