Dick Morris has observed that President Obama’s tenure will be darkly remembered by our countrymen for his having “lost” Egypt. Since the effect of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak collapsing imminently and its replacement by one dominated by the
Suddenly, Washington is consumed with a question too long ignored: Can we safely do business with the Muslim Brotherhood? The reason this question has taken on such urgency is, of course, because the Muslim Brotherhood (or MB, also known by
Last night, in the “Keeping Them Honest” segment of his “360” program on CNN, Anderson Cooper broadcast a debate between me and Suhail Khan, a self-styled “conservative” Muslim. Unfortunately, Cooper seemed much less interested in keeping Khan honest than in
Note: In an email last week to the board of directors of the American Conservative Union (the group that runs CPAC), Frank Gaffney laid out the extensive case against Suhail Khan, a member of that group’s board. In it, he
Tonight, World Net Daily continued its pathbreaking coverage of what amounts to an assault on the conservative movement. Ironically, this assault is not coming from outside the movement’s ranks. Rather, it is being perpetrated by some of the key organizers
On Tuesday night, I had an opportunity to address the O’Reilly Factor‘s audience on a matter of immense importance: the threat posed to America by not only the violent form of jihad but by its stealthy counterpart – what its
In its Thursday edition, the Washington Times framed its report on the Senate’s ratification of the New START Treaty with two photos. The first was of President Obama doing what he does best – talking – at his press conference
On CNN this morning, the Senate’s Republican Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, announced his opposition to the so-called New START arms control treaty currently being debated by his chamber. According to a rush transcript by Politico , Sen. McConnell told “State
The United States Senate under Majority Leader Harry Reid has ceased to deserve its historic reputation as “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” By cynically manipulating parliamentary procedures during a lame-duck session so as to preclude filibusters and amendments, Sen. Reid
The United States Senate is poised to take one of the most fateful votes in its history. It is expected – perhaps as early as tomorrow – to decide whether to impose the radical homosexual agenda on America’s armed forces.
According to the German daily Die Welt, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has agreed to grant Iran a “military base manned by Iranian missile officers, soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard [Corps] and Venezuelan missile officers.” The paper goes on to
President Obama made clear yesterday that he is determined to get Senate approval on the New START Treaty before Christmas. His press spokesman actually predicted that it would happen – thanks, in part, to forward-leaning comments made in recent days
In coming days, legislators on Capitol Hill will begin thrashing out a new Continuing Resolution needed to provide “stop-gap” funding for the government in the absence of the annual appropriations bills. Perhaps in that context – and certainly in the
As the Obama administration doubles down on its effort to force the U.S. Senate to rubber-stamp the New START Treaty during the lame duck session, its bid took two more body blows today: First, ten senators-elect led by Roy Blunt
The past 48 hours have yielded some dramatic setbacks for President Obama in his drive to force the lame-duck Senate to rubber-stamp the New START arms control treaty with Russia. Yet, despite clear signals that this will not – and
As the Obama administration becomes increasingly desperate to get its New START Treaty ratified, it has enlisted the help of assorted people thought to be influential with a handful of Republican Senators who will determine whether this accord is rammed
No one seems to know who launched what appears to have been a ballistic missile – and by one account “a big missile” at that – from a point some thirty-five miles off the California coast on Monday evening. About
As Peter Schweizer noted here yesterday, President Obama served notice on the newly elected Senators and the constituents who voted for them on Tuesday: He does not want them to have a say in one of the most important national
In the endgame of Election 2010, speculation abounds concerning the impact the Tea Party movement will have. All over America, politicians, pollsters and pundits are frantically trying to predict the repercussions that will flow from the engagement of these folks
Excellent catch by Barry Rubin who has just uncovered the latest example of the Obama administration’s seriously misguided “outreach” to Muslims! As Rubin notes, the U.S. Consulate-General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia played host to Trita Parsi, founder and President of
After National Public Radio President Vivian Schiller fired the network’s veteran “news analyst” Juan Williams for declaring that he felt fearful when flying with individuals in Muslim garb, she declared that her action constituted a “teachable moment.” Indeed, it is.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just served notice that the U.S. nuclear deterrent is in free-fall. All other things being equal, the nation’s arsenal will have to shrink to perhaps as few as 500-1000 weapons in the not-too-distant future.
At a Washington seminar on “the state of domestic intelligence reform” sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center yesterday, three members of the blue-ribbon group known as Team B II challenged prominent members of the U.S. intelligence community (“Team A”). Pointed
I had the opportunity to appear Monday in a Tennessee court as an expert witness on the threat posed by shariah. The case involves an effort by citizens of Murfreesboro, Tennessee to prevent the construction of a mega-mosque in their
Yesterday, 43 U.S. Senators voted to protect the U.S. military from the radical agenda espoused by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists. But for their courage in the face of the vilification and other forms of pressure brought to
Over the weekend, President Obama repeated in connection with the 9/11 observances a now-familiar incantation: “We are not at war against Islam. We are at war against terrorist organizations that have distorted Islam or falsely used the banner of Islam.”
At his White House press conference Friday, President Obama once again endorsed the placement of a triumphalist mosque in immediate proximity to Ground Zero, declaring it the “inalienable right” of the increasingly transparently immoderate imam determined to build it there.
General David Petraeus has sounded an alarm about the planned burning of copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by the 50-member congregation of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. He believes that, “Images
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry formally noticed members of his panel that the Committee would hold a mark-up on September 16th of the strategic arms reduction treaty negotiated by the Obama administration with the Russians. Remarkably, the resolution
In the wake of yesterday’s hostage drama at the Discovery Network, we have learned that the perpetrator, James Lee, was driven by environmental extremism. It turns out that he didn’t like people very much, seeing them as threats to the
One of the country’s most experienced and knowledgeable experts on nuclear deterrence, Vice Admiral Robert Monroe, has called on the Senate to reject Barack Obama’s so-called New START Treaty – and the agenda for unilateral U.S. nuclear disarmament of which
The inimitable Claudia Rosett, one of her generation’s most accomplished and tenacious investigative journalists (she exposed, for example, the “Oil for Food” scandal), is hot on a new scent: It was she who first revealed that the imam behind the
Stop the presses! This just in: The Associated Press “standards center” has issued a “staff advisory” on covering what is to be known from here on out as “the New York City mosque.” From now on, the AP “staff” –
Stop the presses! This just in: The Associated Press “standards center” has issued a “staff advisory” on covering what is to be known from here on out as “the New York City mosque.” From now on, the AP “staff” –
Just when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Team Obama’s other boosters for the New START Treaty thought the time ripe to press the U.S. Senate to consent to the ratification of that accord, legislators were given two powerful new
News that Vladimir Putin’s regime will proceed to fueling Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor on August 21st is the strategic equivalent of a high-Richter-scale tectonic shift. It is likely to trigger the most far-reaching shockwaves with incalculable repercussions. For starters, this
Subsequent to the posting last night of my take on President Obama’s full-throated endorsement of a beachhead at Ground Zero for the totalitarian, supremacist program Muslim authorities call shariah, one of the most formidable leaders of the 9/11 families community,
At a White House celebration of Ramadan tonight in the company of representatives of several of the Nation’s most prominent Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, President Obama announced his strong support for one of their most immediate objectives: the construction of
In 1984, a recovering Democrat named Jeane Kirkpatrick coined an immortal descriptor for those who had taken over the party she once shared with national security-minded leaders like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Ronald Reagan.
Chairman John Kerry wrote his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today advising them that he was postponing for at least six weeks the panel’s “mark-up” of the resolution of ratification of the so-called New START Treaty. This is