Colin Powell

June 28, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Lose LOST

The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.

November 23, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Split Ends

In March, the Syrian regime began slaughtering peaceful demonstrators in Deraa, a small city close to the Jordanian border. In August, the American president called for the man responsible for th...

June 22, 2011 | TCS Daily |

Beyond Farce

The following is not the outline of a rejected screenplay by an aspiring Hollywood writer trying to outdo 24. Nor is it product of a freshman political science student's imagination, concoct...

June 15, 2011 |

Ud. Debe Recordar Esto

 Hay un aniversario que puede nos haga bien recordar. El 29 de mayo de 1453 - hace apenas 555 añitos – las tropas lideradas por Mehmed II penetraron las murallas de la antigua c...

June 15, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

You Must Remember This

 There’s an anniversary this week we might do well to recall. On May 29, 1453 – just 555 short years ago -- troops led by Mehmed II broke through the walls of the ancient Christi...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Would a President McCain Have Invaded Iraq?

A doubter's analysis.

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

Destination: Durban II

'Tis the season to bankroll hatred of Israel and America.

June 13, 2011 | National Interest Online

Symbolism and Realpolitik

 Amid the complex dynamics of the Horn of Africa, the most significant national interest at stake for the United States is preventing Al-Qaeda (or any other like-minded international terrori...

June 13, 2011 | The Spectator |

Nice Work: The Taxpayer is Being Stung So This Lord Can Live in Admiralty House

Co-Authored by James Forsyth Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents....

June 10, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer |

Time for U.S. to Reject U.N.’s Anti-Democratic Conference

If a group of despotic governments wants to organize a global mega-conference dedicated to fueling hatred of Jews, Israel and the United States, the United Nations might not be able to stop it. B...

June 2, 2011 | The Rosett Report |

Durban III: The Good News and the Bad News

In the United Nations cosmos of Orwellian ventures, one of the prominent features has become the series of conferences named for an initial 2001 conclave in Durban, South Africa. That gathering w...

May 9, 2011 |

Obama’s Reasonable Suspicion of Pakistan

In an interview with President Obama on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft asked: Right now, it certainly...the location of the compound just raises all sorts of question...

March 17, 2011 |

On the NRO Libya Editorial, I Respectfully Dissent

I respectfully dissent from Wedesday’s NRO editorial, which urges that the United States go to war with Libya. The editorial doesn’t put it that way. Indeed, it doesn&r...

December 3, 2010 | The National Interest

Khartoum’s Denouement

On November 26, the South Sudan Referendum Commission extended by one week the time which southerners, both inside Sudan and abroad, have to register to vote in the self-determination plebiscite,...

November 2, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

Time for a Tea Party at Turtle Bay

Foreign policy was a side issue in Tuesday’s election. But with crises in the making, from Venezuela to Iran, and points between and beyond, the wider world will be muscling its way into th...

September 20, 2010 |

Al Qaeda in Iraq

In a campaign speech on July 14, 2007, Senator Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and President Bush’s obstinate refusal to end it. “We cannot win a war against the terrorists i...

May 21, 2009 |

A Tale Of Two Libyans

Note: The Libyan democratic dissident Fathi Eljahmi, one of the subjects of this column, died in Jordan just hours after it was published. Fathi Eljahmi gave his life for the cause of fr...

February 26, 2009 |

FDD Praises President Obama for Withdrawing U.S. from U.N. Durban Review Conference

Washington, D.C. (February 27, 2009) - The...

February 26, 2009 | |

Obama The Appeaser?

Imagine Reagan tearing down 'that wall' with 'engagement.'

September 10, 2008 |

Machiavelli on Modern Leadership

Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the eminent minds of the Italian Renaissance, spent much of a long and active lifetime trying to determine and understand what...