https://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 23:28:45 -0400<![CDATA[The Trump-Russia “collusion” farce gets everything bass-ackwards.]]>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:10:02 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/07/24/yes-a-president-may-be-indicted-and-may-pardon-himself-n124017<![CDATA[Linda Sarsour bores me. She is the radical flavor-of-the-month. But she is a numbingly familiar type to longtime observers of sharia supremacists in the West: the forked tongue, the flag-draped anti-Americanism, the close partnership with the hard left, and so on. Eight years ago, I wrote a book called The Grand Jihad about this breed of Muslim Brotherhood-mold operative. Sarsour fits the pathology to a tee … but once you’re on to them, these people are a dime a dozen. Yawn.]]>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:07:40 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/07/08/a-word-of-truth-about-linda-sarsours-jihad-n124011<![CDATA[Can we all stipulate that no one ever wants to be the subject of an investigation? If you are innocent of wrongdoing, the fact that there is no meritorious criminal case is often beside the point.]]>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:49:24 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/06/19/a-tweet-is-just-a-tweet-it-tells-us-nothing-about-whether-trump-is-under-investigation-n124006<![CDATA[Attorney General Jeff Sessions is slated to testify this afternoon before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The hearing is being teed up as the attorney general’s response to former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before the same panel last week.]]>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:23:09 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/06/13/the-parameters-of-attorney-general-sessionss-recusal-n124002<![CDATA[The editors of the Wall Street Journal detail a controversy brewing in Congress over James Comey’s private memos. We use “private” here in the sense that these are memoranda the former FBI director wrote to himself. They are not “private” in the sense of belonging to Comey; clearly, they are government records of FBI business.]]>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:39:25 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/06/07/comeys-notes-and-the-wages-of-the-special-counsel-investigation-n123999<![CDATA[It is welcome news that President Trump will pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. The pact promises to damage the economy while surrendering American sovereignty over climate policy to yet another international, largely anti-American enterprise.]]>Wed, 31 May 2017 08:28:35 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/05/31/dont-stop-with-paris-n123993<![CDATA[No exception to the perennial folly of American administrations, regardless of party, President Trump dreams of forging peace between Israel, our ally in the Western democratic tradition, and the Palestinians, an amalgam of sharia supremacists and hard-Left kleptocrats, for whom the obliteration of the Jewish State is the ne plus ultra. Thus, did the president have the misfortune of being in the company of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas when news broke of the terrorist attack targeting children and young adults at a concert in Manchester.]]>Tue, 23 May 2017 06:24:23 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/05/23/condemning-manchester-terrorist-murder-of-children-in-the-company-of-abbas-n123992<![CDATA[Well is he, or isn’t he?]]>Fri, 19 May 2017 11:11:30 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/05/19/if-the-president-is-not-the-subject-of-a-criminal-investigation-then-say-so-n123989<![CDATA[“We know Director Comey was leading an investigation in [sic] whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians, a serious offense.” So inveighed Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D. N.Y.), according to a report by PJ Media’s Bridget Johnson. Senator Schumer added, “If there was ever a time when circumstances warranted a special prosecutor, it is now.”]]>Sat, 13 May 2017 12:08:17 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/05/13/what-crime-would-a-special-prosecutor-prosecute-n123984<![CDATA[At National Review last weekend, I addressed the Democrats’ loopy claim that the FBI became a Trump partisan in the 2016 election. The claim is worth more examination in light of President Trump’s dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.]]>Wed, 10 May 2017 09:10:29 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/05/10/in-clinton-caper-comey-was-the-most-visible-player-not-the-most-consequential-n123981<![CDATA[William H. Orrick III is a Democrat campaign bundler and left-wing political activist. He has been known as “Judge Orrick” since 2013, when President Obama managed to get him on the federal bench &#8212; with the assistance of Republicans Senators Jeff Flake (Arizona), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Susan Collins (Maine). All other Republicans opposed Orrick’s nomination, except Bob Corker (Tennessee) who failed to vote.]]