russels (AP) – The European Union on Tuesday rejected requests to support a Palestinian plan for gaining recognition as an independent state at the U.N. Security Council without Israeli consent.
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, told reporters “the conditions are not there as of yet” for such a move. [...]
Hasan’s Islamist worldview should be central to trial
On Saturday, President Obama urged Congress to hold off investigating the Fort Hood massacre in order to let law enforcement and military authorities do their work. Mr. Obama said the ongoing investigation “will look at the motives of the alleged gunman, including his views and contacts.” But if [...]
Our radio programming from November 14 is now posted at “Radio Archives.” Hear a pastor and Jan contend for the faith with a Bethel University professor over the school’s “suggestion” that Christians just might find “common ground” with Buddhism with “meditation.” Also hear Nonie Darwish and others talk about Rifqa Bary, the Fort Hood massacre, [...]
A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers and embarrass the rest of us.
He went off to Asia to tell the Chinese a thing or two about world trade, to prepare the world for a treaty [...]
The sea lanes of the South Atlantic have become a favored route for drug traffickers carrying narcotics from Latin America to West and North Africa, where al Qaeda-related groups are increasingly involved in transporting the drugs to Europe, intelligence officials and counternarcotics specialists say.
A Middle Eastern intelligence official said his agency has picked up “very [...]
From Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 11 came the news that the United States Army has charged Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder.
This came only two days after the state of Virginia executed Muslim mass murderer John Allen Muhammad, for the killing of 10 people in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia.
Former Harvard [...]
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
Terrorists are not even entitled to [...]
As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.” Yet, even as he was posturing against political theatrics, he had just decided that the [...]
The 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s collapse ought to prompt leftist churchmen to apologize for Liberation Theology, which tried to merge Marxism with Christianity, and aligned church groups with the Soviet Bloc. Latin America in the 1970’s and 1980’s was especially active soil for Liberationists, where leftist Catholics and Protestants claimed that Castrosim and [...]