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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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No Word Yet on NYC Bomb Suspect’s Tea Party Ties

May 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

During a mid-day news conference at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and others addressed the charges that Faisal Shahzad will face following the car bomb attempted that failed Saturday in New York City’s Times Square.  They did not, however, reveal any details about the specific Tea Party [...]

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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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Ad Prompts Questions About Commander-in-Chief

February 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Two questions about President Barack Obama surfaced in my mind this morning as I came across news that the United States Marine Corps is introducing a new multimedia campaign entitled “The Line,” connecting the past to the present this Black History Month: 1.  In a totally transparent world, would an 18-year-old Obama have been able [...]

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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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Do Dems’ Actions Compare to Those of Taliban?

May 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Is there really much difference between what the Taliban is doing in Pakistan and what President Barack Obama and leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress are doing in the United States?  Perhaps not. During an almost-two-year campaign to bring Pakistan’s Swat Valley under Islamic law, Taliban militants have beheaded local officials, burned schools and banned education [...]

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Letter Encourages Barack Obama to Read ‘The JOE’

January 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Dear President-Elect Obama; If you do nothing else before taking office as president, I hope you will read The Joint Operating Environment 2008 (a.k.a., “The JOE”), a U.S. Joint Forces Command report that contains the following bit of military forecasting: In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large [...]

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