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BREAKING: North Korea’s Kim Jong Il Dead at 69

December 18th, 2011 · No Comments

North Korea’s “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il is dead at 69, according to an Associated Press report tonight. Now, the world can only hope his 20-something son, Kim Jong Un, isn’t as crazy as he was. If you enjoy this blog and want to keep reading stories like the one above, show your support by [...]

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Vietnam Vet Says Obama Naive About National Security Threat Posed by Islamic Extremism

January 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Lt. Col. James G. Zumwalt, a retired Marine infantry officer and contributing editor at Family Security Matters, has called on the Obama Administration to clearly identify what he terms “the greatest threat in history to our democracy.” He further identifies clearly that threat to be the one “posed by Islamic extremism.” The author of “Bare [...]

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Islamic Countries Most Dangerous for Christians (Update)

January 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments

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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Phil Hare’s ‘Year of Foolishness’ Revisited

October 25th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Barely one week before election day, it’s time to review what I like to call the “year of foolishness” lived out loud by U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, a liberal Democrat running for reelection in Illinois’ 17th Congressional District. On Dec. 16, 2009, Hare told Chris Matthews’ MSNBC audience he would welcome terrorists from Guantanamo Bay [...]

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Missile Defense Documentary Demands Action

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent (D-Mo.) and Ambassador Ann Wagner hosted a screening Saturday afternoon of the Heritage Foundation-produced documentary, 33 Minutes: Protecting America in the New Missile Age (see trailer below).  When the film ended and the overhead lights came on inside the St. Charles (Mo.) Convention Center meeting room, many in the audience [...]

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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]

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Question: ‘Why Didn’t Voters Pay Attention?’

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

“Why didn’t voters pay attention?” is a question I asked myself after taking a fresh look at “Foster Friess on Barack Obama: Rhetoric vs. Record”, a video which first appeared in a post on this blog Oct. 28, 2008. Narrator Foster Friess, a successful businessman and Army veteran living in Jackson Hole, Wyo., begins by [...]

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