Articles

December 31, 2007
Life Turns on a Dime
Bob Weir
So you think you can drink and drive, huh? Let me tell you about a guy who used to feel that way; I'll just refer to him as Jack. More

December 31, 2007
Do Democrats Really Want Us to Fail in Iraq?
Adam G. Mersereau
At times it seems as if some Americans -- certain Democrats in particular -- are eager to declare or even hasten our defeat in Iraq. More

December 31, 2007
Man of the Year: President Bush
Christopher Chantrill
Think about this for a moment. Who is the one individual who has made the biggest difference in the world in the last year? More

December 30, 2007
Did Bhutto Martyr Herself?
James Lewis
What would you say about a politician who refused to tolerate sensible security measures just a few weeks after a major assassination attempt came within a hair's breadth of killing her? More

December 30, 2007
Ronald Reagan's Top Hand
Herbert E. Meyer
The Judge, by Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner, is an astute, uncommonly affectionate biography of perhaps the most modest, self-effacing and effective aide that any of our presidents has been lucky enough to have. More

December 30, 2007
50 Years Later: Bravery Outshines Public Humiliation
David Paulin
Fifty years ago this month, President Eisenhower and Sputnik were in the news -- and so were the marital travails of an Air Force pilot named David Steeves. More

December 29, 2007
The Bhutto Assassination and Islam's War on Pakistan
Andrew Walden
Clouded by illusions that words like "democracy" and "president" mean similar things everywhere, and by the inevitable martyrdom that accompanies a brutal assassination, Americans are rather ill-prepared to understand the unvarnished truth of the problem Pakistan now poses. More

December 29, 2007
2007: A Global Assessment of the Confrontation
Walid Phares
The conflict we call the War on Terror still continues at the end of 2007 and all indications are that its battlefields are expected to spread further, and escalate, in the upcoming year. More

December 29, 2007
The Context of Huck's Devilish Question
Lee Cary
Mike Huckabee's rhetorical question -- "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"-- was aimed around evangelical Christian leaders and toward conservative Christian voters. More

December 28, 2007
Politics Anonymous
Rick Moran
My name is Rick and I am an inveterate grouser. Mention a Republican candidate for president and I can find 6 things wrong with him before you draw your next breath. I am that good. More

December 28, 2007
The Battle of Pakistan
Christopher D. Geisel
The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto means that the nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Pakistan is now a battleground just as important as those in Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war against the radical Islamists. More

December 28, 2007
The War on Terror Comes to Pakistan
Ray Robison
The War on Terror has come to Pakistan, and AQ has been losing. Our media have not paid much attention, but you can be certain AQ knows. More

December 27, 2007
Huckabee's Amazing Coincidences
James Lewis
What makes Mike Huckabee run? His last term as governor was not conservative, but populist, like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Huey Long. More

December 27, 2007
Top Advisor's Role Needs Clarification
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The candidate's top advisor has an ethically dubious past. Don't we deserve to know what his role would be if the candidate wins? More

December 27, 2007
Nothing Better to Worry About?
Jerome J. Schmitt
In the course of human history has mankind ever been so healthy, secure and prosperous that national political leaders, scientists and the media elite worldwide could be preoccupied with a theoretical crisis predicted to occur 50 years hence? More

December 26, 2007
Has Hillary Found Her Man?
Richard Baehr
There has been much speculation that if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination for President , she will choose a running mate with a military background. Forget about Wesley Clark or Jim Webb: a much better choice is available. More

December 26, 2007
$cience Mag Jumps on Global Moneywagon
James Lewis
Big Science is a Big Business. The trouble is that money means politics, and politics means shading the truth. As a result, we get politicized science, which corrupts real science. More

December 26, 2007
Where the Sightseeing Bus Won't Take You
Thomas Lifson
A subtantial portion of the consumer goods opened as Christmas presents yesterday came in by ship from Asia. And a share of those came in through the ports of San Francisco Bay. More

December 25, 2007
Rejoice! America's Love for Troops Cannot be Blocked by the MSM
Kyle-Anne Shiver
'Tis the season to be jolly and joyful, and one of my greatest personal joys this year has been corresponding with some of our soldiers on the front lines of America's defenses in Iraq and Afghanistan. More

