Senator Rick Santorum’s wins last night in Alabama and Mississippi make clear that the candidacy of Newt Gingrich for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is no longer a viable alternative ...
Newt’s Right on Sharia
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked yesterday whether he would support a Muslim for president. His answer may have been one of the most important teaching moments of the ...
The Real EMP Threat
On the front page, Monday’s New York Times provides a slanted and insidious “news” item on Newt Gingrich’s warnings about the danger of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons. The author of ...
Don’t Hollow Out the Military
Congress has now passed a bipartisan debt-ceiling agreement that seems to please no one, and there is the usual who-won-who-lost parlor game that preoccupies the inside-the-Beltway crowd. But far more ...
Glorifying Gates
Fred Kaplan’s admiring rendering of his interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, which appears today in Foreign Policy’s online edition under the headline “The Transformer,” will assure Slate’s national-security ...
Don’t Stop with the DNI
That President Obama has accepted the tendered resignation of his director of national intelligence (DNI), retired Navy admiral Dennis Blair, is cause for hope: Maybe — just maybe — a ...
Two and a Half Cheers for Joe Lieberman
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman announced that he has written President Obama’s homeland-security adviser, John Brennan, expressing strong objections to the administration’s systematic dumbing-down of its characterization of ...
Disarmer-in-Chief
According to today’s New York Times, it took over a year and 150 meetings to translate Pres. Barack Obama’s vision of a nuclear-weapons-free world into a policy prescription known as ...
Re: Cheney Last Night
Dick Cheney demonstrated last night before the Center for Security Policy audience that he is far and away the most competent, to say nothing of the most robust, statesman in ...
Natural Gas for Freedom!
Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. (See their article in today’s ...