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Adam Turner
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June 23, 2022
Does the J6 Committee threaten our democracy?The January 6 Select Committee is a very unusual committee. Several House rules have been discarded in the effort to ensure that the right narrative comes out of the Committee's work. This has included jettisoning any minori...
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June 6, 2022
The Wuhan lab leak theory reappraisedBipartisan investigations are a rarity in Washington, D.C. The constituencies likely to be affected or to suffer collateral damage are usually enough to derail them from gaining momentum. Affix the term "disinformation...
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May 12, 2022
When it comes to COVID, illegals outrank the militaryShould American citizens be treated differently from migrants illegally entering the country? How about our men and women who serve in the military? Many would likely answer yes, but that's not the way it appears to be playi...
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April 22, 2022
China Lurks Behind Most Crises Facing AmericaSince the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has felt like the world is on fire. But in the midst of these attention-grabbing crises, there is an even more pernicious threat f...
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April 7, 2022
Biden courts enemies and punishes alliesRecently, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, a Shia Islamist terrorist group backed by Iran, struck targets in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates using drones and missiles. The attacks, on two of America's erstwhile allies, prompt...
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March 2, 2022
As Russia eats up headlines, don't forget about IranThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has occupied all of the media's attention, leaving several other international priorities of the Biden administration to continue without much scrutiny. One of these is the effort to revive a version of ...
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January 23, 2022
President Joe Biden wanted out of the Afghanistan War in the worst wayOn April 14, 2021, President Biden made his withdrawal announcement regarding U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Over the next few months, contrary to most Americans’ expectations, as the U.S. left, the U.S.-supported Afghan government lost more...
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August 22, 2019
What the USA Can Do for the Kurds in SyriaThe U.S. has long had a major problem. We are not considered a dependable ally. This first became widely known when the U.S. decided to remove our troops from the war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the 1970s. Many of our a...
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September 26, 2016
The American President Iran was Waiting ForPresident Obama had a dream. The Islamic Republic of Iran was simply misunderstood. The U.S., the sole superpower, as befits the typical arrogant colonial power, had intervened in Iran in 1953 by sponsoring a coup of the beloved Iranian prime mini...
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May 21, 2016
The Fictional Iran DealI can’t tell you just how shocked I am that a wannabe fiction writer, currently posing as the Deputy National Security Adviser, inserted his own fictional material to market the Iran Deal -- otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac...
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May 12, 2016
More Foolish Diplomacy from the Obama AdministrationFor such proud proponents of smart diplomacy, President Obama and his administration sure make a habit of antagonizing foreign nations and/or their leaders through needless and often petty insults. In President Obama’s recent interview with ...
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February 20, 2016
Why is the West So Obsessed with Protecting the Territorial Integrity of Syria and Iraq?This week, UK Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond asked, “Is Russia really committed to a peace process or is it using the peace process as a fig leaf to try to deliver some kind of military victory for Assad that creates an Alawite mini sta...
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July 30, 2015
War or DealPresident Obama loves his binary approach. He repeats it often. Just two week ago, the president was quite insistent, essentially daring his critics to produce an alternative: I'm hearing a lot of talking points being repeated abou...
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June 14, 2015
Iranian Aggression Will ContinueThe Iranians have about 19 more months to take advantage of the naivety of President Obama and his Administration. You can be sure that they will do so. We have seen this all throughout the 18 months of the nuclear negotiations with the P 5 +...
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February 13, 2015
Saving RouhaniReuters 02/07/15 - Iran's foreign minister has warned the United States that failure to agree a nuclear deal would likely herald the political demise of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian officials said, raising the stakes as the d...
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May 28, 2014
A Reminder to Europe's Jewish Community -- Leave NowA lot happened in Europe over the (United States celebrated) Memorial Day weekend. But none of it was good for the Jews. On Saturday there was a shooting that killed four at a Brussels Jewish museum. Soon after, two Orthodox Jews were s...
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February 2, 2014
President Costanza and the Nuclear Deal with IranIn his recent State of the Union address, President Obama made it clear that any attempt by a bipartisan majority in Congress to pass new sanctions legislation on Iran would be promptly vetoed. As the president said, "For the sake of our national sec...
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October 19, 2013
President Costanza Strikes AgainPresident Obama has recently decided to cut back on the roughly $1.3 billion in foreign aid we give to Egypt. The U.S. is not going to send to Cairo some F-16s; some AH-64 Apache helicopters; some M-1/A-1 tank kits; and some Harpoon missiles....
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August 19, 2013
Embracing the Costanza DoctrineThe Middle East is aflame. In Egypt, the undemocratic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood regime was ousted, and this has resulted in hundreds of deaths and mobs of Egyptians protesting and rioting in the streets. In Syria, a brut...
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March 28, 2013
Europe acquiesces while Jews are threatened, and killed. AgainWhen Gunther Grass, a German writer, wrote a nasty bit of verse attacking the Jewish state of Israel and defending the Mad Mullahs of Iran and their genocidal desires to destroy the world's Jews, many of the chattering classes in the Europe were, oh-...
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February 10, 2013
The Shame of SpainImran Firasat, a Muslim-turned-Christian from Pakistan who currently resides in Spain, is facing down a Spanish government that seems determined to punish him for his film, The Innocent Prophet, about the prophet Muhammad. The Spanish government has:...
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February 3, 2013
Spain and Muslim ApostasyImran Firasat, a Muslim-turned-Christian from Pakistan who currently resides in Spain, is facing down a Spanish government that seems determined to punish him for his film, The Innocent Prophet, about the prophet Muhammad. The Spani...
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July 8, 2012
RIP: Free Speech about IslamThe right of Westerners to speak freely regarding Islam-related topics -- radical Islam or Islamism, Islamist terrorism, and Islamist terror funding -- is in jeopardy. Islamists and their sympathizers try to silence any and all questions possib...
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April 17, 2011
Blasphemy in PakistanThese days, one word that symbolizes Pakistan for the rest of the world is "blasphemy." This is altogether fitting, for if there is one "modern" government whose actions are truly blasphemous to God (or to whatever your conc...