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August 28, 2008
More Good News From Iraq Not Worth Reporting
Iraq is, well, sooo…boooring….noooow….zzzzzzz…. More...
August 26, 2008
Moscow's Dangerous Game
What we're watching now is how real wars sometimes start. More...
August 21, 2008
What's the Point of NATO?
NATO had better not threaten or dare Russia unless it is actually prepared to fight. And if it's not willing to fight, what is the point of NATO? More...
August 12, 2008
Russian Invasion: Mission Accomplished
Georgia says the fighting continues. But if Russia stops now, it has accomplished plenty. More...
August 11, 2008
Russia: The Bully Is Back
The bully has shed that complex and is on the prowl again, looking for weaklings to pick on. More...
July 29, 2008
Future Terror Base in the Balkans?
The real problem in the Balkans lies south of Kosovo, in majority Christian Macedonia. More...
July 3, 2008
Colombia: An American Success Story
Today Colombia's U.S.-trained armed forces are picking the FARC apart, piece by piece. More...
July 1, 2008
Euro Blog: America is a "Human Wasteland"
Enjoy this view behind the curtain at what many euro elites really think about the United States. More...
June 23, 2008
NASA Scientist: Put Global Warming Skeptics on Trial
Global warming skeptics have been compared to holocaust deniers and sexual predators. So, a few weeks ago, I asked how far we were from criminalization. Well, well, well... More...
June 20, 2008
More German Homeschoolers Face Prison
The German government continues its shameful eradication program against a small number of homeschooling families. More...
June 6, 2008
German Headline: "Uncle Barack's Cabin"
The Euro Left, many in the Euro media and on the European street still believe America is more racist than Europe. More...
June 5, 2008
Bishop: Climate Skeptics Are Like Sex Predators
I guess comparing climate change skeptics to holocaust deniers wasn't enough. More...
June 3, 2008
The Next Terrorist Weapon
The next terrorist weapon to be unleashed against the United States or Europe is likely to have fair skin and perhaps blue eyes. More...
June 2, 2008
Solar Cycle 24: An Ice Age Cometh?
This photo is causing a stir among some solar scientists. It's a photo of the sun today, and it shows a blank surface. More...
May 19, 2008
GOP Headed For Disaster?
A Peggy Noonan piece from the Wall Street Journal ought to be pretty effective in spreading fear and panic over the Election Day debacle that could lie ahead for the Republicans. More...
May 15, 2008
VIDEO: More Matthias Küntzel on the Nazi-Islamist Link
Matthias Küntzel, author of Jihad and Jew Hatred, about the effect of Nazi ideology on the minds those Muslims who were already anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic. More...
May 5, 2008
SHOCK VIDEO: Violence in the Paris Suburbs
A new music video by the French group More...
April 9, 2008
Watching the Olympic Torch Stumble Through London
I had been hoping to see to some Olympic wrestling or something. More...
April 1, 2008
Blame Washington for the Pain at the Pump
It takes a lot of nerve for Congress to haul in the heads of Big Oil and pretend that greedy oil companies are raping the American consumer with rigged energy prices. More...
March 27, 2008
Dutch Anti-Koran Film "Fitna" is Released
The film contains some extremely troubling and gory scenes from various Islamic terrorist acts. More...
March 26, 2008
Aaaaah! The Recession! We're All Gonna Die!!!!
We're not sinking into a second Great Depression. More...
March 14, 2008
Suing Al Gore over "Climate Change"
The founder of the Weather Channel would like to see global warming proponent Al Gore sued for fraud. More...
March 5, 2008
The European View: Jewish Control of U.S. Foreign Policy
In Europe today, neocon or neoconservative is often a codeword for Jews who control U.S. foreign policy. The Nazis harped on this theme, too, especially at the end of the war. More...
February 29, 2008
Explosive Dutch Koran Film Ready for Air
Dutch politician Geert Wilders has just about finished his 15-minute film that compares Islam to Nazism and communism. More...
