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January 2013

January 18, 2013

Hostage bloodbath

Information and details about the hostage situation in Mali are uncertain and contradictory. But it...

January 17, 2013

Another hostage crisis

The French intervention into Mali spilled over to other countries, as Islamic radicals in Algeria...

January 16, 2013

France starts its own Iraq

Back when the U.S.A. invaded Iraq, the French refused to join the "coalition of the...

January 14, 2013

Getting bin Laden: The Movie

I saw Zero Dark Thirty, the film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Earlier,...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Ten more years of the drone war

The war in Iraq is pretty much over and the war in Afghanistan is winding...

October 10, 2012

Plot to bomb my old church

I used to live in Miami, Oklahoma. The local college, Northeast Oklahoma A&M, was my...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

Who really made that anti-Muslim movie

It turns out that the man who made that reportedly salacious movie about Mohammed, The...

September 13, 2012

The new 9/11 attack in Libya

The U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed, along with three other Americans,...

September 11, 2012

It’s September 11

Has September 11 become a de facto grassroots holiday? Do we need a day to...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Liberal terrorism?

A pro-gay activist posing as an intern and reportedly carrying a Chick-fil-A bag as a...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

Obama the assassin

A withering piece from Charles Krauthhammer on the way President Obama wages the Drone War:...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

“The war on terror is over”

Michael Hirsh, writing in the National Journal, in the course of a discussion of the...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

Navy Seals do it again

Another example of the prowess of the U. S. military: Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, elders...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Pakistan erupts against U.S.A.

NATO planes bombed a Pakistani military base, killing 24 soldiers. (Afghans claim that the Pakistanis...

October 2011

October 21, 2011

Qaddafi is killed

Saddam Hussein, Osama bin-Laden, and now Muammar Qaddafi: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman...

October 12, 2011

Iran’s plan to attack Washington?

ABC reports that officials have thwarted a scheme to attack the Israeli and Saudi embassies...

September 2011

September 16, 2011

Kamikaze update

You know that recent post about Heather Penney, the female pilot who was ordered to...

September 09, 2011

The 9/11 attacks ten years later

Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. So we need to observe the...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Victory in Libya

It looks like the Libyan rebels, with the help of NATO planes and American bombs,...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

Horror in Norway

A 32-year-old Norwegian described as "a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections" bombed a government building...

June 2011

June 10, 2011

And now war in Yemen?

Has President Obama, the former peace candidate, now started a 4th war? The Obama administration...

May 2011

May 17, 2011

Bin Laden’s porn stash

From the New York Times: The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin...

May 10, 2011

America’s exceptional arrogance in the bin Laden killing?

While we Americans tend to embrace our "exceptionalism," people from other countries often see that as...

May 06, 2011

Analyzing the Situation Room photo

We don't get to see a photograph of Osama bin Laden's body, but we did...

May 04, 2011

How should Christians react to bin Laden’s death?

Rev. Jacob Ehrhard offers nine points for reflection on how Christians should react to the...

May 03, 2011

Closure for 9/11?

My theory of our recent wars--as I said at the time they started--is that after...

May 02, 2011

U.S. forces kill Osama bin Laden

A major victory in the war against terrorism and in the war of vengeance for...

March 2011

March 28, 2011

Air support for al-Qaeda

Oh, great: Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

The Libyan Revolution

Muammar Gaddafi and his loyalists are holding onto Tripoli, as the rest of the country...

February 24, 2011

Conning the government

Thanks to tODD for pointing me to this story: A onetime biomedical technician with a...