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Three terror attacks on U.S. soil in their first year and the Obama administration dares lecture us? It takes a special kind of arrogance to lecture the American people about terrorism. Especially when in the past year, your administration has

If nothing else, Polanski’s timing couldn’t be better. If you’re a Hollywoodist — even a remorseless child-raping Hollywoodist — looking for a boost from your fellow Hollywoodists, what better way to hold on to your Frat House bona fides than

AP: Tribal elders in a Pakistani village where a suicide car bomber killed nearly 100 people insisted Saturday that residents will keep defying the Taliban, even as the bloodshed laid bare the risks facing the citizens’ militias that make up

Reuters: “It’s just a disaster. I can see flesh, bodies and wounded all around. It’s dark. Vehicles’ headlights are being used to search for victims.”

Let’s first get THIS out of the way: I do NOT believe the President is a Muslim. OK? I believe he is a Christian. I’ve seen his Pastor in action. That being said, I DO believe that a pattern has

13 December 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan People are confused about the war. The situation is difficult to resolve even for those who are here. For most of us, the conflict remains out of focus, lacking reference of almost any sort. Vertigo

Washington Post: The five men from Northern Virginia arrested in Pakistan had contacted radical jihadist organizations in that country, including two terrorist groups with links to al-Qaeda, and had maps and videos suggesting that they intended to train to fight

Ex-White House counsel Greg Craig thought it was a good idea to transfer Elián Gonzalez from the arms of his loving family in Miami into the arms of Fidel Castro. Transfer Elián from Florida to Cuba. Bad idea. Attorney General

Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Kevin Farley, Kristy Swanson, LeeAnn Tweeden… BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) — Gary Sinise and the Lieutenant Dan Band made their first appearance in Afghanistan performing for hundreds of Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Coast Guard members Nov.

Just hours after a car bomb in Peshawar killed at least 91 people, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kicked off a three-day visit to Pakistan, where she praised the country’s fight on extremists and pledged U.S. support.

While the Obama violinists’ supple wrists magically fiddle with their bows, the firefights continue in Afghanistan. General Stan McChrystal’s thorough assessment requesting 60,000-40,000 additional troops is now over seven weeks old and the Obama administration’s duplicity is becoming more evident

Quick: when I say “Matthew Shepard,” what do you think? A man killed because he was gay? Or just some poor sap in the wrong place at the wrong time? More on that in a minute. Hate crime legislation aimed

A suicide bomber killed seven commanders of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and dozens of other people Sunday in an attack President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charged had been plotted from Pakistan.

Fox News: Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore and car bombs hit two other cities Thursday, including an attack outside a Peshawar school. The day’s violence claimed the lives

[This dispatch was written by me in December 2008 in southern Afghanistan. It was never published though I recently found it in the unpublished archives. The photos came from the same period.] Published: from Nepal on 14 October 2009 On

As the president wraps up his swing across all of the talk shows and collects his Nobel Peace Prize, one gets the sense that we are rapidly approaching a defining moment in the Obama presidency. 9-11 was thrust upon President

Fox News: Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan’s army headquarters Saturday after they stormed the complex in an audacious assault on the heart of the nuclear-armed country’s most powerful institution. The attack left 10

Open thread here. From the AP: OSLO (AP) – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and

Skillfully written screenplays are frequently structured around a series of setups and payoffs. The most rudimentary example is, of course, the pistol in the desk drawer: revealed in Act I, and then in Act II, the gun is used to

Since the health care debate has wound down a little as a result of President Obama’s speech on Wednesday which, by the way, was pure rhetoric and seen by the general public and pundits as a failure because of its

Several days ago, I was invited by One Jerusalem, to attend a private briefing by Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., whose important new book, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, has just been

03 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The bugs are not bad in this part of Afghanistan. The scorched terrain is biologically boring. Mice and ferret-like creatures dash around in the evenings when sparrows and doves and a few other sorts of

It has been six months since the Administration took office and the far left have taken complete control of the government. Has our capitalist past been improved upon? Or, is the socialism we have had thrust upon us making us

Fox News: U.S. officials believe Usama bin Laden’s son, Saad bin Laden, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan.Sources confirmed to FOX News late Wednesday that officials believe the younger bin Laden was killed by hellfire missiles from a

So if there`s one thing we learned recently, it`s that it`s not nuclear war that can wipe everything off the map. It`s the death of a pop star. Think about the things that mattered back in June: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,

The president said he will reassess the possible need for additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the Afghan national elections in August. The narrow national security goal, he said, is to ensure terrorist organizations are not acting with impunity. To

From time to time I feel like presenting a piece that should be read. This is one of them — sent to me by a very close friend in Congress. Obama’s Cairo Message: Limited Audience, Limited Impact 1. President Barack

Los Angeles Times: Iranian authorities are blaming the United States and Sunni Muslim extremists for the bombing of a mosque Thursday in the country’s southeast that left as many as 23 people dead and scores injured during a Shiite Muslim

Embedded video from CNN Video CNN: Tuba Sahaab looks nothing like a warrior. She is a slight girl of 11, living in a simple home in a suburb of Islamabad. But in Tuba’s case, looks are deceiving. “I want to

I received an email telling me to check out the responses to my Hollywood Heroes column and was overwhelmed and gratified to see so many respond in such a positive fashion. I guess most Soldiers, such as myself, go about

Fox News: House Democratic leaders weighed in Wednesday with a plan that would block any release of Guantanamo detainees within the United States but that would allow them to be shipped to the U.S. to stand trial or to serve

Kicking back listening to Bonnie Tyler belt out “Holding Out For A Hero” made me think of a recent visit to Hollywood where I had the opportunity to speak with a few producers and screenwriters, truly good people all. Their

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I never imagined I’d say it, but I’m beginning to identify with Barack Obama. I’m certainly not referring to his politics or his narcissism, but it seems that both of us really suck when it comes to gift giving. First,

Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the U.S. would take the fight to the Taliban and insurgent forces in both Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.

Embedded video from CNN Video AP: Announcing plans for an increased American troop presence in Afghanistan, Obama said that it’s important for the American people to understand that Pakistan “needs our help” in going after terrorists. He called the situation