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February 29, 2008
Here Come the Green Car-Jackers
Marc Sheppard
No amount of energy efficiency will ever do the trick -- the only way to save the planet is to surrender your car altogether. That's the conclusion reached by a group of Australian energy experts More

February 29, 2008
Military Recruiters Necessary for our Common Defense
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Providing for the common defense and securing the blessings of liberty aren't little governmental after-thoughts, nor do they come cheap. More

February 29, 2008
Buckley and Reagan: The Qualities of Conservative Greatness
Bruce Walker
As conservatives bemoan the apparent descent of conservatism into a swamp, we would do well to remember the two men who most personify conservatism in America. More

February 28, 2008
Interventionism, Obama-Style
Ray Robison
Of late Obama has sung a decidedly noninterventionist tune. But it wasn't always so, and some of his thinking on who should do the dangerous work is shocking. More

February 28, 2008
When Illegal Immigration Trends Converge
Lee Cary
What happens if trends concerning (1) public school growth driven by illegal immigration, (2) the dropout rate for Hispanic students and (3) the projected U.S. demand for unskilled labor all converge? More

February 28, 2008
The United Methodist Church and Israel
Joseph Puder
The Jewish State of Israel may not be perfect, it is however a flowering garden of civility, democracy and human rights in a desert filled with Arab-Muslim oppressive dictatorships. But For the United Methodist Church (UMC), Israel is deserving of criticism and punishment. More

February 27, 2008
Walter Cronkite, Vietnam, and the Decline of Media Credibility
Lee Cary
Walter Cronkite's remarks at the end of his February 27, 1968 evening news broadcast, four decades ago today, were a watershed in the history of the MSM's credibility. More

February 27, 2008
George Soros and the Alchemy of 'Regime Change'
Kyle-Anne Shiver
What does a very aged multi-billionaire do after he spends $25 million dollars to force a presidential election his way, and still falls flat on his face? More

February 27, 2008
The Home Equity Partnership
Christopher Chantrill
The problem with the real-estate market is that it forces ordinary people to use far too much leverage. For many Americans the only way that they can afford a home is by accepting a very risky proposition, borrowing 80 percent or more of the purchase price of their home. More

February 26, 2008
Senator Obama's Coming Out Party in Cleveland
Ed Lasky
Doubts about Senator Obama's commitment to the America-Israel relationship have only increased in the wake of comments the Senator made this past Sunday to Jewish leaders in Cleveland. More

February 26, 2008
Black Hillary Supporters May Be Receiving Death Threats
Marc Sheppard
There's mounting evidence that at least some of Obama's faithful intend to see a black American president sworn in next year -- no matter what it takes. More

February 26, 2008
Don't Expect Hollywood to Learn from Academy Awards Broadcast Bomb
Pamela Meister
So Sunday's OscarTM broadcast was, underwhelmingly, a television ratings bomb. Perhaps it's the holier-than-thou attitude of the celebrities themselves that has really gotten on our nerves More

February 25, 2008
The Fierce Urgency of Lies
Lance Fairchok
Grown men weep in his presence, women faint, and thousands scream his name like a rock star. The liberal press prints glowing tributes to their new progressive prophet, calling him "the triumph of word over flesh" More

February 25, 2008
John McCain and the Iraq War
Steven M. Warshawsky
Can John McCain's steadfast support for a war that is deeply unpopular with the American people propel him into the White House this November? More

February 25, 2008
Bill & Hillary Clouseau?
Ralph Alter
Initially feared and prohibitively favored, the campaign of Hillary Clinton in its death spiral has devolved into Pink Panther-like absurdity. More

February 24, 2008
Universal Islamic 'Blasphemy' Law ?
Andrew G. Bostom
Almost two weeks ago (2/12/08), "three men with a Muslim background" were arrested by Danish police on anti-terrorism charges, suspected of having plotted to murder Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist for Jyllands-Posten More

