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October 31, 2007
Libya Joins the UN Security Council
Janet Levy
On Tuesday, the United Nations, with at least tacit U.S. approval, elected the former terrorist state, Libya, to serve a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council. More

October 31, 2007
If Congress Truly Wants to Help Children
Kyle-Anne Shiver
While the Democrats in Congress sell socialism with the "it's for the children" ploy, I'd like to point out just a few of the things the ruling-majority Democrats could actually do to improve the lives of American children across the board. More

October 31, 2007
The End of Socialized Medicine?
Christopher Chantrill
Michael Moore's SiCKO is opening in Britain this week, but the British are not amused. Anyone can extol the virtues of universal government-furnished health care, they say, when they have never had to use it. More

October 30, 2007
When War is a Blessing
Bill Powers
"Thank God for this war." That was the sentiment an Israeli LtCol and battalion commander in Lebanon expressed to me recently. He's right. More

October 30, 2007
I Have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance Policies
Charles J. Sykes
In our era of zero-tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies. More

October 30, 2007
Republican Women Too Smart to Fall for Hillary's Ruse
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Depending solely on his own "internal" polling, Mr. Mark Penn - Public Relations guru extraordinaire, and Hillary's campaign strategist -- says that a full 24% of Republican women will punch their ballots for Hillary More

October 29, 2007
The Environmentalist Fires
John Berlau
Much of the reason California is in peril for wildfires is due not to climate change, but to the very policies championed by environmentalists. More

October 29, 2007
Bobby Jindal and the 'Southern Strategy'
Andrew Walden
A narrative has been constructed by Democrats and their media allies castigating Republicans as purveyors of a racist "Southern strategy" More

October 29, 2007
Our Depressogenic Media
James Lewis
Can the media make you sick? It is a real question. Do you read a news headline and get that sinking feeling in your stomach? More

October 28, 2007
Why Won't Japan Have an Empress?
Sidney Raphael
When American news sources report on the question of the succession of occupants of the mostly-symbolic Japanese throne they tend to frame the issue in feminist terms. More

October 28, 2007
Copping an attitude
Bob Weir
His name was Frank Danko, and he never should have been a police officer. How he was able to pass the psychological testing portion of the New York City screening process, I'll never know. More

October 27, 2007
US-Euro Missile Defense Shield May Be Delayed
Douglas Hanson
A potential delay in getting the strategically important European ballistic missile defense shield up and running requires leadership from the top. More

October 27, 2007
Core Conservative Beliefs
Bookworm
I've recently read two articles that have as their theme the fact that liberals are defined by negativity and, in fact, offer no new ideas. More

October 27, 2007
Imus, Take II
Miguel A. Guanipa
Although I do not consider myself a misogynist, a racist, or a prude for that matter, I generally understood and gradually became resistant to the Don Imus brand of humor. More

October 26, 2007
The Western Inferno
Bill Croke
The 2007 forest fire season is ending with a costly bang in Southern California, and it is another record breaker. More

October 26, 2007
Islamophobia and the Islamist Scarecrow
Magdi Khalil
If Terrorists do not indeed represent Islam, then why do religious authorities in Muslim countries refrain from voicing an absolute condemnation of the Terrorists? More

October 26, 2007
Code Pinkos Turn Red
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Screaming, "War Criminal!" at our own Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice Wednesday, Code Pink followers exchanged their lovely, subdued pink costumes for the more easily identifiable blood-red. More

October 25, 2007
Ambushed By Our Own
Michael J. O'Shea
Snipers aim for a soldier's heart; congressional leaders aim for the heart of why he serves: Honor, Country, Duty to both. More

October 25, 2007
Hurricane Season Disappoints Merchants of Doom
Christopher Alleva
Like undertakers complaining that a predicted flu epidemic failed to generate any business, the drive-by media and the hurricane forecasters are kicking themselves over the big nothing the 2007 hurricane season turned out to be. More

