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September 2014

September 15, 2014

Are we already in World War III?

Pope Francis says that all of conflicts throughout the world constitute a Third World War. ...

September 12, 2014

Scotland might secede next Thursday

The people of Scotland will vote on Thursday, September 18, on whether or not to...

September 05, 2014

Rand Paul’s foreign policy

The one "dove" among the current presidential contenders has been the libertarian, tea-party favorite Republican...

September 03, 2014

NATO gets relevant again

We might agree that Russia's incursion into the Ukraine, while regrettable, doesn't concern us. But...

September 02, 2014

“We don’t have a strategy yet”

Karen DeYoung and Dan Balz of the Washington Post give a litany of everything that...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Russia invades Ukraine!

Russia has reportedly invaded the Ukraine, sending two armored columns that captured a town near...

August 21, 2014

Death of a Lutheran saint. . .

. . .and sinner too of course, but Norwegian Bishop Børre Knudsen lived a life...

August 21, 2014

Globalist economics don’t give us world peace

Another utopian project bites the dust. It turns out, economics isn't everything. Global prosperity--based on...

August 20, 2014

The friendliest and unfriendliest cities

Conde Nast Traveler has conducted a survey to find the friendliest and the unfriendliest cities...

August 12, 2014

Hillary Clinton breaks with Obama

Hillary Clinton played the role of a loyal soldier when she was Secretary of State,...

August 08, 2014

Russian bombers in American airspace

Russia is responding to our sanctions and expressing its leader's contempt for what he considers...

August 01, 2014

Towards a conservative foreign policy

We have gone from one foreign policy extreme (waging wars to impose democracy on people...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Russia’s economic & political clout

Anne Applebaum points out that Russia has a smaller population than Nigeria or Pakistan, with...

July 30, 2014

USA and Europe agree on sanctions against Russia

President Obama announced an agreement with the European Union that would slap what could be...

July 29, 2014

Meriam Ishag is safe

The Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christianity...

July 28, 2014

The new world disorder

British journalist Peter Foster, writing in the London Telegraph, sees the shooting down of the...

July 21, 2014

Evidence about the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down

As Vladimir Putin blames Ukraine for shooting down the Malaysian Airliner and conspiracy theorists blame...

July 18, 2014

Civilian airliner shot down over Ukraine

A Malaysia Airline Boeing 777 was shot down over the Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and...

July 18, 2014

Israel invades Gaza

With Hamas refusing a ceasefire after its rocket attacks on Israel were met by air...

July 09, 2014

Tensions build with China

As our attention has been focused on the meltdown in the Middle East, big problems...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Behind the laws banning religious conversions

The militant Hindu political party won big in India's recent elections. Now the party's vice...

June 19, 2014

A post-mortem of Obama’s foreign policy

British journalist Charles Moore has written a devastating critique of President Obama's foreign policy. Read...

June 13, 2014

Denmark requires all churches to do gay weddings

Denmark passed a law requiring all churches to perform same-sex weddings. Not just the state...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Nationalists win big in election

The different countries that constitute the European Union held elections on Sunday for the European...

May 05, 2014

Global poverty is plummeting, but no one believes it

Thirty years ago, 52% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. Now only 21%...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

US troops deploy in Poland & the Baltics

In a show of force to counter Russian expansionism in the Ukraine, American troops are...

April 23, 2014

Secession movements

What with the European Union, globalization, the United Nations, and being a "citizen of the...

April 23, 2014

Battling Christianity’s “excessive” growth in China

Officials in still-Communist China have been demolishing churches as a way to combat what one...

April 21, 2014

Tripwire to World War III

Many Americans are wondering, what difference does Russia's incursion into the Ukraine make for us? ...

April 09, 2014

More turmoil in Ukraine

Ethnic Russians in Ukraine--especially in the eastern regions where they are in greatest numbers (though...