By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, International Relations, Politics

Published May 31, 2011 Associated Press BERLIN — Iran set off a diplomatic row with Germany on Tuesday by closing its airspace to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane as it flew to India and delaying her arrival there on an official visit, officials said. Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador in Berlin to protest “the breach of [...]

  By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, International Relations, Politics, War on Terror

Published May 30, 2011 Associated Press MOSCOW –  An Israeli Cabinet minister said the civilized world must take joint action to avert the Iranian nuclear threat, including a pre-emptive strike if necessary. Moshe Yaalon — the minister for strategic affairs — made the statement in an interview with Russia’s Interfax news agency released Monday ahead [...]

  By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Opinion, Politics, Presidency

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 5/31/11 8:04 AM EDT Updated: 5/31/11 8:53 AM EDT As Mitt Romney prepares to officially roll out his presidential campaign later this week, he’s giving President Barack Obama an ‘F’ for the last two years. “It’s failed,” the former Massachusetts governor said of the Obama presidency in an interview taped over [...]

  By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Politics, Presidency

By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: May 31st, 2011 Can you imagine David Cameron enjoying a round of golf on Remembrance Sunday? It would be inconceivable for the British Prime Minister to do so, and not just because of the usually dire weather at that time of the year. Above all, it would be viewed [...]

  By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, International Relations, War on Terror

May 31, 2011 AFP BRUSSELS – Small explosives concealed in alarm clocks detonated at Ikea furniture stores in Belgium, France and The Netherlands, Belgian authorities said Tuesday. The explosions in stores in the Belgian city of Ghent, Lille in northern France and Eindhoven in The Netherlands caused no damage or injuries. “The information we have [...]

  By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Cyber War, International Relations, Politics

Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force May 31, 2011 WSJ By SIOBHAN GORMAN And JULIAN E. BARNES WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to [...]

  By John Frisby • May 31st, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Opinion, Politics, Presidency

May 30, 2011 by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. military veterans and those currently on active military duty are less likely to approve of President Obama’s job performance than are Americans of comparable ages who are not in the military. These results are based on an analysis of more than 238,000 interviews conducted as [...]

  By John Frisby • May 30th, 2011 • Category: America, Inspiration, National Defense, Patriotism, We Remember

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  By John Frisby • May 30th, 2011 • Category: Our Foundation, Patriotism

“Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.” –Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 Social [...]

  By John Frisby • May 30th, 2011 • Category: Ethics, History, Inspiration, Patriotism, We Remember

by Judson Phillips on May 30, 2011 The sun rises today, burning away the early morning mist, revealing perfectly manicured lawns of green. Rising from these lawns, evenly spaced, gleaming marble stones. The names engraved on these stones are the names of America. The places engraved on them are the story of America. Shiloh, Gettysburg, [...]