AUSTIN, TEXAS – Last Tuesday, the elected Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) took testimony from a wide cross-section of Texans, subject matter experts and others concerning the character and content of the K-12 social studies curriculum that will be taught in its state and roughly a score of others’ school systems over the next decade.
Good morning! My name is Frank Gaffney. I am currently President of the Institute for the American Future. I previously had the privilege of acting as an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Ronald Reagan.
For almost half a century, American policymakers have been conditioned to look the other way when Iran has attacked America. The Iranian regime sees the United States as its main enemy—beneath contempt and worthy of death and destruction. President Trump views the threat of future Iranian attacks as existential, and believes that further delay is no longer acceptable. It is therefore a matter of life and death that he has taken military action in Iran.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Keeping track of how the war with Iran is going, let alone where it’s going, is challenging. A key development from the latest phase of the Iranian regime’s war against us and most of the rest of the world – in which it has engaged since 1979 – has resulted in tectonic shifts in the Middle East. The United States and Israel have been joined by key European nations and a number of important Arab ones.
DALLAS, TEXAS: Yesterday, voters in Texas decisively affirmed Proposition 10 in the Republican primary with its five-word mandate: “Texas should prohibit sharia law.” With the support of 95 percent of those casting ballots, banning sharia – Islam’s toxic, totalitarian and demonic death-cult – has become a voting issue not only in their state, but across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— While much of the world’s elites have been focused on a fractious debate in Davos over the future status of Greenland and the prospects for the NATO alliance, tectonic shifts are taking place in the Middle East that require urgent attention. During weeks of massive protests across Iran, President Trump: warned that nation’s jihadist regime not to use violence to suppress them; encouraged the unrest to continue; and declared it was time for the supreme leader to go. The ayatollahs, nonetheless, savagely crushed the uprising with impunity.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The fate of Iran’s despotic regime appears to be hanging in the balance. The country’s population – after almost five decades of repression, privation and sharia-indoctrination – are in the streets, risking life and limb to demand the mullahs’ overthrow. Thousands have been shot dead where they were demonstrating; others who were wounded, were subsequently executed.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, President Trump is supposed to receive recommendations of the Secretaries of State and the Treasury concerning arguably his second presidency’s most consequential national security decision to date. At stake is whether the United States joins other allied nations in banning the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Or alternatively, pretends that the organization is not leading a global Islamic movement to destroy our constitutional Republic and Western civilization.
Designate the Muslim Brotherhood and Its Entities as Terrorist Organizations
WASHINGTON, D.C.— President Trump will soon make what may be the most important national security decision of his second presidency. And scarcely anyone even knows it’s impending, let alone how fraught the wrong choice would be. Given the incredibly high stakes for our people and constitutional Republic, the lack of the necessary public awareness and national debate about this decision is completely unacceptable.