Articles

August 31, 2007
Patriots Vs. Professional Demonstrators
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Nobody had to pay the anti-war demonstrations of the Vietnam era. Times have changed. More

August 31, 2007
Iran's Big Plans
Jeff Emanuel
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday said that "a huge power vacuum" was imminent in Iraq and promised that Iran would be ready to fill it. More

August 31, 2007
What's a Reputation Worth?
Bob Weir
Do you ever get the feeling that customer service is as much a part of the past as drive-in movies and typewriters? More

August 30, 2007
The Art of (the Long) War
David J. Rusin
The technology of war may change, but the nature of war is immutable. More

August 30, 2007
The Cost of Democrats' Defeatism
Vasko Kohlmayer
Deborah Haynes, the UK Times' correspondent in Baghdad, has recently put her finger on perhaps the greatest difficulty we face in Iraq today: The reluctance of many pro-American Iraqis to help us, because they fear we may cut and run. More

August 30, 2007
The War Lesson Still Unlearned
Gerald McOscar
Much of the history of the 20th century is the history of the inexplicable propensity of civilized people to deny the existence of evil which time and again threatens to destroy them. More

August 29, 2007
Testing Congress: Tone Deaf
Michael J. O'Shea
At least twice Al Qaeda leaders massed in Afghanistan but weren't taken out, loss of innocent lives the concern. Now Iraq: Al Qaeda elites ganged with Iraqi terrorists, but Congress says, Halt. More

August 29, 2007
Too Soon To Give Up: A Report From Iraq
Jeff Emanuel
On this, my latest trip to Iraq, I have been embedded with the US military on the front lines for the last month More

August 29, 2007
Domestic Slaughter in Iran
Amil Imani
The world's most notorious state exponent of anti-Semitism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is on a path to uproot and slaughter large numbers of the greatest threat to its existence, the Iranian people More

August 28, 2007
The Racial Engineering of San Francisco
Thomas Lifson
One of the ugliest aspects of contemporary "progressive" thought is a thoroughly patronizing attitude toward African-Americans. The latest insult comes from America's most stridently left wing big city government, San Francisco. More

August 28, 2007
Hillary's Ironic Use of the Word 'Unscrupulous'
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Hillary Clinton is now pitching her multi-billion dollar bailout plan for the "victims" of "unscrupulous" mortgage brokers who act "dishonestly and try to take advantage of people". More

August 28, 2007
Failing Schools
Christopher Chantrill
In left-coast Washington State half the kids entering community college can't do seventh-grade math. More

August 27, 2007
Russia Confronts NATO and the US
Douglas Hanson
We can no longer whitewash the obvious: Russia is now conducting a low-intensity conflict in the Caucasus in its bid to turn back NATO expansion and to maintain connections to terror-supporting states. More

August 27, 2007
NASA's Hansen Reaches Escape Velocity
James Lewis
James Hansen, NASA's True Believer in the global warming credo, has not just jumped the shark, he's achieved escape velocity. More

August 27, 2007
The New York Times and Taxes
Randall Hoven
Do the rich really escape paying their "fair share of taxes? According to a prominent New York Times writer, they do. More

August 26, 2007
The Haditha Libels Require Investigation
Denis Keohane
If Democrats really do support the troops, they will use their control of Congress to launch one more investigation -- into a series of statements and reported leaks by officials that have severely harmed our troops More

August 26, 2007
Jimmy Carter's Human Rights Disaster in Iran
Slater Bakhtavar
In accord with the pleasant US-Iran relations then-existing, President Carter spent New Year's Eve in 1977 with the Shah and toasted Iran as "an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world". More

August 26, 2007
Congress Must Recognize the Armenian Genocide
Andrew G. Bostom
A combination of official diplomatic correspondence, and private memoirs provides lucid, often repellently detailed historical accounting of what the U.S. government knew regarding the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian genocide More

August 25, 2007
The Return of the Old Gods: A Challenge to Green Evangelicals
Timothy Birdnow
The gods and goddesses of the earth, of nature, the old rulers of the ancient world are back. More

August 25, 2007
Iraq Anti-War Movement: A Pop Quiz for Americans
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Beginning August 28, America will witness the new thrust of Anti-Iraq War Protests. More

August 24, 2007
Courage, Cowardice and the Wordsmiths
Stephen Rittenberg, MD
When I served as a Navy psychiatrist during the Vietnam War, one of my weekly duties was interviewing and assessing potential draftees who were seeking to avoid service by claiming mental illness. More

