Articles

July 31, 2007
Methods That Work in Iraq
Frederick J. Chiaventone
The United States is now employing our former enemies to fight Al-Qaeda. We shouldn't be surprised. History has ample precedent. More

July 31, 2007
The Real Long War
Christopher Chantrill
A faction within America always denigrates our country, seeing our enemies through rose colored lenses and finding only oppression at home. The Long War we face with Radical Islam is matched by the long war against this bloc.Color me cynical,... More

July 31, 2007
Tom Snyder (1936-2007): A Personal Recollection
Peter Barry Chowka
Tom Snyder burst on the national scene in 1973 as the unconventional host of the Tomorrow Show. He heralded a new era More

July 30, 2007
Alberto Gonzales Agonistes
Clarice Feldman
Democrats are playing political games with national security and mongering phony scandal. It amounts to a program of harassment of the Bush Administration's efforts to defend us More

July 30, 2007
FISA and the Power to Defend from Terror
Al Johnson
Uncovering terror cells is going to require us to maximize our technological advantages. One obstacle is FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. More

July 30, 2007
Judiciary Committee Clown Show
Clarice Feldman
The left is astir again. From Slate to the op ed pages of the New York Times and the People for the American Way (PFAW)  handouts, it is clear that the left is ginning up to replay their war against any judicial nominee... More

July 29, 2007
Assault on the Judiciary
Ed Lasky
There are preliminary signs of a looming dangerous breach of constitutional safeguards, one that would extend Congressional power into the executive and judicial branches of government. More

July 29, 2007
The New York Times Reports and Distorts a Presidential Address
Rick Richman
On July 24, around noon, President Bush delivered an important speech at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina. More

July 29, 2007
Let's Hail Those Whom We Really Need
Edward Bernard Glick
At first glance, Albert Einstein the physicist seems much more valuable than Joe Smith the plumber. But would we not be better off with more plumbers than physicists? When Einstein's toilets overflowed, he doubtless stood by helplessly More

July 28, 2007
Israel's Illusion - Fatah feted is Hamas hated
David Singer
Israel's unilateral decision earlier this month to release 250 Fatah terrorists from Israeli jails continues the insane policy of appeasement adopted by successive Israeli Governments since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. More

July 28, 2007
Losing His Religion
Steve Alderman
William Lobdell, writing in the Los Angeles Times, painfully recounts how he lost his Christian faith after a career of reporting on the horrible crimes and hypocrisy within the Church. More

July 28, 2007
Checking Out Infidel
Gerald McOscar
Checking out Infidel from the local library was no easy task. Infidel is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's best-selling autobiography-cum-political manifesto about growing up female in the Muslim faith. More

July 27, 2007
Proud to be an American
Greg Reeson
Historian Howard Zinn, writing recently in The Progressive, said that this past Independence Day, Americans "...would have done well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols...." More

July 27, 2007
Lunacy in Britain: Making Light of Jihad
Vasko Kohlmayer
Some in Britain have come up with an ingenuous way of countering the threat of jihad: They pretend it does not exist. More

July 27, 2007
An Open Letter to Her Majesty, the Queen of England
Don Cox
When I got up the other day and read that Winston Churchill would be cut from the curriculum of secondary schools in England, I thought it was a joke More

July 26, 2007
Democide: Democrats and the Awful Truth of Genocide
J.R. Dunn
Since the first of the year, I've been working on a project dealing with the connections between liberal policies and mass mortality More

July 26, 2007
Question of Proper Journalistic Standards
Ralph M. Lieberman
I must question the standards of journalism the New York Times Magazine applied in publishing Noah Feldman's recent article, "Orthodox Paradox." More

July 26, 2007
The Surge: Another View
Douglas Hanson
It is clear that the "Surge" is dealing a deathblow to terrorists in Iraq, but let's not run out with our bowl of dates and start lounging about on the banks of the Euphrates just yet. More

