-
June 20, 2025
Saving Persia from IranTo ignore the Iranian nuclear threat, would be to repeat the Clinton era Pakistan folly.
-
October 24, 2024
This Election: Personal, Not PoliticalIt's as much about who you don't like as anything else this time.
-
October 19, 2023
Is Israel expendable?Israel is a keystone state for Western civilization as we know it.
-
August 25, 2023
False Starts in Republican LandThe 2024 U.S. presidential election is now underway. What can we learn?
-
July 28, 2023
Flooding the zoneAmerica and the E.U. cannot possibly cover all the unintended consequences of a prolonged feckless war in Europe.
-
July 24, 2023
Ukraine and the U.S. Response: Flooding the ZoneHow to read the Ukraine conflict as it stands so far.
-
June 13, 2023
The Three Republicans Worth Talking About for 2024Donald Trump is the big game in town but not the only one. What will 2024 look like?
-
February 20, 2023
Forever WarsWar is big (and complicated) business, but historical context may have already set the stage to sabotage the pro-war schemes of the powers that be.
-
December 24, 2022
The Valley and the SwampThe path to electoral victory today has little to do with vote tallies and a lot more to do with how well you cook the electorate.
-
October 12, 2022
A Take on Trump and TulsiThe center-right bench in America today is as deep as it has ever been. So who will make it to 2024?
-
July 28, 2022
Ukraine: A tale of two VictoriasVictoria Nuland and Victoria Spartz tell two radically different tales.
-
June 10, 2022
UnhingedPoliticized federal agencies should have no bearing on local law enforcement.
-
May 10, 2022
Trump and Musk: A Hard Row to HoeOut in California and inside the Beltway; candor, change, or innovation can be dangerous.
-
April 23, 2022
What are Putin's objectives in Ukraine now?The only sure loser in the Eastern European edition of the "big game" is Ukraine.
-
February 7, 2022
Is the US Too Rich to Get Foreign Policy Right?Maybe it's time to rethink the Cold War national security threat paradigm.
-
December 11, 2021
How Notre Dame's outgoing coach measures up to legend Knute RockneIn a word, badly.
-
November 14, 2021
In the Age of Blowback'Blowback' is an intelligence term for unintended consequences. Seems the U.S. political scene is full of them these days...
-
October 28, 2021
Gunfight at the PC CorralThe media coverage about Alec Baldwin's killing a woman has been confusing — perhaps deliberately so — but it's still easy to know where to fix blame.
-
September 7, 2021
What If Intelligence Officers Were Asking the Questions at a Biden Press Conference?Picture a press conference where spies in the field instead of today's sycophantic reporters were asking Joe Biden the Afghanistan questions.
-
August 24, 2021
Assessing the Taliban victoryAt this point, America is clearly losing the global war with Islamic religious fascism. Things will get a lot worse before they get better.
-
May 30, 2021
The Jerusalem Jihad, Same as It Ever WasIsrael finds itself in a cycle of endless small wars due to four political illusions — strategic errors, really.
-
March 19, 2021
ISIS, Air Power, and RANDWhile all institutions are born of a good idea, the institution often becomes the enemy of ideas.
-
January 2, 2021
Boycott the Biden inaugurationIf exit he must, then Trump should go out as he came in, with a bang.
-
October 22, 2020
Why the Polls May be Wrong AgainCan enough ordinary voters see through the hype, smog, and distortions to make a pragmatic choice that preserves what’s left of the best of America?
-
September 21, 2020
The Link between Donald Trump and Abraham LincolnTrump-Lincoln parallels are coming into sharp relief as another presidential election looms.
-
September 2, 2020
Public television couldn't stop slanting convention coverageWatching the conventions by C-SPAN and PBS live showed a world of difference in coverage.
-
June 22, 2020
Petraeus pathetically pandersGenerals who find their integrity in retirement are like hookers who find God after the bloom is off the rose.
-
June 7, 2020
Revenge Racism RulesWhat is the message of "black owned business"? If you have to riot, please burn whitey, not black Americans?
