National Security

July 30th the House of Representatives, now on recess, passed the 225 page HR 3534 Offshore Drilling Regulation Bill and the 16 page HR 5851 Offshore Oil & Gas Worker Whistleblower Act. The Democratic Leadership headed by Congressman Ray Rahall

Reuters reports that China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. The World Bank and Goldman Sachs predict that China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy in a short 15 years, by 2025. While

Just earlier this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Amhadinejad announced that the United States and Israel would attack two countries in the Middle East. Charles Krauthammer suggests he has in mind Lebanon and Syria. That Middle Eastern autocrats focus myopically on

In May, we exclusively broke the story that Taliban leader, Mullah Omar had been taken into the custody of Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Since that time, there has been multiple reporting that supports our exclusive, including Colonel Oliver

A new report from the American Foreign Policy Council says its time to reboot our Iran strategy and advocates aggressive economic warfare. An excerpt: America’s strategy toward Iran is faltering. Nearly seven years after the disclosure of the Iranian regime’s

So argues Lee Smith here. An excerpt: “None of the big media companies has figured out how to make their Internet presence into a profit center that can sustain operations, even as they turn their hallowed brand-names over to opinion

The latest edition of my new show, Stakelbeck on Terror, is now online. You can watch it here. In this week’s episode, I sit down with a former Palestinian Muslim sniper who used to work for terror master Yasser Arafat–but

Covert Influence Not Propaganda In covert influence, the payload is subtle. When done correctly, it is hard to identify the payload as anything but the creator’s point of view. The payload is disguised as critical thinking, cultural criticism, or intellectual

This June the FBI arrested a group of Russian intelligence officers and agents. American commentators were puzzled at the spies’ lack of success in stealing “secrets.” Even though the KGB has enjoyed great success in covert influence operations against the

From Spiegel Online: A local Berlin politician … is under fire for inviting Dutch populist Geert Wilders to a meeting on Islam on October 2. Rene Stadtkewitz, who is known for his anti-Islamic views, has refused to cancel the invitation,

[youtube EPjNduWGd7E nolink] Washington, DC – In most administrations, leaks of classified information precipitate presidential ire. Nearly all such unauthorized disclosures are the consequence of disgruntled government employees deciding that a “leak” is the best way to stop some activity

I first interviewed the only man to successfully infiltrate the Weather Underground for the FBI – Larry Grathwohl – on November 2nd, 2008. It was two days before Barack Obama was elected president and what prompted that interview was a

There are plenty of reasons to love the Floyd, but you can add a big one now. Roger Waters gave permission to a couple of Iranian brothers in Canada with a band called Blurred Vision to re-record the the song

Barack Obama once again shows his fecklessness and weakness in foreign policy with a decision by the State Department to allow the Palestinian Mission in Washington D.C. to fly the flag of its non-existent country. Recently the flag of the

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Last week the North Korean government (officially, the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, a misuse of the word “democratic” if ever there was one), threatened a massive nuclear strike if the United States and South Korea carried out their annual

This week, I chose 30 July as the day to represent the Medal, as it has an interesting concatenation of awards. We start, as most days do for the Medal, with the Civil War, and 23 Medals, 21 of them

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America’s borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives

Georgetown, S.C. — The Washington “Compost” is mercifully less than ubiquitous down here in the Carolina low country. That’s why I was a bit surprised by the comments of a fellow customer at the Independent Seafood pier when I went

There is a legislative drama being played out in Washington DC this week. The Congress has a summer recess beginning after work on Friday, July 31 and returns to session Sept 14 to stay in session until October 8th. The

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It was 20 years ago this week that young people in Kashmir, emboldened by the fall of the Berlin Wall, became a separatist insurgency demanding independence from India. Kashmir, known for its beautiful scenery, has become the focal point today

What do we make of the Wiki-leaks and the Washington Post series on the growth of the “Classified Industry”? First, the big news on the wiki-leaks is that our journalistic embed program is working very well precisely because the Wiki-leaks

At the American Enterprise Institute this afternoon former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich gave a truly Churchillian address about the most serious threat facing America today: Shariah. It deserves a place in the firmament of history’s most

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