Jack Kemp

September 11, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Twenty-three years into the long war

The threat matrix keeps expanding

September 6, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Another grim anniversary

The approach of an anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 always concentrates my mind. It was, astonishingly, 16 Septembers ago that a team of foreign terrorists hijacked three American pas...

June 3, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Obama’s Performance At West Point

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to bring us together and, on foreign policy, he may be making belate...

September 9, 2010 | Clifford D. May

Nine Years Since 9/11

Nine years ago this week, I began a series of discussions about terrorism with Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and a small group of concerned philanthropists. Since Saturday is the ninth anniversary...

May 4, 2008 |

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Mourns Passing of Jack Kemp

Helped found FDD in wake of September 11 attacks. Washington, D.C. (May 4, 2009) -- The Foundation for Defense of Democracies mourns the death...

April 23, 2006 | |

Israel’s Fence, With all its Implications, is an Absolute Necessity

Having traveled to Israel recently and many times over the past 35 years or so, I take profound exception to the accusations leveled at Israel by my old friend and syndicated columnist Robert Nov...

June 28, 2004 | Wall Street Journal

Jack Kemp Statement on Early Transfer of Power to Iraq

Today, Jack Kemp issued the following statement on the early transfer of power to Iraq: "The transfer of power in Iraq came only two days early but it was a brilliant tactical stroke by...

June 13, 2004 | Washington Post

Afghanistan Leader and Hero

Since September 11, 2001, it has become clear a stable, democratic future for Afghanistan is integrally linked to American national security. A country devastated by more than 20 years of war, Af...

May 24, 2004 | Copley News Service

De Soto for Nobel Prize

Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in the months of October and November. The selection of prizewinners starts in the early autumn of the preceding year, when the prize-awarding institutions invi...

May 2, 2004 | Copley News Service

Middle East Peace and Prosperity

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously observed that, "It is useless to win a war, only to lose the peace." In Iraq, we not only must win the peace, failure is not an option. I was pleased to l...

January 7, 2004 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Self-Defense Fence

It takes some nerve to scold people for defending their children from terrorists -- the more so when their method of defense is simply to erect a fence to keep the murderers from reaching their i...