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Ray Robison
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October 22, 2009
Obama Effect already working to embargo Fox News storyHow to prevent the American people from learning the truth.
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October 8, 2009
AQ weak in Afghanistan? Really?Al Qaeda has been dramatically weakened, or so leaks the Obama administration
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May 13, 2009
How's Obama's foreclosure policy working out?Didn't candidate Obama say he was going to rescue people from foreclosures when he first passed all those stimulus bills?
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September 20, 2008
Iraqi women step up to the plate to protect their countryIsnt it odd that while the Iraqis are now handing female police officers guns our own media detests Palin because of her "gun-toting" ways?
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August 7, 2008
The case against Dr. IvinsThe FBI has laid out its evidence in the case against army scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins, and I have resolved the worries I expressed in an AT article.
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August 2, 2008
Suicide of an Anthrax SuspectHeinous terrorist, or innocent but flawed man driven to suicide by an FBI investigation?
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July 28, 2008
Taliban fracturesLast year we predicted that some Taliban tribes would split from al Qaeda and jockey for position to align with the Pakistan government. It's happening.
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July 24, 2008
Obama trip press frenzy backfiresAn odd thing happened on Barack's trip to Baghdad. A lot of Americans realized we are winning the war on terror.
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July 21, 2008
The bias gets even more blatantThe Drudge Report and Fox News are reporting today that the New York Times has denied an opinion piece from Senator John McCain after publishing Senator Barack Obama's op-ed last week.
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July 20, 2008
Hawks need to back off from Bush over Iran talksCan we take a moment to consider that President Bush is making this move toward talks with Iran for a good reason?
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July 16, 2008
Can Senator Obama Avoid His Iraq Trap?Senator Barack Obama who told a crowd at the Chicago History Museum last March that he would "listen to the generals" where President Bush had not. So how would he carry out his plan to withdraw from Iraq promptly if they recommend staying?
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July 12, 2008
A brave man who exposed Saddam's nuclear secrets"Sammi", the coauthor of our book Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents is coming out of the shadows to do a book signing:
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July 11, 2008
Torture redefinedThree burly men in military uniform forced me to don a mask. I could barely see through the slits in it. But what I could see made me shudder.
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May 22, 2008
Report: Taliban to disarm in NWFP PakistanA report from the Associated Press of Pakistan states that agreement has been reached between the Pakistan government and Taliban forces near the Swat Valley of the North West Frontier Province.
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May 20, 2008
Obama and the Black MediaSenator Barack Obama tries to be all things to all people with his vague language of change and hope. But sometimes he makes the mistake of promising something
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April 24, 2008
DOD puppy paradeSince the atrocious video surfaced of a Marine presumably in Iraq tossing a puppy off a cliff, a myriad of soldier-dog photos are appearing on DOD websites.
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April 10, 2008
The Afghanistan success storyMost of the American media have continuously misreported the NATO mission in Afghanistan as a disaster unfolding, beginning before the effort even began, with warnings of the "brutal Afghan winter."
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March 11, 2008
What Did Pelosi Know about Amgen's Woes and When Did She Know It?The Speaker of the House has been very good to Amgen. And vice-versa.
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March 6, 2008
Pelosi's ETHA bill and Amgen (updated)Previously, we reported the suspicious timing of Amgen executives making large donations to Speaker Pelosi's campaign just before she submitted a bill that would likely increase that company's bottom line.
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March 1, 2008
The friends of Nancy PelosiGuess who Nancy Pelosi's biggest donor was last year. If you want to know why this matters, read this article about all the money involved. Of course, the major media does not think this is the least bit worthy of note.
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February 28, 2008
Interventionism, Obama-StyleOf late Obama has sung a decidedly noninterventionist tune. But it wasn't always so, and some of his thinking on who should do the dangerous work is shocking.
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February 28, 2008
France, Norway to join the fight in AfghanistanIt appears France is going to get in the fight in Afghanistan, which goes directly against MSM reporting that the NATO force in Afghanistan was crumbling.
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February 27, 2008
Optimism on Iraq from surprising sourcesThe Addison Independent, published in very liberal Vermont, surprisingly reports a message that implies support for troops staying in Iraq -- from a BBC bureau chief, Adi Raval
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February 22, 2008
Speaker Pelosi and the New York Times' Blind EyeSince the 2006 Congressional victory by Democrats, The New York Times has ignored a highly questionable situation involving Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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February 13, 2008
The Obama Cult of Nonthreatening PersonalityBarack Obama strikes nearly everyone as a nice guy. Part of that appeal is a distinct absence of aggression.
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February 11, 2008
Winning in AfghanistanAnother top NATO general is going on the record about our success in Afghanistan, though you are unlikely to hear about such things from the mainstream media that prefer a narrative of failure.
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February 8, 2008
Media Spins Success in Afghanistan as FailureAmerican and Coalition forces have taken the initiative in Afghanistan, and have the Taliban on the run. Yet major American media outlets, to the extent they cover fighting in Afghanistan, are portraying the Taliban as "resurgent".