July 25, 2007
Turkey Betrayed Again
James Lewis
Turkey is one great theater in the war between modernity and Islamist reaction. In Istanbul one can see radical imams stalking through the Grand Bazaar with fanatical expressions on their faces. More

July 25, 2007
Let 'Containment' Rest in Peace
James Holmes
Disillusioned with the Bush administration's foreign policy and military strategy in the Middle East, an influential school of thought has developed, clamoring for the United States to adopt a less intrusive approach to the region. More

July 25, 2007
The Rising Tide of Education Subsidy
Christopher Chantrill
A rising tide lifts all boats. That's what President Kennedy said in a happier time when he lowered tax rates. But what about the rising tide of education subsidies? More

July 24, 2007
The Surge Succeeds
J.R. Dunn
It's now quite clear how the results of the surge will be dealt with by domestic opponents of the Iraq war. They're going to be ignored. They're being ignored now. More

July 24, 2007
Immigration is Broken, All Right
Pamela Meister
Not much thought is given to immigrants who arrive in America by following the rules, only to be told they too face deportation. More

July 24, 2007
Just the facts, Ma'am
Miguel A. Guanipa
The news media haved an awesome responsibility. Too bad that so few rise to the challenge. More

July 23, 2007
The CNN/YouTube Debates
Peter Barry Chowka
At first glance, it looks democratic, with a small "d." Two high profile nationally-televised debates, featuring the major Democrat and Republican candidates for President in 2008, but with a significant twist: All of the questions will come from ordinary Americans More

July 23, 2007
Give War a Chance!
Michael I. Krauss and J. Peter Pham
Ever since our nation was attacked on 9/11, a significant division of the country has, we think, been papered over. The fact of the matter is that many deny our President's claim that the nation is at war More

July 23, 2007
Journalistic Bias or Incompetence: A Case Study
Paul Miller
Media bias or bad journalism? You be the judge. More

July 22, 2007
Saluting the White Flag
Bob Weir
From the time we're in grammar school, all the way through our adult lives we've been taught to take responsibility for our actions and not place blame on others for something we did. Why have so many of our current politicians forgotten these lessons? More

July 22, 2007
Peace is the Wrong Objective
Salomon Benzimra
I would like to sketch out the basis of any agreement in the future that, in my view, could bring a lasting peace in the Middle East. More

July 21, 2007
Why Does the Left Hate Israel?
Richard Baehr
For decades, most American Jews have believed there were far greater threats from the fringe right than the fringe left in this country. While this view may have been reasonable in the past, it is certainly not so today. More

July 21, 2007
Life Imitates the BBC
Graham Cunningham
The current scandal involving the BBC is just the tip of a very large iceberg. More

July 21, 2007
Campus Watch and California's Middle East Academic Radicals
Cinnamon Stillwell
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it became painfully clear that if America was to become more engaged in the Middle East, it would need to develop a greater understanding of the area. Regrettably, many campuses are not up to the task. More

July 20, 2007
More NY Times NIE LIEs
Marc Sheppard
Not surprisingly, the New York Times exploited Tuesday's release of the latest National Intelligence Estimate as yet another opportunity to nourish their "we're less safe because of Iraq" minions. More

July 20, 2007
Moderate Islam Is No Islam
Amil Imani
Nowadays we hear from the non-Muslim world about the moderate version of Islam and moderate Muslims. In my view, being a Muslim and not being radical is simply not possible. More

July 20, 2007
Moderate Islam and Its Muslim Enemies
Stephen Schwartz
Haters of Islamic moderation may not slay Muslims or non-Muslims physically, but they may kill the soul of a great world religion. More

July 19, 2007
New Nukes for California?
Joseph Somsel
As a Californian, I know well the opinion the rest of the country holds of our political sensibilities. But when it comes to actual political decisions, we're not always so dumb More

July 19, 2007
Lebanon Besieged by Iran-Syria Axis
Rick Moran
Shocking information has come to light about the al Qaeda-inspired terrorist group Fatah al-Islam, which has been battling the Lebanese army inside the Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared for nearly 2 months More