February 24, 2008
Collective Punishment and Newspeak
Michael I. Krauss
Activists and some UN Security Council members argue that Israel's restrictions on fuel deliveries to Gaza constitutes collective punishment in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The argument is nonsense More

February 24, 2008
Sylvester Stallone Deserves a Special Academy Award
Michael Margolies
There are better films this year than Rambo, but there is no better movie More

February 23, 2008
A Tribute to Herbert Hoover, the Anti-Fascist
Ben-Peter Terpstra
Herbert Hoover, who had the misfortune to be in office when the stock market crashed in 1929, has taken far too much blame for the Depression, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt managed to prolong over a decade More

February 23, 2008
The Misnomer of Conservatism
Bruce Walker
As we "conservatives" thrash about trying to find who is a real conservative, we should also seek to find what we mean by conservative. More

February 23, 2008
The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism
Linda Kimball
Materialist faith, or scientific materialism, has virtually displaced America's founding Judeo-Christian worldview. More

February 22, 2008
Speaker Pelosi and the New York Times' Blind Eye
Ray Robison
Since the 2006 Congressional victory by Democrats, The New York Times has ignored a highly questionable situation involving Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. More

February 22, 2008
Barack and Michelle Keeping the Faith
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I'm not buying the Obama campaign spin on Michelle Obama's patriotic faux pas this week, any more than I'm inclined to believe that Barack Obama's refusal to wear our flag pin in his lapel is a meaningless gesture. More

February 22, 2008
Obama's Mentor's Mentor
Lee Cary
The influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone appears in the political philosophy of Barack Obama as well as in the recent controversial statement about national pride made by Michelle Obama. More

February 21, 2008
Observations of the Uncommon Heroes in Iraq
Jim Carrier
Leaving the comforts of my daily routine as a partner in a money management firm in Manhattan, I took off for Iraq in December to visit the war zone as a freelance journalist. More

February 21, 2008
Six Thoughts on Obamamania
Publius Valerius Publicola
I've watched the "Yes We Can" video at least five times - it's mesmerizing - and it has perhaps tainted my normally acute political judgment. I am this close to announcing my support for Scarlett Johannsen for president. More

February 21, 2008
The Left Wing School Agenda and the Banning of Patriotism
Mark Loftin
When Churchill was dropped from the UK school curriculum last July, one had to wonder if patriotism itself was next. Now it's official. More

February 20, 2008
The Paranoid Style in Democrat Foreign Policy
James Lewis
This is one of those stories I hope is not true. There are an awful lot of Democrats suddenly chorusing kumbaya with the people who spend their lives chanting "Death to America!" More

February 20, 2008
Operation Gratitude in Iraq
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Operation Gratitude, which has sent 300,000 care packages to our troops serving in harm's way, started because one American mom decided that she could not sit idly by in her safe, comfortable home doing nothing while our young men and women willingly left safety and comfort behind to fight for the rest of us. More

February 20, 2008
Reviewing Obama's Blueprint for Change
Christopher Chantrill
You can get a flavor of Senator Obama's conventional, liberal program on his website. That's where he has published his platform, a set of detailed policy prescriptions called The Blueprint for Change. More

February 19, 2008
Samantha Power and Obama's Foreign Policy Team
Richard Baehr and Ed Lasky
Senator Barack Obama, though impressive in his oratorical abilities, may not have the foreign policy experience that many would like to see, or that his opponents possess. More

February 19, 2008
A President's Day Superdelegate Super Sale?
Marc Sheppard
While shoppers took advantage of longer store hours and bargain prices this Presidents' Day, the Democrats' two candidates were probably doing some shopping of their own. More

February 19, 2008
Obama's Global Tax
Lee Cary
Senator Barack Obama's sponsorship of Senate Bill 2433 aligns with the emerging core theme of his general election campaign. The change he promises will bring much-needed relief, not just to America's victims of economic injustice, but to victims worldwide. More

February 18, 2008
Clinton, Obama and the Social Security Table
Rick Richman
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both have plans to fix Social Security, cloaked in rhetoric and code, but crystal clear upon analysis. It's the oldest Democrat solution in the book. More

