Written by Kenneth R. Timmerman
The Clinton campaign is attempting once again to sweep important questions under the rug about top aide Huma Abedin, her family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and to Saudi Arabia, and her role in the ballooning Clinton email scandal.
The New York Post ran a detailed investigative piece over the weekend about Ms. Abedin’s work at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs from 1995 through 2008, a Sharia law journal whose editor in chief was Abedin’s own mother.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2016 Election, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Douglas Band, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, John McCain, libya, Michele Bachmann, Mohammar Qaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim World League, Nakoula Bassiley Nakoula, Organization of the Islamic Conference, radical Islam, Saleha Abedin, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law, Syria, Umar Nasif, United Arab Emirates
Federal Issues, Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith | October 13, 2016 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Huma Abedin’s Ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
Written by Frank Newport
One of the fundamental questions that have divided the U.S. this election year — and, in fact, since its founding 240 years ago — concerns the appropriate role of the federal government. A new update of a longstanding Gallup trend shows that Americans continue to favor a smaller role for government, with 54% saying the government is attempting to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses, and 41% saying it should do more to solve the country’s problems.… Continue Reading
Written by J. Matt Barber
I can’t wait for “Weekend at Chelsea’s” to hit the big screen. CNN and the rest of Hillary Clinton’s slobbering media sycophants have already written the script. If this woman, God forbid, dropped dead on the sidewalk tomorrow, these doting suck-ups – these mass media strumpets whose voter trust has, understandably, reached an all-time low – would dutifully parrot the Clinton campaign talking points and call it a “minor setback” to her “inevitable” victory.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Diazepam, Hillary Clinton, KKK, Parkinson’s disease, pneumonia, Robert Byrd
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | September 19, 2016 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Hillary’s Fall: Specs, Lies and Videotape
U.S. adversaries are exploiting the void
left by withdrawn American leadership
Written by Sebastian & Katharine Gorka
When President Barack Obama took office, Osama bin Laden was in hiding, al-Qaida in Iraq was in retreat, and the governments of the Middle East, while not necessarily exemplars of democracy, were at least stable.
Today, seven-and-a-half years later, as we near the end of his presidential term, al-Qaida is resurgent under the leadership of Ayman al Zawahiri, the Taliban rules half of Afghanistan, and al-Qaida in Iraq, after becoming ISIS, has declared a caliphate with more territory than the United Kingdom and with “fully operational” affiliates in 18 nations around the world and dozens more groups sympathetic to its totalitarian religious ideology of global jihad.… Continue Reading
Tags: al-Qaida, Ayman al Zawahiri, Barack Obama, Cold War, ISIS, Islamic State, Kremlin, Michael Moore, NATO, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, Ukraine
Federal Issues, Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith | September 11, 2016 4:00 AM | Comments Off on America in Retreat
Written by Daniel Greenfield
Nation-building has become a very controversial term. And with good reason. Our conviction that we can reconstruct any society into another America is unrealistic. It ignores our own exceptionalism and overlooks the cultural causes of many conflicts. It assumes that a change of government and open elections can transform a tribal Islamic society into America. They can’t and won’t.
But it’s also important to recognize that what we have been doing isn’t nation-building, but Islam-
building.… Continue Reading
Tags: Arab Spring, Baathists, Barack Obama, Coptic Christians, Daniel Greenfield, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War, ISIS, Islamic State, Muslim Brotherhood, Nation-building, Saddam Hussein, Shiites, Sunnis, Yazidis
Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith | September 7, 2016 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Nation Building or Islam Building
Written by John Biver
Make no mistake, so many modern political battles are not between the religious and the non-religious. Rather, the biggest contests pit different religions against each other.
In this article, the topic is not the West’s clash with Islamism. That battle can be won again. It won’t be easy, but it can be accomplished. The list of battles between the West and Islam over the centuries is a long one. Here are just two examples where the good guys got the job done: Frankish military Charles Martel defeated the followers of Muhammed near Poitiers, France in the year 732.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Martel, Darwin’s Doubt, Hillary Clinton, Islam, John Biver, John III Sobieksi, Leftism, liberalism/progressivism, Muhammed, partial birth abortion
Faith & Religion | David E. Smith | August 24, 2016 6:00 AM | Comments Off on The Religious Zealotry of the Political Left
Written by Hollis Hurd
In the case of King v. Burwell, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in June of 2015, President Barack Obama won the day by convincing six justices that Obamacare would collapse if he lost. The case involved the so-called “individual mandate,” which imposes a financial penalty on those who neglect to buy health insurance. To many observers, the wording of Affordable Care Act seemed to impose the financial penalty only in states where a state exchange had been set up, not in states where the federal exchange operated by default.… Continue Reading
Written by Andrew C. McCarthy
Despite weeks of Obama administration stonewalling of refreshingly persistent media inquiries about its outrageous – and, I believe, illegal – transfer to Iran of $400 million in foreign currency in an unmarked cargo plane, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the payment was, in fact, a ransom payment for the release of American hostages.
The White House and State Department have insisted that there was absolutely, positively, cross-their-hearts no connection between (a) an agreed-upon prisoner swap in which American hostages held by Iran were released, and (b) the settlement of Iran’s claim regarding $400 million (plus interest) withheld by the United States in connection with a failed 1970s arms deal.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Carol E. Lee, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Hassan Rouhani, Hostages, Iran, Jay Solomon, John Kirby, Mike Lee, Qods Force, Ransom Payment, Ted Cruz, Wall Street Journal
Federal Issues, Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith | August 19, 2016 11:00 AM | Comments Off on Yes, It Was a Ransom Payment
Written by Micah Clark
There is a perception that Chicago was a war zone during the time of Al Capone and alcohol prohibition. Not long ago, I watched a Jimmy Stewart movie based upon a true story of a person falsely convicted of killing a police officer in 1932. The 1948 movie began with an attempt to shock the audience by reminding them of that “most violent year in Chicago history” in which one person died from a gunshot each day of the year.… Continue Reading
Written by Paul H. Jossey
As we watch the Republican Party tear itself to shreds over Donald Trump, perhaps it’s time to take note of another conservative political phenomenon that the GOP nominee has utterly eclipsed: the Tea Party. The Tea Party movement is pretty much dead now, but it didn’t die a natural death. It was murdered—and it was an inside job. In a half decade, the spontaneous uprising that shook official Washington degenerated into a form of pyramid scheme that transferred tens of millions of dollars from rural, poorer Southerners and Midwesterners to bicoastal political operatives.… Continue Reading