Education, particularly a college degree, has long been a ticket to the middle class and upward mobility in America. Unfortunately, our schools and universities have also been proselytizing ideologies that represent an existential threat to U.S. security and longevity. It is only now with the eruption of support for the terrorist group Hamas across cities and college campuses that many are awakening to the crisis. The education system is now the central means by which the radical political Left marches through our institutions on its way to indoctrinating generations into a form of cultural self-loathing masquerading as enlightenment. For over fifty years, good people…
Author: Joshua Filler
Last week, Gov. Janet Mills announced her intention to form a commission to investigate the events leading up to and following the shooting in Lewiston that took the lives of 18 people and wounded over a dozen more. Putting aside for the moment whether this commission is better suited to be established by law through the State Legislature, the commission’s structure and approach ought to involve, at the very least, the following. Commissioners must be independent and represent a cross section of relevant disciplines and backgrounds, no activists. To ensure adequate span of control and management, the commission should be odd numbered and be no larger…
The current death toll in Israel from the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad continues to rise to over 1,400, including over 30 Americans. To put this in perspective, accounting for population that would be the equivalent of more than 50,000 dead Americans here at home. While Israel pounds terrorist targets in Gaza and will later reckon with how their vaunted security apparatus missed such a large, coordinated assault, the lesson for America is simple: if such an attack can happen over there, it can happen right here in our homeland. The potential seeds for a catastrophic attack on…
Joshua D. Filler is an attorney living in Maine. He served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Mayor of New York from 2000-2001, as Director for Local Affairs at the White House Office of Homeland Security from 2002-2003, and as Director of State and Local Coordination at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2003-2005 where he drafted presidential directives and federal statutes in the homeland security realm. The special counsel’s federal indictment against former President Donald Trump accuses him of willfully retaining classified documents and failing to deliver them to the government in violation of 18 U.S.C, section 793(e). A fatal…
With the indictment of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, the United States has crossed into dark and unchartered territory. Charging a man with fraud may be nothing new, but having the political party in power arrest the de facto leader of the opposition and former occupant of and current candidate for the Oval Office is unprecedented. This is not a plea for immunity from prosecution for former presidents or presidential candidates. Rather, if a prosecutor chooses to go down this road, the evidence must be incontrovertible and the legal theories upon which the case…