Don’t be distracted by Donald Trump’s increasingly gymnastic contortions over his Iran war which he alternately declared over just the past week “already won” yet requiring $200 billion in additional funding and the now subject of “very good and productive talks regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.” Just […]

As President Trump’s war on Iran enters its third week, here are five points about Tehran’s predictable—and predicted—closure of the Strait of Hormuz: 1. The Wall Street Journal reported that “Trump knew the risk of Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He still went to war.” The President brushed off the warning from Joint Chiefs […]

President Trump on Monday seemed shocked—shocked!—at the rapidly growing economic fallout from his war on Iran. U.S. gasoline prices spiked and markets wobbled as  Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and Iraq announced steeps cut backs on oil and natural gas production. With the Straits of Hormuz effectively closed, France dispatched warships to the region […]

Few tears will be shed if the brutal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is consigned to the dustbin of history. But President Trump’s call for the Iranian people to “keep protesting” and “take over your institutions” because “HELP IS ON ITS WAY” is doubly dangerous. If Trump’s promise of help is kept, the […]

In the wake of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with his Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia Tuesday, defenders of freedom worldwide can be forgiven for thinking they had seen this horror story before. After all, an expansionist European power pressed its claim to the territory of another sovereign nation in part based on the […]

I’m outraged! I only now learned that in just four years the United States provided $175 billion in foreign aid to 16 European nations, including France, Italy and the UK! It’s shocking, but it’s true! A long time ago, there was this thing called World War II. It started about a year after a popular […]

This is one of the darkest and most shameful days in modern American history. By unilaterally imposing 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico in violation of a trade agreement he himself signed in 2018, President Trump has betrayed our closest friends, allies and trading partners. Instead of working hand-in-hand with our North American neighbors to […]

So it’s come to this for the United States. In 1948, the U.S. launched a massive airlift of supplies into Berlin to help prevent over two million people from starving in the face of a total blockade by our enemy, the Soviet Union. In 2024, the U.S. will launch air drops into Gaza to help […]

After this week's testimony in the impeachment hearings, the contours of President Donald Trump's abuse of power for personal advantage have become crystal clear. Trump violated U.S. law when he solicited the interference of a foreign power in an American election. Looking ahead to 2020, Trump demanded the new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announce an […]

The United States was the world's lone "hyperpower" when President George W. Bush launched his disastrous and unnecessary war with Iraq in 2003. An economic and military hegemon unchallenged by any single enemy or collection of rivals, the U.S. could and did act with impunity in swiftly toppling Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad. But even […]