October 25, 2007
The Folly of Deifying Democracy in Iraq
Selwyn Duke
The political correctness that would prescribe Western-world solutions to Third World problems aggravates many of our problems in Iraq. More

October 24, 2007
The South Rises
Ed Lasky
For generations, American elites from the North have treated the South as a benighted land of knaves, fools, and charlatans. They are comically wrong: it the most admirable region of our nation and may supersede the domination of the Eastern Seaboard. More

October 24, 2007
America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower
Soeren Kern
European Union leaders have reached agreement on a new treaty that many Europeans hope will transform the 27-nation bloc into a superpower capable of counter-balancing the United States More

October 24, 2007
Should Conservatives Show That 'We Care?'
Christopher Chantrill
Last week President Bush successfully stopped the expansion of S-CHIP into the liberal slacker classes. Meanwhile the Democrats showed once again that they "cared about the children." More

October 23, 2007
How Hillary Revived the GOP
Richard Baehr
The GOP owes New York's junior Senator a debt of gratitude. More

October 23, 2007
The Nobel Prize Curse
J.R. Dunn
Al Gore's Nobel may very well turn out to be the beginning of the end for global warming. More

October 23, 2007
The Coalition and Iraq
Jeff Emanuel
Jeff Emanuel has been in Iraq for the last ten weeks, embedded on the front lines. This is the second of two eyewitness reports on the state of the Surge. The articles Include original photos by the author and others More

October 22, 2007
The Surge is Only the First Step
Jeff Emanuel
Jeff Emanuel has been in Iraq for the last ten weeks, embedded on the front lines. This is the first of two eyewitness reports on the state of the Surge. The articles Include original photos by the author and others. More

October 22, 2007
Selfless Valor: Navy LT Michael P. Murphy
John B. Dwyer
In a White House ceremony today at 2:30 PM, President Bush will award a posthumous Medal of Honor to the family of Navy LT Michael P. Murphy. More

October 22, 2007
The Failed Party
Jeffrey Schmidt
The Democratic Party hasn't just taken over the title of The Stupid Party, as Professor James W. Ceaser characterizes it. In the world of facts on the ground, the Democratic Party is also The Failed Party. More

October 21, 2007
Why I am a Jewish Conservative
Richard Baehr
I am a Jewish conservative and I will try to explain what that means, and why that perspective or orientation makes sense to me. More

October 21, 2007
The Jena 6 and Crime
Michael L. Wagers
The Jena 6 defendants have become the newest cause proffered by some in the civil rights community as an outrage demanding America's attention. More

October 21, 2007
Honk if You Want to Stamp out Cell Phone Driving
Paul Shlichta
I hope that you're as irritated as I have been about people driving through the streets with one hand on the wheel and the other clutching a cell phone. More

October 20, 2007
Part of the Job of Congressional Staffers
Matt May
Here in southeastern Michigan, Republican Congressmen Joe Knollenberg and his staff are under the constant harassment of one Bruce Fealk, an individual described by The Hill as a "MoveOn foot soldier," More

October 20, 2007
Can We Please Define 'Racism'?
Selwyn Duke
James Watson, the geneticist who helped unravel the structure of DNA, came under fire for saying that Africans are not as intelligent as Westerners. More

October 20, 2007
Do Oral Traditions 'Lie' Behind the Written Gospels?
James Arlandson
How was the ministry of Jesus -- his words and deeds -- passed on for a few decades until they were written or recorded in the Gospels we have now? More

October 19, 2007
The Media's Dilemma
Thomas Lifson
Rush Limbaugh's political jiu-jitsu masterstroke comes to a climax at 1 PM, EDT today More

October 19, 2007
Congress needs an intervention
Kyle-Anne Shiver
What in the name of heaven is going on in our Congress? I have to remind myself that I'm indeed watching the procedures of the most prestigious law-making body in the history of civilization and not one of my grandmother's renowned, fake hissy-fits More