July 19, 2007
Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees
Andrew G. Bostom
The bicameral Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) will hold a landmark hearing today regarding the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee their communities in the Arab Muslim nations More

July 18, 2007
The Sitzkrieg: The Mullahs Bring War AND Peace
James Lewis
A strange paradox is gripping the Middle East during this suspenseful year of the Sitzkrieg --- the war of sitting and waiting. It is literally the best of times and the worst of times. More

July 18, 2007
Quartet Quartered, Road Map Thwarted, Palestine Aborted
David Singer
The Quartet's Road Map has failed according to the ten foreign ministers of the European Union's Mediterranean States More

July 18, 2007
Think Twice About Closing Gitmo
J.R. Dunn
The closing of Gitmo is one of those debates (like many concerning the War on Terror) that occur without anybody ever bringing up consequences More

July 17, 2007
Preventing the West from Understanding Jihad
Walid Phares
In the 1990's, apologist literature attempted to convince readers and audiences in the West that jihad was a "spiritual experience only, and not a menace." More

July 17, 2007
Airbus Takes a Baby Step Forward
Thomas Lifson
It took no less than a summit meeting between the heads of the German and French governments to accomplish, but Airbus has finally eliminating double-teaming French and German executives at the top of its organization chart. More

July 17, 2007
The Fairness Doctrine Engine Starter
Christopher Chantrill
Democrats propose to think about a proposal to study an investigation to reinstate the FCC Fairness Doctrine. But let us not lose our heads. More

July 16, 2007
Congress Should Support the Troops by Censuring Murtha
Clarice Feldman
Once again ordinary Americans rise to the challenge while our overpaid political elite ponce about on the stage making outrageous remarks and proposals in an effort to get approving coverage from a media More

July 16, 2007
Socialized Medicine Cult Undeterred by Sicko's Sputtering Box Office
Peter Barry Chowka
Despite a relative lack of success at the box office, Michael Moore will make millions from convincing Americans that more socialism is good for them. More

July 16, 2007
Al Gore's Whine: What Really Happened on the Mall
John Berlau
Now it's official. Global warming alarmism has indeed "jumped the shark". In particular, the puny turnout in Washington, DC, where Gore himself personally showed up, has proved an acute embarrassment. More

July 15, 2007
On Religion, Hitchens is Not so Great
James Lewis
Christopher Hitchens is one of the more sensible voices on the Left. But his latest book reveals his feet of clay. More

July 15, 2007
Private Morality and Public Servants
Ed Kaitz
Add Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the list of politicians who have claimed that their private affairs have no bearing on their public performance. More

July 15, 2007
Jesus Called it 'Israel'
James Arlandson
The Palestinian media say that Jesus was a Palestinian. A Dutch film says the same. Would the so-called "historical" Jesus recognize the label? More

July 14, 2007
'Energy Independence' is a Pipedream
Clinton J. Woods and William F. Collins
The only thing every significant figure inside the Beltway has in common is passionate support for "energy independence." More

July 14, 2007
Judge Walton's Pettifoggery
Cecil Turner
Ten days after the President commuted the prison term of I. Lewis Libby, Judge Walton upheld the amended sentence in a new memorandum opinion, and displayed his pique at the executive interference More

July 14, 2007
George Mason University to host next ISM Conference
Lee Kaplan and the Stop the ISM Team
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the International Solidarity Movement is scheduling another yearly conference at a major American university More

July 13, 2007
Al Gore Goes Elmer Gantry
James Lewis
Albert Gore, Jr. has finally found his calling. After flunking out of Vanderbilt Divinity School... More

July 13, 2007
The Anti-Islamist Manifesto
Selwyn Duke
Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, "Manifesto: Together facing a new totalitarianism," which is being disseminated widely on the Web. More

July 13, 2007
Muslim Victims of Islamist Violence in Turkey
Ali Sirin
On July 2, 2007, tens of thousands of people gathered in the Turkish city of Sivas. They came to commemorate 37 victims of a massacre in the town. The atrocity occurred only fourteen years ago. More

