Articles
January 31, 2005
Losers
J. Matt Barber
Remember September 11, 2001? I do. Many seem to have forgotten. We live in a post 9/11 world so let's be direct. The grave reality is that right now thousands of radical Islamic terrorists fully intend, and are very specifically... More
January 31, 2005
Iraq's election: a teachable moment
Christopher Chantrill
Today the Iraq election is over and Senator John Kerry is wisely advising that: No one in the United States should try to over—hype this election... This election is a sort of demarcation point, and what really counts now is... More
January 31, 2005
Senator Kerry takes a stand, or two, or three
Bob Weir
Weir Thinking About It As I watched Senator John Kerry on Meet the Press on Sunday I imagined an appropriate scenario for one of Johnny Carson's skits. As 'Carnac the Magnificent,' Johnny puts the envelope to his head and says:... More
January 30, 2005
Venezuela's Chavez is big trouble for Senator Nelson
A. M. Mora y Leon
Senator Bill Nelson, who accompanied Sen. Chris Dodd and Sen. Lincoln Chaffee on an ill—timed junket to meet Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, is in political trouble. As Richard Baehr predicted here in "Shilling for the new Castro" two weeks ago, his trip is already an... More
January 30, 2005
A life well lived
Matthew May
Normally I don't like using the first person pronoun in the political screeds that sometimes appear in this space. Today, though, is a significant exception because I would like to tell you about a man who laid down his life... More
January 29, 2005
The gang that won't shoot straight
Russ Vaughn
It began when ol' Dubya gave Al Gore the boot,Those gun—hating Dems really started to shoot.Their weapons of choice though leave much to desireFor they're usually off—target and so often misfire. In his blustering barrages, as everyone knows,Al Gore is most... More
January 29, 2005
Secretary Rice's swearing-in ceremony
Thomas Lifson
Watching the ceremonial swearing—in of Secretary of State Rice, I was moved by the occasion, especially by the President's remarks. Faithful readers know that I regard Dr. Rice as an inspirational figure for all Americans, albeit one of special significance for... More
January 28, 2005
Selective outrage
Thomas Lifson and A.M. Mora y Leon
A prominent president, one who commands enormous resources and can influence the lives of many women, has recently made disgusting sexist comments. No, not Lawrence Summers of Harvard, who merely had the temerity to suggest as a possible hypothesis, and... More
January 28, 2005
The Remnant
Michael Curran
'You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are,nor what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know,and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you.'Albert Jay Nock — 1936 The... More
January 28, 2005
The 'wartime' President
Steve Feinstein
The Presidential election of 1992 was a watershed event in the history of American politics. It was uniquely significant not because of Ross Perot's 19% third—party vote having fatally diluted President Bush's support, not because of Clinton's 43% popular vote... More
January 27, 2005
Russia's revolution has begun
Herbert E. Meyer
[Editor's note: Herbert E. Meyer was awarded National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the intelligence community's highest honor, for his service at the CIA during the Reagan Administration, where he managed the production of National Intelligence Estimates and other top secret... More
January 27, 2005
Thirty Marines and a Sailor dead
Dave St. John
The words came crashing through the speakers in my car this morning. 'What the hell...Oh no...Oh my God' were about all the words I could muster after hearing this report. The framework for measuring this loss began to take shape... More
January 27, 2005
Freedom's messiah
Andrew Sumereau
Well now we know. The future and safety of the United States is dependent on the proliferation of freedom and liberty throughout the world. George Bush said so in his inaugural address. Thus the United States is now committed in... More
January 26, 2005
A grand old wizard
Matthew May
What do you call a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who tied up the world's oldest deliberative body for 14 hours to oppose the Civil Rights bill of 1964, and voted against the Supreme Court appointments of both... More
January 26, 2005
Allah's special little apes and pigs
James Arlandson
It has been bandied about in the media that Islamic fanatics shriek that Allah turned certain Jews into apes and pigs. Is this true? If it is, where does this harsh polemics come from? Do they get it from the... More
January 26, 2005
An Empire For Liberty
John B. Dwyer
In his second inaugural address President George W. Bush said that 'from the day of our founding we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image... More
January 25, 2005
Democrats adrift
Richard Baehr
In the first two and a half months following the bitterly fought 2004 Presidential election, a regular viewer of C—SPAN would have been 'entertained' by countless panels of Democrats, and progressives (liberally sprinkled with the requisite number of Ph.Ds) discussing... More
January 25, 2005
Pity Laura Bush
Matthew May
Why is it that leftists are always saying they are 'disturbed,' or 'saddened' or 'distressed?' Nothing seems to pass before the eyes of dyed—in—the—wool liberals without causing some sort of disconcertion. Such is again the case in a column written by... More
January 25, 2005
Bush's Inaugural Address - in other words
Edward L. Daley
If you haven't heard the President's second inaugural speech, or at least read the transcribed version of it by now, chances are you're not very interested in American politics. Either that or you have a very short attention span, and... More
January 24, 2005
Dis-enlightenment
Bob Weir
Lawrence Summers looked out at the august assembly of scholars gathered in a comfy Cambridge seminar room and began a 20 minute speech that may end his career. The former Treasury Secretary in the Clinton Administration and current president of... More
January 24, 2005
Boomers on Social Security?
