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.
Analyst Reuel Gerecht’s confused, uninformed pieties versus Professor J.J. G. Jansen’s scholarly lucidity Analyst Reuel Mark Gerecht, in a recent New Republic essay, condemned those who “demonized” Sharia–Islamic Law–despite conceding that the application of what he refers to deferentially as
This week, fifty of our nuclear armed Minuteman missiles in Wyoming momentarily lost connectivity to one of the many command capsules at the F.E. Warren USAF base. The 1960’s computers in question got out of time-sharing sequence as they routinely
Last Sunday, the New York Times described a crude scene that smacked of not exactly petty graft. There was Afghanistan’s presidential plane on the Tehran airport tarmac, waiting for one last passenger before wheels up to Kabul. The missing passenger
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Vlad Tepes has posted a string of pieces collectively entitled, “The Imam Always Gets His Man: Why Royal Canadian Mounted Police Outreach Isn’t Working,” that tells us that the same suicidal institutional mindset we saw on display recently among Homeland
Britain’s leadership has mismanaged and misinterpreted multiculturalism, leading to a fracturing of British society and mutual distrust between the Muslim community and the rest of the country, the U.K.’s minister of state for security and counterterrorism said Oct. 28. “Multiculturalism
An October 26th headline of BBC Persian read, “آ …ریکا: …ساله …ا نیروگاه بوشهر نیست” This translates to “America: The Bushehr plant is not our problem.” Now the headlines on the BBC English site were much less harsh than that,
Beware of Islamic jihadists shipping cargo. And especially on the weekend before midterm elections. A friend writes: What do you think? Isn’t this new terror attack just a bit too convenient for comfort? So, the Americans were alerted by Obama’s
This Tuesday, as we go to the polls all over the country, we have a chance to elect some great Americans– including many veterans like Allen, Nick Popaditch, Ilario Pantano, Jesse Kelly and many others— who’ve seen this nation’s enemies
Truly outrageous and evidence that we are in the silly season. From the Navy Times: As the mid-term elections and the accompanying political cross-fire nears its climax, one of this season’s latest campaign trail controversies swirls around an unlikely object:
Concludes that terrorist threat is unlikely to be an election issue. Do you agree? An excerpt: “Media reports that several suspicious packages were plucked from cargo planes today puts terrorism — or at least potential terrorism — on the front
With all of the attention being played on the airwaves and net tubes about the supposed ‘dry run’ attack via packages on UPS flights, I have been working the ‘tubes to get a different read on what is likely going
While the news this election cycle has been focused on horse races and high-wattage personalities like Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, one of the most important races in the country has slipped below the national radar–despite the fact that one
Teacher of the Year: The Mystery & Legacy of Edwin Barlow is unlike any memoir you will ever read, because unlike every other memoir, Edwin Barlow’s life was an impenetrable secret that took years to uncover. When Mr. Barlow died,
Bill O’Reilly, who generally eschews the label of “conservative,” portraying himself, instead, as an “independent with traditional values,” has been vehemently taking on “the Muslim problem” for the past several months. While O’Reilly often frustrates true conservatives and libertarians with
If you tried to decide what the main function of the UN was, you would have a tough choice between corruption and rape. If you follow the exploits of the world’s conscience, then you see a path polluted by bloated
The New York Times is reporting: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean troops fired two machine-gun bursts at a South Korean guard post across their heavily militarized border on Friday night, and soldiers from the South returned fire with three
The Rev. Paul Viggiano, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) pastor in Torrance, California, relays some interesting information about an open house he attended at one of several Southern California mosques who hosted such events: I was delighted at the panel
From China’s point of view, ceasing exports of rare earth elements (REEs) makes a lot of sense outside of ideology. China needs these minerals for its own manufacturing as much as any other countries do, so the Chinese might well
While the Obama administration worries about security issues half way around the world in such places as Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea, a serious problem is brewing right on our southern border. Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed some 29,000
In the endgame of Election 2010, speculation abounds concerning the impact the Tea Party movement will have. All over America, politicians, pollsters and pundits are frantically trying to predict the repercussions that will flow from the engagement of these folks
Cry me a river Hat tip Lori Lowenthal Marcus, at Z-Street. Contra the misrepresentations that a United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, legal opinion issued October 20, 2010, “…complicates arguments by some conservative and pro-Israel groups that the Council
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Ilan Berman from the American Foreign Policy Council joins Frank for an insightful discussion on Iran’s road to becoming a nuclear power. With the advent of the Bashir reactor coming on line this
Friend or Foe – in 2005, it was hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys when they wore masks. Deuce Four Symbol – this Stryker unit became a symbol of fear for the bad guys. Got Each
