Articles

May 31, 2007
The Jihad Fracture Widens
Ray Robison
Despite the impression created by the dominant media, global jihad is showing signs of serious trouble. More

May 31, 2007
Global Warming Hysteria is a National Security Issue
Gerd Schroeder
Recently in the news several retired US generals, came out in favor of using defense resources for fighting the effects of global warming. More

May 31, 2007
Obama Enters National Health Care Bidding War
Rick Moran
I'll say this much for the Democratic candidates for President: At least they're trying to address the health care issue. More

May 30, 2007
Fitzgerald, Plame, CIA Director Hayden and Scooter Libby
Al Johnson
Like the shape-shifting T-1000 cyborg of Terminator 2, Patrick Fitzgerald's claim that Valerie Plame was a covert agent, and that therefore Scooter Libby deserves a harsh sentence for supposedly outing her, not only won't die a proper death due to lack of proof, it keeps mutating into new forms. More

May 30, 2007
Getting the Government the Third World Deserves
Selwyn Duke
When Thomas Jefferson said that "people get the government they deserve," it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight but a timeless truth, More

May 30, 2007
The Muddled Mess of Middle East Studies
Cinnamon Stillwell
What's ailing contemporary Middle East studies? A symposium earlier this month at Stanford University provided a clue. More

May 29, 2007
Our Fleeting Chance to Stop Iran's Nukes Without War
James Lewis
We have one last chance of pressuring the martyrdom cult that controls Iran's 70 million people: That would be drastic economic arm-twisting. More

May 29, 2007
Immigration: Mend It Not Rend It
Christopher Chantrill
The immigration bill currently before the United States Senate is the usual farrago of band-aids and special interest goodies, trying to patch up the failure of 1986. More

May 29, 2007
Fred on the Web (or not)
Ken Yarmosh
In the age of broadband Internet, YouTube, and Wikipedia, voters' first encounter with a candidate may not be hearing the stump speech or any of the campaign's message for that matter. More

May 28, 2007
Private Robert J. Dixon: Ordinary Soldier, American Hero
Jeff Emanuel
During the all-too-brief time that I was fortunate enough to spend embedded with the 1-4 Cavalry in Baghdad, I met a number of truly great men. One of these was Robert Dixon, a 27-year-old Private First Class from Minneapolis More

May 28, 2007
Memorial Day Meditation
John B. Dwyer
I remember Chuck Meerholz and the day I was supposed to drive. After four months with B Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor; four months of on-the-job-training for a guy trained as an infantrymen, I was being taught to drive our tank. More

May 28, 2007
Ignorance, Cognitive Dissonance, and al-Sadr
Andrew G. Bostom
Re-emerging publicly on Friday May 25, 2007 for the first time since he went underground 4-months ago, Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr journeyed in a long motorcade from Najaf to the adjacent city of Kufa where he delivered a fiery sermon before 6,000 worshippers. More

May 27, 2007
The War of Extermination Continues
Steve Feldman
Sderot, Israel and the nearby communities have been under missile fire for about a decade; a barrage that has only intensified this month, with hundreds of crude but deadly rockets More

May 27, 2007
What Conservative Media?
Ari Kaufman
Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, today's liberal is fond of claiming there is not only zero lefty bias in today's mainstream media, but often a conservative bias. More

May 27, 2007
The Knoxville Horror
Bob Weir
The dictionary defines the word "savage" as beast-like, primitive and lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings. Usually, in these days of multicultural political correctness, the term is applied to the 4-legged beasts More

May 26, 2007
Al-Qaeda in South Africa
Douglas Hanson
South Africa is the newest home for worldwide terror groups. More

May 26, 2007
Gloria in Excelsis, Jimmy (a poem)
C. MacLeod Fuller
I AM THE Jimmy Carter. My initials are "J.C." And because thou art blessed to be reading my press - you know what to fashion of ME. More

May 26, 2007
Pacifism and the Sword: Fight or Flight?
James M. Arlandson
What if the Church is targeted for persecution by the government or by large groups of extremists, but the government does not come to the aid of Christians? More

May 25, 2007
Congress in Wonderland
Gerd Schroeder
The children's book Alice In Wonderland, tells a charming story of a girl trying to make sense of a senseless imaginary world. Our national defense seems to be caught in an oddly similar story, which is, unfortunately, not a harmless imagined child's story, and not at all charming. More

