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March 31, 2007
12 Angry Men Turns 50
Michael Margolies
This March marked the 50th anniversary of one of Hollywood's most revered, indeed sacrosanct films, 1957's 12 Angry Men, an icon of liberal judicial reform But go beneath the emotional surface, and one discovers a fraud, a set-up from beginning to end. More

March 31, 2007
The Origins of Postmodernism
James Arlandson
Does postmodernism spring out of the head of Zeus unconceived or misconceived? Or does it carry a heavy debt on its back to earlier movements and trends? More

March 31, 2007
The Current Meaning of Vietnam
Ben Voth
Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam. These are words we here with some regularity in today's media. The metaphorical lens through which all contemporary military conflicts must be viewed is Vietnam. More

March 30, 2007
A Bipartisan Ticket?
Michael Zak
Any Republican interested in a proposal by Unity08 for a bipartisan ticket should consider the disaster that befell the country when the GOP did nominate a bipartisan presidential ticket. More

March 30, 2007
Honor, Obama, and Honoré
Michael J. O'Shea
Barack Obama has come to embody a dream of many, a dream of a black president. We all have our dreams, though. Suppose it came down to two - Barack Obama vs. General Russel Honoré More

March 30, 2007
The Safety of Many Should Trump the Hurt Feelings of the Few
Pamela Meister
This week, House Republicans were able to have language added to the Rail and Public Transportation Act of 2007 (HR 1401) that would protect public transportation travelers who report suspicious activities from being sued. More

March 29, 2007
Memo to Mitt: Consider the Virtues of Dick Cheney's Job
J. Peter Mulhern
No doubt the latest Gallup Poll came as a shock to you, Governor. It must be very disappointing after all your hard work to have a guy like Fred Thompson eating your lunch as soon as he mentions in passing that he might consider giving serious thought to the possibility of studying a run for the White House. More

March 29, 2007
Terrorists Targeting Students: The Kids are not Alright
Marc Sheppard
Just months after 9/11, videotapes were confiscated in Afghanistan showing al-Qaeda terrorists training to takeover a school. Six months later, spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith boldly declared al-Qaeda's "right" to kill 2 million American children. More

March 29, 2007
No One Ever Expects the Waxman Inquisition
Christopher J. Alleva
Its always instructive to do a little research to discover how various politicians conducted themselves on comparable issues in years gone by. More

March 28, 2007
The War Against Israel in America: Part Two
Richard Baehr
A large collection of American writers, and academics and propagandists, a chorus, if you may, are hostile to Israel and its supporters in America. More

March 28, 2007
Why No One Wants to Crack the Health Care Walnut
Geoffrey P. Hunt
A few days ago I had dinner with friends from a boutique actuarial services firm. After some chit chat, we soon turned to health care costs, health insurance and, as one would expect in the small talk lexicon of actuaries, mortality tables. More

March 28, 2007
Psychologists for War
Tim Haering
Iraq is like an abused woman in therapy. A psychologist friend explained it to me. More

March 27, 2007
Rebranding the Enemy
J.R. Dunn
The Left has developed no end of tricks to manipulate debates without the trouble of making a case or putting together an argument. More

March 27, 2007
Mitt Romney Is a Big Government Conservative
Steven M. Warshawsky
Romney's message is not one about shrinking the size of government; there is nothing Reaganesque about it. More

March 27, 2007
Young Democrats Just Don't Get It
Christopher Chantrill
Our young liberal friends seem to divide into two camps. There is the camp of enlightened progressives like Jacob Aronson; Then there is the angry left of Markos Moulitsas More

March 26, 2007
The CIA's Former Expert on Bin Laden
James Lewis
The CIA's former Bin Laden specialist, Michael Scheuer, has written a revealing article about KSM More

March 26, 2007
In the line of duty
Bob Weir
Senior Cpl. Mark Nix of the Dallas Police Department went to work last Friday as he had done for the past 6 years. The 33 year-old officer was engaged to be married, but that marriage will never take place. More

March 26, 2007
Fred Thompson For President?
Steven M. Warshawsky
Following his refreshingly plainspoken appearance on Fox News Sunday on March 11, there has been a growing "buzz" over a possible presidential run by former Tennessee senator and current Law and Order star Fred Thompson. More

March 25, 2007
Bottom up and top down changes for fighting in Iraq
Jack Kemp
Air Force Maj. Eric Egland's is talking about more support for bottom up tactics and intelligence. He's worth listening to. More

March 25, 2007
Letter to a Popular Atheist
Steve Alderman
Sam Harris, an outspoken atheist and author of "Letter to a Christian Nation" once again presents the case that the moderate believers shield the fundamentalists from public criticism and analysis. More

