Bob McCarty Writes

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. surprised a lot of people when he told a packed House Intelligence Committee hearing room audience the Muslim Brotherhood is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” Not me, though.  I’m already familiar with his [...]

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While many Americans will park in front of their televisions to watch football on Super Bowl Sunday, others will tune in just to see the commercials.  Unknown to most Americans, one commercial will be seen only by members of the U.S. military deployed overseas.  Sadly, it’s a spot that probably needs to be shown to [...]

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When I read a news report about an Iraqi soldier killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding a third during training of Iraqi security forces at a U.S. military camp 240 miles north of Baghdad, I couldn’t help but think the shootings might have been prevented if only that Iraqi soldier had been screened by U.S. [...]

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Despite communist North Korea topping the list for the ninth consecutive year, the most dangerous countries in which to practice Christianity are overwhelmingly Islamic ones, according to the annual Open Doors World Watch List. Of the top 10 countries on the 2011 WWL, eight have Islamic majorities and persecution of Christians has increased in seven [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Sixty-six years and six months ago, the largest amphibious force ever assembled sailed across the stormy waters of the English Channel, bound for the heavily fortified beaches of Normandy, France.  Nearly half of the 156,000 invasion troops were Americans.  They and the troops of allied nations suffered massive casualties [...]

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Americans are more concerned than ever that the ongoing Obama administration effort to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba will allow dangerous terrorists to go free, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Eighty-four percent of likely U.S. voters are now at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free [...]

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By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]

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