To Confront China, President Trump Should Target its State-Owned Enterprises
The PRC’s strategic use of SOEs poses an existential threat to American economic sovereignty and security.
Dallas
How to Protect America’s Heartland from Global Corruption
When outside real estate money moved into Cleveland in a big way starting in 2008, locals were upbeat. Investors were betting on the “upside of a Midwestern city” that had been passed by, The Plain...
Op-eds
Biden’s Half Measures on Ebola Put the United States at Risk
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order on Tuesday detailing new public health measures in response to outbreaks of Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Policy Briefs
Israel Urges Irish Bank to Shut Accounts of Boycott Group
The Israeli government is pushing for the closure of scores of bank accounts provided by the Irish banking giant Allied Irish Bank (AIB) that fund the promotion of anti-Israel boycotts....
Op-eds
Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices
Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...
Op-eds
Exclusive: Texas Bank Shuts Out Israel Haters
The giant Dallas-based bank Comerica announced on Friday that it will close a bank account held by an anti-Israel organization that promotes boycotting the Jewish state. “Comerica...
Op-eds
Texas Governor Signs Anti-BDS Bill on Israel’s Independence Day
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed on Tuesday -- Israel's day of independence -- a robust anti-boycott Israel bill into law. The bill bans state entities from engaging in business with organi...
Op-eds
Texas Senate Passes Anti-BDS Bill, Gov. Expected to Sign in May
The Texas Senate passed an anti-boycott Israel bill by a vote of 26-5 on Thursday. The governor of Texas is slated to sign the anti–BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) legislation on Is...
Op-eds
Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill
The Texas House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously passed legislation that bars the state from doing business with companies involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement tar...
Op-eds
Texas House Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill
The Texas House State Affairs Committee passed on Wednesday a bill banning state contracts and investments in companies that boycott Israel. The anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment,Sanctions)...
Op-eds
Anti-BDS Bill Passes in Texas Senate
Texas has been a hotbed of anti-BDS activity in recent days, with the passage of a bill in the Senate on Wednesday that will bar state contracts and investment in companies that boycott Israel, a...
Op-eds
Texas, Spanish Banks Slammed Over Israel-Boycott Accounts
Two giant financial institutions – Dallas-based Comerica and Spain’s La Caixa – are caught in the crossfire of criticism from politicians and human rights organizations over a f...
Op-eds
Dershowitz Calls on Banks to Close Accounts that Boycott Israel
Renowned Harvard University jurist Alan Dershowitz told The Jerusalem Post on Friday: “The organization [IADL] was founded as a communist front and supported financially by the Soviet Union...
Op-eds
A Plan For Crushing The Islamic State
It is astonishing that nearly six years into the tenure of any administration the commander-in-chief would acknowledge publicly that he has no strategy for addressing an evident, serious thr...
Op-eds
Thinking the Unthinkable
The next time Islamist terrorists attack us it could be with a nuclear weapon. By saying that, am I “fear mongering”? If so, I’m in good company. Graham Allison is a Harvard pro...
Op-eds
Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?
In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask...
Op-eds
With Dodging and More Dodging, Holder Admits DOJ Dumped CAIR Case
Ah, there’s nothing like transparency. U.S. attorney general Eric Holder has finally confirmed that Justice Department headquarters intervened to quash the prosecution of a t...
Op-eds
Obama Gives Islamists a Walk
When the first line of defense is “Bush did it, too,” you can rest assured that there is no second line of defense. And on allegations that the Justice Department intervened to preven...
Op-eds
Obama & the Muslim Brotherhood, Continued …
My column this weekend was about the Obama administration’s infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood — an infatuation that flies under the lunatic banner of “Islamic Outreach.&rd...
Op-eds
Rep. Peter King Seeks Answers on DOJ Decision Not to Prosecute Islamists
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has fired off a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding answers about why political appointees in the Obama Justice Department stopped effort...