Articles

June 30, 2007
A Blow to Wine Snobs
Thomas Lifson
It isn't exactly David slaying Goliath, but an equally unexpected victory has stunned the California wine industry. More

June 30, 2007
Responsible adults
Bookworm
Some time ago, I had the honor of meeting a newly commissioned Marine Corps officer who was about to ship out to Afghanistan to take command of a unit there. More

June 30, 2007
Warning! This Could Make You SiCKO
Michael Van Winkle
Beware! Watching Michael Moore's new documentary, SiCKO, could make you a little queasy. More

June 29, 2007
No More Land for War in Israel: Part 2
Richard Baehr
The difficult part of commenting on the Israeli Palestinian conflict has never been in assigning blame for what has gone wrong. Rather, it has been in trying to come up with rational and creative policy suggestions and alternatives to the many failed approaches of the past More

June 29, 2007
Tony Blair and the Preconditions for Peace in the Middle East
David Singer
Tony Blair may have a new job as special envoy for the Quartet (US, Russian, EU and UN), but he remains committed to the flawed concept of a two-state solution. More

June 29, 2007
Manmade Global Warming: The Real Assault on Reason
Marc Sheppard
In the opening chapter of The Assault on Reason, its seldom reasonable author accuses the Bush administration of exploiting people's fears More

June 28, 2007
Nothing Short of Victory
Allen Andrew Dennison
Here in Iraq, the war is without a doubt being won. Along with the set-backs and fatalities, we are winning important moral and military victories, and both of those kinds of wins are equally important. More

June 28, 2007
Free Speech From the Mouths of Babes?
Selwyn Duke
On Monday the Supreme court handed down three free speech rulings that find favor with conservatives. I beg to differ. More

June 28, 2007
Conservative NextGen
Christopher Chantrill
Since conservatism seems to be in a rebuilding year, as they diplomatically call it in baseball, maybe it's time to fire the coach. Maybe it's even time to skip a generation and go with a bunch of untried rookies. More

June 27, 2007
Alas, poor Tony. And poor, poor Britain
James Lewis
Tony Blair is leaving office by surrendering British sovereignty to the EU, and then openly lying about it. Alas, poor Tony. And alas, poor Britain. More

June 27, 2007
The Dangers of Government-Sponsored Art
David Yerushalmi
This is a tale of the danger of government sponsored art. Arguably, it is even worse than that. More

June 27, 2007
Good People Can Disagree (As Long as They Have Permission)
Steve Alderman
You cannot be an effective leader of the free world while compromising and chumming with the enemies of freedom, both foreign and especially domestic. More

June 26, 2007
Casting Terrorists as Defenders of the Constitution
J.R. Dunn
With a series of decisions made over the past few weeks, the American legal establishment - both civil and military -- has met and surpassed the lowest expectations of its critics. More

June 26, 2007
Carter in Britain: There He Went Again
Rick Richman
Jimmy Carter was in London last week, receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University, which will offer a course later this year entitled "The Middle Ease and the West: From Confrontation to Coexistence." More

June 26, 2007
Talk Radio: Democracy at Work
Bob Weir
It must be a painful adjustment to delude yourself into believing that you have your finger on the pulse of the national community and then become frustrated when you discover that you don't have a clue More

June 25, 2007
Obama and Moral Courage
Ed Lasky
This past weekend, Barack Obama passed up two key opportunities to stand up and be counted when it comes to making good on his campaign themes. More

June 25, 2007
Hezbollah, Hamas, and Humanitarians
Michael I. Krauss and J. Peter Pham
Hezbollah is alive, thriving, and steadily advancing in its quest to conquer the sovereign nation of Lebanon. Among those surprised would apparently be General Claudio Graziano, the Italian officer who since February has been commanding the United Nations "peacekeeping" forces in Lebanon More

June 25, 2007
Palestine - Partition and Propaganda
David Singer
President Bush and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stubbornly and foolishly continue to push for the creation of an independent Palestinian State between Israel and Jordan More

June 24, 2007
Goodbye, Sopranos. Will you miss me?
Steven Zak
Two weeks since that last episode of the Sopranos, and you're still bitching. Not just disagreeing with David Chase's artistic judgment, but feeling utterly betrayed. More

June 24, 2007
Speaking Truth to Art
Gary Wolf
On virtually all fronts, Western civilization has arrived at its most dismal cultural and intellectual output. One need only compare the accomplishments of a mere century ago with our latter-day creations to see the enormity of the change. More

June 24, 2007
On Time
Miguel A. Guanipa
Time is indeed a very mysterious thing. Only we tend not to think of it as "mysterious" because somehow we have deluded ourselves into believing that since we have found a way to measure it (or at least we think we have), we are the ones who master it More

