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.
What exactly is “courage” in the context of art? I spent the 4th of July weekend the same way many others did. I watched a TV special on the Revolution; my Fiancé made a raspberry pie in the shape of
In January 2009, six men and one woman broke into an EDO MBM arms factory in Sussex and caused 180,000-worth of damage as a ‘protest’ against the Israeli counter-terrorist operation in the Gaza Strip known as Cast Lead. Despite the
Below is the second installment of a four-part interview with Gandalf, the French writer who recently founded the Alliance to STOP Sharia. Part 1 is available here, along with the preface to the interview. Q: So, if I understand you
New York politicians are bending over backwards and violating protocol to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero. In warped speed they are ramming it through, removing every obstacle to expedite the process and erect a triumphal mosque at Ground
So, Team Obama has pulled another Christmas Day bomber hash-up. Recall how, in the case of Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, after a grand total of fifty minutes of interrogation by the law enforcement folks who could be scared up in Detroit
UPDATE: The Iranian government has announced that Ashtiani will not be stoned. But they have left open the possibility that she might be executed. According to CNN, a 42-year old Iranian mother of two – Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani – will
General David Petraeus’ new command over the war in Afghanistan should be accompanied by a drastic change in U.S. policies that have turned this failed state into the world’s leading source of opium and Hashish. Afghans now cultivate more than
Under Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization notoriously said one thing to Arab/Muslim audiences and the opposite to Israeli/Western ones, speaking venomously to the former and in dulcet tones to the latter. What about Arafat’s mild-mannered successor, Mahmoud Abbas? Did
On Tuesday President Obama met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. I am disappointed that President Obama did not take this opportunity to reinforce his commitment to our allies in the Middle East by pledging stronger action to stop
Consider this dispatch from a slightly alternate universe: Honolulu, Dec. 7, 1951: 10 years after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, 9 years after the dark days of World War II when President Roosevelt decided on a policy of engagement,
According to news reports from around the world, two top jihadists are now in custody. Such news should be the cause for celebration by the United States and the rest of the Free World. The Obama administration, however, is likely
Controversies concerning Islam are becoming more frequent and more public in countries all across Europe. The success of Geert Wilders in the recent Dutch elections, the Swiss minaret ban, the rise of the EDL in Britain, the movement in several
Bullets fly fast: Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army. I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to
From “Just A Grunt” of the JammieWearingFool blog: Damn, another good leftwing cause celebre has gone up in flames. Pun intended. A so-called mosque was recently the target of arson in Georgia and today the police have their man. The
After the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood, the official reaction from General Casey to the West-Clark Report were disappointing in the extreme for their lack of clear and direct understanding of the problem, but in a way are understandable given
It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the pillars of Obama’s post-American presidency is to be the islamization of America. How bad is Obama’s obsession with ceding the free world to the umma (the Muslim world community)? Chilling to
Very important news in filling the gap created at US Central Command by Gen. Petraeus moving to lead US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis has been picked to take over U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon
Absent a coherent U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, the best ally of democrats in the region has always been the inevitable economic backlash that is concomitant with socialist economic policies. Other than the military coups and popular rebellions that
Jaw-dropping court testimony by Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, singlehandedly undermines Obama administration efforts to ignore the dangers of Islamism and jihad. Shahzad’s forthright statement of purpose stands out because jihadis, when facing legal charges, typically save their
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Big Peace, in less than a week, has a notch in its Big Belt. We posted a Big Peace update on Youtube’s removal of Latma-TV’s video parody exposing the hypocrisy of the Flotilla Terrorists – “We Con The World” –
The Soviet Union coined the term “national technical means” to convey a clear and appropriate concept — namely, sovereign states maintain exclusive control over certain agencies that can be applied to determine outcomes in certain situations. Applying this understanding to
An elaborately planned strategic influence effort went awry for the former KGB last month when the FBI busted 11 Russian agents after a decade-long investigation. Many of the Russian spies, who had spent years assuming American and other western identities,
Bangkok, May 2010: Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place. She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons. One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate
How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals? Kennedy said in his speech to a Joint Session of Congress in May 1961: “First, I believe that this nation
