Michael Bloomberg

February 26, 2020 | John Hannah |

Democrats Fail the Commander-in-Chief Test

Election 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats held yet another debate. And refreshingly, for once, foreign policy was actually on the agenda. Bernie Sanders came under fire for praising authoritarian leaders, Michael...

February 20, 2020 | John Hannah |

The Debate That Democrats Didn’t Have in Las Vegas

Republican foreign-policy experts weigh in on the most eventful debate of the 2020 primary.

September 9, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Not Quite Done Iran Deal

The debate over the deal President Obama has cut with Iran’s rulers is supposed to end this week. The New York Times, the AP and others in the media are reporting that the White House has a...

July 24, 2014 | Tony Badran |

The Politics Behind the FAA’s Israel Flight Ban

On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice prohibiting ...

September 24, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Scores of US Visas for Ahmadinejad’s Bulging Entourage

When Iran’s pro-genocide president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attends the United Nations General Assembly annual opening in New York this coming week, how many Iranian officials will he bring in...

September 6, 2011 |

How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right

In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.

January 20, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

A More Civil and Honest Public Discourse?

President Obama last week refuted – clearly and commendably -- those who have been attempting to exploit the bloodbath in Tucson to smear conservative polemicists and law-abiding gun owners...

January 14, 2011 | Clifford D. May National Review Online

Thank You for Not Packing Heat

Sane and reasonable people agree that political battles should be fought with ideas, principles, and words — not guns, bullets, and bombs. But in a nation of more than 300 million, it must...

September 10, 2010 |

If We Don’t Build It, They Will Kill You?

“Peace” is a word so over-used and abused that by now it’s wise to brace yourself every time some self-declared “peace-maker” pipes up. But even by those standards,...

September 8, 2010 |

This Is Where We Begin to Say No

A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West. Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasan...

August 24, 2010 |

Cashing In On Ground Zero

Among the prime planners of a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, it's not just Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is visiting the Middle East this summer at U.S. taxpayer expen...

August 17, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Imam Feisal Watch: Let’s Try It Again, Where’s the Man Behind the GZ Mosque?

Where exactly is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the $100 million Ground Zero mosque project? I keep asking because weeks after he stopped answering any questions about his "Cordoba House"...

August 14, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Seriously, Where Is Imam Feisal, and What’s With His Web Site?

If you look past the rhetoric, the realities - or should I say the morphing unrealities? - of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Ground Zero mosque and Islamic center project grow ever more curious. P...

August 12, 2010 | Clifford D. May

The Taboo of the Intellectuals

The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist. On one side are those making arguments in opposition to the project, along with those who merely...

August 11, 2010 |

What Is Moderate Islam?

Is the “Ground Zero Imam,” Feisal Abd ar-Rauf, a moderate Muslim? I do not know. I have yet to read his books or peruse his speeches and sermons in all the languages that Mr. Rauf use...

August 10, 2010 | |

From Germany, a Lesson for Mayor Bloomberg

While New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was energetically defending the Ground Zero mosque, German authorities banned on Monday the Masjid Taiba mosque of Hamburg, which served as the launching pa...

August 6, 2010 |

Further Travels Of Imam Feisal

While debate rages over plans for an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, the imam behind this project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is not available to answer questions in New York. Since locating the absen...

July 30, 2010 |

Where In The World Is Imam Feisal?

Plans for a $100 million high-rise Islamic Center next to New York's Ground Zero are generating lots of controversy, as well as great distress among families of some of the thousands murdere...

May 13, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

The Long and Foggy War

Political and media elites continue to view the global conflict through clouded eyes.

May 8, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

US pressures Pakistan to target North Waziristan

The failed Times Square bombing that was hatched in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan has forced the US to ratchet up pressure on Pakistan to take out the terro...