February 26, 2008
Teaching Kids to Kill "Infidels"
Assud the TV bunny takes phone calls from Palestinian youngsters and urges them to kill Danes and to hate Americans. More...
February 13, 2008
Saudis Still Ban Valentine’s Day
The only red flowing in the streets of Saudi Arabia this Valentine's Day will be blood from the occasional public execution. More...
February 11, 2008
"Honor" Violence Against Women Soars in Britain
Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to More...
February 7, 2007
British Archbishop: Muslim Sharia Law “Unavoidable”
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the BBC that the UK has to More...
February 1, 2008
Winter '08 Could Use More Global Warming
Boy, if it weren’t for global warming, it’s frightening to imagine how cold this winter might be. More...
January 25, 2008
UK: "Three Little Pigs" Offensive to Muslims
A British government agency's awards panel has rejected a story, based on the More...
January 24, 2008
Holland: Will There Be Blood?
Dutch politician Geert Wilders is set to release a short film in two weeks which shows the Koran being torn up. More...
January 21, 2008
Why Some Think France is "Doomed"
Doomed? Strong word. But I hear it a lot from a friend in Paris who is an economist. More...
January 18, 2008
Germany Crushes Homeschooling; Creates Refugees
The German state is ramping up its war against homeschooling families, giving them no choice but to flee Germany or risk losing their children. More...
January 17, 2008
Pro-American German Woman Threatened
Karin Quade, a terrific German who is a stalwart supporter of the United States, has been threatened in an online video. More...
January 15, 2008
Christianophobia in Europe
Christians all over Europe face laws and attitudes that infringe on their free speech and free exercise of religion. More...
January 14, 2008
British Blogger Faces Arrest for Inciting “Racial Hatred”
A British newspaper reports that police in Bedfordshire want to arrest a conservative blogger for his anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant statements. More...
January 8, 2008
The Dentist Turned Terrorist
Strike another blow to the 'Muslim terrorists would stop killing us if they only had the chance for a better life...' argument in the war on terror. More...
December 6, 2007
British Imam’s Daughter Becomes Christian; Fears Her Family Will Kill Her
The 32 year old daughter of a British imam is under police protection after her family made death threats against her for becoming a Christian. More...
December 3, 2007
The CAIR Bears Are Here--Just in time for Christmas
This of course follows the Mohammed teddy bear saga in Sudan. More...
November 26, 2007
Dishing Back at the Archbishop of Canterbury
Victor Davis Hanson blasts the assertions of the Archbishop of Canterbury that the U.S is the “worst imperialist.” More...
November 15, 2007
Good News About Oil Prices?
One of the most interesting pieces I've read in the past week is entitled More...
November 9, 2007
Imam Wants Islamic State of North America by 2050
Imam Abdul Alim Musa's organization, As-Sabiqun, wants to establish an Islamic State of North America by 2050. More...
November 7, 2007
Video Death Threat to Mega-Mosque Opponent Still on YouTube
The leader of the opposition to the planned London mega-mosque, Councilor Alan Craig, has had his life threatened on YouTube, presumably by Muslim radicals. More...
November 5, 2007
The Most Dangerous Nation
Pakistan is seething with Islamic fundamentalism and ethnic hatred. It is the creator of the Taliban, and possesses nuclear weapons. More...
November 1, 2007
U.S. and European Conservatives in Web Brawl
It's Little Green Footballs versus Brussels Journal. And you've got a ringside seat. More...
October 30, 2007
How Global Warming Has Wrecked Everything
A German newspaper lists all of the alleged effects we can expect from from global warming. More...
October 24, 2007
"Jena 6" News Coverage Called "a Disgrace."
Craig Franklin. a reporter from Jena, Louisiana, blasts the national media's coverage of the Jena 6. More...
October 18, 2007
All Muslims Told to Defend Iran Against U.S.
The influential Islamic leader, Yusef Qaradawi, has called on all Muslims to defend Iran if there is U.S. attack. More...
October 16, 2007
Bush Was Scammed By Putin
We now know that Bush, ever the idealist about human beings, was scammed by the former KGB man. More...
