Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE)

Viscount Samuel, Meet Secretary Hagel

Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A Jew and an influential Zionist, Samuel bent over backwards not to favor the Yishuv, to the point that he forwarded the interests of the Palestinians most hostile to the Jewish presence. Most […]

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Judge Who Mirandized Boston Bomber Has Muslim Ties

By Daniel Greenfield Once Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his rights on Monday, he immediately stopped talking, according to four officials of both political parties who were briefed on the interrogation but insisted on anonymity because the briefing was private. After roughly 16 hours of questioning, investigators were surprised when a magistrate judge and a representative […]

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Senate passes bill to ease FAA furloughs

WASHINGTON (AP) — With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. A House vote on the measure was expected as early as Friday, with lawmakers eager to embark on a weeklong vacation. Under the legislation, which the Senate passed […]

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Clinton’s Signature Proves She Lied to Congress about Benghazi

In her testimony on Capitol Hill back in January, almost four full months after the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya (because that’s how speedy our government is), then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the State Department never received any requests for increased security to the embassy that was to be attacked. “They didn’t come […]

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North Caucasus: Islamist Threat Comes from a History of Violence

The Boston Marathon bombers have brought greater attention to Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, their ancestral home. As painful their heinous acts are, however, the bombers’ actions are just a footnote to the history of insurgency and connections to global Islamist networks in the North Caucasus. The North Caucasus has a long history of violence and […]

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Does the Government Want to Ban Cars?

By Jake Lambert The Left has been nonstop in its call to disarm America. This is absolutely the wrong call. We all know that guns carry with them a huge responsibility and can be dangerous in the wrong hands. There is something else that carries with it great responsibility and can be dangerous in the […]

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Defense: Mismatch Between Strategy and Ability

picturescolourlibrary/Pictures Colour Library/Newscom In a recent article in National Review, Heritage distinguished fellow and former Senator Jim Talent (R–MO) explains that the U.S. military is facing a troubling future. Talent describes how “every category of primary risk to American security is growing.” China is displaying increasing boldness in defense of its disputed territorial claims in […]

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Destruction of the UAV

UAV from Lebanon Shot Down over Israel

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) penetrated Israeli air space from Lebanon Thursday, and was shot down. At around 2:00 p.m. Israel time (11:00 GMT), IAF aircraft belonging to the aerial defense array identified an aircraft making its way from Lebanon into Israeli airspace. Fighter jets and combat helicopters were scrambled. The UAV was still over […]

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