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Iran unveiled a prototype long-range unmanned bomber on Sunday, the latest in a stream of announcements of new Iranian-made military hardware as tension mounts over its nuclear program.

A campaign is underway this month to draw attention for the need to act now against potential ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Toward that end, Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has sponsored S. Res. 519, which currently has 30 co-sponsors. By signing S. Res. 519, these Senators have publicly stated their opposition to ratification of the UNCRC. “If the government or the international community can tell you how to raise your children here in America,” DeMint asks, “is there anything that’s off limits?”

Team Obama sites Obamacare and its lawsuit against Arizona as shining examples of US human rights progress in a UN assessment report that will be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council which includes such grand examples of human rights as Angola, Bahrain, China, Cuba, Gabon, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mauritania, Qatar, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

We have a former board member of a radical Communist organization that admits ties to Cuban officials but not to Cuban intelligence officials going to represent the United States in the Powder Keg of Central America where half the countries basically swear allegiance to Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez pays homage to Fidel Castro, his mentor,every chance he gets. Any tie to Castro is a direct line to Hugo Chavez. He has been buying up more tanks jet fighters and weapons then he can afford from Russia and China and in addition to his Socialist Empire has significant ties to Iran and various South American and Islamic terrorist organizations. Hugo Chavez has brought a defacto Cold War to Central & South America in his pursuit of a Socialist Empire and I fear this ambassadorial pick will play right into his hands.

Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says in an interview that a surge in coalition troops has turned the tide on the Taliban’s ‘momentum’ in key areas there, but warns tough battles still lay ahead.

“Clinton’s failure to mobilize America to confront foreign terror after the 1993 attack [on the World Trade Center] led directly to the 9/11 disaster.” According to Morris, “Clinton was removed, uninvolved, and distant where the war on terror was concerned.”

Police in Mexico say they have found four bodies hung from a bridge in an affluent town south of Mexico City.

Under the cloak of Washington’s indifference, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez is making steady progress in cementing strategic relations with China, which is eager to eclipse U.S. presence in a key, mineral-rich South American economy. Russia is a source of weapons and foreign policy clout, Iran is abetting Chávez’s shadowy nuclear program, and Cuba is managing a system of internal control and repression in Venezuela.

Can Bolivia develop its mineral wealth—and undermine Hugo Chávez?

The growing violence in Monterrey, long one of Mexico’s most modern and safe cities, is a sign that the country’s war against drug gangs is spreading ever further from poorer battlegrounds along the border and into the country’s wealthiest enclaves.