San Bernardino and the One-State Solution
However inadvertently, the father of San Bernardino jihadist SyedRizwanFarook has demonstrated an inconvenient truth to which Washington, in its bipartisan infatuation with “moderate Islamists,” is...
View ArticleAll Things Considered, I'd Rather Be Ted
A couple of points on the state of the race:–At this juncture, I think I’d rather be Ted Cruz than anyone else. I believe he is the favorite in Iowa and if he wins, he’s going to come out of there like...
View ArticleWhy the Words 'Radical Islam' Matter
Hillary Clinton’s refusing to say that we are in a struggle with “radical Islam” is hardly news – but on ABC’s This Week on Sunday morning, she tried to explain it. The result is a handy roadmap to the...
View ArticleThe Man Who Has Their Number
I have written, once more, about David Horowitz, the singular David Horowitz, the broke-the-mold David Horowitz. The occasion is his latest volume, Volume V of his Black Book of the American Left: The...
View Article‘Stalinism without Stalin,’ Cont.
Lately, and not necessarily by design, I’ve been writing about the latest explosions of leftism on campus — and virulent explosions they are. But they are not necessarily new.I was interested to read...
View ArticleObama Actually Thought He Was Being Reassuring Tonight
President Obama’s Sunday night speech was about three-quarters of what the cynics and his critics expected. The lone bits of good news were the president’s belated acknowledgement that the Fort Hood...
View ArticleObama's Oval Office Address
What I liked about President Obama’s remarks: He put the San Bernardino killings in the context of the terrorists’ ongoing war against us. He even mentioned the Ft. Hood massacre as part of that war....
View ArticleShorter Obama: Dear Islamophobes, I'm Still Not Serious About Defeating ISIS
What a remarkable speech. In an era where a jihadist army controls more territory, commands more fighters, and has demonstrated broader striking power than any jihadist force in modern history, the...
View ArticleHave I Got a Diaspora for You
Earlier today, Andy mentioned something that Syed Farook said to La Stampa. I’m not talking about the San Bernardino terrorist. I’m talking about his father.Farook père said that his son was “obsessed...
View ArticleHow to Grade Obama's Oval Office Address?
Tonight’s speech is hard to grade. I can see it from several angles.Measured against the president’s record, this was a solid B. He called it terrorism. He admitted the nature of the threat of domestic...
View ArticleObama's Dangerous Phony War
The President’s address tonight contained almost nothing new. He didn’t repeat the promise to ”degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS,” perhaps because he realizes that people are catching on to what it...
View ArticleRe: Obama's Oval Office Address
Tonight, President Obama argued that America should not respond to ISIS by “abandoning our values or giving in to fear.” And then he suggested that we gut the Fifth Amendment and cast those who...
View ArticleStray, Snarky Notes
From the Oval Office tonight, President Obama gave a speech about the War on Terror (as we used to call it, in the bad old days of George W. Bush). I have a few, stray points.1) It was not nearly as...
View ArticleWill Michelle Obama Endorse Marco Rubio?
Presumably, we are just days away from a Michelle Obama endorsment of Marco Rubio. In 2013, the First Lady put her weight behind a national hydration campaign:The First Lady wants you to drink more...
View ArticleCan Obamazone Be Stopped?
Who controls the zoning in your town — your local elected government or Barack Obama? Who controls decisions in your neighborhood about where schools, shopping malls, and apartment buildings are...
View ArticleObama, Seeking to Reassure Americans, Compares U.S. to Cancer Patient with No...
A new CNN poll, conducted before the deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, finds 81 percent of Americans think terrorists associated with ISIS with the resources to launch a major terrorist attack...
View ArticleSome Great 2015 Books
For purposes of both gift-buying and taking stock, the end of the year is often a time for book recommendations. On the whole, it seems to me this was a great year for books, and below are five of my...
View ArticleISIS’s Imminent Demise
U.N. Security Council Resolution 2249, passed unanimously on November 20, sums up the consensus that the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL Daesh), poses a mortal danger to civilization by calling it an...
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Is the New York Daily News Losing Its Mind?
Today’s New York Daily News cover looks like a cry for help. Subjected to entirely appropriate criticism — including from yours truly— for its coverage of the San Bernardino shooting, its attacks on...
View ArticleSince 2009, a More Violent, and Threatened, Nation
The New York Times has a fascinating chart tracking U.S. deaths from extremist attacks since 2002. Adapted from a project of the progressive New America Foundation, the chart separates incidents into...
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