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Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for BasicsProject.org a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) research and education initiative. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His organization, BasicsProject.org, partnered in producing the original national symposium series addressing the root causes of radical Islamist terrorism. He is a member of the International Analyst Network. He also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. Mr. Salvato has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel, and is a regular guest on talk radio including on The Captain's America Radio Show, nationally syndicated by the Phoenix Broadcasting Network and on NetTalkWorld Global Talk Radio catering to the US Armed Forces around the world. Mr. Salvato is also heard weekly on The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth syndicated nationally on the USA Radio Network. His opinion-editorials have been published by The American Enterprise Institute, The Washington Times & Human Events and are syndicated nationally. He is occasionally quoted in The Federalist. Mr. Salvato is available for public speaking engagements. Click here to contact Mr. Salvato Click here for Mr. Salvato's regular weekly radio interviews
Frank Salvato's Commentary Archive
"... so help me God." "24" or 5 to 12 A 60's Flashback Or People Just Living In The Past? A Berry-Berry Ballistic Missile A Bit of Common Sense in the War on Radical Islamist Terror A Conservative House, Divided Against Itself, Cannot Stand A Cornucopia of Gratitude A Day of Unequaled Loss A Focus on Ignorance in Nevada A Google Search on the Net Neutrality Act A Government Run by Mrs. Kravitz A Kennedy by Any Other Name is a Churchill A Lack of Vision or Democratic Chicanery? A Little Wine, A Little Cheese And A Lot Of Arrogance A Media Litmus Test A Message For The Intolerantly Tolerant A Nation Ignorant of Being at War A Nation in Crisis A Picture Prevents a Thousand Votes A Plan, a Plan, Their Kingdom for a Plan A Religious Duty, Gang Tags & The First Amendment A Return to the Noble Art of Political Debate A Single Reason for US Intervention in Iraq A Standing Army for the United Nations A Summer Camp Designed in Hell A Weapon Of The Masses Destruction A Week for the Earth; A Day for the Constitution Abandoning the Democrats’ Timeline Idea, That’s a Good Thing Ability Should Overrule All Issues Accepting Obama’s ‘Change’ Premise Again With The Obstructionists From California Agreeing with Charlie Rangel?! Get Out! Al Gore Backs Bush-Hater Howard Dean Al Ja-Propaganda Al Qaeda Dupes Liberal Left into Fighting Jihad Al Qaeda Strengthens, US Political Resolve Weakens Al Taqiyya: The Islamist Terrorist's Weapon of Deception Allegations Trump Adjudication Where Media Is Concerned America's Ideological Dependency Eats Away at Freedom American Liberty v. Obama’s Social Engineering Amid All the Celebrity Deaths, A Reality Check An Accelerated Curriculum of Ignorance * An Email From A Young Palestinian An Incredible Opportunity for Congress and America An Occupying Force Or A Need For Stabilization * And The Hits Just Keep On Coming And They Say They Believe In Peace And The Silliness Never Stops * And Why Should We Be Surprised That They Would Flip? Another Negative Entry to the Media's Performance Evaluation Another Rogue Leader Anti-War Protesters: Hateful and Ignorant Anti-War Protesters Now Self-Serving Are We Experiencing a Constitutional Crisis? Are We Setting the Stage for The Islamic Killing Fields? Arianna Has an Opinion…"So What?!" * As We Say Goodbye The Light of Freedom Shines On Assassinating the Democratic Process At This Point It’s About Defining the “Win” "Atrocities" in the War on Terror Avenging the Death of Nicholas Berg Bad Intelligence Does Not A Deceiver Make Barack Obama: It’s More About His Choices Barack Obama: Neither Oblivious Nor Deceptive Barack Obama's Word Games Be Patient. We Are Trying To Have A Revolution Bebe Anderson Is Happy Beware the "Memogate" "Birther" Label Overshadows a Real Issue Bush v. Kerry: There's Only One Issue But It's Okay To Invade Haiti... But The Left Said We Were Never Internationalized But What If Zell Miller Didn't Forget? CAIR Registering Numbers Calling Out the Political