Kurdish forces reportedly liberate Christian villages overrun by ISIL

Kurdish forces reportedly liberate Christian villages overrun by ISIL

Several Christian villages that were overrun by members of [Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (or Syria)  ISIS were recaptured by Kurdish peshmerga forces after a clash in northern Iraq that resulted in the death of a senior commander in the terror group on Tuesday. Reports from the AFP and AINA highlighted the victories. In […]

Apocalypse? No, an ‘unraveling’ of what had passed for civilization

Apocalypse? No, an ‘unraveling’ of what had passed for civilization

NY Times Op-ed It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? It was a time of beheadings. With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads of two American journalists and a British […]

British Imam warns Americans: ‘Sharia is coming to a place near you’

British Imam warns Americans: ‘Sharia is coming to a place near you’

Breitbart.com London Imam Anjem Choudary declared, “Sharia will be implemented in America, it’s coming,” and “Sharia is coming to a place near you” while defending the actions of ISIS on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Choudary reacted to the murder of journalist James Foley by saying, “If the Americans bomb and murder hundreds […]

What’s good about America? Film has second strong weekend

What’s good about America? Film has second strong weekend

The new docudrama, from the team behind 2016: Obama’s America, earned an A+ rating from CinemaScore during its debut weekend July 4-6. Today, Box Office Mojo said the film enjoyed a “fantastic” second weekend. Dinesh D’Souza’s America (2014) had a fantastic hold this weekend. The documentary eased 11 percent to $2.45 million; to date, its […]

Pakistani blogger hopes Malaysian Flight 370 is in fact on the ground in her country

Pakistani blogger hopes Malaysian Flight 370 is in fact on the ground in her country

Speculations that MH370 had been hijacked to Pakistan hardly surprised me. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney appeared on Fox News to explain how he believed the missing airplane could’ve landed ‘safely’ and ‘intact’ in Pakistan to be used for terrorism in the future. … I wasn’t bothered because I, like most of my country-men, have become […]

Being nice can cause a war

Being nice can cause a war

Among former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s many illuminating “rules” is his trenchant observation that “weakness is provocative.” Indeed, the accelerating instability we see worldwide is, in no small measure, a product of the weakness being communicated at every turn by Barack Obama’s administration. Worse yet, the steps the President is taking to weaken America […]

Challenger in Venezuela sees ‘struggle to break down a wall of evil’

Challenger in Venezuela sees ‘struggle to break down a wall of evil’

Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles raised the rhetorical stakes Sunday, casting his campaign against interim president Nicolas Maduro as a spiritual struggle of good versus evil. Mr Capriles, 40, is running against Mr Maduro to succeed the late leftist firebrand Hugo Chavez in April 14 elections. “I feel that this fight… has become a spiritual […]

‘Over 100 UFOs’ spotted along tense China-India border

‘Over 100 UFOs’ spotted along tense China-India border

NEW DELHI — Adding to the litany of issues besetting neighboring nuclear rivals China and India, ranging from border disputes to the Dalai Lama to trade deficits, is a new one: UFOs. “Over 100 UFOs seen along China border,” said a headline in Tuesday’s Times of India. Indian troops guarding the often-tense 2,100-mile border between […]

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