-
May 18, 2020
A tale of two governorsThe nation already now can see which party's executives succeded and which failed in dealing with the pandemic. Democrats hardest hit.
-
May 12, 2020
The Wuhan Virus, Globalism and the November ElectionThey say that truth is the first casualty in war. Surely, the Covid-19 battlefield is littered with as much hyperbole and misinformation as any other “war.”
-
April 16, 2020
Hazards of Warehousing the ElderlyDying alone in a nursing home, from a preventable aliment, has nothing to do with dignity of any sort.
-
March 16, 2020
Cooking the debatesTrump should insist on an ideologically diverse panel of 2020 debate moderators.
-
January 6, 2020
Eastwood's jewelTwenty-five years in the making, Richard Jewell, in 2020, is a pitch-perfect and timely film treatment of dirty cops and fake news in America.
-
December 11, 2019
Quid Pro Quo Equals Trump TwiceBlowback is God’s way of dispensing poetic and political justice.
-
November 18, 2019
The Department of Defense Joins the Coup CabalWe like to think of military officers as political eunuchs, but that fairy tale is a smug myth.
-
February 15, 2017
First blood: Mike FlynnTrump-haters have drawn first blood. Michael Flynn was the first casualty. Alas, for the moment, the president doesn't look as though he can take a punch.
-
February 8, 2017
Trump and Bannon: Buccaneer BrothersLike any buccaneer, Trump's measure will be taken now by the cut of his crew. First Mate Stephen K. Bannon comes first.
-
January 27, 2017
A Tale of Two Coups: Moscow 1991 and Washington 2016Theirs is done, thwarted by the Russian "girlfriend of democracy." Ours is ongoing.
-
January 16, 2017
Requiem for a Lightweight: Obama OutBuyer's remorse may be the new "hope and change."
-
January 2, 2017
Trump Versus the Blue Wall in WashingtonThe DC civil service cohort and associated camp followers are many things. Good loser isn’t one of them. Trump has his work cut out in the capital and it begins with bureaucratic hostility and inertia.
-
December 22, 2016
Fake News and Fake IntelligenceWe are getting more than our share of both lately. Here is the latest.
-
December 14, 2016
Drain the Intelligence Swamp!If Intelligence meddling in American elections and politics is a fact, it’s a Washington, not a Moscow fact. Beltway apparatchiks, including the Intelligence Community and contractors, are the “crooked” establishment that Trump ran against.
-
December 5, 2016
The DNC Has a Political Death WishAnd who better to carry it out than the Democrat Angel of Political Death, Rep. Keith Ellison?
-
November 24, 2016
Giving Thanks: Donald Trump’s Top TenEven before he takes the oath of office, Donald Trump is accomplishing major benefits for the United States.
-
September 29, 2016
Dowd Out LoudMaureen Dowd will be eligible for Social Security next year. The indelible redhead, at 65, might be a tad ripe, but she still dishes vintage New York snark.
-
September 21, 2016
Debating HillaryThe debates are one last hurdle. As media events, these spectacles are front-loaded for Hillary. Trump would be wise to stay with the tactic that served him so well to date. Offense!
-
August 29, 2016
How the Clintons Gave American Foreign Policy its Muslim TiltThe Clinton role in the rise of Islamic irredentism has now come full circle.
-
August 26, 2016
The Foreign Policy Establishment’s War on TrumpWe are led to believe that Donald Trump is unfit, reckless, or dangerous. Compared to Max Boot, Mike Morell, and the Clinton clique, Donald Trump looks like Edmund Burke.
-
August 9, 2016
Trump Is Dangerous?All we know about Donald Trump's policy is what he says, not what he has done or will do. Trump has no policy track record. He has never held office. Intimations of what he might do are often vague, too.
-
August 3, 2016
Brand Loyalty and HillaryAll elections are largely about brand loyalty. Obama, Clinton, and left loyalists capture just about all the victims and dependents.
-
July 25, 2016
In Like (General) Flynn?There is a small coterie of senior soldiers who do have a clue, one of which may be Michael Flynn, a member of Donald Trump’s kitchen cabinet or national security brain trust.