March 24, 2007
The Family Tomb of Jesus?
James Arlandson
Famed movie director James Cameron is among those climbing on the bandwagon of publicity over a supposed tomb of Jesus. Ossuaries, repositories of bones, were discovered in a family tomb in Jerusalem in 1980 More

March 24, 2007
Did Mahmoud Blink?
James Lewis
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just cancelled his planned appearance before the UN Security Council meeting, which is expected to vote for sanctions against Iran. More

March 24, 2007
Calling it murder is absurd!
Bob Weir
On Nov. 19, 2005, United States Marines killed 24 civilians in an Iraqi town called Haditha. This past December, four Marines were charged with murder. But was it murder? More

March 23, 2007
Why Did Global Warming Become a Moral Matter?
Tim Thorstenson
As a scientist, I find the current strategy of the global warming crusade to be fascinating. Particularly because I am a scientist, I also find it insulting More

March 23, 2007
Global Warming's Patent Profitability
Christopher Alleva
Al Gore is well schooled at manipulating the levers of power and money to his benefit. More

March 22, 2007
Barack Obama and Israel
Ed Lasky
Senator Barack Obama has become the rarest of politicians: a man who has seemingly come out of nowhere to ascend to the top rank of Democratic Presidential candidates. More

March 22, 2007
Jerry Springering Governance
Clarice Feldman
As a nation we are facing a number of significant problems. Instead of tackling them, the newly elected Democratic Congress has decided that we are dopes. More

March 22, 2007
Gun Owners, Child Molesters, and the Free Press
J.R. Dunn
The Roanoke Times is the latest newspaper to discover that just because something can be done does not mean it should be done. More

March 21, 2007
The War in America Against Israel (part one)
Richard Baehr
Like a new Broadway show testing the waters in New Haven or Boston before hitting the bright lights of New York, an anti-Israel media crusade is going through its warm up numbers in preparation for two big June events. More

March 21, 2007
Progressive?
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
It is time to drop from our political vocabulary the once useful word "progressive." When not deceptive, it is meaningless. More

March 21, 2007
Politicizing Science
Rick Moran
To say only one side is guilty of allowing a particular political agenda to intrude into scientific inquiry is demonstrably false More

March 20, 2007
The Linguistic Case Against Barack Obama
Patrick O'Hannigan
The man whose claim to fame consist solely of having made a more-polished-than-average speech at his party's national convention has no claim on linguistic distinction. More

March 20, 2007
Who's on First
Marc Sheppard
As we kick off history's 1st 2-year-long presidential election season, there's much buzz over the potential White House "firsts" it might bring. More

March 20, 2007
Disgraceful De Facto Diplomats
Kyle-Anne Shiver
No Constitutional scholar am I, but I do seem to recall from my seventh-grade civics class that responsibility for relations with foreign governments resides in the Executive Branch More

March 19, 2007
Mahmoud's Delusions
James Lewis
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York City this coming week, he may see his own theatrical appearance before the infidel UN Security Council as a moment of personal destiny, a confrontation with the Satanic forces of the world More

March 19, 2007
Barbara Walters and Hugo Chavez
A.M. Mora y Leon
Last Friday, Barbara Walters embarrassed herself conducting a fawning interview with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Marxist budding dictator. More

March 19, 2007
Rudy Giuliani Could be Just the Ticket for Social Conservatives
J. Peter Mulhern
As the 2008 season gains momentum, political commentators are starting to address key questions about each serious candidate. More

March 18, 2007
The Sub-Prime Blame Game
Christopher Chantrill
The next Big Thing is the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market. Don't worry: it's going to be Bush's fault. More

March 18, 2007
Is there an average global temperature?
James Lewis
It is already painfully clear that models of anthropogenic global warming are ridiculously inadequate More

March 18, 2007
Visiting The Liberty Bell
Steven M. Warshawsky
Being the sentimentally patriotic type, I envisioned my visit to the Liberty Bell as a "pilgrimage" to one of America's holiest shrines... More

March 17, 2007
Keep monsters away from our children
Bob Weir
Two years ago, an innocent child went to sleep in her bed as she had done every night for the short nine-year span of her life. She had no reason to believe that she was in any danger. More

March 17, 2007
Postmodernism and the Bible: Introduction
James Arlandson
Postmodernism is leveling multiple challenges at longstanding interpretations of the Bible and at the sacred text itself. More

March 17, 2007
Gov. Richardson: For the Entertainment Value
Christopher J. Alleva
Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico probably doesn't have much of a shot at the Democrats' presidential nomination. If only for the entertainment value, he deserves serious scrutiny. More

March 16, 2007
Politics in Command at Airbus
Thomas Lifson
When politics takes over from business in the operation of a world scale company, the consequences are often profound and unpredictable in the long run. More

March 16, 2007
Predicate for a Pardon
Greg Richards
The background of the Scooter Libby affair is the collapse of intelligence over the last 15 years. It is useful to revisit this very briefly in order to put a possible pardon in perspective. More