Christopher Chantrill
'All my life I have wanted a pension,' said the retired naval clerk John Dickens to his son Charles in a BBC biopic that ran years ago on PBS. And many Americans agree with him. You put in your 40... More
January 24, 2005
Big-media dinosaurs face extinction
J. Matt Barber
Even today obstinate, lumbering, big—media dinosaurs inhabit and roam the vast terrain of Paleolithic journalism. Theirs is a rapidly dying breed, having succumbed to stubbornly self—inflicted wounds of poorly camouflaged liberal bias — all this lending credence within conservative circles... More
January 22, 2005
Don't just sit there
Russ Vaughn
It's so easy to say you support the troops, regardless of which side you come down on in the issue of the War in Iraq itself. Yeah, you can send care packages and put yellow ribbon magnets on your car... More
January 22, 2005
Disengagement: a euphemism for ethnic cleansing
Rachel Neuwirth
In removing Jewish residents from their legitimate homes in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. 'West Bank'), the Sharon government of Israel is guilty of egregious human rights violations against its own Jewish citizens who are also innocent targets of Arab... More
January 21, 2005
The death of British sovereignty
James Lewis
America may soon lose its most trusted ally in the world. Britain is on the verge of surrendering to the European Union. It is an historic moment that should be showing up in blaring headlines ——— but it is slipping in... More
January 21, 2005
Biden should follow Kerry's example
Matthew May
Although he was unable to figure it out until after the election — and just a day before the second inauguration of President George W. Bush at that — Sen. John Kerry finally hit upon a novel concept Wednesday: meaning... More
January 21, 2005
How many Liberals does it take to win a war?
Russ Vaughn
How many of you Liberals does it take to win a war?Well how the hell can we tell? You won't fight one anymore.You say that you support the troops, but the truth's plain as your face,You'd pull us from the... More
January 20, 2005
Modern day slave masters
J. Matt Barber
Condoleeza Rice has just endured two days of hostile questioning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which she was all but called a liar. Compounding the indignity, her grandstanding inquisitor Sen. Barbara Boxer was joined by former Klu Klux... More
January 20, 2005
The great story of America
John B. Dwyer
Reviewing A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery To The War On Terror. Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. Sentinel/Penguin Group USA, New York, 2004. 825 pages, Notes, Index. In response to textbooks and histories permeated with... More
January 20, 2005
In my dreams
Tim McNabb
[The following is a fantasy response from Condolezza Rice, nominee for Secretary of State, to Barbara Boxer (D—Outer Space ). We join the response in progress.] SEN. LUGAR: ... you ought to have the right to respond. Then, at that... More
January 19, 2005
Social Security, strategery – and South Park
Thomas Lifson
Astute political observers such as Bill Kristol have puzzled over President Bush giving top second term priority to Social Security reform. Unlike tax cuts or other possible priorities, the payoff for private Social Security accounts will come many years in... More
January 19, 2005
Obliterating what cannot be defeated
Christopher G. Adamo
Prior to September 11, 2001, Afghanistan's repressive Taliban regime was known to most of the world only on account of a single controversy involving its decision to destroy two ancient Buddhist statues. Of course reaction to this incident was one... More
January 19, 2005
Less defiling, more profiling, please
Selwyn Duke
We've all probably had experiences that made us wonder if we were the butt of a joke on Candid Camera. The last such event in my life occurred while waiting on a security line in a quasi—backwater Mexican airport a... More
January 18, 2005
A tsUNami hits Annan and friends at Turtle Bay
Ed Lasky
While barely registering a ripple in the Mainstream Media, several key senior people have been 'resigned' by Kofi Annan in the wake of a series of scandals. The sudden departures also follow a Manhattan meeting with liberal friends of Annan's from the foreign... More
January 18, 2005
Oil future shock: Osama been Cheatin'!