May 25, 2007
Rachel Carson and the Deaths of Millions
J.R. Dunn
At times it seems that there are more sites honoring Rachel Carson than Josef Stalin at his peak. More

May 25, 2007
Jimmy Carter Can Only Blame Himself
Paul Miller
Jimmy Carter calling anyone else the worst president is like John Wayne Gacy calling a shoplifter a danger to society. More

May 24, 2007
The Mickey Martyr Club
James Lewis
Hamas, the Islamofascist party that now controls half the Palestinian population, is giving the world an important object lesson on civilization; or rather, on the crucial difference between civilization and barbarism. More

May 24, 2007
Immigration: Solutions, Not Excuses
Selwyn Duke
One frailty of man is that he is very adept at finding excuses to justify laziness and irresponsibility. More

May 24, 2007
Islamic "Democide" in Iran
Amil Imani
The dictionary defines "Democide" as "The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder." More

May 23, 2007
The Immigration Bill Sells Out the Poor
Dan Scott
Do we need 12 million illegal immigrants to pick our crops? How many people actually do pick our crops? More

May 23, 2007
No More Equal Protection
Bob Weir
It's known as HR 1592 or the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, and it is bad news for the concept of equal protection under the law. More

May 23, 2007
The Hand of Syria Seen in Lebanese Violence
Rick Moran
The worried eyes of the western world are turned toward Lebanon as the under-trained and under-equipped Lebanese army does battle with the Palestinian terrorist group known as Fatah al-Islam More

May 22, 2007
Immigration, National Security and Federalism
Clarice Feldman
Although not apparent at first glance, there is a close connection between our inattention to the principles of federalism and the problems with the new immigration bill More

May 22, 2007
The Great Immigration Ruse
Jeff Emanuel
The much-discussed "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation, set to come before the Senate for debate, is an example of what is currently wrong with the Washington establishment More

May 22, 2007
Why the Left Hated Jerry Falwell So Much
J.R. Dunn
Jerry Falwell's funeral is today, and now that he is being laid to rest, it is appropriate to dissect the vicious treatment he has received at the hands of his enemies since his unexpected demise. More

May 21, 2007
Democrats and Apologies
Jerome J. Schmitt
Somewhere in the course of the evolution of the American Left and its party, the Democrats, the offering of formal apologies became an important political ritual. More

May 21, 2007
The Legacy of Jerry Falwell
Christopher Chantrill
If the United States is a divided nation then it was probably Jerry Falwell who divided it. More

May 21, 2007
Why They Won't Assimilate
Selwyn Duke
Today's immigrants are not assimilating into our culture. Ted Kennedy's Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia More

May 20, 2007
The Ham Sandwich Hate Crime?
Thomas Lifson
When is a failure to respect the deep religious beliefs of a group a hate crime? In the state of Maine, we have an answer, one that ought to provoke outrage. More

May 20, 2007
Bent On Evil
Peter B. Martin
There exists no simple formula to define or classify a multiple killer like Cho Seung-hui, the killer at Virginia Tech. More

May 20, 2007
Rediscovering God in America
Steven M. Warshawsky
"There is no attack on American culture more destructive and more historically dishonest than the secular Left's relentless effort to drive God out of America's public square." So writes former Speaker of the House, and possible Republican presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich More

May 19, 2007
The Antithesis of Michael Moore: Real Courage in Cuba
John Mendez
There's been much made recently about the vaunted Cuban medical system since propagandist Michael Moore traveled to Havana with 9/11 heroes in tow More

May 19, 2007
War Films That Get It Right: Two Classics Re-released
Douglas Hanson
When decades-old war movies, now restored and re-released, remind us that we ignore our own southern border and the maelstrom of the African continent at our peril, films so prescient deserve a second look. More

May 19, 2007
Al Gore's New Book Assault on Reason: Two Views
Christopher Alleva and Michael Geer
Al Gore has most assuredly secured his place in the pantheon of modern media deities, right along side Paris Hilton and Sean Penn. More

May 18, 2007
Of Flatulent Cows and Liberal Madness
Vasko Kohlmayer
The other day we were once again warned about that dire danger to our existence - cow flatulence More

