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 [...]
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 Israelis take out the nuclear sites from the world’s leading sponsor of terror, they will provide a gift to [...]
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.
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 cities near their homeland but have made enormous strides in bringing about the coming Islamic reformation. I [...]
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 [...]
Count me among those who fear that the current struggle over whether this nation will allow sanctuary cities to flourish and multiply or abolish them threatens to be the single impetus which will escalate into our second civil war. Illegal sanctuary jurisdictions now number over 500. Under Obama, they were encouraged to spread like a [...]
On March 5, North Korea simultaneously launched four missiles into Japan’s territorial waters. In his new year’s address, the North’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, bragged that his nuclear-armed rogue state would soon be testing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the US. A day later, President Trump tweeted in response, “It won’t happen!” [...]
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 historical inquiry. Islam’s spectacular spread was brought about by brutal military conquest, rapine, spoliation, and slavery. Its culture was derived from [...]
