National Security

[Editors’ Note: Two months ago Jim Hanson reported on BigGovernment.com that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was likely to become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. Today, Mr. Hanson’s report was confirmed. To honor SSG Giunta,

Read part I of this post here. [The following was provided to Big Peace by an anonymous source in Poland.] From the first day of the crash many Polish conservatives have been afraid that clear lack of professionalism and perhaps

American troops on an Iraqi Army base in Baghdad laid down heavy “assistance” fire with their “assistance” M4’s last week. Despite Barack Obama’s stone-faced declaration that US military forces in Iraq are not actually “combat” troops, our combat troops did

[youtube UTEHm0p0a7I nolink] Team Rubicon is an intrepid group of military vets, doctors, and first responders who march to the sound of suffering. They formed in the days immediately following the earthquake in Haiti and basically grabbed their gear and

As President Hugo Chavez binds Venezuela ever tighter to every international enemy of the USA, at home he confronts high inflation, dropping oil revenue, a falling GDP, and a National Assembly election just a few weeks way. That said he

Here’s a look at the people who are really behind the Koran burning controversy:

I cannot accept the premise that causing “outrage to Muslims” is reason enough to condemn the burning some paper and ink. Nor would the matter differ if someone threatened to burn the Bible. A thing that has been done —

From the Associated Press: The minister of a Florida church said he has canceled plans to burn copies of the Quran because the leader of a much-opposed plan to build an Islamic Center near ground zero has agreed to move

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, the sage of the Hoover Institution and Johns Hopkins University Professor Fouad Ajami, puts America’s actions in Iraq into proper strategic and historical context. In the words of General Norman Schwarzkopf, “The road

At the recent Al Quds Day demonstration in Berlin, Muslim protesters observed the holy month of Ramadan by calling for a “Jew-free Jerusalem” and giving Nazi salutes. JLH has translated an article from Politically Incorrect about the event, and also

Imam Feisal Rauf makes the following comment that includes a quote from the Koran near the conclusion of his treacly 9/7/10 New York Times, Op-Ed: The Koran declares in its 36th chapter, regarded by the Prophet Muhammad as the heart

Read part I of this post here. Another highly successful counter-insurgency occurred in Hungary in 1956. Hungary was occupied by the Soviet Union after WWII. After a typical communist charade of free elections, the Hungarian government became a de facto

From CBN: PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the

I have to admit, I have a certain admiration for the Ground Zero mosque Imam, Feisal Rauf. Whether he’s telling the government that his wife’s apartment is a mosque that seats 500 in order to get religious tax exemptions or

[The following was provided to Big Peace by an anonymous source in Poland.] Crash of government’s plane (Polish president does not have one and it is very important for defining who takes responsibility for a preparation of the president’s flight)

In a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the work of the United Nations and said it is “the single most important global institution.”

“If we move from that location, the story will be the radicals have taken over the discourse, the headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack. Our national security now hinges on how we negotiate this,

Marc Thiessen comments on Obama’s recent Oval Office oratory: Years ago, Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon called “what dogs hear.” Two identical panels, side-by-side, showed a man speaking to his dog, Ginger. In the first, the man tells

Obama State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned is “un-American” and the protesters are “consistent with” those al Qaeda terrorists who murdered

President Obama on Tuesday declared Iraq a done deal. Okay, he didn’t support the surge, back in the Bush days. He and his anti-war pals in the Senate declared the war lost years ago. His progressive world-view won’t allow him

My friend Marc Thiessen uncovered this gem in Tony Blair’s new memoir. President George W. Bush is at the G-8 summit with Tony Blair and they are listening to the prime minster of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, drone on about global

To anyone following the news, it is unsurprising to find out that “Call me Senator!” Boxer is in a tight re-election campaign this year. So, it’s hardly surprising to find her implying that she will put the purchase of more