Blog

My running commentary on events: local, national, and international. Areas of special interest include Israel, Iraq, and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Let President Obama’s Honor Remind Us Appeasement Will Not Produce Peace

October 9, 2009

Today President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Good for him; it is nice to see our President honored.

But now more than ever, the always noble effort to attempt nonviolent solutions should not be confused with appeasement, or the...

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Regarding Iran and Tomorrow’s Meeting, Engagement Must Be Seen as a Tactic, Not a Strategy

September 30, 2009

In anticipation of tomorrow’s meeting among U.S. diplomats, their Russian, Chinese, and European counterparts, and Iranian officials, analyst Michael Rubin points out in today’s New York Daily News that “engagement is a...

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The Free World Must Unite to Stop Iran’s Mad Mullahs

September 29, 2009

Last week brought the revelation that Iran has an additional secret nuclear enrichment facility inside a mountain near the city of Qum in addition to its much larger enrichment complex at Natanz.

There is now zero doubt that Iran, a country that...

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Iranians and Jews Show Unity Against Ahmadinejad Yesterday Outside the United Nations

September 25, 2009

Yesterday thousands gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations in New York to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pledge to destroy Israel, and to show solidarity with Iranian protestors who have faced down...

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Notes from New York on the Eve of the Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally

September 24, 2009

Tomorrow (Thursday September 24), thousands of Iranian-Americans will gather at noon outside the United Nations, in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Second Avenue and 47th Street, to protest the human rights abuses and fraudulent...

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Obama’s Missile Defense Decision Wrong-Headed, Says Gaffney

September 18, 2009

President Obama’s decision to scrap the plan to establish a new system of missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect U.S. allies in Europe as well as to protect the United States from intercontinental-range...

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Why Not Apply the Oath of Hippocrates to Health Care Reform?

September 10, 2009

Tonight in his speech on health care, President Obama acknowledged the values of “self-reliance, rugged individualism, love of freedom, and healthy skepticism of government,” which, held dear by so many American...

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Tacoma-based artist R. R. Anderson Recently Immortalized Yours Truly:

September 2, 2009

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He That Pities the Brute is a Brute to Those Deserving Pity

September 2, 2009

In today’s New York Post, commentator Thomas Sowell did a great job unpacking the misguided and dangerous thinking behind the UK’s foolish and immoral decision to release Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist whose bomb...

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Simon Deng Speaks Out About Persecution of Sudan’s Christians

August 29, 2009

Today the Center for Security Policy web site features the first segment of my interview with American human rights activist Simon Deng.

While many people are familiar with the fact that Sudan’s Islamist government provided...

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