October 12, 2007
Hirsi Ali: Islam Must 'Be Crushed'
Hirsi Ali says Islam must be defeated inall its forms. More...
October 11, 2007
Council of Europe: Creationism Tied to Extremism
An evil “American phenomenon” is infiltrating the minds of Europeans: Creationism. More...
October 9, 2007
Climate Changes. Get Over it.
After a scorching April and May, global warming took a European summer holiday. More...
September 28, 2007
Spending Money on Global Warming is Dumb
Has the modern day flat-earth theory won? More...
September 20, 2007
Ahmadinejad Visit Would Defile Ground Zero
The Iranian president wants to lay a wreath at the site of ground zero in order to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11. More...
September 14, 2007
German TV Pushes 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
One of Germany's largest TV networks, ZDF, has put out a conspiracy documentary on who was really behind the attacks of September 11. More...
September 12, 2007
Nazi Tactics in Brussels
Tuesday’s police attack on pro-western demonstrators, who gathered to commemorate 9/11 and voice their opposition to the Islamization of Europe. More...
September 4, 2007
Is Decisive Victory Near in Iraq?
The brilliant Ralph Peters has returned from conducting his own independent investigation on the ground in Iraq. More...
August 29, 2007
More German Homeschoolers Face Jail
Tilman and Dagmar Neubronner of Bremen, Germany have a choice to make: pay a €6000 fine Thursday that they can’t afford, send their sons Moritz and Thomas to school against the wishes of the boys, or do nothing and risk jail. More...
August 23, 2007
Could Belgium Break Apart?
Little Belgium, birthplace of french fries and host to “the capital of Europe,” Brussels, appears to be in Big Trouble. More...
Artist Draws Mohammed as a Dog; Gets Threatened
Swedish artist Lars Vilks submitted several drawings of Mohammed as a dog. The art was taken down by exhibit organizers afraid of Muslim violence. More...
August 3, 2007
More British Muslims Support Terror?
An advisor to the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told Scotland Yard that one in 11 British Muslims, or 9%, “proactively support terrorism.” More...
July 30, 2007
Media Earthquake: U.S. Winning in Iraq?
The buzz is spreading over an important op-ed in today’s New York Times. More...
July 26, 2007
Ethanol Story Fuels Farmers' Anger
My report on the growth of corn ethanol, Washington's Love Affair with Ethanol, seemed to strike a nerve in the heartland. More...
July 25, 2007
Gay 'Youth Worker' Wins Claim Against Church of England
Gay right groups are calling for the resignation of an Anglican Bishop after a British employment tribunal ruled that he discriminated against a gay youth worker because of the man’s sexuality. More...
July 3, 2007
Belgian Bishop Charged for 'Homophobia'
The laws are already in place in most western European countries to make preaching or speaking out against homosexuality a ticket to jail. More...
July 2, 2007
British Bombings “Can Be Work of …Christians, Jews or Buddhists.”
I am honestly baffled by the thinking of Muslim leaders who pretend terrorism is not primarily a Muslim scourge. More...
June 29, 2007
Strange Arctic Clouds on the Move
Apparently, the strange looking “noctilucent” or “night-shining” clouds have atmospheric scientists befuddled and a little concerned. More...
June 19, 2007
Why Europe Dislikes America
I present the highlights from my interview with Andrei Markovits, author of Uncouth Nation, Why Europe Dislikes America More...
June 7, 2007
Mean Conservatives (and Liberals)
There’s a group on the right that is brutish, suspicious, undemocratic and mean. More...
June 7, 2007
Mean Conservatives (and Liberals)
There’s a group on the right that is brutish, suspicious, undemocratic and mean. More...
June 4, 2007
Love Letters to Me and George Bush. Not.
Nothing gets the blood running on a Monday morning like an inbox pulsing with…vitriol. More...
June 1, 2007
The Bush Implosion
Whether you like the immigration bill or not, you cannot deny that it is splitting the GOP. More...