Bullies Campaign Finance Reform...What Channel? Can an American President Be a Muslim Apostate? Can Extremists Shelve the Politics Long Enough to Help the Country? Catering to the Democratic Convention CBS/Infinity Radio: Saving Us from the Truth Ceasefires in Islam: Not Always What They Seem to Be Celebrating the Exit of a RINO, Cheering as Rome Burns Censure the Race Baiter Challenging the Status Quo Change Doesn’t Come by Electing a President Change Requires Going Beyond the Name on the Ballot Changing the Rules to Suit Their Opportunistic Needs Chirac The Wimp * Civic Responsibility & The Blame Game Clark's Arrogance Will Be His Demise Clarke's Contentions Close To Absurd Clark's Credibility In Question Clark's Ignorance Is Showing Clark's Two Faces Are Showing Common Sense From An Uncommon Man Compromise Always Positions to the Left Confronting the Spin on the Fort Hood Massacre Confusing Fear with Focus Contemplating The Debts Of A Nation Constituent Communication Suffers At The Hands Of Politics Could Terror Fear be a Good Thing? Could There Still Be More to the Story? Dean: The Poor Little Rich Boy Death Be Not Proud Dems Call Bush Out on Strikes But The War on Terror Isn’t A Game Democracy Doesn't Always Mean Liberty and Freedom Democracy Without Liberty Is Just Authority Democrats, Donkey's and Jackasses Designating the Battlefields Is Essential Determining the Intent of the Presidential Determination Did the Resolution Condemning Turkey Create a Constitutional Crisis? Do Americans Understand What Socialism Is? Do Campaign Promises Fit Down Gitmo's Toilets? Do You Remember... Don't Cry for Me, Boston Don't Mess With Texas? Texas Is A Mess! Drowned Out by Katrina, Berger Gets Away With It Duty. Honor. Country. Civic Responsibility. Egos Trump Action as Terror Cells Remain Uninvestigated Emphasis on US Mideast Policy Should Be Liberty, Not Democracy Ethics At American Airlines Wanes At Elevation Even When a Democrat Speaks the Truth the Left Won’t Listen** Everyone Is Disenfranchised Examining Republican Self-Destruction and the Term 'RINO' Excuse Me, Senator Kerry, You’re Qualifications, Please? Excuse Me? Whose Arrogance Is Being Forced On The World? Extremists Have No Place In Our Schools * Failed Policy in Iraq? Prove It! Feeling the Pain of "The Falling Man of 9/11" Fins To The Left Freedom. Worth The Cost. Anywhere. Always. From The Mouths Of Terrorists Gang Violence: The Ultimate Denial Of Free Speech * Gaza & The One-World Media’s Propaganda Genocide or Massacre, US Repeating Mistakes of the Past Gitmo, Liberals, Politics & Deceit Give Us Our Money Back. We’ll Fix It! Giving Marriage Back to the Church Good Teachers, Students In Need, Bad Administrators Government of the People or By the Faction? Guilty Until Proven Innocent Habitat for Hilarity ^† Habitat For Sincerity: A Reprise Handicapping Outrage Harboring An Excuse Has America Lost Its Way Have Democrats Been Marginalized Within Their Own Party? Helen Thomas: The Vitriol of a Woman Scorned ^†† Hello Darkness My Old Friend... Help Comes To Those Who Help Themselves Henry J. Hyde: A True Statesman and a Constitutional Steward ***** Hey, Barack, Hillary Only Suspended Her Campaign Hezbollah Is a Terrorist Group, People Hezbollah’s Filibuster There Will Be No Civil Liberties If We Lose This War Hillary Becomes A Revisionist...Again! His Own Past Tainted Byrd Tries To Sully The President Holding The Evil Accountable How is Better the Wrong Direction? How Many Rights Are Democrats Willing to Forfeit? How Quick the Message Fades Howard Dean's Liberal Vision & The Confederate Flag Hurricane Katrina: Liberal Politics Kill I Don't Dislike Democrats, I Oppose the Progressive-Left I Don't Think They Will Be Leaving Before The Tab Comes "I Know You Are But What Am I?" I Love The People...As Long As I Don't Have To Know Them I Swear To God... I'll Take "What The Kerry's Refuse To Release" For A Thousand, Alex If It’s Going to Be Amnesty, Let’s Do It Right If Not South Korea's Business Then Whose Ignoring ‘The Perfect Storm’ at Our Own Peril Illinois Politics, Chicago Corruption...I Told You So I'm John Kerry's Record and I'm Reporting for Exposure Immigration Reform Begins in Mexico * Immigration Reform or “Cooking the Apportionment Books” *** In Response to a Letter from My Sister Innocent Until Proven Guilty…Unless