Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is monumentally wrong about the Iranian threat, an echo of his ill-conceived Sept. 12, 2002, exhortation to the House Foreign Affairs Committee to overthrow Iraq’s Saddam Hussein to secure “enormous positive reverberations” throughout the region. The United States should ignore most everything the prime minister said Tuesday before Congress. A…
DetailsRussian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine should be undisturbing to the United States. It will prove Mr. Putin’s sepulcher. Let’s not stand in his way. Mr. Putin has learned nothing from then General Secretary Leonid Breshnev’s objectless invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. It proved the beginning of the end of the Soviet Empire. (The…
DetailsAfter decades of slumber, Congress has awakened to the need to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (EPCA), enacted in the “horse and buggy” stage of the Digital Age. The proposed legislation — the Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act (LEADS) — seeks to juggle a host of competing interests: individual…
DetailsOf all the Democratic or Republican presidential aspirants for 2016, only U.S. Sen. Rand Paul can save us from ruination born of perpetual, purposeless, unfunded global wars and limitless presidential power. Only the Kentucky senator grasps like President George Washington that entangling alliances are the fathers of danger and debt, not safety and security. Only…
DetailsThe United States was founded on exceptional principles that we are ignoring at our peril. The Declaration of Independence explained that individual liberty was the center of our constitutional universe; and, that the United States was formed to protect the unalienable rights of citizens to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, i.e., wisdom and…
DetailsIf you covet Platonic Guardians in lieu of self-government, you’ll love the antagonists of Sen. Rand Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015. They include Janet Yellen, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and Catherine Rampell, a liberal dogmatist at The Washington Post. Mr. Paul’s legislation should be uncontroversial and universally…
DetailsStupidity, thy name is neo-cons. Their trademark is to hallucinate about “moderate forces” from South Asia to the Sahel; and, to urge the United States to partner with them to defeat extremism and spread democracy, the rule of law and secularism throughout the solar system. Exemplary is Fred Hiatt’s column in The Washington Post last…
DetailsA clear lesson should be drawn from the Charlie Hebdo terrorist murders by Islamic radicals and the response in France and elsewhere in the Western world. Western culture is superior to all others. It is the cornerstone of civilization. It is the only culture in the history of the world that makes votive offerings to…
DetailsNew York Times reporter James Risen should enjoy an absolute constitutional privilege to refuse to testify about anything he did or learned in the course of traditional journalistic activities in the Espionage Act trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey A. Sterling. Indeed, all media reporters should command that same privilege to ensure that self-government and…
DetailsIn an interview with The New York Times Magazine (Jan. 4) Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, repudiated the non-interventionist foreign policy of President George Washington. He repudiated the wisdom of President Thomas Jefferson and the unsurpassed political brilliance of James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution and Jefferson’s successor in the White House. Both understood…
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