October 19, 2007
The First and Last Enemy: Jew-Hatred in Islam
Andrew G. Bostom
The historical treatment of Jews in Muslim societies has been consistent with the sacralized religious bigotry of its foundational texts. More

October 18, 2007
Is Iraq More Peaceful Now Than Under Saddam?
Duncan Maxwell Anderson
The headline I saw online from McClatchy Newspapers was an obvious parody: "As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch." More

October 18, 2007
Eradicating Religion in Burma
Ben Voth
The evolution of noted atheist Richard Dawkins' perspective on religion into action took a bold step forward this past month in the sovereign state of Burma -- officially known as Myanmar. More

October 18, 2007
Gore's Inconvenient 9/11 Truth
Denis Keohane
Nobel laureate Al Gore, we are to believe, has the technical acumen to analyze complex data, assess risks, and identify the right countermeasures. More

October 18, 2007
New Republic Author Gets it Backwards on Al Qaeda
Ray Robison
Critics of President Bush's leadership continue to maintain that the War on Terror is failing, despite accumulating evidence to the contrary. More

October 17, 2007
The Silver Lining Behind the McCain/Feingold Cloud
Gregory A. Collins
The McCain-Feingold Act is almost universally despised by conservatives. But the unintended consequences of this far-reaching act seem to benefit both the right and the national debate. More

October 17, 2007
Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory and Busted Sod
Rosslyn Smith
Anthropogenic theories of climate change have a neglected and tragic precedent of acceptance by consensus. More

October 17, 2007
Tissue of Lies: The Jihad Against History
Richard L. Cravatts
Israel's archeological heritage is imperiled, as enemies of the Jewish state seek to erase or obscure Judaism and replace it with a Muslim historical narrative which predates a Jewish one. More

October 16, 2007
Buried Victories
J.R. Dunn
Victory in Iraq, one of the hardest-fought in recent American history, is being buried before our eyes More

October 16, 2007
Fear is the Missing Ingredient in Government Schools
Christopher Chantrill
Everyone is properly shocked and outraged at the latest school shooting rampage. But why be surprised? More

October 16, 2007
About Evil
Selwyn Duke
Man has long asked how a loving God could allow evil to exist in the world. More

October 15, 2007
Soros the Guiltless
James Lewis
One of the marks of traumatic stress is a constant feeling of guilt. Yet guilt is what makes civilized society possible; it's what keeps us from unleashing our most selfish impulses on each other. More

October 15, 2007
Holy War and Anti War: An Axis against Nature
Walid Phares
The oddest of all factional relationships is the open alliance between the Jihadists and the so-called "antiwar" neo-Left movement in the West. More

October 15, 2007
The Iranian Lobby and the Israeli Decoy
Hassan Daioleslam
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested the settlement of Israeli Jews in big lands like Alaska or Canada. More

October 14, 2007
The Buried Legacy of Hollywood Anti-Communism
J.R. Dunn
A number of anti-communist films were made in Hollywood during the late 40s through the 50s. Almost none are available today. This is no accident, comrades. More

October 14, 2007
God and Nancy Pelosi
Miguel A. Guanipa
Oddly enough, the personal prayers of the Speaker of the House recently entered the national conversation. More

October 14, 2007
Did Jesus Even Exist? Can you have an effect without a cause?
James Arlandson
The hyper-skepticism about the existence of the historical Jesus deserves serious attention. More

October 13, 2007
Ann Coulter is Not Helping
Richard Baehr
There is a history with Ann Coulter of making comments on some radio or cable TV interview program that offend some group or individual pretty much every time she has a new book to sell. More

October 13, 2007
On Coulter, Christians, And Jews
Steven M. Warshawsky
On Donny Deutch's television talk show earlier this week, Ann Coulter honestly answered "yes" when asked by Deutch if she believes that this country "would be better if we were all Christian." More

October 13, 2007
My Opinion on Ann Coulter's Opinion of the Jews
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I'm no more an expert theologian than Ann Coulter is, but I have been a Christian nearly all of my life and have logged in more than 40 years of personal and formal Bible study. More

