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.
Rifqa Bary, a teen convert from Islam, was at the center of a custody battle as she fled her home in Ohio for Florida. She turned 18 last week and has finally been released from custody in Ohio. Below is
In an important article appearing today, military writer Jim Michaels writes: “For all the hype of today’s 24/7 instantaneous news, the media were consistently about six months behind important developments on the ground in Iraq. Newspaper readers in 1876 got
Ramadan begins at sundown on Tuesday, August 10, 2010. In honor of the occasion, Cherif El Ayouty sends the following essay from Denmark (via Hans Erling Jensen). Happy Ramadan! by Cherif El Ayouty The new moon that signals the beginning
But however valuable to American taxpayers today, U.S. sanctions against Castro’s Stalinist regime were not originally enacted because of their abysmal credit rating. Following please find a list of items the Congressional Black Caucus, the U.S. Rice Producers Association and
The future availability of our US crude oil supply is part of the current unrecognized international economic war. The objective of this conflict is control of natural resources, especially crude oil and natural gas, technology, shipping lanes, markets, job creating
The Taliban – never formally recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S. – took credit for the recent execution of ten Western doctors, nurses and translators in northern Afghanistan, where they were delivering free medical care to the poor.
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by Andy McCarthy of National Review Online and author of The Grand Jihad. McCarthy cites a shocking new development broken by his colleague, Claudia Rosett of the Foundation for Defense
Having spoken at many college campuses nationwide in the last two years, it often shocks me how many administrations and faculty are ardently against our War on Terror. While their positions are problematic, the underlying issue is the failure to
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg is to New York – and by extension the United States – what French general Philippe Pétain was to his country in WWII, we have cause for great concern. France was in desperate need of a
Marc Thiessen writes in his Washington Post column: “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made clear that his objective in releasing tens of thousands of classified documents was to ‘end the war in Afghanistan’ and ‘oppose an unjust [war] plan before
The Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy has led tens of millions of couples to abandon or abort baby girls and created a huge and growing surplus of men. What does this all this excess testosterone mean for China and, more
Torrential rains continued to pour down on Pakistan, worsening an already catastrophic situation, according to Dawn. The Indus river, which runs down the middle of Pakistan from top to bottom, almost for the entire length of the country, has been
I just got this video with a look at a firefight in Afghanistan like it actually looks. [youtube Bmh8EgvNP0M nolink] Below the fold is another, longer more intense fight from 2 years ago close to the border with Pakistan. There
So a Mosque and Islamic Community Center just feet from ground zero? Hmmm, I wonder what Jefferson would do (WWJD)? In 1784, attending a conference in Paris with Franklin and Adams to “market U.S. goods,” TJ was quick to determine
This is the final of four installments of the interview with John Bernard. Readers who are interested may watch the entire interview on Vimeo, or in two parts on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2. The full transcript is available
**UPDATE: Audio fixed. Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Former federal judge and United States Attorney General, Michael Mukasey joins Frank to discuss the lawsuit designed to protect American jihadist-terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. Proponents of this suit say that because
Homer Simpson once observed during a Springfield Oktoberfest gala: “Ah the Germans. Ya just can’t stay mad at ’em!” And certainly after the actions taken by Hamburg authorities yesterday, I must heartily concur. In a move that flies in the
Say what you will about our foreign policy pseudo-sophisticates, but when they commit to counterproductive policies grounded in incoherent assumptions, they stay committed. Whether they’re pushing public diplomacy apology tours to the Muslim world to “spread the truth about American
Within twenty-four hours of the Lebanese attack on a team of Israeli Army tree trimmers, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Ill) issued the following statement in support of Israel’s actions during the incident: Lebanon’s unprovoked attack on Israeli Defense Forces earlier this
Douglas Murray from the London Based think tank, The Centre for Social Cohesion, joins Frank to discuss the most comprehensive open source intelligence resource on U.K. based Islamist terrorists. The report, Islamist Terrorism: The British Connection is an exhaustive compendium
President Obama announced Monday that American troops in Iraq will be reduced from 144,000 to 50,000 by the end of this month and that a complete withdrawal will occur by the end of 2011. It still is not clear how