May 30, 2007
Iran on the Brink of Economic Collapse
The numbers reveal an economic situation that is unsustainable. It is the Soviet crack-up on crack. More...
May 21, 2007
German Homeschooling Parents Could Get 3 Months in Jail
The Dudek family from German state of Hesse faces possible 3 month prison terms for both the mom and dad because of homeschooling. More...
May 17, 2007
Busekros Parents Regain Custody of Melissa
A German appeals court has ruled that the Youth Welfare Office cannot take Melissa back into custody without an additional court order. More...
April 27, 2007
Melissa Busekros Free for Good?
Melissa does not appear to be imminent danger of being taken away again, and this controversy may be over. More...
April 26, 2007
UPDATE:Melissa Busekros is free. Case NOT Closed, Yet.
I've just recieved word that Melissa Busekros, the Geman homeschool girl, can remain with her parents. More...
April 24, 2007
Melissa Busekros at Home: Day 2
As of this writing, German authorities had not moved in to take Melissa Busekros from her family. More...
April 23, 2007
PHOTOS: German Homeschool Girl is Home
Melissa Busekros turned 16 today and is enjoying the day with her parents. More...
April 11, 2007
More German Home Schoolers Plead for Help
Three German Homeschool families in the former East Germany have written a letter to all gospel Christians… asking for help. More...
April 9, 2007
Ice Age '07: More Politically Incorrect Weather!
Would it be worth enduring just a brief ice age if we could enjoy the embarrassment of global warming alarmists? Tough question, I know. More...
April 3, 2007
What Happened to Melissa Busekros?
A number of you have written asking for the latest news on Melissa Busekros, the 15 year old German homeschooled girl who was taken from her family. More...
March 20, 2007
More German Homeschoolers Persecuted
The crackdown on homeschooling in Germany continues. In the latest episode, the Brause family in the eastern German city of Zittau has lost custody of their five children. More...
March 15, 2007
German Homeschool Girl: 'I Am Not Sick...'
Melissa Busekros has written a new letter in which she says she is not sick. More...
March 13, 2007
Annoy Your Local Paper: Launch Media Bias Awareness Day
After all, media bias has now become a serious global problem. More...
March 12, 2007
UPDATE: German Court Rules Against Homeschool Family
This morning the OLG appeals court in Germany upheld the lower court decision against the Busekros family. More...
March 1, 2007
EXCLUSIVE: Meet German Homeschool Family whose Daughter was Taken by Gov't
I met recently with the Busekros family in Erlangen, Germany. More...
February 27, 2007
Environmentalism a 'New Religion?'
Australian global warming skeptic Ray Evans has made a splash with a new publication, Nine Facts About Climate Change. More...
February 13, 2007
German Officials May Have Taken Homeschool Girl into Hiding
Outrage is building in the United States, if not around the world, for what looks like an egregious human rights violation. More...
February 9, 2007
Ice Age ‘07: Politically Incorrect Weather
The weather is obviously not politically correct, even if The Weather Channel now is. More...
February 8, 2007
German Officials Isolate Homeschool Girl in Mental Hospital
Letters have been flooding in from around the world for 15-year-old Melissa Busekros, but that German officials are not letting her see them. More...
February 3, 2007
Have the Nazis Returned? German Police Put 15 -Year -Old Home Schooler into Mental Hospital
Police officers and social workers raided the residence of a home school family in Bavaria and took the 15-year-old daughter. More...
January 25, 2007
A Media Coup Against President Bush?
The scent of Republican blood in the water has always excited the New York/Washington media, and it would like nothing better than to finish off another Bush. More...
January 23, 2007
Is Pakistan Helping the Taliban? (Yes.)
Pakistan has been playing a double game since 911 More...
January 18, 2007
Former CIA Agent Says Iraq Will Break Apart
It’s alarming when someone with Bob Baer’s credentials writes matter-of-factly that Iraq will break apart More...
January 17, 2007
The Moscow Terror Threat: What 24 Got Wrong
Does American face a terrorist nuclear threat? No question. But we’re not the only ones with a target on our back. More...
