National Security

Crude oil is a commodity. For centuries commodities have been traded on international commodity markets. For decades the Texas Railroad Commission had monthly Proration Meetings and in essence set the price of world oil. When the US became less important

It’s never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, cabinet ministers, military service chiefs, intelligence officials,

The most informed and understandably passionate critics of Sharia-supremacist Imam Feisal Rauf’s proposed Ground Zero mosque are men and women such as FDNY Rescue’s Tim Brown, and 9 /11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, Debra Burlingame. Motivated by

The title of the excerpted AP report below is “War doesn’t rest for Islam holy month.” But maybe the title should have been “Islam doesn’t rest for war” — as in doesn’t let the war stop its dawa (proselytizing), only

There is a very disturbing report about the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish military against Kurdish rebels. The ongoing war has led to many thousands of casualties, but the use of chemical weapons would be a outrage. The

The 65th anniversary of the surrender of Japan (following what was for US forces a three year and eight month ordeal of savage fighting across the Pacific starting at Pearl Harbor and finally culminating in the incineration of two of

Melanie Morgan, founder of Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization, led about a dozen conservative activists who protested at the Venice home of Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate

Stallone, though, doesn’t apologize for creating characters that are proud Americans and offers the observation that: “America apologizes too much.”

Medea Benjamin “call(s) for help” before she is arrested for trespassing at the McLean, Va., home of Erik Prince, August 20, 2010. Photo by Code Pink. Terrorist supporter and Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin was arrested Friday evening at

This is the second part of a three-part investigative report on the Dutch government’s contribution to the financing of the Ground Zero Mosque. It was translated by our Flemish correspondent VH from the Dutch-language section of the ICLA website. Part

Thursday during the 1 PM hour CNN’s “Newsroom,” this exchange took place between CNN reporter Ali Velshi and Time Magazine’s deputy international editor Bobby Ghosh: VELSHI: The name Cordoba- some people are associating it with Muslim rule and bloody battles,

Stonings at Ground Zero — that’ll be the day, right? The concept has no manifestation beyond the cold sweat of a dark-hours nightmare. Still, there’s something worth gleaning from the not-so-free association process that inspired it. It clicked when I

Speeches by prominent conservatives invariably include the assertion that they stand “for a strong national defense.” Unfortunately, for most conservatives today, “strong national defense” is merely a euphemism for three dubious measures: 1) Generously funding every item the Pentagon has

Note: Please join with me and Move America Forward in calling on Jerry Brown to return any money he has received from Jodie Evans and protest at her fundraiser tomorrow: Aug 21st at 4PM PST at the Home of Jodie

Tonight, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans hosts a fundraiser for California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown at her home in Venice, California. Feel free to drop by. Source: Photo taken by Big Peace Associate Editor Alexander Marlow at a Code Pink

Then: TF 3-15 conducts a “Thunder Run” into the heart of Baghdad: Now: 4th Stryker BCT, 2nd Infantry Division, conducts a mostly simple (still watching for those IEDs) road march out of Baghdad, headed home: The 4th SBCT is the

Is the Chinese military threatening the strategic posture of the U.S. and its allies in East Asia? Former CIA Director James Woolsey thinks so. He had the following to say on today’s broadcast of Secure Freedom Radio: Well, the Chinese

Writing in the Weekly Standard blog, Bill Kristol unearths some truly revealing statements by Ground Zero Mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on the Islamic theocracy of Iran (which, of course, has been in a state of war with the United

On this week’s Tribal Update at Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical website I edit, we feature a new English song sung by Rashid Hamumani, the Iranian Minister of Propaganda and Proliferation. Mr. Hamumani has used the opportunity to share with his

I was not surprised to learn that Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, a Marxist FOO (Friends Of Obama) is holding a fund-raiser Saturday for California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, who is also attorney general of the state. And Evans

As someone who deeply appreciates what Western civilization, for all its faults, has achieved, I puzzle over the hostility many Westerners harbor toward their way of life. If democracy, free markets, and the rule of law have created an unprecedented

[youtube qmZ0Qmqn3Wo nolink] In a 2004 lecture on his book “What is Right With Islam,” Feisal Abdul Rauf discusses how Sharia law is very similar to the founding principles of America.

We’ve been hearing more talk, buzz and chatter about Shariah lately than I imagined was possible. Unfortunately, much of it is still uninformed and reliant only on the emotional buoyancy of 9/11, as though the battleground of Lower Manhattan is