August 24, 2007
Libs Say the Darndest Things
James Lewis
Libs believe the darndest things. They're not as cute as the things kids come out with, but having millions of adults who are stuck in false beliefs puts our society at a lot greater risk. More

August 24, 2007
A Palestinian Star is Born
Steve Feldman
Why humanize someone with murder in her heart? Why take a child who helps inspire untold numbers of kids to kill innocent other kids and try to make her seem like the girl next door? More

August 23, 2007
Shooting Michael Moore
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
In a variant of the Golden Rule, Kevin Leffler has recently done to Michael Moore what Michael Moore has done to so many others. More

August 23, 2007
Who Is Allah?
Soeren Kern
Europeans love to mock the salience of religion in American society, but they won't be laughing for very long. More

August 23, 2007
The Future of Western Civilization Depends on Two Things
Joseph Rosenberger
The current political squabbles in America between the liberal, socialist left and the moral capitalist conservative right are merely a skirmish line on the edge of two colliding civilizations. More

August 22, 2007
Testing Congress: Faith and Face
Michael J. O'Shea
Bored by playing God, Congress now plays admiral and general. More

August 22, 2007
Mullahs and Opiates
Amil Imani
What is the source of power that positions the Mullahs to be such a large threat? More

August 22, 2007
Diversity, Nihilism, and the Anti-Rational Mind
Gary Wolf
Contemporary Western society is tumbling further and further into the abyss of undifferentiated mediocrity. Much of the blame is due to the ideology of Diversity More

August 21, 2007
The Moral Hazard of Regulating Sub-Prime Mortgage Lending
Ralph Alter
The term "moral hazard" is being bandied about in commentary about the sub-prime mortgage woes currently roiling our financial markets. More

August 21, 2007
The Media Mob
James Lewis
When Karl Rove resigned from his White House job last week, some scribblers were particularly offended that he said, "I'm not going to stay or leave based on whether it pleases the mob." More

August 21, 2007
After Rove There's Work to Be Done
Christopher Chantrill
The people who run political campaigns are a special breed. It is a measure of their importance that they become political lightning rods. More

August 20, 2007
It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp (II)
Randall Hoven
Without too much extra effort, it was fairly easy to add 21 more names to the Media Hall of Shame list, bringing the total to 83. More

August 20, 2007
Global Warming Bureaucrat Hansen Lashes Out at Critics
Christopher Alleva
Ward Churchill could tell NASA's James Hansen what it is like when your work goes under a microscope. More

August 20, 2007
America's Nuclear Military Dilemma with China
Peter B. Martin
A year from now China will be on its benevolent best conduct, two years from now that could all change. More

August 19, 2007
Lost Posterity
Thomas Lifson
Posterity was once a central concept of American Civilization. We sacrificed our welfare, even our lives, for the sake of future generations, especially for our descendants More

August 19, 2007
Don't Tug on Superman's Cape
Bob Weir
I had been working radio motor patrol in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area for about a year and had come across what I thought was every conceivable challenge a cop could imagine. More

August 18, 2007
Appeasement Finds a Home in the Academy
Cinnamon Stillwell
Instead of providing moral clarity in a time of war, too many academics busy themselves inventing strategies to get along peaceably with genocidal terrorist groups and the governments that aid and abet them. More

August 18, 2007
What to do to with Hostages to Islamists
James M. Arlandson
Islamists are in a global war. They would like to impose their religion on the world. In Afghanistan, they are at war with non-Muslims, and they include Koreans among those with whom they struggle. More

August 18, 2007
Why not Newt?
Bob Weir
Newt Gingrich is a possible late entrant into the 2008 presidential race. More

August 17, 2007
Why Would Anyone Trust NASA's Climate Data Now?
Marc Sheppard
Last week's disclosure of a critical temperature data revision by NASA climate experts under cover-of-darkness poses as many questions as it answers. More

August 17, 2007
NASA Flacks for Global Warming and Skirts Scientific Ethics
James Lewis
The more time that is allowed to pass before NASA makes a formal acknowledgement of error commensurate with the attention focused on the original announcement, the more it will be vulnerable to genuine charges of purposeful misconduct, as opposed to inadvertent error. More

August 17, 2007
Understanding the Limits of Health Insurance
Steven M. Warshawsky
A tragic case of murder is being exploited by the media as propaganda pushing national medical insurance schemes. The ghoulish socialism-by-bathos strategy rests on the implicit unrealistic notion that we somehow can provide the best of everything for everyone. More

August 16, 2007
Spain's Bluster Masks an Immigration Crisis
Soeren Kern
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero deserves a special award for transatlantic chutzpah. More

