It’s Only Just Begun: The Detainment and Removal of Illegal Immigrants
Prepare yourselves. The travel ban fiasco is just the beginning. Ignored so far in last week’s Executive Order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Security […] More
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Reality Has Got to Set In: The Trump Administration and the Defense Budget
For a moment, try to ignore President Donald Trump’s tweets and rambling speeches and let’s look at what the Trump administration may be thinking about […] More
President-elect Trump: Can He Keep His Eyes on the Road?
“The great thing about being around Donald Trump is, you never have any confusion about who is driving the bus,” Vice President-elect Mike Pence said […] More
Deterring Moscow’s Cyber Threat
Let’s agree on one thing, when it comes to Russia’s recent interference with the U.S. presidential election, no one yet has found a way to […] More
Time for Congress to Invoke Tougher Sanctions on Russia
Will Congress reassert itself by passing new economic sanctions against Russia for using hacked emails to disrupt the U.S. presidential election if President-elect Donald Trump […] More
Sanctions Against Russia: Relief or Expansion Under Trump?
Sometime in the next 30 days, President Barack Obama should add to the economic sanctions now applied to Russia as a response to Moscow’s hacking […] More
Countering Russian Aggression in the Trump Era
A Congressional inquiry next year into Russian involvement in the U.S. presidential election will be only one of several Legislative Branch initiatives that may interrupt […] More
Questions Congress Should Ask the Defense Secretary Nominee
President-elect Donald Trump has called his chosen Defense Secretary, retired Marine General James Mattis “the real deal,” but after January 20, will President Trump, an […] More
A Challenging Four Years for the Media
Don’t be fooled that there is a new Donald Trump now that he is president-elect. As I have written before, this Trump presidency is going […] More
Oversight Needed on Trump's Global War Against Islamic Terror
Prepare yourselves for a stepped-up, worldwide war against Islamic radical terrorists directed from the White House by President-elect Donald Trump and his closest aides, who […] More
The Test Facing Congress and the Incoming Trump Administration
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or […] More
American Democracy in Trouble
No matter who wins today’s election, the American democratic system is in trouble. Should Donald Trump win, the country would have a president who has […] More
Keep Ash Carter at Defense
Hillary Clinton should keep Ash Carter as Defense Secretary if, as expected, she wins the presidency next week. With American troops fighting in Syria, Iraq, […] More
Giving Congress a Say on a No-Fly Zone in Syria
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should tell voters over the next two weeks that if elected, she would seek congressional authorization before ordering the Pentagon […] More
If This Were a Real World Election
Fox News’ Chris Wallace has said as moderator, he plans to make “foreign hot spots” one of the 15-minute topics in tomorrow night’s final presidential […] More
No Simple Choices When it Comes to Syria
President Obama, and therefore the United States, has not faced simple choices when it comes to Syria and certainly none that would satisfy Americans’ traditional […] More
The Problem is Congress, Not the Presidency
The Congress is the main cause of our broken government, not the Presidency. Yet public anger with Washington’s failure to act on key federal government […] More
The Snowden Movie Does Not Get to the Truth
We still do not know the full Edward Snowden story, and the new Oliver Stone movie about the former NSA contractor makes getting at the […] More