Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service North Korea is in the news again and, surprisingly, it’s not because of yet another nuclear threat against the U.S. or its allies. North Korea will figure prominently in two sets of meetings: today’s U.S.–China summit between President Obama and Xi Jinping and resumed inter-Korean talks this […]
Newscom President Obama’s jarring choice of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to be the Administration’s new National Security Adviser showcases the President’s willingness to ride off a foreign policy cliff hand in hand with his ideological soul mate. In choosing Rice, the President fired a political shot across the bow of […]
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Newscom On the margins of the general assembly of the Organization of American States in Guatemala, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuela’s foreign minister, Elias Jaua, representing the democratically challenged and crisis-prone government of Nicolas Maduro, handpicked successor of the late Hugo Chavez and self-proclaimed victor of the April 14 presidential elections. […]
Photo credit: Jay Mallin/ZUMA Press/Newscom Senator John Cornyn (R–TX) will propose an amendment to the Senate immigration bill entitled “Requiring Enforcement, Security and safety, Upgrading Legitimate Trade and travel Simultaneously” (RESULTS). It should really be called the “NO-RESULTS” amendment. The amendment raises constitutional concerns and fails to solve the enforcement problems in the bill. Before […]
By United Press International June 6, 2013 6:57 am The FBI is amassing millions of U.S. Verizon customers’ cellphone records for a top-secret Defense Department domestic spying program, a court order indicates.The program requires Verizon Business Services to give the FBI an “ongoing, daily” download of “all call detail records,” including caller and recipient locations, […]
SECURE AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY! DEMAND IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO ALL OF RICE’S BENGHAZI EMAILS AND BLOCK U.N. NOMINATION OF SOCIALIST SAMANTHA POWER NOW! BLAST-FAX CONGRESS TO FIGHT! URGENT ACTION ALERT: Barack Hussein Obama’s arrogance and obsession with LOYALTY in his hyper-centralized thug administration of like-minded sycophants have now put political retribution BEFORE American sovereignty with what Rush […]
HAMMI/SIPA/Newscom Has Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally worn out his welcome? The anti-government protests that began last Friday in Taksim Square against Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian leadership could become the start of a “Turkish Spring.” At the very least, if Erdogan does not implement serious reforms and address the widespread and legitimate grievances of […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 5, 2013 N.B.: Washington Times title: “Reasons to smile in Israel” In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their conflict with the Palestinians: “People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if […]
Strunin Anatoly Itar-Tass Photos/Newscom Late last night, the House Armed Services Committee drew a line on American military relations with Burma. The committee passed an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act offered by Representative Trent Franks (R–AZ) expressing the sense of Congress that “the Department of Defense should fully consider and assess the […]
President Obama gets high marks for loyalty to his closest political friends and allies, but his nomination of Susan Rice as National Security Adviser shows that his concern for the realistic security issues threatening the United States remains questionable. Rice was the frontrunner to replace Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State until her credibility was destroyed over […]