October 12, 2007
Al Gore and the Mission of the Nobel Prizes
John Berlau
Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. This choice, more than any other Nobel Committee selection, marks the end of a 105-year era. More

October 12, 2007
Hollywood's Hidden Anti-Communist Classic
Thomas Lifson
If you have cable TV and something to record it on, don't miss capturing for your library a virtually unknown classic film -- an anti-Communist classic film. It runs early Saturday morning on Turner Classic Movies. More

October 12, 2007
California Healthcare Reform: the Governor's new plan
Linda Halderman, MD
One twelfth of the United States is poised to adopt a sweeping healthcare reform program, making some dubious assumptions about funding along the way. More

October 11, 2007
Boeing Delays Dreamliner Delivery
Thomas Lifson
Yesterday, Boeing admitted that the first delivery of its next-generation wide-body airliner the 787 Dreamliner would be delayed by 6 months. While not a catastrophe, the setback erodes some of the competitive halo Boeing has enjoyed More

October 11, 2007
Radical Islam's Willing Bloggers
Patrick Poole
The burgeoning left wing smear industry, set up to manufacture attacks on conservatives, has its own radical Islam sector. I know this by personal experience. More

October 11, 2007
Kabaa Rage and Old Scores
Andrew G. Bostom
Last year an Islamic website alerted Muslims to yet another of the seemingly endless litany of "insults to Islam." The message claimed a cube-shaped building under construction in New York City bore a deliberate resemblance to the sacred Meccan "Kabaa" More

October 10, 2007
The Problems of Victory
J.R. Dunn
We're closing in on victory in Iraq. The Jihadis are nearing collapse across the country. With the exception of a few Ba'athist holdouts, the Sunni population is coming over in ever-greater numbers. More

October 10, 2007
The Religious Quest of George Soros
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Tivadar Schwartz, George Soros' father, rejected his own Judaism in youth, but found another "religion" at some point in the First World War. More

October 10, 2007
Let's Talk
Christopher Chantrill
Long term victory for conservative ideas means changing the culture. The Democrats will get back into power sooner or later. More

October 9, 2007
The evidence for Neocommunism
James Lewis
There is a compelling factual case to be made that the contemporary radical Left can properly be called "Neocommunist." More

October 9, 2007
Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and Rush
Kyle-Anne Shiver
For the past couple of months, I've been reading up on the Clinton/Soros connection into the wee hours of every night. More

October 9, 2007
Investigate the Winter Soldier Investigation
Denis Keohane
It's being called 'Winter Soldier Syndrome.' The phrase refers to slanders of American soldiers and Marines made by people who also make fraudulent claims about their own military experiences. More

October 8, 2007
Media Dishonesty Matters
Randall Hoven
We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners. More

October 8, 2007
An Iraq War Milestone
Frank Friday
Reports of success stemming from the U.S. military's surge campaign to finally crush the terrorist violence in Iraq have been numerous, but one little remarked development may be more significant than the press supposes. More

October 8, 2007
Thanks but No Thanksgiving
Jonathan D. Strong
Some Muslims in the West seem to be making the argument that Islam cannot integrate smoothly, or is entirely incompatible, with Western values and traditions. More

October 7, 2007
In Praise Of Competition
Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that competition was a bad thing. More

October 7, 2007
Are liberals victims of SHD?
James Lewis
The idea that liberals have a Selective Hearing Disorder suddenly struck me as an explanation of the wildly false charge about Rush Limbaugh that stirred up all the political swamps and mud-holes for over a week More

October 7, 2007
Iran Plans to Checkmate America
Mark S. Hanna
For Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, victory means Iran's irreversible progress as Allah's divinely ordained tool (a good word here) toward the establishment of the "united single world community" or the Islamic Caliphate More

October 6, 2007
The Clark Doctrine
Steven M. Galbraith
General Wesley Clark waded into the controversy involving Rush Limbaugh with a now-notorious appearance on Tucker Carlson's show on MSNBC last week. More

