Author: Clifford D. May
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May: Our man in Havana
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President Obama legitimizes a remnant of the Cold War and pays tribute to a violent extremist “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” That was Barack Obama’s “historic” announcement in Cuba last week. But was it true? What is the Castro regime if not a vestige…
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May: When universities become day care
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Back in 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, warned against “defining deviancy down.” He was talking specifically about crime, about our getting used to it and not taking serious measures to fight it. But over the years since is there any realm of American or European life where acceptance of ever-increasing deviancy…
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May: Call it genocide; President should acknowledge what’s happening to Christians in Muslim lands
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In the Yemeni port city of Aden earlier this month, Islamists attacked a Catholic home for the indigent elderly. The militants, believed to be soldiers of the Islamic State, shot the security guard, then entered the facility where they gunned down the old people and their care-givers, including four nuns. At least 16 people were…
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May: The search for elusive Iranian moderates
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They won’t be found among the ruling clerical elite Ruhollah Khomeini was a man of religious faith and revolutionary fervor, committed to waging jihad until, in his words, “the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.” But when he took power in Iran in 1979, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N,…
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Bystanders to genocide
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President Obama and his team promised to do better It’s surprising how time slips away: Five years ago next month, President Obama proclaimed a “responsibility to act” when American “interests and values are at stake.” He made that statement in a major address at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Within days, a no-fly…
