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March 31, 2008
Superdelegates are Another Dysfunctional Liberal Fix
J.R. Dunn
The most striking thing about the Democrat's superdelegate fiasco is how typical it is of liberalism. More

March 31, 2008
Samantha Power: A Comeback after 'Monstergate'?
Peggy Shapiro
Samantha Power just can't help herself when she starts talking. An odd malady for one who seeks a high position among the nation's diplomats. More

March 31, 2008
Today Is Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Day
Lee Cary
On January 30, 2007, Senator Barack Obama introduced the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007. In describing the proposed legislation he annouced the goal of removing ALL U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008." More

March 30, 2008
McCain's Gauntlet Speech
Lee Cary
John McCain has thrown down the gauntlet to both election opponents and those overseas. More

March 30, 2008
Scary McCain
Judith Klinghoffer
With McCain you get the real thing while with Obama you may get an audacity of rhetoric based on nothing but political expediency and imagined racial grievances. More

March 30, 2008
Another Unconservative Moment from John McCain
Jeffrey Schmidt
John McCain's unconservativism was on display this past Wednesday in Los Angeles. Perhaps not in all ways, but in one telling way. More

March 29, 2008
Fitna the movie defeating Islamic censorship
Andrew Walden
Nothing makes people want to see something more than banning it, or even better yet, telling them they may not be able to handle it (Remember the Blair Witch Project?) More

March 29, 2008
The Fine Italian Nose
Robert J. Melone
Arise Sons and Daughters of Italy! We are mocked, insulted, and challenged to respond. More

March 29, 2008
'Seeker-Sensitive' Conservatism
Alan Roebuck
In religion as in politics and the market, giving the public what it wants can draw the public. But... More

March 28, 2008
Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
James Lewis
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. More

March 28, 2008
Some Wicked Friends of Public Schools
Bruce Walker
Free education, the provision for the opportunity for universal literacy, is a blessing to any society. But state control of all education, public and private, is not. More

March 28, 2008
When Others Pray for Your Conversion
Selwyn Duke
What should our reaction be when others pray for our conversion? More

March 27, 2008
The Disgrace of Liberalism
J.R. Dunn
2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force in the same way that 1968 marked the end of liberalism as a political doctrine. More

March 27, 2008
NBC's Equivalence Even Less Moral than Obama's
Marc Sheppard
Second only to blaming America's "history of social injustice," false moral equivalence has become a favorite rhetorical device of the Left. More

March 27, 2008
Obama's National Public Education Plans
Lee Cary
While Clinton's and Obama's health care plans attract attention, Obama's plan for public education largely goes unnoticed. More

March 26, 2008
Obama's Messiah Shtick
Bookworm
To those who worship at his shrine, there is nothing ordinary about Barack Obama. More

March 26, 2008
How the Leftist Churches Set a Time Bomb for the Democrats
James Lewis
The doctrines of Black Liberation have been preached since 1966 in black churches, with the enthusiastic support of white churches of the Left, notably the United Church of Christ. More

March 26, 2008
The Right of Return and the Forgotten Refugees
Peggy Shapiro
Enter "Right of Return" on any search engine and you will get some variation of the Palestinian claim that Palestinian Arabs who left Israel in 1948 and all of their descendants have the an "inalienable right" to return to Israel. More

March 25, 2008
Cultural Affirmative Action
Selwyn Duke
Cultural affirmative action is when people in the market and media privilege others -- sometimes unconsciously -- based upon the latter's identification with a "victim group." More

March 25, 2008
The religion of eternal racism and eternal sexism
Bruce Walker
How many "civil rights" leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? More

March 25, 2008
Anger, Forgiveness, and Obama
Christopher Chantrill
On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, speaking to the nation during Holy Week, Barack Obama had the opportunity of a generation, the chance to make himself immortal. Instead he equivocated over the racist hate speech of Rev. Wright, and threw his white grandmother under the bus. More

March 24, 2008
Typical White Fact-Based Reasoning (updated)
Randall Hoven
Senator Barack Obama said in his memoir, The Audacity of Hope, "The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact." Yet he also claimed that to fear a black person on the street more than a white person is a racial "stereotype", "bred" into us. More

