The King Hearings were Taboo-Busters
It is not everyday that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the...
National Security Policy
King of the Hill
On Thursday, Chairman Peter King of New York will convene in his House Homeland Security Committee one of the most...
Regime change in Libya
The Obama administration continues to be behind the power curve on the evolving uprisings in the Middle East, particularly those...
Muslim Brotherhoods Endgame? Qaradawi Returns to Egypt
It was nearly surreal to be a veteran Ikhwan-watcher yesterday. The Drudge Report ran a headline feature from Der Spiegel...
Douglas Murray on Democracy & Dangers in Egypt
HERZLIYA, ISRAEL– I’m at the 11th annual conference on Israel’s national security at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzlyia, a...
Elbaradei, Iran’s nukes, and the Egypt-North Korean missile connection
Elbaradei, the presumptive Egyptian president-in-waiting and former head of the IAEA nuclear inspection agency at the U.N., has made his...
Forgetting about the ‘Saviors of Our Country’
In 1892, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the paradigmatic British soldier, Tommy Atkins, and his paradigmatic treatment at the...
‘Iranium’ & the Iranian threat
Yesterday I wrote at Big Peace about Ottawa’s Free Thinking Film Society’s scheduled screening of the new film, “Iranium” at...
Hu’s becoming first?
In one of the great comedic routines of all time, Abbott and Costello went round and round about a baseball...
Peace Despite Weakness?
Two recent episodes offer an insight into a world in which the United States deliberately adopts a policy of pursuing...
Job #1 for Congress
By all accounts, the 112th Congress is going to be consumed with cutting government spending and creating jobs. This agenda...
The denuclearizers dangerous ambitions
Hold on to your hat. No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START Treaty by the closest...
National Security Policy Proceedings, vol. 3: Fall 2010
Purchase paperback Download free PDF National Security Policy Proceedings, vol. 3 - Fall 2010 This is the third issue of...
Obama’s contempt of Congress
Even for a man known for his arrogance, Barack Obama's treatment of the Senate in connection with the New START...
10 Senators-elect request ‘New START’ treaty delay until new Congress
Ten Senators-elect have requested that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reserve consideration of the "New START" Treaty between the United...
(Un)welcome to Washington, Senators-elect!
President Obama has set the stage for an acrimonious relationship with the newly elected Senators of the 112th Congress. As...