The death of Lieutenant Mu’az al-Kasasbah – some thoughts
By Rick Francona.
By now, virtually everyone with even a passing interest in the Middle East has at least heard of the brutal immolation of Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) pilot 1st Lieutenant Mu’az al-Kasasbah at the [...]
Barack Obama and Evo Morales?
By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti.
Recently there have been heard some voices calling for the government of Evo Morales in Bolivia and the one of Barack Obama in the United States to draw closer. ¿Could that [...]
Destructive Cyber Attacks on the Rise
By Rachel Ehrenfeld.
Rising geopolitical tensions have led to a constant barrage of cyber hacking into the U.S. government, industries and businesses. Therecent attack against California-based Sony Pictures Entertainment marked [...]
Muslim Cartoonist in Support of Ideology that Executes Cartoonists
By Pamela Geller.
Our ads of truth are like the silver cross to Dracula.
It is remarkable how quick the Muslim community and the left are to deface and destroy our ads of truth. The vicious anti-Jewish ads that the Muslims [...]
NATO Heading for War with Russia?
By Stephen Lendman
US-dominated NATO is the greatest threat to world peace, stability and security. Washington wants regime change in Russia.
Economic and political wars rage. Ineffective in achieving America’s aims. Russia [...]
Sponsor of Iran War Bills Backs Netanyahu Speech
By Jamal Abdi.
Washington D.C – The Congressman responsible for several pushes for military action against Iran is now leading an effort to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is given Congressional [...]
Government and Education – Killing Entrepreneurial Spirit
By Allan Scholl.
Just before this was written, several feet of snow fell on the Northeastern US. Government struggled to deal with the snow, wind, and cold.
There were the usual official school closures, bans on driving, evacuations, [...]
ISIS and Counter Terrorism legislation in Jordan
By Alexander Athos.
Jordanian’s Anti-Terrorism Laws came into effect in 2006 after the 2005 Aman hotel bombings by Sajida al-Rishawi, her husband and the Wahhabi Salafi terrorists from Iraq then called Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The laws [...]
Will New AG Support Civil Forfeiture Reform?
By Alan Caruba.
The Wednesday hearings on the confirmation of a new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, lasted hours because members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were often called away to vote. In the wake of the scandals [...]
Is Jeb Bush Channeling Henry “Scoop” Jackson?
By Rich Rubino.
The positions of political parties are not static. In fact, they sometimes change rapidly. Ideological shifts usually begin at the grassroots level, and then trickle up to the political leadership. [...]
Syria and the rediscovery of nationhood
By Azmi Ashour.
In the streets of Cairo, Beirut, Amman and Istanbul you can appreciate the value of having a homeland when you look into the eyes of the Syrian children and mothers begging alms from passersby.
“Cruel [...]
Mr. President you forgot to visit Peshawar
By Khairuddin Shadani.
Your Excellency; you were just a few hundred miles away. You walked thousands miles to meet your Indian counterpart. But you forgot to pay a visit to our ground zero where we lost our hundreds [...]
The Deflating Inevitability Game
By Allen Schmertzler.
What sound does a deflating football make when no one is there to witness it? Probably the same fraudulent odiferous nauseating seeping sizzle wheeze sound of stale air escaping, just like the world witnessed [...]
Are the U.S. and Russian Governments Once Again on the Nuclear Warpath?
By Lawrence S. Wittner.
A quarter century after the end of the Cold War and decades after the signing of landmark nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements, are the U.S. and Russian governments once more engaged [...]
Politics and the security awareness culture today
By Silviu Craescu.
This concept employs a new institutional approach on promotion of dialogue with public institutions – actors, and also the validation of their social mission in the spirit of knowledgeable about [...]
ObamaCare Must Go!
By Alan Caruba.
Can anyone remember how awful the U.S. healthcare free market system was that it needed to be replaced by the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as ObamaCare? Can’t remember? That’s because [...]
Labrador’s Vote for Speaker Elicits Negative and Illogical Response
By Richard Larsen.
The recent reelection of John Boehner as Speaker of the House brought to light a disturbing trait among some who self-identify as “conservatives.” Boehner has been perceived as a thorn in the side of conservative [...]
Addressing Inequality
By Jack Goldstone.
The Davos show is beginning this week. I am not going, but I am in Zurich and close enough to see the ads for ever-bigger and better private planes to take the elites to elite places. All of this against [...]
The Emperor Addresses the Capitol
By Josep Colomer.
In the Roman imperial city of Washington, full of temples and monuments to the Caesars of the glorious past, the Emperor-President, with all pomp and ceremony addresses the Senate (and the House). In a moment [...]
Obama Has Two Years Left to Destroy the U.S.
By Alan Caruba.
As 2015 began the Journal Editorial Report on Fox News was devoted to having its reporters, some of the best there are, speculate on what 2015 holds in terms of who might run for president and what the economy might [...]