July 30, 2010
Chavez has recently threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. if there is a military attack stemming from increasing tensions between Venezuela and Colombia, its next-door neighbor. The ties between the two countries are on the rocks after Luis Alfonso Hoyos, the Columbian ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) filed evidence on July 20 that Venezuela is a haven for FARC, a South American Marxist terrorist organization. [Read More]
Awaiting the Return of the Mahdi?
On June 29, the Program to Protect America's Freedom presented Dr. Timothy Furnish on the timely topic of Iran and Shi'i eschatology followed by a panel discussion with EPPC Senior Fellow and former Senator Rick Santorum, Professor Cynthia Ayers of the U.S. Army War College, and Dr. Michael Ledeen, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. [Watch Event Video]
On April 23, Rick Santorum hosted Bill Bennett's Morning in America and discussed Shi`i eschatology and its imact with guest Dr. Timothy Furnish, a leading expert on Islam history and.The following link to listen tothe audio recording of Santorum and Furnish on the Bennett Show.
July 14, 2010
With the exception of a core group of conservatives, most politicians -- including the president -- continue to publicly back marriage while eagerly awaiting the day when judges will take this issue out of their hands. In this case, silence, as my former colleague Zell Miller once said, is not golden; it's yellow.
June 5, 2010
Rick Santorum hosted Bill Bennet's Morning in America with Roland Warren to discuss Fatherhood in America. Listen to the program HERE.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Who would have thought European leaders -- those committed socialists who have set aside their dogma to deal with a real-world debt crisis -- have more in common with the hard-charging Republican governor of New Jersey than they do with the procrastinating ideologue occupying the White House? [Read More]
May 26, 2010
Rick Santorum spoke at the Boca Raton Republican Club on fiscal conservatism. Watch it here.
If Sir Winston Churchill were alive today, he would probably be screaming "déjà vu." The United Kingdom's action (and inaction) in dealing with the Islamofascism of today is reminiscent of Great Britain's initial mishandling of threats leading up to WWII a century ago. It is time for the U.K. to identify the real enemy and 'clean house' of radical Islamic factions like Hizb ut-Tahrir.
President Obama's foreign relations approach with Islam has been to wipe-out, obscure, and deny traditional American values in an effort to appease Muslims so they will leave us alone, while at the same time refusing to identify fundamental threats to American society. Newsflash: This is not going to work.