(This speech was delivered September 12, 1960, at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas). JFK was the first (& only) Catholic President. Issues relating to religion and politics have again become quite prominent. In addition, we have fairly recently elected the first president of …
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the bestselling author of "Kosher Sex" and one-time spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson, announced Wednesday he was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The self-proclaimed "America's Rabbi" launched his bid for New Jersey's 9th Co …
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has taken out the torture toolkit his father once employed as he engages in the most widespread and appalling abuses his country has suffered in decades in an effort to put down a year-old rebellion.
"Syria strongly condemns the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and urges the international community to initiate immediate action to put an end to these acts and punish those responsible," the Syrian statement said. The Syrian Foreign Ministry stres …
I used to hate Israel. I used to think the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian terrorists. Now I see why Israel has to be hard. Now I see the Left can be Right -- as in right-wing. So why did I change my mind so completely? Strangely, it began …
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will devote little time Monday to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in part because of Iran and election-year politics.
The threats and the threatened! Which are we and who are our real allies? 240MM Mortars used in Syria caring 70 lbs of explosives. Quick and reported data that I ran across. Interesting read on Iran, Israel and Syria updates from different sources.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote in her Newsweek article, that there is a “conspiracy of silence” over mass religious persecution of Christians in Muslim nations. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion.
The first time I asked the question, it was in response to the articles I was reading during the Bosnian War in the early '90s. Mladic and others were ssystematically raping and committing genocide against the Arab population.
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We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives.
"They issued tough declarations to placate the Israelis, but failed to take determined steps against Iran, and we're losing precious time. In any case, the Iranians had noticed this lack of determination. Yaalon believes that a nuclear Iran is worse than an Israeli attack."
NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan’s military bombed a Bible school built by a U.S. Christian aid group, prompting students and teachers at the school to run for their lives in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state.
Claiming that all of Iran’s nuclear facilities are vulnerable and that a military option is real and ready to be used if sanctions fail, Israel’s top political and military leadership issued a series of warnings to the Islamic Republic on Thursday in some of the …
Egyptian Coptic Christians hold a funeral for those killed in the anticopticattack by the Islamists on the Imbaba Church, in Cairo, on 8 March 2011 Anticoptism (anti-coptism or anti-Coptism) معاداة الأقباط, المعاداة للأقباط، معاداة القبط …
Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming.
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In the summer of 1865, a former slave by the name of Jourdan Anderson sent a letter to his former master.
REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM -- The assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran this month was one of the latest mysterious deaths and explosions in Iran in recent years, possibly connected to the country's controversial nuclear development plans. …
TAMPA - Much of what parents lined up to tell the Hillsborough County School Board Tuesday night had already been said in thousands of angry emails.
Following are excerpts from a statement by PA Mufti of Jerusalem Sheik Muhammad Hussein, which aired on Palestinian Authority TV, on January 9, 2012: Announcer: [I invite] the honorable sheik, Sheik Muhammad Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem and the Islamic lands.
Video of an interview with a former PLO terrorist...suggesting he might know a thing or two. He's written several books which I have found quite interesting.
Israeli security forces have recently discovered an Islamic Jihad terror cell which was planning attacks against Israeli soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday, after a gag order was lifted in the case. In a joint operation between the IDF and the Shin Bet, 10 I …
Since their rise in the late 1990s, the Taliban and like-minded groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region have launched an aggressive campaign against liberal ways of life, bombing music shops, destroying schools, and murdering musicians, singers, and female dan …
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People of Afghanistan will pay the price for the West's looming deal with the Islamic Emirate it destroyed after 9/11.
Now, Why is it that we(America) are not doing enough to stop the violence in Syria? Why does it seem to me the casualty count is stuck on "5,000" for the last two months? We all know it is over 7,000, with 2000 of that being inflicted since December 1st.
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It was absolute pandemonium in San Francisco after the San Francisco 49ers defeated the New Orleans Saints by a final score of 36-32.
Now that you mention it Lkessler I think that I will display her more predominately on my avatar; it really is kind of hard to tell what she looks like.
— larrrs
Winnie is a two year old Great Pyrenees; I do have two others, one that looks like a husky only bigger, a Malamute named Tundra and a Sheba Inu/ American Eskimo cross named Sheena.
— larrrs
Larrrs, what an adorably cute dog you have! Looks like a Siberian Husky--is it!? If so, he reminds me of the one my sister used to have: his name was Justy. He was just such a baby of a dog... :D
— Lkessler
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