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April 30, 2008
Obama's Wright Turn
Richard Baehr
Why did Barack Obama finally denounce Rev. Wright yesterday? The reason is different than what he said. More

April 30, 2008
Flying Blind in the War on Terror
Patrick Poole
The government's decision to ban the use of "jihad" and "mujahedeen" referring to Islamic terrorism exposes its failure to define who the enemy is in the Global War on Terror More

April 30, 2008
Rev. Wright's Middle East Views
Ed Lasky
Why does Reverend Jeremiah Wright have such harsh feelings towards Israel? He gave us a clue at his speech Monday at the National Press Club. More

April 29, 2008
An Urgent Memo to the SecDef
Herbert E. Meyer
On May 13 about 70 percent of Iraq's mobile telephone network will cease to operate. This will be a serious blow to the Iraqi economy, and many Iraqis will no longer be able to phone in tips on terror activity. More

April 29, 2008
The Food Crisis
J.R. Dunn
Food riots have occurred in Haiti, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Indonesia, Yemen, and as close to our borders as Mexico, but the problem has its origins in politics. More

April 29, 2008
America, You Have Been Had
Christopher Chantrill
Liberals are prepared for the inevitable "swift-boating" of Barack Obama. Look behind you, liberals. It already happened and it was an own-goal scored by liberals. More

April 28, 2008
The Moment of Truth for the Left has Arrived
James Lewis
We have been nursing a viper in our national bosom. Seven years after September 11, 2001, this is the moment of truth, when the Left must finally decide what side it's on. More

April 28, 2008
Barack Obama: The Community Organizer in Chief
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's national plan for voluntary community service clearly illustrates his audacious goal to become the Nation's Community Organizer. More

April 28, 2008
A 'Long Hot Summer' in Lebanon?
Rick Moran
The talk is of guns in some quarters in Lebanon and of how expensive firearms have gotten. More

April 27, 2008
Another Obama Marxist
Lance Fairchok
Barack Obama has a thing for Marxists. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his campaign. More

April 27, 2008
False Consciousness and the Rich
Allan Nadel
Ah, things were so much simpler in the old days, when rich guys would carry moneybags between their homes on Fifth Avenue and the ones in Newport. More

April 27, 2008
Psychology: The Hard Truth about a Soft Science
Selwyn Duke
While many may debate Freud's influence over modern psychology, there is no doubt that the atheism and moral relativism he espoused reigns in it. More

April 26, 2008
Accepting the Premises
Larrey Anderson
Have you seen it? Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi on TV to demand federal sponsorship of new forms of "clean" energy to combat what Gingrich calls, during the ad, "climate change." More

April 26, 2008
A Cry for Life
Bob Weir
There's an air of contentment surrounding me. I feel warm, well fed, and comfortable in a sea of fluid. The light thumping inside my form is the only perceptible sound in my tiny universe. More

April 26, 2008
Can Scientists Really Predict a Global Climate Catastrophe?
Zach Krajacic
Just as Al Gore did not invent the Internet, he did not invent global warming theory. Scientists invented it, and they continue to fuel the mass hysteria they created More

April 25, 2008
The Lust in Jimmy Carter's Heart
Peggy Shapiro
What if Jimmy Carter's recent negotiations with the terrorist group Hamas was not at all naïve, but a well-conceived execution of an unstated plan? More

April 25, 2008
Newt's Global Warming Surprise
Marc Sheppard
My esteem for the political intellect of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is second to no one's. But by appearing in the latest Al Gore propaganda commercial, he joins a disturbingly growing number of ostensibly green-turning Republicans More

April 25, 2008
Bill Ayers and the Subversion of Education
Ed Lasky
Bill Ayers, who helped launch Barack Obama's first political campaign, now shapes American education instead of terror bombing. He is able to more damage this way. More

April 24, 2008
Jimmy Carter Disgraced For Many Reasons
Joel J. Sprayregen
When it came time to judge Jimmy Carter's presidency, Americans voters thundered: Carter, receiving 40% of the popular vote, carrying six states. More

