The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the
From Defense News: Officials oversee destruction of Libyan missiles The NTC [ Libya’s National Transitional Council] estimates that almost 5,000 SAM-7s from Gadhafi’s stockpiles are still unaccounted for – raising concerns that the missiles could fall into the wrong hands
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: In a major blow to Al-Jazeera’s drive for acceptance and respectability in the West, the government of Israel says that one of the channel’s correspondents has confessed to acting as an agent of the
Three years ago, TransCanada proposed the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline to bring more oil from Canada to the United States. After years of study, the State Department has yet to decide whether or not approve the pipeline. The Keystone
President Obama, no doubt, would like us all to believe that the government can do things better than the private sector. He obviously has not visited Philadelphia or the Hartford, Connecticut area this past week, cities that stood in the
When President Obama announced his jobs plan back at the beginning of September, he focused almost exclusively on what the government could do for Americans. He mentioned thousands of “shovel ready” projects that needed the strong arms and constitutions of
The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the
The following was provided by a friend who travels extensively to the region and for that reason wishes to remain anonymous: I stumbled upon this today and decided to share it, not because of its intrinsic news value, but because
The fruit of our “compassionate support” for the “oppressed” Islamic peoples of the world is now starting to show. In the past two weeks, both the United States and France have reached out to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC)
France’s Sarkosy may find it perfectly swell that an “al Qaeda asset,” Adbelhakim Belhadj, is commander of rebel forces in Tripoli, a story gradually seeping into MSM consciousness. According to the Asia Times’ Pepe Escobar, however, Belhadj, founder and “emir”
August 10, 2011, President Obama hosted his third annual Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan at the White House. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller noted that the invite list was much shorter than previous years and had been scrubbed of several
The following is a deeply disturbing report from senior Afghan journalist Musa Khan Jalalzai as part of an investigation that appeared in Daily Outlook Afghanistan. Translation of these excerpts is provided by MEMRI. “A shameless business of teenage rape or
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the man who twice upheld death sentences in the Bulgarian nurses show trial and is poised to lead post-Qaddafi Libya. But don’t worry: The State Department says he’s a refomer. — While making a correction in my
From Bloomberg: SA-7s: We better find them before Al Qaeda does… The U.S. plans to deploy two contractors to Libya with the exclusive job of tracking down and destroying shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles before they fall into the hands of terrorists.
The Nuba people of Sudan’s Southern Kardofan region are being systematically exterminated in the midst of a developing genocide described as “the world’s next Rwanda.” Several issue-area experts testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee today, asserting that Sudanese military
The International Islamic News Agency (never heard of it before; get used to it a la “Gallup Abu Dhabi”) reported on August 1, which, as the dateline notes, is also Ramadan 1 (or vice versa): JEDDAH, Ramadan 1/Aug 1 (IINA)-During
At this writing, many details of the debt ceiling deal wrangled out over the weekend remain fuzzy. One thing is clear, unfortunately: The national security of the United States is going to suffer greatly. That will be so no matter
[Editor’s Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay. Please keep in mind that this
The following article appeared at Big Government on July 15, 2011: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) have focused on the Justice Department in their investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, in which U.S. officials deliberately sold American
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) have focused on the Justice Department in their investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, in which U.S. officials deliberately sold American guns to Mexican criminals that were later used to kill
On June 30th 2011 the US administration confirmed its recognition of the Muslim Brotherhood as an entity that we can negotiate with in Egypt. In Libya, they are our official allies in the effort to unseat Gadhafi from power. Over
From the New York Post: Anthony Weiner’s wife is taking time off from her senior job with the State Department — as well as time off from the randy former representative, The Post has learned. While Weiner, 46, heads to
The news from Addis Ababa on June 28, 2011, was the signing of a “Framework Agreement” between the National Congress Party (NCP) Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) on political partnership, and political and security arrangements
His name is Alec Ross and he is Hillary Clinton’s senior adviser for innovation at the U.S. State Department. While speaking at a summit in London, Ross made the provocative statement that social network technology is the “Che Guevara of
Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service. The groups failed to file required annual reports, known as
