“Never mind, they’ll swallow it,” said Stalin, the 20th Century’s first successful progenitor of the Big Lie. — The suppression of the facts is by no means the most dangerous aspect of any Big Lie. After all, facts don’t go
I am posting (below) a letter from the Danish Free Press Society, the parent organization of the International Free Press Society, of which I am vice president. It is of urgent importance. It tells of the terrible turn of events
That was fast. Sunday, the Virginian-Pilot posted a montage of lewd, “morale-boosting” videos that Capt. Owen P. Honors starred in, directed and broadcast to the crew of the USS Enterprise dating back to 2006-2007 when he was the ship’s executive
I end the year with a question and one last outrage. The U.N. believes about 1 million Afghans between the ages of 15 and 64 – roughly 8 percent of the population — are addicted to drugs. The publication Development
While researching this week’s column, I came across an extraordinary collection of videos at Kansas Watchdog, all taken during Labor Weekend’s Leavenworth Ten Freedom Ride. They showcase the families of the wrongly incarcerated soldiers whose debt to society, if they
WikiLeaks is exposing the way our government conducts “business.” It is not a pretty process. Sometimes Uncle Sam limps along like a powerless giant, as when secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton vainly plead with China to stop
US Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna — Just came back from a tense morning in the Army Court of Criminal Appeals in Arlington, Virginia, where long-awaited oral arguments appealing US Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna’s surreal conviction for “unpremeditated murder”
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) published an op-ed in the Denver Post this week, arguing that the US needs to scale backs its goals dramatically in Afghanistan. Our current mission in Afghanistan goes far beyond accomplishing our national security objectives. We
This is getting creepy. From LibraryJournal.com (links from the original): The Library of Congress (LC) has been blocking access to the WikiLeaks website since December 3, on its wireless network available for visitors as well as on its own staff’s
Photo: Filip Dewinter (Belgium’s Vlaams Belang) and Heinz-Christian Strache (Austria’s FPO) studying regional maps in Israel — An indicator of life, a flicker of the survival instinct in this moribund time? Leading politicians of the European Counter-Jihad have found their
On Dec. 3, Maj. Gen. John Campbell, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, spoke to reporters about the Afghan Border Policeman who shot and killed six US soldiers from the 101st on Nov. 28. He doesn’t mention teatime, as
Marine Corps photo of a weekly souvenir bazaar near Kandahar airfield. — I use quotation marks in the headline because that is how the Taliban are describing the bomber who struck Sunday at a “weekly souvenir bazaar” at the Afghan
Caption from the Lewiston (ME) Sun-Journal: Chelsea McLain, 20, of Ridge Road in Peru, holds the last family photograph of her and husband Buddy McLain and their son Owen. It was taken in June, about five months before Buddy, a
This combination of 6 undated photos provided by the U.S. Army shows from the top left, Pvt. Buddy W. McLain of Mexico, Maine; Pvt. Austin G. Staggs of Senoia, Ga.; Sgt. Barry E. Jarvis of Tell City, Ind.; and bottom
I am still working out why I watch the high dudgeon sparked by Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks dump of a quarter-million State Department cables that has given rise to the most heated, bloodthirsty chorus I have ever heard in
Punchline first, because it’s good to laugh, even mirthlessly. Set-up: Hillary Clinton was in Kyrgyzstan (oh, to be in Bishnek now that December is here) yesterday for five (5) hours to pay protection money, I mean, sign a deal to
The Guardian caption to this Reuters photo says it all: “The WikiLeaks cables suggest Pakistan follows a covert military strategy at odds with US goals.” Kill the messenger? —- I’m hearing a lot about “blood on the hands” of WikiLeaks’
I wish Julian Assange would Wikileak this story so maybe, just maybe American would finally pay attention to a real scandal. From the AP: KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan border policeman killed six American servicemen during a training mission Monday,
Just scanned the early stories on the Wikileaks document dump — which are themselves scans of the Wikileaks document dump, given that a colossal 251,287 State Department cables have been released in this Internet/media robbery/fencing information-operation. How to assess this
A few days ago, I got to do what many Americans would like to do — ask Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano a thing or two. Before I report on what I asked and what she said, I