January 12, 2007
Boston Mosque Project Gets $1 Million from Saudi Bank
What is planned to be the largest mosque in the northeastern United States has received $1 million from the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia. More...
January 10, 2007
Hugo Chavez Finds Religion
Hugo Chavez, as a self-depicted type of Christ, continues to establish his Marxist kingdom in Venezuela. More...
January 8, 2007
The 'Cubanization' of Venezuela Accelerates
Since I wrote "Darkness Falls Over Venezuela" one month ago in this space, there has been a steady and depressing parade of headlines showing the stepped up "Cubanization" of Venezuela. More...
January 5, 2007
Want to Fix Iraq? Stop Iran.
Iranian documents captured in Iraq confirm that Iran has a blueprint to defeat America in Iraq (surprise!). More...
December 5, 2006
Stop Dangerous "Global Warming Deniers"
The Wall Street Journal has reprinted a letter from Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, to ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. It warns ExxonMobil to stop financial support to ALL scientific and public interest groups like the More...
dECEMBER 4, 2006
Darkness Falls over Venezuela
Hugo Chavez’ defeat of democratic challenger Manuel Rosales in Sunday’s presidential election will open a new dark chapter in Venezuelan history. Chavez will now begin the next phase of his Bolivarian project to turn Venezuela into a near clone of Cuba. More...
october 30 , 2006
Global Warming Hysteria Threatens Life As We Know It
British leaders continue to get hysterical over the global warming “threat.” Prime Minister Tony Blair is warning that a new study out today proves that the world faces “disastrous” consequences from “climate change.” More...
October 23, 2006
BBC Admits It Loathes America
If you’ve ever experienced the hair raising hostility and knee jerk anti-American bias in a lot of European news coverage, a piece in the London Mail on Sunday newspaper is a must read. More...
october 17 , 2006
Why North Korea Will Fall
When you walk into David Yonggi Cho’s mega-church in Seoul, South Korea, you’ll find what a 2003 Christian Science Monitor story describes as “…artists' renderings of 12 different contemporary churches and prayer-meeting complexes - all labeled with North Korean addresses. More...
October 16, 2006
Homeschoolers Jailed in Germany
In southern Germany last week I met members of 4 home schooling families who are being punished by the German government for home schooling. More...
october 12, 2006
America vs. the World
I work overseas fairly regularly, and I have had to endure a lot of conversations with foreigners that quickly turned into venting sessions. The United States gets ripped as the world’s biggest problem. I always tried to keep my composure while they emptied themselves of their anger, not wanting a shouting match or feeling like I could not in that moment reverse years of anti-American conditioning by foreign media coverage. More...
october 11 , 2006
The End of North Korea
After the big bang out of Pyongyang, there’s been a lot of hand wringing in the journalistic and pundit classes about a new nuclear-armed era for the weird and terrible North Korean regime of Kim Jong-Il. Having just returned from Germany and seeing all this shallow analysis, I’m wondering if there might be something to the German stereotype of Americans as superficial. More...
september 19 , 2006
Drunk on Conspiracy Theories
Leading atheist and leftist thinker Sam Harris has rattled the left this week with his piece in the left-leaning Los Angeles Times on liberal’s state of denial over the war on terror with a sub-theme on how the belief in conspiracy theories could destroy the left. More...
september 13 , 2006
Falling Oil Prices: Big Trouble for Troublemakers
A global oil price limbo dance could mean political upheaval or even revolution in two key enemies of the United States, Venezuela, and Iran, but also in a former superpower which, while not an outright enemy, wants to see the U.S. fail: Russia. More...
september 6, 2006
Massive Rise in British Anti-Semitism
A parliamentary enquiry will report Thursday to Prime Minister Tony Blair that “Anti-Zionism has fueled an explosive rise in anti-Semitism in the UK.” More...
september 6, 2006
Is Mexico Set to Explode?
As I reported from Mexico City in June, the nightmare scenario in the Mexico presidential election has turned out to be the narrow defeat of the leftist candidate with the messiah complex, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador. More...
