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Our Drug War & Unconnected Terror Dots

Our long-ago-lost war on drugs has been interfering with our national security and international relations for decades. The puritanical drive to eradicate the evil plants and substances that ensnare our innocent children would be comical if the costs weren’t so

Pete Hoekstra and Sara Carter on Afghanistan

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by MI Congressman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra. The Congressman weighs in on Karzai’s peace talks with the Taliban, Ahmedinejad in Lebanon, and domestic terror

Call to Arms: Support One of Our Own

Retired Brig. General Anthony Tata, a regular contributor to Big Peace, is one of the contestants in the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit Contest.” (As far as I can tell, he appears to be the only conservative in the

Surprise, Surprise! Military Ballots Not Going Out…

Former U.S. Justice Department attorney Christian Adams is reporting: “The 2010 debacle involving military ballots just became surreal. New York City and Westchester Country are but two of the several New York jurisdictions which admitted that they failed to mail

Burn Those VFW Membership Cards

Duty. Honor. Country. Apparently, the VFW no longer abides by the very virtues our veterans lived and died by. Last week, I wrote a piece on BlackFive.net on the VFW-PAC and their selections across the country for endorsing candidates in

Soldier of Fortune Turns 35 – Part 2

Current cover features Gy. Sgt. Nick Popaditch, Congressional candidate for San Diego, CA’s 51st district: www.popaditchforcongress.com The Laotian Hmong or Miao tribes, who assisted the US during its CIA-operated secret war in Laos, have suffered similarly. For the last thirty

Defining and Defeating the Global Jihad, Islamism

As Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad (above) was being sentenced to life in prison, he told the judge defiantly: “We do not accept your democracy or your freedom because we already have shariah law and freedom.” This notion of already

Soldier of Fortune Turns 35 – Part 1

SOF – an Exceptional Magazine and Much More Like most things unapologetically conservative and unapologetically pro-American, Soldier of Fortune magazine has been pilloried for years by the organized Left’s venomously anti-American press and culture. But SOF, founded in 1975 by

A Salute: Take a Few Minutes Please

Green Beret Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, RIP, will receive the Medal of Honor shortly (1:45 EST) in the White House. His parents are accepting the award on his behalf. We all need to take a few moments to honor this

Sgt. 1st Class Lance Herman Vogeler, RIP

From the Washington Post obituary: Sgt. 1st Class Lance Herman Vogeler, who grew up in Maryland, was described Monday as a leader of men, a religious man and a member of an elite Army unit. He was also a husband

JCC Mullen: 'Trust' Is All You Need

In January 2009. Adm. Mike Mullen — he who failed to present and then sabotaged a non-COIN Afghan war plan for the POTUS, says Woodward — wrote that our problem in Afghanistan (after then-seven years of American sacifice to ward

Hail to the Junta?

Bob Woodward’s latest publishing event, “Obama’s Wars,” includes maybe the most significant scoop of his career: Directing not only Obama’s wars, but also America’s, is a veritable military junta. I exaggerate — some. Frankly, I don’t know how else to

Forced Marriages in Germany

Below is a news report from German television about the forced marriages and domestic violence that are a normal part of the parallel Turkish society in Neuköln. Many thanks to Hans Erling Jensen for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes

Marine Training: Rapport, Chatting, and Hanging Out?

Your tax dollars at work: “In a mock Afghan village on the Quantico Marine base,” the Washington Post reports, “Sloan Mann, a military contractor, guided several Marines into a sweltering concrete room. They came to meet a fake mullah, played

Voting Burqas and Burning Books

From left to right: Afghan women in burqas “voting,” and British men in tea towels burning a Koran. Take a wild guess who’s striking the bigger blow for liberty — the women voting under the sharia-supreme Afghan constitution, or the

US Walks Out of Ahmadinejad UN Speech

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.S. delegation walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged

Obama Can Absorb Defeat

The United States Congress should move swiftly to censure President Obama for his remarks that, “We (the United States) can absorb a terrorist attack…” And most assuredly the American people should vote him out of office in two years. For