June 23, 2007
Engage with Hamas?
Ray Robison
The Washington Post delivered the jihadist propaganda goods with the bizarre ranting of Ahmed Yousef earlier this week More

June 23, 2007
Requiem for a Righteous Muslim
Sharon Chandler
Tashbih Sayyed called himself a Muslim Zionist. He fearlessly directed his great intellect and powerful voice to combat Jew-hatred and anti-Zionism, often at great personal cost. More

June 23, 2007
Interview with Tunisian human rights activist Abu Khawla
Stefania Lapenna
AT contributor and blogger Stefania Lapennaa interviewed Tunisian liberal academic and human rights activist, Abu Khawla recently. More

June 22, 2007
The Incredible Shrinking New York Times
Thomas Lifson
Like some robber baron capitalist of yore, the New York Times is telling the remaining full price readers of its print product that they will pay more and get less, the same message it has been sending advertisers for years. More

June 22, 2007
Run, Bloomberg, Run
Steven M. Warshawsky
How would a Bloomberg third party campaign influence the outcome of the 2008 race? More

June 22, 2007
Prepare to be Sickened by SiCKO
Peter Barry Chowka
From start to end, SiCKO, the latest "documentary" from notorious writer and filmmaker Michael Moore, is a stunning example of the Big Lie. More

June 21, 2007
Libby: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Clarice Feldman
It is always a challenge to describe legal proceedings for a general audience and accurately capture clearly the gist of the arguments without oversimplifying them or making them utterly boring and incomprehensible to non-lawyers More

June 21, 2007
Iran on a Collision Course
James Lewis
Unless something unexpected happens, Iran and the West are on a collision course. The key to the coming confrontation is a basic diplomatic fact. More

June 20, 2007
No More Land for War in Israel
Richard Baehr
The decisive rout of Fatah in Gaza last week has led to a series of calls for new strategies designed to seize the opportunity created by the sudden turn of events. More

June 20, 2007
How to Accomplish Education Reform
Christopher Chantrill
Everyone is talking about education reform when they're not talking about immigration. Jonah Goldberg wonders why we bother to have public education, given how screwed up it is. More

June 20, 2007
Thrift, Thrift, Horatio
Paul Shlichta
The clamor for harvesting stem cells from embryos, as in the current bill passed by Congress, seems at first glance puzzling. More

June 19, 2007
Airbus Struts Its Stuff in Paris
Thomas Lifson
It is the time for Airbus to shine in the spotlight of the Paris Air Show, the pre-eminent aerospace gathering of the year More

June 19, 2007
Blaming Bush for Gaza
Rick Richman
Statecraft apparently consists of taking content-less nouns (diplomacy, game plan, negotiation, engagement) and surrounding them with high-sounding adjectives (hands-on, intensive, active, serious). More

June 19, 2007
A Bipartisan Compromise or a Conservative Sellout?
Vasko Kohlmayer
It is the conventional wisdom in many quarters that the soon-to-be-revived immigration bill is a good thing, because it is the result of a grand bipartisan compromise. More

June 18, 2007
Why the MSM Love Fest for Hugo Chavez?
Ed Lasky
Why do so many in the media and culture place a positive spin on the triumph of tyrants? Hugo Chavez is just the latest in a long line of left wing thugs to capture the hearts of elite journalists. More

June 18, 2007
JFK, neo-con.
James Lewis
Jack and Bobby Kennedy had far more in common with today's neo-cons than any Democrat alive today, with the possible exception of Joe Lieberman. More

June 18, 2007
The Retreat of the West?
Jonathan D. Strong
International affairs is a zero sum game. When power is withdrawn by one state, another state or group will fill that power vacuum. More

June 17, 2007
Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
James Arlandson
The Christian friends of Israel regard the entire Bible as inspired and inerrant. But the New Testament is supposedly anti-Semitic. So why would they support Israel and the Jewish community? More

June 16, 2007
Fred Thompson and Plain Speaking
Ray Robison
Fred Thompson is a small town guy who made it from the agricultural communes of south-central Tennessee to Capitol Hill and our TV sets. More

June 16, 2007
Ruthless Russia
Peter B. Martin
It was but all a dream to ever believe Russia would be benign and peaceful under Putin. More

June 15, 2007
British anti-Semitism?
James Lewis
Isn't Britain the country with the longest tradition of tolerance in the world? The answer is Yes, it used to be, and No, it isn't any more. More

June 15, 2007
New Study: Political Islam Correlated to Support for Terrorism
Patrick Poole
A new study by the US Institute for Peace (USIP) of polling data from fourteen different Muslim countries finds that support for a role for Islam in politics strongly correlates with more likely support for terrorism. More

June 15, 2007
Terrorists' Bill of Rights
Amil Imani
In the interest of impartiality, the authors of the Constitution did not define what constitutes a religion. More