Noel Sheppard
Satire New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer shocked the world today —— as well as the state department and the Bush administration —— with his announcement that he is charging terrorist mastermind and al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden... More
January 18, 2005
The Real Charlotte Simmons
Christopher Chantrill
Twenty years ago, writing The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe worried that his novel about Masters of the Universe bond traders and race hustling reverends in New York City would be received as too over—the—top. Instead, he was roundly... More
January 17, 2005
Shilling for the new Castro
Richard Baehr
Last week, three US Senators, Florida's Bill Nelson, Connecticut's Christopher Dodd, and Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee visited with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez in Caracas, to try to assess the deteriorating state of US—Venezuelan relations. The three Senators left their meeting, reciting... More
January 17, 2005
A night to remember
Bob Weir
Weir thinking about it On the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I'm reminded of a dreadful day 37 years ago. April 4, 1968 is a day I'll never forget. I was working the 4 to midnight shift with... More
January 17, 2005
The left's body count dilemma
Douglas Hanson
I was watching the classic WW II movie Bataan the other night, and the questions of faith and duty to country depicted in the film are just as relevant to today's War on Terror as they were during those early, dark... More
January 16, 2005
Moral relativism
Jack Kemp
In these days of liberals attacking Jesusland, and advocating moral relativism with its no right and wrong philosophy, I always hark back to the words of Barbra Streisand. Yes, for real. Actually, they were the words of Neil Simon, spoken... More
January 15, 2005
Respectful disgreement
Thomas Lifson
I am a great admirer of Dennis Prager, the radio talk show host and writer. he is one of the most thoughtful commentators on politics, culture, and current events. And I agree with him that American leftists are entirely too... More
January 15, 2005
Blue state madness
Richard Baehr
Steve Sailer and others have developed lists of factors that appear to correlate fairly strongly with voting patterns in the most recent Presidential election and prior ones (white birth rates, among them). The February 2005 edition of Chicago Magazine (not... More
January 15, 2005
The relationship doctor
Clarice Feldman
There's something about my face I think. I'm sixty—three, a touch introverted , not at all given to small talk and yet at every opportunity perfect strangers reveal to me their most intimate thoughts and hopes. Returning from Los Angeles... More
January 14, 2005
Stop rationalizing
Steve Feinstein
The commission tasked with finding WMD's in Iraq has now officially terminated its search, issuing its statement that such weapons will probably never be found. Not that they never existed, but that the likelihood of actually finding stockpiles of WMD's... More
January 14, 2005
The global future of contract and trust
Christopher Chantrill
If a global society forms during the Twenty—first Century, will it necessarily be a contract society, built upon reciprocal trade and agreement, as many people think? Or could it be constructed upon other principles, for instance the left's dream of... More
January 14, 2005
Time to privatize social security
Edward L. Daley
One of the most important political issues that will be debated this year is how to prevent the inevitable insolvency of our Social Security system. Although it is difficult to know which "experts" to believe when it comes to applying... More
January 13, 2005
Irreversible Momentum
John B. Dwyer
The people of Kirkuk, Diyala, Salah Ad Din and Sulamaniyah will not soon forget. The Iraqis living in the cities and villages of those north—central provinces will long remember the contributions to their security and stability, to their daily lives,... More
January 13, 2005
Would Jesus be a Democrat or a Republican?
Noel Sheppard
I recently had an opportunity to discuss some religious issues with the Reverend Ray Dubuque, a retired Methodist minister who now spreads the word of the Lord largely over the Internet. As I researched the Reverend, his background, and his... More
January 13, 2005
Religion and the presidency
Matthew May
On his website, Andrew Sullivan takes President George W. Bush to task for some comments he made during an interview with the Washington Times, in which the President discussed his reliance on faith in discharging his duties in office. Sullivan cites... More
January 12, 2005
Bush: too conservative?
