Remember the boasting of “Baghdad Bob” the Iraqi Information Minister (Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf) during the 2003 invasion of Iraq? He made statements like these: There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! My feelings – as usual – we will
The House Committee on Homeland Security released a report detailing how Hezbollah has expanded in Latin America. The report, “A Line In The Sand: Countering Crime, Violence, and Terror at the Southwest Border” is a follow-up to their 2006 report.
The CIA opened the Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009 to monitor the threats posed to national security by “desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts, and heightened competition for natural resources.” When President-elect Barack Obama said climate change was a
This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as
Writer and director Oliver Stone speaks to the “CBS This Morning” co-hosts about the widening scandal involving Gen. David Patraeus.
Reports indicate that Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is being considered as a replacement for Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta during Obama’s second term. Kerry is famous not only for the 1971 Senate testimony in which he threw his fellow Vietnam
Iran stressed on Monday that any decision to hold direct talks with the United States on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme would have to be taken by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The two arch-foes have previously held indirect discussions within
By CHRISTINA HOAGAssociated PressLOS ANGELESFrom sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia wreath-laying ceremony attended by President Barack Obama to honor those who
Few would expect the new Showtime docu-series “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States” to win kudos from the Right. Turns out even mainstream critics are trashing Stone’s latest far-left propaganda. Take TV Guide, which published a scathing critique
By JESSICA GRESKO and KEVIN McGILLAssociated PressSaturday marked the first of what will be three days of Veterans Day commemorations across the United States. The holiday falls on a Sunday, and the federal observance is on Monday. It’s the first
AP: David Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, abruptly resigned Friday as director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital affair. (Nov. 9)
These reviews are unforgivably late, but the election ended up swamping all of my time — you know, because I thought I was living in a country that wanted to be saved and not one that chooses free stuff over
The annual G.I. Film Festival hits Hollywood tomorrow night for a special Veteran’s Day presentation. The three-day GIFF Hollywood 2012 is hosted by the Los Angeles Film School at Sunset and Vine, an institution which has done an outstanding job
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Greece’s parliament squeaks through the austerity package amid violence Israel announces plans to build 1200 new homes in East Jerusalem and West Bank Al-Qaeda chief says that jihadists should be cheered by America’s losses
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday described re-elected US President Barack Obama as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and said he expected his government to continue attacking the anti-secrecy website. Speaking to AFP by telephone from Ecuador’s London embassy, where
With just one day left before the polls open, Democrats have settled on a closing message to the 2012 campaign that portrays the Obama presidency as a brief moment of enlightenment in America’s bleak past and future. America used to
This week installment of The Military Channel’s “Black-OPS” focused on the hunt for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the relentless assault on al-Qaeda In Iraq (AQI) under the command of General Stanley McChrystal. The show highlights how the United States lost
Although the first presidential debate allowed Mitt Romney to emerge from the caricature Obama had created for him, exchanges in the second and third debates truly highlighted the difference between the incumbent and the challenger. For during the last two
For his L.A. Times column for Halloween day, Doyle McManus rates the best and worst political ads of this presidential campaign cycle. Even as he presented some interesting entries, McManus completely ignored the hateful Obama ad that claimed Mitt Romney
Did Barack Obama have a “Mission Accomplished” moment with dreadful consequences in Libya? Libya’s former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril believes he did. Perhaps you’ll recall when George W. Bush stood on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and
As the US continues its long war against terrorism across the globe, the number of casualties and injuries continues to our forces in Afghanistan and to innocent civilians in many countries. During the last four years in Afghanistan alone, under
Making his “get out and vote” pitch for Obama on the Tom Joyner radio show, former Obama administration official Van Jones sought to downplay the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans by comparing it to the wars in
On Saturday the Daily News, the second largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan Los Angeles area, endorsed Mitt Romney for President in 2012. In 2008 the Daily News endorsed Barack Obama: FOUR years ago, as America faced serious trouble at
Iraqi authorities tightened security on Sunday, a day after attacks mostly targeting Shiite Muslims during the Eid al-Adha holiday killed 31 people in the country’s deadliest day this month. The shootings and bombings, which also wounded more than 100 people,
President Obama has lately been touting the claim that he’s created 5.2 million new jobs as President. His fantastic boast is featured in a new TV ad. But FactCheck.org says not so fast. Those claims are “inflated,” to say the
