Carafano at SXSW Tech Conference: "If You Care About Freedom, Care About Cybersecurity"

If you care about freedom and prosperity, you ought to care about cybersecurity. That’s what Heritage’s James Carafano told an audience at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. Cybersecurity, a growing issue of concern around the world, was a hot topic at the nation’s most popular tech and innovation […]

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Ukraine 2014 Is Grenada 1983

Before the U.S. gets too worked up about the Russian “invasion” of Ukraine, it should recall its own invasion in 1983 of the idyllic island of Grenada some 100 miles from the United States. America invaded Grenada to install a U.S.-friendly government after a Communist coup had led to the breakdown of law and order […]

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Update from Missionary in Ukraine: Crisis Looks ‘Explosive,’ ‘Surreal’

The Rev. Gerard D.  ”George” de Vuyst, wife Sarah and  their children. /  Family Photo Russia’s military incursion into Crimea remains “explosive,” but the immediate threat to his fellow residents of Kiev appears to have lessened, an American missionary — who has lived in Ukraine for two decades — says in an e-mail update to […]

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Majority Ukraine Crimea Military Defects To Russian Side

SIMFEROPOL – Ukraine’s autonomous region of Crimea confirmed Sunday that the majority of Ukrainian military units stationed on the Crimean peninsula have expressed their support of legitimately elected Pro-Russian authorities. Earlier reports by Russian media about peaceful takeover of the military units by forces loyal to the Crimean government were denied by the Ukrainian defense […]

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74% of U.S. Afghan Casualties Came After Obama Ordered Troop Increase

(CNSNews.com) – Seventy-four percent of the U.S. military personnel who have given their lives serving in the Afghan War died after Feb. 17, 2009, when President Barack Obama announced his first increase in the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, according to CNSNews.com’s database of U.S. casualties in the war. In the more than […]

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