December 25, 2007
D'Souza's Comeback
Alan Roebuck
In his previous book, Dinesh D'Souza made the foolish proposal that Western conservatives ally themselves with "moderate" Muslims. But in What's So Great About Christianity, he makes a spectacular comeback More

December 25, 2007
It's A Wonderful Life
Bob Weir
Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Although there are many good ones, the one that really puts the season and life in general in perspective for me is It's a Wonderful Life More

December 24, 2007
The Church of Huck: Growing Government in the Name of Religion
Selwyn Duke
There is a candidate in the presidential race who has a serious religion problem. No, it's not Mormon Mitt or recently-religious Rudy. It is Mike Huckabee. More

December 24, 2007
Dear Santa, Send the Dream Team
Lee Cary
Dear Santa, This Christmas please send me the Dream Team of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul running together on a new 3rd party ticket -- the Contrarian Party. More

December 24, 2007
Europe's Empty Cathedrals
Jeffrey Schmidt
Does freedom require religion as religion requires freedom, and what do Europe's empty cathedrals have to do with the question? More

December 23, 2007
Counting Out Keith Olbermann
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
George Orwell in 1984 captures perfectly a characteristic of radical thinking, if thinking is not too generous a term. Keith Olbermann of MSNBC has picked up a hint or two from him. More

December 23, 2007
The Fundamental Truth About 'Fundamentalism'
James Lewis
Fundamentalist Christians have become the new target for the Old Media. One big reason is that media scribblers are simply ignorant of Western and world civilization More

December 23, 2007
Swiftboating History
Denis Keohane
It may be Providential that a book of history is soon to be released dealing extensively with the events surrounding the creation of media images of Vietnam-era soldiers as rapists and war criminals. History has a way of repeating itself. More

December 22, 2007
The Rage in Huckabee's Voice
James Lewis
Foreign policy is about national survival. That's why we need a president who has really thought about rising Islamist nations with nukes. More

December 22, 2007
Hillary's Socialist-Santa Routine and Huckabee's Christmas Kidnap
Kyle-Anne Shiver
As we say Down South, whenever you encounter one of these slick deceivers, who appear a great deal nicer or different than their actions demonstrate, you need to keep a close guard on both your wallet and your knife More

December 22, 2007
Forgotten Human Rights in Iran
Mohammad Parvin
Should the NIE report of a supposed halt of a secret nuclear program change our views about a regime that has been lying to the entire world for so many years? More

December 21, 2007
Fighting against a Christless Christmas
Paul Shlichta
Wishing to keep Christians from participating in the infamous orgies of the year-end pagan festival of Saturnalia, in the fourth centery the Church established December 25 as the feast of the birth of Christ. Ever since, Christmas has seldom been entirely free of Saturnalian contamination. More

December 21, 2007
Whose Christmas Is It Anyway?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Here we go again. Even before the Thanksgiving turkey made it through the leftover cycle, the now-annual, national Christmas squabble began. More

December 21, 2007
Sharing the Christmas Spirit
Bookworm
Last week, I attended the "Winter Concert" at my children's public elementary school. The only problem was the music. It was a far cry from the "Christmas" concerts of my youth. More

December 20, 2007
Back from the Dead Again: McCain Rising
Richard Baehr
A few months back, John McCain's run for the GOP Presidential nomination was considered to be all but over More

December 20, 2007
Adulterous Candidates and the Media
Gary Mottola
Giuliani's affair with Judith Nathan is being treated differently than Hillary's husband's affair with Gennifer Flowers when he was running for president. This double standard helped the Clintons back in 1992 and it has the potential to help them now More

December 20, 2007
Hillary, Bonhoeffer, and the Meaning of Truth
Miguel A. Guanipa
In his seminal work on Ethics the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that "it is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to tell a lie." Hillary Clinton illustrates the point. More

December 19, 2007
Aw Shucks-a-bee, Why Not Huckabee?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Aw shucks, I like this guy, Huckabee. He's a smooth talker, he is. Why, he could charm the hide right off an ornery gator at a hundred yards and be wearing the genuine-hide boots by suppertime. But I'd have to be hog-tied for sure to give him my vote. More

