When Does A Political Party Deserve To Die?
George Washington was asked what he thought about the formation of political parties. He replied that he was adamantly against the idea.
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George Washington was asked what he thought about the formation of political parties. He replied that he was adamantly against the idea.
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Embodied in the person of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and candidate, Abdul El Sayed, America is facing the twin threats posed by what some are labeling the Red-Green Alliance. Each man embodies the twin threats to the...
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It’s with dread that Americans now watch the party of JFK unapologetically side with the international left, the Islamists running Iran, and the Maoists running China, and joining them in their hostility toward...
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More evidence is surfacing to alert the Iran watchers in the West that the Islamist regime is collapsing. Moreover, when it falls, Iran will become the first a post Islamic state. The significance of this event for...
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While the world awaits to see if this Middle East peace will hold, there is a strong clue that would lead us to believe that the thugs running the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have surrendered. The clue...
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On Facebook, one can find numerous groups whose titles include "Free Iran". The posts made to these sites are by freedom fighters inside Iran, at grave risk to their lives. Many display signs written in English that...
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As the summit in Beijing approaches, it is important to note that the prosecution of the war in Iran by America and Israel has exposed a vulnerability in the Chinese military. The inferiority of the Chinese...
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Iran is the last remaining state following Mohammad’s command to conquer the infidel. In that regard, it is worth noting that on September 11, 1683, the army led by the Polish King, Jan Sobiesky, together with the...
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In response to our attack on Iran, we must try to determine what China will do. Now that Vice President Vance has walked out of the talks in Islamabad and Trump has announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it...
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Winston Churchill is among the vast number of historians who have concluded that the war in Europe could have been prevented if Britain and France had acted to stop Hitler before he invaded Czechoslovakia. His...
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After its first month, the bombing campaign conducted against Iran by the United States and Israel has produced some unprecedented “firsts” in the history of human conflict.
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On April 12, 1945, the day Eisenhauer’s Allied Forces liberated Buchenwald, a man who walked out of the German camp under his own power was asked by a reporter what he had learned from the experience. The survivor...
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As we await the fall of the Iranian regime, some readers of history will see it as a biblical event. Others will see it as providential in this clash of civilizations. In my book Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I...
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Amid war news coming from the Middle East, there have been reports of Kurdish military units massing near the Iranian Northern border, preparing to invade the country. In response, retired CIA Director General David...
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During the deadly shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach in Sydney, Ahmed al-Ahmed was filmed tackling and disarming one of the Muslim attackers, only to be shot by the other attacker. The man, identified as a...
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The report on freedom movements inside the autocratic regimes dedicated to the defeat and subjugation of the Judeo-Christian West.
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With the US election over, what will the Mullahs running Iran do now? What will be their response to Israel’s bombardment of their military targets? If Iran attacks Israel directly, it is an unspoken truth—when the...
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In my first book, published in 2012, I predicted that a future US president may have both the opportunity and the need to partner with the Iranian people to bring down the hated theocratic regime which rules them with an iron fist and which gravely threat
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I recently caught up with Peter to ask him what he thought about the new North Korean nuclear missile crisis.
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In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. II, - The Way Forward, I report that the nearly autonomous Kurds of Northern Iraq, have not only exhibited great heroism in driving ISIS out of the towns and...
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The historian and theologian, Father Richard Neuhaus, opined that the difficulty for today’s Muslims is that Mohammad is the only founder of a major modern religion whose life falls within an era of pedigreed...
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My friend, Amil Imani, is an Iranian born and influential pro-democracy activist whose family escaped Iran during the Islamic revolution of 1979. He is also an apostate and is a fierce critic of Islam. He recently...
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The above title and the following excerpt describes one of my proscriptions for winning World War III with the IslamoNazi’s. They will appear in my forthcoming book. There is an overarching reason why the FBI and...
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The recent killing of the Taliban Chieftain, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, by a drone inside the Pakistan province of Baluchistan, is a striking reminder that we have entered a futuristic world where war is waged by flying...
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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...
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Before Obama’s election in 2008, in the halls of American academia, among the deans of international studies, the concepts of soft power versus hard power had been well-established bipolar modes of operation by which...
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Last Thursday night, October 22, in a daring raid, U.S. Special forces teamed with Kurdish Peshmerga forces and attacked an ISIS controlled prison in Hawijah, just outside the now autonomous Kurdish region of...
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In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I developed a list of ten immutable principles which govern the fall of great peoples and which can be seen to repeat over the last three millennia. My Immutable Law 3...
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With the Iran deal -- the JCPOC (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) -- now being reviewed by Congress, many of us worry that Obama and team will prove to be even worse negotiators than was Neville Chamberlain, the...
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In the wake of the Paris shootings, the horrors visited by ISIS upon Syria and Iraq and the genocide being perpetrated by Boko Haram in North Africa, finally there seems to be an awakening even among the western...
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It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with the female captive. Allah the almighty said, “Successful are the believers who guard their chastity, except from their wives or captives and slaves…for then they are...
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In the face of Obama’s endless decrees that the war with militant al Qaeda was over and his underlying fervent belief that the world would be safer with the U.S. in retreat, his dangerous delusions are now wreaking...
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There is an aphorism which holds that a liberal will undergo a conversion to conservatism on the day after he’s been mugged. While most liberals would find this statement to contain more than a whiff of racism, they...
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Hagel characterized the Islamic State as “beyond just a terrorist group.” “They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded. This is beyond anything...
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As the world is horrified to learn that innocent Iraqis, even little girls, are being beheaded and women are being captured as sexual booty by ISIS, one could easily ask, “What inspires such cruelty?” The answer...
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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the May 2010 issue ofTownhall Magazine.
