By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, January 31, 2011 In spite of Barack Obama’s belated call for civility in political discourse, we had Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) comparing Republicans campaign to repeal ObamaCare to Goebbels’ use of Nazi propaganda to bring on the Holocaust. Some people wondered why, after this vulgar display of obvious lunacy, [...]

Jan 30, 2011 By Leo Rennert One of President Obama’s weaknesses is that, in foreign policy, he is not a clever chess player, anticipating moves and consequences several steps down the line. This failure to visualize all likely ripple effects of his own words and actions is again evident in his unsteady reactions to the [...]

Jan 31, 2011 By Nancy Morgan One of the issues raised in the run-up to our last presidential election was the question “Which candidate is best qualified to handle a ’3 AM moment’?” America now has a partial answer. It isn’t President Obama. Last Friday was Day 4 of the ongoing protests in Egypt, where tens [...]

Jan 31, 2011 By Karin McQuillan As we follow the unfolding story in Egypt, we are torn between hope and fear, hope that democracy will gain a toehold, fear that the fundamentalist Moslem Brothers could take control of Egypt.  Perhaps you have heard the Moslem Brothers are the oldest and largest radical Islamic group, the [...]

Jan 31, 2011 By G. Murphy Donovan The Arab revolt underway in Egypt may be unique. Previous popular uprisings were underwritten by anti-colonial sentiments. Contemporary revolts, (including unrest in Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen, and Jordan) target nationalist or secular governments. The wealthiest Arab states, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, have been financing the ideological struggle against [...]

Jan 31, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: DVIDS MP Fights Adversity, Fulfills Army Commitment Story by Sgt. Jes Smith   Spc. Ben Ballard, an MP specialist assigned to 202nd MP Co, takes a break from training at Camp Nathan Smith, Jan. 24. While on patrol Aug. 13, 2008, Ballard’s Humvee was struck by an IED, which resulted [...]

Egypt is Barack’s Iran moment By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Sunday, January 30, 2011 As  Egypt’s regime totters on the verge of collapse, President Obama is looking less like Ronald Reagan and more like the Gipper’s predecessor, Jimmy Carter. The turmoil in Egypt is markedly similar to the revolution that gripped Iran 33 years [...]

By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: January 31, 2011 CAIRO — Egyptian opposition groups gathered on Monday for a seventh day in the central Liberation Square, seeking to maintain the momentum of their uprising against President Hosni Mubarak as the army struggled to control a capital seized variously by fears of chaos and [...]

By Fouad Ajami Published January 30, 2011 The Wall Street Journal “When Ramses II was over eighty he celebrated his rejuvenation at the feast of Set, repeating it yearly until he was ninety and more, and displaying his power of rejuvenation to the Gods above in the Obelisks he regularly erected as a memorial, which [...]

By Kenneth Bandler Published January 29, 2011 FoxNews.com As popular rebellions spread across the Arab world, one fact has become clear. The Arab-Israeli conflict is not the hub of the region’s problems. For too long authoritarian Arab rulers have deflected attention away from their internal challenges, perpetuating the myth that corruption, soaring food prices and [...]