GOP needs to have a serious debate about National Security
NEWT GINGRICH: The Republican Party needs a debate on national security. The strategy we’ve followed over the last 10 years did not work. In the end, Iraq is a disaster,…
Sphynx in Labor
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In Egypt, nobody wanted military intervention, yet nobody believed in a smooth transition to democracy. For this reason, Egyptians viewed the military as the guarantor…
Religion, Ideology and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The well-established tendency in Washington DC since the so-called “Khomeini Revolution” of 1979 to look for positive signs of change in the political ideology of…
Massive Data Mining: Are the programs justified?
According to the Obama administration and some members of Congress, the National Security Administration’s (NSA) data mining operations have been critical to the disruption of numerous terror plots. The publicly…
Ronald Reagan, “You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.”
Ronald Reagan said to conservatives, “You’re the troops. You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.” A young soldier stands guard in the cold, looking out over no-man’s-land through to…
Ronald Reagan on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, Omaha Beach
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.” by Scott L. Vanatter In one of his last public…
Ronald Reagan on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, Pointe du Hoc
“These are the Boys of Pointe du Hoc” by Scott L. Vanatter Forty years after the Allied forces landed at Normandy, President Reagan spoke commemorating those who stormed the beaches.…
Ronald Reagan on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, Omaha Beach
“They came not as Conquerors, but as Liberators” by Scott L. Vanatter After speaking at Pointe du Hoc earlier in the day (June 6, 1984), President Reagan also spoke at…
The Islamic Republic of Iran in Perspective
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Historically, Iran is an ancient civilization but a relatively young Muslim country. The seventh century Arab-Islamic conquest of Persia was and is still viewed…
ABC News: White House scrubbed CIA talking points
White House systematically removed all references to al Qaeda and terror from the CIA talking points. Then the White House falsely asserted that the talking points that it had…
The Iran Enigma
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi History, in her disposition toward intellectually gifted peoples and nations, appears as fickle as the gods of ancient times were wont to be of…
Changing the Benghazi Talking Points
How they were changed to obscure the truth by Stephen F. Hayes Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi…
Missile Defense: projecting strength rather than weakness
by George Landrith Ronald Reagan coined the phrase, “Peace through strength,” but it was not a new idea and it had not been an historically partisan concept. It dates…
Venezuela in American Perspective
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The recent post-Chavez presidential election in Venezuela clearly placed the country on a ruinous political, economic and social quicksand. The questionable razor-thin victory of…
U.S. moving backward on missile capability
by Kerri Toloczko One little unfriendly missile, conventional or nuclear, is all it would take to rain death, panic and economic devastation upon the United States. Likely emboldened by…