March 16, 2007
Australia's Meathead Mufti
Alyssa A. Lappen
Far from bowing to rising clamor for his deportation, the controversial Mufti Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali is taking on the political establishment. More

March 15, 2007
Serious Questions for Henry Waxman's Show Trial
Rick Ballard
A hearing tomorrow, called by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, will focus on the purported outing of CIA celebrity agent Valerie Plame More

March 15, 2007
Iran's Three Hairline Cracks
James Lewis
When a towering granite cliff begins to come apart, you may not be see anything but tiny hairline cracks at the beginning. More

March 15, 2007
Battling Templates: Whitewater versus Plame
Christopher Alleva
The liberal media make it too easy to expose their bias. Thanks to the internet, it is almost child's play to find the same behavior treated very differently More

March 14, 2007
A letter to Immigrants
Vasko Kohlmayer
Dear Fellow Immigrant: As you may know, immigration has become a very serious problem in this country. More

March 14, 2007
AP Global Warming Writer Over the Top - Again
Marc Sheppard
Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press has written another truly frightening little sci-fi piece entitled Warming Report to Warn of Coming Drought. More

March 14, 2007
Don't Paint the Medical Corps with One Brush
Maj. Gen. Edison E. Scholes (ret.)
The criticisms directed at Walter Reed Hospital have tarnished too many. Those who have called a B-52 strike on the great people of the U.S. Army Medical Corps have missed the bad guys. More

March 13, 2007
A Longer School Day?
Bob Myer
In some places in the US, as well as in the UK, schools are either considering or experimenting with extending school hours. More

March 13, 2007
The Darfurians and the Sudanese
Edward Bernard Glick
Visit almost any American church or college these days, and you will be confronted with pleas to "Save Darfur" More

March 13, 2007
Welcome to the Nevada Democratic Party Presidential Debate
William Tate
Satire: "Welcome to the Nevada Democratic Party presidential debate. My Name is Tim Russert and I'll be you moderator tonight-" More

March 12, 2007
Has the Global Islamic Jihad Movement fractured?
Ray Robison
Even as the leadership of the Democrats sets timetables for withdrawal from Iraq, the sands have shifted and leaders of the Global Islamic Jihad Movement are displaying signs that their own alliance has fractured. More

March 12, 2007
The Hidden Premise of European Anti-Americanism
James Lewis
If "one's man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," then all wars are the same, liberation equals conquest, tyranny equals democracy, aggression equals defense, and Churchill equals Hitler. More

March 12, 2007
A Plan to stop Global Warming that is Out of this World
Miguel A. Guanipa
It is an inevitable fact of life that the integrity of a particular social movement will sooner or later be compromised - or its absurdity exposed - by the unforeseen display of poor judgment on the part of its staunchest defenders More

March 11, 2007
Atheists, Conservatives, and Christianity
Steven M. Warshawsky
There is an interesting, and important, debate going on within conservative circles these days over the role of religion in American conservatism and the role of Christian conservatives in the Republican Party. More

March 11, 2007
A Special New York Times Editorial
Tibor R. Machan
The following is a New York Times editorial that will never be written by the editors there More

March 11, 2007
A lesson in democracy from Senator Cornyn
Bob Weir
US Senator John Cornyn took the time to address a group of war protesters were demonstrating outside a luncheon where he was being honored. More

March 10, 2007
Not Quite Ready to Dance the Dabke in Lebanon
Rick Moran
The traditional folk dance of Lebanon is called the Dabke, or literally "stomping of the feet" - a descriptive that refers to the communal nature of the dance and the fact that it is most often performed at joyous occasions More

March 10, 2007
Arma Virumque Cano: "Of arms and the man, I sing,"
John B. Dwyer
Reviewing TAKEDOWN: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad, by Jim Lacey More

March 10, 2007
Review of Bart D. Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus
James Arlandson
Bart D. Ehrman has questioned the substantial integrity of the transmission of the New Testament manuscripts. Some orthodox scribes in the early church and later corrupted the New Testament to sustain and fortify their own theology, he says More

March 9, 2007
The State of the Race: The Republicans
Richard Baehr
The most remarkable aspect of the 2008 Presidential race at the moment is its unpredictability. More

March 9, 2007
Why Do Intellectuals Oppose the Military?
James L. Holmes
Why would those who enjoy freedom and live so well reject the very group whose protection allows them to do so? More

March 9, 2007
Heavy-handed Putin
Jonathan D. Strong
President Vladimir Putin increasingly has been imitating his Soviet predecessors of the bygone communist era. More

March 8, 2007
Get a Grip Mr. President
J. Peter Mulhern
Scooter Libby is a convicted perjurer because the United States Department of Justice grossly abused its power and because politics short-circuited all the safeguards that are supposed to prevent such abuses. More

