Thanks to the Biden Administration’s appeasement of the Iranian regime, the mullahs have apparently become more emboldened than ever to test their nuclear bomb. Secret attempts by the Administration to reach an interim deal with the mullahs threaten not only to add an estimated $100 billion into the treasury of the Iranian regime’s struggling economy, but, worse, catapult an Iranian nuclear menace onto the world.
Republicans in Congress have passed a defense bill that includes limiting access to abortion for troops and limits on transgender care for service members.
The House passed the bill 219 to 210 to set up a showdown in the Senate over the amendments which included banning considering military recruitment from considering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The National Defense Authorization Act sets policy for the Defense Department for the year, and is usually routine and widely supported by both parties.
It’s a start.
Earlier this month, a Gatestone Institute reader, Goh Heung Yong, submitted a comment in which he noted:
“No one should forget that it was America’s strength for freedom, that freed just about all of Asia from Japanese occupation. Her power for peace liberated half of Europe and kept Stalin’s predatory advance at bay. America still is that shining beacon for freedom and civilized existence.”
We can hope. We will need it.
As the U.S. deals with the consequences of mass immigration, important lessons can be learned from our oldest European ally.
Over the past few weeks, France has been engulfed in riots after a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. The rioting and looting have largely been centered in communities with many migrants from North African and Islamic nations. The rioting has caused more than one billion dollars in property damage, and has led to thousands of arrests. It has also led to a renewed debate in Europe about the costs of mass migration and whether or not those costs are worth it.
While this country and its people have faced their share of difficulties — including the Great Depression, several wars, terrorist attacks and countless devastating natural disasters — we seem to be losing a key attribute of our national identity: our confidence in our ability to solve problems and achieve what was once considered “impossible.”
That confidence was born of at least three widespread attributes — initiative, gratitude and humility — which are sorely lacking at present.
It’s no secret Red China has spent the past several decades heavily investing in its armed forces. In a matter of decades, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has evolved into the largest military in the world, retrofitted with some of the latest and most advanced weapons systems.
Such developments have prompted Beijing to take more aggressive actions throughout the Indo-Pacific region in recent years. Just last month, a U.S. destroyer was abruptly cut off by a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessel during a transit through the Taiwan Strait. The incident occurred a few weeks after a Chinese fighter jet came within 400 feet of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft while the latter was conducting a patrol of the South China Sea.
Enforcing the law has become abnormal.
The usual suspects have weighed in on recent belated efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
Our now bankrupt media, the corrupt government of Mexico, and the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion apparat have damned a series of laws recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that enforce existing federal immigration laws.
On June 14, U.S. Army Private First-Class Cole James Bridges of Ohio pleaded guilty to terrorism and attempted murder charges of helping the terrorist group ISIS kill his comrades on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria during 2020 and 2021.
This plea triggered the usual perfunctory dance between uninspired government press release writers and disinterested journalists keener on a white supremacy terrorism case. But before yet another Islamic terrorism prosecution passes with no public contemplation, the story of Bridges as detailed in the court files demands a pause for telling because the death penalty-deserving high treason for which this turncoat was not charged blew far past tolerance norms.
A former Marine and Trump supporter is suing Fox News for defamation over claims he helped incite the January 6 riots.
Ray Epps, 61, claims in a new lawsuit that he became the subject of various conspiracy theories after comments by the network’s former host Tucker Carlson.
The suit states: ‘Just as Fox had focused on voting machine companies when falsely claiming a rigged election, Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for January 6th.
Following the end of the Vietnam War and its accompanying draft, the U.S. military transformed into an all-volunteer force. In the decades that followed, the promise of good benefits, a chance for adventure, and comradery prompted swaths of Americans to give up their civilian lives to defend the freedoms of their fellow countrymen. It’s a sacrifice that has generated much-deserved respect from the nation.
But what happens when the country with the world’s most sophisticated navy no longer possesses the manpower necessary to maintain its status as a global hegemon? It’s a question the U.S. is having to grapple with as its maritime force experiences the worst personnel crisis in recent history.
Veterans no longer want their kids to enlist. Here’s why.
Lately, military-age males have stayed away from the military in droves. General officers and senior civilians in the Pentagon blame a poor public education system and decades of video games for creating a generation of young men not mentally and physically qualified to serve — and there is certainly some truth to that.
But if senior Pentagon officials want to get to the bottom of the Biden-era recruiting dip, they should look in the mirror and at the picture of the sitting president on the wall of virtually every office in the five-sided wind tunnel in Arlington, Virginia.
The America ChangLe Association in Manhattan’s Chinatown, which closed down after an FBI raid last year, has just reopened with a grand ceremony celebrating… July 4! This is China’s new form of political warfare, brazen in the extreme.
It is way past time to end the ability of the Chinese regime to conduct political warfare against the United States from American soil. America’s defense begins with closing down the America ChangLe Association.
“China is steadily progressing toward becoming a world-class space leader, with the intent to match or surpass the United States by 2045.”
The indefatigable Bill Gertz of the Washington Times has a page-one story highlighting a Mitchell Institute report that warns that the United States is falling behind China in “counterspace capabilities” that will be crucial to success in any future war.
To quote the report: “The U.S. advantage in space is at risk … [T]he United States must maintain its access to space capabilities that are now threatened by China. And the United States must have the potential to deny China access to the space capabilities it needs to threaten U.S. space and terrestrial forces and national interests.”
In a striking move, Canada has unveiled a new pathway for high-skilled immigrants in the United States to migrate north. The policy risks undermining America’s economy and geostrategic position and should serve as a wake-up call to Washington. Reforming the nation’s high-skilled immigration system is a pressing need.
On net, legal immigrants with college degrees create jobs. Immigrants founded most U.S. billion-dollar startups. And the most successful immigrants, like Elon Musk, came to the U.S. as international students and then transitioned to an H-1B visa, designed for specialty occupations.
I call Bullshit, in the US H1-B Visas are a known scam benefitting the corporate class by depressing wages …
THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM HARMS AMERICAN WORKERS AND SHOULD BE REPEALED
“… According to data compiled in 2020, some 60 percent of H-1B workers were paid at the two lowest prevailing wage levels for these top H-1B employers, meaning that three out of five foreign visa workers were being paid wages far below the local median wage for similar occupations. Amazon and Microsoft are particularly egregious in their practices, with over 75 percent of their H-1B workers in 2019 paid at the two lowest prevailing wage rates.
There is substantial data to suggest that the H-1B visa program continues to be one of the most abusive programs condoned by the federal government. The design and implementation of this program necessitate inflicting real harm on middle-class and middle-class-aspiring Americans, their families, and their communities, as well as many of the foreign recipients of the visa.”
If these munitions are some sort of last resort, then Ukraine is in a double bind
When the war in Ukraine was only a few months old, Amnesty International published a report condemning what it had found to be the extensive use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv — by Russia. It noted that the weapons were banned by more than 100 countries and said that in Kharkiv they had claimed hundreds of civilian victims. Cue accusations of war crimes and western outrage against Russia’s uncivilized way of war.
I think Joe’s handlers want the two sides in peace talks at the least before the election revs up.
