National Security

How many times have European governments lectured the US about their alleged moral superiority? They care more about people, we care about money and power. Or so they tell us. Now WikiLeaks reports that several Euro countries are turning a

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Orbis Books, 2008 510 pages, with Appendix, Notes and Index. – One month before his trip to Dallas, President John F. Kennedy returned to Boston.

Events in Spain need to be watched closely. Spain is in the midst of a credit crisis, a major debt crisis. The reality is Spain has tapped the financial markets through borrowing treasury bills. Spain is paying more than a

Having written on national security for more than 20 years, I frequently get asked by students who are interested in such issues where they should attend graduate school. There are the well known schools, Harvard, Yale, Oxford (where I attended),

The United States Armed Forces are truly the greatest military that history has ever seen. Its intrinsic uniqueness stands on one foundation. That foundation is that its members volunteer to fight and defend the freedom and ideals of America. There

Increased pressure from alumni, parents, students, faculty, and the general public, has finally forced Dean of Faculty Gregory D. Hess to issue a statement to the faculty on Bassam Frangieh’s support of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. (Frangieh, as I

We may just get a Defense Authorization bill out of this lame duck Congress, the question is whether that is a good thing. There is a bill in the Senate right now that has had many of the controversial measures

The Obama administration has released its year long review of progress in the Afghan War and there are a number of points being seized upon for discussion. One is the fact that we have conducted large numbers of raids and

The United States Senate is poised to take one of the most fateful votes in its history. It is expected – perhaps as early as tomorrow – to decide whether to impose the radical homosexual agenda on America’s armed forces.

Bradley Manning, the man who is believed to have leaked the docs to WikiLeaks,is being held in solitary confinement. Hew faces a court martial and up to 52 years in prison. The UK’s Guardian is reporting: According to David House,

The wife of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe has been implicated in the illicit diamond trade according to cables released via WikiLeaks. Mugabe, who has positioned himself as a “man of the people” and is a strong socialist, has been charged

After centuries of warfare in which secrecy and espionage often made the difference between winning and losing, we should be grateful that our current enemy has published–and then repeatedly called attention to–his battle plan. The only problem? Our senior leadership

One of the nation’s leading Islamist political organizations hosts its annual convention this weekend, opting to showcase a slew of radicals and terror apologists on its program. The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is calling this Saturday’s conference at the

A leader of a homegrown terror cell plotting an attack that would be “bigger than the World Trade Center” was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. A federal judge rejected the pleas of leniency from Abdul Kadir, a former

The following comes from the Traditional Values Coalition: “Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty issued the following statement regarding the Omnibus Spending Bill’s $8 million earmark for a shrine to the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). ‘Just when Americans

“There is nothing short of a naked abuse of power underway at the moment as members of the House and Senate who have been repudiated at the poles hijack the will of the American people. – Frank Gaffney Get wise

On a cold, foggy morning, 66 years ago, there were panzers in the mist… All pictures courtesy the US National Archives. The first two come from captured german film of the opening phases of the Battle of the Bulge, and

Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s

Britain’s Telegraph reports: Helmut Griese, 63, was found guilty of “ridiculing” their religious beliefs and fined nearly 700 by a court in Graz. Rather than face a protracted court case, with all its attendant legal costs, Mr Griese agreed to

Moscow police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow and other Russian cities, after internet postings threatened new ethnic violence on Wednesday evening. Most of the detainees were ethnic Russian football (soccer) fans, although a few migrants from the Caucasus

Editor’s note: be sure to check out Reza Kahlili’s fascinating new book on his life as a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards while working for the CIA. The U.S. hiker recently freed from Evin Prison in Iran, Sarah Shourd, stated

We live in perilous times with the future of the American way of life in question, and it’s simply not enough to have superior ideas. You need to have a strategy for advancing them. Conservatives and libertarians have never been

A sign of desperation, or further evidence that Joe Biden continues to suffer from logic deficiencies? Remember, Biden supports START. From Foreign Policy: “Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA), in a press conference today, said that Vice President

The new epsiode of my show, Stakelbeck on Terror, may be our most important one yet. . We devote the entire show to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the guardians of one of the world’s most secretive and radical regimes. Over

At Claremont McKenna, America’s best conservative liberal arts college, President Pamela Gann’s administration still hasn’t issued a statement on the views of Bassam Frangieh, its Hezbollah-and-Hamas-supporting Middle East Studies director, despite repeated requests from alumni, students, and faculty. With his