National Security

I have never heard Tom Petty talk politics. When it comes to performers, that generally is a good thing. Last week my wife and I took our kids, 13 and 11, to see Petty and the Heartbreakers. Having seen them

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry formally noticed members of his panel that the Committee would hold a mark-up on September 16th of the strategic arms reduction treaty negotiated by the Obama administration with the Russians. Remarkably, the resolution

So the war in Iraq is over, we’re told. As TIME asked, what will the last 50,000 U.S. troops do? Withdrawal

From the LA Times: The command center of Andrew Breitbart’s growing media empire is a suite of offices on Sawtelle Boulevard in West Los Angeles with the temporary feel of a campaign office. Only the computers seem firmly anchored. On

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank lays out the broader national security implications for the administrations new export control policy. Things are not as they seem. Frank calls upon Congress for a mechanism to quantify the costs to

As a service to all Americans, allow me to remind you all of Sen. Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement in 2007: [youtube jyDOAmJYFFA] Now, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sen. Reid makes an unbelievable new claim: At the time Sen. Reid

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Geert Wilders has just learned that an Australian imam named Feiz Muhammad has issued a fatwa calling for the Dutch politician’s beheading. Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated a couple of Dutch-language articles on the topic, and includes additional material

Maajid Nawaz’s oped in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal attempts to draw a distinction between Islam and Islamism. While there may indeed be such an argument if “Islam” means any given Muslim’s personal, subjective approach to the divine and “Islamism” means

In the wake of yesterday’s hostage drama at the Discovery Network, we have learned that the perpetrator, James Lee, was driven by environmental extremism. It turns out that he didn’t like people very much, seeing them as threats to the

It’s about Mideast peace and a Palestinian state, but this summit is President Obama’s show. The President greeted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Wednesday, in preparation for peace talks that began

Robert Rodriguez’s Machete opens today. Here’s a preview: [youtube Ar4Fgyqv2wo nolink] Lots of Big Hollywood coverage here. And guess what? They’ll be sequels!

Abeer Mohammed is a senior local editor based in Baghdad for Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Here’s an excerpt from a post at the IWPR site about the story behind his sensational report (posted below) on how teachers in

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Douglas Feith, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for the George W. Bush administration, joins Frank for a candid discussion on Iraq. Douglas, who is the author of War and Decision: Inside

Despite the fact that polls show overwhelming majorities in Israel support a two-state peace solution, the US Government is funding an ad campaign in Israel featuring this television spot as well as billboards of Palestinian officials asking: “We are partners

The office of the public prosecutor in the Netherlands reports that it has released the two Yemenis who conducted a “dry run” terrorist attack on a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam. Despite a blithe official assurance that the men are

Hao Tiechuan, a Liaison Officer from Beijing stationed in Hong Kong, recently laid out the role of the media in the event of a crisis. Noting that “journalists should be humble and show restraint,” he went on to say that

We didn’t lose the Vietnam war, no matter what they may have told you in school. We defeated the North Vietnamese army, the Tet offensive was the last hurrah of the North. But the Democrats used it and the capitulation

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 private security.

The most important passage in President Obama’s “end of war” speech declares that there are no longer “surrender ceremonies”, which he seems to interpret to mean that there are no longer “celebrations of victories.” Victory, he suggests, consists in the

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See part 1 here and part 2 here. American character has not significantly changed since the 1830s and de Tocqueville’s travels. As we look to the future we sometimes inadvertently leave things and people behind to our later regret. The

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Frank unravels Obama’s speech announcing the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins with what Obama got right. In the end, it is the geo-strategic conditions created by the President which are most

President Obama’s speech was a somewhat cover-all-the-bases address. It will not change the direction of U.S. domestic or international policy. President Obama hinted at going on “the offensive” because of the ending of the combat mission in Iraq. But he

Every attempted terror attack in the United States eventually develops a shorthand designation — its own personal nickname, if you will. Richard Reid immediately became “The Shoe Bomber.” John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo are known as “The Beltway