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February 8, 2008
Detailing the defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq (updated)Al Qaeda appears to be crumbling in Iraq, a spectacular victory in the War on Terror. A senior leader has bared his soul to Amit R. Paley of the Washington Post
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January 31, 2008
Taliban 'resurgence' sign of desperation not increased capabilityAn Associated Press report argues that the president was misleading about the resurgence of the Taliban in his State of the Union address.
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January 27, 2008
Spanish appeasement backfiresA new al Qaeda plot set in Spain and involving other European targets was recently disrupted, as reported by Reuters. The attack was set to occur shortly before a general election, much like the previous horrendous attack carried out in 2004.
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January 11, 2008
Al Qaeda on the ropes in PakistanOpen tribal warfare in remote areas of Pakistan has the potential of scoring a major success in the War on Terror.
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January 11, 2008
AQ leadership in peril?From the Daily Times of Pakistan: Stratfor says Qaeda deflecting attention from Pakistan, despite major successes, to protect its leadership
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December 28, 2007
The War on Terror Comes to PakistanThe War on Terror has come to Pakistan, and AQ has been losing. Our media have not paid much attention, but you can be certain AQ knows.
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December 14, 2007
Manufacturing Dissent: An Odd Poll Raises QuestionsA recent Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg poll which has been carried in most major media outlets claims that President Bush has lost the support of military veterans and their families over the war in Iraq. I am skeptical.
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November 30, 2007
CNN/YouTube Questioner Kicked Romney 'off my property'It was bad enough that CNN handed the microphone over to an official, Gen. Kerr of a Hillary Clinton campaign committee. Mark Strauss of Iowa also left plenty of clues, but hasn't received as much note yet.
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November 9, 2007
Startling implications of a Jihadi letterNew light is being shed on the 2001 anthrax attacks in a fascinating open letter to Ayman al Zawahiri of al Qaeda, written by a jihadi living in London.
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November 2, 2007
Al Qaeda's Taliban TroublesThe signs of al Qaeda's downward spiral are accumulating. If the media were as anxious to find signs of victory as signs of failure in our war with al Qaeda, the incipient crumbling of its support in South Asia would already be noted.
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October 18, 2007
New Republic Author Gets it Backwards on Al QaedaCritics of President Bush's leadership continue to maintain that the War on Terror is failing, despite accumulating evidence to the contrary.
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October 18, 2007
New Republic Author Gets it Backwards on Al QaedaCritics of President Bush's leadership continue to maintain that the War on Terror is failing, despite accumulating evidence to the contrary.
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October 15, 2007
Confirming a quiet triumph over al QaedaMore evidence accumulates that we are winning against al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A report written by intelligence experts at the the United States Military Academy confirms the signs of a major success
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October 4, 2007
Phoniness In and Out of UniformService members who lie about what they experienced are few, but it does happen, as in the case of Jessie McBeth
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October 1, 2007
Speaker Pelosi and the Missing Ramadan SpikeThis year, for the first time since our troops have been in Iraq, the Ramadan Spike has failed to materialize. Few events in Iraq were as predictable as the yearly rise in causalities it signified.
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September 29, 2007
Al Qaeda's Man in Saddam's IraqThen-Secretary of State Collin Powell made the case in 2003 in front of the United Nations that Saddam was providing al Qaeda safe haven in Iraq. For those who want to chastise the invasion of Iraq as misdirected, it became important to establish that Secretary of State Powell and the Bush Administration were "lying"
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September 28, 2007
A Quiet Triumph May be BrewingThere are signs that the global Islamic jihad movement is splitting apart, in what would be a tremendous achievement for American strategy.
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September 22, 2007
Tales from the NRA convention (updated)The National Rifle Association conference yesterday in Washington, D.C. drew lots of media attention because of the high powered presidential candidates invited to speak. But the best speaker, hands down, was a young army NCO.
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September 21, 2007
Dick Morris doesn't like Fred ThompsonThe onetime ultimate D.C insider, Dick Morris recently brandished the allegation that Fred Thompson is awkward in answering questions. What a hoot
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September 6, 2007
The 'Ramadan spike'The coming month is expected to be pivotal in determining the course of the war, owing to the impending briefing before Congress
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July 20, 2007
Who is TNR's mysterious author 'Scott Thomas'? (Updated)The New Republic is running a sensational pseudonymously-authored article entitled Shock Troops, which TNR claims is written by a soldier currently serving in Iraq.
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June 23, 2007
Engage with Hamas?The Washington Post delivered the jihadist propaganda goods with the bizarre ranting of Ahmed Yousef earlier this week
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June 16, 2007
Fred Thompson and Plain SpeakingFred Thompson is a small town guy who made it from the agricultural communes of south-central Tennessee to Capitol Hill and our TV sets.
