Iran stepped up their game this weekend, laying out conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz that if the U.S. were to accept would be a humiliating capitulation. Their new terms for reopening the Strait include the following: to “never threaten nor insult Iran in any language;” to “[P]ermanently end…
Your browser doesn’t support inline PDFs. Download the PDF [View the full PDF] Dear President Trump, We write as members of the Citizens Commission on National Security, a watchdog group that includes retired generals, colonels, intelligence professionals, journalists, and policy experts who have defended you publicly through years of investigations,…
[In 1982, World Cup soccer took center stage with an almost magical convergence of history, politics, symbolism and Rock ‘n’ Roll … as a reminder of a different time—a Cold War World Cup—when sports imitated life, and life imitated sports.] Sports often imitate life. They reflect life’s values and…
With a little less than six months to go until “the most important election” in, take your pick — history/decades/years/this decade — the number of variables that will determine the outcome are almost too many to list. But before I put that list together, I want to suggest the blocks…
At CPAC, Roger Aronoff had a chance to talk to former Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert. They discussed what Louie is up to these days, along with the issue of what to do about district judges who issue nationwide injunctions; weaponization of justice against Trump; the war with Iran; and…
At CPAC, Roger Aronoff had the chance to visit with Mike Pedersen, who is running for the seat in Congress currently occupied by Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for governor this year. As a retired U.S. Marine Corps flight officer, Pedersen spent 20 years on active duty,…
CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been the place to go for decades to take the pulse of the conservative movement, and its relevance in the Republican Party. This year was Donald Trump’s third time not to have addressed CPAC in person, since he first did so in 2011,…
President Donald Trump announced on X Monday that he is pausing attacks on Iran’s power plants and energy infrastructure as they are in the middle of the first encouraging discussions with Iran that could bring an end to the current war. “I AM PLEASE TO REPORT THAT THE UNITED STATES…
ICE is the new Gestapo. The Trump administration is worse than the Nazis. That, we are told, is the new moral consensus of the enlightened left, repeated by late-night “comics,” legacy media, and blue-check pundits until it hardens into “fact.” Never mind that it is a grotesque trivialization of actual…
IPT Executive Director and CCNS member Steven Emerson was interviewed on December 29 by WABC Radio’s John Catsimatidis and James Flippin about the threat of Islamic terrorism and how 2025 has been one of the bloodiest years in terms of worldwide terrorism. Emerson touches on the unprecedented wave of antisemitic…
While President Donald Trump’s claim to have ended eight wars across the globe may be a bit of an exaggeration, he has certainly made the effort and undoubtedly had a significant impact in all of those cases. You can read about each of the eight here, and decide for yourself…
Both Republicans and Democrats are dealing with internal conflicts that cast a huge cloud of uncertainty over where this country is headed, both politically and economically, short term and long. While President Trump’s first year of his second term has achieved success after success, that could all come undone with…