“What CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups do in America and do in the West is intimidation.” – Monica Crowley This week, CAIR, a defacto Islamist lobby front group pressured the NYPD policy chief, Ray Kelly, to resign.  Reuters reported yesterday that progressive group, VoteVets, wants West Point to ban General William Boykin from [...]

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China’s security forces fire again into crowd of protesters in Tibet Poverty and crime feed a growing Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria Faltering Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) turns to Boko Haram Russia rejects Morocco’s U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria Survey: Record number of Israeli Jews believe in God The U.S. may deploy spy [...]

The University of Pennsylvania is the home of the 2012 “National Conference of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement” (BDS), whose origins lie in the actions of nations and groups including Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. The three-day event will take place on the U Penn campus February 3-5 and feature a variety of speakers with [...]

US Army and Afghan Army play volleyball in southwestern Kandahar in 2011. On Sunday, a similar match in Zabul province turned deadly when an Afghan Army member shot and killed one American, wounding three. — It would be most helpful for at least one of the GOP candidates to think long and [...]

Trouble looms for the U.S., European, and global economies, once thought to be making a slow but steady recovery. Though fourth quarter GDP figures released today showed U.S. GDP growth of 2.8%, the overall rate of growth was 1.7% for all of 2011–far slower than the 3.0% growth rate for 2010. At the same time, ratings [...]

From Defense News: The U.S. Air Force wants to terminate the Block 30 Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude unmanned surveillance aircraft, breathing new life into the five-decade-old U-2 program, the Defense Department announced Jan. 26. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Pentagon would stop buying the Block 30 version of the Global Hawks, which are [...]

From ABC News: That buzz you hear above your head is the sound of the Pentagon cutting its budget. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta detailed today how the Obama administration plans to achieve $487 billion in cuts over the next decade, in part by reducing the number of ships, planes and troops, but continuing to [...]

Military censorship only goes so far. Now we know, contrary to official reports, at least two US Marines were hit by the bomb driven into the  Kajaki Sofla bazaar by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle on January 18, 2012. Corporal Phillip McGeath, 25, was killed; Corporal Christopher Bordoni, [...]

The Army, Marines, and Air Force might be getting hammered with the new proposed Pentagon budget, but the Navy avoids the hammer.  The Army will cut 80,000 men and the Marines 20,000; the Air Forces is proposing to cut seven squadrons. But the Navy? As the Navy Times reports: Navy:  we get to keep ours The U.S. [...]

According to President Obama’s State of the Union address, “our ties to the Americas are deeper… anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” In 2011, Iran has enjoyed more influence in Latin America than ever. In recent years (since 2005), Iran [...]