Tagged: isis

Personality vs. policy.

Find yourself in a debate with a Trump hater, and you likely can bring it to a fairly swift conclusion if you can pivot the conversation to the president’s policy successes.

That which must be named.

ISIS is gaining in strength and boldness and capacity to disrupt a free society like ours in large measure because our leadership – namely our president — refuses to call the problem by its name.

America’s disappearing oceans.

It is dangerously naive to think that the horrors experienced by France and Belgium in the past four months will remain confined to Europe.

Reasonable skepticism.

You won’t convince a majority of Americans to support importing thousands of Syrian refugees so long as Obama’s response to the growing threat of ISIS remains so flaccid.

It’s the thankless jobs that matter most.

Being a good and effective parent to a small child is never-ending and to an astonishing degree thankless. The same is true for standing a never-ending watch in the defense of freedom.