Debate Night

The vice presidential candidates face off tonight in their one and only debate. Indiana Governor Mike Pence and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine will appear together at Longwood University in central Virginia. All of the major networks will cover the debate, which begins at 9:00 p.m. ET.

Protests Continue

As you know, there has been a string of professional athletes, college athletes and band members disrespecting the police. It has spread to city councils around the country where liberal politicians are now disrespecting the flag.

For the past three years, the New York Knicks basketball team has held a training camp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Last week, Joakim Noah, a Knicks center, declined an invitation to attend a dinner with West Point cadets. In fact, Noah was uncomfortable the entire time he was at West Point.

He told reporters, "It's hard for me to understand why we have to go to war, why kids have to kill kids around the world. So I have mixed feelings about being here. . ."

West Point responded to Noah's protest. In a statement the academy said: "The U.S. Military Academy at West Point develops leaders of character for the defense of our nation. We are disappointed and feel Mr. Noah's choice of West Point to make a statement is inappropriate because of the great sacrifice that has originated from this institution over our nation's history."

In contrast, New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham went out of his way to shake hands with every man and woman in uniform who presented a giant American flag on the field at last night's game against the Minnesota Vikings.

Beckham said afterwards, "For someone to sacrifice everything that they have for others -- just the concept of it -- it gives me chills. . . They sacrifice everything. It's unselfish."

Relations With Russia Unravel

Four years ago, Barack Obama mocked Mitt Romney for suggesting that Russia was our greatest geopolitical adversary. His secretary of state at the time was responsible for "resetting" our relationship with Russia. That relationship is in shambles.

Barack Obama has done next to nothing to resist Vladimir Putin's aggression, whether he was annexing Crimea or moving military assets into the Middle East. Yesterday, talks between the United States and Russia regarding Syria's ongoing civil war completely broke down.

As a result, Moscow cut off cooperation with the United States in a 16 year-old program to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium, which is used to make nuclear bombs. In another provocation, Russia deployed an advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Syria.

This deployment is an obvious threat to United States military forces. The Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime, which is allied with Russia, don't have an air force. But Putin is taking steps to ensure that U.S. airpower is neutralized as a threat to his ally Assad.

Another Muslim Immigrant Joins ISIS

Nelash Mohamed Das was born in Bangladesh. He moved to the United States when he was just three years old, and lived outside our nation's capital in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Hyattsville, Maryland.

Yesterday, Das went to the home of a U.S. military member, planning to kill that person. In reality, it was all an FBI sting. Das was arrested and charged with supporting ISIS.

According to a statement, the FBI had been monitoring Das online for over a year. In various social media posts, he expressed his support for the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino and his desire to kill infidels. Thankfully, he wasn't successful.

But while Das is an example of what our law enforcement is doing right, he is also an example of the failure of our immigration policies. Das never assimilated. He never became a citizen. And he joins a long and growing list of hundreds of immigrants and refugees who have come to this country and pledged their loyalty not to America but to radical Islam.