Category Archives: Politics

Pragmatism, Obama and the Bergdahl swap

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick June 10, 2014 US President Barack Obama is an artist of political propaganda. Both his greatest admirers and his most vociferous opponents agree that his ability to manipulate public opinion has no peer in American … Continue reading

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ObamaCore Emerges As a Major Issue As Education Takes An Orwellian Turn

NEW YORK SUN by Betsy McCaughey June 10, 2014 …..Contrary to what the public is told, Common Core is not about standards. It’s about content — what pupils are taught. In the Social Studies Framework approved on April 29th by … Continue reading

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How the Taliban got their hands on modern US missiles

NEW YORK POST By Kenneth R. Timmerman June 8, 2014 The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons. Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar … Continue reading

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Why Terrorists Love Twitter. A Q&A with a leading scholar on terrorism and media

NATIONAL JOURNAL by Laura Ryan June 2, 2014 “Try to think like a terrorist for a second. Would you like to get—free-of-charge—satellite services? Of course, you would,” says Gabriel Weimann. “Now think about Google Earth.” Indeed, it was Google Earth … Continue reading

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Obama was Bluffing on Iran

AMERICAN THINKER by Shoula Romano Horing June 6, 2014 President Obama’s West Point foreign policy speech has given Israel both good and bad news. The good news for Israel is that the president has given up on the idea of … Continue reading

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Israel’s Ambassador: Move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON by Adam Kredo June 5, 2014 Obama administration continues to say Jerusalem not part of Israel Israel’s ambassador to the United States has called on Congress to “finally” and “very soon” move the U.S. embassy in Israel … Continue reading

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Obama’s master … mistake: behind the Bergdahl bungle

NEW YORK POST by John Podhoretz June 5, 2014 The Obama White House genuinely believed the release of the American soldier who disappeared in 2009 in Afghanistan would provide a triumphant moment for the president and a moment for national … Continue reading

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Decoding Bergdahl. It’s all about Gitmo.

PJ MEDIA by Richard Fernandez June 5, 2014 …..You’d think Obama was hiding something. Even MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski notices that nothing about Bergdahl adds up : The question about his health, it’s a controversy. Why, then, also given his background … Continue reading

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D-Day at 70, Remembering the most brilliantly conducted invasion in military history

NATIONAL REVIEW by Victor Davis Hanson May 29, 2014 Seventy years ago this June 6, the Americans, British, and Canadians stormed the beaches of Normandy in the largest amphibious invasion of Europe since the Persian king Xerxes invaded Greece in … Continue reading

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Our Italian Friends

NAOMI RAGEN BLOG May 31, 2014 I [recently] accepted an invitation to be a guest speaker at Torino’s 2014 Salone Internazionale del Libro, the largest book fair in Europe outside of Frankfurt. The invitation was issued by the founder of the … Continue reading

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