March 24, 2008
The Clinton Campaign's Opportunity
Lee Cary
Clinton's and Obama 's policy proposals are virtually identical, except got one important area that the Clinton campaign still has time to exploit: Obama's dramatic increase in foreign aid. More

March 24, 2008
Barack Obama Would Let Shoaib Choudhury Die
Richard L. Benkin
Shoaib Choudhury, a courageous anti-Islamist journalist in Bangladesh facing death, is tangibly supported by hundreds of members of Congress in both parties. But not by Barack Obama. More

March 23, 2008
Woulda-coulda-shouldas on Iraq
James Lewis
The woulda-coulda-shouldas sprang forth on the five-year anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein last week. It was Monday morning quarterbacking, mostly. More

March 23, 2008
The Man Islamists Cannot Silence
Richard L. Benkin
He fired the first salvo in 2003 and has been sticking his thumb in Islamist eyes ever since. Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury describes himself as a "Muslim Zionist." More

March 23, 2008
A Principled Peace Process
Rick Richman
The morass of the current "peace process" stems from the failure by the administrations in both Jerusalem and Washington to observe the first principle exressed by President Bush and approved by a Congressional Resolution. More

March 22, 2008
How to Pay for the Dem Convention: Survivor, the Nomination
Clarice Feldman
Dear Mayor Hickenlooper: I read that your efforts to raise funds for the 2008 Democratic National Convention are falling far short of your needs, that you will need to raise $40.6 million by June 16. More

March 22, 2008
Those Sophisticated Europeans
Sidney Raphael
One of the favorite debating points of those who expressed amazement at the American public's critical reaction to Eliot Spitzer was to compare American attitudes to attitudes of Europeans More

March 22, 2008
Remember the Liberators
John B. Dwyer
Yesterday, the nation marked the fifth anniversary of our presenc in Iraq. It is past time to remember the liberators. More

March 21, 2008
Hate Preach: Brite Divinity School To Honor Wright
Lee Cary
On March 29, 2008, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright is scheduled to receive Brite Divinity School's Black Church Leader Award. More

March 21, 2008
Obama's Problem with White Voters
James Edmund Pennington
The racial dimension of Barack Obama's electability problem is now apparent, but no prominent Democrat dares discuss it openly. Similarly expect no discussion of the subject in the major media. More

March 21, 2008
Bin Laden's Threat and the New Jihadist Message for Europe
Walid Phares
In an audiotape posted on Internet, Osama Bin Laden threatened Europe. I see in it the imprint of Jihadi "politicians" and strategists in international relations deeply immersed in the diplomatic games across the Mediterranean. More

March 20, 2008
The Palestinians Have no Interest in Peace
Richard Baehr
The latest survey on Palestinian attitudes should throw a glass of very cold water on the large class of Middle East peace processors. More

March 20, 2008
Our Imperfect Union
Lance Fairchok
Senator Obama's Tuesday speech in Philadelphia left the mainstream press rapturous, his wife teary, and the commentators that prefer emotion to fact calling it a defining moment in American racial and political history. More

March 20, 2008
Obama's Anger
Ed Kaitz
Back in the late 1980s I was on a plane flying out of New Orleans and sitting next to me was a rather interesting and, according to Barack Obama, unusual black man. More

March 19, 2008
Obama's Coming-Out Speech
Lee Cary
The candidacy of the man some have said transcends race turns out, after all, to be all about race. The light that forms his world view is refracted through a prism that splits into two colors -- black and white. More

March 19, 2008
It's Time to Call the Democrats on Race Demagogy
James Lewis
Democrats have protected, excused, and enabled race demagogues. Why not denounce all racial hatred, no matter what the source? More

March 19, 2008
The Real Agenda of Black Liberation Theology
Jeffrey Schmidt
Now, suddenly, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is misunderstood. Suddenly, so-called black liberation theology is misunderstood. More

March 18, 2008
Obama's Big Speech
Thomas Lifson
It does not speak well of his campaign's crisis management skills that Barack Obama has taken five days to wheel out his heavy artillery and give a speech today on Jeremiah Wright, Jr. How can Obama get out of his hole? More

