Heather Robinson

In anticipation of tomorrow’s meeting among U.S. diplomats, their Russian, Chinese, and European counterparts, and Iranian officials, analyst Michael Rubin points out in today’s New York Daily News that “engagement is a tactic, not a strategy.” He urges President Obama to realize that, while military action against Iran should be a last resort, …

Yesterday thousands gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations in New York to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pledge to destroy Israel, and to show solidarity with Iranian protestors who have faced down Iran’s mad mullahs in recent months.

The plaza was awash in green worn by protestors in solidarity with Iran’s freedom-seekers as …

President Obama’s decision to scrap the plan to establish a new system of missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect U.S. allies in Europe as well as to protect the United States from intercontinental-range ballistic missiles out of Iran is a mistake, according to Frank Gaffney at The Center for Security …

Tonight in his speech on health care, President Obama acknowledged the values of “self-reliance, rugged individualism, love of freedom, and healthy skepticism of government,” which, held dear by so many American people make the U.S. such a remarkable–and remarkably successful–country. But I did not hear much in his speech–or in the ghostly outlines of a plan that he …

In today’s New York Post, commentator Thomas Sowell did a great job unpacking the misguided and dangerous thinking behind the UK’s foolish and immoral decision to release Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist whose bomb sent 270 innocent people to their horrific deaths over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

Sowell quotes philosopher/economist Adam Smith: “Mercy …