Op-eds

CASA Director Adam Turner’s op-ed at Townhall

It has been six months since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.  While the American public is currently focused on another foreign policy crisis, the need for answers and accountability into last year’s events in Afghanistan should remain a top priority.   

Luckily, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFR) has stepped into the breach.  This past month, this Committee issued a report critical of the federal government’s actions in Afghanistan.  SFR criticized both the Biden administration’s failures that allowed for a quick Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a botched withdrawal that left thousands of Americans (according to the report) and tens of thousands of Afghan partners behind.

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Exclusive to WND: Adam Turner wonders if climate change is really a dire national security threat

While the Ukrainian state is fighting for its very life against the Russian juggernaut, it was reported that the U.S. military was conducting mandatory training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery. All Army personnel, from soldiers to commanders and supervisors, are required to participate in the training by Sept. 30, 2022…

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CASA Director Adam Turner’s op-ed at Townhall

Even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine draws strong condemnation from the Biden administration, in other venues the administration’s foreign policy representatives sit side-by-side with their Russian counterparts, as well as those of China, another hostile regime, asking for their help with a new Iran deal.  If that sounds like a bad idea, well, when it comes to the Iran deal, as the old saying goes, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!

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CASA Director Adam Turner’s op-ed in the American Thinker

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has occupied all of the media’s attention, leaving several other international priorities of the Biden administration to continue without much scrutiny.  One of these is the effort to revive a version of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal…

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The public is left to wonder what happened to our immigration laws

CASA Director Adam Turner’s op-ed in the Washington Times

Initial data leaked from the government’s 2021 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Annual Report shows why agency leadership may be sitting on it.

For the first time in at least a decade, ICE failed to release its congressionally mandated annual report on deportations of illegal immigrants by the end of the calendar year. Data from the report was reportedly leaked to the Free Beacon. The numbers show that in 2021, the Biden administration deported just 55,590 illegal immigrants, the smallest number in five years (taking us back to the Obama-Biden administration). This is less than a third of the deportations in 2020 and about one-fifth the number in 2019…

Read the whole thing at the Washington Times

CASA Director Adam Turner’s op-ed at Townhall

Today, everywhere you look, the First Amendment and/or free speech are under attack.

The most prominent recent example involves Joe Rogan.  Rogan, a comedian with a large podcast following, has found himself under pressure from critics who want to cancel him and his show on Spotify because of alleged “false” or “misleading” information presented by some of his guests.  As a result of these criticisms, Rogan has already apologized for some of his podcasts, and removed some of the offending ones from Spotify.  Needless to say, his critics are not mollified, and have moved onto other attacks on his speech…

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Exclusive to WND: Adam Turner says TR’s ‘big stick’ isn’t what it used to be, at least in relation to China

In any normal Olympic year, athletes, fans and officials would be flocking to the site of the Games. But this is no normal Olympic year, nor is it a normal Olympic venue. In fact, the White House, citing China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” announced a “diplomatic boycott” of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. According to press secretary Jen Psaki, this means that…

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