I just found out that Sgt. Evan Vela was denied parole last month — again. This is a T-R-A-V-E-S-T-Y. Evan’s father, Curtis Carnahan, recaps the whole outrageous story here. I’ve been tracking this case since receiving a letter from Curtis
Marine Sgt. Michael Brattole (above) has been evacuated from Afghanistan to be treated in a US military hospital for extensive wounds suffered when a fragmentation grenade, which disperses “notched wire and ball bearings,” ripped through his chest while he was
Let’s assume Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, knows his way around a battleship. However, he clearly doesn’t know his way through the Koran. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have made such a fool of himself this past weekend at
When Barack Obama spoke in Mumbai about “the different meanings” of jihad, he set up us up again for the Big Lie: “I think,” the 44th president said, sounding much like the 43rd president, “all of us recognize that this
From the AP: The United States is open to the idea of keeping troops in Iraq past a deadline to leave next year if Iraq asks for it, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Hey, why not forever? “We’ll
George W. Bush is telling the world says he was “sickened . . . when we didn’t find weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. How, I would like to know, did he feel when 550 metric tons of yellowcake were
The election is over, and the nail-biting begins. Will the GOP seize its historic mandate to legislate according to conservative principles, or, mistaking weakness for magnanimity in the pink clouds of victory, will it succumb to the siren song of
I just got a look at part of an incendiary brochure produced by the Institute of Islamic Information and Education (Chicago, Illinois) that’s being made available to military prisoners at the US Disciplinary Barracks Prison at Fort Leavenworth. What is
Michael Barone puts it all into rather stunning context at the Washington Examiner: The upshot is that Speaker-to-be John Boehner will have a workable House majority, larger than the Republicans had during the 12 years they controlled the House from
The most stirring election headline may come from the (UK) Daily Mail: “Republicans seize control as millions of U.S. voters turn their backs on Obama”. (This is what that looks like.) Other good news comes in from California voters who
Last Sunday, the New York Times described a crude scene that smacked of not exactly petty graft. There was Afghanistan’s presidential plane on the Tehran airport tarmac, waiting for one last passenger before wheels up to Kabul. The missing passenger
Vlad Tepes has posted a string of pieces collectively entitled, “The Imam Always Gets His Man: Why Royal Canadian Mounted Police Outreach Isn’t Working,” that tells us that the same suicidal institutional mindset we saw on display recently among Homeland
Beware of Islamic jihadists shipping cargo. And especially on the weekend before midterm elections. A friend writes: What do you think? Isn’t this new terror attack just a bit too convenient for comfort? So, the Americans were alerted by Obama’s
If, as polls show, war is “off the radar” for midterm voters, it’s a non-issue for midterm candidates, too. Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, show up exactly one time apiece in the GOP Pledge to America (on one page out
Last week, I reported that Oskar Freysinger, the prominent member of the Swiss People’s Party who led the successful and model campaign to ban minaret construction in Switzerland (and whom I interviewed here), had been invited to Brussels to speak
Oskar Freysinger of the Swiss People’s Party and Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang outside the Flemish Parliament on October 9, 2010. From what I can gather from assorted reports, Oskar Freysinger, the Swiss force of nature (Alpine avalanche?) behind the
A. Millar rightly calls our attention to the increasingly urgent case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a brave Austrian who faces the possibility of three years in prison in Austria for delivering a lecture on the Islamic threat to liberty — a
Reading Patrick Poole’s splashy coverage of the FBI’s VIP treatment of Kifah Mustapha — a known Hamas operative and unindicted co-conspirator in the landmark Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial — will make your head spin with this dizzying question:
This is a courtroom sketch of US District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum during attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad’s sentencing in Manhattan this week. Judge Cedarbaum may be a very fine judge — she sentenced Shahzad to life without possibility
Breitbart reports: A US security official on Wednesday said the country was capable of withstanding another terrorist attack and bouncing back, saying Americans needed to put extremist threats in “perspective.” Michael Leiter, head of the Nationa Counterterrorism Center, said despite