No civilian trial– in New York or anywhere
Reality has yet again dragged the Obama administration, kicking and screaming, toward a more sensible policy. Like the decision to...
Guantanamo Bay
The perils of presidential failure
US President Barack Obama is feeling the heat. His response to the current crisis threatening to sink his one-year-old presidency...
Dangerous accommodations
Scott Brown can't get to Washington soon enough. In his victory speech on Tuesday night, the newly elected Senator from...
On terrorism it’s time to know, to profile, and to discriminate
After the Christmas Day near disaster in Detroit, it is time for Americans to demand effective anti-terrorist actions. Over eight...
Israel’s opening to China
The growing power of the UN-based international community is one of the gravest emerging threats to Israel's national security. This...
Little to celebrate
Although President Obama spent much of his first year in office trying to revolutionize the U.S. health care system, the...
Freeze Gitmo
ABC News reports that "Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest...
A darker shade of transparency
Not long ago, Barack Obama famously pledged to run the "most transparent administration in history." Yet while some Americans may...
Gitmo does not cause terrorism
So we're going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the...
War courts for war criminals
A ticking political time bomb has been largely obscured by official Washington's preoccupation with screwing up our health care system:...
Legislators who’ve changed their position on Gitmo
Members first voted on language in the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that would have prohibited Gitmo inmates from being transferred...
Injustice Department
Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators to...
How far away is Standish, Michigan?
During my recent visit to Standish, Michigan, where I had been invited to advise and assist citizens who are opposed...
Imprison here, release here
If Guantanamo Bay is closed, scores of trained jihadists, committed to killing Americans, will be released to dwell among us:...
Civilian courts are no place to try terrorists
The Obama administration has said it intends to try several of the prisoners now detained at Guantanamo Bay in civilian...