Crowds gathered yesterday at the U.N.’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance at the United Nations of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani addressed the crowd, saying: “We must confront tyrants, oppressors, bullies, and terrorists as early as possible.” These words are not …
As any reporter knows, there exists between the press and government at best uneasy peace, at worst open conflict. This tension is natural, healthy even, because without the press, government is free of scrutiny (and corruption is not far off), and without government, well…let’s just say, to paraphrase the statement about athiests in foxholes, there …
For as long as I could, I avoided writing about the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero. For starters, on a personal level, the subject is uncomfortable. As a writer who has the great privilege of working with moderate Muslim-Americans and heroic moderate Muslims in the middle east and elsewhere, I reject the idea that …
The first hint of fall is in the air, and with it, the predictable announcement: mideast peace talks will begin.
In a demonstration of familiar American hubris, President Barack Obama has declared his intention to make peace in the region by creating a Palestinian state on the West Bank within a year.
Not sure …
I’ll be discussing security implications of the Steven Slater controversy. Enjoy!
Yesterday I appeared on Securefreedom radio, the Center for Security Policy’s radio show, discussing the attempted Times Square terror bombing and the Baghdad recount. Frank Gaffney, the show’s host, engaged me in some interesting back and forth about NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s off-the-cuff speculation regarding the likely identity and motivation of the …
Below is a letter issued this week by Florida Congresswoman ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, who is taking on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA, a U.N. agency with a mandate to care for Palestinians, has received $3.6 billion in U.S. tax dollars since its inception. This agency, which has been …
Last Thursday The Lawfare Project, a non-profit founded by attorney Brooke Goldstein (pictured above) to confront “lawfare” – which Goldstein defined in her opening remarks as “the use of the law as a weapon of war” — held a conference at the New York County Law Building in …
Tonight on the Factor, Bill O’Reilly put forward an interesting, sobering argument regarding the classification of President Obama as a socialist by some conservatives.
“When you have a country starting to define a sitting President as a socialist, is that working? Remember how the far left defined President Bush, as a …
President Obama’s self-imposed January 20th deadline for the closing of the U.S. Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has come and gone. Although the President is taking heat from the left for this action (or lack thereof), it seems to me one of his wiser moves (non-moves?) of late. After all, he does not want …