Andrew Sumereau
President Bush is constantly being attacked, second—guessed, and criticized. It comes with the job. As the importance of the Chief Executive in our Republic continues to grow, the attention focused on the Presidency and his policies grows with it. This... More
January 12, 2005
Venezuela: storm warnings
Michael Curran
A new storm is forming, one which could prove to be detrimental to peace and stability in the Western Hemisphere, and particularly damaging to the United States. It is a tempest of human origin, which has visited us before: Guatemala... More
January 12, 2005
Is BBC News a figment of the imagination?
James Lewis
So you think Dan Rather and CBS Nightly News are bad? Well, the fabled BBC, once the voice of British decency and reason, is about to air a 3—hour TV special casting doubt on the reality of Al Qaida. Millions... More
January 11, 2005
CBS tries to cop a plea
Thomas Lifson
CBS News is undoubtedly hoping that release of the Thornburgh/Boccardi Report, with its embarrassing admissions, will satisfy critics enough that the Rathergate scandal will be allowed to disappear into dim memory. They are wrong. Many observers, our own Clarice Feldman... More
January 11, 2005
What the CBS Report actually admits
Clarice Feldman
I, who never watch CBS News, spent yesterday afternoon, reading the lengthy Thornburgh/Boccardi Report. Within its considerable limitations, it is a fine, well—detailed view of the CBS TANG memo scandal. While it could have asked other questions, and utilized other investigative... More
January 11, 2005
Uppity
Matthew May
According to certain self—proclaimed leaders in the House of Representatives, if you are black, hold a political office, and have a healthy respect for carrying out your constitutional duties in spite of what that might mean for the electoral fortunes... More
January 10, 2005
Venezuela's Chavez: A Marxist who hates Spam
A.M. Mora y Leon
Venezuela's Marxist dictator, Hugo Chavez, has begun confiscating farms and ranches, a violent act worthy of Zimbabwe's ethinc cleansing, marauding socialist tyrant Robert Mugabe. Like Mugabe, his made his first target a wealthy British aristocrat. But unlike Mugabe, who openly... More
January 10, 2005
A day in the life of the Times
Richard Baehr
Saturday is not normally the worst day of the week to read the New York Times. On Friday, one has to suffer through Paul Krugman's screeds blaming all the world's ills except for the tsunami on President Bush. Sunday brings... More
January 10, 2005
Fighting the SecDef instead of fighting the war
Douglas Hanson
The campaign to oust Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld continues unabated at The Weekly Standard, with the latest salvo being fired by Frederick Kagan in his article Fighting the Wrong War. Mr. Kagan attempts to make a reasoned, thoughtful counter to Rummy's... More
January 09, 2005
The Genesis of respect for life
Selwyn Duke
The book of Genesis tells us that God made the heavens and the earth, and that on the sixth day He made man. Christians believe that God infuses man with a soul, making him singular among creatures. For he is... More
January 08, 2005
Torture: can we handle the truth?
Bob Weir
Weir thinking about it In the movie, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson, played the role of a marine colonel and commanding officer of a base in Guantanamo, Cuba. While being questioned on the stand about tactics used by his... More
January 08, 2005
Jihad: Quran 9:123 v. Matthew 10:34
James Arlandson
Muslim apologists frequently quote Matthew 10:34, which mentions a sword, drawing a parallel between Christianity and Islam: Jesus and Muhammad both endorse jihad, so why would Christians today complain about it in Islam? However, this parallel is deadly flawed. To... More
January 07, 2005
The Chavez premium
A. M. Mora y Leon
To look at the soft—focus propaganda pictures of Venezuela's Castroite Chavez government, you'd think Venezuela's state oil company was not about producing oil, but rather rehabilitating life's down—and—outers. The Venezuela Information Office's Web site shows smiling, supposedly contented beneficiaries of the... More
January 07, 2005
Greedy hypocrites
Ed Lasky
The recent disparagement of American aid efforts to help tsunami victims as 'stingy' by Jan Egeland, Under—Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations, is merely the latest in a series of anti—American words and actions by Norway and... More
January 07, 2005
She's blinding me with science
Selwyn Duke
What Happens When Science and Feminism Become Bedfellows One curious thing about scientific pronouncements is that they often seem to accord more with the spirit of the age than fact and reason. Thus, a Nazi researcher in 1930's Germany would... More
January 06, 2005
Hands off the Electoral College
Michael Curran
The other evening, while awaiting my table in a local restaurant, I overheard a Republican and Democrat agreeing with one another about the elimination of the Electoral College. It's one area where many Liberals and some uninformed Republicans can reach... More
January 06, 2005
Of Advice And Consent
Edward L. Daley
Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution relates that "He [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall... More
January 06, 2005
The Chomsky File
Rachel Neuwirth
Noam Chomsky, long—time Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an idol of leftist academics and journalists everywhere, has created hundreds of anti—Israel books, articles, recorded interviews and lectures—all his own. Chomsky repeats every distortion and libel directed... More
January 05, 2005
It's good to be US
Phillip A. Gallagher
In the immediate aftermath of the Asian tsunami, the early words of the New York Times and Washington Post were not a plea to Americans to open up their pocket books and be generous to the afflicted. No, the tragedy... More
January 05, 2005
An excellent foundation
Matthew May
If public school systems were genuinely interested in improving American history departments that increasingly seem unable to teach students the difference between the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Bull Run, while simultaneously diminishing or ignoring the achievements... More
January 05, 2005
Social Security: when is a problem a problem?