June 14, 2007
Palestine: The Prison
James Lewis
So you have the bad luck to be born into an Arab family in Gaza. As a toddler you get to watch the Mickey Martyr Club on Hamas TV, to begin a lifelong process of indoctrination More

June 14, 2007
Antioch College, R.I.P.
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
According to a statement released on June 12, 2007 by the Antioch College Board of Trustees, the College in Yellow Springs, Ohio will suspend operations on July 1, 2008. More

June 14, 2007
Should Have Known?
Christopher Chantrill
Let us be careful of the "should have known" approach to political analysis. More

June 13, 2007
Eurabia: 'Conspiracy' or Policy?
Andrew G. Bostom
America must reckon with the reality of a long term project to create a Euro-Arab alliance based on far-reaching cultural integration measures. More

June 13, 2007
Why Do They Love Us?
Julia Gorin
For a single day, George W. Bush knew what it felt like to be Bill Clinton. In Albania on Sunday, Bush got the Clinton treatment-being adored, cheered, hugged, reached for, applauded More

June 13, 2007
Israel and the Iranians
Amil Imani
Once again, the unelected, illegitimate clown puppet of the thugs of the Iranian Islamic regime, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "The Monkey" to Iranians, has spewed some outrageous statements against the "State of Israel". More

June 12, 2007
No Grand Schemes
Thomas Lifson
President Bush is threatening to revive the failed comprehensive immigration bill in "improved" form. He is wasting his and our time. No amount of improving can make the comprehensive approach the best path for America to solve its immigration woes. More

June 12, 2007
The Democrats' Betrayal
James Lewis
The Democrats and their media poodles have proudly and publicly sabotaged the Iraq War effort since the beginning. This is not just a guess, but a clear and visible fact, openly celebrated by the Left. More

June 12, 2007
Mr. Bush Goes to Albania
Patrick Poole
President George W. Bush was greeted by thousands of American-flag waving Albanians and a 21-gun salute during his short visit to Albania on Sunday. Predictably, some will believe that this marks the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. More

June 11, 2007
The Chief and The Commandant
Michael J. O'Shea
The commandant asks that stories tell themselves. He is overruled by those who rule over stories. More

June 11, 2007
State Capitalism and Foreign Investment
Judith Klinghoffer
There is a fundamental difference between privately own companies and state owned ones, between market and state capitalism. Profits motivate businesses, geopolitical strategy motivates governments and, ultimately, the businesses they control. More

June 11, 2007
Self-Indulgence
Bob Weir
"The very rich are different from you and me," said, F. Scott Fitzgerald, long before Paris Hilton was born. More

June 10, 2007
The truth about Muslim-Christian marriages: Some Friendly Advice to Christians
James M. Arlandson
Islam says that a Muslim man is allowed to marry a Christian woman, but a Christian man is not permitted to marry a Muslim woman. What does the Quran say on the matter? What does the New Testament teach on interfaith marriages? More

June 9, 2007
Now Fix Immigration
James Lewis
Well, it looks like an aroused citizenry is shooting down a terrifyingly bad piece of legislation in the Senate. The country may be dodging a bullet. More

June 9, 2007
Education at Its Finest
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
In a bygone era, a child sent to study the humanities was expected to drink deeply from the collected wisdom of the finest writers and artists, emerging with a heightened sense of mankind's potential for greatness as well the flaws inherent in human nature. More

June 8, 2007
The Threat of Bioweapons
Janet Levy
Immediately following 9-11, an anthrax attack originating from letters containing anthrax spores infected 22 people, killing five. After almost six years, the case has not been solved More

June 8, 2007
The Right Lessons To Learn From Viet Nam
Rick Moran
Peter Rodman, one of the architects of our military and political policy in Iraq and William Shawcross, liberal hawk now branded traitor by the left for his support of the Iraq War, have written what I believe to be an extremely important op-ed in the New York Times on why walking away in defeat from Iraq would be an unmitigated disaster: More

June 8, 2007
Informed Consent and Malformed Consent
Seth Cooper
Recent trends and events in law and public policy suggest that safeguards offered by informed consent are being eroded. More

June 7, 2007
The Neglected Truths of the Immigration Debate
Thomas Lifson
Most of the public debate over the immigration bill has taken place in a fantasy world where certain fairly immutable truths are blithely ignored. More

June 7, 2007
Kyoto and the G8: A Day Late and a Euro Short
Marc Sheppard
Later this year, China will overtake the United States as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). At that time, some of the pressure to accept egregious UN-based Kyoto-style protocols will shift eastward from Washington to Beijing. More

June 7, 2007
The Hard Hand of War
Rachel Neuwirth
Historian James M. McPherson's essay on General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous, or infamous, "march through Georgia " sheds light on the success in bringing victory, and peace, to the United States More