March 18, 2008
Is Obama Trying to Bamboozle Us with His Wright Denials?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I thought I might have entered one of those political twilight-zone moments when I read this statement made by Obama Saturday, in response to reports on his pastor of twenty years More

March 18, 2008
The New Jimmy Carter
Bruce Walker
Thirty two years ago a Democrat politician with very little experience "transcended" politics as usual and was lifted on waves of good will to the White House. It seems to be happening again. More

March 17, 2008
William Jefferson Obama
Lee Cary
I now have reason to suspect that Barack Obama has a skill of proven value to a U.S. President: the ability to look straight into the camera and not tell the truth, without lying. More

March 17, 2008
The Lawyers' Party
Bruce Walker
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.) More

March 17, 2008
Iraq Vets for Congress
Kieran Michael Lalor
To help counter the alliance of the Democratic leadership with the antiwar Left, I recently formed Iraq Vets for Congress, a group of thirteen Republican Iraq veterans who are seeking office in the U.S. House of Representatives. More

March 16, 2008
A President Obama's Neoliberal Theocracy
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's first vocational choice was to help people in a poor African-American community. Later, he joined a church founded on black liberation theology. This combination could result in an Obama presidency that embodies something new in American history -- a Neoliberal Theocracy. More

March 16, 2008
Knowing Obama by the Company He Keeps
Kyle-Anne Shiver
"People will know you by the company you keep," my grandmother told me. "So, be very careful how you choose your friends More

March 16, 2008
Lt. Col. Allen West and Michelle Obama
James Lewis
I just sent my first political contribution to the Congressional campaign of former Army Lt. Colonel Allan West, who is running on the "R" ticket in Florida House District 22 More

March 15, 2008
Deconstructing Obama's lawyerly evasions on Wright
An American Thinker editorial
The man who wants America to believe his promise of unspecified change adopts the carefully-parsed language of a Harvard-trained lawyer. More

March 15, 2008
Psst! Mr. Bigamist! Wanna Make a Quick Buck?
Marylou Barry
Hey there, Mr. Middle Eastern bigamist. Feeling bummed? Disrespected by the infidels? Tired of having to work for a living? Well, does the government of Great Britain have a deal for you! More

March 15, 2008
The Iranian Cultural and Natural Heritage Year
Amil Imani
Over its life span, Islamic Republic of Iran zealots have tried innumerable times to cleanse Iran's pre-Islamic Persian heritage in the name of Islam. More

March 15, 2008
The Adventures of Dr. A. Conan Doyle
John B. Dwyer
Over the course of his intellectually and physically active life Arthur Conan Doyle somehow found the time to write many hundreds of letters, a personal chronicle by the creator of Sherlock Holmes. More

March 14, 2008
Senator Obama's Foreign Policy Judgment
Ed Lasky
Presidents have vast powers in the realm of foreign policy, providing reason to worry about the possible presidency of Barack Obama. More

March 14, 2008
The Wages of Race-and-Gender Socialism
James Lewis
Barack Obama has promised that he will rise above race. But will the race and gender industry go out of business if he is elected? There's not a chance in the world. More

March 14, 2008
Everyone Makes Mistakes
Christopher Chantrill
When the Democratic candidates talk about Change, what they really mean is that they will redeem the mistakes of the Bush Era. More

March 13, 2008
Summer Soldiers by Any Other Name
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The so-called Winter Soldier testimonies of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans start today in Washington, D.C. We now know a great deal about the original Winter Soldiers, who were the first Americans to try this aid-and-abet-the-enemy scheme on such a large scale More

March 13, 2008
A Modest Proposal
Clarice Feldman
I just discovered that the Democrats have a secret weapon to make their primary election problems disappear. More

March 13, 2008
Obama's Achilles' Heel
Miguel A. Guanipa
When Obama last exposed his Achilles' heel, it happened inadvertently and without warning, amidst a fawning crowd of regulars upon whom a mighty spell had fallen. More

March 12, 2008
Is Hillary McCain's Fifth Column?
Jeffrey Schmidt
If she loses her fight with Barak Obama, it is hard to see Senator Clinton satisfied with a consolation prize. 2012 is the next window and the best option for her -- provided John McCain can defeat Barak Obama. More