-
July 18, 2016
Open Season on CopsBLM shills and media sympathizers would have America believe that social riot, arson, and crime is a function of police, not punk, behavior.
-
July 16, 2016
Globalism at BayGlobalism has been found wanting because dreams of homogeneous empire are always impractical schemes. In the end, empire requires autocratic and arbitrary measures to survive.
-
June 30, 2016
Hillary’s coterie of anti-SemitesHillary’s coterie of anti-Semites is a unique group that provides a window on probable foreign policy vectors of another Clinton presidency.
-
June 22, 2016
Donald Trump and Hyphenated AmericaAttitudes, images, and opinions about Trump now seem to be coalescing around two issues, race and immigration.
-
June 8, 2016
Muhammad Ali, Tool of HuckstersUsed for most of his career; first by fight hucksters, then by anti-war activists, then by a Nation of Islam cult, and finally by any special pleader that could get him to sit and sell his persona or signature for a $100 dollars a pop.
-
May 31, 2016
General Petraeus and Victorious JihadThe goals of Long War aficionados are “stability” and “nation building” and other such vagaries. Success or military victory is not part of the discussion.
-
May 25, 2016
Putin and the Night WolvesThe face of 21st century fascism is religious – and Islamic. Putin gets it, even if Obama is oblivious,
-
May 18, 2016
Trump and the Victory DeficitPundits are now fond of comparing the Republican Party unpleasantness of 2016 to the dissolution of the Whig Party (1833-1854). There’s more than a little truth in that analogy.
-
May 5, 2016
The Peter Pan Counter-RevolutionThe presidential election of 2016 might be the year of the Peter Pan counter-revolution; the year that independent, and angry, adults stormed the ship of state and took the bridge again.
-
April 27, 2016
Growing up before NovemberMaybe it’s time to accept the wisdom of crowds and let someone with real-world success and management experiences take the wheel. Hard to imagine he will do worse than the usual suspects or any pair of recycled Beltway shysters.
-
April 25, 2016
Trump Stumps DeniersDonald Trump is still somewhat of a pariah, a personification of political shock therapy. While the left has misgivings about Trump, the American right is contemplating seppuku.
-
March 23, 2016
Dunces and Doctrines: Obama’s Foreign Policy According to The AtlanticThis first of many forthcoming Obama presidency media report cards, 22,000 words long, is a veritable bouquet of muddled apologetics and pettifoggery.
-
March 3, 2016
Trump Already Is a Third Party CandidateHe has hijacked a major political party and is now reshaping it to his purposes. Trump believes that he has the answer to national malaise and he is willing to pay his own way to the levers of power.
-
February 25, 2016
Revolution in 2016? Sanders or Trump?Bernie Sanders promises a “revolution” in November. But another candidate has a much better prospect of delivering revolutionary change.
-
February 2, 2016
Donald and Bernie: The Outer Borough BrothersPolar opposites or brothers from other mothers? Both attract large enthusiastic crowds. Neither has much of a following among the media, party hacks, feminists, special pleaders, Islamists, cold warriors, moneyed interests, the legal profession, or race hustlers.
-
January 21, 2016
The Pits of Republican PoliticsA single fatal shibboleth stalks political elites on the Right.
-
January 7, 2016
A Strategy to Defeat Islamic Theo-fascismIslamism, like the secular fascism of the 20th Century, must be defeated, humbled in detail.
-
December 21, 2015
Trump and the Wisdom of CrowdsIf you cannot appreciate the “wisdom of crowds,” you will never understand American democracy or the Trump phenomenon. Trial by fire builds character -- and constituencies.
-
December 15, 2015
ISIS and ObamaTeam Obama’s most cherished ambition now seems to be to limp out of Dodge ahead of the apocalypse.
-
December 2, 2015
Perfidious TurkeyThese days, Turkey is a NATO ally in the same sense that AIDS is the antidote to pneumonia.
-
November 27, 2015
ISIS and US: Believers vs. AgnosticsIdeological castrati are now the ascendant leadership cohort in Europe and the Americas. Mohammed’s madmen, in contrast, are motivated by belief, ideas for which they will die.