Noel Sheppard
Are you tired of all the Social Security discussions that have been flooding the air and print waves the past two weeks? Having a hard time understanding the plethora of opinions —— some good, some bad —— being thrown at... More
January 04, 2005
When the world dials 911 - a poem
Russ Vaughn
When the World Dials 911 Disaster strikes a world awayWe get the call, what do we say?We move at once, to ease their plight,To aid them through their darkest night.But come shrill cries from carping press,"That's not enough to fix this... More
January 04, 2005
An open letter to opponents of the War in Iraq
Herbert E. Meyer
I am not writing to quarrel with your judgment about the war in Iraq. Rather, I am writing to protest your attitude toward the war. And the point I want to make is this: sometimes, you have to choose between... More
January 04, 2005
The rise of Euronationalism
James Lewis
How do you unite 500 million people who have fought each other for a thousand years? That is the biggest question for Europe today. In spite of endless denials, the answer is beginning to look a lot like old—fashioned nationalism.... More
January 03, 2005
Liberals, less is more!
Christopher Chantrill
After spending Christmas Day in a liberal home I can report that this was not a happy holiday for liberals. There was at least one thing to celebrate, though: the courage of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom in standing up... More
January 03, 2005
America's detractors: biting the hand...
Bob Weir
Weir thinking about it For some people, and some countries, the US can do no right. In the wake of the tsunami and earthquakes in South Asia, critics wasted no time in referring to US aid as "stingy" and "delayed."... More
January 03, 2005
Has Greenspan over-pumped the real estate bubble?
Noel Sheppard
Like most people with even a passing interest in matters relating to business, I have been reading articles in financial periodicals and have heard the prognostications of many economists concerning a looming 'Real Estate Bubble' for at least the past... More
January 02, 2005
A movement in search of a cause
Thomas Lifson
France has found a new tale of good and evil about which to make clever conversation. As usual the villains are capitalism and America, and 'globalization' is the bogeyman combining the two malign forces which have, in their paranoid vision,... More
January 02, 2005
Ayatollah Khamenei in his own words
James Arlandson
Iran is developing a nuclear program, ostensibly for energy, but likely also for acquiring a nuclear weapon. Seyyed Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a life—long office that his predecessor Ayatollah Khomeini created and instituted... More
January 02, 2005
Scott Peterson's choice
J. Matt Barber
The media latched on to the story like a pit—bull to a poodle — It's been a perfect obsession. Coverage of the case has saturated the airwaves for over two years, with the Fox News Channel taking the lead...OK Greta,... More
January 01, 2005
Behind la mascara ("the mask")
A. M. Mora y Leon
One of the terrible tragedies of communist Cuba is the dead silence of Cubans who must voicelessly live on that island. Unless we have Cuban relatives, we don't know a thing about those people, who might as well be living... More
January 01, 2005
Visiting Israeli wineries
Sidney Retsky
My wife, Batya, and I have been wine lovers for over 40 years. I was also an amateur wine maker for about five of those years. My own wine was not very good, primarily because I could never get good... More
January 01, 2005
The wanting soul (a poem)
Selwyn Duke
If I had faith just the size of a mustard seed,Mountains would move at my command,And my walk with God would be as on concrete,And not the unsure footing of sand. But where there's flesh and fallen nature,Doubt is never... More
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