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.
With Republicans expected to take the House of Representatives, attention will soon be turning to who on Capitol Hill will be calling the shots on defense and foreign policy. Foreign Policy magazine offers a summary of who’s-who. An excerpt: Foreign
Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow tells the remarkable tale of how a young boy destined for the clergy became a soldier in WWII. After killing numerous German soldiers, he is overcome by these multiple
Sort of an update to what I had posted previously on the contests in Colorado- I’m adding who I BELIEVE is going to win across the state: Governor- Tancredo Senate- Buck CD1- Degette CD2- Polis CD3- Salazar CD4- Gardner CD5-
The halls of our Capitol and history tells us a story of our Founding Fathers who committed their lives and sacrificed homes, reputations, careers, families, and even their lives fighting for our freedoms. They lived, loved and breathed a dream.
A report issued by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in September shed light on a new approach in the discourse about jihad. Saudi writer Khaled Al-‘Ghanami wrote an op-ed in the al-Watan newspaper and ‘Abdallah Al-Naggar wrote one
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
The absence of yellow in the color scheme of some newspapers should not be misconstrued as indicative of the quality of “journalism” to be found therein. Recent scribblings in The Tennessean of Nashville are a case in point. The “religion
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by MI Congressman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra. As an intelligence insider on Capitol Hill, Congressman Hoekstra’s take on the attempt by Al Qaeda last
The Center for Security Policy recently released its ninth National Security Scorecard for the 111th Congress, 2009-2010. We’ve already identified in previous posts which legislators were “Champions of National Security” (scoring 100%) and which legislators were “national security failures” (scoring
On Tuesday, US voters are set to repudiate US President Barack Obama’s agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his behavior in the face of a similar repudiation last January, it is safe to assume that Obama will not abandon
Want to know the stakes tomorrow? Watch this. [youtube OTSQozWP-rM]
The elections going on Tuesday night are going to be very interesting in Colorado for a multitude of reasons. In 2008, CO broke ‘blue’, rather than the ‘purple’ it had been for several previous elections. The Front Range area of
On October 21, we told you that a DoD official had leaked the findings of a confidential investigation into Michael Furlong and his highly successful Force Protection program to the New York Times. The leak was authorized in an effort
Terrorist groups are constantly probing, looking for soft spots. They don’t have the capability to fight western democracies head on, so they need to search for vulnerabilities. On September 11, 2001, they found in civilian airplanes when they used box-cutters
Soros‘ well publicized contribution of $1 million to sway the voters to legalize marijuana in California, is his latest effort over close to two decades and many millions of dollars to make the once unthinkable acceptable, and turn a functioning
On Saturday, Yemeni police arrested a college girl and her mother in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, a day after parcels containing bombs sparked a global security alert, according to Al-Jazeera. Printer plot bomb: Explosives were hidden in toner cartridge
In the movie “The Candidate,” Robert Redford grabs his campaign manager on election night, pulls him into the closet and asks, “What now?” Whoever soon controls Congress will have to do better than that. On the national security front, there
Cuba is a center for Cyber Warfare. The US public is becoming more and more aware of the importance of cyber war, especially after the destructive STUXNET worm attacks. Why bomb and destroy a nation’s facilities when with a cyber
UPDATED. [Part 2 – an excerpt from Teacher of the Year: The Mystery & Legacy of Edwin Barlow] Edwin and rest of troop B were called before Captain Berlin. It took longer to muster than usual because Patton himself had
Should we adopt a terrorist and pray for them? That’s the idea behind a Christian ministry called (not surprisingly) Adopt-a-Terrorist for Prayer. An excerpt from their website: “Where is the Christian response to terrorism? If the struggle against violence done
President Jimmy Carter made international human rights the centerpiece of his foreign policy. As a result, the United States distanced itself from autocratic regimes. The problem with this morally satisfying stance is that liberty isn’t autocracy’s sole enemy. Pres. Carter
Palestinian Authority: ‘Jews are hated because of their love of money’ [youtube TMIUFkyqMeg] Wow. This is who President Obama, CodePink, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Progressive Democrats of America, and the rest of the Progressive movement, consider equal partners in peace
Part 16 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. In this section, we use the Muslim Brotherhood’s own internal documents to map out the organization’s
They failed to ram the hopelessly flawed New START treaty through the Senate this summer. Now the anti-nuke crowd has adopted a new strategy: misrepresent AND smear the opposition. Michael Krepon (below), for example, recently “argued” that those who raise
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by the former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman. Lehman’s account of the 9/11 Commission’s diligence in understanding the 9/11 terrorist’s threat doctrine stands in alarming contrast to
