On May 5, 2012, the five terrorists accused of plotting and executing the attacks of 9/11 were arraigned at Guantanamo Bay. Judicial Watch’s Senior Investigator Lisette Garcia was on the ground to observe the proceedings. Of course, everyone knows the
A new documentary examines the United Nations in a way the Mainstream Media refuses to do. “U.N. Me,” hitting theaters and VOD June 1, offers a humorous but ultimately sober account of how the United Nations hardly lives up to
Sacha Baron Cohen goes out of his way not to connect Islam with his brutal Middle Eastern character in “The Dictator.” That isn’t enough for some Arab-Americans, apparently, according to TheWrap.com: While Baron Cohen’s shtick may be in good fun,
West Va. filmmaker Kristin Seibert sees an under-serviced niche in the film marketplace, and she’s eager to fill it. “We’re looking to make 100 percent family-friendly films hearkening back to the old times … good, values-based films,” Seibert tells Big
From all reports available, the arraignment of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his four co-defendants last Saturday was nothing less than an insult to the families of 9/11 victims. A mockery of justice itself, the five men “refused to
This is the first of a series of articles profiling films and filmmakers showing their work at the 2012 G.I. Film Festival being held May 14-20 in Washington, D.C. A dramatic film and a unique documentary at this year’s G.I,
Apparently, the United States has been releasing high-level detainees in Afghanistan for years so that in return, insurgent groups will temper their actions in areas the United States cannot control. The “strategic release” program has been used as a form
It will be at least five weeks before five men facing the death penalty for their alleged roles in the September 11th terrorist attacks appear again before a U.S. military commission at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Their
In a Sunday morning news conference, defense attorneys for the self-proclaimed mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants complained about the fairness of system set up to try the men.
Don’t forget that Obama and Holder wanted this to happen in a New York City civilian court room.
By KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated PressNEW YORKFamily members of some 9/11 victims are watching on closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Jim Riches was among the family members watching
One-percenter Michael Moore Tweeted his approval of the Occupy/May Day tactics which included bomb plots, assault, and vandalism. The day also included Occupiers copying European “black bloc” tactics while screaming “pigs” and “murderers” at our police officers. All of this
Robert Downey Jr., unlike our current president, knows how to give credit where it’s due. Appearing at the Tribeca Film festival in New York City for a screening of his new film “The Avengers,” Downey Jr. classily dedicated the film
Naturally the State Department, led by Hillary Clinton, would proclaim the War on Terror over. To Hillary and Attorney General Eric Holder, the War on Terror was obviously over when politics demanded: two years before the attacks of 9/11/01, when
As Occupy Wall Street struggles to recover from the evictions of last fall, and the arrest of dozens of members of the Anonymous hacker collective, as many as four different groups are competing to define the future of the movement.
The US embassy in Islamabad on Thursday banned its staff from restaurants and markets in the Pakistani capital for several days either side of the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. The Al-Qaeda kingpin was killed in a US special
Cynthia McKinney, the far-left former Georgia congresswoman and presidential candidate in 2008 on the Green Party ticket, is readying an attempt to win back her old congressional seat. She needs 18,860 signatures to get on the ballot, and last week
I thought we were supposed to “never forget” 9/11? Well, they don’t call Hollywood La-La Land for no reason. Yesterday, Bette Midler, political commentator and historian par excellence, waxed eloquent on Twitter about why the United States is in an
Former green czar Van Jones has been quite active in the media lately promoting his new book, Rebuilding the Dream. But he truly outdid himself yesterday on UStream: “You always have some Americans that, they don’t want to go forward. ‘We
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcom X’s grandson, stated on Press TV, Iran’s television network, that blacks are murdered in the United States while their murderers go unpunished because the system is unjust. This was in response to the Trayvon Martin incident:
According to screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, Mel Gibson is always raging against the Jews and never intended to make “The Maccabees,” an epic about Jewish heroism, and only said he was going to in order to deflect the criticism surrounding his
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was scheduled to give the keynote address at a fundraiser hosted by an American Muslim on the Federal Terrorist Watch List, is backing out. Called out by her Republican opponent Joe Kaufman, Wasserman Schultz’s
Grover Norquist and John Lott, Jr. lay waste to the economic claims of Obama-backer, stimulus defender, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in their new, hard-hitting book, Debacle: Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain
Two days before Christmas 2011, while everyone was lost in the hustle and bustle of the season and making a last dash for gifts, U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels declared that Iran was “legally responsible for damages to hundreds
One of the speakers at Occupy AIPAC has a long history of anti-Semitic statements, and was a backer of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From 5:30-7:30 on Saturday, Occupy AIPAC presented “AIPAC: What it is, who its allies
I’m one of those 9/11 Republicans, a formerly apolitical soul forever changed by both the terrorist attacks and how the Left responded to them. Those sentiments dovetailed with my duties at The Washington Times, a newspaper unafraid to zig when
One of the biggest mistakes conservatives made in defending President George W. Bush was ignoring a little movie called, “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Most Bush supporters I know shake their heads and roll their eyes when I ask them if they’ve seen
One of the biggest mistakes conservatives made in defending President George W. Bush was ignoring a little movie called “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Most Bush supporters I know shake their heads and roll their eyes when I ask them if they’ve seen
The 2004 film “Fahrenheit 9/11” remains the biggest grossing documentary of all time with $119 million in domestic box office receipts. But it took nearly eight years for the principals behind the film to figure out who gets every last nickel of
I’d like to claim that I was first persuaded of the virtues of conservatism from F. A. Hayek, William F. Buckley, and Ronald Reagan, but the truth of the matter is that it was science fiction that made me conservative.
I’ve been following (here and here) the escalating controversy in France over recent remarks made by a conservative French minister, Claude Gueant, to the effect that civilizations that support liberty, fraternity, equality (sounds like France) are superior to civilizations that
As the US electoral process grinds on and Republican primary debates fold into state primaries and caucuses, candidates’ views on national security and foreign policy are being carefully scrutinized by voters who consider them crucial components of the total policy
In what promises to be an enormous document dump, I have received the first in a series of DOJ bundles in response to my FOIA request filed close to a year ago. Specifically, I asked for “records relating to the
For some audiences it will always be too soon for a drama like “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” The new movie deals directly with the 9/11 attacks in the most emotional way possible, telling the tale of a young boy
When HBO announced it was making a film based on the 2008 election chronicle “Game Change” conservatives imagined yet another GOP hit job from a network known for its liberal bias. The book painted a glowing portrait of Obama while
Sometimes it helps to get a rave review from the right person. Novelist Anne Rice loved the haunting 2010 film “The Stoning of Soraya M.” and asked her agent to see if he had seen the movie and, better yet,
From today’s speech by President Barack Obama on the Defense Strategic Review: Some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big; others will say that they’re too small. It will be easy to take issue with a
Mark Theissen opens today’s show with his analysis of how the Obama Administration is inviting the next attack on American soil. The defense cuts caused by the Super Committee’s failure will leave America open to another attack that could be
It wasn’t long ago that Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell represented two of the most beloved personalities on TV. O’Donnell was the reigning Queen of Nice for her sweet as pie talk show, and Winfrey’s power was so vast she