-
October 26, 2015
Signals and Noise in Presidential PoliticsAlas, signals and noise are endemic in all modern societies. Nevertheless, signals missed still have grave consequences.
-
October 14, 2015
Debate in name onlyThe first Democratic Party debate was everything we hoped it would not be: a boring coronation.
-
October 1, 2015
Putin, the Indispensable Man?If leadership matters, Putin is no dithering Obama. The Russian chief might just be ruthless enough to win. Vladimir’s track record with the so-called Caucuses caliphate is exemplary.
-
September 23, 2015
Victimology, African Americans, and IslamBlack America and Islam are united by grievance, the perception, in both cases, that the plaintiffs are victims
-
September 10, 2015
Mohammed's CuckoosThe cuckoo is one of the more interesting migrants in the animal kingdom. It spends part of the year in sunny Africa, but nests and breeds in Europe. Cuckoos appropriate the nests of other birds to lay eggs.
-
September 2, 2015
Vetting HillarySome questions for the moderators of the October 13 CNN Democratic presidential debate to pose.
-
August 4, 2015
Debate Advice for a Front RunnerThe stage is being set for a genuine clash of cultures in America
-
July 28, 2015
Trump's TrumpYou could do worse than think of Trump as upwardly mobile blue collar. He is the grandson of immigrants and the product of Long island, a Queens household, and a Bronx education.
-
July 16, 2015
Hillary and Bernie: Socialist Cage MatchMrs. Clinton may be having hot flashes of déjà vu at the moment. Surely, she remembers that Ross Perot helped to elect her husband Bill. Bernie, not even a Democrat, has the same fifth column potential for the Democrats in 2016.
-
July 2, 2015
Kurdistan: Model for Islamic ReformKurdistan has the potential to be the fulcrum of 21st Century Islamic reformation, a model for what a modern Islamic state could or should be. The Kurds are the antithesis of Shia/Sunni supremacists
-
June 18, 2015
Dangerous Liaisons: RAND Corporation and America's National SecurityOnce upon a time, when America believed in totalitarian threats, RAND Corporation might have been the go-to venue to game or explore national security solutions.
-
June 12, 2015
The All-volunteer Military: Too Much From Too FewSince the end of the Cold War, American politicians and generals seem to be lost in a strategic fog.
-
June 2, 2015
The Canonization of Dzhokhar TsarnaevWhen Baghdad or Damascus falls, will we still be calling Muslim jihad a criminal enterprise, an aberration, a misreading of Islam? How much worse do things have to become before the reality of war with religious fascism is acknowledged?
-
May 6, 2015
Hibernian Anti-SemitismMother Ireland is now a hotbed for anti-Semitic activists. Under the Obama administration, Irish America might not be far behind.
-
April 20, 2015
Hillary's Family JewelsIf political assets are like the family jewels, things inherited but not necessarily merited, Hillary Rodham Clinton has a virtual hope chest, an endowment like no other politician in American history
-
March 23, 2015
DNI Cooks the Books AgainA national security assessment today is at once officially transparent and functionally opaque at the same time -- for the political hustler, the best of both worlds.
-
March 19, 2015
The Faces of Foreign Policy FailureNational leadership over time requires real experience, maturity, and relevant talent. None of these are evident so far in Team Obama.
-
March 11, 2015
Intelligence: Broken ArrowWe may not know why we fight today, but there is little mystery anymore about why we fail.
-
February 28, 2015
Arrested Development and the InternetA courageous broadside at cyber culture, a dose of reality therapy for the Internet, social networks, video gaming, cyber gadgets, and the damage they might do to malleable, developing minds.
-
February 28, 2015
What if Putin didn't have Nemtsov killed?If this is a sanctioned "termination with extreme prejudice," it's clumsy and unprofessional. Certainly not worthy of a president, former KGB colonel; indeed, a station chief in East Germany.