April 24, 2008
When Will We Admit the Truth About Barack Obama?
Selwyn Duke
If you interview someone for a job, you'll expect him to tell you what you want to hear. There'll be a façade, and his darker side will remain well-hidden. So also with those interviewing for the presidency. More

April 24, 2008
The Left's Theft of the Open Society and the Scientific Method
Jonathan David Carson
The Left misappropriates intellectual capital for perverse ends, in order to lend itself a veneer of respectability and befuddle its critics. More

April 23, 2008
Politicians Hide from the Real Issues
J.R. Dunn
It appears that this is going to be yet another campaign with little or nothing in the way of real issues. More

April 23, 2008
The Pope's Challenge to Conservatives
Christopher Chantrill
The mainstream media seem to think that the pope's visit to the United States was all about the delicious priestly sex-abuse scandal and liberal agenda issues like abortion and women priests. More

April 23, 2008
Free speech in Canada
Lona Manning
Two heated public debates are taking place north of the 49th parallel these days, and broadly speaking, both debates pit progressives against conservatives. More

April 22, 2008
Obama's Plan for NASA
Lee Cary
Although the MSM has largely ignored Barack Obama's plans for NASA, the issue is likely to bubble up during the general election campaign, if he's the Democratic nominee. Here's why. More

April 22, 2008
Earth First! (People Later)
David Bueche
I drove by a Protestant church recently that had the following moral exhortation on their lawn marquee: "Saving the world, one light-bulb at a time." Wow! Talk about a test of faith. More

April 22, 2008
Madness and Political Life
Bruce Walker
"We have now sunk to a depth where the restatement of the obvious is the duty of intelligent men" Orwell wrote these words, and they are still true today. More

April 21, 2008
President Obama and a Nuclear Iran
James Lewis
Assume for a moment: It's January, 2009, and Barack Obama has just been inaugurated as President of the United States. Ahmadi-Nejad explodes his first Bomb More

April 21, 2008
The Taxpayer Frog In the IRS Pot
Randall Hoven
You know the story. Put a frog in hot water and he'll jump out, but put him in cooler water and slowly raise the heat and he'll stay in even as he boils to death. More

April 21, 2008
Barack Obama & the Wisdom of Forrest Gump
Lee Cary
The simple yet profound wisdom of the movie character Forrest Gump has entered the Democratic race for the nomination. This time, though, the lesson is: arrogance is as arrogance does. More

April 20, 2008
Redefining 'Swiftboating' and Rewriting History
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
If the words "swift" and "boat" must be combined and turned into a verb, then let us insist on its proper use. More

April 20, 2008
Straight Talk About Casual Sex
Janice Shaw Crouse
It's not news to anybody these days that we live in a sex-saturated society. The time for some straight talk about casual sex is long overdue. More

April 20, 2008
Imagine a Free Tibet!
David Bueche
I don't know what the "Free Tibet" bumper sticker crowd must be thinking these days, but I can assure you it most certainly doesn't involve the 101st Airborne, tanks, guns, or any of that other "culture of violence" stuff. More

April 19, 2008
Privacy and Property Rights
Larrey Anderson
The word "privacy" cannot be found in either the Declaration of Independence or in the U. S. Constitution. The right to privacy can only be guaranteed, by the right to property. More

April 19, 2008
Why Worry about Deaf Babies?
Paul Shlichta
England is currently deciding whether or not to legalize the use of embryo selection to produce deaf babies to accommodate deaf couples. This, and much worse, is the logical consequence of our legalization of abortion. More

April 19, 2008
It is not only the Iranians' fight
Mohammad Parvin
An unprecedented campaign has started by Austrians to protest any deals with the regime of Mullahs in Iran and to support the Iranians who fight for a secular and democratic Iran. More

April 18, 2008
The Obama Aesthetic
Thomas Lifson
Barack Obama's campaign has been all about image. The well-dressed, impeccably groomed, and elegantly articulate speaker was able to speak of hope, change, and unity, and for awhile the public bought it. More

