Frank Gaffney Jr.

Free speech, but not for me?

Paul Krugman's outrage is selective and aimed, as usual, at conservatives.

America’s First Muslim President

During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton - someone Sonya Sotomayor might call a "white male" - was dubbed by an admirer in the African-American community "America's first black president." Applying the standard of identity politics and pandering to a special interest that earned Mr. Clinton that distinction, Barack Hussein Obama would have to be considered America's first Muslim president.

Obama’s shrinking deterrent

North Korea celebrated Memorial Day with an underground test of a nuclear weapon reportedly the size of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. When combined with a series of missile launches that day and subsequently, the regime in Pyongyang has sent an unmistakable signal: The Hermit Kingdom has nothing but contempt for the so-called "international community" and the empty rhetoric and diplomatic posturing that usually precedes new rewards for the North's bad behavior.

Doomed to repeat history? Listening to James Woolsey, ‘Speaker of Truth’

This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill. At this writing, Mr. Obama is poised to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the latest in a series of efforts aimed at weakening Israel and otherwise bending it to the U.S. administration's will - a practice against which an historian/statesman like Churchill would have strenuously warned.

Department of Insecurity: Making America less safe from ‘man-caused disasters’

Give Janet Napolitano her due. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has taken to heart Barack Obama’s campaign pledges of “change” and “hope.” Unfortunately, the changes she has effected seem generally to be to dismantle sensible Bush-era internal security policies and practices, replacing them with politically correct nostrums and generally inadequate programs.

The Denuclearizers’ Bridge-jump

At one point or another, everybody tries to justify their participation in behavior that defies common sense and good judgment by claiming that someone else, usually older and putatively smarter, told them to do it. Often someone genuinely smarter and typically older – a teacher, a parent, a coach – responds with something to the effect that, “If Johnny told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?”

A transnationalist cannot ‘uphold’ the Constitution

Tuesday afternoon, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have an opportunity to demonstrate why the Framers gave the Senate the constitutional power to confirm presidential appointees. If they fail to exercise that power vigorously with respect to the nomination of Harold Koh to be the top State Department lawyer, they will not only have been derelict. They will be accomplices to an assault on our Constitution that will ultimately result in an unprecedented, and likely permanent, derogation of the Senate's vital role and responsibilities.

‘The enemy is us’

Perhaps the most famous line the history of cartoons was one Walt Kelly gave his much-beloved character, Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Increasingly, it appears Barack Obama feels the same way about America. Call it the PogObama worldview.

Gaffney slaps back at Chris Matthews

On Tuesday night, Frank Gaffney appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. After a discussion with Mother Jones' David Corn about the Spanish judge who was poised to prosecute six Bush Administration officials, Matthews egged-on the rabid fringe of the left by saying the following:

Obama’s unreal nuclear agenda

When it comes to security policy, it seems everyone wants to be a "realist" these days. If that term has any meaning at all, though, Barack Obama's nuclear weapons and missile defense policies certainly would not qualify.

Reality checks: Obama’s unreal initiatives meet the real world

Two images last week contrasted sharply with President and Mrs. Obamas’ otherwise adulatory treatment in Europe and Turkey. The images show how out of touch with reality Team Obama is on two of the most important national security threats of our time: 1) the totalitarian theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls “Shariah” and 2) the proliferating danger of nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles that will deliver them.

Lawfare and Obama’s transnationalist

What is wrong with this picture? We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisors to President George W. Bush - including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith. The alleged crime? The opinions they provided Mr. Bush supported the use of torture against enemy combatants.

FBI Barters With Muslim Organizations

On Friday, CNN.com ran a news item that essentially reiterated the contents of a press release issued earlier in the week by a coalition calling itself the American Muslim Taskforce.

Wrecking operation: Our enemies perceive exploitable weakness

President Obama’s stewardship of the national security portfolio to date amounts to a wrecking operation, a set of policies he must understand will not only weaken the United States but embolden our foes. After all, the Communist agitator Saul Alinsky, a formative influence in Mr. Obama’s early years as a “community organizer,” made Rule Number One in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”

Ron Silver, a profile in courage

Ron Silver's suffering is at an end. His passing Sunday ended a two-year long bout with esophageal cancer. He used to say that it was his curse to have been stricken with a type of that terrible disease that was so exotic that few people - and, until he came along, few if any celebrities - had contracted it. As a result, victims with cancer of the esophagus had no lobby generating large research and development budgets aimed at producing a cure.

Shariah’s Brotherhood

On Friday, President Obama reiterated for the umpteenth time his determination to develop a "new relationship" with the Muslim world. On this occasion, the audience were the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that, in so doing, he will be embracing the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization dedicated to promoting the theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls Shariah and that has the self-described mission of "destroying Western civilization from within."

Who’s Next on Obama List for Intel Chairman?

Yesterday’s news by Intelligence Director Dennis Blair that Obama’s choice for top intel analyst would not be Charles “Chas” Freeman allowed the nation a collective sigh of relief.

Unfit

Rarely has a second-tier government appointment been more momentous than Team Obama’s decision to entrust the National Intelligence Council (NIC) to Charles “Chas” Freeman. After all, by so doing, Mr. Obama would make the arbiter of the most policy-sensitive intelligence community products – the collective judgments known as National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) – to a man with strong and profoundly troubling views.

Farewell to Britain

London: The British are understandably mystified. Long accustomed to a "special relationship" with the United States, they are trying to figure out why the latter's likeable new president would be going to such lengths to distance himself from the country that has for generations been America's closest ally.

Garbage in, garbage out

The announcement last week that the Obama administration would turn over the job of preparing National Intelligence Estimates to a man whom Saudi Arabia, China, Iran and Hamas surely consider an agent of influence calls to mind an old axiom about Charles "Chas" Freeman's new line of work: "Garbage in, garbage out."