-
February 16, 2015
War Powers and Sucker PunchesIf the White House can persuade a Republican Congress to sign on to a new war powers resolution, then Democrats will surely argue in 2016 that the foreign policy record for the Obama years is a shared or “bipartisan” failure.
-
February 10, 2015
Williams and NBC: No Valor, No Pride, and No ShameBrian Williams has been the face of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and now he seems to be the face of shamelessness, too.
-
February 4, 2015
Islam and AppeasementPremature absolution of Islam is now the knee jerk response to all atrocity.
-
January 28, 2015
A Tale of Two Soldiers: Benjamin Netanyahu and Caroline GlickBenjamin Netanyahu and Caroline Glick are both in the news these days, each for different reasons.
-
January 12, 2015
Journalists and JihadisMuslim sensitivities everywhere are now more important than truth or justice anywhere.
-
December 22, 2014
Pyongyang Accepts Hollywood's SurrenderThere is more to the Sony hacking and movie distribution cancelling than meets the eye.
-
December 8, 2014
Liberal Heroes?Liberals are a lot of things, but hero is not usually the first thought that comes to mind.
-
November 25, 2014
Islamism, Islamofascism, and IslamYes, the majority are not terrorists. They are worse! Passive aggressors might be a better description for most of the silent Muslim majority.
-
November 17, 2014
Regime Change in America?There were two clear messages from election night, ennui and apathy. Americans are fed up with both parties. If there had been a “none of the above” box to check, nihilism might have won in a landslide
-
October 28, 2014
ISIS <em>is</em> Islam!The lack of a global Muslim response to ISIS puts the lie to the “great religion” and moral equivalence shibboleths that the Obama/Brennan/Kerry team has sought to peddle for six years.
-
October 13, 2014
Netanyahu's PlanBenjamin Netanyahu is one of a kind among seasoned politicians. He doesn’t just think outside of the box, the Israeli prime minister makes boxes for men like Barack Hussein Obama.
-
October 7, 2014
Madam Secretary: Front Running for HillaryManipulation is at the heart of hard sell, the belief that a bovine audience will be too stupid to recognize manipulation.
-
September 9, 2014
Global Pathology (Again)There is nothing new about religious fascism or caliphates. There is nothing new about rape, infanticide, honor killings, genocide, misogyny, slavery -- or headless journalism either.
-
August 27, 2014
The Obama CaliphateMaking excuses for Islam seems to have become a norm after the Muslim/Arab attack against New York City in 2001.
-
August 13, 2014
We Are IsraelIsrael has thrown itself again into the breach, a solitary beacon of courage beset by a nest of vipers.
-
July 31, 2014
The Biggest American Deficit: TrustTrust stands alone in the glass menagerie of fragile personal and national virtues. Without trust, individual, commercial, and civic relationships are impossible.
-
July 29, 2014
Military Character DeficitsSo here we are once again, with the Walsh fiasco, left to wonder about the integrity of Department of Defense leadership and institutions
-
July 9, 2014
Federal Food FightAmerican taxpayers subsidize an overweight demographic and then ultimately pay for the predictable health consequences of obesity. Free lunch and free health care are package deals sustained by social fictions.
-
June 16, 2014
Strategic Swap MeetsSomewhere in South Asia, Mullah Omar is celebrating victory. When Kabul again falls to his Taliban, we will know how the end began.
-
June 2, 2014
Government Bureaucracy Fails Veterans -
May 29, 2014
NSA's Big PaydayCorrupt government is host to many ironies, but three are paramount: success is a liability, failure is an asset, and as long as the intentions are pure in the public mind, better funding follows failure, not success.
-
May 12, 2014
Clayton Lockett and Barack ObamaClayton Lockett was executed last week in Oklahoma for the torture/ murder of a 19-year-old girl after gaming the judicial system at taxpayer expense for the last 15 years.
-
April 15, 2014
Mike Morell will fit right in at Dan Rather's old networkThere may be no better example of the dark side of the First Amendment than the ongoing CBS/CIA collaboration to spin the Benghazi fiasco.