December 19, 2007
Anti-Americanism: It's About American Power, Not Policy
Soeren Kern
The roots of enmity toward America reach far deeper than one man and his policies. The problem of anti-Americanism will not go away just because Americans elect a new president. More

December 19, 2007
After Clinton/Obama, Woman-friendly Conservatism
Christopher Chantrill
If the GOP candidate loses, which Democrat would you prefer to have in the White House in 2009, or more exactly, at the next mid-term election in 2010? More

December 18, 2007
Huckabee's Middle East Policy
Lee Cary
Mike Huckabee's recently published foreign policy approach toward the Middle East is an advance to the past. More

December 18, 2007
Hillary's Stumble Could Be Great News for GOP
Steven M. Warshawsky
Despite her many flaws, Hillary remains the most formidable Democratic candidate for the general election. More

December 18, 2007
The Algorism of Global Doom
James Lewis
When the story of our time is written -- as soon as future historians can stop laughing -- Al Gore will be Exhibit #1 for the unprecedented nuttiness of our politics. More

December 17, 2007
Hillary Agonistes
Thomas Lifson
Has Hillary Clinton's candidacy for the Democrats' nomination gone from "inevitable" to "doomed" in the space of a few weeks? More

December 17, 2007
The Hall of Fame Debate Begins Anew
Richard Baehr
While Bob Costas makes a case for admitting to the Hall of Fame Marvin Miller, the negotiator for the major league baseball players union, his candidacy is not what will keep the hot stove league boiling over this winter. More

December 17, 2007
The Huckabee Hustle
Selwyn Duke
One can see why the man I dubbed "Huck the Huckster" would appeal to evangelicals. He's a pro-life Southern Baptist minister with charm, wit and a good-ol'-boy, yuck-it-up style. Yet this resplendent exterior only serves to obscure the stain of liberal sin More

December 16, 2007
Murdered by Mumia
Bob Weir
Twenty-six years ago, a police officer was brutally murdered on the cold, dark streets of Philadelphia. More

December 16, 2007
Another 'Just So' Story?
Andrew G. Bostom
Speaking at a December 10-11, 2007 Rome Conference entitled, "Fighting for Democracy in the Islamic World," renowned historian Bernard Lewis intoned, "The authoritarianism present in the Middle East region is not part of the Arab and Muslim tradition, but it has been imported from Europe." More

December 16, 2007
Islam: Not Just Another Religion
Janet Levy
Too many candidates and pundits this political season have literally ignored the greatest threat to America and Western civilization since the Cold War: the global jihad. More

December 15, 2007
John Bolton and his Upper West Side 'press conference'
Jack Kemp
Last Thursday night, former UN Ambassador John Bolton went to the Barnes & Noble store at Lincoln Center, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, ostensibly to promote his new book about his experiences at the UN, Surrender is not an Option. More

December 15, 2007
The Best Cat Food
Deborah Duchon
As a cat lover/owner, I'm still obsessing over the cat food scandal. The source of the poison cat food is in wheat gluten from China. The amazing thing, to me, is why are pet cats eating so much wheat gluten? Have you ever seen a cat beg for a piece of bread? More

December 15, 2007
Sinatra: An American Voice
Andrew Sumereau
Frank Sinatra received his first Academy Award in the mid-forties for singing, not acting, in a patriotic World War II short featuring the song "The House I Live In". More

December 14, 2007
Pro-Lifers, Gory Pictures and the First Amendment
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The Abortion War still rages. More than 45,000,000 souls lost Baby Battles since 1973. Occasionally a battle involves not only one baby, but the whole of the unborn class of humanity. More

December 14, 2007
Underdogma
Michael Scroccaro
David versus Goliath, the American Revolutionaries, the "Little Engine That Could," Team USA's "Miracle on Ice," the Star Wars Rebel Alliance, Rocky Balboa, the Jamaican bobsled team and the meek inheriting the earth: everyone, it seems, loves an underdog More

December 14, 2007
Manufacturing Dissent: An Odd Poll Raises Questions
Ray Robison
A recent Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg poll which has been carried in most major media outlets claims that President Bush has lost the support of military veterans and their families over the war in Iraq. I am skeptical. More