August 31, 2006
Leftist Fantasy: Bush Assassinated on Screen
A new British TV docudrama called “Death of a President” revolves around the assassination of President Bush. More...
july 26, 2006
More Signs Hezbollah is Getting Pounded
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly wants a cease-fire in Lebanon and peace talks without conditions. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly wants a cease-fire in Lebanon and peace talks without conditions. More...
july 24, 2006
A West Gone Mad
In Australia, an Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner tells school kids she’s non-violent, but she’d still kill President Bush.In London, thousands of British Leftists and Muslim radicals, all of them citizens of a democracy that safeguards their rights, march in support of the terrorist group Hezbollah and against the democratic states of Israel and the U.S. More...
July 18, 2006
Is this Israel’s Prelude to Attacking Iran?
Israel’s attack on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon may be much more than it seems; more than just about the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers; more than just the actions of a democratic nation tired of being pecked to death by terrorists on its borders. It’s more likely the result of what I’ll call a strategic perfect storm. More...
july 5, 2006
The Predictable Results of America-Bashing
One of the biggest unreported stories of our time is the incredible hostility toward the UnitedStates in the foreign press, especially Europe’s, and the effect this relentless America-bashing is having on public opinion. More...
july 3, 2006
Mexico’s “Nightmare Scenario”
The results so far from Sunday’s Mexican presidential election were described to me weeks ago by Mexicans as the worst possible outcome, their “Nightmare Scenario.” More...
May 16, 2006
U.S. Chopper Downed by Iranian Missile
The U.S. military says Iraqi Terrorists shot down a U.S. helicopter south of Baghdad yesterday, killing two U.S. soldiers. Debkafile, a Web site with military and intelligence sources in the Middle East, says Iran had just supplied Iraqi terrorists with as many as 1,000 SA-7 Strela ground-air missiles made in Iran, and a number of new, more powerful roadside bombs. More...
may 11, 2006
Ugly Americans?
How bizarre is this? A Reuters story with the headline “Behavior Guide Aims at Demise of ‘the Ugly American.’” It begins, “Alarmed by the relentless rise of anti-Americanism around the world, a business-backed group is trying to change the behavior that spawned an enduring stereotype of Americans abroad -- loud, arrogant, ill-dressed, ill-mannered and lacking respect for other cultures.” More...
april 26, 2006
Mexico's Military Invasion
Here’s a good reason to fix the fence on the Mexican border:
The Department of Homeland Security says that suspected Mexican military units have crossed into the United States 216 times since 1996: 75 times in California, 63 in Arizona, and 78 in Texas. In some cases, shots have been fired and U.S. citizens threatened. More...
april 17, 2006
Anti-War Media Makes U.S.-Iran War More Likely
Thanks to the constant partisan anti-war coverage by the liberal media on Iraq, Iranian leaders are stumbling toward a military confrontation with the United States, confident that we’re powerless to stop them. Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a major figure in that country said Sunday that the United States is "incapable of taking a risk or engaging in a new war in the region” over Iran’s nuclear program. More...
april 7, 2006
Why They're Doomed
In the CBN Newsroom I sometimes exchange news articles through email with colleagues on the topic of the ongoing social, political, economic, and moral meltdown in Western Europe. The subject headings of these emails often simply read “Why They’re Doomed,” and everyone knows what the e-mail is about.
MARCH 27, 2006
Russia Disappears
Between 1993 and 2005, Russia’s population shrank by the approximate size of Denmark.
5.8 million people… gone. More...
February 10, 2006
Sources: Hugo Chavez Wants the Bomb
Highly placed sources inside Venezuela have given me detailed information about a top-secret Venezuelan government program called “Operación Yellowcake.”
It’s apparently a clandestine, Iranian-style nuclear program.
My sources say Venezuela has assembled a team of nuclear scientists from Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Libya, Cuba, Vietnam, India, and Japan. This team is working to exploit domestic Uranium deposits. More...
january 31, 2006
Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Russia?
