Anonymous senior officials claim that not renewing three sections of the Patriot Act is “playing national security Russian Roulette” in a time of unspecified “mounting terrorism threats.” Vigilant citizens take to Twitter to illustrate the consequences.

The threat from foreign fighters is overblown — and the danger of panic is underappreciated.

The Islamic State owes at least as much to secular revolutionary ideologies like Marxism as to its claimed religion.

A new propaganda film from ISIS is narrated entirely in English and features a fighter who speaks with an American or Canadian accent.

There are many reasons the U.S. shouldn’t go to war with the Islamic State — and the best may be that it's exactly what they want us to do.

The big news out of the new “Global Coalition to Counter ISIL” meeting in Paris was that “several” Arab nations were willing to join President Obama’s latest bombing campaign. “Several Arab states have offered to conduct airstrikes against militants in Iraq,” Anne Gearan and Karla Adam write in the Washington Post: “A lot of this […]

Much is being made of the big turnaround for President Obama, from being a man firmly identified with pulling out of wars to a man launching a new one. And he did, of course, announce a significant escalation of the U.S. military response to the Islamic State. But if you parse his Wednesday night speech […]

Our newspapers of record finally remembered it's their job to point out the flaws in the president's plan to defeat ISIS.

One of the reasons the mainstream media failed to expose the fraud perpetrated by the Bush White House during the run-up to war in Iraq was that it virtually ignored dissenters. And there were some. Even in Washington. Most notably, in September 2002, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy gave a bold, moving speech outlining his view […]

When judging the hyperbole emerging from Capitol Hill about the Islamic State, you must keep this in mind: “The threat ISIS poses cannot be overstated.” That’s what Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, wrote in a USA Today op-ed on Sunday. In other words, there can be no hyperbole. […]