There’s a debate going on whether Israel should launch a preemptive strike against Iran, before that troubling nation can ready its nuclear arsenal. President Obama didn’t really break any new ground in his recent meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Obama did tell Netanyahu that “we got Israel’s back.” But he did not make any…

It is outrageous. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is demanding information from Tea Party groups nationwide – information that is clearly beyond the scope of legitimate inquiries – information that violates the First Amendment. We first wrote about this on our website earlier this week and reported that we’ve been contacted by dozens of Tea Party…

Another controversial appointment has been made by Attorney General Eric Holder. This time his appointment to the number 3 post at the Department of Justice is raising important questions. Tony West served as assistant attorney general for the Civil Division and has now been named to acting associate attorney general. What you may not know,…

The Iranian government is doing all that it can to discredit Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani who faces death by hanging for his Christian beliefs. This weekend, more confusion at the hands of the Iranians. They were pushing reports that Pastor Youcef had been executed. Our sources in Iran quickly confirmed that those reports were false…

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