Category: Foreign Affairs

Media Matters’ Resident Anti-Semite Steps Down

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

MJ Rosenberg, the controversial and virulently anti-Israel Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network, announced in his latest blog posting that he is leaving his $130,000 plus per year job at the organization. In his Friday, April 6, post, Rosenberg said he is leaving Media Matters because his continued presence is causing “possible […]

 

Obama’s plan to be more “flexible” on defense policy after the election

Posted on by Wintery Knight

CNS News: reports on a shocking conversation between Barack Obama and Russian President: Dmitry Medvedev. Excerpt: President Barack Obama told Russia’s leader Monday that he would have more flexibility after the November election to deal with the contentious issue of missile defense, a candid assessment of political reality that was picked up by a microphone without either […]

 

Know What’s Not The Least Bit “Audacious”? Giving SEALs Permission To Kill Osama Bin Laden

Posted on by John Hawkins

Killing Osama Bin Laden is one thing that was done right in the sinkhole of misery and failure that is Barack Obama’s presidency. But the Obama Administration, being the Obama Administration, doesn’t even know how to handle that. Vice President Joseph Biden on Monday night upped the ante around the already quite-dramatic assassination of Osama […]

 

Former DEA chief warns of cooperation between Hezbollah and drug cartels

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From: CNS News. Excerpt: The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday. Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed relationships […]

 

Muslim honor killers convicted of first degree murder in Canada

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From the: National Post. (H/T: Blazing Cat Fur) Excerpt: After Canada’s first mass-honour-killings trial, three members of a Montreal family have all been found guilty of first-degree murder in the drowning deaths of four other family members – including three teenage sisters. A jury on Sunday handed down its guilty verdicts for Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad […]

 

Israel Killed Fewer Civilians in Military Operations Than Others, Including the US

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The last decade or so we’ve assigned a euphemism to the deaths of civilians in military operations; we’ve called it “collateral damage.” The fact is, though, that deaths of bystanders — purportedly innocent — are almost unavoidable in war operations. After all, war usually entails the indiscriminate firing of automatic weapons or the dropping of […]

 

Boston University Muslim Chaplin Raising Funds for Al Qaeda, Mass. Pols Embrace Him

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Abdullah Faaruuq, a Muslim “spiritual advisor” and chaplain from Boston-based Northeastern University, was a key speaker at a fundraiser for al Qaeda’s Ma Barker, the criminal female terrorist named Aafia Siddiqui, also known as “Lady al Qaeda.” This man, Faaruuq, is living off American taxpayers yet advocates for his followers to use “the gun and […]

 

CAIR Insists That Candidates Answer 11 Questions on Muslim Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued it’s new candidate questionnaire for the 2012 election season. CAIR is insisting that candidates answer to them before getting that jihadi stamp of approval, apparently. CAIR has devised 11 questions for the candidates so that they can “empower American Muslims by increasing their political capacity and presence.” […]

 

My Video At Heart of Controversy in Florida House Race

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, a video I made in Denver is at the heart of a controversy in a race for the House of Representatives in Florida. While at Blogcon 2011 I had the opportunity to interview Karen Harrington, a Republican candidate for the 20th District House seat now held by Debbie Wasserman Schultz — who is also […]

 

The Truth About the National Defense Authorization Act

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Last week, the Senate voted 93-7 to pass S 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. Congress has passed this Act every year since 1961. The Act sets policy and outlines financial and legal specifications for the U.S. Department of Defense, such as benefits for military personnel and purchase of equipment.: The ACLU, Occupy San Francisco and […]

 

Obama Appointed Ambassador Says Israel At Fault for Muslim Anti-Semitism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Since he ascended from nothing to the office of President of the United States, Obama has shown a disdain for most of our western allies that borders on hatred. But he’s reserved his most backhanded treatment to Israel. It isn’t just what he’s done to show Israel that he has no use for them, but […]

 

The Next WikiLeaks Bombshells?

