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Joel B. Pollak

U.S. Ambassador to Russia: Obama Says We Should Support ‘Universal Values,’ Not American Values

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul neatly summarized everything that is wrong with President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in an interview yesterday with National Public Radio (emphasis added): embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt There is no single path to democracy. And every society and every government and every country will find their own path. And we, as [...]
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Diana West

Tony Blankley (1949-2012), RIP

I am deeply saddened and shocked to learn that Tony Blankley has died. Tony, by virture of his quite remarkable career and background spanning Hollywood and Washington, California and the East Coast, the US and Great Britain, was himself a wealth of experience and treasured knowledge, very [...]
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Joel B. Pollak

Obama to Share Missile Defense Secrets With Russia?

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports that President Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to convey information about secret American missile defense technology to Russia: In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama said restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on U.S. [...]
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Sun Tzu

Big Peace on Earth

Merry Christmas to all! Peace on Earth, especially to the men and women in the U.S. and allied armed forces who protect it.
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Ross Howarth

Official Consensus on EMP Threat Ignored by New York Times

The American people deserve to know the truth about electromagnetic pulse (EMP).  The official consensus on the EMP threat has been ignored by the New York Times (NYT), even after it received a vitally important message from President Reagan’s Science Advisor Dr. William Graham, former CIA Director James Woolsey, and a long list of other [...]
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Sun Tzu

In Memoriam: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

Playwright, president, and pundit Vaclav Havel died peacefully this morning at his home in the Czech Republic. He was a leading dissident in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia, a leader of the Velvet Revolution, and a founding father of the post-communist Czech democracy. embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Unabashedly outspoken in defense of liberty, Havel supported the war against Saddam [...]
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Dr. Marc Weisman

‘Lowe’ Blow: Controversy Over All-American Muslim

As most are aware, one of the largest US retailers, Lowe’s Home Improvement, decided to pull its advertising from a reality TV show about Muslim Americans. TLC’s All-American Muslim takes a look at life in the heavily Muslim city of Dearborn, Michigan from the perspective of several typical Muslim-American families. Lowe’s apparently responded to pressure from [...]
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Michael Yon

Dustoff Helicopters: Violating Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan

The US Army is today in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan.  This was first pointed out to me by a very smart, highly experienced senior military person.  Though he has never steered me wrong, this seemed a bit much.  And so over the past month I looked into [...]
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Joel B. Pollak

Obama Sends Ambassador Ford Back to Syria, Chooses Engagement with Hostile Regime Once Again

The Obama administration is sending Ambassador Robert Ford back to Syria, even as the regime continues to attack civilians and opposition groups. Ford had been recalled in October, prompting Syria to recall its ambassador to the U.S. He is now scheduled to return, after a delay prompted by fears for his security. Ford presenting credentials to Syrian [...]
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Joel B. Pollak

Rep. Schakowsky (D-IL) Hides Behind Congressional Privilege to Attack Private Military Companies

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday to accuse former Blackwater (now Xe) chief Erik Prince of “attempted intimidation of a member of Congress.” embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt The “threat”–which Schakowsky appears to have exaggerated somewhat–consisted of a letter from Prince’s attorney to Schakowsky, asking her to desist from making [...]
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