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In my previous two articles [part I, part II] in this series I wrote that newly released intelligence, including a highly placed, eye-witness Iranian defector, reveal that the Mullahs running Iran provided planning...
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In my book “Lessons from Fallen Civilizations,” I reference Ken Timmerman in his ground breaking best seller “Countdown to Crisis”:
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Recent news reports and declassified documents show that both the Mullahs running Iran and even some Saudi Royals were not only involved in the planning of 9/11 but both Shiite and Sunni leadership continue to aid...
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In a recent five-part series of columns, I have posed the question, “Why won’t America follow the Egyptian model? That is, as we have recently seen in Egypt, why won’t millions of betrayed, out of work, and or...
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In the same week that the nation watched the Obamacare rollout crash and burn American supremacy in the Middle East continued to implode. Our allies signaled that they had had enough of this president’s relentless...
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One year ago today our consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked and our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, was killed along with three other former members of the US Special Forces who defied orders to stand down and died...
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Tamarod petition calling for Morsi’s resignation. Photo Source: http://goo.gl/FSMVaJ
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On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the last great city of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the armies of Turkish Sultan, Mehmet II. A description of that day survives—a diary of a Venetian ship’s doctor, Nicolo...
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Perhaps Hillary Clinton’s now famous outburst, made during her testimony before congress, will do more to end her political career than all her lies and blunders as our Secretary of State combined. One can only hope...
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In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I write:
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Good News from Israel; Due to the firestorm of coverage surrounding the massive governmental screw-up that enabled the Boston jihadi attack, there was almost no coverage Hagel’s first trip to Israel. Jewish and...
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In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, the subtitle poses a stark question; Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? So frequently do we see headlines such as, Car Bomb at Mosque Kills 37 or...
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I wrote in my book Lessons From Fallen Civilizations,For over a millennium, since the time when Muhammad’s seventh-century successors first rode out of the Arabian Peninsula; Islam waged constant war against the...
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One startling outcome of the recent outbreak in hostilities between the Hamas-run government in Gaza and Israel is that it renders void an ancient paradigm. In a recent Op Ed, Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the...
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Despite American objections, 138 countries including many of our supposedly closest European allies, voted in the UN to recognize the Palestinian territories as a “non-member observer state,” the same status accorded...
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Despite the announcement of a cease fire, an indisputable outcome of our recent presidential election is that a slim majority of Americans have effectively told Israel, “You’re on your own.” The Obama voters issued...
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Shortly after the fall of Mubarak, on February 11, 2011, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted as saying, “No one knows what the future in Egypt will bring.” With the departure of Mubarak, a...
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My friend, Nonie Darwish, is an author, speaker, and a courageous advocate in the cause to prevent Islam from realizing its stated goal—that being, the gradual subversion and ultimate conquest of the West. On her two...
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While the transnational left-wing media would love to do so, discrediting Israel’s conservative Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, is more than problematic.
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Last week’s talks with the Iranians ended badly. The Iranians actually hardened their position. Instead of agreeing to shut down uranium enrichment at its new underground facility at Fordo, a facility which they...
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When a civilization accepts the propaganda of its enemy as truth, it has reached the far side of appeasement and capitulation is nigh.
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With America’s withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan and mounting tensions between Iran, Israel, and the US as a backdrop, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testified before Congress that, given the...
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President Bush, the Younger, made the observation that conducting American foreign policy in the brand new war-torn 21st century was as difficult as playing chess in three dimensions. Now with the escalation of...
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In the wake of the first ever Tunisian elections, it is worth reflecting upon the Athenians of the fifth century BC who first conceived of a system of governance where the many would rule the few, and worth...
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On Sunday May 1, the night that President Obama announced to the world the elimination of bin Laden, he was adamant in asserting, “We’re not now nor will we ever be at war with Islam.” This unsolicited statement must...
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This week two suicide bombers from Jundallah (army of God), the Sunni separatists in Iran’s southeastern province Baluchistan blew up a Shiite religious procession killing 39. Relative to this, in April of 2007, I...
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UPDATE: August 2, 2010 This article has been posted online at Townhall Magazine. It was first published in the May 2010 print issue. I welcome your comments here also.
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Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote that Mohammed had “no more than 17 wives: 11 enumerated and who occupied at Medina their...
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Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan appointing a blue-ribbon panel, partly comprised of his political enemies, and ordering it to produce a report that would tell him how to deal with the Soviet Union? Perhaps the most...
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More and more Iranians, especially the young, have had enough of this barbarity.
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Congress now piously debates an amnesty bill, U.S. cities brace for more marches promoted by Spanish-language radio stations, and Marxists and anarchists wish to see more and more illegals have a claim on your family...
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By 1428, what remained of free France seemed doomed to become another vassal province of England. All French lands north of the Loire River had been lost with Burgundian and Parisian soldiers now fighting on the side...
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Throughout the 1930s, although he been a popular war hero, author, Lord of the Admiralty and had held numerous cabinet ministries, Winston Churchill, remained a “back bencher” barely holding on to his seat in the...
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On a September morning in 490 B.C., 9,000 free citizen soldiers from Athens watched the 26,000 Persians, disembarking their ships that were beached beside the plain of Marathon. On the bluffs above, the Athenian...
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“We have found no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.”
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Can there be anything more sacred or more defining for a Kerry-voting liberal than the certain knowledge that our war in Viet Nam was evil? Yet in a remarkable twist of fate, the Kerry campaign continues to compel us...
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Not since the end Viet Nam conflict in the 1970s, have Americans witnessed, with some prominent exceptions, the majority of U.S. news organizations actively and openly attempting to undermine a U.S. war effort. As...
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Mohammad al-Asi of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland,
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