Jul 1, 2014 – And this is part of the reason why the Obama administration is so obsessed with spying by the NSA. … “Just tell me where the gold is. Yes, the gold, the f---ing gold, or the oil, or uranium. Something. … Jesus Christ, something out there for us to be here.” Well, the gold is now at home.…

Jun 30, 2014 – with the Iraqi government that would have allowed us to leave, perhaps, 15,000 troops there. … According to the Post, the Iraqis are negotiating with Iran for the return of "more than 100 Iraqi jets, including Soviet-made Sukhoi … Thus, we might be looking at the two major terrorist organizations going to war with one another.…

Jul 19, 2014 – We also know that Russia is fighting a proxy war with the U.S. in Ukraine, and that Russian special forces are leading the terrorist … We can add to this the proxy war fought by Russia in the Middle East, with its main ally Iran, and the fact that Russia is engaging … As I testified this week before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, at 2.1 percent average real growth, the U.S. is lagging…

Jul 19, 2014 – presidential elections, and there were 3 million people in the streets of Iran holding up signs in English: “Obama are you with us … I went to defectors for the Iranian terrorism organization, for example, to ask the fundamental question: “Was Iran engaged at all … world, that appears to have been authorized, or at the very least explicitly tolerated, by John Brennan, who at the time was the president…

Jul 18, 2014 – Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the USSR. At the end of the Cold War, with freedom, all three came apart. … The Kurds seek to carve a nation out of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. A Sunni-Shia sectarian war impends. … The world is boiling with racial, tribal, cultural and moral conflict. People carry in their hearts the seeds of these conflicts.…

Jul 17, 2014 – Is he afraid Americans can't take the truth? Let's start with the Marxist part. What defines a Marxist? … observance at the Pentagon “is nothing short of an effort to stamp out Christianity from the military.” … Is he afraid Americans can't take the truth? Let's start with the Marxist part. What defines a Marxist?…

Jul 16, 2014 – The money losses from identity theft pale in comparison with the costs of paperwork, time and inconvenience imposed on the larger society … The U.S. alone has the power to tell Iran to permit unimpeded inspection of the country's nuclear facilities, with the threat of bombing … The West, led by our country, is doing exactly what it did in the run-up to World War II.…

Jul 13, 2014 – Email Ransom, above The trouble in Iraq didn’t start in 2003, or in 1990—the First Gulf War—or with the toppling … The lesson now continues: History is littered with dumb rulers. … Butting into others' conflicts with force is not a good example, and is not following the Golden Rule.…

Jul 27, 2014 – Iraq is under siege from Islamic radicals, the Taliban is rebounding in Afghanistan and civil war grinds on in Syria. … The 9/11 attacks, the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan are still fresh in our minds. … Even at the height of our post-Cold War power and influence, nasty events happened all the time, and we couldn't stop them.…

Jul 26, 2014 – of Reagan’s foreign policy exploits at the time. … in Libya, urged Reagan to lift the Cuban embargo, and said “the invasion of Grenada is hardly the victory the American people were … In a column for Politico with the not-so-subtle title “Rick Perry is Dead Wrong,” Rand says “with 60,000 foreign children streaming…

Jul 25, 2014 – guarantee to Kiev, potentially bringing us to war with a nuclear-armed Russia? … Translation: The U.S. and NATO should go to war with Russia, if necessary, over Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea, though no U.S. president … Who is the real problem here?…

Jul 24, 2014 – War frontier in Ukraine to the South China Sea to our border with Mexico— our world appears to be falling apart. … The simple answer is, yes. … “The thing with Obama is that he can’t be bothered, and there is no hand on the tiller half the time,” she complained to a group of…

Jul 24, 2014 – It is an outburst that has not been seen since the 1970s. His only reaction is mere rhetoric, sometimes no rhetoric at all. … that calls us the Great Satan? … They call for "stability" in the region, and live in wonder of what the United States is doing conjuring with the greatest force for…

Jul 23, 2014 – Why is Iran simultaneously working to develop Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that can reach the United States? … starting with Iraq (at least its Shia areas which, due in large measure to the sectarianism of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki … One asks if it’s true that some in the U.S. view Iran as a “stabilizing force” with whom the U.S. could ally against the Islamic State…

Jul 23, 2014 – Thus, the focus is on the message from the Commission. The first point is a brief tutorial on terms of art. … Comment: It is difficult to take the government account at face value after almost four months of secession by the separatists in Donetsk … The US narrative is one theory of the case, not proof.…

Jul 22, 2014 – Today, Vladimir Putin, with an indictment being drawn up against him, is blaming Ukraine for the war out of which the tragedy came. … The Day of the Hawk is at hand. … And should Ukraine, with U.S. arms, win its war in the east, what is to stop it from sending troops to recapture Crimea, which would…

Aug 8, 2014 – At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama famously wrote that our world may be at the "end of history" where "Western liberal democracy … Our democracy seems to be at war with itself. Now there is talk of impeaching Obama. … Is Western democracy approaching the end of its tether, with the seeming success of authoritarian capitalism in China and Russia?…

Aug 7, 2014 – So let’s use the proper one: Hamas is a front group for Iran, a country that wishes both Israel and the United States didn’t exist. … The not-so-secret dream of all Iranian governments is the violent demise of the Jewish state, Israel, along with the painful death … The cry of “I want to kill you,” in the real world, would at least warrant a drive-by with a police cruiser.…

Aug 1, 2014 – There is a cold war brewing in the Republican Party over the utility of our security measures and how conservatives should approach … to say that Obama’s bungling has left us with “a divided Syria, with a pro-Iran dictator in control of part of the country, and radical … At a foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation, he rejected isolationism and said that military intervention is a legitimate…

Jan 10, 2013 – I'm at peace knowing where my dad is and that he was excited about getting to Heaven. … Assessing the state of the world as reported on the nightly news, one character responds in disgust: "John Wayne is in the ground six … A long, sometimes nonlinear film, Zero Dark Thirty is a magnificent production that realizes the darkness that surrounds us.…

Jan 10, 2013 – There is nothing wrong with criticizing the policies of any Israeli government. Israelis likely do this more than foreigners. … the United States' direct discussions with Iran." … Bush also urged the pursuit of "direct, unconditional and comprehensive talks" with Iran.…

Jan 9, 2013 – WASHINGTON - President Obama's is putting together a new national security team at the Pentagon and the CIA that is said to be designed … "The declaration from Hagel that he is not 'the senator from Israel' is again a direct attack on Jews' fidelity to the United States … But with al Qaeda affiliates and cells sprouting across North Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere, is that the signal we want to…

Jan 7, 2013 – Is it time to start the party yet? … me of Kissinger's view of the Iran-Iraq War: It's a shame they both can't lose. … , and then intolerable.Who is it that pushes so hard, stands to gain so much from, making us just like the rest of the socialist modern…

Jan 15, 2013 – Hagel's qualifications to head the Defense Department begin with his war record, for he served bravely and honorably in Vietnam, being … with the 101st Airborne Division. … The question at this point isn't whether Mr.…

Jan 11, 2013 – It is Iran that backs Hezbollah in Lebanon. We haven’t heard much about the Cedar Revolution in that war-torn country. … The Germans, then at war with Britain, complained that their enemies had cut their Atlantic cable and were intercepting their radio … (California was reserved for the deal Zimmermann planned to offer Japan to enter the war against us.)…