March 8, 2007
Germany's Anti-American Neurosis
James Lewis
A neurotic obsession is like a bone stuck in your throat. You can't swallow it and you can't spit it out. That is how the German media are hooked on America. It doesn't look quite sane More

March 8, 2007
Is America a Bully?
Amil Imani
I admit that America is not perfect. Tyrants and populists such as Castro and Chavez in the neighborhood and Iran's Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il on the other side of the world call America the Big Bad Bully. More

March 7, 2007
I Call for Justice
Clarice Feldman
I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he has had none in this ridiculous matter. More

March 7, 2007
The Airbus Tragedy
Thomas Lifson
Like characters in an ancient Greek tragedy, players in the Airbus drama are betraying their fatal flaws, and moving, almost inevitably, toward a dénouement that will bring serious misfortune to all. More

March 7, 2007
Democrats Say We're too Patriotic!
Christopher Chantrill
Among the numerous issues on which Democrats are hypersensitive to criticism -- or as you and I might say, critique -- is patriotism. Do not dare question a Democrat's patriotism More

March 6, 2007
Warming to Failure
J.R. Dunn
A certifiable paranoiac would have a high old time tracing out the patterns behind the global warming campaign of the past month. More

March 6, 2007
The Arab League, Apple Pie and Indigestion
David Singer
Jordan's King Abdullah is at it again, repeating the mantra of the Arab League of which Jordan is a foundational member More

March 6, 2007
Teaching children to learn
Bookworm
Some little boys seem to have few - or at least different - tools for learning. More

March 5, 2007
The State of the Race: The Democrats
Richard Baehr
The likely Presidential nominees of both parties will be decided by February 5, 2008, (if not earlier), when more than a dozen states, including the largest five, may hold primaries. More

March 5, 2007
Locking-up Home Schoolers
James Lewis
Locking up as mentally ill those who refuse to obey a tyrannical state was a favorite tactic of Stalin and his successors. The New Europe is learning to love this reinforcement of government power. More

March 5, 2007
A Purpose-Driven Law School
Thomas Lifson
The University of California is preparing to squander tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on a brand new law school for the University of California, Irvine, one that the state's own review found unnecessary and wasteful. More

March 4, 2007
The Other Declaration of Independence
Nancy Coppock
The original Thirteen Colonies have a legitimate claim to be the cradle of liberty for all Americans. But another part of America has a proud and too often ignored history of proclaiming liberty More

March 4, 2007
Iran: Some More Questions
Rachel Neuwirth
The confident assertion that it will require 5-10 years before Iran has a nuclear bomb is strange, for at least three reasons. More

March 4, 2007
Solzhenitsyn, the Prophet
Robert C. Cheeks
Not to many weeks ago a book arrived which I immediately opened upon returning home from work. The cover page carried the distinct visage of a bearded, long-haired older gentleman More

March 3, 2007
Obama speaks before AIPAC
Ed Lasky
Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama gave a long-awaited speech regarding his views on the Middle East to the AIPAC Policy Forum in Chicago. More

March 3, 2007
NASCAR Ain't PC
Earl Wright
For 51 weeks a year I'm a frustrated teeth-gnasher buried under the poltically-correct garbage spewed forth by my former colleagues in the mainstream media. More

March 3, 2007
The Manuscripts Tell the Story: The New Testament Is Reliable
James Arlandson
It is possible to reach back to the original (autograph) books and letters of the New Testament, though the originals no longer exist. More

March 2, 2007
Global Warming will make you healthy and sexy
James Lewis
In the spirit of the world campaign to save polar bears and buy carbon indulgences to assuage our collective guilt, it is vital to point out that published scientific studies also make a case for driving more, burning more coal, and breeding more flatulent cows. More

March 2, 2007
They'll Never Stop Saying... Sharia
Marc Sheppard
Rather than solving the problem, many have foolishly allowed Sharia's gradual unchecked spread in the names of diversity and tolerance. More

March 2, 2007
Promises Kept
Ken Boyette
More than two decades ago I witnessed a chilling vow. One that appears to have been kept. Therein lies a story. More

March 1, 2007
Machiavelli and the Mullahs
David J. Rusin
Machiavelli could offer President Bush what he needs most at this pivotal juncture: a philosophical blueprint for confronting the Iranian nuclear threat and successfully prosecuting the broader war against radical Islam. More

March 1, 2007
Israel's "Groundhog Day"
Steven Shanok
What would you do if you were stuck in one place, everything is the same, and nothing you did mattered?" More

March 1, 2007
German Engineering Meets the Thought Police.
Miguel A. Guanipa
I remember sitting placidly in my living room watching the TV when I first saw the Volkswagen commercial; little did I know it would become another victim on the long list of untimely casualties of political correctness. More