Newsmax RSS FeedThu, 08 Oct 2009 09:01:56 EDTBetween the New York City Police and Correction departments, I led a combined staff of nearly 70,000 men and women, and I oversaw a $4 billion dollar budget. In the jail system, I had the responsibility of overseeing the 125,000 inmates who entered the system annually; in...Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:01:13 EDTIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threat to world peace grows stronger by the day with new evidence that Iran is building an underground plant to enrich uranium that can be used for an atomic bomb. When asked if Iran had sufficient uranium to manufacture nuclear...Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:14 EDTOn Sept. 20, 2001, President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress following the attacks on America on 9/11. I sat two rows behind first lady Laura Bush as the president spoke of “a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.”He spoke of a new...Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:48:21 EDTBe it Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colorado or New York City, the past week has demonstrated that al-Qaida and radical Islamic extremism are alive and ever present and still pose a significant threat to our homeland, U.S. targets abroad and our international...Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:51:45 EDTOn May 15, the United States removed Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. It now looks like a bad decision.The resumption of diplomatic ties with the U.S. should have never occurred as has been evidenced by Moammar Gadhafi’s recent hero’s welcome and support...Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:58:43 EDTIn 2005, Germany's high court ordered the release of a Syrian-born Mamoun Darkazani, who was being held in a German prison in connection with the 2003 Madrid bombings. He was also allegedly seen in a 1999 wedding video with two of the 9/11 suicidal attackers, Marwan...Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:13:44 EDTAccording to a number of press reports, about a dozen people carrying guns, including one with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, stood among protesters outside a convention center in Arizona where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Aug. 17. This...Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:32:43 EDTThe recent controversy over the arrest of a prominent black Harvard scholar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., by Cambridge (Mass.) Police Sgt. James Crowley who happens to be white, should be looked at with a little more common sense and for what it is, based on the police report...Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:20:49 EDTThe Iraqi government has recently moved to restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in what appears to me to be an amended version of their 6-month-old U.S.- Iraqi security agreement. Hopefully, there is something lost in translation because if there isn’t,...Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:40:54 EDTOver the past 96 hours, the international press has published one article after another regarding President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East. Promoted by the White House and his supporters, and denounced by the neo-cons and right wing conservatives, the speech has...Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:17:58 EDTLast week, North Korea threatened that it would act in “self-defense” if provoked by the U.N. Security Council, which is considering tough sanctions over the country’s recent nuclear test.They then followed the threat with the test launch of another short-range missile, its...Fri, 22 May 2009 16:31:26 EDTAfter listening to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech yesterday on national security, I was a bit taken aback as to why his speech was even necessary.Then it dawned on me what the problem may be with those who attempt to make believe that the events of 9/11 never...Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:17:04 EDTIn the past week, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said in a television interview, that the Obama administration would not support prosecutions for "those who devised policy" regarding the CIA interrogations.The same interrogations that President Barack Obama’s top...