Terry Jones is an insignificant minister from Florida who has 30, maybe 50 members of his church. Now that he has talked about burning Korans he has become a media hero. No doubt about it, the media and the American
Read part I of this post here. Another highly successful counter-insurgency occurred in Hungary in 1956. Hungary was occupied by the Soviet Union after WWII. After a typical communist charade of free elections, the Hungarian government became a de facto
Marc Thiessen comments on Obama’s recent Oval Office oratory: Years ago, Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon called “what dogs hear.” Two identical panels, side-by-side, showed a man speaking to his dog, Ginger. In the first, the man tells
President Obama on Tuesday declared Iraq a done deal. Okay, he didn’t support the surge, back in the Bush days. He and his anti-war pals in the Senate declared the war lost years ago. His progressive world-view won’t allow him
Zen masters find that they are better able to focus their minds by mediating upon unanswerable questions. What is the nature of existence? Is there a God? Why does Hollywood still consider John Cusack a movie star?” You all know
***UPDATE: In an effort to give Mr. Ebert a chance to reply to my article, I posted a link to it in the comment section of his blog. To his credit, he published it. Regrettably, his entire reply was, “Yeah,
“Look, we support the troops, we just don’t want them to kill anyone.” -Rosie Connell in response to Bill O’Reilly in An American Carol As a screenwriter, I was able to put those words in the mouth of a loony
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel claimed that had the US not invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein was moving toward moderation. Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld and Laura Ingraham react accordingly.
WASHINGTON – Ten of thousands of people tuned in to hear a broadcast organized by the handlers of President Obama, a liberal politician and former community organizer. The self aggrandizing speech took place from a site where Abraham Lincoln once
The Arab and non-Arab Muslim umma, or global community, vehemently denies pre-Islamic Jewish and ignores pre-Islamic Christian connections to all the territories that comprised historical Syro-Palestine–including Judea, Samaria, modern Israel within the 1949 armistice borders, and Gaza. This historical negationism
As a service to all Americans, allow me to remind you all of Sen. Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement in 2007: [youtube jyDOAmJYFFA] Now, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sen. Reid makes an unbelievable new claim: At the time Sen. Reid
So NBC’s chief war correspondent Richard Engel claims that if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq, things would still be bad, but not as bad as before. His reasoning: Saddam Hussein would still be in power, but, “he was probably
As a service to all Americans, allow me to remind you all of Sen. Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement in 2007: [youtube jyDOAmJYFFA] Now, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sen. Reid makes an unbelievable new claim: At the time Sen. Reid
This was Sen. Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement in 2007: Now, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sen. Reid makes an unbelievable new claim: At the time Sen. Reid made this comment, President Bush had been pursuing a failed, stay-the-course strategy that
Abeer Mohammed is a senior local editor based in Baghdad for Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Here’s an excerpt from a post at the IWPR site about the story behind his sensational report (posted below) on how teachers in
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Douglas Feith, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for the George W. Bush administration, joins Frank for a candid discussion on Iraq. Douglas, who is the author of War and Decision: Inside
We didn’t lose the Vietnam war, no matter what they may have told you in school. We defeated the North Vietnamese army, the Tet offensive was the last hurrah of the North. But the Democrats used it and the capitulation
The most important passage in President Obama’s “end of war” speech declares that there are no longer “surrender ceremonies”, which he seems to interpret to mean that there are no longer “celebrations of victories.” Victory, he suggests, consists in the
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Frank unravels Obama’s speech announcing the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins with what Obama got right. In the end, it is the geo-strategic conditions created by the President which are most
President Obama’s speech was a somewhat cover-all-the-bases address. It will not change the direction of U.S. domestic or international policy. President Obama hinted at going on “the offensive” because of the ending of the combat mission in Iraq. But he
You know the tide is turning against the Emperor Hussein when his state-controlled media subjects have the impertinence to pull this little stunt: OBAMA: “Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.” THE FACTS: Peril
The venom bubbling below the visible anger of MSNBC’s three nightly hosts — Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow — was unmistakable after President Obama’s speech, in which he praised former President Bush and the brave troops who gave
In an interview on PBS’ NewsHour, Vice President Joe Biden said “The president’s speech acknowledged President Bush’s contribution.” For the record, President Obama acknowledged President Bush’s love of country and support for the troops.
Not only did President Obama vote against the Surge while in the Senate, but his new course for Iraq is named something reminiscent of a girly vampire novel. But this could be the least of the strikes against President Obama’s
President Obama’s 18-minute speech August 31, 2010, left us between Iraq and a hard place. There was no immediately recognizable thrust. President Obama believes he is rid of the Iraq tar baby by simply stating that he is. His own
