According to Lisette (and numerous press reports), the marathon 13-hour arraignment was a bizarre scene, to say the least. How bizarre? Throughout the proceeding, the terrorist suspects engaged in a wide variety of disruptive behaviors.

The so-called Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. While you may already know that, you may not fully understand what's in store for you and your family. Here's what to expect.

Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that meansObama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.

The wheels are coming off the wind energy gravy train, and subsidy-dependent wind energy supporters are running scared. It’s because hard-working citizens made a difference in this scam. Isn’t it about time?

We offer abject apologies to Robert Short and his great 1965 work , ‘The Gospel According to Peanuts’, but if Washington’s antics are any indication of just how 'bad' democracy can be, then we have an analogy, don't we?

The body count of Muslim terrorists’ victims has translated directly into a quantum increase in Muslim political influence, now at the helm of foreign and domestic policy. Should we react this way?

When you think about all the advantages Iran has, you see why Iran believes it owns the future. Unfortunately, the West dismisses the regime’s goals as meaningless bravado that, even if true, could never come to pass. Really?

"President Obama and members of his team criticized severely a number of aspects of the Bush administration's war on terrorism that they have since found it necessary and useful to embrace," said Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's top policymaker in those early war years.

Former President George W. Bush said that the Arab Spring is "the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet Communism." "These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom."

Bad start in life: Little Bob, was just eight weeks old, and weighed less than a kilo when he was found dumped in the car park of a veterinary practice suffering from the extreme cold and a ruptured eyeball

Veteran CIA official Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., who led all U.S. counterterrorism operations after 9/11, tells Newsmax that under President Barack Obama the agency has been forced to give up interrogation "capabilities" that it may need to protect American lives.

"Rewarding terrorists with greater rights for making it to the United States would actually incentivize them to come to our shores, or to recruit from within the United States, where they pose the greatest risk to the American people."

Franciscan University appears to be the first casualty of the new ObamaCare HHS mandate that requires Catholic colleges, groups and businesses to pay for drugs that may cause abortions and birth control for their employees.

On the essential issue, R. Emmett Tyrrell is correct—liberalism is draining energy from the body politic, forcing the United States into a crisis of unparalleled proportions. Of course, this may be a crisis that isn’t wasted.

Not only is the supposed CIA asset not a CIA asset at all, but the entire operation was exposed prematurely and the double-agent's life was immediately threatened by an intelligence leak that very well may have come out of the White House for political gain.

In her endeavors to educate, inform and motivate, Ercille Christmas inked a book titled Thoughts of a Proud American, the words of a kid from St. Kitts who evolved into an American patriot of the highest order.

The ghosts of Somalia past, Iraq present and Iran future haunt the U.N.’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine - created to stop genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Is R2P irrelevant?

Both parties’ establishments favor big government because they derive and maintain power by delivering favorable legislation and distributing tax revenues to patrons. So will they always oppose reform efforts?

We can’t take comfort in the successful thwarting of bomb maker Al-Asiri’s plot. One official described the spy who intercepted the explosive as “gold dust…such assets are few and far between.” Now, who will protect us?

Technology’s capabilities are moving at lightning speed, so fast that, ironically, they may be turned against the U.S. by end users who now possess the knowledge we created. The implications for counterintelligence are profound.

Pentagon policies bar Staff Sgt. Marie Martinson from direct ground combat, but she nonetheless has taken on the No. 1 killer of troops in Afghanistan: improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.

Iranian outlets have been claiming recently the United States has been forced to bow before Iran on its nuclear program, demonstrating the West's abandonment of Israel and paving the way for the Islamic regime to annihilate the Jewish state.

From today's New York Times, a story about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the lone American POW in Afghanistan. We still don't know the circumstances under which he was captured in 2009, but we do know something about his outlook on the counterinsurgency (COIN) disaster as conceived and executed by Gens. Petraues and McChrystal under Presidents Bush and Obama.

The North Korean people were led to believe Kim Jong Eun is the all powerful “Great Oz.” But there is a seed, planted because of his transition to power, that may take root to cause him problems later.

Why don't some liberals or "progressives" just man up and admit they're socialists, or even communists? Could it be that socialism and communism have a record of moral and economic disasters? They'll never tell.

The three top Egyptian Presidential candidates exude the peace the Arab Spring has brought us. Fotouh: “Israel is an enemy.” Morsi: “Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal”. Moussa: “Most of our people consider it [Israel] an enemy.”

The Washington Post Company is riddled by scandal and financial turmoil. Isn’t it time for Post ombudsman, Bob Woodward, and others to protest what casts a pall over the paper’s journalistic reputation and integrity?

The House will re-ignite a debate this week that last year sparked public outrage and a White House veto threat: Can terror suspects on U.S. soil be detained indefinitely?

Putting pressure on Congress to approve parts of his latest economic stimulus plan, President Obama urged Americans Saturday to push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar "to-do list" for creating jobs.

Iran's ayatollahs are showing frustration with Iranians leaving Islam for Christianity in large numbers despite the threat of execution for apostasy.