Year: 2015

Back in May, with ISIS ascendant, the Obama Pentagon ordered U.S. military bases here at home to raise their force protection condition status (FPCON) to “Bravo” amid a “general increase in the threat environment.” FPCON is the military’s security posture to protect troops, their families, civilian employees, information, equipment and facilities against terrorist threats. FPCON […]

After a terrorist attack, it’s natural to ask: What can politicians do to keep us safe? One thing they could do is actually focus on keeping us safe rather than devoting so much time, energy and hot air to the many things government does instead of protecting lives and property. My state’s politicians are particularly bad. […]

The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, also known as The Nation’s Report Card, shows that U.S. educational achievement, to put it nicely, leaves much to be desired. When it comes to reading and math skills, just 34 percent and 33 percent, respectively, of U.S. eighth-grade students tested proficient or above — that is, […]

The Paris attacks could have the effect of empowering the Bernie Sanders campaign and confronting Hillary Clinton with an unsolvable dilemma. The vicious attacks will trigger demands by reasonable Americans for an increased commitment to defeating ISIS. Many, like me, will call for a Third Gulf War to battle for civilization. But the left wing […]

If you stand out on Michigan Avenue in the evening — on that Magnificent Mile we also call Boul Mich — you’ll hear many languages spoken on our most international of streets: Italian and German, Russian and Turkish, Chinese, Arabic and many other tongues, including that most beautiful of all: French. But the other night, […]

I’m getting tired of living in a guerrilla terrorist war zone and having friends ask me if I’m all right. If you think that I’m exaggerating in describing Paris as such, consider the 129 civilians killed (at last count) and 352 injured here in coordinated Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks — mass shootings, suicide bombings and […]

According to legend, if not actual historians, Harold Macmillan was once asked what he most feared could derail his agenda. The British prime minister allegedly said, “Events, my dear boy, events.” Macmillan may never have actually said it, but the quote endures because it gets at a fundamental truth of politics (and life). Facts on […]

On Friday, Muslim terrorists murdered 129 people in Paris. At least one of the ISIS perpetrators apparently entered Europe as a “refugee” from Syria — he was found with a refugee ID. ISIS has already claimed that they have infiltrated the Syrian refugee population to the tune of thousands of terrorists. On Monday, President Obama […]

At least one of the bombers in the Paris massacre last weekend allegedly sneaked into France posing as a Syrian refugee. ISIS is infiltrating refugee camps to penetrate Europe and the United States. But on Monday, Obama dismissed the danger, doubling down on his plans to settle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees here. The White […]

We’ve learned some important things about the attacks and the attackers of the Paris massacre. We’ve learned that ISIS evidently either coordinated the attacks or granted operational authority to what I’ve coined Wilayat Paris. And it appears the coordination efforts came through Belgium, where at least two of the radical Islamists have been discovered to […]

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Some financial institutions may be considered “too big to fail,” but contemporary Western society may be too frivolous to survive. The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography. Like the Roman Empire, we too may decline and […]