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There has been no doubt for weeks now in my mind that President Obama has been planning a retreat from Afghanistan. All the dithering and hand-wringing (more…)

Many of us are still stunned that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize even though he has no accomplishments to this credit beyond his major difference of opinion with his predecessor (more…)

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a reflection of the political inclinations of the Norwegian Nobel Committee – a group of five former lawmakers and politicians from one of Europe’s most liberal countries. (more…)

By Joe Gschwendtner

Poland’s expansive plains have made her lands a military corridor in regional skirmishes and world wars. Teutonic Knights, cavalry and tanks have controlled her vast spaces and she has been uniquely oppressed by outsiders. Outstripping this history and braving long odds, she is now a successful recovering Soviet client state, defiant and free, the beneficiary of a robust capitalism flourishing within her borders and Eastern Europe. We would do ourselves great harm to not remember that this is the Poland of Generals Kosciusko and Pulaski who fought for our freedom (more…)

Finally! A national news outlet has published a piece on something I have been railing about for the past several years: the futility of more negotiations with Iran. (more…)

In the wake of the Obama Administration’s looming failure with its government health insurance and possibly its cap-and-trade proposals, it has made a grand splash on the international stage (more…)

Barack Obama apparently has more in common with his reviled predecessor, George W. Bush, than anyone on the left would like to believe. (more…)

Way back in July, 2005 — just days after the deadly terrorist attack on the London Transport system that killed 51 people — I wrote a post at my blog entitled Britain’s Homeless. (more…)

As the Obama Administration works to promote its version of socialist democratic rule at home, the Islamic Republic of Iran is looking to expand its power base in the Middle East. (more…)

Tony Blair gave a speech yesterday to the Council on Global Affairs. Almost to the day ten years previously, (more…)

We’ve long known that Barack Obama is a man for whom image is everything. His appearances are carefully scripted down to the last detail, (more…)

One of the most frustrating things about the left is that they seem to have little use for history and even less regard for objective facts. (more…)

“Part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists,” said Obama, (more…)

(Washington, Mar. 1) While it seems strange to be hailing the prophetic gifts of Joe Biden, his prediction last fall about very serious foreign (more…)

As the nation’s attention is currently focused on our troubled commerce, and no less on the Big Government responses that President (more…)