In a greeting to the Iranian people on the occasion of the traditional New Year (Nowruz) holiday last week, Secretary of State John Kerry exposed a secret that journalists and academics have been agonizing over for the past six weeks: the fact that his daughter has married an Iranian-American who has extensive family ties to Iran.
10:32 AM 03/20/2013
Ten years ago this week, President George W. Bush issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to complete his disarmament obligations under 17 United Nations Security Council resolutions or face the full brunt of a military assault from an allied coalition of 40 nations.
6:23 PM 03/15/2013
ERBIL, IRAQ --- This week, Kurds in northern Iraq commemorate the 25th anniversary of one of the most barbaric war crimes since WWII: the mass murder of civilians using chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein.
11:07 AM 03/08/2013
Six years ago today, former FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared from his hotel on Iran’s Kish Island, a resort island in the Persian Gulf. He was kidnapped shortly after meeting with David Belfield, an American who fled to Iran in 1980 after assassinating an Iranian diplomat from the shah’s regime in Bethesda, Maryland.
10:23 AM 02/26/2013
At a 2006 conference in Washington, D.C., then-Senator Chuck Hagel laid out an appeasement policy that he claimed was the only sane option for the United States.
5:47 PM 02/16/2013
Ah, that Jackson family! Jesse Jr. now appears to be in a plea bargain with the feds over massive alleged embezzlement from his campaign account --- “approximately $750,000,” according to The Washington Post.
7:45 PM 02/07/2013
At Thursday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta stonewalled repeated attempts by committee Republicans to get real answers to what happened in Benghazi, Libya, during the attacks on our consulate and a diplomatic annex that cost the lives of four Americans on September 11, 2012.
1:45 PM 01/28/2013
The Iranian regime loves Chuck Hagel.
3:55 PM 01/02/2013
With every bad political “compromise” rammed down the throats of screaming Republicans in the House, America gets closer to bankruptcy.
7:54 PM 10/06/2012
As a war correspondent and investigative reporter for most of my adult life, I have met people most Americans would avoid.
5:55 PM 09/13/2012
The appalling rape and murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya and the ongoing assaults on our embassies across the Middle East cry out for a rapid response from the United States government.
6:10 PM 08/31/2012
The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, released on Thursday, should give all of us pause. It shows that Iran has made dramatic progress in just the past three months in expanding uranium enrichment all the while it continues to stiff arm international inspectors seeking to gain access to an alleged nuclear weapons development site.
9:59 PM 06/05/2012
On the morning of June 6th, 30 years ago, Israeli tanks defied the French commander of a United Nations peace-keeping mission at a place called Taibeh, and crossed the border into Lebanon.
6:34 PM 05/25/2012
Don’t hold your breath for a meaningful agreement over the Tehran regime’s illegal nuclear program any time soon, no matter what you read in the propaganda networks.
10:05 AM 05/03/2012
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and some of his colleagues in Congress are trying to prevent U.S. law enforcement and intelligence organizations from teaching their personnel about the enemy.
2:48 PM 03/01/2012
With the recent arrest of a suspected suicide bomber near the U.S. Capitol, it’s time for the federal government to strengthen the protection of Jewish synagogues, schools and other institutions in Montgomery County, Maryland and the surrounding region.
2:26 PM 12/16/2011
NEW YORK -- In an historic hearing in the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels said he planned to issue a ruling in the coming days declaring that Iran shares in the responsibility for the 9/11 terror attacks.
12:01 AM 12/15/2011
The CIA’s RQ-170 “Sentinel” drone captured by the Iranians last week may have gone down in Afghanistan and then transported to Iran by friendly forces on the ground, a former officer in the elite Quds Force branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards told The Daily Caller.
11:32 PM 11/16/2011
More than 80 family members and victims of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s jihadist shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009, have filed a claim seeking $750 million in damages from the United States government.
10:54 PM 11/02/2011
The French press corps in Washington, D.C., rarely seen in public, was out in full force on Wednesday, hot in pursuit of far-right French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen.
