By Wayne Allensworth In another one of his frequent, nearly inexplicable zigzags, President Donald Trump recently said that Republican House members should vote for legislation calling for the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. But he only conceded the point after it became apparent that a number of Republicans would vote that way regardless. The Senate passed the bill on...
By Wayne Allensworth When President Trump’s second term began almost a year ago, I was ready to give him and his team every benefit of every doubt. And it appeared for a while like there might even be some semblance of a plan to dismantle the administrative state. That hope was unfounded. Team Trump has no plan, no strategic vision, and no real understanding of what faces us. What Trump and his...
By R. Cort Kirkwood President Trump has ordered the military to use force against the drug cartels that he designated as terrorist organizations on his first day in office. The New York Times reported the development this morning, a day after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that a reward for the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro — also kingpin of the Cartel los...
By Wayne Allensworth I highly recommend watching Tucker Carlson’s interview with Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, noted foreign policy realist and author, along with Harvard’s Stephen Walt, of a very important book, The Lobby: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. As Carlson notes in the podcast, it is remarkable that the book was ever published, but as Mearsheimer says...
By Wayne Allensworth By the time you notice that something is terribly wrong it’s often too late to fix it. Much of my adult life has been a slow but steady realization that things were and are worse than I thought. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s back up a bit to a time when I was first beginning a new career and a new life, a convinced Cold Warrior who soon realized that the Cold War was...
By Wayne Allensworth The Trump administration has taken some important positive steps in its first six months. But there is a lot left to do. Here are some thoughts on where we stand. The United States is at least pausing supplies of weapons to Ukraine. The Pentagon had informed the White House that American weapons stockpiles were being depleted by supplying Kyiv. It’s about time. President...
By Wayne Allensworth I hope the “Midnight Hammer” airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are the end of American involvement in this latest Middle East embroglio, but we have reasons to fear that we could be dragged into another quagmire. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have all stated that the United States does not intend to get...
By R. Cort Kirkwood The fear that Iran has planted sleeper terror cells or terrorists in the country appears to be well-founded. Immigration and Customs Enforcement collared 11 Iranian illegal aliens during the weekend. One was an army sniper; another, a nation’s revolutionary guard with ties to a terrorist outfit. A third was a terror suspect. The rest were the usual motley crew of thugs and...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the Biden administration released almost 1,300 Iranians into the country. That suggests a frightening possibility. President Trump might well have activated a sleeper cell of Iranian terrorists inside the United States with his attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The number of Iranians whom Biden freed should...
By Wayne Allensworth Israel’s strike on Iran yesterday was, we are told, a pre-emptive strike to prevent the Iranians from enriching uranium and possibly producing nuclear bombs. The U.S. knew about it beforehand but distanced itself from the strike. Israeli’s backers are wondering whether the US will defend the Israelis from retaliation. Whether the Iranians are close to producing nukes is...
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