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.
Last week Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 79th birthday, with an announcement that he was retiring from public life to spend more time with family and personal interests. President Barack Obama congratulated Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his official retirement, praising
Conservatives in Congress need to move quickly to staunch the flow of blood, literally, in our military. The Fort Hood shootings proved convincingly that political correctness is lethal. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey ran to the Sunday talk
A concerned Blue Star Mother was told by a spokeswoman for Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) that Waxman “did not intend to assist insurgents” in Iraq when he provided a diplomatic letter in December 2004 to Code Pink’s parent organization Global
Yesterday, Patrick Poole posted a story on Big Peace about an Al Qaeda fund raising operative leading prayers on Capitol Hill for the Congressional Muslim Staff Association. According to Poole, “Anwar Hajjaj is the former head of the Taibah International
Most people don’t think of the U.S. armed forces safeguarding shipping lanes and routes of commerce while they’re shopping at Target. But the Heritage Foundation’s Mackenzie Eaglen says full shelves at the store means the U.S. is securing air, land,
The demographic sophisticates who read this column know that the population bomb has fizzled, that the world’s population will never double again, and that birthrates are falling faster and farther than anyone imagined a half century ago. But they also
Should Republicans gain control of the House in November there will be several decisions they will be obliged to address. First and foremost is the Iranian nuclear weapons question. Iran probably has enough fissionable material to build a bomb, but
— even if we didn’t break them. Yesterday, two Mi-17s landed on our ramp for fuel . The Iraqis like to land on our side rather than the Air Force side – the older pilots can walk over to visit
Britain‘s Islamic Sharia Council Avatars of Islamic Misogyny (Maulana Abu Sayeed is seated second from right to left) As reported in the UK Independent (10/14/10), president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, has reiterated alarming
The Government of Cuba (GOC) will be at a cross roads in 2011. The Castro dictatorship regards the current US Administration as “simpatico.” The GOC feels in the coming year there will be a move to end the US Cuban
On Nov 9, 2001 a 30′ steel Angel created by artist Lei Hennessy-Owen of Delivering Angels was presented at Ground Zero in a fairly secret reception attended by the NYC Fire Riders, First Responders, NYPD, NYC Fire Department and 9/11
An international row was triggered on Saturday by a leading German politician who said that Turkish and Arab immigrants were unable to integrate into German society and should no longer be accepted, according to the Guardian. Horst Seehofer, the premier
A fascinating article in The Diplomat argues that contrary to the public face of a stable and prospering China, the country has some serious internal problems. An excerpt: “But take a look inside the gates, beyond the headline economic figures,
The Pentagon follows a six-step process that can go as high as the president of the United States before launching an aerial strike against a suspected terrorist target, according to military documents filed in a federal court in Washington. Those
After a clash in the disputed East China Sea last month between China and Japan, China initiated a boycott of Japanese goods and held up exports of material needed by Japanese electronics manufacturers. Weeks later, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev planned
In November and December of 2004, U.S. Marines were involved in the heaviest urban combat since the Vietnam War as they went house-to-house rooting out insurgents in the terror stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq. In all, fifty-one brave Americans would be
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by MI Congressman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra. The Congressman weighs in on Karzai’s peace talks with the Taliban, Ahmedinejad in Lebanon, and domestic terror
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is offering new guidelines in an effort to root out “rampant” corruption reports the Asian media. Just how bad is it? “The most astonishing corruption case was that of Wang Shouye, the former deputy commander
Lebanon is a “university of Jihad,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Hizballah General Assembly meeting held in his honor Wednesday. Ahmadinejad’s comments during the visit have so far been split between provocation and conciliation, in speeches addressed as much
The Simones, as I call them. No, this is not a French rock duet. Simone Signoret and Simone Weil. If you’ve only read The Ordinary Miracle II, you know of my romantically obsessive love for Simone Signoret. You may not
Military Occupation, that is. At least that’s what Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor says, according to the Politico’s Laura Rozen. Not only that, but Pape is scheduled to present his findings to Congress, where I’m sure
“>Today I reported at Pajamas Media that an Al-Qaeda cleric, Anwar Hajjaj, had led Friday prayers for the Congressional Muslim Staff Association on Capitol Hill back in 2006 based on information included in a recent article in the New York
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has doubled-down on failure. Ignoring the growing protests of its outraged members, the supposedly “independent” VFW Political Action Committee (VFW-PAC) has issued a new statement refusing to back off on the disgraceful set of
Thirty eight years ago today, on October 14, 1962 JFK’s National Security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, appeared on ABC’s “Issues and Answers” to rebut hysteria from some tinfoil-hatters of the time. “Nothing but refugee rumors,” sneered Bundy regarding reports from Cuban-
Israel is consumed with controversy over new oath of allegiance laws that have just been passed by the Knesset. Lee Smith writing at Tablet Magazine offers some insightful analysis: “Sunday the Knesset voted to require an oath of allegiance be