>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:14:02 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/04/28/does-judge-orrick-think-president-obama-fundamentally-transformed-executive-orders-n123977<![CDATA[Amid reports of significant ballot-box stuffing, roughing up dissenters, and other electoral fraud, Turkey’s sharia-supremacist strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hammered the final nail in the coffin of his country’s democracy. Last weekend, he narrowly prevailed in a referendum that formally concentrates in the presidency the autocratic powers he had previously usurped.]]>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:22:44 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/04/19/on-turkey-trump-catches-spring-fever-n123973<![CDATA[Where is the Republican-controlled Congress on Syria? By all accounts, it is busy cheerleading the president&#8217;s firing of 59 Tomahawk missiles at a foreign sovereign &#8212; an offensive attack that was unprovoked and unauthorized by Congress, rendering it unconstitutional. With a Republican in the White House, though, Republicans on Capitol Hill are all for executive overreach, despite having spent the last eight years chiding a Democratic president’s excesses and Middle Eastern misadventures.]]>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:48:01 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/04/14/republican-congress-awol-on-syria-n123970<![CDATA[And exactly what would you do if you were in General Michael Flynn’s shoes?]]>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:57:36 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/03/31/flynns-reported-immunity-request-n123965<![CDATA[For much of Preet Bharara’s first year as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York, your humble correspondent was his supervisor. I have always thought highly of him, personally and professionally, so I’m sorry to see him end a memorable tenure leading our former office with a politicized prima donna schtick.]]>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:06:17 -0400<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/03/15/a-graceless-end-to-preet-bhararas-successful-tenure-n123960<![CDATA[Throughout the Obama years, your humble correspondent was a naysayer on the periodic calls for an “independent counsel” (a/k/a “special prosecutor”) to investigate this or that administration scandal. (See, e.g., here, here and here.) That is because there is no such thing in our constitutional system.]]>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:01:24 -0500<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/03/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-independent-counsel-n123957<![CDATA[On Tuesday, John Kelly, President Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security, published a six-page, single-spaced memorandum detailing new guidance on immigration enforcement. Thereupon, I spent about 1,500 words summarizing the guidance in a column at National Review. Brevity being the soul of wit, both the memo and my description of it could have been reduced to a single, easy-to-remember sentence:]]>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:12:22 -0500<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/02/22/trumps-immigration-guidance-the-rule-of-law-returns-n123953<![CDATA[Last June, the jihadist terrorist Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and wounding several other revelers. It quickly became clear that Mateen was yet another “known wolf” – the term popularized by my friend and colleague Patrick Poole to describe the frequent phenomenon of terrorists who manage to plot and strike against the West notwithstanding that their patent radicalism has put them on the radar screen of law-enforcement and intelligence agents.]]>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 14:17:03 -0500<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/02/05/to-fix-counterterrorism-end-obamas-countering-violent-extremism-strategy-n123950<![CDATA[There is great shrieking from the “international community” over Iran’s ballistic missile test over the weekend, the latest of what the Wall Street Journal reports is nearly a dozen such tests since President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal &#8212; the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) &#8212; went into effect last year. The United Nations Security Council, which endorsed the deal even though no party has actually signed it, is set to hold an “emergency meeting” today to discuss the matter.]]>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 08:12:27 -0500<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/01/31/thank-obama-for-iranian-missile-tests-n123945<![CDATA[You would think Democrats have enough to fight President Trump on that they wouldn’t have to resort to stupid, easily dismissed talking points. But again and again, on cable news and social media, the refrain is repeated: Trump is “ruling by executive order” and Republicans are hypocrites for cheering him on when they condemned Obama for – purportedly – doing the same thing.]]>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:45:14 -0500<![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]>https://pjmedia.com/andrew-c-mccarthy-2/2017/01/27/the-number-of-trumps-executive-orders-is-irrelevant-n123942