You’re a Marine Instituting a Safeguard Against Political & Ideological Tyranny Iranian Cartoon Contest Is Disturbing, Yet An Opportunity Iraq: Reid's Political Opportunism Is Showing Iraq, Syria & North Korea: Moe Larry & Curly With Weapons Iraqis Protest Terrorism and No One Reports It * Is Anyone on Capitol Hill Looking Out for the Voters? Is It “Dejá-Taliban” All Over Again? Is the Constitution Just a Grand Suggestion? Is The New York Times Sorry for Trampling President Bush’s Azaleas? Israel Extends an Olive Branch, Hamas Shoots At It It Couldn't Be Due to the Fact That She's Opinionated * It IS the War on Terror and the Man for the Job is George W. Bush It Pays to Have (Appointed) Friends in High Places ^†††† It Will Be Interesting To See It's A Matter Of Finally Putting Up Or Shutting Up It’s Americanism vs. Socialism on November 4th It's China's Backyard It’s Not Obama’s “Stimulus” Bill It’s Official...James Baker Has Lost His Mind It's the Bottom of the Ninth and America Steps to the Plate It's Time to Pay Close Attention to the Politicians Jews In The United States: Whose Side Are They On? John Kerry: A F&kin' Class Act John Kerry: Can You Spare Some "Change?" John Kerry: Clandestine Transparency John Kerry: The Scott Peterson of Politics John Kerry's Hypocritical Global Test John Kerry Politics: Enough Is Enough Judge Roy Boots The Rallying Cry Keeping a Check on Congressional Reality Keeping an Eye on China While Fighting the War on Terror Keeping Partisan Politics Out Of The Classroom * Kennedy Should Retire Kennedy's Disgraceful Display Kerry & Vietnam: This Time We Deserve the Truth Kerry Cannot Win Kerry The Panderer Kerry's Past Is Disturbing On Many Levels Kerry's Unwavering Arrogance Lecturing Europe While Accepting the Social Structure of Brutality Legislating a Terrorist Victory in Iraq Let Freedom Ring As Long As You Are Not White Let Me Tell You A Lie.org Let’s Blame Barney Frank, Chris Dodd & Bill Clinton Let's Not Run Into Syria But Let's Not Shrink From Them Either Let’s Talk About American Credibility for a Moment Let's Turn the Spotlight on the "Phony Controversy * Letting the Radical Islamist Cat Out of the Bag Liberal's Gamble With Anti-Americanism Literacy Is Pitched But Some Schools Balk Looking at Liberia Looking at the Thought Behind Christmas** Loyalty to Self Over Country Mahmoud Hitler & Hugo Mussolini Go to the UN Massacre In The Congo Despite The UN McCain or Obama? How About This Referendum... Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Misleading the World on the Darfur Conflict Missing the Larger Point on the Public Option Moqtada al Sadr’s Penchant for ‘Community Organizing’	Moral Relativists Just a Rationalization Away from a Crime More Money & No Cuts MoveOn.org Styled PAC’s Go Silent? No! Multiculturalism Exposes the US to Terrorism Must Have Been The Right Place. Must Have Been The Wrong Time Nancy Pelosi: Come Fly with Me Nancy Pelosi: Damaged Beyond Repair Natural Born Presidents NCLB v. the NEA's National Agenda * Newsweek: Assigning Blame Where Blame Is Due No Amnesty for the Disingenuous No, Really?...Common Sense Won? Not 'Able' to Disseminate 'Danger' Without Common Sense Nuclear Semantics Obama, ACORN & Their Starring Role in the Mortgage Crisis Obama, Cheney & The Bright Shiny Thing Obama’s European Tour: Arrogance, Ineptness & An Abdication of Leadership Of the People, By the People, For the Terrorists Of WMD & Saddam Hussein ‘Oh, God!’ It’s Bobby Jindal! On Guard! Once Again, It’s About Associations and Judgment Once Again, The Perpetrators Accuse Their Opponents Once Again They Talk From Both Sides Of Their Mouths One in Three MoveOn.org Donors are Foreign * One Nation Under The First Amendment O’Neill’s Contentions Warrant Skepticism Opposing Estrada Our Federal Government’s Basic Purpose Paige Was Only Telling The Truth Palin and the Power of Real American Women Pay No Attention to That “Inconvenient War” Paying Attention To The 2004 Elections Perhaps Ankle Bracelets for the Gitmo Crew Perhaps it is Time for Another Type of Islamic Revolution Pelosi, Reid Bank on America's Sitcom Attention Span Pelosi Worries About Politics Over Needed Legislation Pelosi’s Rhetoric Should Be So Under-Funded Place The Blame On Those Who Deserve It "Please, God, No...It's So Hot, I'm Burning Up" Politics Before Government