-
March 25, 2014
Don't Kid Yourself about UkraineAn administration which cannot manage a website in the digital age is not one likely to prosecute a successful economic or shooting war, one with atomic potential
-
March 18, 2014
Russophobia and IslamophiliaThe Cold War is making a comeback; this time without deterrence.
-
March 7, 2014
Vulgar Amateurs at the State DepartmentThe United States, the European Union, and NATO are playing kingmaker again, this time in the Ukraine where the stakes could be nuclear.
-
March 5, 2014
Bimbo PoliticsBimbos are drawn to powerful men like moths to the proverbial flame. Like courtesans, some women will humiliate themselves for power or personal loyalty.
-
February 9, 2014
Running Against a Cultural FirstFacts and accomplishments seldom matter as much as spin in any election. Hillary knows this. Does the GOP?
-
January 2, 2014
James Clapper and The Lies of IntelligenceCongress can trust Intelligence officers as well as any voter can trust politicians.
-
December 17, 2013
The Psychobabble BubbleThose looking for symptoms of cultural lunacy never have far to look. Two recent examples tell the tale.
-
November 15, 2013
Competence, Care, and ChristieThe issue isn't health care anymore, if it ever was. Competence is the issue.
-
November 1, 2013
Rent Seeking and Other Blood SportsRepublicans just don't get it! They are trying to teach arithmetic to the apathetic; a growing core constituency that is barely literate or numerate
-
October 9, 2013
The Decline and Fall of National SecurityTwo unlikely sets of institutions are playing key roles in the decline of American foreign policy effectiveness: Intelligence agencies and military commands.
-
October 2, 2013
The Golden Goose is Almost DoneThe Affordable Care Act is neither affordable, nor is it caring.
-
September 16, 2013
Strategic Blindness in SyriaReligious war is now a global phenomenon, but the Pentagon doesn't have any official guidance for fighting it beyond political correctness.
-
August 27, 2013
Islam's ChoiceAs America and Europe contemplate yet another intervention, this time in Syria, we might pause to reflect on what Muslims should be doing.
-
August 13, 2013
The Perfect MayorCarlos Danger is the inevitable issue of progressive political evolution.
-
July 30, 2013
Whistles, Whistleblowers and RatsIn the real world, we seldom know much about the motives of leakers. Stimuli probably cover a spectrum from conscience to concupiscence.
-
July 8, 2013
Why Call it Intelligence?The Stuxnet and Prism disclosures are just symptoms of decay, signs that American Intelligence has lost its original moorings.
-
June 24, 2013
Obama's Terror GambitAdministration strategy seems to assume that the voting public is too inert, lazy, ignorant, and corrupt to care much about foreign policy. In this, team Obama may have their finger on the American pulse
-
June 9, 2013
Spin Win for BrennanTruth is simply what you are willing to believe, isn't it? The rot begins with rhetoric.
-
April 5, 2013
More is Never EnoughThe U.S. policy for dealing with the Middle East is based on mulitiple levels of fantasy and wishful thinking. The awakening will be quick and brutal.
-
March 8, 2013
Nielsen and the WastelandA Nielsen box in my house might be an "honor" in the same sense that a court-ordered ankle bracelet is an honor. Yet the people who accept that dubious honor are the ones shaping our culture.
-
February 11, 2013
The Vector of American Foreign PolicyMoral cowardice underwritten by defensive fear, naiveté, and misplaced assertions of moral equivalence, seduced by the shibboleth that Islam is one of the "world's great religions" and not just another mutating variant of political fascism.
-
December 28, 2012
Best Dog Whistles of 2012A dog whistle makes a sound or sends a command that only a canine can hear. A rhetorical dog whistle is a coded message for select listeners, usually the politically correct.
-
December 5, 2012
Pentagon PeacocksCombat Petraeus-style doesn't presume to alter military doctrine; it presumes to alter the nature of war. War is a time-tested primal exercise, not a venue for intellectuals, polite politics, or poseurs.
-
November 15, 2012
Generals and Geographic BachelorsGeneral David Petraeus illuminates two grand military issues at just the right moment: officer corps character and flag officer performance.
