I couldn't help but laugh, bitterly, to hear Anderson Cooper on CNN last week puzzling that Major Nidal Hasan's power point presentation "justifying suicide bombing" was not regarded by the military as a "red flag" (Hasan is the Army psychiatrist who went on a killing rampage last week at Fort...

Bob Trask is a uniquely American spiritual philosopher and self-help teacher who hails from the Pacific Northwest. For over three decades, he has been spiritual guide, author, and counselor to thousands. In his recently published book, "Romancing the Soul" Trask expands his vision of the "Trask Triangle," a paradigm...

Ilan Berman's new book, Winning the Long War, Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) catalogues American successes and failures to defeat radical Islam post-9/11. In its quiet, detailed, meticulously researched way, it is a powerful call to action in the war against radical Islam...

Yesterday thousands gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations in New York to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's pledge to destroy Israel, and to show solidarity with Iranian protestors who have faced down Iran's mad mullahs in recent months.

The plaza was awash in green worn by protesters...

Commentator Thomas Sowell does a great job in his column this week unpacking the misguided and dangerous thinking behind the Scottish government's foolish and immoral decision to release Abdel Baset al-Megrahi -- the Libyan terrorist whose bomb sent 270 innocent people to their horrific deaths over Lockerbie, Scotland in...

Back in 2003, I had the opportunity to sit down with then-author, now Minnesota Senator Al Franken. At the time I found his take on America's relationship with Saudi Arabia to be interesting; likewise he had some provocative things to say about how Arab governments have neglected the Palestinians. I...

In the aftermath of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's announcement last weekend that she plans to resign from office, pundits have been scrambling for an explanation. Personally, the whole matter has left me feeling a little like I did at the end of seventh grade, after a year spent passively watching...

Yesterday evening Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, shared some fascinating comments about the bravery of Iranians who are giving their lives for freedom in protest of a corrupt and vicious regime.

"What began as a dispute about inherently corrupt elections ... has become a frontal...

Today independent journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury e-mailed me that unknown men continue to stake out his family's home in Dhaka, Bangladesh and to chase his car, on motorcycles, when he leaves the house.

Such a pattern is extremely worrisome, he says, and suggests these men are possibly members...

Journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who was physically attacked and beaten in February by thugs he believes were members of the Bangladeshi government's ruling party, has recovered from his injuries.

But this independent Bangladeshi journalist, whose groundbreaking reporting exposed the Islamist radicalization of children being funded by Saudi Arabian...

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the White House today to meet with President Obama, Israel faces a potentially existential threat from Iran, whose leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy the Jewish state.

President Obama told Newsweek magazine last week: "I've...

The mood at this year's American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference - the yearly gathering that draws thousands of Israel-supporters to be briefed on issues related to the U.S.-Israel relationship and to lobby their members of Congress - was cautiously optimistic. On the whole, most speakers seemed to...

Serious defense of Israel shone alongside clever and zany protest at the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Geneva, Switzerland earlier this week.

For representatives of countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Cuba to sit on a Council that obsessively attacks Israel instead of focusing on widespread, egregious human...

In boycotting the second United Nations Conference Against Racism (dubbed "Durban II"), being held today in Geneva, Switzerland, President Barack Obama has shown leadership in opposing anti-Semitism.

Over the weekend, President Obama defended his decision to boycott the conference, saying the anti-Israel rhetoric in the draft final communique...

Interesting story today on how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal supposedly rebuked former Vice President Dick Cheney for asserting the U.S. is less safe due to some of President Obama's decisions.

Despite the Huffpo's headline on this alleged controversy, after reading the story it's not clear to me that...

This week I have a piece on the web site of the Center for Security Policy detailing former deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams' views on President Obama's chances of effectively employing sanctions to squeeze Iran's leadership as well as his take on possibilities if sanctions fail.

It was...

On Monday, a gang of thugs stormed the newspaper office of The Weekly Blitz, an independent newspaper based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and physically attacked its editor, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

Choudhury, 39, advocates normalized relations between his country and Israel, and also...

Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq were a great triumph for democracy worldwide and especially for the Iraqi people. William Shawcross has written an excellent column on the subject in The Guardian.

For the first time in Iraq's democratic history, Iraqis handled security themselves -- a remarkable accomplishment.

When considering...

Not to take anything away from our new President. But the remarks of a friend on Monday got me thinking. I asked this friend if he, as an African-American (in his case he was born in Africa and is now a U.S. citizen), felt moved by the election of the...

Numbers alone can be misleading in understanding what is happening this week in Gaza. Such is the message of Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, who offered an Israeli perspective to a gathering on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Thursday night.

He sought to provide information...