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.
Imam says that Terrorists are the real men and that Americans are not. Further, he says that General Petraus “will be defeated and sent straight to hell.” [youtube C-qQN_F8T4c nolink] Thanks to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) for
Journalists love whistleblowers. Just not when the whistle is blown on them. Journalists love transparency. As long as they’re not the ones being exposed. No steadfast journalism rule is unbendable when it comes to justifying and protecting the racket that
JournoList scandal is back and prepare for it to be a driving force in the news for quite some time. The Daily Caller published an article tonight indicating they’ve obtained emails from the JournoList and the initial details are as
The European Union is acting decisively once again to help the Palestinians, who are, as usual, unable to function without jizya payments aid money from wealthy Western countries. Aid is fungible, of course, and the more that pours in for
Last week, the VA made a move that at first blush may seem like a good thing – but it isn’t. Sally Satel over at the WSJ gives us a good overview. Veterans with unrelenting PTSD can receive disability benefits
William Arkin along with Dana Priest just released an epic bit of hype and marketing called Top Secret America in the Washington Post. Arkin is relatively undistinguished as a journalist, but he did have one brush with notoriety when he
The Washington Post has published massive amounts of secret intelligence material in the interests, they say, of improving US national security. The two authors, Dana Priest and William Arkin, complain about a national security enterprise that has grown by leaps
Few people believe the Obama administration’s assurances that our border with Mexico is secure, but actually seeing it is striking. A new video (below) prepared by my colleague Janice Kephart, based on hidden-camera footage from southern Arizona, is shocking. The
Previously on Big Peace we exposed Elena Kagan’s active support for Shariah Law. During her years as Dean of Harvard Law School, from 2003-2009, she ran and greatly expanded the Islamic Legal Studies Program. In publications and conferences, her program
The media are gathered in the White House press room expecting another session kicking the crap out of feckless Robert Gibbs. The lights dim and several disco balls descend from the ceiling while tendrils of smoke snake across the front
The Washington Post series Top Secret America promises to be an indictment of the American intelligence community. They are offering up plenty of stories about bureaucratic inertia, duplication of efforts, and money wasted in an effort to keep America safe.
The Center for Security Policy’s web ad raising questions about Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination targets her dedication to Shariah law: “As Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from campus because US law said they couldn’t
At the hearings for Elena Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Jeff Sessions rightly pointed out a dramatic inconsistency in the nominee’s capacity for outrage: While deploring the United States’ policy of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in no uncertain
American aerial tankers are the backbone of western airpower. Without them, not only are large swathes of the USAF effectively grounded, so are many allied air forces flying in places like Afghanistan. Everyone knows about the “KC-X” tanker war underway
“It is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invader’s hearth.”
Recently, American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Rubin addressed a luncheon on Capitol Hill and gave a master class on the devolution of the once-secular state of Turkey into the swamp of Islamism with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his
A poster smuggled out of North Korea this week certainly appears to be boasting about the sinking of the Cheonan last March. It’s quite timely because the North Koreans met with the UN earlier this week to again deny responsibility
It seemed, no doubt, the fashionable thing to do at the time, and as in all Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s close relationships with Islamic law and Shariah jurists, she may have just wanted to please her Saudi donors supporting
Late last month provocative pictures of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman graced newspapers and blogs worldwide. The stories alongside the mandatory eye-candy featured scandalous accounts of “spying” and “espionage.” But despite the insinuations, the Russian “spies” in question were never
Below is the second part of a two-part article from Kurier about a multicultural school in Vienna. It was translated from the German by JLH. Our Austrian correspondent AMT, who tipped us about the article, has included a brief commentary
Congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CA)– Chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus–appeared today on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney to discuss border security. Listen to Congressman Bilbray: [audio:http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/07/07132010_bray.mp3] Other topics discussed included President Obama’s statement to Senator Kyl on amnesty
This is a new and dangerous escalation in violence on the U.S.-Mexican border. [youtube byivvOzteqw nolink]
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New ad urging the Senate’s rejection of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. [youtube l1cC4Q6nA64 nolink]
What are the strategic implications of this? From Newser: “China has made astounding advances in recent decades, but a destabilizing gender imbalance threatens the country’s progress. The one-child policy combined with a marked preference for sons has led to skewed
