March 11, 2012

Tsar Putin

In April 2002, former CIA director James Woolsey dismissed PLO claims that its chairman had been democratically elected. "Arafat was essentially elected the same way Stalin was, but not nearly as democratically as Hitler, who at least had opponents,"...

February 7, 2011

U.S.-Egypt Relations Under Attack

We all want to see democracy succeed in Egypt, but there is good reason to believe that the current political crisis in that country is geared toward breaking Egypt's close ties with the United Sates, not toward installing democracy there.  From...

January 28, 2011

Who Needs a Sputnik Moment?

Never in my worst nightmares did I expect to hear the president of the United States give voice to a dream of building "our generation's Sputnik moment."  For the privilege of becoming an American citizen some 32 years ago, I paid with...

December 26, 2010

Showdown with Evil

From time to time, a book can change history. Dr. Jamie Glazov's Showdown With Evil is such a book, for it restores faith in American exceptionalism. Although its author was not privileged to be born in this country -- or maybe for that very reason ...