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.
Jordan’s Queen Rania is on a mission, to bridge the religious and cultural divides between the Muslim and Western worlds. She also wants to advocate for education in her country. To serve those goals she has written a children’s book
In a statement released July 5th, the 199th anniversary of Venezuela’s Independence, Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, congratulated the people of Venezuela and expressed this amazing sentiment: We share a common history of emancipation and democratic aspiration. We’ll
“It is a pedagogical and cultural challenge. But it is also an enormous enrichment for both sides.” — Ilse Riesinger, director of the Butterfly School Our Austrian correspondent AMT drew our attention to the following article from last week’s Kurier,
A memo obtained from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence indicates the Washington Post is preparing to “publish articles and an interactive website that will likely contain a compendium of government agencies and contractors allegedly conducting Top Secret
The Obama administration is getting kudos for its quick action in the Russian spy case. Ten Russian spies were apprehended, allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of failing to register as agents of a foreign government, and put
Thursday Senator Jon Kyl– the most strategic thinker in the Senate on America’s nuclear deterrent– spent two segments on Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney discussing missile defense and Elena Kagan’s embrace of Shariah Finance while serving as Dean of
On the eve of an important hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee on President Obama’s nuclear weapons policies and programs and the New START Treaty, Senator Jon Kyl has reasserted his leadership role on such issues. The last time
When Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney went off on the White House, the White House noticed. In a withering column in the Washington Post, Romney labeled the New START arms control agreement “Obama’s Worst Foreign Policy Mistake.” That did not
Muslim civil rights group says movement fails to repudiate Islamophobia WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today offered support for an NAACP resolution passed earlier this week asking the Tea Party movement
Sun Tzu recently received the following email: PEACE POETRY Religions are based on scripture, which is mostly poetry. So it only makes sense that religious conflict must be resolved through poetry, and not through politics, negotiation, or war. I propose
In 1793 George Washington, President of the United States, set forth in his role as “Commander in Chief” to lead a military force into western Pennsylvania to suppress violent resistance to federal authority during the famous “Whisky Rebellion.” The authority
[youtube giY8uPWmrCA nolink] Any excuse to escape the fetid swamp that is DC in the Summer is good enough, a fundraiser for wounded vets is a no brainer. My karma can always use some help. I work with the Warrior
Sun Tzu about 500 BC wrote The Art of War. One of his main points is a nation must know its enemy thoroughly. There are several critical military issues being debated in Washington today. Should the US have a combat
The headline President Obama wants uppermost in the minds of American voters today is that the stimulus bill is translating into real jobs, after all. For this purpose, he travels to Holland, Michigan to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new
“I cannot recall at any time when the gap between the kind of words which statesmen used and what was actually happening in many countries was so great as it is now. The habit of saying smooth things and uttering
The Al-Arabiya TV station has broadcast excerpts of the failed Times Square car bomb suspect saying he planned a “revenge attack” against the US that he hoped would touch the hearts of Muslims. [youtube Sthfx5qmnuw nolink]
The US Marines are about to try an experiment that would change the way their squads fight. Its test will take place in Afghanistan, starting this fall. The good news is that front lines reviews will be the key, not
Something slipped in during the July 4th holiday season. DAVID Cameron yesterday spelt out his five-year exit strategy for British forces in Afghanistan. While the Prime Minister said combat troops should be out by 2015, he said there would continue
As the world continues to do little more than wring its hands over the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, what passes for a government in Tehran is preparing to stone to death a mother of two for the crime
A Holocaust survivor and his daughter and grand-kids dance to a disco favorite at camps across Europe. [youtube EUvo5OHH6o8 nolink]
Our Norwegian correspondent Zylark reported yesterday on the torching of an asylum center by disgruntled illegal immigrants. Today’s installment concerns last week’s arrest of three suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. And then we have the three terrorists, thwarted by some good
“I’m not presenting the Islamic system as one of the alternatives – or an alternative. This is a defeatist and apologetic approach. The Islamic system is the only alternative for mankind.” – A speaker at the Hizb ut Tahrir Khalifa
Louis Farrakhan recently sent a three-page letter along with two books to the heads of sixteen Jewish organizations. Dated June 24, 2010, the letter is resplendent with a crescent-and-moon flag and Farrakhan’s impressive-sounding title (“National Representative of the Honorable Elijah
Thai Soldier Watching for Snipers in Bangkok (May 2010): 12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.