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May 31, 2007
The Jihad Fracture WidensDespite the impression created by the dominant media, global jihad is showing signs of serious trouble.
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May 16, 2007
More Evidence of Saddam-al Qaeda TiesAn al Qaeda document newly released by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) of the United States Military Academy provides an extraordinary new connection to a previously reported order by Saddam Hussein to support al Qaeda attacks upon US forces in Somalia.
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May 13, 2007
Kosovo, Albania and JihadI don't know Patrick but I read his AT article "Kosovo and Antijihad Bigotry" and I have to say, he is spot on. I deployed to Kosovo with the 101st on Valentine's Day, 2000 as part of the first unit rotation in country after the initial US deployment.
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May 8, 2007
More evidence of media biasBernard Goldberg, renowned author and commentator on media bias (based on his 20 years as a journalist) once wrote: "Bias in the media isn't just about what they cover; it's also about what they don't cover."
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May 4, 2007
The Democrats' unilateral war policyIt wasn't too long ago that the Bush Administration suffered the barbs of Democrat leaders who decried US "unilateralism" in Iraq.
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May 1, 2007
Petraeus vs. HagelGen. David Petraeus recently returned from Iraq to brief the leaders of our government about the war there. Perhaps most notably, he took direct aim at the "Iraq is in a civil war" mantra of the media and Democratic leaders
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April 26, 2007
Media Lynch MobThe media likes to portray Jessica Lynch as a victim of military propaganda that pushed her forward as a hero. That's not true.
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April 18, 2007
Pelosi has a Sheehan of Her OwnIt was in the summer of 2005 that the Bush Administration began to lose the support of the American public for the war in Iraq. A principal catalyst of this momentous transformation was the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.
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April 16, 2007
Levin out the factsSenator Carl Levin (D-MI) challenges the assertions of the Vice President of the United States Richard Cheney regarding the cooperation of the Saddam regime and al Qaeda. The Senator relies on "intelligence reports" that are in fact political documents created by the Senate, not intelligence products
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April 12, 2007
Terror-sponsoring Syria takes comfort from DemsSpeaker Pelosi claimed that her trip to Syria would "establish facts, to hopefully build the confidence" between the U.S. and Syria. Everyone in the Department of State, Defense, and CIA should take note of the 'no-confidence vote'
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April 9, 2007
Cheney is Absolutely CorrectOn the Rush Limbaugh radio program, VP Cheney restated his position that Saddam had ties to al Qaeda. The Vice President is completely correct.
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April 7, 2007
America's Broken-Down MediaAccording to Mark Thompson, writer for Time magazine, America's army is broken.
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March 20, 2007
De-legitimizing the Troops: UpdateA few weeks back, I chronicled the media's effort to de-legitimize the United States' fight to secure democracy in Iraq.
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March 12, 2007
Has the Global Islamic Jihad Movement fractured?Even as the leadership of the Democrats sets timetables for withdrawal from Iraq, the sands have shifted and leaders of the Global Islamic Jihad Movement are displaying signs that their own alliance has fractured.
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March 6, 2007
A key arrest goes unnoticedThe arrest last week in Pakistan of a man dubbed the Defense Minister of the Taliban, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund has received far too little attention.
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February 15, 2007
De-legitimizing the TroopsThe claim of the anti-war left that they "support the troops" is getting threadbare. The next phase of anti-war playbook: De-legitimize the soldiers.
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January 30, 2007
Bell's follyA Los Angeles Times op-ed piece by Professor David Bell raises the question, was 9/11 really that bad?
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December 9, 2006
Response and responsibility: AP's editor speaksKathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press has addressed the rising cacophony of bloggers and pundits insisting that the AP substantiate its recent reporting of six Sunnis being burned alive in Baghdad.
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November 23, 2006
Iraq doesn't need Iran and Syria; it needs a KingSeveral media reports indicate that the Iraq Study Group chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker is close to revealing proposed strategies for dealing with Iraq. One of the expected policy shifts is expected to be a move towards diplomacy with Syria and Iran in order to gain their support in stopping the sectarian violence in Iraq. Quite simply, this course of action would be disastrous
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November 10, 2006
First Order of Business for Democrats: The Draft -
November 8, 2006
NYT's Blatant Double Standard on Classified Documents -
November 3, 2006
Seymour Hersh's Other Reality -
October 22, 2006
Saddam's Poisonous Papers -
October 14, 2006
Fallujah: Baathist and Wahhabist cooperation -
October 6, 2006
The Real Story Behind the Niger Affair? -
August 23, 2006
UK Airliner Bombing Plot Bust Questioned -
August 21, 2006
The Fog of Peace -
August 8, 2006
AP Writer Ignores Evidence of Iraq WMD -
February 26, 2006
The Damage to al-Qaeda -
February 21, 2006
More Evidence of Saddam's Links to al-Qaeda -
February 20, 2006
Saddam and al-Qaeda