National Security

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) of the University of Texas in Austin can hardly be seen as a conservative institute. However, despite its “long history of academic focus on the Middle East” and promoting Arab and Iranian civilizations

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Kofi Annan tries a new Syria peace plan involving Iran, as his first one collapses Hillary Clinton cool to working with Iran in Kofi Annan peace plan #2 Syria regime perpetrates a new massacre

ATHENS, GreeceGreece’s unemployment shot up to 21.9 percent in March, rising sharply from the 15.7 percent rate in the same month last year and up from 21.4 percent in February, the country’s statistics agency said Thursday. Greece has been struggling

In early May my mom called from five states away and asked, “Are the fires getting close to you?” I told her they weren’t, but that night I did see flames in the mountains. And by the time May was

Tuesday night I was blessed to win the Republican primary in New Jersey’s Ninth Congressional District and will face Congressman Bill Pascrell in the general election in the fall. As fortune would have it, I was in Israel on the

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday that the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan over the Haqqani network that attacks US troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan “has to take action” against safe havens used by

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has accused the Obama administration of leaking classified information regarding intelligence operations in order to benefit Barack Obama’s reelection by strengthening Obama’s foreign policy credentials. On CBS “This Morning,” McCain charged, “This is the most highly classified information

Wednesday afternoon, the president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, contemptuously fired back at Paul Krugman, the New York Times leftist columnist who hilariously fancies himself an expert on financial matters.  Krugman’s column, which came out earlier in the day, started the

Four years ago, Israeli “dove” Avi Primor cooed over the prospects for a comprehensive peace settlement in the Mideast. The “key” to peace, wrote Israel’s former Ambassador to Germany, lies in Damascus. Amb. Primor wrote if Israel would only agree

(AP) MEXICO CITYA website that promises to help people have discreet extra-marital affairs is using Mexico’s presidential race to promote its services in the country. Campaign front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has acknowledged cheating on his former

A drone strike in the Waziristan border region of Pakistan killed 15 people on Monday. The target of the strike was Abu Yahya al-Libi who isconsidered to be Ayman al-Zawahiri’s second in command of al Qaeda. Unnamed intelligence officials have confirmed

The state of Arizona requests identification of any person whom the police have “reasonable suspicion” is in the country illegally. Arizona then throws illegal immigrants behind bars. For that, it is being sued by the federal government, which chooses not

Fresh reports out of Iran have found uranium enriched to grades higher than that needed for civilian use, leaving little doubt about the mullahs’ real intentions. In that context, one would expect nothing but praise for the German government, which just

(AP) Syrian president appoints new prime ministerBy ELIZABETH A. KENNEDYAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian President Bashar Assad appointed a loyalist as prime minister Wednesday as he battles an uprising against his rule that has grown increasingly violent over the past 15 months. Riad

(AP) TRIPOLI, Libya Attackers set off a bomb next to a wall of the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi Wednesday, the State Department said, causing no casualties. The blast underlined the unstable security situation in Libya,

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. American drone strike kills Al-Qaeda’s second in command in Pakistan Pakistan lodges protest with US over drone attacks Cyprus seeks EU bailout Deflation hits Greece as supermarket prices plummet After conducting the horrific Houla

Legislators from both parties are condemning a string of leaks from the “highest levels” of the White House about the Osama bin Laden killing, President Barack Obama’s oversight of a terrorist “kill list,” and U.S. cooperation with Israel in creating

Paris, France’s economic capital, is an expensive place to live. Because of that, successive governments have been trying to artificially bring rent down over the years to avoid tenants’ defaulting on their payments. That’s an impossible task, and so the

In just the latest act of anti-Semitic violence in France, three Jewish youngsters were on their way to synagogue in the Lyon suburb of Villeurbanne when they were insulted by three Muslim youths. The Jewish kids replied, and the Arab teens left — only

On June 1, the New York Times ran a column which lauded President Obama for his continuation of President George W. Bush’s “sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.” The Times pointed out that Obama

(AP) Suicide bombers kill 22 civilians at Afghan marketMIRWAIS KHANAssociated PressKANDAHAR, AfghanistanThree suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, leaving 22 people dead at least 50 others injured in a dusty marketplace that was

Japan said Wednesday Europe must act “responsibly” to solve the debt crisis that is wracking the world economy after G7 finance ministers ramped up pressure on the continent’s leaders. Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said politicians needed to move to

A suicide motorcycle bombing killed 21 people and wounded 22 others Wednesday in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, police said. The bomber struck in a parking lot crowded with dozens of trucks supplying the NATO-run Kandahar Air Base and a