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.
Raul Castro has been the head of MINFAR, the Cuban military agency, since 1959. Until the early 1970s MINFAR controlled the MINIT, Ministry of Interior, but then it was removed from under the MINFAR, unless in time of war. The
[youtube y8wwoSXNO-8 nolink] This is a 15 minute excerpt. See the full speech given October 21, 2010, at the World Affairs Council – here.
First a disclaimer about myself. I’m a twenty year veteran of the Army that saw next to no real combat. The closest I came was a few days during “Just Cause” in Panama where I was stationed as permanent party,
This is the latest in a weekly series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, who has just released a major book revealing how communists, from Moscow to
Sen. John McCain on Friday said that Islamist terrorism emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan is the main obstacle to South Asian peace and the U.S.-India relationship, and that a precipitate withdrawal from Afghanistan would “deepen India’s reliance on Russia and
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned. Over the past week, it has been widely reported that the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are conducting secret negotiations regarding future Israeli land surrenders to
It has been one year since Major Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood. That he’s alive is a sad result of the realities of marksmanship under fire. Aiming while bullets are hitting you isn’t as easy as movies make it
Defense News reported Nov. 4th that “Obama Wants Current Senate To Pass Russia Treaty.” New START strikes a foreign policy pose without accomplishing a significant strategic purpose. Although President Obama wishes to push the draft treaty through the lame-duck Senate
Part 17 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. Here, we look at how to gauge the extent of Muslim Brotherhood control over a Muslim
Next week, America will observe its 56th Veterans Day. It hasn’t always been so. In 1938, Congress declared Nov. 11 — designated Armistice Day — a federal holiday to commemorate the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th
National Public Radio, which fired news analyst Juan Williams last month after pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has featured the Islamist group’s leaders on air nearly two dozen times in the past three years, while never addressing
The election is over, and the nail-biting begins. Will the GOP seize its historic mandate to legislate according to conservative principles, or, mistaking weakness for magnanimity in the pink clouds of victory, will it succumb to the siren song of
What do you think the first proposed area of ‘compromise’ will be from the President and the Democrats when the new breed of budget cutters take office in January? As a favorite target of the left, the defense budget will
Can Hydrogen and carbon, especially CO2, be combined inexpensively to produce Low Carbon Hydrogen Fuel (LCHF) light, medium, and heavy Synfuels? Hydrogen is the foundation of all fossil fuels and for that reason they are called hydrocarbons. Hydrogen is the
Iranian government will use the nuclear bomb against Israel, they will use it against Persian Gulf countries, and they will use it against Europe to bring about that last hadith (Islamic commentaries on sayings and activities of Mohammed and his
No way, says Jim Talent. An excerpt from his piece today in National Review: “…every category of international risk facing the United States is demonstrably growing. Islamist extremists remain a formidable threat. They are fighting to reconstitute their safe havens
Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation. Today our leading minds devote their energies and cognitive powers to figuring out new
As Peter Schweizer noted here yesterday, President Obama served notice on the newly elected Senators and the constituents who voted for them on Tuesday: He does not want them to have a say in one of the most important national
From an article at the Daily Caller entitled, “Jews speak out against American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee decision to honor Helen Thomas”: Prominent Jewish voices are speaking out against the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s (ADC) decision to honor former White House reporter and
The new majority in the House of Representatives will be much more friendly to a strong United States defense and foreign policy but will have a minority with far less knowledge and understanding of defense and foreign policy issues than
President Obama may have tried to give the impression that he understands the message America sent him on Tuesday, but you wouldn’t know it from his comments just hours ago about the START treaty. Many serious questions have been raised
Nepal Before returning for third time to Afghanistan this year, have made another trip to the Himalaya. I made this image of Mt. Everest about a week ago. You are welcome to download a copy for personal use. Please also
With the appointment of Xi Jinping as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Military Commission (CMC), the People’s Liberation Army is gaining further clout in China. That’s the conclusion of this report by Willy Lam of the Jamestown Foundation.
The Army Times reports: “DUBLIN — Britain’s defense ministry has said that two lawmakers from Northern Ireland have been barred from visiting troops in Afghanistan until they can find flak jackets big enough to fit their bellies. The ministry said
