In my soon-to-be-released book, An American Slave in Barbary, the narrator, after sixteen years of imprisonment in Algiers, returns home and gains an audience with Jefferson at Monticello. It is 1817, the year Madison became president and put the final nail in the Federalists' coffin. The political party of John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and John [...]
Freedom Chronicles The report on freedom movements inside the autocratic regimes dedicated to the defeat and subjugation of the Judeo-Christian West. Death to the Iranian Theocracy As readers of these columns are aware, we demonstrate that tyrants running regimes such as Xi’s CCP and Putin’s Russia are less likely and less able to wage war [...]
While most of the US press was totally fixated on attaching the labels of racist, bigot, and white supremacist to the President, it totally missed one of the biggest stories in a generation—a nuclear war with North Korea was averted.
The rule of law which guarantees our core freedoms is under siege…by the un-American statists and their agents, men like Comey.
South Koreans voters chose as their new president, the progressive candidate, Moon Jae-in, who promised them he’d “say no to Washington.”
I recently caught up with Peter to ask him what he thought about the new North Korean nuclear missile crisis.
On April 8, I attended a wedding reception where I was seated next to an attendee who felt the need to let me know my views regarding resurgent militant Islam were, in his view, misguided. Given that we all know about the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and all the other myriad sins [...]
(First in a series on National Security and the 2016 presidential election) On the same day, September 27, 2016, nine days before the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, a Somali American, Dahir Adan, stabbed nine people in a Minneapolis mall and an Afghan American, Ahmad Rahami detonated a pressure-cooker bomb in the heart [...]
At the outset of the first Iraq war, Colin Powell warned President Bush 41 that he saw no exit strategy for the U.S. if our forces pursued Iraqi troops from Kuwait all the way to Baghdad. He followed his warning with an admonition that has become known as the “Pottery Barn” allegory and is now [...]
I spoke to Cliff May who is the founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies which he created immediately following 9/11. FDD today is one of the nation’s most highly regarded national security policy institutes. Kelley: Do you agree with my assessment that we are losing the war on terror which, of course, is a misnomer? [...]
