How We Treat Our Friends
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Obama Administration seems to believe that the best way to make new friends internationally is to offend old reliable ones.  [Read More]

Venezuela's Abuse of Human Rights Exposed
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
According to a report released on February 24 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a branch of the Organization of American States, there has been a steady erosion of human and civil rights in Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez. The 300-page report concludes:  [Read More]

A Nuclear Iran Eyes Military Dictatorship
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Last Thursday, Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran has the capability to produce weapons-grade uranium and threatened yesterday that "If anyone does anything against Iran, then our response won't be the same as in the past. No, we will definitely react and make them regretful."  [Read More]

"Week of Testing" and Iran's Possible Nuclear Warhead
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010
According to a German newspaper and cited on Michael Ledeen's blog posting on Pajamas Media:"Iran has developed a nuclear warhead, according to an article in the German newspaper "Sueddeutsche Zeitung". A foreigner alleged to have helped Iran towards developing nuclear weapons is from the former Soviet Union...The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has already mentioned the employment of a foreigner in the nuclear programme.   [Read More]

Russia Sought to Leverage Chinese Holdings to Force a U.S. Bailout
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
While attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson learned that Russia was encouraging China to dump its Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds in an effort to force another U.S. bailout. In his memoir, "On the Brink", Paulson writes, "The report was deeply troubling -- heavy selling could create a sudden loss of confidence in the GSEs and shake the capital markets... I waited till I was back home and in a secure environment to inform the president."  [Read More]

A Belated Strike Three
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
If Mr. Chavez were a right-wing leader or an ally of the United States, Latin American governments and many Democrats in Congress would be mobilizing to stop his latest abuse of power, and to encourage peaceful and democratic opposition. But he is not, and they are mostly silent. The Obama administration, too, has done next to nothing to defend democracy or encourage the opposition in Venezuela. Now -- when Chávez's regime threatens to disintegrate into chaos and violence -- would be a good time to start.   [Read More]

Radical Islam, Homegrown Terrorists, and Collective Reprisals
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010
According to the New York Times the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is reporting that "as many as 36 American Muslims who were prisoners have moved to Yemen in recent months, ostensibly to study Arabic, and that several of them have "dropped off the radar" and may have connected to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."  [Read More]

A New Escalation in Iran's Desperate Struggle for Survival
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Friday, January 15, 2010
According to Michael Ledeen, despite a torrent of disinformation from the Iranian regime, the murder of Physics Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in Tehran was, "a vicious assault by the regime against one of its critics.  [Read More]

Iran's Persecution of Religious Minorities and Continued Support for Hezbollah
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Friday, January 8, 2010
Michael Rubin reports at National Review that even amidst the emboldened opposition movement the Iranian regime is cracking down on religious minorities. Once again Christians, Jews, and Bahai's are being singled out.  [Read More]

Late Lessons on Appeasing Terrorists and Supporting Democracy in Iran
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
From Britain, The Telegraph reports that "According to police sources, 25 British-born Muslims are currently in Yemen being trained in the art of bombing planes. But most of these terrorists did not acquire their crazed beliefs in the Islamic world: they were indoctrinated in Britain."   [Read More]