terrorism

In the 1990s, the U.S. Air Force’s self-descriptor for its capabilities was “Global Reach, Global Power.”  On September 11, 2012, as Americans were being attacked and killed in the Middle East, the global reach of air power was confined to…

On the evening of the Boston Marathon bombing I was doing a radio interview about a book I’d written. Before getting to me, the host asked listeners to pray for victims of the atrocity in Boston and for the nation.…

“Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they’ve already failed,” says President Obama of the Boston Marathon bombers. ”They failed because the people of Boston refused to be intimidated. They failed because as Americans we refuse to be terrorized.”
Bostonians…

You could be excused for being a terrorist mastermind in Grozny – the capital of Chechnya – and sleeping rather soundly tonight.
Glaringly omitted from President Obama’s remarks Friday evening after the capture of the second terrorist was any mention…

Senseless Act of Violence

by Sheila Liaugminas April 17, 2013

Acts of violence never make sense, no matter how this one turns out to be explained. Every one of these random attacks assaults our sensibilities and rattles whatever semblence of security we still have in our daily lives. We can’t…

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Petraeus Scandal: Soap Opera or Serious Business?

by Anita L. Staver November 16, 2012

Tune in for the latest episode of As the Military World Turns…
In a scandalous story with more twists and turns than the road to Hana, we see a married CIA director who resigned after an affair with his Harvard-educated…

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Obama’s Strange Denial of an Attack: The Benghazi Cover-Up

by Pat Buchanan October 16, 2012

On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe…

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President Obama and the “Intelligence Brief” Scandal

by Dr. Paul Kengor October 11, 2012

The last few weeks have produced many intriguing political moments, but none as shocking as the revelation that President Obama has been absent from the vast majority of his daily intelligence briefings.
 
According to a study by the Government Accountability…

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Liberal “Progressives” Adopt Domestic Terrorism

by Matt Barber December 1, 2011

While necessity is the mother of invention, sloth and envy beget mediocrity and upheaval – the twin siblings of secular-socialism.
It is in this vein that a rebellious and increasingly violent spirit of incoherent anarchy continues to fester in urban…

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When Terrorists Unite

by Randy Cole October 25, 2011

When the world learned of the capture and subsequent death of Muammar Gaddafi on Oct. 20, 2011, academics and pundits and political leaders looked to official responses before framing their own. The United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, and…

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