Eight Jews were wounded a few weeks ago at Moscow's Chabad Synagogue by a knife-wielding attacker described in one press account as an “alienated young loner.” The attack led to a flurry of news reports over fears that hate crimes are growing in Russia. More...
january 27, 2006
al-Qaeda in Columbia: Be Very Afraid
This is the story I’ve both feared and expected. AP reports that Colombia has dismantled a false passport ring with links to al-Qaida and Hamas terrorists.
The report says “(t)he gang allegedly supplied an unknown number of citizens from Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and other countries with false passports and Colombian nationality without them ever stepping foot in the country. The counterfeited passports were then used to facilitate their entry into the United States and Europe.” More...
january 19, 2006
Big Trouble South of the Border
Watch for Latin America to become one of America’s top foreign policy problems later this year. On July 2nd, Mexico could elect as president an anti-American, pro-Castro leftist named Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The popular former mayor of Mexico City still leads in the polls, although his lead has shrunk. Add to that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez ... More...
january 16, 2006
Hugo Chavez Scapegoats the Jews
As the economy gets worse in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez needs more than the U.S. to blame for his nation’s problems, so he’s begun to scapegoat the Jews.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has condemned Chavez’ comments in a Christmas Eve speech to the nation in which he said that “…some minorities (read “Jews”), descendants of those who crucified Christ…a minority took the world's riches for themselves.'' More...
january 13, 2006
Monitoring Mosques for Nukes
Some Muslim “leaders” are miffed about news reports that ever since 9/11 the feds have been secretly monitoring mosques for traces of nuclear radiation. The New York Times reported that, “F.B.I. officials met with Muslim and Arab-American leaders on Wednesday in an effort to dispel anger and concern over the bureau's secret monitoring of radiation levels at Muslim sites around the country.” More...
january 9, 2006
New Proof of Saddam's WMDs?
The Intelligence Summit, a terrorism research center connected to several important U.S. intelligence figures, says it will release audio tapes next week of Saddam Hussein talking about his Weapons of Mass Destruction. Its news release says “A former military intelligence analyst, who currently works as a civilian contractor, believes he has found a cache of extremely confidential--and very shocking--audio recordings of Saddam Hussein's office meetings. The audiotapes, which had apparently been overlooked, were found in a warehouse along with many other untranslated Iraqi intelligence files. These tapes are extremely significant, since they may be the best evidence yet of Saddam's secret intentions concerning weapons of mass destruction.” More...
january 4, 2006
Europe's Troubled Sleep
The death of Europe feels trapped in an abstract realm until the reality of it slaps you across the face. I’ve reported plenty on the subject in its various manifestations from different European capitals, but sometimes I have to ask myself if I’m exaggerating the severity of the crisis. After all, the United States continues to defy the prophets of doom, who seem to pop up in European news reports on a regular basis, by the way. And Europe is rich and modern like the U.S., so I tell myself surely it must be flexible and adaptable enough to survive. More...
December 14, 2005
Chinese Takeout
The Chinese military continues to hack into the Pentagon’s computer network. But what’s more interesting is the White House response--none.
AFP, the French News Agency, quoted Alan Paller of the SANS Institute, as saying the attacks have been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong, and the hacking has all the signs of an ongoing military operation. More...
december 13, 2005
Europe Furious Over Tookie
The European elite, which sides with convicted murderers over their victims when it comes to the right to life, is outraged over California's execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. Politicians in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's native Austria have called for his name to be removed from a sports stadium in his hometown. A Christian political group went even further, suggesting the stadium be renamed the "Stanley Tookie Williams Stadium." More...
August 8, 2005
A
12 Step Program for the Left’s Hatred of “W”
Let’s
begin, shall we?
1. We admitted we were powerless over our hatred of (INSERT George W. Bush HERE) –and that our (INSERT “thinking, logic, and strategic vision” HERE) had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Power? Oops. The recovery effort begins to break down at this point, since many of the Bush haters in Europe and America don’t believe in a power higher than the human mind. But hey, I was concerned enough to try to help them. More...