Posted on by Rachel Marsden

This week, WikiLeaks has begun time-releasing documents related to the global private intelligence industry. What exactly is this field, and what do you, as a citizen, need to know about it? So far, the published open-source documents are limited to TECHNINT, or technical intelligence, detailing equipment allegedly created by Western companies and used by governments […]

 

America Now More Pro-Civil Service Than Russia

Posted on by Rachel Marsden

Russian’s non-Putin President Dmitry Medvedev (aka President Placeholder) met with a group of small-businessmen in Moscow over the summer to discuss their challenges. One can only imagine where to start. So Medvedev, according to state news agency RIA Novosti, offered some direction: “The youth believe that [the civil service] is an example of how to […]

 

We Need Rules for Cyberwarfare Before a President Steals That Power, Too

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A recent New York Times article revealed that the Pentagon briefly considered engaging in cyberwarfare at the outset of the actions in Libya, but decided against it for a variety of reasons. This reminds us all that as a nation we really need to discuss the use of cyberwarfare. The first question asked must be: […]

 

Obama Wears a White Hat

Posted on by Jonah Goldberg

Weirdest Friday news dump ever. Very late in the day on Oct. 14, the Obama administration released a lot of politically problematic information, including the news that the deficit for 2011 hit $1.3 trillion (the second biggest ever, after 2009) and that it’s abandoning the CLASS Act, one of the more expensive and unwieldy appendages […]

 

Obama’s Terrorist Dilemma

Posted on by Jonah Goldberg

I agree with the Obama administration’s decision to kill the American-born al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. What I can’t fathom is why the administration agrees with me. Here’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responding to complaints from the ACLU over the “assassination” of an American citizen without due process: “This individual was clearly a terrorist. And […]

 

Russia’s Arctic Embrace: Cold War Reloaded

Posted on by Rachel Marsden

In September 2010, Germany’s Der Spiegel explained that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a “soft spot for the Arctic,” with Putin saying Russia “will put huge amounts of money into environmental protection” and is “planning to do a serious spring cleaning of our Arctic territories.” He was up there petting polar bears to drive […]

 

George Washington Said to Avoid ‘Entangling Alliances’… Or Did He?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I have been interested these days to hear the left citing George Washington, the father of our country, to support their ideas against the GOP and their hope that Obama will pull out of the Middle East. Specifically they have been citing Washington’s farewell address where he supposedly warned Americans against getting involved with foreign […]

 

Ron Paul: NOT a Serious Candidate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul is not serious about running for president nor is he a serious candidate even were he to be so inclined. But serious or no, he is a horrible candidate regardless. Now, there may have been a time a decade or so ago when Ron Paul really thought he had a shot at being […]

 

Ga. Middle School: Muslim Polygamy Is Normal, Burkas Good For Women

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston A middle school in Smyrna, Georgia included in an assignment material that essentially shows 7th grade children that Islamic polygamy is a perfectly legitimate concept and that there is nothing wrong with the strict dress codes used to oppress Muslim women the world over. The material was presented to the 7th […]

 

Narcissist in Chief: Obama’s ‘Look At Me’ Photo

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back on Sept. 20, President Obama stood with the folks from the Open Government Partnership to get a group photo taken. But, even in a photo of over a dozen folks, as far as Obama was concerned it was all about Obama. There he is, calling attention to himself like a ten-year-old on the carousel […]

 

War Drums Beating: Anti-American George Soros Promoting Anti-Americanism in Central Asia

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Richard Miniter has a very interesting article in Forbes about the damage anti-American millionaire George Soros is causing to both Central Asia and the foreign policy of the United States. Soros is an interesting if risible figure. For good reason his name is a boogieman name for we on the right. Truthfully, though, most on […]

 

New Worry: RFID Tracking Chips in Firearms?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Italians have caused an outrage among American firearms customers. A Italian company named Chiappa Firearms sent out a press release (in Italian) last week announcing that it will soon be putting inside each firearm it manufactures an RFID chip (Radio Frequency Identification) meant to track quality control, inventory, and shipping. American gun owners and […]

 

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Leggy bay bee! As best understood, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is ancient Romanspeak roughly (very roughly, mind ye) xlated as “In combat time, attorneys can like STFU” During the decade of war (so far – nicht wahr?) Attorneys and their legion of the discombobulated detached detachment of inapropriate handwringers, boring assetted, worrying about the […]

 

Colorado School Places Saudi Arabian Flag Above U.S. Flag

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An elementary school in Fort Collins, Colorado came under fire last week for having placed in the school a smaller sized Saudi Arabian flag in a higher, more prominent position that the flag of the United States. Many locals called this a disrespectful display and even wondered if it was part of some effort at […]

 

If 911 Never Happened…

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“And it came to pass in the decade after 911, alternate response and historical revisonary visions:  did abound“ The events of 9/11 reverberated through many spheres of American life but nowhere more profoundly than in American policy toward the outside world.:  We launched two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We organized counterterrorism operations in far-flung […]