Author Archives: Liberty Click

This speech was delivered at the Ron Paul Revolution March in Washington, DC, on July 12, 2008. “If there be one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1791, “it is that we … Continue reading →

With daily television coverage of suicide car-bomb attacks, ambushes, drive-by shootings, stabbings, and other Intifada-type attacks around the world, the question arises as to why al-Qaeda does not stage such small-scale but deadly operations in the United States. From Washington … Continue reading →

Congressman Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution, is an unusual presidential campaign book in that the candidate — Dr. Paul — is almost entirely absent. This is not to say that his presence is not felt; indeed, Dr. Paul is with the … Continue reading →

Douglas J. Feith’s new book War and Decision. Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism is an old-fashioned morality tale written by a man with little discernible moral sense or any real concern for the truth. In a … Continue reading →

Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed Gallup Press, 2008 230 pp. A new book by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed ought to have a profound and transforming influence on … Continue reading →

Despite Dr. Ron Paul’s courageous campaign against Washington’s relentless overseas interventionism, the presidential primaries have been largely free of substantive foreign-policy debate, aside, that is, from quirky assertions that sleeping with a president, serving as a prisoner of war, and … Continue reading →

If we want to defeat our enemies, we have to be willing to use lethal, overpowering force. In this age of mindless phrases, such as “out-of-the-box thinking” and “a time for change,” another silly phrase — favored by presidents Bush, … Continue reading →

While McCain, Obama, and Clinton attend services of their choice on Sunday, all worship at the shrine of intervention-that-spurs jihad the rest of the week. Just in the past month, all three have pushed an interventionist agenda in Pakistan and … Continue reading →

On Feb. 5, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell warned the Senate Intelligence Committee that al-Qaeda is regrouping, not retreating — and boosting its capacities to launch another attack inside the United States. So how does the war on terrorism … Continue reading →

What, one wonders, can possibly inspire the neoconservatives’ hate for Americans, their history, their traditions, and their ideas? In the context of this question, George Weigel’s new book, Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism: A Call to Action, is more troubling … Continue reading →