March 12, 2008
Profs Hammer Israel, Fail to Predict Palestinian War
Jonathan Schanzer
Why did so few experts write about the internecine Palestinian war? Hundreds of Arabic-speaking professors and researchers have trekked through the West Bank and Gaza over the years, funded by U.S. research dollars. More

March 12, 2008
The Air Force Tanker Deal
Thomas Lifson
The next generation of Air Force in-flight filling stations is slated to ride on the wings of an airplane designed in France. More

March 11, 2008
What Did Pelosi Know about Amgen's Woes and When Did She Know It?
Ray Robison
The Speaker of the House has been very good to Amgen. And vice-versa. More

March 11, 2008
The NIE and Iranian Internal Politics
Hassan Daioleslam
Since its release in December 2007, the National intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian nuclear program has become the subject of American political debate. Missing is NIE's influence on the power structure in Iran More

March 11, 2008
Women Voters and the Obama Crush
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Everywhere Obama goes, before he even opens his mouth, Democrat women fall all over themselves in awe. They chant. They swoon. They have fallen to the Obama crush. More

March 10, 2008
The Epicycles of Global Warming
James Lewis
When True Believers begin to harbor doubts, they don't immediately give up the faith. So they always try to add on new wrinkles and qualifications to their crumbling story. Today that's happening with the global warming cult. More

March 10, 2008
Terrorists, Marxists, Leftists and the Democrats
Lance Fairchok
With the help of Hugo Chavez, FARC narco-terrorists are attempting to legitimize and mainstream their movement, much as the genocidal PLO transformed itself with the aid of useful idiots like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. A captured laptop computer reveals what they may be planning, and with which politician. More

March 10, 2008
In Defense of Celebrities
David Gibberman
I never thought that anyone would have to defend celebrities. But I've noticed an increasing disconnect between what we know must be true about celebrities and how they're portrayed in the media. More

March 09, 2008
Israel's Siege Continues
Richard Baehr
Alone among the states of the world, Israel is not assured of its continued existence. We do not need to discuss whether New Zealand or Ghana have a right to exist More

March 09, 2008
Deconstructing Anti-Israel Bias: The Jerusalem Yeshiva Massacre
Gary Wolf
The bias of the mainstream media against Israel never ceases to amaze me. It must rank as one of the most curious sociopolitical phenomena of our era. More

March 09, 2008
But What Can I Do About the Crisis Facing Israel and the Jewish People?
Rachel Neuwirth
Israel and the Jewish people face escalating threats to their survival. You are not helpless in countering them. More

March 08, 2008
Rep. Donald Payne's Misguided Africa Policy
Abdirahman Warsame
With the United States fighting a global war on terror, the notion that a Member of Congress would sit silently beside a terror-sponsoring dictator as he criticizes America is appalling. More

March 08, 2008
Whither Osama?
Jon Caruthers
The general consensus among the intelligentsia in the government apparatus and parroted ad nauseam by the talking heads is that Osama is hiding out in the caves of the Hindu Kush. I would argue that he's not. More

March 08, 2008
What I learned in Havana talking to ordinary Cubans
David Paulin
If Raúl Castro is indeed a democratic reformer in disguise, he'll face a major challenge in repairing the psychological and social damage that he, his brother, and members of the communist elite have wrought over the past half century. More

March 07, 2008
The Tragedy of the Democratic Party
Thomas Lifson and Richard Baehr
Super Delegates will determine the next nominee of the Democrats, and a happy ending for the Party looks unlikely. More

March 07, 2008
Hillary Hardball vs. Barack Softball: Is there a Genuine Difference?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Call it a hunch or woman's intuition, but I have a strong sense that in the weeks ahead, the American electorate is going to be bombarded with Hillary bashing from the liberal pundit class. More

March 07, 2008
Obama's Health Care Plan
Michael Ragain, M.D.
Barack Obama speaks eloquently of change. Nowhere is change more needed than in healthcare. By 2017, one dollar out of every five spent in America will go toward healthcare costs More

