Opinion

The city of Jerusalem is covered with beautiful welcome banners celebrating President Trumps visit. Banners across from the president’s Hotel, the King David, are four-stories high. The Supreme Court bridge says, “Trump Make Israel Great.” The welcome campaign has been covered by major media outlets from all over the world. The signs say “Trump Make

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My beloved friend, President Shimon Peres, has died. It was my great pleasure to have known this man. He suffered a major medical emergency on Tuesday, September 13, an event from which, sadly, he did not recover. President Peres was one of the founding fathers of the State of Israel, and one of the most

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One of the major obsessions in the current US presidential campaign is with defeating Islamic State or, as Donald Trump says, “defeating radical Islam.” It is impossible to defeat this threat if we do not understand how radical Islam was created, so that we can effectively suck the oxygen out of the fire. The three

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Shortly after 4:00 a.m. on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1981, the administration of then-president Jimmy Carter relinquished $7.977 billion to the Iranians. According to one source, the transfer required 14 banks and the participation of five nations acting concurrently. When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran on February 1, 1979, it was with the unbridled

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Confusion, last week thought to be a poster child of the Republican National Convention, has found a fissure in the Democratic Party this week in Philadelphia, aka the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. Some of the brothers and sisters aren’t feeling so affectionate, as demonstrated by the pro-Sanders protests. Why the turmoil? It

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Hours before Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel mowed down over a hundred unsuspecting citizens in Nice, France, with a truck, FBI director James Comey appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee. According to Comey, vigilance is vital as “lone wolf” terrorists seek ways and means to wreak havoc worldwide. He declared: “We all know, there will be

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The eyes of the world this week will be focused on the Republican National Convention, but almost no one is talking about the vast majority of Donald Trump-supporting delegates who are Evangelical Christians. The billion-dollar question begging an answer is: Why are they supporting him? As an Evangelical journalist, the answer to me is clear,

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America’s Independence Day, by far the most important national holiday of the year in the United States, commemorates the birth of the nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, with fireworks, picnics, concerts, parades, political speeches and ceremonies. It is a day of patriotism and the largest birthday celebration

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A single shooter made history early Sunday morning in Orlando, Florida when he entered a gay nightclub and opened fire with an assault rifle. When the carnage ended, 53 people had been wounded and 50 lay dead, including the Islamic terrorist, Omar Mateen. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for the resignation of President

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The United States of America has been fighting wars in the Middle East for a decade and a half. The price tag for those wars, predominately in Iraq and Afghanistan, has surpassed $1.7 trillion. The war with radical Islam has not been won, and could continue for decades. The US attempted to win the war

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