February 18, 2008
Is an October Surrender in the Making?
James Lewis
Right in the middle of the hottest presidential primary in decades, both Obama and Hillary are sending their foreign policy honchos to Damascus. These advisors are people who have a chance of running US foreign policy in the next administration. More

February 18, 2008
America's Three Worst Presidents
Ari Kaufman
Presidents Day on Monday now celebrates all presidents, not just our greatest. That being the case, let's "celebrate," or at least recall, the three worst presidents in our country's otherwise proud history. More

February 17, 2008
The Wacko Journalist Narrative
David Paulin
Are the hard economic times facing the newspaper industry stressing newsroom denizens beyond the breaking point? More

February 17, 2008
The Shari'a Archbishop
Lance Fairchok
George Orwell said it best, "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: No ordinary man could be such a fool." More

February 17, 2008
'Gun free zones' can be deadly
Bob Weir
Another maniac, with guns bristling all over him, has walked into a "gun-free zone" and begun picking off human beings as if they were ducks in a shooting gallery. The creature with the guns was certain he would get no resistance from his helpless targets. More

February 16, 2008
Boomers and the Vietnam Shrug
Frank Dudley Berry, Jr
In one of the great acts of collective rationalization in recorded history, the Baby Boomers -- my generation -- shrug their shoulders about the aftermath of the Vietnam War . Not our problem. More

February 16, 2008
Does Shariah Promote Human Rights?
James M. Arlandson
The Archbishop of Canterbury says that implementing or permitting some parts of Shariah (Islamic law) is unavoidable. It may be true that some parts of Islamic law are only about halal (clean) foods, but other parts -- not so. More

February 16, 2008
Only a Dream
Miguel A. Guanipa
I remember waking up that morning, the full breadth of deep emotions evoked by a dream that had just ended, still aflame in my bosom. More

February 15, 2008
Can Anybody Stop Obama?
Richard Baehr
We are just shy of nine months to the general election, and many in the media, in their excitement over Barack Obama, are ready to declare him the Democratic Party nominee. Not so fast. More

February 15, 2008
Berkeley at the First Amendment Brink
Kyle-Anne Shiver
As a Southerner, I have watched the Berkeley vs. U.S. Marines brouhaha with a very keen interest. I'm not all that sure those people in Berkeley know what can happen to people who decide to mess around with the United States government. More

February 15, 2008
A Conversation with Dr. Tawfik Hamid
Joseph Puder
Dr. Tawfik Hamid, 47, joined the Jihadist-Muslim group-Jamaat Islamiyah. He was deeply influenced by an older fellow student named Ayman al-Zawahiri, destined to become al-Qaida's No.2 and Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant More

February 14, 2008
Mughniyah's Assasination
Brett McCrea
When the news reported that Imad Mughniyah was assassinated I was stunned. This is equivalent to killing Bin Laden. But more difficult. More

February 14, 2008
John McCain will keep the country safer
James Lewis
John McCain's recent American Conservative Union ratings are not the 80% plus that we hear about all the time. But what's the alternative? More

February 14, 2008
Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?
Selwyn Duke
While the media has successfully portrayed the Republicans as the party of snake handlers and moonshine, the difference between image and reality is profound. More

February 13, 2008
The Obama Cult of Nonthreatening Personality
Ray Robison
Barack Obama strikes nearly everyone as a nice guy. Part of that appeal is a distinct absence of aggression. More

February 13, 2008
Obama, The Global Candidate
Lee Cary
If Barack Obama fulfills the MSM's storyline of Obama the Dragon Slayer, a new theme will surface - Obama the Global Candidate. More

February 13, 2008
A Super Delicate Super Delegate Dilemma
Marc Sheppard
First-rate as it is, our one-man one-vote system can't promise majority contentment in every election. More

February 12, 2008
Bill Unbound
J.R. Dunn
H.L. Mencken said, many times and in many different ways, that nothing beats a democracy for sheer entertainment. More

