Secure Freedom Minute: Biden’s “Election” Had Horrific Consequences for the Mideast

The adage that “elections have consequences” certainly applies to the Middle East and America’s vital interests there following ours in 2020. Donald Trump bequeathed to Joe Biden a region as tranquil as it had ever been, with Israel prosperous, powerful, and secure, a growing number of Muslim nations making peace with the Jewish State and…

Secure Freedom Minute: Free the Israeli and Palestinian Hostages Held by Hamas

President Donald Trump’s meeting today with King Abdullah of Jordan has the potential to transform the Middle East. The host has rightly concluded that thanks to the war Hamas terrorists started fifteen months ago, Gaza is simply uninhabitable. If the visitor – who, like rulers across the region, professes a commitment to the Palestinian people…

Secure Freedom Minute: Communists Lie, The U.S. Government Must Stop Doing So

The Chinese Communist Party remains in power today significantly thanks to the lies it tells its people and the rest of us. These include, for example, providing patently false information about its country’s economic growth, losses due to COVID-19, and military expenditures. Cooking the books was also a feature of Joe Biden’s presidency, a man…

Secure Freedom Minute: Ending Anti-Christian Bias and Persecution

History’s worst crime against humanity is taking place on our watch. Considerably more Christians than the entire population of the United States are being heavily persecuted worldwide simply because they follow Jesus. Even here, the Biden administration exhibited anti-Christian bias, a precursor to possible discrimination and, ultimately, persecution. Candidate Donald Trump pledged to protect Christians,…

Secure Freedom Minute: Hooray for the New and Much-needed “Special Relationship”

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s meeting yesterday may rank in historical, strategic importance alongside those of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the early years of World War II and the collaborations of Ronald Reagan with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II at the Cold War’s zenith. In each case, “special relationships”…

Secure Freedom Minute: Making America Healthy Again Must Start Today

One of the most important reasons Donald Trump is president today is the appeal of his commitment in the course of the 2024 campaign to work with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make America healthy again. This was a voting issue for millions of us deeply troubled about the pharmaceutical, medical, food, and regulatory factors…

Secure Freedom Minute: For the U.S. and Israel, There Can be No Substitute for Victory

It’s hard to overstate the importance of this week’s meeting between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If they stand together, as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill did in World War II’s darkest days when Britain was otherwise alone, Israel will – with our material support – defeat our mutual enemies. If a…

Secure Freedom Minute: Embracing DeepSeek Demonstrates our Intelligence Failure

For decades, we have been told Communist China is just an economic competitor. We were blithely assured that, if we engaged with and enriched the PRC by transferring there much of our manufacturing capability, supply chains and investment dollars, it would become more like us. Arguably, in the history of the world, there has never…

Secure Freedom Minute: The CCP’s Unrestricted AI Warfare

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The Chinese Communist Party has long waged “unrestricted warfare” to destroy without kinetic fighting a more powerful America. This week, the CCP did immense, if not decisive, damage by effectively attacking the U.S. artificial intelligence industry. With the roll-out of DeepSeek, the Chinese Communists have introduced…

Secure Freedom Minute: SFM Common Sense Dictates America’s “Titanium Dome” be Space-based

For over fifty years, American leftists and establishment Republicans have opposed effective U.S. missile defenses, claiming our security depends on our being vulnerable to long-range missile strikes. In 1983, Ronald Reagan challenged this insane policy. But his successors consistently limited our anti-missile capabilities, so much so that we remain essentially unprotected against all but the…

Secure Freedom Minute: It’s Not “Terrorism,” It’s Sharia-supremacist Jihad

This morning, our Victory Coalition opens a new front in the war to save our country. My colleague, John Guandolo, and I will brief Steve Bannon’s vast War Room audience concerning a mortal threat we face here, as well as elsewhere. Since at least 9/11, we’ve been told America confronts “terrorists” who inexplicably use violence…

Secure Freedom Minute: TikTok – A Weapon the CCP Would Never Allow Us to Wield

Here’s a thought experiment: If the United States had a means of addictively informing, subversively manipulating and covertly collecting data on half the people of China – without the permission, let alone the control, of the ruling Chinese Communist Party – would the CCP allow us unilaterally to wield such a weapon against them? As…

Secure Freedom Minute: Problematic Personnel Will be Bad Policy

A long time ago, I served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in Ronald Reagan’s Pentagon. In that role, I learned firsthand the truth of the President’s observation that “Personnel is policy.” So, I have grave concerns about entrusting the Defense Department’s Mideast policymaking post to Michael DiMino, a man with deeply problematic prescriptions.…

Secure Freedom Minute: “Our Long National Nightmare is Over”

Gerald Ford’s remark on the occasion of his inauguration that “Our long national nightmare is over” kept running through my head as I watched Donald Trump’s second one yesterday. It’s a source of indescribable happiness that a presidency run by unknown, unaccountable, and radical leftists was finally done – and with it a wrecking operation…

Secure Freedom Minute: It’s Not a Ceasefire, It’s a Hudna

The joyous return of three Israelis held hostage and abused by Hamas for fifteen months cannot obscure the reality of the deal that set them free: It’s not a ceasefire, it’s a hudna – a temporary pause jihadists use to emulate a diabolical strategy practiced by Islam’s prophet Mohammed. When Muslims adherent to Sharia’s totalitarian…

Secure Freedom Minute: Paging Donald Trump, Friend of Israel

Donald Trump has recently stupefied his supporters by embracing Joe Biden’s policies towards Israel, antithetical to his own historic positions, to his campaign promises, and to our vital interests. Two new videos critically analyze the alarming Gaza ceasefire deal and how we got here. The first is a new podcast by my friend and colleague,…

Secure Freedom Minute: Memo to Trump – Heed Waltz, Not Witkoff

The Gaza ceasefire Joe Biden announced yesterday is a formula not for peace, but for more war. It would prevent Israel from finishing off Hamas and return the Gaza Strip to its effective control. When Hamas predictably resumes its attacks, Donald Trump will be President, not Biden. Thankfully, his incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz,…