Debate about Muslim Immigration
Donald Trump’s rhetorical excesses aside, he has a way of pushing us into important debates, particularly on immigration. He has done it again with his bracing proposal to force “a total and complete...
Republican Leaders Respond to Trump
For months, the Republican establishment has carefully dealt with Donald Trump and his in-your-face, shoot-from-the-lip presidential campaign that has sharply resonated with Americans. On Tuesday it...
Donald Trump – Block All Muslims
Repudiated across much of the political spectrum but defended on conservative talk radio, Donald J. Trump on Tuesday stood by his call to block all Muslims from entering the United States. He cast it...
Ted Cruz Would Take on the Washington Establishment
To protect American national security we must first understand what threatens American national security. We must grasp who our enemies are, what animates them, and how they work together — despite th...
No Thoughts and Prayers
A strange thing happened yesterday on social media. Prayer became a micro-aggression. As the San Bernardino, Calif., attack unfolded in real time, most Americans knew that dozens of their fellow citiz...
Killer Spent Time at Mosque and Memorizing the Quran
Syed Rizwan Farook was heavily involved in his local mosque and focused his energies on memorizing the Quran, he wrote in a short-lived dating profile in 2013. “I spend much of my free time in the ma...
Killer Radicalized
One of two people accused of killing 14 in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State militant group, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as intelligence officials i...
Secret Life of the Killers
Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked his mother for the sort of favor grandmothers love to grant: A few hours of baby-sitting. Farook told her that he and his wife, Tashfeen, had a doctor...
ISIS Celebrates Shooting
Islamic State terrorists cheered the deaths of 14 people Wednesday at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., with the "#America_Burning" hashtag in Arabic on Twitter. The hashtag was als...
Some Past Mass Shooters
In response to Robert Dear Jr.’s murder of three people at a Colorado Springs shopping mall last week, The New York Times exulted: “Even as politicians and those in Congress pump up public fears at t...
Mass Shootings and Gun Control
Passing more laws doesn’t keep terrorists from getting guns. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton slammed Republicans for not being serious about protecting Americans from terrorism. “How many more Americans ne...
Importing Terrorism and Other American Values
Americans keep being hectored to take “refugees” from terrorist-producing countries because to do otherwise would be “a betrayal of our values,” as President Obama said on Monday. The rise of Donald...
