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Under Attack in Afghanistan

When a suicide bomber struck a convoy in Afghanistan, a routine Marine patrol turned into a harrowing firefight. Michael M. Phillips with an eyewitness account of bravery and tragedy in the confusion of war.

The Soros Summit: Free Beacon exclusive: Inside the secret Miami meeting of George Soros's liberal conspiracy

A  secretive network of left-wing billionaires and their political operatives descended on the luxurious Biltmore Hotel in Miami over the weekend to discuss strategy for the coming elections Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SE …

Obama Carolina Convention Plans Going Awry for Democrats

President Barack Obama’s decision in February 2011 to hold the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina looked like a bold move to reclaim a state he’d won in 2008. Today, it’s more like an awkward fit. The state’s Democratic Party is mired in a …

Obama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies

My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t—it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford). Here ar …

Michael Oren: What Happened to Israel's Reputation?

Israel may seem like Goliath vis-à-vis the Palestinians, but in a regional context it is David. Gaza is host to 10,000 rockets, many of which can hit Tel Aviv, and Hezbollah in Lebanon has 50,000 missiles that place all of Israel within range. Throughout the Middle East, …

Obama's Bad Businessmen | Washington Free Beacon

Buffett is not the only famous presidential supporter to fall from business grace. Television titan Oprah Winfrey appears to have lost the golden touch that helped make her the richest self-made women in America and propelled Barack Obama from up-and-coming Illinois senator to …

Ross: Iran must 'stop clock' on uranium enrichment

A former White House Iran adviser said Monday that for Tehran to prove its seriousness in new talks over its nuclear program, it must take a step that “stops the clock” on its uranium enrichment.

Obama team tried to 'bribe' Jeremiah Wright to keep quiet: book

Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at  Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I  received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November  presidential electi …

Controversy over conservative blogger's firing |

Former WSJ editor Naomi Schaefer Riley axed by Chronicle of Higher Education for criticizing black studies programs at U.S. colleges

Socialist Hollande owns three homes on the Riviera -

France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today.

Islamist Extortion and the Media ::

It's always interesting when an accepted fact becomes acknowledged. "Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam" is an example, Islamist Watch research fellow David Rusin writes this week at PJ Media. Those who follow the BBC have known for years that it treats Islam with greater de …

President Obama's former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity -

In a revealing new book, The Amateur,  author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr.  David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says  that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that …

Underwear bomb plot: British and US intelligence rattled over leaks

Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5.

US-Israel ties reaffirmed in House vote -

The House on Wednesday approved legislation aimed at reaffirming the U.S. commitment to Israel's security, in a unanimous vote that left no doubt where members of both parties stand on the issue.Members approved the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, H.R. 413 …

Rochdale grooming trial: how the case unfolded

The gang also included Mohammed Sajid, 35, Adil Khan, 42, Abdul Quayyum, 43,   Mohammed Amin, 44, all but one of whom are taxi drivers of Pakistani origin,   and Hamid Safi, an Afghan asylum seeker. They were convicted of charges   involving five gir …

Media Psychology 101 - What's Wrong With This Metaphor? Israel and the Cycle of Violence

There are many problems with the cycle of violence frame, not the least of which is that it does not actually describe the situation. Scholars who carefully tracked violence during the Second Intifada, for example, “found little evidence to suggest there is a cycle of vio …

Barack Obama: a profile in cowardice

...what exactly does this show about President Obama? Well, for one, it shows he is  one hell of a political acrobat. More importantly, it shows us that he will do  or say anything to win re-election. Same-sex marriage has fervent supporters and  fervent detracto …

TheDC Interview: ˜Marked for Death' Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders [VIDEO]

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders defended his views about Islam in an  intense and extensive interview with The Daily Caller. “Because I spoke out against the ideology called Islam already for almost 10  years now, I was marked for death,” Wilders, who …

Step aside, Gutenberg, Israel is about to revolutionize printing - again

For Benny Landa, it wasn’t enough that his Indigo digital commercial printers revolutionized the industry – making it possible to digitally print everything from photo albums to wine-bottle labels — after Indigo’s 2002 acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. &nbs …

Supermodel Bar Refaeli Stars in Israeli Spy Movie -

After a top Hamas commander was murdered in his luxury hotel room, Dubai police used surveillance camera footage to "solve" the crime and place the blame for the 2010 assassination on a multi-member Mossad hit squad. Now an Israeli director has reimagined the real-life thrille …

How a Dedicated Group of Tea Party Activists Toppled Richard Lugar -

The Tea Party, an unsteady movement that was beginning to resemble a wayward ship in 2012, found its north star in Indiana on Tuesday night. State Treasurer Richard Mourdock defeated six-term Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, a victory owing to the incumbent's inep …

New York Times: Obama Is a Socialist

So, according to the Times, the French Socialist is "closely aligned with," "naturally more palatable to," and "likely to hew closer to" the Obama administration on economic issues. Is, therefore, Barack Obama (more or less) a socialist? Quod erat demonstrandum.

Attorney in hijab defends call for other women at 9/11 hearing to wear 'appropriate' clothing

Cheryl Bormann, counsel for defendant Walid bin Attash, attended the  arraignment Saturday dressed in a hijab, apparently because her client insisted  on it. She further requested that the court order other women to follow that  example so that the defendants do  …

O's Israel Basher Bundler

Team Obama includes a self-identified “Muslim Palestinian-American” campaign fundraiser who has a history of blasting Israel in highly charged letters and newspaper articles about the Middle East conflict. Hala Hijazi, a Jordanian native and current San Francisco cit …

Obama's Way of War

The Greater Middle East is in transition. We don’t know where it’s going. We need to pay close attention to the intellectual whirlpools that are developing throughout the region as democratic, Islamic, and other convulsive ideas collide. It’s way too soon to b …

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    When a suicide bomber struck a convoy in Afghanistan, a routine Marine patrol turned into a harrowing firefight. Michael M. Phillips with an eyewitness account of bravery and tragedy in the confusion of war.

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