April 18, 2008
Stalking Barack Obama
James Lewis
There are striking parallels between the Obama "bitter bomb" that Hillary brought up again in the debate Wednesday night and the dirty tricks campaign last year that shot down Republican George Allen's campaign for US Senate from Virginia. More

April 18, 2008
Compassion, Conception, and the Democrats
Paul Kengor
The media's double standard in its treatment of Republicans and Democrats who talk faith is truly remarkable. Last weekend's "Compassion Forum" for the Democratic presidential contenders provided a great example. More

April 17, 2008
As America Remembers Va. Tech Victims, Carter Honors a School-massacre Perpetrator
Edward Olshaker
The same week we mark the anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, former president Jimmy Carter paid homage to Cho's most accomplished school massacre predecessor when he laid a wreath of flowers on Arafat's grave More

April 17, 2008
Root causes
Bookworm
One of the hallmarks of the Left is its fervent belief that, if poor people behave badly, the fault is not theirs, but instead it lies with "root causes." More

April 17, 2008
Saddam and al-Qaeda
Debra Baker
Claims that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda are wrong. Documents just released by the Pentagon prove it. More

April 16, 2008
Obama: Silence in the face of evil
Peggy Shapiro
Barack Obama, the eloquent speaker who mesmerizes the media, falls strangely silent when his words are needed to stand up against evil, intolerance or injustice. More

April 16, 2008
Good grief, Gordon Brown!
James Lewis
Just before Prime Minister Gordon Brown's trip to Washington, he leaked a gratuitous media insult to George W. Bush, with whom he meets today. More

April 16, 2008
Obama, CEO Pay, and the Politics of Class Envy
Lee Cary
Populism uses the politics of discontent. Barack Obama's recurring comparisons between CEO and average worker salaries is a class-warfare play on resentment More

April 15, 2008
The Postmodern Campaign
Jeffrey Schmidt
Welcome to the first full post-modern presidential election, where, to quote Marshall McLuhan, "the medium is the message." Well, it's more than that: it's performance More

April 15, 2008
A Century of Taxes
Christopher Chantrill
Liberals claimn to be concerned about privacy when it comes to national security measures. What privacy? I just sent in my Federal Income Tax return for 2007 and I reckon that the government already knows everything about me. More

April 15, 2008
Israel at 60 - Give or Take a Few Thousand Years
Steve Feldman and Robert Sklaroff
The nation of Israel is about to commemorate its 60th birthday. That's the official, politically correct, line. But to be truly accurate, a cake celebrating the milestone should have more candles than 60 -- thousands more. More

April 14, 2008
McCain's Electoral College Math
Richard Baehr
The 2008 Presidential contest should logically be one where the Democratic Party nominee, still likely to be Barack Obama despite his latest case of foot in mouth disease, would win a solid victory. But this year is not a typical one. More

April 14, 2008
Norman Hsu Who?
Lee Cary
If and when the time comes to perform the autopsy on Hillary Clinton's campaign, some will trace the start of its demise back to the Norman Hsu episode. Others will ask, "What's a Norman shoe?" More

April 14, 2008
Obama Chic
James Lewis
Geraldine Ferraro wasn't quite right: It's not just Obama's race that has made him the frontrunner on the Left. It's his chic-ness. More

April 13, 2008
The Oil Connection
John Robinson
A recent piece of news has shed new light on what could be another storm for both the Clintons. Like an old shipwreck, the crashing waves are slowly revealing more from beneath the sand More

April 13, 2008
The Expulsion Libel: 1948 Arab "Exodus" Reconsidered
Rachel Neuwirth
The notion that Israel attempted to ethnically cleanse its territory of Arab residents at the founding of the state of Israel does not accord with the facts of history. More

April 13, 2008
Ben Stein's Intelligent Adventure
Kate Wright
Ben Stein's new film EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed not just an exploration of the limitations of The Origin of Species, but a journey to uncover the mindset that Darwinism engendered among those with an agenda to replace traditional understandings of God with pure materialism More

