Terence P. Jeffrey
Terence P. Jeffrey started as editor in chief of CNSNews.com in September 2007. Prior to that, he served for more than a decade as editor of Human Events, where he is now an editor at large. Terry was born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay Area, the seventh of eleven children. Both his parents were doctors of medicine.
Terry earned a bachelors degree in English Literature from Princeton in 1981. In 1984-85, he studied Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute of The American University in Cairo. In 1986-87, he studied in the Masters of Arts in Arab Studies program at Georgetown University, but did not earn a degree. From 1987-91, he was an editorial writer for The Washington Times, which nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative editorials about then-House Speaker Jim Wright. In 1992, he served as issues and research director for Pat Buchanan's first Republican presidential campaign. In 1993-1994, he served as executive director of The American Cause, an educational foundation. In 1995-96, he was national campaign manager for Pat Buchanan's second Republican presidential campaign. Buchanan that year won the Alaska, Louisiana and Missouri caucuses, placed second in the Iowa caucuses, and won the New Hampshire primary. Terry writes a weekly column for the Creators Syndicate and is a regular guest on CNN's Situation Room. He and his wife, Julie, have five children and live in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C.
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Obama’s Christmas Day Cover-Up
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
The administration may have a good reason for not wanting Americans to know the facts about who decided what to do about the would-be Christmas Day bomber. Either President Obama acted with gross negligence or with gross stupidity.
The Type of Al-Qaida Operative We Allow on Planes
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
How does a person make the cut from the 500,000-name master list of known or suspected terrorists to the 400,000-name terrorist watchlist?
Saying No to Big Government
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A great cultural and political battle is underway in America between people who want government to take care of them and people who want to take care of themselves.
Do Three People Have a Right to Marry Each Other?
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Either marriage is something with an absolute nature ordained by God and thus unchangeable; or it is an artificial thing, created by human beings on their own authority, and thus changeable according to whim.
DHS Decided It's OK to Allow Some Terrorists to Board Planes
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
"Not all known or reasonably suspected terrorists are prohibited from boarding an aircraft, or are subject to additional security screening prior to boarding an aircraft," says a report published in July by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.
Merry Christmas: Obamacare Slaps $15,000 Annual Fee on Middle Class Families
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the final Senate health care bill indicates it would slap a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 on middle-class families that earn an annual income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($88,200 for a family of four) and are not provided with health insurance by their employer.
Unchurched, Unmarried, Poor, Inexperienced and Pro-Obama
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The people who form the backbone of our society—the married, churchgoing, hard-working, experienced members of our national community—do not believe what Obama is doing today as president serves their interests.
Redistributing America’s Wealth at Copenhagen
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Why would President Obama vow to impose job-killing carbon caps on U.S. industries just as the U.S. is emerging from recession -- and  when Obama himself is trying to persuade Americans that his policies will create jobs?
Read the Numbers: Obama Will Bankrupt America
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
When President Barack Obama entered office in January, the greatest problem America faced was neither the war in Afghanistan nor the recession. It was the imminent crisis of the welfare state.
Trying KSM in Civilian Court: Inconsistent, Indefensible, Inexplicable
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Some strange ideological impulse—rather than common sense and respect for the rule of law—is driving the Obama administration to give special treatment to the perpetrator of one of the greatest war crimes ever committed against the United States.