“It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no…
I told it to my four-year-old kids, then when they were seven and nine and fourteen and eighteen and twenty-plus. It was a mantra that my Dad, of blessed memory, told me: “Life is not a bowl of cherries. So…
Three weeks after the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, Israeli forces are moving gradually into the Gaza Strip. They are doing so gradually because political pressure — especially from the Biden administration — has caused them to delay….
The establishment media have swooped in to defend pro-Palestinian protesters with an embarrassing double standard: Only Republicans are capable of an “insurrection.” Over 300 anti-Israel demonstrators were arrested last week after swarming a congressional building to demand a cease-fire between…
I have been wondering for a long time just when and how my academic discipline of sociology was going to hit bottom, to cross over from being merely deeply troubled and cognitively impaired to enter fully into a state of…
Terrorism fundamentally depends on two things: violence and money. None of its violence, like Hamas’ massacre of Israelis, happens without the funding to make it possible. Some of that money comes from state-sponsors of terrorism, such as Iran’s direct sponsorship…
Following the horrific Hamas attacks on Israel and the war’s start, many experts have warned of an increasing terror threat in the United States. The Daily Caller obtained an internal memo of the San Diego Field Office Intelligence Division of…
Boy, has this been a week! This edition of the 5QT won’t even comment on the pristine failure of the GOP caucus in the House, which contains some not-insignificant number of representatives whose contempt for Republican voters is as palpable…
As Hamas’s genocidal war against it continues, Israel faces three immediate problems: to rescue the hundreds of hostages Hamas has taken (some of whom are Americans), to destroy the terrorist force of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and to deter…
A dark melancholy sets in upon seeing the Gaza Strip on the front page of the newspapers again. Back when I was a kid, I would listen to the latest news about the eternal confrontation on the radio and not…