May 18, 2007
McCain's Tortured Thinking
Steven Zak
At the South Carolina Republican Presidential Candidates Debate, moderator Brit Hume posed a hypothetical question. Senator McCain's response was silly, at best. More

May 18, 2007
Can There Be Peace Without Victory?
Rachel Neuwirth
By the summer of 1864, after three years of extremely bitter fighting and huge losses of life, the Union armies had lost close to 300,000 men killed in action. More

May 17, 2007
The Mystic Who Set Europe On Fire
James Lewis
One of Aldous Huxley's best novels, Grey Eminence, is devoted to Father Joseph, the mystical power-politician who helped set Europe on fire during the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648). More

May 17, 2007
After Blair: Tories Mumble about Welfare State Reform
Christopher Chantrill
On the day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his retirement, they retired the "new" in "New Labour." The British Labour Party removed the logo "New Labour, New Britain" from its web site and substituted just plain "Labour." More

May 17, 2007
Schwarzenegger Should Terminate His health Care Plan
Patrick Poole
I didn't anticipate that when I commented on the plan in California to impose taxpayer-financed universal health coverage that it would prompt a correspondence exchange between Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. More

May 16, 2007
Congressional Earmarks and Duke Cunningham
Rick Moran
Shocking in its scope and in the brazenness of its conspirators, the Duke Cunningham bribery caper is a tale not only of individual malfeasance that would make a grifter cry, but also of a culture in Washington, D.C. that threatens the integrity of government itself. More

May 16, 2007
More Evidence of Saddam-al Qaeda Ties
Ray Robison
An al Qaeda document newly released by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) of the United States Military Academy provides an extraordinary new connection to a previously reported order by Saddam Hussein to support al Qaeda attacks upon US forces in Somalia. More

May 16, 2007
Obama, the Apprentice
Gregory A. Collins
A useful and amuysing way to look at the Democrats' presidential nomination contest is through the lens of the first season of NBC's show, The Apprentice. More

May 15, 2007
The Attempted Putsch at the World Bank
Clarice Feldman
Late yesterday afternoon, without prior notice to Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank's Executive Committee released the Final Report of the Ad Hoc Group on his handling of personnel issues More

May 15, 2007
George Soros and the Future of the World Bank
Ed Lasky
As Paul Wolfowitz struggles to retain his post as President of the World Bank in the face of a trumped up faux scandal engineered by his opponents, a grim scenario becomes possible, should he be forced from his position. More

May 15, 2007
The Coming Great Divide in American Political Culture
J.R. Dunn
We're headed for an even more serious social schism between the heartland and the coastal metropolises. More

May 14, 2007
The Death of an Intellectual Giant
Thomas Lifson
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. may not have been a household name, but he was one of those very rare intellectuals who made a positive difference in the way we understand and cope with the world. More

May 14, 2007
The Missing Context in Media Reporting on Iraq
Gerd Schroeder
The US mainstream media are failing to provide the public the context it needs to accurately understand both the successes of our progress in Iraq. More

May 14, 2007
Embedded Journalists Won Over by Soldiers
Jeff Emanuel
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) saw the advent of a practice which revolutionized modern war reporting: the embedding of journalists with frontline combat units in war. More

May 13, 2007
Kosovo, Albania and Jihad
Ray Robison
I don't know Patrick but I read his AT article "Kosovo and Antijihad Bigotry" and I have to say, he is spot on. I deployed to Kosovo with the 101st on Valentine's Day, 2000 as part of the first unit rotation in country after the initial US deployment. More

May 13, 2007
The SS Exodus, Baltimore, Hollywood, and Harry Truman
Jack Kemp
Many people in America today have gotten their understanding of the birth of modern Israel and the journey of the ship Exodus from the best selling novel and movie of the same name. More

May 13, 2007
Women Dropping Out
R. E. Smith Jr.
I'm not buying the recent feminist propaganda about a "crisis" in retention and advancement of female lawyers. More

May 13, 2007
Women Dropping Out
R. E. Smith Jr.
I'm not buying the recent feminist propaganda about a "crisis" in retention and advancement of female lawyers. More

May 12, 2007
Kingfish Al Sharpton and Senator Foghorn Byrd
James Lewis
One of the high ironies of the last several months was the brief news flash that the Rev. Al Sharpton is a distant cousin of the late and unlamented Senator Strom Thurmond More

