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.
After displaying in its lobby what was heralded as “the most expensive Christmas Tree in history” the Emirates Palace Hotel has apparently decided that, even in the land of excess that is Abu Dhabi, this was just too much and
On the heels of “Monitoring America,” a tiresome and finger-wagging piece about local American law enforcement’s efforts to combat terrorism in yesterday’s Washington Post by William Arkin and Dana Preist (something I’ll respond to later and at length here at
Sixty-five years ago, on December 21, 1945, America lost one of its greatest champions of liberty – Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., a largely unsung hero today of the Liberal-Conservative battles that have raged in America most of this century.
As the last nails are being hammered into the coffin of the lame duck 111th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have voted in favor of repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. After losing 63
The great publishing house Encounter Books just released the latest in its series of well-crafted broadsides, How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda by Andy McCarthy. The book is a distillation of the nearly 400-page Team B II report, Shariah: The
While researching this week’s column, I came across an extraordinary collection of videos at Kansas Watchdog, all taken during Labor Weekend’s Leavenworth Ten Freedom Ride. They showcase the families of the wrongly incarcerated soldiers whose debt to society, if they
CNS News reports, based on a recent Pentagon survey of 115,000 active duty service members, among them 989 men serving in Marine combat units: 66.5 percent of U.S. Marine combat forces surveyed by a special Defense Department working group said
The Washington Post reports that the administration has once again strongly asserted that the new START treaty, under consideration by the US Senate, does not limit “our” missile defense plans as they are currently being proposed by the United States.
It’s easy when we are looking at an international crisis such as the Korean peninsula to get too focused on geopolitical matters, the military balance, and strategy. Sometimes the most valuable insights can be gleaned by look at the psychology
South Korean and U.S. military forces are remaining on high alert after North Korea backed down from threats of retaliation for South Korea’s live fire artillery drills near Yeonpyong Island on Monday, according to Yonhap. North Korea had deployed multiple
The Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels has written previously about the effects of Muslim inbreeding. In the essay below he traces the possible connection between the genetic damage done by inbreeding and terroristic behavior. The connection between Muslim inbreeding and terrorism
On Saturday the United States Senate voted for legislation that will impose heavy, unnecessary burdens on the backs of military men and women. They are the ones who will pay a very high price for Congress’ reckless decision to help
Anarchists in the 19th and early 20th centuries plotted violence against governments around the globe. Their anti-organization philosophy was attractive to a strange fringe of social misfits. Some recognized the reality of might versus right. Some advocated illegal acts to
The Korean War lingers on. Until a couple weeks ago, other than historians, few people in the United States know that the two sides of the Korean War never signed a peace treaty. Instead, the war ended with an armistice–a
There have been gays in the military for as long as we have had one. They just had to pretend they weren’t gay. They were banned because there was a time when too many of our troops were uncomfortable enough
Freedom Federation, which represents organizations with a combined membership of 40 million issued the following statement: Mathew Staver, on behalf the Freedom Federation, made the following statement in response to the Senate’s vote to repeal Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.
On CNN this morning, the Senate’s Republican Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, announced his opposition to the so-called New START arms control treaty currently being debated by his chamber. According to a rush transcript by Politico , Sen. McConnell told “State
Last weekend’s failed suicide attack in Stockholm was only the beginning. As more information flows in, it becomes clear that last Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly was just the tip of a vast jihad iceberg in Sweden. The following news story from
Yemeni authorities in Sana’a prevented a bomb attack on a car carrying four U.S. Embassy personnel, the U.S. State Department reported Thursday. On Wednesday, police caught a Jordanian citizen as he attempted to plant explosives next to the car, which
This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries
The United States Senate under Majority Leader Harry Reid has ceased to deserve its historic reputation as “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” By cynically manipulating parliamentary procedures during a lame-duck session so as to preclude filibusters and amendments, Sen. Reid
President Ronald Reagan used to say that the scariest words in the English language are: “Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Two hundred or so years earlier, our Founding Fathers had essentially the same thoughts when
As reported by the Washington Post, these were Richard Holbrooks’s last words, As Mr. Holbrooke was sedated for surgery, family members said, his final words were to his Pakistani surgeon: “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.” More than
The UK’s Guardian reports, based on WikiLeaks leaked cables: “Barack and Fidel: like so many great love affairs it was doomed. But memory of the passion, or at least infatuation, lingers. Having seen off 10 US presidents – all committed
