If you live near the Gulf of Mexico, you are the front line to an emerging existential threat to all Americans. The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear weapon exploded a hundred miles above the U.S. could kill 60-90 percent of all Americans. … [Read more...] about Threat from the Gulf of Mexico
Contributor: Amb. Henry F. Cooper
Where Are Today’s Maccabees?
On this, the final day of Chanukah, as Jews worldwide complete their celebration of the Maccabee victory that liberated their Temple over two millennia ago, all Americans should remember our common love of liberty, the heritage that has set the West … [Read more...] about Where Are Today’s Maccabees?
Celebrating Freedom
Thanksgiving Day, for the first time since it was adopted by President Lincoln in 1863, coincides with the Jewish celebration of Chanukah. It will take 77,798 more years until they can be celebrated together again... Former Israeli Ambassador Yoram … [Read more...] about Celebrating Freedom
Grid Ex II: An Exercise in Wishful Thinking
Like leaving a child with access to a supply of candy without a threat of disciplinary measures, the powers that be are permitting the nation’s electric power companies to ignore existential threats to the American people while conducting interesting … [Read more...] about Grid Ex II: An Exercise in Wishful Thinking
Arms Control Under Obamacare Rules?
Secretary of State John Kerry's assertions on aspects of the Geneva negotiations with Iran seem to echo the President's false claims and promises that accommodated the 2010 passage and subsequent execution of Obamacare. Moreover, his unfulfilled … [Read more...] about Arms Control Under Obamacare Rules?
EMP Mythology???
What will it take to get the powers that be to initiate timely and effective countermeasures to the existential threat posed by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), from either manmade or natural causes? Whether it will lead to effective actions is … [Read more...] about EMP Mythology???
No Executive Order Gun Control . . . Please!
Secretary of State John Kerry signed the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty against the clear wishes of the U.S. Senate-there were 51 votes against it last March. Now it will be important for the Senate to refuse to ratify this ill-advised treaty which … [Read more...] about No Executive Order Gun Control . . . Please!
Meet the Next Peace Laureate
On September 12, two days before the announcement on the agreement between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a plan to destroy Syria's chemical weapons--an agreement that has yet to be approved by Bashar … [Read more...] about Meet the Next Peace Laureate
Time for Churchill’s “V or Victory”
Winston Churchill overcame many difficulties-even failures-to speak truth to power in the 1930s, warning about the growing existential threat to Great Britain-indeed all of Western Civilization; and when that truth became sufficiently apparent, to … [Read more...] about Time for Churchill’s “V or Victory”