Sen. Dick Durbin won his first race for Congress by positioning himself as a strong supporter of Israel. In 1982, he took on long-term incumbent Republican Paul Findley and edged him by just over 1,000 votes, chiefly because he was
Barack Obama has always cloaked his bully tactics behind a veneer of photo-ops and media complicity portraying him as a caring person. Now that he’s been reelected, any façade he constructed has been jettisoned, and as Senator Lindsay Graham said
On Dec. 21, it was announced that former Marine Sgt. Jon Hammar was going to be released by Mexican authorities who had been holding the Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran on trumped up ‘gun-running’ charges for nearly 2 months, chained
Even if they won’t say so out loud, this, I think, reflects the thinking of many among our elite journalist overlords: Conservatism must be silence and marginalized, but an openly anti-American, anti-Semitic network that became our mortal enemy in Afghanistan
The media’s so full of it. Over the past few weeks, the wife and I have been re-watching the brilliant HBO drama, “The Wire.” The show’s fifth and final season focuses on the plight of “The Baltimore Sun,” as the daily newspaper deals
Troubling news via the Associated Press: An American journalist has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than one month ago, his family said Wednesday, less than two years after he was held by government forces in Libya
Rumor has it that President Barack Obama may not have given up his plan to nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense after all, and that Hagel’s nomination may in fact be imminent. The fact that Hagel
Senate Republicans seem eager to let fellow Senator John Kerry (D-MA) sail through the confirmation process and take office as Secretary of State (once current incumbent Hillary Clinton testifies about the Benghazi attack). The logic seems to be that “elections
Former US president George H.W. Bush is on the mend and has been released from intensive care, a spokesman said Saturday. Earlier in the week, McGrath said Bush had taken a turn for the worse, with a “series of setbacks”
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Iran begins annual war games in Strait of Hormuz Sunnis hold mass protests in Iraq against Shia-majority government Gang-raped victim sparks nationwide protests in India Iran begins annual war games in Strait of Hormuz
Not since General Douglas MacArthur had Americans celebrated a general as we did “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf, who cut a figure of strength on the world stage as he decimated Saddam Hussein’s military–which was then thought to be the world’s fourth
Matt Damon is one of Hollywood’s more outspoken celebrities, and he’s not afraid of using his film projects to further his progressive agenda. Just watch – if you can – his 2010 bomb “Green Zone” which rewrites recent history to
The 31st annual “Christmas in Washington” concert on TNT December 21 suffered a dramatic 25 percent loss in viewers from the previous year, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 2011 cablecast of “Christmas in Washington” drew 1.5 million viewers. The
Late yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly approved a 5% budget increase for 2012-2013–with half of the additional spending going towards the UN’s “political missions,” which typically handle peacemaking and conflict resolution. In a time of global austerity, the UN’s
Jon Hammar, the twenty-seven year old Marine who was imprisoned in the notorious CEDES jail in Mexico for four months, arrived home at his parents’ home in Florida Monday in time for Christmas. His mother Olivia, when she heard that Mexico
Last Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Education held public hearings to approve its new social studies education curriculum that leaves out “patriotism” as a civic virtue and teaches that America’s rise as a global power from its agrarian roots led
In what his mother called a “Christmas miracle,” Jon Hammar, the ex-Marine and Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran whom Mexican authorities had detained and chained to a bed in a gang-infested prison on a trumped-up gun charge, was released on
Al Qaeda affiliates in the Syrian opposition continue to grow in strength and numbers. Members of al-Nursa Front, the offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, are not only filling ranks in the opposition but exploiting tensions to pull Sunnis to
FOX NEWS LATINO: Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has the power to pardon former Marine Jon Hammar if the veteran is convicted – but it’s unclear whether Mexico’s highest leader would do so. Hammar’s fate now rest in the hands
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never one to pass up an opportunity to attack Western culture, is offering “advice” to the United States in the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy: Is it not time to seriously and carefully look for the cause of such
(AP) Iraq official says President Talabani had a strokeBy ADAM SCHRECK and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRAAssociated PressBAGHDADIraqi President Jalal Talabani has had a stroke and his medical team in Baghdad is still trying to stabilize his condition, a spokesman for the prime
One former Marine who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is being chained to a bed in a storage closet in a violent Mexican prison because the Mexican government claims the gun he carried violated their laws. He has received death
The season premiere of “Justified” on FX is still almost a month away. For fans of the series, co-star Nick Searcy, better known as Raylan Givens’ boss Chief Deputy Marshal Art Mullen, has taken to the web to teach aspiring
The Syrian regime has fired Scud missiles at rebel forces trying to oust Bashar al-Assad, a US official said, after Arab and Western states recognised the opposition bloc as the sole representative there. Earlier Wednesday an AFP journalist in northwestern
The following is an Associated Press wire story by Frazier Moore: Deck the halls and man the battle stations. The fight has resumed. I’m referring, of course, to the so-called War on Christmas, a yearly call to arms by