Is Unacceptable Pre-Occupied with Miers, America Misses That Terrorists Get Nukes President Bush Misses A Golden Opportunity Pretending to Speak for an Entire Culture "Progressives" Hardly Speak for “The American People” Promotions At The Cost Of Political Profit Prove to Us That You’re Still On Our Side Radical Islam By Any Other Name... Radical Islam's "End-Game" Reading Legislation...It’s Your Job! Reaping the Benefits of the Paleoconservative Strategy Recognizing the Reality of Radical Islam Regarding Schiavo: Facts Need to Trump Emotions and Activism Reid Fires the First Shot of What Should Be a Nuclear Confrontation Remembering What Memorial Day Is For Responsibility: The First Amendment's Custodian Rid Of One Phony, Let's Get Rid Of Another Rising Above During the Holidays Ryan's Hope Fades to a Child's Nightmare Saddam Hussein's Justice Needs To Come From All San Francisco: The Mecca Of The Left Selling Their Souls for Silver Sen. Obama, Stand and Deliver! Senatorial Skullduggery In The Judiciary Committee Setting Aside Political Differences for Common Goals * **** Setting The 'Character Assassination' Record Straight Shining the Light on the Truly Negative Campaigners Simply Put, the US Mainstream Media Provides an Inferior Product So, Do We Get to Call Dan Rather a Liar? So Long As It Isn't John Kerry So Much for the Consent of the Governed So, Shall We Take Another Vote? So, Tell Me About "Change" Again... So, What's The Big Deal About Religion in '08? * Some Rules Of Engagement: "Work With Me, Babe" Sometimes The Race Card Isn't The Ace An The Hole Specter: An Opportunist Guilty of Political Treason Sponsored By Communists? Did We Win The Cold War? Stepping Back from the Conservative Abyss Stifling Dissent: The Fifth Column Nazis Stolen Honor: When Turnabout Isn't Fair Play Stop Whining And Get Back To Work Stop Worrying - You Can Still Have Elvis on Your Driver's License * Streisand's Memory Limited/Selective Swinging Like Monkeys from the Branches of the Liberty Tree Terri Schiavo: The First Shot in the Battle Against Judicial Activism Terrorism & The Media's Herding Of America Thanks For The Memories That's Karl With A 'K', Right? The 19th Nervous Communications Breakdown The 9-11 Commission Makes One Thing Clear The 9th Circuit Has To Go The Acceptance of Thuggery for Fun, Power & Profit * The ACLU Would Rather Let Terrorists Fly The Agreement Worse Than a Filibuster The Arrogance of Judicial Tyranny The Artificially Inflated Self-Esteem of Barack Obama The Anti-Assimilation Movement The Barnett Boondoggle The Brat Pack Displays Its Ignorance The Axis Of Weasels The Capture Of Saddam Hussein Was Staged The Case Is Made Convincingly If You Look At The Facts The Clinton-Gore Deceitful Fundraising Sideshow The 'Clinton Wall' at the Justice Department The Compromise of Credibility The Compromised Wherewithal of the New Progressives The Damaging Political Legacy of Addressing the Race Issue The Death of a Soldier...The Life of a Patriot The Democratic Party: Hypocrisy and Revisionism The Disingenuous Anti-War Left The Double Standard Is Alive And Well The Economics Argument Slips Away The Fifth Column Is Alive And Well ^††† The "Fifth Columnization" of America The Fine Lines Between Ideology, Reality & Fanaticism * The First Debate was a Bust...Or Was It? The First Shot in the War on Political Correctness The General Election Is No Time for Conservative Discontent The ‘Give Obama a Chance’ Trial Period is Over The Great Satan to the Rescue...Again The Harriet Miers Nomination: Ideology Over Process The Humanity of the Liberal Extremist The Humility of George W. Bush The Incredible Judicial Disparity: Berger v. Libby The Indictment of Tom Delay and Jeb Eddy The Insolent Arrogance of the Progressive-Left The Intellectually Stunted Practice of Bush-Bashing The Intelligence Problem Started 11 Years Ago The Janus Face of the Progressive Democrats The Lack of Ethics in the Ethics Committee The Last Great Flip-Flop ^††† The Left Is Making a Mistake in Ridiculing the Tea Parties The Liberal-Left's All-Access Media Pass The Liberal-Left's Rhetoric Is The Same All Over The Little Village That Shouldn't The Mainstream Media Is The No. 1 Threat To World Peace The Mainstream Media's Selective Terror The Muslim Brotherhood: An Association for Jihadists The New York Times