It is now March of 2011. That jihadi attack on the United States is over nine years behind us. The declaration of a global jihad from Iran in 1979 is over 30 years in our rear view mirror. The national
Last summer, a Chinese telecommunications giant founded by a former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engineer was rebuffed in its effort to sell vast quantities of equipment to Sprint Nextel – an American company that provides communication services to the U.S.
The attention of the world is focused now on the Arab world. We are watching a fault line cracking; decades old political constructs of tyranny and abuse are being challenged and overturned across the Arab Muslim world. When the upheavals
What is behind the explosions of two oil refineries in Saudi Arabia and Iraq? The answers are economics and geopolitical reach by the Tehran regime. Reportedly Iran’s elite, Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s, Al Qods Brigade, activated paid al Qaeda cells to
In the Middle East, the threat map is always changing. Giyus.org invited Dr. Efraim Sneh, former Deputy Defense Minister, to talk about the current threats Israel faces. We met Dr. Sneh a few days before the riots in Egypt erupted.
My apologies for being late to the party on the issue I am about to discuss (and my dearth of posts lately) I was taking the Indiana Bar Exam. More on that later. Nonetheless, by now you have no doubt
Halfway through the 2011 fiscal year, our military is continuing to fight a ramped-up war in Afghanistan, preparing to redeploy 50,000 forces out of Iraq, conducting numerous humanitarian missions, and maintaining all other operations abroad. And it’s doing all this
With the explosive upheavals in Libya, and Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco and elsewhere throughout the Middle East, and the threat of even greater geo-political instability, the price of oil has skyrocketed, with no end in sight. This aftershock, exacerbated by
Praise be, they’re back. MTV has recently announced the triumphant return of Beavis and Butt-head. Original series creator Mike Judge is on board to produce new episodes which will air on the one-time music network later this year. As John
The Daily Show – Exclusive – Donald Rumsfeld Extended Interview Pt. 3 Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook —— The takeaway from this interview is that Jon Stewart is really upset that while
It’s fashionable these days for anyone to compare his political enemies to Hitler. But as I watched Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi give his 75 minute speech on Tuesday on Al-Jazeera, all I could think was that Hitler had been resurrected. Gaddafi
So Anthony Maschek is a student at Columbia University – where he’s studying economics. But he’s also a veteran of the Iraq War. He was recently awarded a Purple Heart, after being shot 11 times in Iraq. He spent two
The National Institute for Civil Discourse opened yesterday at the University of Arizona. The institute is described as such: a nonpartisan center for debate, research, education and policy about civility in public discourse. Don’t you think people likely know how
British Prime Minister David Cameron just gave a speech in Kuwait where he proclaimed that the West has contributed to Middle Eastern instability by backing autocratic regimes. The Left has been arguing this for years. And the media has been
Let’s be clear – the upper echelons of Hollywood are dominated by weirdos, losers and mutations. I’m not judging – I live in LA, so naturally some of my best friends are weirdos, losers and mutations. I’m simply pointing out
The Obama administration’s handling of Egypt reveals a level of incompetence that renders the U.S.–and the entire world– a more dangerous place. In the early days of the protests in Egypt, the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood stayed on the sidelines.
General Votel in the field JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command, is the guys who get out of the black helicopters and scarf up bad guys or sometimes simply ventilate them and allow them to return to room temperature. They are
Since the Lara Logan story busted out all over the news sites and blogosphere early this week, there have been two reactions from Left media. Some have diverted into theories about male repression over women in general, and various psychological
If denying Air and Artillery support to our Forces as they are under fire is a reprehensible act, prosecuting those same Warriors for ‘war crimes’ against an incalcitrant and murderous band of thugs is the very definition of an evil
Muslim spokesmen and Islamic apologists in the West love to trot out the “shared Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage and values” line, insinuating that Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians, and also revere their prophets and scriptures. For example, Dr.
This past weekend at CPAC, David Horowitz associated Suhail Khan, now a “stalwart” of the American Conservative Union, with the broader movement of resurgent Islamic totalitarianism: We are also faced both at home and abroad with an existential enemy in
Pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas Professor Bassam Frangieh, head of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Claremont McKenna College, delivers a twenty-minute rant at the University of Bridgeport in 2007. Frangieh claims, among other things, that Islam is “very democratic” and that Saddam
When news broke that ABC would air the first “live interview” with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld since 2006, I determined to tune in. The host was George Stephanopoulos, the setting was Good Morning America (GMA), and the topic was
The Obama administration has led with all the clarity of crude oil regarding Egypt, so it is left to others to point the way. Glenn Beck gave it a shot and posited a cunning plan with the American (and world)
The lengths to which the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol is willing to go in criticizing Glenn Beck’s assertion that the Muslim Brotherhood wants to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate clearly demonstrates how out of phase with reality the former’s paradigm is.