February 12, 2008
Mandate Me, Baby
Rick Moran
Mandates and the drive to coerce the American people into buying health insurance will be on the agenda if either Democrat is elected president. More

February 12, 2008
A Budget Valentine
Christopher Chantrill
The Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2009 that President Bush sent to Congress last week is quite a piece of work. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) does not think of it exactly as a Valentine. More

February 11, 2008
Last Nominee Standing
Thomas Lifson
Thirty-seven weeks to go, and the presidential campaign already is in uncharted territory. At the moment, each party seems to be trying to defeat itself, discrediting its own future nominee. More

February 11, 2008
Obama's Politics of Collective Redemption
Kyle-Anne Shiver
A messianic fever grips a segment of the American populace and media. A great leader seems to them poised to redeem our collective sins and change nearly everything, bringing about a new era in which permanent solutions are found to age-old conditions. More

February 11, 2008
The Lesson of Kirkwood
Bob Weir
It was just another city council meeting in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri, population about 28,000. More

February 10, 2008
Shari'a for the Archbishop?
James Lewis
The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is said to be a devoutly religious man. But for five centuries the Archbishop has also been a politician More

February 10, 2008
Clinton Amnesia
Andrew Sumereau
A form of collective amnesia, powered by media bent on forgetting inconvenient truths, continues to shield the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Despite setbacks and surprising obstacles to the cause of the inevitable one, the Clinton Teflon retained its remarkable durability More

February 10, 2008
Schmoozing with Terrorists
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
The people who kill Jews and other westerners for a living would seem to be a bit hard for nice Jewish boy to sit down and chat with about why they do what they do. But that's what Aaron Klein has done, and he puts other journalists to shame with his detailed account. More

February 09, 2008
Heath Ledger and Personal Responsibility
Mark Loftin
The idea that Ledger himself may be culpable for his death eludes the left. It's easier to blame the US healthcare system More

February 09, 2008
The Bizarre Activism of Kurt Daims
Miguel A. Guanipa
One look at Mr. Kurt Daims and it is not unreasonable to assume that he is a militant devotee of his homeland's progressive jihad. More

February 09, 2008
What NBC's 'The Office' Gets Right
Ben-Peter Terpstra
I'm an addict of NBC's wide-open comedy The Office, currently in reruns thanks to the Writers Guild strike More

February 08, 2008
Whose Side Are They On?
Alan Fraser
From the beginning of the War on Terror, the mainstream media has been working to bring home the bad news on the war, virtually to the exclusion of any good news. Even if they've had to fabricate it on occasion. More

February 08, 2008
Media Spins Success in Afghanistan as Failure
Ray Robison
American and Coalition forces have taken the initiative in Afghanistan, and have the Taliban on the run. Yet major American media outlets, to the extent they cover fighting in Afghanistan, are portraying the Taliban as "resurgent". More

February 08, 2008
Farm Policy Needs to be Plowed Under
Matt Danko
In December, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed another subsidy-bloated farm bill. Farm policy may seem boring, but this important legislation and the genuine reform that is needed deserve attemtion. More

February 07, 2008
Now is the Winter of Our Conservative Discontent
Thomas Lifson
The prospect of John McCain as Republican nominee is inspiring sometimes angry resistance from millions of conservative stalwarts. Can the GOP coalition be saved? More

February 07, 2008
Conservative Grief
Randall Hoven
Conservatives are grieving. If they had to identify what they are grieving over, many would probably say either the death of the Republican Party or the end of conservative influence. Professionals tell us there are five stages of grief More

February 07, 2008
Obama and 'Da Yutes'
J.R. Dunn
One unwelcome side effect of Obamamania is the threat of yet another bout of liberalism's youth obsession. This is not a reference to John Kerry's Botox shots or Nancy Pelosi's face lifts, but the liberal tendency to fall on their knees before the nation's youth at the drop of a skateboard. More