July 12, 2007
The Free Market Cure Made Us Less Sicko
Kyle-Anne Shiver
What we already have with giant HMO's and "Managed Care" companies is a dim preview of the fiasco that a single-payer system of Nannystate care would inevitably produce. More

July 12, 2007
Earth to Michael Moore: Government is Force
Christopher Chantrill
The important thing to know about left-wing agitator Michael Moore is that he just doesn't get it. More

July 12, 2007
The EU Constitution Arrives by Stealth
James Lewis
Nearly everybody watching the process agrees that the new European Constitution is being locked in by stealth and deception. More

July 11, 2007
Global Warming and Solar Radiation
D. Bruce Merrifield
The earth has been subjected to many warming and cooling periods over millions of years, none of which were of human origin. Data from many independent sources have mutually corroborated these effects. More

July 11, 2007
Rudy Giuliani's New Foreign Policy Team
Ed Lasky
Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani announced the line-up of his foreign policy team, addressing a key area of concernfor many voters going into November 2008 More

July 11, 2007
Sicko Flatlines and Michael Moore Lashes Out
Peter Barry Chowka
After ten days in wide national distribution,Sicko is performing well below expectations. As of July 10th, there were 5,726 news articles in response to the keyword "sicko" linked from Google News More

July 10, 2007
The War About the War
Herbert E. Meyer
The 9-11 attacks did more than start a war; they started a war about the war. More

July 10, 2007
Who is Losing What War in Iraq?
Paul Shlichta
President Bush's apt comparison of the present situation to the Revolutionary War evokes a vivid image of Nancy Pelosi and Harold Reid, as members of the Continental Congress, screaming that the war is lost and demanding that we surrender to the British immediately. More

July 10, 2007
What is to be done?
Greg Richards
It is impossible to understand the current political dynamics of the Iraq War without accepting that from the summer of 2003 to the fall of 2006 - 3+ years - the entire venture was essentially adrift. More

July 9, 2007
The New York Times and Iran
Ed Lasky
The New York Times has consistently misled its readers (including a large percentage of the policy-making elites) regarding the nature of the Iranian nuclear program and the lethal malevolency behind its development. More

July 9, 2007
Magical Thinking on Energy Policy
Dan Scott
The lack of refining capacity in the US is beginning to affect the world oil markets. While US holiday driving season was in years past simply a US domestic concern More

July 9, 2007
The Real Tzipi Livni
Jerry Gordon
The Sunday New York Times Magazine on July 8th published a cover piece on Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni. Colleagues urged me to read it. Some added trenchant comments as well. One even called it 'dreck....pure dreck'. More

July 8, 2007
Global Warming is So Yesterday
Thomas Lifson
My very favorite excuse for low attendance at the much-ballyhooed worldwide Live Earth global warming concerts yesterday came from Johannesburg, where concert organizer John Langford "believes extremely cold weather... kept people away from the concert." More

July 8, 2007
SCIENCE Magazine Waffles on Warming
James Lewis
The American scientific establishment is starting to take baby steps away from taking sides in the politics of global warming. More

July 8, 2007
Destroying Our Protectors
Bob Weir
It is hard to imagine a more threatening situation than putting a police officer in a prison with hardened criminals More

July 7, 2007
Death-for-Rushdie Advocate Headlined Live Earth Concert
Peter Barry Chowka
On July 4, the Web site of Live Earth announced that "music legend" Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens) would headline the Live Earth concert in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, closing the show there. This is a man who has advocated Salman Rushdie's death. More

July 7, 2007
Jihad Terror as 'Healing'
Andrew G. Bostom
The fulminant recrudescence of jihadism during the latter half of the 20th century through the present has been accompanied by a burgeoning cadre of Muslim physicians who have adopted a warped credo consistent with the doctrine of jihad war More

July 7, 2007
Lighting: Choice is Important
Justin Cody
Although we don't support the global warming hypothesis that motivates today's Live Earth concerts, there is nothing wrong with saving money on energy More