-
November 7, 2012
The Mourning AfterThere seem to have been four flaws in the campaign to unseat a mediocre man who should, by any measure of performance, have been beaten easily
-
October 20, 2012
One Question for a Romney WinIn the final debate, Romney needs to plant his foreign policy flag on the only civilized and democratic high ground in the Middle East.
-
October 1, 2012
No Decency of CandorThe Christopher Stevens obit that appeared in the 12 September 2012 edition of the Washington Post is more about mythologizing a failed foreign policy than it is about an ambassador's life.
-
September 24, 2012
Malice in the MimbarWhen you combine statistics about education, literacy, and electronic connectivity, Islam, unlike the rest of the world, must communicate to the masses through historical avenues -- agents like the mimbar, the mosque pulpit.
-
September 19, 2012
Hillary's PulpitMrs. Clinton took the bait and the opportunity to reinforce several myths about Arab "friendship," Muslim moderation, and the need for continued American finance and forbearance.
-
September 16, 2012
Appeasement and BlowbackNo nation can afford to be delusional, incompetent, and broke at the same time for very long. Our embassies are burning, Mr. Obama. What is the plan?
-
September 3, 2012
Generation Screwed?The invented future du jour goes by the name of Generation "Screwed" -- the Generation Y cohort, now entering the workforce, who will not be as well-off or as pampered (with jobs, Social Security, or Medicare) as were their parents.
-
July 8, 2012
Divided We StandReligious freedom may be more important to American exceptionalism than meets the eye.
-
June 22, 2012
The Science of IgnorancePhrenology, graphology, and astrology were all, at one time, considered sciences. And reason or precedent is often used to promote falsehoods.
-
May 30, 2012
Pandering without ProfitTwo successive administrations now have sought to appease Muslims by minimizing the threat from Islamists. From the beginning, the majority of Muslims were anointed "moderates," on the authority of an asserted conclusion.
-
May 1, 2012
Victimhood and 'Choice'A drunk, an addict, a dropout, or now a woman with two jobs is thought to be impaired, like a disabled veteran, as if personal choices had nothing to do with personal or even national destinies.
-
April 23, 2012
Mike Wallace, Entertainment, and JournalismIf air time and salary are measures of merit, Wallace was a television star and an unqualified success. Unfortunately, Mike Wallace's career echoes some of the more predatory traditions of broadcast journalism.
-
March 6, 2012
Netanyahu's CanaryEvery time Benjamin Netanyahu comes to America, the world should be reminded that Barack Obama has never been to Israel. After nearly four years, the leader of the free world continues to shun the only true democracy in the Middle East
-
March 1, 2012
An Act of Valor DissentSpecial Forces, and what they do, haven't been secrets since the Kennedy administration. If special operations are clandestine, you might ask, why is the Department of Defense in bed with Tinsel Town again?
-
February 26, 2012
The Energy of PovertyPresidential candidate Rick Santorum drew fire from the usual suspects the other day for his remarks on the utility of inequality. Santorum's argument is underwritten by history.
-
December 27, 2011
Americans Elect: An Obama Trojan Horse?Americans Elect (AE), the new political party that claims to be a non-partisan non-party, is now on the California ballot
-
December 12, 2011
Americans Elect: Early Dirty TricksAnother dirty trick tsunami may have been launched on Sunday by a group which calls itself "Americans Elect" (AE), a new political party that claims it's not a political party
-
November 21, 2011
The Democrats Were Not For MeI was programmed at birth to be a Democrat, a big city liberal. The Democratic Party was a rain maker, an employment office, and a pot hole fixer. There were no obvious reasons to question the civic monoculture -- or not to be a true believer.
-
August 3, 2011
The American Animal FarmPolitical ideology in America has devolved to forms that would make Orwell cringe.
-
July 5, 2011
A National Security Apparatus in DeclineThe deck chairs on the ship of state are being rearranged once more.
-
June 17, 2011
Bimbo FeminismThe sorriest aspect of philandering politicians is often their wives, the spouses who stand by their man and play the victim in the service of political viability.
