Washington News Observer spoke with various outspoken Republicans. Some Republicans claimed that Republicans came out on top at this summit, while other dismissed it as a waste of time. The following clips feature Reps. Michelle Bachmann, Steve King and Brian
The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce America’s missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare — of a piece with the Democratic base’s visceral hostility to the idea of protecting us against ballistic missile threats. A
NY Times: The Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet (26 meters), making them the size of Boeing 737 passenger jets and the largest unmanned aircraft in Israel’s military. The planes can fly at least 20 consecutive hours
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Riyadh and Jeddah on Monday and Tuesday is aimed at building cooperation on the key regional issues that involve deeply both countries: Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Yemeni security and
It was a busy week for the global jihad. Thursday the mullahs’ mouthpiece, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran had enriched uranium and was now a “nuclear state.” I cannot believe the impotent West allowed
So, if you haven’t seen it already, here’s some shocking video of a bunch of kids beating and robbing a 15-year-old girl in a Seattle bus tunnel. You’ve seen stuff like this before, but this one is especially bad because
Huffington Post: This clip, uploaded on YouTube and picked up by a number of live blogs, appears to show an opposition supporter being beaten by Iran security forces Thursday, though, as always, it’s difficult to verify the video’s origins.
Daily Mail: “We have the capability to enrich uranium more than 20 percent or 80 percent (the level needed to create an atomic bomb),” he said in a speech broadcast live on state television. “But we don’t enrich (to this
Short answer: nobody knows. But given that the West has consistently underestimated — or misrepresented — the Iranian government’s intentions and capabilities, maybe we ought to be paying attention. Especially since they’ve warned us about a stunning “punch” today. Farsi
The original blueprints for the Auschwitz death camp went on display in late January after being discovered in November 2008. They were found by chance behind a wall in a Berlin apartment during renovation work, yet the exact location of
We are in the middle of the Dahe Fajr (the “Ten-Day Dawn”) in Iran. On February 1, thirty-one years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini landed at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. Ten days later, the Shah’s government fell. For these ten days Iran
It’s impossible to avoid the apocalypse these days. Whether we encounter the End in the form of news reports on Global Warming, or fears of Iran getting bomb, or plague panics such as H1N1, we seem to be living in
A Swiss court just threw a wrench in the gears of an IRS effort to impose bad US tax law on an extraterritorial basis, ruling that UBS does not have to hand over data to the American tax authorities. This
This week marks the one year anniversary of Susan Rice’s confirmation by the United States Senate to represent the American people at the United Nations. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. has faced some serious foreign policy challenges such
It is evening. Dinner is over, and I can see Bill Clinton sitting back at a table. In my fantasy, he has a mischievous smile on his face and a cigar in his right hand; his left hand lies on
The left has a long tradition of bowing down to dictators and others they fear. No, I am not talking about President Obama stooping to kings and other foreign leaders. That is just another example of a long tradition of
The information coming out of Iran is raw, and sporadic. Mainstream press coverage is simplistic. Be careful what, and how, you read. Here’s what to do. Why is it so confusing? Both information and disinformation arrive in fragments and in
“Every single Iranian is valuable. The government is at everyone’s service. We like everyone.” -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, June 2009 I cannot use my real name. If the freedom of expressive condemnation practiced in this article were associated with
While audiences in America flock to the escapist eye candy known as Avatar, it’s sobering to realize that in the real world, far away from James Cameron’s utopian dreamscape and the cozy cocoons of our multiplex theaters, another film’s message
On conservative talk shows, defenders of President Obama have frequently asserted that it is too soon into the term of the new administration to fairly judge the policies and performance of our President. Well, nearly a full year has elapsed
Hamas rally, March 30, 2005 (Reuters/Nayef Hashlamoun) [Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.] How deep are the ties between the so-called antiwar
On the foreign policy front, the Democrats for years have blamed America for the actions of rogue nations and dictators. Indeed, as Mona Charen pointed out at length, in her book Useful Idiots, the Democrats have been all too willing
In hockey, rough sport that it is, it is rare that one player scores three goals in one game. They call that a Hat Trick. In the game of politics, Obama now has managed the Liberal Hat Trick in the
Americans fancy the idea that while we might have been asleep prior to 9/11/2001, now our eyes are wide open and we are on alert. This is a pipe dream. If people’s eyes were truly open, they would be closely
AFP: Disarmed Iranian rebels and their families are defying Iraqi police orders to leave a camp near the border. Iraq wants the former fighters of the People’s Mujahedeen, which fought with Saddam Hussein’s regime against Iran in the 1980-88 war,