July 7, 2007
What We Face
James Simpson
It is time to recognize exactly what we are up against and the concerted effort that will be required to save our country from the rampaging Left. More

July 6, 2007
The First Line of Defense: Profiling Behavior & Situations
Peter B. Martin
Three days after the botched terror attacks in the UK a newspaper banner reads: "Londoners return to business as usual." Regrettably, that often means minding one's own business More

July 6, 2007
London Calling
J.R. Dunn
There are many reasons why the U.S. has chosen its current strategy in the fight against terrorism. The most crucial of them were underlined last weekend, thanks to events in the UK. More

July 6, 2007
Al Gore's Live Earth: Has Global Warming Hysteria 'Jumped the Shark'
John Berlau
This weekend, rock stars will jet around the world, cars and buses will clog traffic, and elaborate sound stages will be set up to burn massive amounts of fuel to send the message to fans at home that they had better conserve their energy More

July 5, 2007
Seven Months Out: The State of the Races
Richard Baehr
It is a reasonable assumption that both major party candidates will be known by the end of the primaries held February 5th, 2008, seven months from now. More

July 5, 2007
Islam's Global War against Christianity
Patrick Poole
From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder More

July 5, 2007
Medicine At Gunpoint: The Sicko Crowd's Deadly Rx For America
Peter Barry Chowka
The disparate forces that have come together to make, promote, and use Michael Moore's film Sicko share an old and bankrupt collectivist agenda. More

July 4, 2007
The American Spirit 1776-2007
J. James Estrada
July 4, 1776, the day in which not only a nation was born, but also a "spirit." The American spirit is alive and well all these 231 years later. More

July 4, 2007
Ending the Balkan Quagmire at American Thinker
Julia Gorin
For the past eight years, I've been in a lonely place politically. I don't mean the kind of lonely that conservatives generally find themselves in. More

July 4, 2007
The Demise Of Antioch College (Continued)
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
The death of Antioch College is one of those quiet events that may one day be viewed as the marker of a passing of an era. More

July 3, 2007
Europe's Existential Mourning
James Lewis
Unfortunately, today's European recent efforts toward unity owe almost nothing to the American founders, and far more to Marx, Hegel, and Lenin. More

July 3, 2007
Medicine At Gunpoint: The Sicko Crowd's Deadly Rx For America
Peter Barry Chowka
Michael Moore has described his new film Sicko as a "comedy," but there's nothing funny about it. More

July 3, 2007
Don't Be So Sure There Were No WMD in Iraq
Rachel Neuwirth
Before America went to war to topple Saddam Hussein's regime it was widely believed that he possessed weapons of mass destruction. Today it is widely believed that there were no WMD in Iraq before the war. More

July 2, 2007
Victory in the Senate. Now Fix the Broken Society
Christopher Chantrill
It was comforting last week to cold-cock the comprehensive immigration bill. It was exhilarating to watch the young guns sticking it to the pompous old bulls in the very stockyard of bovine pomposity, the United States Senate More

July 2, 2007
What Does It Mean To Be An American?
Steven M. Warshawsky
"Undocumented Americans." This is how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently described the estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens living in America. More

July 2, 2007
Iran: It's Time for a Progressive Revolution
Amil Imani
The thuggish revolt in Iran, better known as the Islamic Revolution, was anything but a progressive movement. This was a conscious assault on the 2500 year old Persian Empire and the progressive Iranian people of the twentieth century. More

July 1, 2007
Bald Eagle No Longer Endangered - Malaria Victims Still Are
Marc Sheppard
While the comeback of the bald eagle is certainly wonderful news for our revered national bird, those spreading the story are exploiting its opportunity to dust off moldy activist folklore. More

July 1, 2007
Richard Nixon Reconsidered
Jeff Lukens
Among the many remarkable presidents of the 20th Century, Richard Milhous Nixon remains the most fascinating and controversial. More

July 1, 2007
A jury of eleven
Bob Weir
Recently, I engaged in one of the most important civic duties of every American: jury duty. More