October 6, 2007
Archaeology and John's Gospel: Is skepticism chic passé?
James Arlandson
John is known as the spiritual Gospel because, among other reasons, it has extended metaphorical discourses. Until recently, much scholarship did not take seriously the topographical or historical details. More

October 6, 2007
Judeo-Christian Values
Ronald R. Cherry
Our Founding Fathers separated church from state, but they wisely did not separate God from state. More

October 5, 2007
We Need Idealism in Faith and Pragmatism in Politics
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The way a lot of folks are getting all whipped up over the top-tier Republican candidates -- and their human frailties hung out to dry like soiled laundry -- one might be tempted to think that every great leader this Country has ever had was morally perfect. More

October 5, 2007
Canada's Border Officials Go by the Book
Pamela Meister
I never thought I'd be saying this, but I admire Canada for something. They're hanging tough when it comes to border security. More

October 5, 2007
Liberals: A Puzzlement
Burt Prelutsky
I'll come right out and admit that I understand Islamic terrorists far better than I do American liberals. More

October 4, 2007
Are Members of Congress Accountable for Anything?
Clarice Feldman
Are Congressmen above the law? The case of Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich against Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) tests this basic question. More

October 4, 2007
Phoniness In and Out of Uniform
Ray Robison
Service members who lie about what they experienced are few, but it does happen, as in the case of Jessie McBeth More

October 4, 2007
Hey Cubbies! History's Calling on Line One
Rick Moran
Fans of the Chicago Cubs have no clue of the massive historical forces at work to hand them a World Series Championship in 2007. Like the ancients, North Side rooters are largely oblivious to how the natural world functions in any real sense. More

October 3, 2007
Where Have All the Peaceniks Gone?
James Lewis
Three days ago we saw the first pictures of Burmese villages being destroyed. That's at least three whole 24-hour news cycles, plenty of time to start a storm of protest. Where are all the peaceniks of the Left? More

October 3, 2007
The New American Tyranny: A Prosecutor, the Faculty and Journalists
Richard Baehr
What in the end was the motivation for District Attorney Michael Nifong to falsely accuse three innocent Duke lacrosse players of raping a drunken, serial-lying stripper named Crystal Mangum? A bigger pension. More

October 3, 2007
Phony Soldiers, Phony Outrage, and Phony Patriotism
Chrisopher G. Adamo
Smarting from the public relations disaster of the Betray us ad, a Soros-funded group, Media Matters, ginned up a fake scandal to demonstrate to those who rely on the mainstream media for their news, that "both sides do it." More

October 2, 2007
ElBaredei the Enabler
Ed Lasky
When, in the all-too-near future, the world looks to identify those responsible for allowing Iran's nuclear arsenal to change the world forever, one name will figure prominently More

October 2, 2007
Clintons, Baby Bonds, and Dropouts
Christopher Chantrill
Never say that Hillary Clinton doesn't listen. Back in April 2001, just before the election, the British New Labour government under Tony Blair proposed a "baby bond" of up to $1,600 More

October 2, 2007
Next Time, Scream 'LIBRESCU!'
William R. Hartman
Ever since hearing of the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech last April, I have been deeply troubled by the number of people killed by a lone gunman wielding two hand guns in the midst of dozens of people. More

October 1, 2007
Speaker Pelosi and the Missing Ramadan Spike
Ray Robison
This year, for the first time since our troops have been in Iraq, the Ramadan Spike has failed to materialize. Few events in Iraq were as predictable as the yearly rise in causalities it signified. More

October 1, 2007
Did A'jad predict Armageddon at the UN?
James Lewis
This will sound alarming. A literal reading of Ahmadi-Nejad's UN address suggests that he is predicting a total war coming soon. More

October 1, 2007
Voting With the Weekly Reader
Clarice Feldman
The pundits are getting paid to write what the paid candidate staffers tell them, and they know less about elections than the kids who read the Weekly Reader. More