Who meddles in foreign elections? : Russia and USA
(By Bill Moloney, Hilton Head, S.C.) Judging by media coverage one must conclude that our entire nation is totally riveted by the absolutely shocking idea that the Russians may have interfered in our...
View ArticleThinking about Russia while awaiting yet another ‘Reset’
(By William Moloney, ‘76 Blog Contributor) Winston Churchill famously described Russia as a “Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma.” Now in an atmosphere super-charged by election year...
View ArticleHillary Clinton, international arms dealer
(By Joy Overbeck, ’76 Contributor) Hillary Clinton as secretary of state approved of selling $316 billion of our most powerful American weapons and war planes to foreign countries, many of which throw...
View ArticleThe view from Romania
(By Branden Yeates, CCU Student) Since most of the news I read is written by Americans about Americans, hearing what people from other parts of the world think about current events is a real treat....
View ArticleWill the world survive Obama’s last 12 months?
(By Joy Overbeck, ’76 Contributor) Speaking in Colorado at the recent Steamboat Institute Summit on Foreign Policy, columnist, author and scholar Victor Davis Hanson predicted a rough 12 months in...
View ArticleThe First Amendment: The kryptonite to America’s national security?
(By Jaimie Erker, ’76 Contributor) “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (U.S. Const. Amend 1). Those potent words make up one...
View ArticleNaming our Middle East enemy
(By Donald Devine, ’76 Contributor) The real shock of the terrorist mass murders in Paris and San Bernardino is the lack of seriousness in the responses from America’s ruling class, on both the left...
View ArticlePlaying jihad roulette: Which Muslims are dangerous?
(By Joy Overbeck, ’76 Contributor) Whether we will see more bloody slaughter in the name of jihad depends on if we can separate the murder-bent America-haters from the innocent Muslim refugees that...
View ArticleWe show more compassion to refugees by not bringing them here
(By Joy Overbeck, ’76 Contributor) How would you feel to be uprooted from family, friends, people who share your culture, language and religion and be shipped half-way across the world to a huge and...
View ArticleColorado to Obama: Keep Gitmo terrorists away from our children
(By Joy Overbeck, ’76 Contributor) Islamic terrorists have no scruples about slaughtering schoolchildren and that’s what worries the residents of Florence, Colorado, when they hear the president talk...
View ArticleWinning Afghanistan: Advice From a 21-Year-Old Soldier
(By Joy Overbeck, ’76 Contributor) We were both waiting for our delayed planes in the boarding section of a large airport. I had noticed the young man wearing the sandy-colored desert-camo uniform and...
View ArticleRemembering 9/11: defeating and destroying Iran
On this 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil by jihadi forces, it is right that we honor our war dead and commit ourselves to defeating those primarily responsible, including the...
View ArticleReject the Iran deal, Sen. Bennet
(By Eric Weissmann, ’76 Contributor) Three weeks after the Iran deal, officially the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA), was announced, New York Senator Chuck Schumer (D) spoke out strongly...
View ArticleHow China’s past influences China’s stock market today
(By Helen Raleigh, Centennial Fellow) Before the most recent midsummer stock market turmoil in China, stock trading among Chinese investors had reached a fanatic pace. China has 90 million retail...
View ArticleThink again: Trump, Obama and evidence-free politics
Last week during the most-watched primary debate in history, a U.S. senator fired a cogently argued objection at his party’s leader, drawing a contemptuous and insulting personal attack. No, it wasn’t...
View ArticleKerry faces a tough sell on foreign policy blunders
(By Kelly Sloan, <em>’76</em> Contributor) John Kerry spends an awful lot of time these days trying to sell the Obama administration’s latest foreign policy mistakes — the restoration of...
View ArticleSpinning White House yarns and Iranian nukes
(By Melanie Sturm, ’76 Contributor) Unable to ignore millions of cancellation letters and a rare presidential apology, fact-checkers at PolitiFact and the Washington Post designated “If you like your...
View ArticleIran deal dangerous and disconnected from reality
(By John Guandolo, ’76 Contributor) The “Joint Comprehensive Plan”(JCP) – also known as the “Iran Deal” among many – is dangerous for America’s security and demonstrates a true disconnect from reality...
View ArticleCan we focus for a moment on the real threats at hand?
Let’s take a quick stock of the world scene, shall we? ISIS continues to ravage the cradle of humanity, taking and ransacking ancient cities, reversing the gains we fought for in Iraq and seemingly...
View ArticleIslamic State authorization for military force scrambles Washington
Barack Obama’s request for a formal Congressional authorization to use military force (AUMF) against the Islamic State has produced the most amazing responses. Everyone seems to be switching sides and...
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