ISIS
February 17th, 2016
In the past few years, we’ve seen the Obama administration stumble and fall numerous times when it comes to developing an effective policy on what to do about ISIS and radicalization. Interestingly, during the past eight...
January 22nd, 2016
This week, I voted on legislation to end the 40-year old ban on crude oil exports, permanently allow Texans to deduct their state and local sales taxes, increase defense spending to combat ISIS and radical Islamic terror and...
January 15th, 2016
In his State of the Union message, President Obama claimed that America’s standing as a world power is greater than when he first took office.
January 8th, 2016
I issued the following statement on the arrest of Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan. Al Hardan came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq and has been living in Houston while allegedly providing support to ISIS.
December 11th, 2015
Terrorists have used Twitter to convert thousands of young American minds and recruit new jihadists for ISIS.Federal law prohibits giving aid or helping a designated foreign terrorist organization. These FTOs use Twitter, an...
December 4th, 2015
The suspected killer wife, using an alias on social media, pledged her allegiance to al Baghdadi in the hours before the massacre, sources tell ABC News. Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Farook were identified by police...
December 2nd, 2015
A new U.S. Special Operations "targeting force" that will be deployed to Iraq to go after ISIS leaders, and the possibility of the United Kingdom’s broadening airstrikes against ISIS into Syria are the latest signs of...
November 16th, 2015
Paris is a reminder that evil is always with us, and that is not the answer that most of us don’t want to hear. Many of the responses on Facebook expressed the horror and disbelief, with responses coming from folks who are...
January 27th, 2016
Liberal professor is redundant as most of these so-called educators are wacko Liberals. The official title for professors should be “indoctrinators.”Liberal professors are radicals. Who knows when they have been radicalized...
January 19th, 2016
Iraq witnessed a sharp increase in civilian deaths following the fall of large swaths of territory to the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014. Now despite a string of recent battlefield losses for IS, civilians in Iraq...
January 9th, 2016
With the holidays behind us and the second session of the 114th Congress in full swing, the New Year is a good chance to look back at the legislative accomplishments from last year. Too often, the media covers the bickering...
December 27th, 2015
U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS. "We're hitting them with combination punches now. They're getting hit in multiple places simultaneously. That said, the war's not over. There's plenty...
December 4th, 2015
Bullet holes are still visible in the walls of cafes, and the graves are fresh for those lives that were stolen by ISIS fighters in the streets of Paris. Meanwhile, the President is in Paris talking about his priority--the...
December 3rd, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC – Speaking in the Great Hall at the Library of Congress today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) outlined his vision for a confident America at home and abroad, pledging that his top priority as Speaker in 2016...
November 24th, 2015
Hundreds of pro-Syrian refugee activists took to the streets of Austin, Texas, this weekend to protest Governor Greg Abbott’s order to refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees into Texas.