August 4, 2005
Briefcase
Nukes Already Inside the U.S.?
Worldnetdaily.com has been running a series of articles that claim that al-Qaeda already has nuclear weapons inside the U.S. and is waiting to detonate them.
Joseph Farah writes, “At least two fully assembled and operational nuclear weapons are believed to be hidden in the United States already..." More...
August 4, 2005
CAIR’s
Alleged Ties to Terror
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is in the midst of a potentially embarrassing defamation suit that it filed against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR. Anti-CAIR is well, anti-CAIR, and accuses America’s most vocal Islamic organization of ties to terror, something a lot of people have done. More...
august 2, 2005
Does
Hugo Chavez Need an Exorcism?
The hands down winner for the category of he’d be hilariously funny if he weren’t so dangerous has to go to Venezuela’s aspiring maximum dictator Hugo Chavez. During his presidency, many a Venezuelan has uttered the words el hombre está loco. More...
August 1, 2005
Muslim
Terror: Bogus Fatwas, Mea Culpas, and Defiance
The London bombings and the Fatwa issued last week in this country against suicide bombings (see my July 28 entry) continue to emit all manner of intellectual fallout.
Terror expert Steven Emerson writes:
"…the fatwa is bogus. Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism. It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world."
july 28, 2005
Are
Suicide Bombings Coming to the U.S.?
There is a buzz among terror experts that the U.S could be the next address for a suicide bombing, and Muslim leaders here fear the backlash. Speaking to CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper a few months ago for a different story, he basically told me that all bets are off if there were ever another major attack on the United States by Muslim Terrorists. The phrase “internment camps” was discussed. More...
july 27, 2005
Playing
Nuclear Chicken with North Korea
At the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in Beijing today the U.S. told North Korea to dream on after Pyongyang demanded that we end our nuclear defense of South Korea as a precondition for negotiations over the North’s rogue nuclear program. Watch now for the predictable North Korean propaganda folderol about drowning us in a “sea of fire” or something. More...
july 26, 2005
Is
the War on Terror Headed to Pakistan?
For years, a confidential U.S. military source has told me repeatedly what has since become conventional wisdom: Osama bin Laden has been living across the border from Afghanistan in the mountains of Pakistan, and he has eluded capture with the assistance of Pakistan’s military.
His lair is a high altitude location that can be assaulted only by dropping commandoes from aircraft. The rugged terrain and high altitude environment would make such an assault an extremely difficult task. But my source says the biggest factor preventing the nabbing of bin Laden is that it would have to be a secret incursion into Pakistani territory without Pakistan’s knowledge. More...
july 21, 2005
Britain:
So I Guess There is an al-QaedaThreat?
Where are all the Brits who used to make fun of the al- Qaeda threat? They seem to have disappeared. Would it be a cheap shot for me to bring up the fact that right up to the first London Bombing, the British left and its allies, radical Muslims--including those who say they oppose terror but who want to make Britain an Islamic state-- were saying that the terrorism threat and the war on terror was a White House-created fantasy to facilitate the expansion of the American empire? More...
july 20, 2005
Did
I Say Oil Prices Might Fall?
Below I wrote of the possibility we could be paying a lot less for gasoline next year. But there’s also a nightmare scenario...
As you may have heard, the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia is warning that another terror attack on westerners inside the Kingdom might be in the works.
But some terror analysts still await the “big one”— a terror strike against Saudi Arabia’s huge oil pipeline network. The pipeline is heavily guarded and not easy to hit, but there are 10,000 miles of it.
july 20, 2005
China's
Economy, India as Ally, Britain's PC War
Hitting a Chinese Wall?
There are continuing rumblings that China’s economy will go into the tank big time in 2006, which would mean less energy demand worldwide. How might this help the Republicans? Because a major cooling in China’s overheated economy, along with an expected increase in oil production and more stability in Iraq, would drive down oil prices sharply, to levels not seen for years, which in turn could rev up the U.S economy during an election cycle and help the GOP. More...
