Dictators throughout history have played the same games in order to stay in power. One stratagem is as old as Rome itself, after the republic became corrupt and gave way to an empire run by one man, rather than the Senate.
The phenomenon of second marriages has been called "the triumph of hope over experience." President Obama's just-released "blueprint" for closing Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is the triumph of "hope and change" over terrible experience.
In the United States of America, we as citizens have the right and high privilege of choosing our government. Team Obama wants to allow non-citizens to do so, as well.
Breitbart.com reported this week that, for decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been slandering political opponents for profit by calling them "hate groups." My Center for Security Policy was one of more than a hundred new entries to its list added Thursday.
For seven long years, the United States military has been subjected, as has the country it protects, to a series of assaults on its strength, character and stature - not at the hands of foreign foes, but at the direction of President Barack Obama.
North Korea observed the fiftieth Super Bowl by orbiting a satellite over the stadium shortly after the last quarter ended.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says there's no evidence that either of the San Bernardino shooters had ties to terrorist organizations. Unfortunately, such assurances miss the point and are deeply misleading.
Sunday night, President Obama called on the nation to defeat the Islamic State's "destructive ideology." To do so, we must be honest about that ideology - and all its adherents.
Are you puzzled by what's being said about the murderous attack Wednesday in San Bernandino by reporters, officials and so-called "experts?"
Monday may be remembered as when our economic well-being and national security began changing forever. That's because the International Monetary Fund for the first time included the Chinese yuan among the world's reserve currencies. It even treated China's money as more valuable than that of Japan and the United Kingdom.
There may yet be hope for our Republic. Barack Obama's imperial ship of state seems to have hit a perfect political storm, and he just may be forced to make a course correction.
Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart have introduced legislation to have the Muslim Brotherhood officially designated by the U.S. government as what it is: a foreign terrorist organization.
It appears a bomb took down a Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. If that proves to be the case, claims of responsibility by the Islamic State's franchise in the area may prove to be accurate.
This week, a new front was opened in the War for the Free World. That's the long-running conflict between freedom-loving people and those who would enslave us.
It's long been apparent that the United States faces an existential threat arising from the complete dependency of its people, economy and security on an electric grid that is not resilient. To date, however, little-to-nothing has been done to remedy that situation - even as jihadist and other threats to the grid are proliferating.
The president vetoed on Thursday the annual legislation used to authorize defense programs and the pay and benefits for our troops. Unfortunately, this is but the latest manifestation of the Obama Doctrine that emboldens our enemies, undermines our friends and diminishes our country.
An objective observer would have to conclude that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her partisans have obstructed justice from the moment jihadists attacked U.S. facilities in Benghazi, killing four Americans in September 2012.
The evidence continues to mount that President Obama's deal with Iran is the worst national security agreement in our country's history.
What a difference a day makes! Kevin McCarthy was the sure-bet for House speaker. Now he's toast.
One might have been forgiven for thinking that the negative effects of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran would take some time to begin manifesting themselves in the Middle East.