February 06, 2008
Obama and the Culture Wars
J.R. Dunn
It's a truism that a presidential candidate acts as a vessel for the dreams and beliefs of his followers. With Obama it appears at least in part to be a matter of strategy. More

February 06, 2008
America's Enduring Love for Underdogs
Michael Scroccaro
Front-runners have had a rough time, lately. The unbeaten Tom Brady. The shoo-in Rudolph Giuliani. The inevitable Hillary Clinton. More

February 06, 2008
Illegal Immigration and Low Wage Labor
Lee Cary
Leprechauns, unicorns, and the assertion that illegal immigrants take jobs Americans won't do -- they're all myths. More

February 05, 2008
Barack Obama Running on his Religion
Thomas Lifson
During his triumphant campaign in South Carolina, Barack Obama distributed a flyer in which he announced the spiritual dimension of his mission, running as a "committed Christian." More

February 05, 2008
Dear Obama Groupies
Ian Rock
Looks like you are one of 300,000 or so "Barack Obama" supporters on TheFacebook.com. First, congratulations and thank you all for entering the debate. More

February 05, 2008
Rampant Islamic Jew-Hatred in Europe
Andrew G. Bostom
Muslims are responsible for fully half (50%) of the documented Antisemitic incidents on the European continent. More

February 04, 2008
Time for Republicans to Get a Grip
Kyle-Anne Shiver
It's one thing when your political adversaries denounce your Party and hold a gleeful funeral procession with your ashes on public display. It's another thing altogether when your own luminaries dance to the opponent's fight song More

February 04, 2008
What America's declining casualties reveal
Vasko Kohlmayer
The dramatic decline in US casualties in Iraq has been one the great untold story of recent months. A young American male would have been safer in Iraq than in some of America's inner cities. More

February 04, 2008
Dissecting the 'Change' Mantra
Bob Myer
We need change in America. That's the message that every politician seems to push. They are all "agents of change". More

February 03, 2008
On The Present Danger Facing Israel And All Jews
Rachel Neuwirth
The entire body of the Jewish people today -- in Israel, in Europe, in America, in Australia and New Zealand, and throughout the world -- is in grave danger. The threat is both external and intrenal. More

February 03, 2008
The Elephant In the Immigration Room
Lee Cary
The ignored elephant in the immigration debate is the negative impact of illegal immigration on job opportunities for unskilled, uneducated, native-born U.S. workers More

February 03, 2008
America on Ronald Reagan's Birthday
Bruce Walker
The day after Super Tuesday, we celebrate the birthday of Ronald Reagan. If we all agree that Reagan was great, perhaps we should reflect on his birthday why he was so great. More

February 02, 2008
The Return of the Wacko Vet Media Narrative
David Paulin
As the troop build-up in Iraq produces positive results, many media outlets have seized upon a new anti-war narrative. It's right out of the Vietnam War-era More

February 02, 2008
Hillary May Feint, But She Will Not Swoon
Burwell Stark
The winner of the Democratic nomination contest will be the one who forces his opponent to play by his game plan. More

February 02, 2008
What is happening to Amnesty International?
Mohammad Parvin
Amnesty International (AI) is sponsoring an event in Los Angeles with a panelist who is an activist for the establishment of normal and unconditional relations between the religious dictatorship in Iran and the U.S. More

February 01, 2008
A life-or-death reason to vote for any Republican
James Lewis
Here's a survival reason to vote Republican regardless of who wins the nomination, McCain or Romney. It's Mahmoud A'jad -- the martyrdom fanatic who runs the Tehran regime. More

February 01, 2008
The Cold War Victory Medal
Melanie Morgan
America fought and won a 45 year war with communism, but has never honored those who achieved the victory through their military service.What does that say to those who fight abother long war for us now? More

February 01, 2008
Why American Evangelicals are the West's Last Hope
Vasko Kohlmayer
The energy and electoral impetus to battle resurgent Islam comes largely from evangelical Christians. Should they withdraw from the political realm, the rest would not be able to come together in sufficiently high numbers to exert the political clout necessary to continue the struggle. More