Has A Credibility Problem The Only Real Strategy for Afghanistan The Passion of The Passion The Path to the Future Requires a Return to the Roots The Phony Call to Work Together The Politicalization of Adjudications The Politics Of The Racial Divide The Powder-Puff Book Of Etiquette The President Unveils A Plan While The Democrats Offer Rhetoric The Procedural Scheming of Boxer-Jones The Purposeful Selection of a Supreme Court Justice The Race Card May Have Been Dealt, But Who's Playing It? The Real Atrocities of Abu Ghraib The Reid-McConnell Bailout Bribe The Red Cross Needs Some Human Shields The Separation of Campaigns and the 527s * The Separation of Federal & State Politics The Special Interest Trough Leads to Corrupted Politics The Tea Party Movement, The GOP & Making It Work The Threat Is Real…Really The Time Is Ripe for Divide & Conquer The Toilets in Cuba Aren't Better Than Ours The Top, Top Secret Files of John Forbes Kerry The Two-Faced Brutality of Hope & Change The UN Continues To Invalidate Themselves The UN Gave Him His Inch, Now He Wants His Mile The Ungrateful Demise Of Thanksgiving The United States is Not Engaged in the War of Ideas The United States of America Is Not a Democracy The Walk Of Shame The Worst Case Scenario: What If The Liberals Got Their Way? There Are Monsters Among Us There Will Be No Civil Liberties If We Lose This War They've...Stopped...Thinking About Tomorrow This Conflict Has Little to Do with Drawn Lines This From A Man Who Married His Adopted Daughter This Is Arianna Huffington's Brain On Drugs This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You Time For Arafat To Ara-Shut-Up Time to Acknowledge the Reality of War Time to Admit the Realities of Pakistan Time to Create a Legitimate World Organization Time To Restructure How We View Who An Ally Is Time to Spotlight Kerry's Attendance Record Too Dangerous The Human Shields Run For Cover Too Much Weight on the Hypothetical Tough Medicine for Getting Back to Good Transparency: Do As I Say, Not As I Do Trying to Legitimize the True Lie Turning Blue State Faces Red Understanding the Concept of Reform Understanding the Wahhabist Infiltration of America Understanding the Worth of Our Nation Using Every Tool in the War Against Radical Islam Using Technology to Undermine the Ballot Box Venezuela: In the Spirit of The Monroe Doctrine * Virginia Tech Slaughter Raises Many Questions Was It Ever Solely About WMDs We Are Responsible for the Caliber of Our Government * "We" Aren't Authorized to Do Anything We Better Hurry Up and "Redeploy" So the Killing Can Start Again We Blame the Politicians But We Put Them There We Need to Be Careful for What We Wish We Simply Can’t Afford Another Entitlement Program We've Got Your Saddam Hussein Right Here! What Do They Know and Why Don't They Know It? What Does Dean Have To Hide? What Ever Happened to Reforming the UN? What Happened To Howard Dean? When Ideology Masks Ignorance What is the Color of the Sky in a Liberal Ideologue's World What the Iraqi Survey Group’s Report Missed When Academic Snobs Attack When Donkeys Turn into One-Trick Ponies When In The Course of Human Events... When Opinion Polls Attack When Politics Has No Time for Government When War Gets Politicized Where Are The Protesters Now? * Where Did The Idea Come From That This Would Be A Cake Walk Which Is It, One America or Two? Whitewashing 'The Dream' With Divisiveness Who Did You Know, Sen. Obama, and When Did You Know Them? Who Ever Said "The War Is Over"? Who Really Violated the Geneva Conventions? Who Would Osama Vote For? Whoa! Hold On There Politicos Why Don't We Just Ask Them to Tell Us Their Secrets Why Is There No Honesty Discourse About Terrorism's Roots? Why Obama Will Throw ACORN Under the Bus Why the POTUS Needs to Be a Natural-Born Citizen Will Republicans Have the Courage to Hit the Reset Button? Will We Allow an Overthrow of our Election Process? With All Things, Facts & Truth Matter Withholding Evidence of an Alleged Crime for Political Gain? Women in Islam: Suffering the Barbary of an Ideology Wouldn't It Be Lovely If Gore Would Go Away? Would You Like 'Files' With That? You Either Abide by the First Amendment or You Don't 'You Have Awakened the Sleeping Giant' You Say You Want a Real Solution Zarqawi…Ragdoll
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