August 16, 2007
The Real Lesson of the Beauchamp Affair
Douglas Hanson
The apparent fraud perpetrated by Scott Beauchamp has resulted in plenty of finger-pointing. However, there is another largely unnoticed direction in which to look as well, in assessing blame for the disgrace. More

August 16, 2007
It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp
Randall Hoven
Scott Beauchamp was the last straw. I realized that I need a scorecard to keep track of all the fallen journalists, journalistic mistakes and major and minor screw-ups in the media. More

August 15, 2007
Why the Brits are Losing Basra
James Lewis
Why is the most best European fighting army, the British, losing the battle for Basra in southern Iraq? Because the UK Ministry of Defense supplied its soldiers with the wrong equipment More

August 15, 2007
Stare Decisis: Eight Recent Cases
Clarice Feldman
The recent claims that newly-confirmed Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito were ignoring precedent, contrary to their confirmation hearings pledges, are partisan chum hurled into the waters where swim the most radical members of the Democratic base. More

August 15, 2007
Sword Swallowing to Oblivion
Andrew G. Bostom
Robert Spencer's sobering new book, Religion of Peace? reveals how the prevailing multicultural orthodoxy in the West -- rooted in self-hatred, uncritical, blanket pacifism, and complacency -- negates the profound differences between Judeo-Christian and Islamic civilization More

August 14, 2007
The Shape of a Hillary-Rudy Race
Richard Baehr
Current national polls show both Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani with solid leads for their respective party's nominations. More

August 14, 2007
A Straw In The Wind
Rick Moran
A good turn of the phrase and an attitude will bring you stardom in punditland. This is important to keep in mind when looking at the gigantic block party the Republicans threw in Ames, Iowa on Saturday More

August 14, 2007
Testing Congress: General Ignorance
Michael J. O'Shea
That Congress spurns the 9/11 Commission should be no surprise: it approves every general sent to them then snubs them, too. More

August 13, 2007
The Left's Lust for Revolutionary Transformation
James Lewis
"Everything must be different!" or "Alles muss anders sein!" was a slogan of the Nazi Party. It is also the heart's desire of every Leftist since Karl Marx. More

August 13, 2007
Democrats Abandoning the Middle?
Jeffrey Schmidt
Will the Democrats abandon the middle in next year's election? But how can the Democrats abandon what they haven't occupied since, oh, the Kennedy Administration? More

August 13, 2007
Is Candy Time Near?
Steve Feldman
These must be great times for those among the Muslims and Arabs who would like to drive Israel into the sea - in other words, most of those two groups. More

August 12, 2007
The World of 'They're Just Kids'
Christopher Chantrill
Our liberal friends divide humanity into groups with different levels of moral responsibility for their actions, infantilizing some to one degree or another. More

August 12, 2007
Iran's Restive Populace
Nicole Sadighi
Popular discontent with the mullahs' rule has created an opportunity for regime change, if we have the wit and the will to exploit it. More

August 11, 2007
Hillary Scares Me
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Most especially as a woman, I have become more and more concerned that Hillary Rodham Clinton just might be elected as the first female President of the United States More

August 11, 2007
Politicians and Their Self-Delusions
Paul Shlichta
Politicians assume that everyone who votes for them is enthusiastically endorsing their policies More

August 11, 2007
Battered America: Our Abusive Relationship with the Mullahs
Kazem Kazerounian
The dynamics of the relationship between the United States and the Iran's mullahs resembles that of an abused wife and a batterer husband. More

August 10, 2007
Twisting Science to Fit the Global Warming Template
James Lewis
The global warming crowd does not take kindly to being contradicted, either by critics or data. Of course, critics can be defamed and data can be skewed. More

August 10, 2007
Testing Congress on Al Qaeda
Michael J. O'Shea
A test for the members of Congress. Quick: who wrote the following? More

August 10, 2007
Peleliu and Iraq
Gerald McOscar
Peleliu. Until recently, the word was altogether foreign to me. Of late, I encounter it at every turn. More

August 09, 2007
A Turkish Solution in Iraq?
James Lewis
Not many Muslim nations are able to sustain electoral democracy. That is a matter of history. More

August 09, 2007
Local Law Enforcement and Homeland Security
Patrick Poole
Last month I had the pleasure of briefing a large group of local and state law enforcement officials on the Islamic extremist threat in their area More

August 09, 2007
Al Gore Slings Bogus Borrowed Charges
Marc Sheppard
Mr. Gore went to Singapore and peddled a phony story, one he appears to have borrowed without attribution. More