May 12, 2007
Television: Your Entertainment Bargain
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I read the other day that television is missing 2.5 million viewers this spring. I am positively appalled. What on earth could healthy Americans be doing with all that free time if we're not watching television? More

May 12, 2007
Postmodernism and the Bible: Conclusion
James Arlandson
This article is Part Eight, the conclusion to the series on postmodernism and the Bible. I chose the Bible as the focus of the series, since it is a cornerstone of western civilization. More

May 11, 2007
Univision, Voter Registration and the Clinton Connection
Ed Lasky
The 2008 election may see a vast number of new Hispanic voters streaming to the polls and voting Democrat, thanks to behind the scenes maneuvers by the Democrats' biggest sugar daddy of all. More

May 11, 2007
Democrats Subverting US Global Strategy
Douglas Hanson
The singular focus by the Democrats and their media cohorts on money issues concerning Iraq conceals an overarching effort aimed at dismantling the two key strategic maneuvers designed to secure our future for decades to come. More

May 11, 2007
Trivializing National Security
Christopher J. Alleva
Yesterday, House Democrats once again showed the electorate why they cannot be entrusted with the nation's national security More

May 10, 2007
The Case for Hegemony
Robert T. McLean
On April 30th, the State Department released a report noting a 25% increase in terrorist attacks around the world in 2006, ostensibly signaling the emergence of a period of unparalleled danger. More

May 10, 2007
Soros and Hillary: Partners on Israel?
Richard Baehr
George Soros, like many megalomaniacs, particularly the wealthiest ones, likes to keep his hands in those enterprises in which he invests. More

May 10, 2007
The War on Terror Comes to Cherry Hill
Jerry Gordon
Five of the six suspects charged by the Federal prosecutors with p[lanning an attack on Ft. Dix were residents of Cherry Hill, NJ, an upper middle class suburb that prides itself on being one of the best places to live in America and on its ethnic diversity. More

May 09, 2007
The Relative Stablity of Turkey
J.R. Dunn
Nicolas Sarkozy's triumph was not the only good news for the resurgant West this past weekend. The Islamists also suffered a setback in Turkey More

May 09, 2007
The Danger From Within
Pamela Meister
This week we found out that six Muslim men were arrested and charged with plotting to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey, with the intent of killing as many soldiers as they possibly could in the name of Islamic jihad. More

May 09, 2007
Kosova and Anti-Jihad Bigotry
Patrick Poole
The announcement earlier this week by the FBI of the arrest of a terrorist cell near Fort Dix, New Jersey has prompted a number of emails to chastise me. My crime? Having some kind words to say about the Albanian people More

May 08, 2007
Seizing the Moral High Ground for Reform
Christopher Chantrill
Rule One for conservative candidates in twenty-first century America is: Don't get defined as the mean-spirited candidate. More

May 08, 2007
The US and the Muslim Brotherhood
Patrick Poole
Western media and Beltway foreign policy establishments are engaged in a push to rehabilitate the image of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to convince US diplomats to initiate a dialogue with the organization. More

May 08, 2007
Denial of Heritage
Sondra M. Rubenstein
The politicization of archaeology is nothing new. What is new in Facts on the Ground, is the length to which author Nadia Abu El-Haj of the Columbia University Anthology faculty has gone to ignore, distort, revise, imply and assert the inaccuracy of historical fact. More

May 07, 2007
Where Is The Republican Vision?
Steven M. Warshawsky
One of the most striking features of last week's Republican presidential debate was the near total lack of "the vision thing" among the assembled candidates. More

May 07, 2007
A Theory of W
James Lewis
George W. Bush poses a brain-busting Rubik's Cube to the liberals of the land, and it's only right to try to soothe their upset. Why does W talk that way? Why does he say "Noo-kyoo-lrrr" when every good liberal knows it's "Noo-kle-uhr"? More

May 07, 2007
Moderate and Radical Muslims: the Confused PBS View
Alyssa A. Lappen
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) doesn't want Americans to learn of radical Islam's war against moderate Muslims, such as Danish Member of Parliament Naser Khader, who are trying to reform and transport to the 21st century a faith born (and for a great many, stuck) in the 7th century. More