December 13, 2007
Dealing Us Out of the War
Douglas Hanson
The recently released NIE is a clear cut case of giving the boss the answer he wants, and then manufacturing the data to produce the desired result -- and not very well done I might add. More

December 13, 2007
A Debate on Fast-Forward
Lee Cary
Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Des Moines Register, re-enacted the role of a kinder and gentler version of the nun in the movie The Blues Brothers, minus the habit, as she moderated yesterday's Republican Presidential debate in Iowa. More

December 13, 2007
Be Wise on Kosovo
Walid Phares
Over the past few months a number of Western leaders, including senior United States figures, have lent their support to separating the province of Kosovo from the Republic of Serbia. They should think more carefully. More

December 12, 2007
Mind-reading George W on the Middle East
James Lewis
The trouble with politics is that it forces us to try to read minds, when we know darned well that we can't. More

December 12, 2007
A Conservative Case for Universal Health Coverage
Randall Hoven
I am a small-government conservative/libertarian and have hated the concept of socialized medicine almost all my life. But now, I could live with universal health coverage in the U.S.. Here's why. More

December 12, 2007
Are Health Care Costs 'Too High'?
Steven M. Warshawsky
In 2005, Americans spent roughly $2 trillion on health care, or an average of $6,700 per person. Is this a good thing, a bad thing, or just a fact of life in an advanced technological society with an aging population? More

December 11, 2007
Which Came First: The Intellectual or the Leader?
Pamela Meister
There's been a lot of talk within the past, oh three election cycles, about how the "smartest" or most "intellectual" candidate would make the best president. Coincidentally, they are all Democrats. More

December 11, 2007
The End of a Debate
Miguel A. Guanipa
What happens when an unexpected development suddenly makes it no longer necessary for adherents of a certain ideology to engage in conflict? More

December 11, 2007
The Wages of Appeasement
Christopher Chantrill
The policy of appeasement, consistently applied by the educated middle class throughout the past century, has proved to be the royal road to political power and influence -- for the educated middle class. More

December 10, 2007
Iran's Vast Military Inferiority and the Prospect of Nukes
James Lewis
One madman with a gun can hold off a hundred cops. The difference is who is more willing to lose his life. More

December 10, 2007
How Green Was My Bali
Marc Sheppard
Planet saving green superheroes flew off to the climate carnival in Bali Monday last week, boldly sensing a new sweltering wind at their backs More

December 10, 2007
Play President, Real Threats
Michael J. O'Shea
So you're sitting in the Oval Office, presidential as can be, and up pops this little flash.... More

December 09, 2007
What Caused the NIE Reversal on Iran's Nuclear Program?
Ed Lasky
One revelation published in Saturday's Washington Post indicated that our intelligence community relied, in part, on the word of Iranian leader Hashemi Rafsanjani, in coming to the surprising finding of the recent NIE on Iran's nuclear program. More

December 09, 2007
Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion
Stephen Rittenberg, MD
Our frequent exposure to the exhibitionistic snuff porn of Jihadis has prompted numerous attempts at psychological explanation. More

December 09, 2007
Wrongfully Accused: Jews and Bolshevism
Bruce Walker
It has become an article of faith for some people who hate the Judeo-Christian faith to accuse Jews of causing Bolshevism. More

December 08, 2007
Academic Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee
Richard L. Cravatts
What Professor Edward Alexander has called "the explosive power of boredom" in rousing the liberal professoriate to its ideological feet. More

December 08, 2007
Santa Von Clausewitz
Patrick Albanese
Carl Von Clausewitz is often quoted as saying, "War is the continuation of politics by other means". I am not nearly so frequently quoted as saying, "The war on Christmas is the continuation of political correctness by a bunch of meanies". More

December 08, 2007
'Half Nelson' and the Kids
Mark Loftin
Recent flops such as Rendition and "Lions for Lambs" wear their anti-American bias on their sleeve. Others try to sneak it in the back door. More

December 07, 2007
The Iran NIE: A Template of Analysis?
Brett McCrea
After reading the Iran NIE and many of the related articles, there are a few fundamental issues that have not been raised. More

December 07, 2007
How Romney's Speech Worked
Lee Cary
The setting for Mitt Romney's "Faith In America" speech was staged to answer the elementary question of his candidacy: Can we imagine this man as the President of the United States? More

