by Kenneth Timmerman European leaders seemed to gloat over the way they treated Donald Trump at the recent NATO and Group of 7 summits. The newly-elected boy president of France, Emmanuel Macron, thought he could out-macho the U.S. president in what the media called a “white-knuckle” handshake. ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman We truly live in two Americas. Every day the divide between Democrats and Republicans, Trump fans and Trump haters, seems to grow deeper. For the Trump haters, each day brings news of some dastardly treachery, some unprecedented betrayal of America and the American people. After ...Read More...

The U.S. should shut down Iran’s top terrorist by Kenneth R. Timmerman He might not be a household name in America — at least, not yet. But throughout the Middle East, Qassem Suleymani makes the righteous and the innocent tremble. To the righteous — meaning, from his perspective, ...Read More...

by Kenneth Timmerman So Vice Admiral Robert Harward is now out of the running for National Security Advisor, reportedly because he insisted on bringing in his own staff. But whoever is named to replace LTG Michael Flynn must bring their own staff into the National Security Council. Why? Because ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman On Friday, the Islamic State of Iran celebrates its 38th birthday by bussing hundreds of thousands of Iranians to mosques and public squares to chant “Death to America.” Some of these celebrations are perfunctory. Without the buses, and without the vacation pay, working ...Read More...

When uncertainty is our friend. by Kenneth Timmerman The announcement from National Security Advisor Lieutenant General Michael Flynn on Wednesday that the Trump administration was “putting Iran on notice” after its latest ballistic missile test is bad news for the ruling clerical elite and ...Read More...

by Kenneth Timmerman In a panic over their unexpected losses in November, Senate Democrats have declared war on Donald Trump It’s not just Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer’s (N.Y.) pledge to filibuster the new Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, before his name was even announced, ...Read More...

by Kenneth Timmerman Democrats joining the puerile food fight Rep. John Lewis started with the President-Elect may soon live to regret it. Donald Trump has promised a vigorous legislative agenda for his first one-hundred days, and has the majorities in Congress to make good on that promise. ...Read More...

by Kenneth Timmerman Here’s the real problem with the joint intelligence report on alleged Russian hacking: without the classified details, we ordinary citizens are supposed to take the breathless allegations, presented as “high confidence” intelligence judgments, on faith. Director of National ...Read More...

by Kenneth Timmerman President-elect Donald Trump was right during the campaign to call the Iran nuclear agreement “the worst deal ever negotiated” by the United States government. Not only did it reward a terrorist state with $100 billion of frozen oil revenues (some say, $150 billion), ...Read More...

America’s ‘voice’ has been transformed into the Voice of Tehran by Kenneth R. Timmerman If you had been listening to the Voice of America’s Persian News Network (PNN) in the weeks and months before the U.S. presidential elections, you would easily have believed that Donald Trump was a white supremacist ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman President-Elect Trump will be tested by the Islamic state of Iran soon after taking office on January 20. It could come the very day of his inauguration with an enormous (if superficial) head-fake, as they gave President Reagan by releasing our U.S. diplomat-hostages the very ...Read More...

Fulfilling Trump’s promise means halting the endless overseas cash flow. by Kenneth R. Timmerman Secretary of State George Shultz famously asked future ambassadors a question before sending them out into the world. He would spin a globe, then ask them to point to their country. Many of them, ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman What could the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) possibly have in common? CAIR founders had close ties to Hamas, Palestinian Sunni Islamic extremists. NIAC and its main spokesman, Trita Parsi, have become apologists ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman Elections are about power: who has it, who doesn’t. Until this year, we were told that the candidate with the most money would win. Why? Because money buys negative ads to influence an uninformed electorate. Who keeps the electorate uninformed? The national media. When ...Read More...

Remember the “violent protests” that shut down a planned Trump rally in Chicago in March? Or the anti-Trump protests that closed a road to a Trump event in Arizona? There was nothing spontaneous about them. They were just following “a script of engagement” written by paid Clinton campaign operatives, ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman Hillary Clinton has no public events on her schedule from here to election day, a strategy being characterized as “do no harm.” She and her advisors apparently think she can coast to victory and let her surrogates do all the heavy lifting. And it’s true: Clinton has a lot ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman In its initial release of hacked emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta last Friday, Wikileaks included an extraordinary document so full of revelations that journalists are still finding new material in its depths. Among the most explosive are quotes from a ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman The pundits had given up Donald Trump for lost. Republicans were bailing on him. Women were turned off. Why, even his vice presidential pick, Mike Pence, was so disgusted he was on the verge of ditching the campaign (not).  While it’s certainly true that weasel Republicans ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman Oh, horrors! Oh, shocking! Oh, lewd, lewd, lewd! Spare me. What’s really shocking is the smarmy sanctimonious hypocrisy of it all. It’s comical to watch the drama coming from Democrats in response to the 11-year old “hot mic” incident with Donald Trump. Democrats ...Read More...

  by Kenneth R. Timmerman Hillary Clinton’s strategy is clear. She believes she wins if she can convince just enough African-American, Hispanic, and White female voters that Donald Trump is a wealthy white racist, who cheats on his taxes and treats women like dogs. That’s it. She’s given ...Read More...

by Kenneth R. Timmerman You know a candidate is in trouble when she deflects softball questions about her policies to talk about her opponent’s character. Hillary Clinton's phony "press conference," where she took six questions from friendly reporters and filibustered nearly half of the time ...Read More...