June 6, 2007
Will GOP Infighting Give Dems the Edge in 2008?
Pamela Meister
Conservatives are angry. Those who have continued to stand by President Bush through thick and thin feel that his support of Ted Kennedy's "comprehensive" immigration reform bill is not only a slap in the face to all Americans, but a slap in the face to the Republican base More

June 6, 2007
Boycotting Decency
James Lewis
The British college teachers union just voted to boycott Israel's universities and colleges. There is something so grotesque and Kafkaesque about this move that it simply cries out for explanation. More

June 6, 2007
Idiot Compassion
Ralph Alter
The term "bleeding-heart liberal" has been bandied about for years, in an effort to illustrate the faux or at least hyperbolic sense of compassion attributed to those on the left. More

June 5, 2007
The Myth of the Expensive Border Fence
Vasko Kohlmayer
One of the most common objections to building a fence along the southern border is that it would be too expensive. That this idea has taken root is nothing short of remarkable More

June 5, 2007
Who's Alone, Senator Clinton?
Christopher Chantrill
Conservatives have responded with outrage at Hillary Clinton's denunciation of American society (under Republicans) as one where you are "on-your-own" in a speech last week. And well they might, for she tells a narrative about an America they never heard of. More

June 5, 2007
Lies, Damned Lies, and CAIR's Statistics
Patrick Poole
In his Autobiography, Mark Twain offers these words of wisdom: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics". When presented anything by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you usually get all three More

June 4, 2007
Why the Surge Is Working, Yet More Americans are Dying
Gerd Schroeder
If the surge in Iraq is showing signs of success, are so many Americans dying over the last two months? It comes down to the old real estate saying, location, location, location. More

June 4, 2007
There's a Hero In the Dock
Clarice Feldman
Tomorrow, June 5, after some four years of an unenviable ordeal, I. Lewis Libby, a brilliant man, a dedicated public servant and the father of two young children, will stand in the dock before U.S. District Court judge Reggie Walton to be sentenced More

June 4, 2007
'Su Casa es Mi Casa'
James Lewis
Today, the slogan of Mexico is "Su casa es mi casa" --- your house is mine. That is a slogan for home invaders. More

June 3, 2007
Rudy Giuliani and the SOB Factor
Tim McNabb
One of the chronic with the Bush Administration is that the President is insufficiently vindictive to deal with the enemies of this republic. Rudy Giuliani, however, strikes me as a guy who can be a really mean SOB, a man not to be crossed. More

June 3, 2007
Immigration Misgivings
Jonathan David Carson
I have no reason to doubt the justice of conservative criticism of "comprehensive" immigration "reform." I do doubt, however, that the criticism is sufficiently, well, conservative. More

June 3, 2007
Muhammad and the Jews: Why the Hostility Today?
James Arlandson
Many millions of Muslims in the Arab world and beyond have a deep hostility towards Jews or "the Jew." It seems to have reached a metaphysical level or descended into a debased, irrational state of mind. The question is: where does the hate come from? More

June 2, 2007
Jazz Succumbs to Racism
Thomas Lifson
Jazz is the great cultural achievement of America where blacks took a leading role as creators and practitioners, where blacks and everyone else performed and listened in harmony (literally and figuratively). That era ended yesterday. More

June 2, 2007
A Convenient Canard
Peter B. Martin
Global warming will be a key feature on the agenda of the up-coming G-8 summit meeting in Germany and hot-headed Greens will be turning up the heat More

June 2, 2007
Who's Afraid of Brit Hume?
Matthew May
Sen. Christopher Dodd and Gov. Bill Richardson are the latest to decline an invitation to attend and participate in a debate among Democrat presidential hopefuls in September at Detroit. More

June 1, 2007
Linda Chavez fishing for a red herring
Bob Weir
Recently, nationally syndicated conservative columnist, Linda Chavez, wrote a column in which she began: "Some people just don't like Mexicans - or anyone else from south of the border." More

June 1, 2007
Krauthammer's Guarded Optimism on Israel
Richard Baehr
Dr. Charles Krauthammer has been for many years a glass half empty person on Israel's struggle for normalcy. So it was a bit out of pattern for Krauthammer to lean ever so slightly to the glass half full position in his remarks to an audience of 2000 in Chicago Wednesday. More

June 1, 2007
Hillary and Hispanics
Ed Lasky
The strong and widely celebrated bond between Bill Clinton and our nation's black community has somewhat obscured the growing ties that Hillary has independently forged with the nation's Hispanic community over the years. More

June 1, 2007
The High Cost of Political Satire at Tufts University
Richard L. Cravatts
In another instance of what has become a predictable and frequent assault on conservative campus publications, The Committee on Student Life at Tufts has censured the The Primary Source, a student magazine More