September 20, 2022

The art of deradicalizing

Radicalizing today's youth is a worldwide epidemic.  From online chat rooms, university professors, and extremist prison imams to far-left and far-right political and religious organizations, parents are losing their young teens at an u...

April 12, 2022

Graffiti is freedom

The city of Berlin today is a fusion of the silence and degradation of inhumane horrors and the ripe opinions of contemporary nuevo fashionistas.  The Cold War Wall was a representation of the battle between evil, oppression, and communism ...

March 10, 2022

Mike Pence arrives in Israel

"These are perilous times.  History teaches that weakness arouses evil."  Clearly referring to the Biden administration's multiple foreign policy debacles, former vice president Mike Pence spoke in Jerusalem to a sma...

February 25, 2022

Russia strikes Ukraine

As air raid sirens blast in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, reports state that Ukrainian Air Force Mig-29s are defending themselves against Russian Air Force Su-35 fighter jets.  The war has begun. Russian tanks crossed the border fro...

January 12, 2019

Islam Enters Congress

The two newly elected Muslim darlings of the Democratic Party have more ego than intellect and more hatred for Israel than love for America. On January 3, 2019, new members of Congress arrived at their Longworth House offices radiating a...

May 14, 2018

Palestinians: Surrounded by Arab Brethren – and So Alone

As Israel celebrates 70 years of independence, Palestinian protest and mayhem have become increasingly violent. Hamas, an ally of Iran, is paying Palestinians, who are hurling burning tires, catapulting rocks, and flying kite-bombs attempting to...

April 23, 2018

The Drama in Gaza: Hamas, the PA, and Israel

My son, a Lone Soldier, serves the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) along the dangerous border between southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.  His job is to guard neighborhoods where terrorists emerge from tunnels originating inside Gaza and endin...

January 4, 2018

Five Myths about Jihadi Radicalization

"You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth," Winston Churchill famously stated.  The Islamist tiger in the United States is ready to pounce, and until Americans understand this enemy, we cannot even begin to fi...

September 13, 2017

How much does free speech cost on college campuses?

The tuition rates at universities today are astronomical.  Out-of-state students at U.C. Berkeley pay over $60,000 for their education, and when it comes to free speech, they get only half the argument. Known as the home of free speech, Berke...

July 27, 2017

What Has Happened to Minneapolis?

When I lived in Minneapolis, it was a welcoming town filled with hardworking, honest people with family values.  Braving extreme heat, politicians attended the State Fair, shook hands, kissed babies, and ate walleyed pike.  We used to strol...

June 21, 2017

The Irony of Politics and Terrorism

Dreaming politically correct visions of world peace while denying the truth about terrorism only exacerbates the problem.  The irony is that the voters saw through the politically correct charade and spoke with their feet on election day, in the...

May 29, 2017

Terrorists Don't Act Alone

Wolves are not born in a vacuum, they are born in packs. In fact, the term 'lone wolf,' is a misnomer--self-radicalization does not exist. Radical Islamists recruit in social environments such as radical mosques, social media chat rooms and r...

May 8, 2017

Help Wanted: Women as Recruiters for ISIS

The landscape of war has dramatically changed, casting conventional weapons as secondary to the power of propaganda.  The first social media war in history is now being fought by online soldiers.  From the comfort of their own homes, secret...

May 5, 2017

Word to American Rabbis: We Must Secure Our Borders

I am not a rabbi, but I know that throughout Jewish history, many holidays begin with "They tried to kill us, but we survived.  Let's eat."  As history continues to repeat itself, "they" still want to kill us, and by...

March 19, 2017

Jihad Fantasy: Could This Be My Child?

"Between the soccer practices and the hours at her accounting job and the potlucks with the neighbors, Christianne Boudreau spent every spare minute watching Islamic State videos, her nose pressed up against the computer screen[.] ... Through th...