In an op-ed published today, Sen. Angus King (I – Maine) hailed the bipartisan effort in the Senate that led to the passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 earlier this month and wrote that a nuclear-armed Iran is a danger “to the United States and to the...

In an appearance on CNN Monday, Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, praised the United States for its raids – like the successful raid that killed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) financier Abu Sayyaf in Syria over the weekend – but...

A bill that would prohibit the Illinois state pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel unanimously passed the Illinois House of Representatives Monday by a vote of 102-0. The synopsis of the bill, SB1761, reads: Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Prohibits a State agency from entering into a...

When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited the sukkah of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot last October, he was treated to a demonstration of a machine the government has given to Bedouin families to convert organic waste into clean bio-gas for cooking, heating, and...

ISIS’s conquest on Sunday of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, was the result of choices made by the Iraqi government interested in preserving Shiite political power and maintaining ties with Iran, Jacob Siegel and Michael Pregent wrote today in The Daily Beast. “Ramadi is predominantly Sunni, and...

In order to ensure that the emerging nuclear deal will effectively prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the United States must insist on implementing eight principles to “achieve a sound, enforceable deal,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – S.C) wrote in an op-ed (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal today. Graham...