American History

Mohamed Magid is the Imam and the spiritual leader at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Virginia. He is also an operative of the Muslim Brotherhood.   All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) is one of the largest mosques in America, located in Sterling, Virginia, and serves 5,000 Muslim families. ADAMS offers a wide variety of services. Some are of...

Luis Miguel Can Florida buck the current political trends and remain a bastion of conservatism? On the heels of the elections on Tuesday, the pro-abortion movement feels invigorated, confident that it has a path to nationwide victory via implementation of the kind of strategy it used to great effect in Ohio — spend lots of money to get a misleading...

cokada/iStock/Getty Images Plus Federal agencies are vastly underreporting spending to the government’s official spending-information website — when they are reporting it at all — according to a Tuesday Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. As part of its responsibilities to track federal spending under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the GAO examined whether federal agencies, as required...

SDI Productions/E+/Getty Images A multiracial group of people, many with smart phones, line up along a wall in a school gymnasium in order to vote. Democrats celebrated Tuesday’s elections in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, with the punditry class attributing the Left’s victories to one key issue: abortion.   And there’s no doubt that America has become an abortion culture....

John Whitehead There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?— V for Vendetta...

Amazon.com In an interview at The Daily Signal last week, Joe Kennedy, the football coach whose Supreme Court ruling is now obliterating the “separation of church and state” canard, expressed an eternal truth: If you could take a like me and change the path of the nation as far as religious freedom and the First Amendment goes, imagine what He...

Charles Willson Peale/Wikipedia John Laurens In the pantheon of American Founding Fathers, John Laurens of South Carolina remains an unsung hero. His life, though tragically short, was marked by an unwavering commitment to liberty and a vision for a nation unshackled by the bonds of slavery. Born on October 28, 1754 to a wealthy plantation family, Laurens’ journey to becoming...

AP Images James Carville in 2018 Even Biden’s staunchest cheerleaders are having second guesses about his chances. In a surprising blow to Joe Biden’s candidacy, James Carville, the “Ragin’ Cajun” political strategist who has become a fixture in establishment Democratic political consulting and commentary, said in a recent interview with The Washington Post that it is “ludicrous” to skirt the...

Robert Malley and Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated the terrible Iranian Deal that violated the Constitution because it was a treaty and did not have the 2/3 approval in the Senate. Instead, it had the approval of the United Nations. On June 29, 2023, Special Envoy to Iran Robert Malley was placed on unpaid leave by the Department of...

Behind the Biden “presidency,” Barack Obama looms large. But thanks to relentless media deception and propaganda, most Americans know very little about the real Obama. To truly understand him, it is essential to understand the roots of his political activism. It all begins with South Africa’s Communist revolution. In addition to launching his political career in the home of a...

DarisuzPa/iStock/Getty Images Plus Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party was ahead in a national election, but fell short of a majority, final official results revealed on October 17. The official results from 100 percent of voting districts disclosed that PiS gained 35.38 percent of votes; the opposition and pro-EU Civic Coalition (KO) won 30.70 percent; the center-right Third Way...

AP Images Vivek Ramaswamy It’s bad enough when Americans hear, and have good reason to believe, “Laws are only for the little people.” But there’s perhaps an even more bitter pill: Having good reason to believe laws are also only for citizens. This very much appears the case, too, when hearing endless excuses for why the pseudo-elites won’t deport illegal...

LPETTET/iStock/Getty Images Plus In one of its latest blog posts, the Convention of States (COS) says the Constitution can be boiled down to four words: “If government, which government?” Those four words were spoken by Republican Utah State Representative Ken Ivory, who spoke at the group’s simulated constitutional convention. Ivory went on to tout the Tenth Amendment and explain its...

On an autumn day in 1774 that, according to records kept, was already quite chilly, a significant moment in American history was about to unfold. In the heart of Philadelphia, the First Continental Congress had gathered at Carpenters’ Hall, united by a common cause — their growing discontent with British tyranny and the disregard by Parliament and King of their...

Following the attack on Israel by Hamas, members of Congress want to repeat their damaging practice of doling out massive amounts of aid to foreign countries, this time to Israel — even though it contradicts the United States’ constitutional and traditional foreign policy of non-interventionism. On October 7, the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas invaded Israel, brutally killing and kidnapping innocent...

I stole the title for this piece from The Economist, since it sums up, in a simple and short phrase, a situation that drags on and is difficult to explain. The chaos in Washington is the chaos in the American political system, a situation that has been brewing for a long while and has now reached the point of complete...

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier. Israel has spoken this blood-soaked language of violence to the Palestinians...

We have to accurately understand how the triangular strategic relationship between the U.S., China and Taiwan concerns Taiwan’s security and development. Underanalyzing or overanalyzing it will endanger Taiwan’s equilibrium and stability. As Taiwan’s presidential campaign becomes increasingly heated, differences among the candidates on the question of boundaries between Taiwan and the U.S. and China have become increasingly apparent. The incumbent...

David Biesack/flickr Niccolò Machiavelli, the renowned Italian diplomat, philosopher, and writer of The Prince and Discourses on Livy is perhaps not the first name that comes to mind when discussing economics. However, his works contain invaluable insights into governance, power, and the economic stability of commonwealths. In particular, Machiavelli’s warnings against national debt and the expansion of entitlement programs offer...

zimmytws/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a case that many pundits predict will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, former President Donald J. Trump has filed a motion to dismiss charges filed against him in federal court. Asserting a novel constitutional defense to criminal charges filed against him in relation to his actions on and related to the events at the...