December 07, 2007
Romney: Religious Liberty versus Establishment
Amy D. Goldstein
Mitt Romney's speech didn't defend the tenets of Mormonism, didn't directly answer criticisms of his policy positions, and didn't have a defined audience. Critics on these grounds are missing the point More

December 06, 2007
Was General Ashgari a Double Agent?
James Lewis
In March of 2007 Iranian Revolutionary Guards General Ali-Reza Ashgari defected to the West through Turkey. Troubling circumstantial evidence suggests that he is not for real. More

December 06, 2007
Huckabee House Built on a Weak Foundation
Clarice Feldman
Mike Huckabee is this week's latest Republican buzz, but I think his house is, as the old calypso song goes, "a house built on a weak foundation," and "it will not stand oh, no." More

December 06, 2007
The United Faith of America
Bob Weir
There is one issue that should have no place in this campaign: the religious affiliation of any candidate. More

December 05, 2007
The Key Question about the NIE's Key Judgment
Herbert E. Meyer
Here's the key question about the Key Judgment of the National Intelligence Council's new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear intentions and capabilities: Is this judgment supported by the evidence? More

December 05, 2007
Death Before Burkas
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The ultimate oppression of our age, no matter how one cares to cut it, slice it, dice it, whatever, is hands-down the subjugation of females - from birth to the grave - in places ruled by this cockamamie Sharia law. More

December 05, 2007
Christopher Hitchens Says, 'Bah, Hannukah'
J.R. Dunn
Christopher Hitchens has achieved for himself quite a strong position as the American center-right's favorite Trotskyite. To a large extent this is well-earned. More

December 04, 2007
Things You Are Not Allowed to Say
Christopher Chantrill
The good thing about living in the modern era is that we have freedom of speech and dissent is celebrated as the highest form of patriotism. More

December 04, 2007
Nukes, Terrorists, and the Nation-State Connection
Douglas Hanson
While Pakistan is teetering on the brink of a massive political upheaval, the question on everybody's mind is what will happen to the country's nukes? More

December 04, 2007
Can the Left move on from Clintonismo?
James Lewis
The biggest surprise of the election season so far is Hillary's low poll numbers among Democrat voters. More

December 03, 2007
Nominating the Next President: The Frontrunners and the Wingmen
Richard Baehr
Not for the first time in the current Presidential election cycle, the momentum appears to have shifted in each party's race. More

December 03, 2007
Will Hillary's Sweet Nothings Persuade America?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Hillary Clinton appears to be either scared to death of the voters, disturbingly paranoid about the media's intentions, or haughty enough to believe that the Presidency is her entitlement, considering the way she treats the press. More

December 03, 2007
If Obama Beats Clinton to the Nomination
Lee Cary
If Barack Obama beats Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination, will Republicans be ready? More

December 02, 2007
The Academy Fails Again
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
When professors hijack their students' efforts to suit their own political agendas, and the students' agenda is obliterated by a professor's implied directive, and a university blames the entire mess on the students, what do you have? More

December 02, 2007
Two Different Worlds
Bookworm
As the family renegade, the one who turned right politically, I often find myself trying to argue against such forceful conclusory statements as "Bush is an idiot" or "the War in Iraq is a disaster." (In other words, the declarative versions of the "questions" posed at the BoobTube Republican debates on CNN.) More

December 02, 2007
After Annapolis, what?
Edward Bernard Glick
Despite the conference at the United States Naval Academy, if one looks at the Palestine struggle the way Iran, Hamas, Hizbollah, and Israel's other existential enemies look at it, they are winning and the Zionists are losing. More

December 01, 2007
When Adults Regress: A Story of Childish Revenge
Pamela Meister
The story of the death of Megan Meier chilled me to the bone. A year ago, at the tender age of 13, she took her own life. More

December 01, 2007
A Time to Kill?
Bob Weir
When I think about the Houston area resident who shot and killed 2 men after they burglarized his neighbor's home, I have mixed emotions. More

December 01, 2007
Genocide Nearly Forgotten by History
S. John Massoud
The past week saw the anniversary of one of the great tragedies of history overlooked by most of the US mainstream media: the Stalin-created famine in Ukraine. More