North Korean’s brief, heartbreaking speech: ‘We wanted to live as humans’
‘North Korea is indescribable’ ‘The Kim dictators have violated human rights for seven decades’ ‘Focus less on the regime and more on the North Korean people’
Evangelicals from the dark side: Terrorism filling a spiritual void?
There is so far no evidence to suggest that Alton Nolen, the man who is accused of beheading a coworker in Moore, Okla., Thursday, has any formal connection with terror groups. Yet there is also little doubt that Mr. Nolen was deeply sympathetic toward extremist Muslim groups, posting rambling Islamist invectives, photos of Osama bin […]
Christianity was finished in Iraq even before the advent of ISIL
IRBIL — In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention, President Obama mentioned the need to help Christians and other minorities, expelled from cities and villages in northern Iraq, return from where they came. “We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their […]
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
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’
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
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
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
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’
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 […]