Harry Truman’s presidency became for millions of Americans the answer to the question “Who lost China?” On his watch, enemies foreign and domestic cut off U.S. support for a friendly Chinese government, enabling Mao Zedong’s murderous take-over. Today, the answer to “Who lost South Korea?” may be Donald Trump unless he intervenes swiftly. After all,…
There would never be a good time to lose as keen and courageous a Middle East hand as Shoshana Bryen. But this is a particularly bad moment, when America desperately needs deeply knowledgeable and well-grounded experts on that region’s troubled history, dynamics and often tragic missteps. Unfailingly, this late and longtime Senior Director of the…
Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has put into sharp relief both the costs of modern war in the age of proliferating drones and a fundamental principle dating to the beginning of our Republic. From the get-go, Americans have fought and died defending freedom of navigation imperiled by British warships and Barbary…
Each day offers new examples of America’s pell-mell rush to join Western European nations in surrendering to Islam’s stealthy conquest: Democratic primaries across the country are nominating sharia-supremacists or Marxist-jihadists like Zohran Mamdani, largely thanks to Muslim bloc-voting. Churches that are not mysteriously catching fire are being bought and transformed into mosques. Farms and other…
Last night, the President of the United States addressed the nation to disclose previously classified evidence of enemies, both foreign and domestic, colluding to sabotage the 2020 presidential election. Particularly egregious is the Chinese Communist Party’s unrestricted electoral warfare aimed at terminating Mr. Trump’s presidency and replacing him with Joe Biden, who has accurately been…
Yesterday, President Trump spoke at a defense and innovation summit in Pennsylvania about the need for both, and his commitment to reshoring and rebuilding the nation’s industrial base. Unfortunately, events half-a-world-away are underscoring the necessity, as one summit participant put it, “to supercharge the supply chains” so as to accelerate the translation of defense innovation…
Morse Tan is a freedom-fighter who served as ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice during the first Trump administration. Today, he is effectively a political prisoner in South Korea. Amb. Tan has long spoken truth to power. In particular, he has warned about the lengths to which the Republic of Korea’s radical leftists have subverted freedom…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Unbeknownst to too many Americans, there are three totalitarian forces seeking to take down the United States so as to install globally some new ruling regime. To his credit, President Trump has lately been lighting up the Communists in our midst. The Congressional Sharia-Free America Caucus…
The sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham tectonically shifts our national security firmament. Whether one agreed with his priorities or not, he indisputably filled a unique position in the Senate and the country for which there is no obvious replacement. Notably, he was a tireless champion of Ukraine, Israel and liberating Iran. Sen. Graham died…
President Trump appropriately responded militarily this week to attacks by the Iranian regime on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The episode underscores, however, what is certain to be repeated by our enemies in Tehran if they remain in power. The reason is only partly because Iran’s jihadists view a “humiliation ritual” as their strongest…
Yesterday, President Trump repeatedly declared that “There is something wrong” with the leaders of Iran. He’s absolutely right, fundamentally, because the current crop – like all their predecessors – are sharia-supremacists. As such, they will do everything possible to destroy unbelievers, including fellow Muslims they consider to be apostates and certainly us. To that end,…
Today, Donald Trump declared that, as far as he is concerned, the so-called “ceasefire” with Iran is “over.” What is really noteworthy is that the President’s explanation for why negotiations are now “a waste of time” effectively precludes pursuing them further. Having previously applauded Iran’s current leaders, Mr. Trump just excoriated them as “liars,” “scum,”…
Today, a country that shouldn’t actually be in NATO will be hosting its summit. After all, under Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has been a leading force on behalf of the “Red-Green axis” – the alliance between Communists and sharia-supremacists whose object is destroying Western civilization. That goal has been enormously advanced by Erdogan’s relentless efforts…
Millions of Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran for the funeral of the country’s longtime dictator, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Their aspiration is revenge, expressed by mass chants of “Death to America. Death to Israel.” Unfortunately, despite abundant evidence that the mullahs are not trustworthy parties to ongoing negotiations, let alone willing to…
The celebration is underway of America’s Revolution – which, with God’s grace brought the world the most free, the most powerful and the most economically successful nation ever. Unfortunately, the prospects for the next 250 years are being marred by an anti-American counter-revolution increasingly in evidence across the country. Communists, doing business as “Democratic Socialists,”…
Yesterday, the satirical website Babylon Bee posted a brilliant internet meme. It featured a camouflage-uniformed man armed with a rocket-propelled grenade pensively sitting in a chair. The caption reads, “Terrorist torn between going on violent jihad or getting elected as a Democratic senator.” Unfortunately, that’s no joke. Our BanSharia.com webinar yesterday about “Election Jihad” made…
Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson famously observed that “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” With yesterday’s ruling concerning so-called “birthright citizenship,” a majority of his successors on today’s Court decided that it actually is. They declared the 14th Amendment makes absolutely everyone born here a citizen. They did so knowing that’s a formula for…
There’s a powerful new force in American politics. Muslim Brotherhood-associated organizations and Islamic centers are engaged in what might best be called “election jihad.” The potency of aggressive and highly disciplined get-out-the-vote efforts and bloc-voting for sharia-supremacist-approved candidates – whether Muslim or Muslim-aligned – has skewed elections in Britain and other European countries, and is…
The cause of freedom was advanced last week in Texas. In the course of five exhausting days of public testimony, line-by-line deliberations and voting, that state’s top educational board approved pro-American, pro-freedom required reading lists, curriculums and standards. In what can only be described as non-kinetic trench warfare, a majority of the Texas State Board…
Team USA lost to Turkey yesterday in the World Cup. Fortunately, it will nonetheless be able to advance in the competition. Another loss to Turkey is in prospect – one that may not have a happy outcome. President Trump says he may bring a “big gift” to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the host…