-
May 18, 2011
Death by Metaphor; Goodbye Newt!Newt Gingrich has done it again. He throws his hat into the ring, and before it hits the ground, he has his foot in his mouth -- again.
-
April 28, 2011
Arab Awakening?The "Arab Awakening" is latest euphemism for internecine mayhem in Muslim world.
-
April 6, 2011
No ExitThe conflict between the West and Islam is a strategic zero-sum game. If we continue to delude ourselves about the nature of this struggle, we do so at our peril.
-
March 12, 2011
Women and the Secret of LifeIrish mothers like to say that your son is your son until he marries, but your daughter is your daughter until the day you die. For a fortunate few, such epigrams are true.
-
February 21, 2011
Risky Business: Lara Logan and CBSReal Muslim attitudes toward women and the manufactured narrative of the anti-Mubarak revolution.
-
February 16, 2011
Cooking the Intelligence BooksA survey of the reviews of Donald Rumsfeld's Known and Unknown, reveals a uniform list of complaints -- or, more accurately, talking points.
-
February 1, 2011
Richard Cohen RedeemedWhen the subject is Islam or Islamism, few voices on the left find the courage to abandon their near universal political correctness.
-
January 31, 2011
The Egyptian Revolt and Imperial IslamismThe Arab revolt underway in Egypt may be unique.
-
January 13, 2011
The Sick and the DeadA close reading of Sherriff Clarence Dupnik's recent statements suggests that he and Jared Lee Loughner may suffer from similar degrees of delusion.
-
December 28, 2010
Russia in NATO?Today, America has more in common with Russia than it does with many nations in Europe and almost all of the Muslim world.
-
December 6, 2010
TSA Collateral DamageYou read a hundred stories about the horrors at airports these days, but reading can't hold a candle to an actual flight.
-
November 16, 2010
A First Intelligence Reform: Fire John BrennanBy any definition, background, or proximity, John O. Brennan is the most influential professional intelligence officer in the Obama administration.
-
October 5, 2010
The Urban PlantationFor two generations now, public school systems have been bottom-fishing.
-
September 11, 2010
The Shifting Paradigm of IslamThe conventional wisdom about Islam, or more precisely its status as a morally equivalent religious culture, is starting to shift.
-
August 22, 2010
Atheists and Anti-SemitesThe heart of evangelical atheism is cowardice. What many cannot say is what they truly believe.
-
June 18, 2010
Soccer -- the Dubious Thrill of Nil-NilAmericans call it soccer. Europe and the developing world call it football. Semantics is just the start of the confusion.
-
June 2, 2010
American Intelligence: Too Big to Succeed?The top Intelligence job in the national security arena has claimed another victim.
-
April 21, 2010
Soft Power and No Plan for IranThe Teheran menace is not simple nuclear proliferation; the entire Levant is slipping its strategic moorings under the fog of a banal debate about micro-tactics.
-
February 27, 2010
The Internet and the AgoraThe blogosphere seems to be flushing the mainstream downstream. The blowback is venomous and not a pretty sight.
-
January 1, 2010
The Last Great Tiger-HuntTo date, there's been some good and a lot of bad news for Tiger. The good news is that our hero seems to have come out of the scrape on the sunny side of Valhalla.
-
December 20, 2009
Whistling in the DarkA clear picture of the Obama national security doctrine is emerging....
-
December 8, 2009
Kicking the Can in AfghanistanWe have now embarked on a national strategy that looks for all the world like a fool's game. In the process, we're ignoring rules even a child could understand.
-
October 31, 2009
The Lessons of Turkish BackslidingTurkey has long been held up as an exemplar of a model Islamic state; secular, moderate, democratic, and collegial. Butt he inherent contradictions of an "Islamic republic" may be coming home to roost
-
October 9, 2009
The Prophylactic Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize has now become, like the American literary Pulitzer, a certification of political correctness.
-
August 16, 2009
Islam and MonocultureThe 21st Century version of monoculture is a triple threat; military, ideological, and totalitarian. Theocracy is the latest militant monoculture; and if Islamists have their way, it will be the last.