August 08, 2007
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and the Senate
Clarice Feldman
For most of our history, despite the Supreme Court's important role, Justices nominated by a President were subject to little scrutiny beyond character and ability. More

August 08, 2007
FISA Follies
Cecil Turner
The President signed a six-month modification to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Sunday, after the Democrat-controlled Congress agreed to Administration provisions. More

August 08, 2007
The New Republic Left Holding the Bag
Jeff Emanuel
The door was slammed shut on the seemingly un-killable Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair this week, when the US Army completed its investigation More

August 07, 2007
Premature 2008 Defeatism
J.R. Dunn
"One of the things I learned during the war was never to pick up my pen to transmit my own despair." - Albert Camus More

August 07, 2007
Is Russia's Power on the Decline?
Douglas Hanson
The trend is not favorable for Vladimir Putin, the ex-KGB agent and current President of the Russian Federation. More

August 07, 2007
More Abu Ghraib Agitprop
James Lewis
The British Propaganda Corporation, formerly known as the BBC, has just launched the latest Abu Ghraib revival More

August 06, 2007
Stare Decisis: Not Quite What Senator Schumer Would Have You Believe
Clarice Feldman
Led by Senator Charles Schumer, Senate Democrats are trying to bamboozle the American public into believing that Bush appointees to the Supreme Court are dangerous radicals. More

August 06, 2007
Is Barry Bonds Baseball's Greatest Slugger?
Richard Baehr
Sometime in the next few days, Barry Bonds will become the all-time home run leader in major league baseball history, surpassing Henry Aaron. More

August 06, 2007
An Idealistic Alternative to the Saudi Arms Deal
Walid Phares
The US Government is considering a new gigantic arms sale to the Saudi Kingdom. The regime should consider better ways to spend its money on defending its survival. More

August 05, 2007
Obama: The Mark of Inexperience
Denis Keohane
No doubt Senator Obama was stung by Hillary Clinton's charge of naïveté and knows that his lack of executive and foreign policy experience could be a drawback to his presidential ambitions More

August 04, 2007
Art Or Propaganda? Postwar American Photography
Allan Nadel
Not since Socialist/Heroic Realism in the 1930's has a mode of art been so rigidly constrained to a political orthodoxy, as photography has been for the last 40 years. More

August 04, 2007
Gambling with our lives
Bob Weir
When someone has been arrested more than 20 times for burglary one would think the justice system would find a place to incarcerate him for the rest of his life. More

August 04, 2007
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed To Ask
Robert C. Cheeks
History is a supremely complex discipline. More

August 03, 2007
Lindsey Graham's About-face
Janet Levy
In a remarkable turnabout reminiscent of the famous John Kerry flip flop, ""I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.", U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) effected a dramatic reversal last week in his position on illegal immigration. More

August 03, 2007
Global Warming Propaganda Factory
Christopher J. Alleva
I have often wondered how the media are in such lock step on Global Warming. Well, I wonder no more More

August 03, 2007
Casualties of Anti-War
Marc Sheppard
The left's anti-war forces sustained heavy casualties earlier this week. And, judging from both strategy shifts and painful screams heard throughout the liberal blogosphere, many of the fallen were high value propaganda targets. More

August 02, 2007
Rupert Murdoch vs. Pinch Sulzberger: Let the Match Begin
Thomas Lifson
Many on the left regard Rupert Murdoch, architect of the rise of Fox News Channel, as the anti-Christ. More accurately, Murdoch deserves the title of the anti-Pinch. More

August 02, 2007
Gordon Brown, Blairite?
James Lewis
Tony Blair's successor as British prime minister has now signaled very clearly that he intends to follow Blair's dual foreign policy: pursue the alliance with America and surrender more British sovereignty to the European Union More

August 02, 2007
Just say "No!" to YouTube Debates
Paul Shlichta
I breathed a sigh of relief when most of the Republican presidential hopefuls declined to participate in the next YouTube debate. More

August 01, 2007
Beating the Heat
Rick Moran
As our young men and women spend the next month sweating in the 130 degree heat of a Baghdad summer, the elected representatives of the people of Iraq have decided to beat the heat and take the month off. More

August 01, 2007
Gentrification is Good for the Poor and Everyone Else
Richard L. Cravatts
Contrary to received wisdom among so-called progressives and community advocates, gentrification is good for poor people. More

August 01, 2007
Public Policy Meets Complexity
Randall Hoven
Good intentions and the urge to get something done can lead to disastrous policy. More