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.
Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Capitol Hill staff is stonewalling a request by military mother Beverly Perlson for a copy of a reported diplomatic letter provided by the California Democrat to the leftwing group Code Pink/Global Exchange in support of the delivery
When the Bush administration took office a decade ago, the specter of proliferating nuclear weapons was high on its agenda. During the previous decade, six key nations acquired, tested or had sought or had come close to acquiring nuclear weapons,
Last spring the Dutch anti-jihad politician Geert Wilders was charged with several counts of “hate speech” and brought to trial. In May the case was continued, and court reconvened on October 4th in Amsterdam. In the meantime Mr. Wilders’ political
The New York Times is reporting that Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who happens to be the second-largest shareholder of Fox News’s parent company, News Corp., is opposed to the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero. An
October 15-18th the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a 300 member Committee, met to prepare for the Oct/Nov, 2012 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress and the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). We
Our long-ago-lost war on drugs has been interfering with our national security and international relations for decades. The puritanical drive to eradicate the evil plants and substances that ensnare our innocent children would be comical if the costs weren’t so
The Obama White House and Democrats charged recently that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations are using foreign money in the 2010 campaign. In his Washington Post column today, Marc Thiessen points out that the Democrats are getting
On October 4, a wall holding an enormous reservoir of toxic red sludge collapsed in Hungary. Within an hour, 3 villages were buried deep in in 200 million gallons of the sludge, the waste product from a plant producing alumnina,
More twisted logic at the NYT. Richard Barrett coordinator of the United Nations Al Qaeda-Taliban monitoring team (whatever that is) says that is time to sit down and chat with the Taliban. The reason? The Taliban leadership has been so
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and their ideological allies have called FBI searches of people suspected of supporting terrorist organizations in Chicago and Minneapolis “fishing expeditions” that trample the rights of innocent people.
How should American voters concerned with Israel’s welfare and security vote in the U.S. Congressional elections on Nov. 2? This much is clear after almost two years of Democratic control over the executive and legislative branches of government: Democrats consistently
Last week the Justice Department filed an immediate appeal in a case brought by a gay activist group calling itself the Log Cabin “Republicans,” requesting a stay of a bizarre worldwide injunction that California U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued
AP is reporting: NEW YORK (AP) — Four men snared last year in an FBI sting were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant
In the annals of history, there are fewer people easier to rile up than myself. I blame it on my Irish ancestors. Case in point, one time in Afghanistan I was in a guard tower with one of my best
An imam with ties to mosques in Florida and Iowa has been arrested on immigration fraud charges. Ibrahim Dremali and his wife Safaa Rashad Eissa were arrested in Texas last week and will return to Iowa to face charges, the
Last week, the Veterans of Foreign War came under scrutiny because their lobbying arm, the VFW PAC, had endorsed a number of candidates without a track record of supporting the military over actual veterans and those who have demonstrated they
Fidel Castro is a hard line, fanatical life long communist. Communism is his religion. There are countless myths regarding how and when Castro embraced radical communism. In August, l957, Ambassador Thomas C. Mann, one of our nation’s great State Department
Israel’s opposition leaders spent the past week trying to prove their relevance. On Tuesday, both former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of wrecking Israel’s relations with the US. Both Livni and
It should be noted that the so-called “peace activists” at the Code Pink organization are anything but peace activists. These anti-American radicals and Marxists supported the mass murderer Saddam Hussein who ran one of the most brutal regimes in the
The BBC reports: Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do
Lewis Lionized and Wilders Demonized for Expressing Identical Views on the Totalitarian Nature of Islam Our uninformed chattering classes across the political spectrum need to know that their eminence grise on Islamic civilization, Professor Bernard Lewis, and outspoken Dutch Parliamentarian
When Mohamed Elibiary was appointed earlier this year to the Department of Homeland Security’s newly-formed Countering Violent Extremism Working Group, it was done quietly and without fanfare. It’s hard to believe that this silence was accidental, considering Elibiary’s appearance at
Last week, Heartland Truly Moving Pictures President and CEO, Jeffrey L. Sparks, announced that the feature film documentary, Lt. Dan Band: For the Common Good, featuring actor Gary Sinise and his “Lt. Dan Band” is a Crystal Heart Award winner
Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (who in 2004 held a concert titled “Celebration of Human Rights and Social Justice”) spent all last week as grateful guests of a Stalinist/Apartheid regime that murdered more political prisoners in
This is the latest installment 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