May 06, 2007
What Did You Do in the War on Terror, Daddy?
Clarice Feldman
Democrats in Congress are insisting that funds budgeted for intelligence be diverted to the study of global climate warming. That was the last thing I read before my head hit the pillow and probably explains the nightmare that followed: More

May 06, 2007
The Paradox of Secular Scientism
Jeffrey Osonitsch
It has become an accepted tenet of conventional wisdom to begin all discussions about science and nature with the understanding that religion has no place in such debates and that, in fact, faith is diametrically opposed to reason and scientific thought. More

May 06, 2007
Measure For Measure: Air Travel and Terrorists
Peter B. Martin
Anyone who has traveled by air recently will have experienced the new security directives banning liquids, jells and pastes from being taken onboard an aircraft. More

May 05, 2007
America! Why have you abandoned us?
Gerd Schroeder
My fellow Americans; what have the American Fighting men and women done to cause you to abandon them in a foreign land, surrounded by sinister people that are bent on killing them and all Americans? More

May 05, 2007
Abortion and Presidential Politics, 2008
C. MacLeod Fuller
All the candidates criticized the Court's partial birth abortion decision in Gonzalez vs. Carhart and several denounced it from the stage during the Democratic presidential debate. More

May 05, 2007
Alternatives to Postmodern Hyper-skepticism
James Arlandson
Postmodernism brings us pessimism about acquiring knowledge and truth and achieving an accurate, sensible interpretation of the Bible. More

May 04, 2007
Fred Thompson and the GOP's Southern Problem
Richard Baehr
The inside the beltway political horse race broadcasters are abuzz about the possible (I think likely) entrance into the GOP Presidential race of former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. More

May 04, 2007
The Democrats' unilateral war policy
Ray Robison
It wasn't too long ago that the Bush Administration suffered the barbs of Democrat leaders who decried US "unilateralism" in Iraq. More

May 04, 2007
Will Lebanon Get Lost in the US-Syrian Shuffle?
Rick Moran
Secretary of State Condi Rice's meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Waleed Moallem - the first high level contact between Syria and the US in more than 2 years - may be a significant step on the road to better relations between the two countries. More

May 03, 2007
Europe (finally!) gets the War on Terror
James Lewis
Two headline-grabbing signals came from Europe this week, one from Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, and the other from Nicolas Sarkozy, the presidential front-runner in France More

May 03, 2007
Scarred for Life
Christopher Chantrill
Alec Baldwin's 11-year-old daughter may be scarred for life by his much publicized telephone rage. But perhaps Baldwin is the one who will be scarred for life. After all who are more easily scarred: Pampered celebrities or pampered celebrity children? More

May 03, 2007
The War of Art
Jonathan David Carson
Ask nine out of ten people what the purpose of art is, and they will say, "to express yourself." In fact, art has many purposes, and self-expression is one of the least important. No one could mistake "The Star-Spangled Banner" or "Ave Maria" for expressions of self. More

May 02, 2007
Freak Porn News
Mac Johnson
Every member of the press will assure you that freedom of the press is the most fundamental of all liberties. The news media are the sacred guardians of public access to information. More

May 02, 2007
Media Target: The US Military
Gerd Schroeder
The US military, the last bastion of creditability in the war, is now the primary target of the media and the enemies of the war. Almost like a plan. More

May 02, 2007
Bureaucratic Failure
J.R. Dunn
Three of most widely-covered recent news narratives revolve around the same fundamental issue: the failure of bureaucratic institutions to meet challenges involving their basic missions. More

May 01, 2007
Petraeus vs. Hagel
Ray Robison
Gen. David Petraeus recently returned from Iraq to brief the leaders of our government about the war there. Perhaps most notably, he took direct aim at the "Iraq is in a civil war" mantra of the media and Democratic leaders More

May 01, 2007
What Tenet Knew, When He Knew It, and Whom He Told
Rick Richman
In its lead editorial on Sunday, "Still Waiting for Answers," the New York Times expressed the hope that Rep. Henry Waxman will enforce the subpoena of Condoleezza Rice More

May 01, 2007
Brown University's Middle East Studies Workshop
Cinnamon Stillwell
Brown University, with a Middle East studies department currently offering no courses and losing one of its few professors in the field, is hosting a workshop titled "The Study of the Middle East and Islam: Challenges After 9-11" on May 3-4. More