November 2, 2015 UN in North Korea: Four years after office reopens, auditors warn of old problems Four years after the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reopened an office in North Korea that had been closed in the wake of revelations of millions in hard currency transfers and of “dual-use” technology handed over to the communist regime, it has been given a top rating by UNDP auditors, despite their concerns about lax oversight, dubious record-keeping and erratic financial controls.
October 14, 2015 'Bridge of Spies': What Obama could learn from Spielberg and Hanks We thank Steven Spielberg for telling this story.
September 8, 2015 What Obama doesn't want you (and Congress) to know about his Iran deal Congress plans to start voting this week on Obama’s Iran deal – minus the facts.
August 6, 2015 70 years after Hiroshima, Los Alamos remains essential to our national security Seventy years ago on July 16, scientists with the Manhattan Project tested the Trinity gadget—the first atomic bomb—in the desert outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico.
July 13, 2015 Truth and reality in Iran Even if the Obama administration wins every concession it claims to want in these final moments of the negotiation, the deal is already stacked so far in Iran’s favor that the outcome, for the mullahs, is irresistible.
May 6, 2015 Netanyahu's Iran Speech: Real reason Obama White House doesn't want it The White House opposes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Congress, but not because the speech has political implications, coming as it does just two weeks before Israel's March 17 election. If the administration truly had political concerns it would not have dispatched a team of Obama loyalists to Israel to help defeat Netanyahu.
May 6, 2015 Iran nuclear deal: Obama's desperation is showing. And it's dangerous As the nuclear negotiations with Iran reach their final phase, President Obama increasingly finds himself at odds with reality. Although the United States has worked for years to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons while limiting Tehran’s attempts to be a regional hegemon, the president’s desperation to secure a deal - at whatever cost - places both of these goals at serious risk.