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Today it was announced that an American citizen has been sentenced to death in Iran after being successfully convicted of “working for an enemy country … for membership in the CIA and also for his efforts to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism.” Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested in August while [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Iraq, Politics, War, World
Yesterday the Outside the Beltway blog flagged a video from back in November in which Rick Santorum offers an unusual solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict: Pretend one side doesn’t exist. “All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis,” he tells the young reporter. “They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land.” [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics, World
WTTG Fox reports that Iran exaggerated their missile capabilities and engaged in some North Korean-style Photoshop trickery during the ten-day war games in the Strait of Hormuz. The exercises were planned to show Tehran’s strength in the face of threatened sanctions, including one on Iran’s central bank. But as it turns out, Iran lacks the ability [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War, World
Friday’s lead stories in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal dealt with what both viewed as a national affront and outrage. Egyptian soldiers, said the Post, “stormed the offices” of three U.S. “democracy-building organizations … in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-led government that could imperil its relations with the [...]
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“Events are in the saddle and ride mankind.” In describing 2011, few clichés seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle. While President Barack Obama maneuvered skillfully to retain a fighting chance to be re-elected, the economy showed [...]
He will probably not be elected as the next Republican presidential nomination. But Representative Ron Paul from Texas has a good chance of winning next month’s Republican primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire and could emerge as a leading power broker in the presidential nomination process next year while continuing to exert influence on his [...]
Although on the wrong side of 70, I still get excited about Christmas. It used to mean family holidays, trips, and getting out of boarding school. Now it still means good things, like parties and getting together with my children. And there’s always church and time to give thanks for all the goodies in life. [...]
Although our editorial office is on vacation beginning today, updates will continue through the holidays. Be sure to check out Phil Giraldi’s warning about the war NATO is already fighting in Syria, Nick Turse’s take on the life and death of an American drone, and Daniel Larison’s demolition of Rich Lowry’s snipes at Ron Paul. [...]
During the Republican presidential primary debate from Des Moines on December 15, Ron Paul caused uproar when he said that a strike against Iran “would risk a repeat of the useless Iraqi war.” In response to a question from Bret Baier, Paul made this statement: “To me the greatest danger is that we will have [...]
For the 30 years since “The McLaughlin Group” began to run on network television, the Christmas and New Year’s shows have been devoted to the conferring of annual awards. The first award on the Christmas show is “Biggest Winner.” This year, clearly, one of the world’s big winner was — Islam. For this was the [...]
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