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It was “very, very bad behavior” for North Korea to fire artillery at South Korean soldiers and civilians on South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island, according to the U. S. Department of State. State appreciates that North Korea has inverted the trope

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s conduct during her recent visit to Malaysia was anything but diplomatic. In a press conference hosted by Foreign Minister Anifa Aman, Clinton took the unusual step of siding with opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar

Political operatives connected with renamed ACORN affiliates are in position to help swing close, competitive races for left-leaning candidates in the 2012 elections, according to former insiders and policy analysts who are familiar with the network’s operations. An ambitious rebranding

The fallout from the administration’s two high-profile Asia trips has come starkly into focus: Where President Obama failed with South Korea, Russia succeeded; and Hillary Clinton’s choice of politician to support in Malaysia has strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

The US media ignores it and the International media treats it as an oddity, a quirky anecdotal story about those silly Latin Americans arguing over a meaningless border dispute. But here in Costa Rica, the story of their sovereign land

Two weeks ago, a Palestinian from Bethlehem was arrested by the US-financed and trained Palestinian Authority security forces. He was charged with “carrying out commercial transactions with residents of a hostile state.” No, he was not buying uranium from Iran.

The great Bernanke QE2 debate continues to heat up. In the run-up to the G-20 meetings, China, Russia, Germany, and others are all coming out against the Federal Reserve’s quantitative-easing agenda. They don’t want hot-money excess dollars to flow into

Part 16 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. In this section, we use the Muslim Brotherhood’s own internal documents to map out the organization’s

Excellent catch by Barry Rubin who has just uncovered the latest example of the Obama administration’s seriously misguided “outreach” to Muslims! As Rubin notes, the U.S. Consulate-General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia played host to Trita Parsi, founder and President of

In a speech to members of her Christian Democratic Union party in Potsdam on October 16, German Chancellor Angela Merkel drove a stake through the heart of European Utopian fantasies. Referring to the influx of foreign workers to Germany since

In the summer of 2000, analysts and pollsters believed the Palestinian people were ready for peace. Yet Yasser Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David and two months later the bloodshed of the Second Intifada began. Jonathan

How should American voters concerned with Israel’s welfare and security vote in the U.S. Congressional elections on Nov. 2? This much is clear after almost two years of Democratic control over the executive and legislative branches of government: Democrats consistently

Israel’s opposition leaders spent the past week trying to prove their relevance. On Tuesday, both former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of wrecking Israel’s relations with the US. Both Livni and

Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the FARC and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation. The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided

Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the FARC and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation. The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided

When my colleagues and I rolled out the Team B II report last week, “Shariah: The Threat to America,” in attendance at the Capitol Hill press conference was ThinkProgress.org blogger and Center for American Progress national security researcher Matt Duss,

[Editor’s Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay. Please keep in mind that this

[Editor’s Note: The author of this post has requested anonymity.] Read part I here. Understanding that General Petraeus is himself the object of an intense sustained information campaign and realizing that, as a matter of fact, every Coalition partner he

[Editor’s Note: The author of this post has requested anonymity.] Since 2005, every Muslim country, to include all of our Coalition partners, signed off on a 10 Year Program to make slander, as defined in Islamic law, a serious punishable

I have to admit, I have a certain admiration for the Ground Zero mosque Imam, Feisal Rauf. Whether he’s telling the government that his wife’s apartment is a mosque that seats 500 in order to get religious tax exemptions or

Obama State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned is “un-American” and the protesters are “consistent with” those al Qaeda terrorists who murdered

In a speech given at the National Endowment for Democracy, on October 6, 2005 President Bush said: “Many Muslim scholars have already publicly condemned terrorism, often citing Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Koran, which states that killing an innocent

As reported by the New York Post’s Tom Topoussis on June 19, 2010, Imam Feisal Rauf repeatedly declined to acknowledge, unequivocally, that Hamas is a terrorist organization, despite its formal designation as such by the US State Department, in these

The inimitable Claudia Rosett, one of her generation’s most accomplished and tenacious investigative journalists (she exposed, for example, the “Oil for Food” scandal), is hot on a new scent: It was she who first revealed that the imam behind the

Medea Benjamin “call(s) for help” before she is arrested for trespassing at the McLean, Va., home of Erik Prince, August 20, 2010. Photo by Code Pink. Terrorist supporter and Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin was arrested Friday evening at

Medea Benjamin “call(s) for help” before she is arrested for trespassing at the McLean, Va., home of Erik Prince, August 20, 2010. Photo by Code Pink. Terrorist supporter and Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin was arrested Friday evening at

Writing in the Weekly Standard blog, Bill Kristol unearths some truly revealing statements by Ground Zero Mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on the Islamic theocracy of Iran (which, of course, has been in a state of war with the United

Byline: CALVIN WOODWARD Bytitle: Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York imam and his proposed mosque near ground zero are being demonized by political candidates — mostly Republicans — despite the fact that Islam is already very much

JIM LEHRER: Good evening. President Obama returned to the Gulf Coast for an hour this afternoon to comfort a pelican that lost its mate during the recent unimaginable ecological catastrophe selfishly caused by private enterprise. He also quaffed a quart

The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero released a statement announcing a major protest in Lower Manhattan this Sunday, August 22: Join construction workers, firefighters, veterans, 9/11 families and first responders, human rights leaders, and residents of the Ground Zero neighborhood

Chances are you’re in not in the 20% of Americans who support the blasphemous Ground Zero mega-mosque. But guess what? You are currently paying for the Imam who wants to build it to visit Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain

While a bit more Spartan than Michelle Obama’s recent trip to Spain, the idea that you and I are paying for “outreach” via the creator of the Shariah Index Project is deeply troubling. The taxpayer dollars really do start adding

Has the fog of war descended on the U.S. southern border, obscuring the reporting of news and concealing the truth about what is going on along the Rio Grande and in Arizona and California? Many violent incidents are not widely

When he was on the campaign trail, then-Senator Obama promised his administration would be the most transparent in history. From health care to environmental regulations, President Obama has repeatedly failed to live up to that promise. Now, his administration is

This just in from the New York Times. The Obama administration is planning to expand opportunities for Americans to travel to Cuba. The policy… is meant to loosen restrictions on academic, religious and cultural groups that were adopted under President

The Iranian Mullahs want to talk. So does the United States. Tehran wants to negotiate because the economic sanctions are hurting. The US wants to negotiate because it wants to be sure Iran is not building nuclear weapons. But can