Homeland Insecurity Adviser

With the recent departures of OMB Director Peter Orszag, Economic Policy Advisor Lawrence Summers and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the next senior Obama administration official expected to quit is the National Security Advisor to the President, James… Read More

The ‘Peace Through Strength’ Pledge

Last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives unveiled with much fanfare their “Pledge to America.”  It is intended by the GOP leadership to serve as both a campaign platform for winning a new majority and as a program for… Read More

D-Day for the US Military

The United States Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a motion to proceed to debate on the annual defense authorization bill.  Normally, such a step is a routine mechanical one.  In this case, though, it is one of the… Read More

Friend of the Brotherhood?

A new Pew Center poll says nearly one-in-five Americans think Barack Obama is a Muslim.  Perhaps that is because of reports like the one blared on the cover of the September 6 edition of the tabloid, The Globe, replete with… Read More

The ‘End of the Beginning’ on Shariah

As I looked out at the thousands of people assembled near Ground Zero on Sunday to oppose the construction of a megamosque there, I was reminded of Winston Churchill’s famous line that enspirited Britain at the first sign the tide… Read More

Fact Checking the Ground Zero Mosque Agenda

Stop the presses! This just in: The Associated Press “standards center” has issued a “staff advisory” on covering what is to be known from here on out as “the New York City mosque.” From now on, the AP “staff” –… Read More

Obama’s ‘Teachable’ Shariah Moment

[Last] Friday night, Barack Obama gave his full-throated endorsement to a mosque and “cultural center” on private property that has been purchased in Lower Manhattan adjacent to the site where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood.  By Saturday,… Read More

Obama’s Ground Zero Mosque

At a White House celebration of Ramadan in the company of representatives of several of the Nation’s most prominent Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, President Obama announced his strong support for one of their most immediate objectives: the construction of a… Read More

Coming to Grips with Shariah

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is talking about Shariah.  In particular, growing controversies over proposed mosques at Ground Zero and other sites are becoming powerful “teaching moments” – raising awareness about the repressive theo-political-military-legal doctrine that animates the builders and that… Read More

On “Bashing” Muslims

Last week, a tectonic shift took place in the firmament of the War of Ideas.  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich directly and forcefully took on Shariah, the totalitarian theo-political-military program of authoritative Islam that its adherents seek to impose on… Read More

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