Posted by Marinka Peschmann On August - 31 - 2010

How many people attended Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Saturday? That question appears to have the media perplexed. Here is what I know and saw. The crowd that gathered on August 28, 2010, 47 years to the day of the great civil rights march where Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech advocating racial harmony, actually began arriving... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On August - 9 - 2010

Last week, Associated Press reported Adnan Shukrijumah has taken over the position in al-Qaida once held by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured in 2003, and is currently in Guantanamo Bay. According to the FBI, Shukrijumah, lived in the United States for fifteen years, “marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.” Before... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On July - 26 - 2010

Declassified FBI Documents show an ideological alliance with Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Black Liberation Movement and Bill Ayers’ Weatherman. Prior to the 2008 election, the Obama Presidential campaign’s narrative, echoed by the media, told voters that any reporting on then Presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama’s, dubious associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers was nothing more than a desperate... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On July - 20 - 2010

The American Foreign Policy Council released a report entitled, “Toward An Economic Warfare Strategy Against Iran.” Here is how it begins: America’s strategy toward Iran is faltering. Nearly seven years after the disclosure of the Iranian regime’s nuclear program, and a year-and-a-half after the start of “engagement” on the part of the Obama administration, Washington has yet to see a substantive diplomatic... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On July - 20 - 2010

The JournoList scandal that has been bubbling since June is poised to explode. It calls into question the future of journalism which once was about speaking truth to power. Today Jonathon Strong at the Daily Caller reports how journalists from Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic worked to protect then Presidential candidate Barack Obama by burying the story... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On July - 4 - 2010

This July 4, to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the United Nations Foundation released a video inviting Americans to become “global citizens,” while pushing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It appears the UN Foundation is taking a page from then Senator Obama’s speech in Berlin, when he said, “But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.” The video... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On June - 28 - 2010

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg might want to retool some of his immigration reform initiatives within his new national coalition, the Partnership for a New American Economy, and team up with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to tell the federal government to “do their job.” Why? Because the Mayor’s idea to give immigrant investors green cards to create jobs for Americans already exists. It’s called the EB-5... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On June - 22 - 2010

Here’s an advance peek at the Rolling Stone article, The Runaway General, by Michael Hastings that has rocked the Obama Administration, and more importantly, rocked the fate of the war in Afghanistan. “How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On June - 22 - 2010

More than 1000 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan fighting an enemy whose ideology in part loves death more than life. With the war in Afghanistan getting deadlier by the day, freelance writer Michael Hasting’s profile, the “Runaway General,” in Rolling Stone Magazine has triggered a public relations war: the Obama White House v. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, after... Read More

Posted by Marinka Peschmann On May - 18 - 2010

Almost ten years after the September 11, 2001 radical Islamic terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people on U.S. soil and the failures within the government to protect its citizens have yet to be rectified. Today the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 16-page unclassified executive summary documenting the intelligence failures that occurred on Christmas day 2009 of the failed terrorist bombing of North West... Read More

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Posted by Marinka Peschmann On April - 22 - 2010

As Iran continues its determined march to becoming a nuclear power, President Ahmadinejad has called on Iran’s scientists to press ahead with “industrial-scale enrichment.” Recently, President Ahmadinejad’s audience erupted into cheers and chanted “Allah akbar” (God is great), after he said: “I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have... Read More

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Posted by Marinka Peschmann On April - 10 - 2010

“For the first time in its history, the United States is trying to wage and win a war without accurately identifying the enemy or its motivations for seeking to destroy us. That oversight defies both common sense and past military experience, and it disarms us in what may be the most decisive theater of this conflict: the battle of ideas. Such a breakdown may seem incredible to veterans of past military conflicts. Imagine... Read More