August 15, 2015

Senator Schumer, Stop the Iran Deal

As the first and only Iraq or Afghanistan veteran in the New York State Assembly, I feel a special responsibility to work at stopping the deal the Obama Administration has negotiated with Iran. To that end, I have started a p...

November 11, 2010

2010: The Year of the Republican Iraq Vet

When the 112th Congress is sworn in, all eight Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans in the House will be Republicans.This scenario was impossible to imagine just four years ago, when Patrick Murphy (PA-8), a JAG officer with the Army's 82nd Airborne, bec...

September 5, 2010

Enlisted Marine's Candidacy Unique, Important

Marine Corps sergeant Jesse Kelly led a squad of infantry Marines during the initial invasion of Iraq, received the Combat Action Ribbon, and brought all the Marines under his charge home alive.  In late August, the six-foot-eight Leatherneck sc...

June 28, 2010

Top 10 Reasons GOP Must Rally behind Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran Candidates

War on Terror Vets Should Be the Tip of the GOP Spear10. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Are a Rare Breed: The current generation of veterans is pure volunteer. They joined the military when there was no draft, when military service was the exception r...

March 17, 2008

Iraq Vets for Congress

As a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I am appalled by the way the anti-war Left distorts American military efforts in Iraq. More disturbing is the pernicious influence that the Left wields over the Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill.  The evi...

September 15, 2007

General Petraeus' Congressman

All politics are local. But sometimes, local politics are a national bellwether.  Much has been said about the mendacious, full-page advertisement MoveOn.org ran in the New York Times this week referring to Gen. David Petraeus as "General B...

October 26, 2006

Iraq and Iwo

Flags of Our Fathers  is a moving piece of cinema that further immortalizes the heroism of the Marines who fought on Iwo Jima. Let's hope that it can also teach powerful lessons about how to defeat a fanatical enemy, for the story of Iwo Jima be...

April 26, 2006

Amnesty Through Irish Eyes

The "one—time" amnesty of 1986 legalized two million aliens.  However, it inspired six times that number to enter the United States illegally and emboldened them remain until their numbers reached a critical mass big enough to demand a log...

January 19, 2006

Make Hillary Answer the Hard Questions in 2006

The lesson of Jeanine Pirro's failed New York Senate run is that when you cut pro—life voters, gun rights advocates, and affirmative action opponents from a Republican Senate campaign you are left with a candidacy for a 2006 election ...