Muslims: By the Numbers
Among the many criticisms of Donald Trump's ban-Muslim-immigration proposal is that it is based on bogus data. In his statement announcing the proposal, Trump cited a survey from Frank Gaffney's Cente...
Two Types of PC: Public Concerns vs. Political Correctness
The more analysts try to figure out Donald Trump’s appeal, the more they sound baffled. Pundits cite Trump’s verbal sloppiness and ridiculousness as proof that he must soon implode. But Trump sees his...
National Security Profiling?
Calm down and think, America. While everyone’s undies are in a bunch over Donald Trump’s proposal for a Muslim immigration moratorium, it is undeniable in a time of “heightened alert” — when violent...
Most Hostile Year for Religious Liberty
As a Liberty Watch subscriber and reader, you’re someone with a special insight into the critical question that will define the future of our nation: Will we remain “one nation, under God,” a nation...
Ignore Gun Laws?
Hell-raising is fine — for a time. It isn’t even St. Patrick’s Day, but we are all Irish now: In Connecticut, the boneheaded state government passed a law demanding the registration of certain firearm...
No Room for Christian Refugees
At the end of World War II, the Jewish survivors of Europe’s Holocaust found that nearly every door was closed to them. “Tell Me Where Can I Go?” was a popular Yiddish song at the time. Decades later,...
Donald Trump’s Strategy
How many political insiders do you know who are opposed to Barack Obama and his nefarious works — IRS abuses, corporate bribes, climate fantasies, bailouts for Iran, importing saboteurs — yet save the...
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...