Secure Freedom Minute
Episodes
Monday Nov 18, 2013
American Betrayal 2.0
Monday Nov 18, 2013
Monday Nov 18, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Franklin Delano Roosevelt should have described November 16, 1933 as a day that will live in infamy. Author Diana West notes that date marked the beginning of a terrible double-deception. It’s when FDR normalized relations with the Soviet Union after the Kremlin promised not to subvert the United States. Of course, the Soviets lied. As Ms. West, documents in her powerful new book, American Betrayal, for years thereafter, so did our own government – with horrific effects – by insisting the Soviets were reliable friends, and even wartime allies. Sound familiar? Today, Team Obama is engaging in its own, disastrous betrayals – from promising you can keep your health care to a deal that will allow Iran to keep its nuclear weapons program. We must not be fooled again.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Friday Nov 15, 2013
Lights Out on GridEx II
Friday Nov 15, 2013
Friday Nov 15, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.A much-anticipated national exercise that was supposed to simulate a serious disruption of America’s electric power grid ended yesterday. So how did this “GridEx II” turn out? Were there devastating problems – like those simulated in a recent National Geographic docudrama called “American Blackout”? In that movie, the power was off for ten days due to a cyber attack and three-hundred thousand people died. Unfortunately, we don’t know what happened in Grid Ex II – and its organizers won’t tell us until next spring. What we do know, though, is that they pretended the phones and internet would somehow work in their blackout – a totally unrealistic and seriously distorting assumption. Meantime, we’re assured there’s “no need for panic” about fixing the grid’s well-documented and potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities.Are you feeling lucky?This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
Israel's Missing Defenders Reemerge
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013
Suddenly, friends of Israel are frantic about President Obama’s increasingly hostile policies towards the Jewish State. For one thing, Team Obama began easing sanctions on Iran well in advance of getting any deal it can claim – however fraudulently – will limit Tehran’s accelerating nuclear weapons program. For another, Secretary of State John Kerry is blaming the victim, claiming that – unless Israel quickly makes strategic concessions to the Palestinians – it will be held responsible for the next, violent jihadist uprising, or “intifada.” Such behavior is what one should expect from an administration populated by senior officials deeply hostile to the Jewish State, and sympathetic to its enemies. Many of them were confirmed with support from normally pro-Israel groups and individuals. That must not be allowed to happen again.
Monday Nov 11, 2013
Obama's Veterans Day Gambit
Monday Nov 11, 2013
Monday Nov 11, 2013
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.Veterans Day should be a moment for solemn reflection and heartfelt thanks. Of course, that means we all should express appreciation for the sacrifice of millions of our countrymen and women. On this and every other day, moreover, we need to ensure that tomorrow’s veterans – American patriots who are now serving in uniform – are given the training and equipment that they, and their successors, need to have to fight and win the nation’s wars. Yet, Team Obama evidently sees Veterans Day as just another occasion to play politics. The President seems intent on buying vets’ support for various redistribution and entitlement schemes by promoting a sense of grievance against the society they once protected. Fortunately, our veterans want to ensure that that society continues to be safeguarded, not undermined in this fashion.This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.
Friday Nov 08, 2013
A World Not Rid of Nukes
Friday Nov 08, 2013
Friday Nov 08, 2013
Barack Obama is determined to “rid the world of nuclear weapons.” But how’s that working out?In fact, we face growing threats of nuclear attack. For example, the Chinese recently issued a map showing the American cities they plan to destroy with submarine-launched ballistic missiles.North Korea has a similar map and, reportedly, it has acquired electromagnetic pulse (or EMP) warheads capable of devastating our electric grid. Iran is working to acquire similar capabilities.Now, the BBC reports Saudi Arabia – which fears a nuclear Iran – can get its own such weapons from Pakistan whenever it wants. It is recklessly irresponsible to think that such a world will actually be safer if the United States persists delusionally in “ridding it of nuclear weapons,” starting with ours.
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
Farewell to Dan McMichael
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
A few weeks ago, I lost a dear friend and mentor – and America lost a great patriot. His name was R. Daniel McMichael and his extraordinary service to our country over five decades will likely never be properly recognized.Throughout those years, Dan helped one of our nation’s most generous and visionary philanthropists, Richard Mellon Scaife, to build and nurture the institutions of modern conservatism. In particular, this partnership and its organizational offspring were instrumental to our understanding of the threat posed by Soviet communism, and to our ultimately successful fight against its adherents.Like Ronald Reagan, Dan McMichael understood the need for each generation to defend freedom against existential threats. They did so brilliantly. It falls now to us in their absence to do the same with the Islamists’ shariah.