March 06, 2008
The Trouble with Russia
Herbert E. Meyer
Vladimir Putin has the heart and soul of a KGB Commissar -- which, of course, he once was. He's a thug, and he's learned nothing from his country's history More

March 06, 2008
Obama's Iraqi Oil for Food connection
Andrew Walden
The sudden emergence of Iraqi-born Nadhmi Auchi into the Rezko-Obama story indicates a possible money trail leading back to dead Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. More

March 06, 2008
NY Climate Conference: Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity
Marc Sheppard
If you rely solely on the mainstream media to keep informed, you may not have heard that the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change concluded in New York City on Tuesday. More

March 05, 2008
Questions For Obama
Kyle-Anne Shiver & Lee Cary
After watching debates, hearing his speeches, and reading Obama's policy visions, many questions remain about how he'd change America. More

March 05, 2008
Republican at a Texas Democrat Caucus
Publius Valerius
Hillary Clinton as president concerns me, greatly. Barack Obama as president makes my charlatan antenna vibrate, wildly. So I voted for Clinton and attended my assigned Texas Democrat caucus. More

March 05, 2008
Obama and Carter and Israel
Roman Brackman
It is common for candidates to proclaim their strong support for Israel. Obama is no exception. Nor was Jimmy Carter. More

March 04, 2008
Why Most Voters Shouldn't Vote
Selwyn Duke
When people don't vote, it's for the same reason why they don't repair cars, fly planes or perform brain surgery. They're not interested in those things. More

March 04, 2008
Hillary is Right About Obama
James Lewis
Hillary Clinton is wrong on most issues, but she is right about Barack Obama. Obama is an empty dashiki; he has no experience in any job remotely resembling the presidency of the United States. More

March 04, 2008
Obama: Arab-American Families Being Rounded Up?
Lance Fairchok
In a televised twelve-second campaign spot aired in Texas, Senator Obama gives a stirring speech to a standing ovation. It includes an astonishing statement, an infuriating statement and a statement that speaks volumes to Obama's ideology. More

March 03, 2008
Obama's Language Games
Lee Cary
Barack Obama, the candidate, has used nuanced language to evade and deflect in order to avoid being candid. More

March 03, 2008
Obama's Multicultural Moment, and Ours?
Steven M. Warshawsky
The Obama campaign truly has taken on a cult-like quality. His starry-eyed supporters actually believe that simply electing Barack Obama as president will solve, not just this country's, but the world's most difficult problems More

March 03, 2008
The Kremlin's Really Bad Month: March 1983
Paul Kengor
It was 25 years ago this month, March 1983, that the Soviet Union went into hysterics, both realizing and arguably beginning the terminal phase in its deadly life cycle. More

March 02, 2008
Meryl Streep and Julia Child: Apples and Oranges
Clarice Feldman
Variety reports that Meryl Streep will be playing Julia Child in a Nora Ephron confection. While Ms Streep is an actress of the first rank, the choice of her to play Julia Child is peculiar because they were at opposite sides of the great food divide. More

March 02, 2008
America's First Congresswoman
Ben-Peter Terpstra
We hear much about Hillary Clinton as someone breaking through barriers for women. Here's a test. Who was America's first congresswoman, and which party did she belong to? More

March 02, 2008
A Belated Posthumous Medal of Honor for a Sioux Warrior
John B. Dwyer
Woodrow Wilson Keeble, who will recieve a belated posthumous Medal of Honor tomorrow, was born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Indian reservation in 1917. More

March 01, 2008
Jihadists and Progressives: An Affair to Remember
Miguel A. Guanipa
General Douglas Macarthur once quipped that it was "...fatal to enter any war without the will to win it". Few epithets more accurately reflect the prevailing default setting of the majority of this country's Democrat contingent More

March 01, 2008
The Fallacy of Shared Values
Janet Levy
On February 7, 2008, Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, issued what amounts to a capitulation to the encroachment of Islam More

March 01, 2008
Ten Commandments for a Biblical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Kalman J. Kaplan
Religious leaders in traditional societies often performed the function of applying the psychological wisdom implicit in the Biblical religious traditions to the particular life problems of members of their flock. The contemporary situation is very different. More