New Orleans

January 15, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Coming to America

It’s not just mass illegal immigration that poses a threat

January 6, 2025 | |

More Than 1,000 Terror Attacks in West Bank and Jerusalem Thwarted in 2024

Shin Bet Discloses Increase in Thwarted Attempts, Decrease in Realized Terror Attacks: Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, prevented 1,040 significant terror attacks...

January 2, 2025 | Will Selber |

An Afghanistan war veteran and an active duty servicemember conduct separate domestic attacks on New Year’s Day

On January 1, 2025, two US citizens conducted separate attacks in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured after a terrorist who had declared membership...

November 10, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Chill out about global warming

The evidence doesn’t establish that it’s ‘the existential threat’

November 29, 2018 | Samantha Ravich |

Where Are the Corporate Patriots?

Regarding China, U.S. companies should step up and do their part to protect national security.

September 3, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is *Really* Good at Evading Sanctions

Ever since Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program was first exposed in 2002, efforts to convince Tehran to abandon the program have focused on two strategies. One is diplomacy and dialo...

November 28, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Mark Dubowitz Forbes

Sanctions On Iran: How Washington Can End The Game Of ‘Catch Me If You Can’

Since the European Union announced a new round of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program last October, it has enacted new measures and an imp...

December 10, 2009 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Guinea: In Search of a Soft Landing

Guinea cannot seem to catch a break. In 1958, it was the only French colony to opt for an immediate break with France rather than continued association with Paris leading to gradual inde...

October 11, 2008 | Clifford D. May Houston Chronicle |

Wake Up to Iran’s Dark Dream to Disable U.S.

Which world leader is on record musing about "a world without America" — a goal he calls "attainable"? Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Until recently, it was possible to bel...

September 10, 2008 |

Tocqueville on American Character

In 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville, a twenty-six-year-old French aristocrat, spent nine months travelling across the United States. From the East Coast to the frontier, from the Canadian border to Ne...

June 10, 2007 | Andrew McCarthy Human Events

Two Years To Charge Rep. William Jefferson?

Well here's the late-breaking news: Congressman William Jefferson is a scoundrel. The Justice Department finally took its victory lap last Monday, announcing the long-awaited -- I w...

February 23, 2006 |

The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous

No heroes in the port drama.

September 7, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Preparation or Prevention?

Americans are distressed that the government was ill-prepared to quickly assist disaster victims in New Orleans. But here's a fact that should trouble us more: The government could have aver...

September 6, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal)

Flooded but Unbowed

It feels like months. But for just over a week Americans have been staring into the nightmare of New Orleans and asking each other what it means. It means we were unprepared. It means recriminati...

June 22, 2004 | Washington Post Online

Terrorism: Hostage Crisis

According to Al Jazeera reports, South Korean hostage Kim Sun Il, 33, has been beheaded by his kidnappers. Just a few days after the beheading of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., mi...