April 12, 2008
The Success of Iraq Policy
Jim Hall
Contrary to the dominant media narrative, the Iraq war is working out as a global strategic success, albeit not to a comfortable time schedule or cost More

April 12, 2008
A Change Of Direction In Russia?
Peter B. Martin
Many people are wondering if the new future president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev will act on his own and be a more liberal leader, or will it be more of the same with Putin playing Svengali More

April 12, 2008
The Project
Miguel A. Guanipa
An initiative under the auspices of the European Commission (to the tune of 2 million Euros) comprised of a team of experts from several scientific and academic disciplines, has the objective of providing a scientific (psychological?) diagnosis of the inexorable human propensity to engage in the religious experience. More

April 11, 2008
Blessing vs. Damning America
Paul Kengor
The spiritual mentors of Ronald Reagan shaped his understanding and vision of America's role in the world. Why would anyone assume the same does not hold true for Barack Obama? More

April 11, 2008
Diplomacy is not the Dr. Phil Show!
Peggy Shapiro
The going theory in the world of media psychology is that people need to confront their demons and talk over problems in order to repair relationships. The next logical step is to conclude that what works on the personal level can be applied to the political More

April 11, 2008
Xinjiang Province - The Islamic Jihad Battlefront in China
Janet Levy
Tibetans are not the only unhappy minority in China. Islamic jihadists are battling Beijing, too. More

April 10, 2008
Obama's New Foreign Policy Advisor Daniel Kurtzer
Ed Lasky
Some of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisors have caused controversy. More

April 10, 2008
Obama's Linguistic Trap
Lee Cary
Senator Barack Obama set a trap during Tuesday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker unwittingly stepped into it. More

April 10, 2008
The Afghanistan success story
Ray Robison
Most of the American media have continuously misreported the NATO mission in Afghanistan as a disaster unfolding, beginning before the effort even began, with warnings of the "brutal Afghan winter." More

April 9, 2008
Obama's other spiritual mentor and the Catholic Church
Rosslyn Smith
Another far left clergyman, Father Michael Pfleger, has joined his Southside Chicago friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the media spotlight, thanks to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. More

April 9, 2008
The slick trick behind global frauding
James Lewis
In Al Gore's America, any "global warming denier" is guilty until proven innocent. It's an old trick. More

April 9, 2008
Is Obama committed to Israel's survival?
Bruce Walker
Is Obama committed to Israel's survival? The question is serious and the answer may be chilling. More

April 8, 2008
Looking 'Round the Corner
Christopher Chantrill
What do you think? Is the mortgage meltdown over? More

April 8, 2008
The Siren Song of Populism
Lee Cary
He took possession of the Democratic Party with the mesmerizing power of his oratory as his followers screamed, waved their arms, threw their coats in the air, and rallied to his call that, "This community is ready for healing." More

April 8, 2008
Modern China Strikes Ancient Tibet
Jeffrey Schmidt
It appears that China, despite all its ballyhooed modernization, isn't so modern when it comes to Tibet. More

April 7, 2008
Re-traumatizing blacks to serve the Left
James Lewis
Keeping people on the boil makes for very powerful group politics, which is why demagogues and tyrannical regimes do it all over the world. But there is an awful cost. More

April 7, 2008
Vanities of the Warmists
Jon Caruthers
The conceit that scientists and bureaucrats can use the power the state to manage nature has lead to disaster in the past, and will again if the global warmists keep getting their way. More

April 7, 2008
Conflict Escalates, Tensions Ease
Lance Fairchok
A headline is everything, it draws readers, it lures them into the story, into purchasing the paper or magazine, or tuning in at eleven. More

April 6, 2008
Who's an Uncle Tom?
Bruce Walker
As the Democrats' nomination process descends into the ugly area of racial politics, it may be helpful to explore and to learn about the origin of some of the equally ugly racial mockeries that have become a part of American political life. More

April 6, 2008
Who's Your Daddy? The Psychology of Most People's Voting
Sam Sewell
Most folks have no idea what issues are supported by the two major parties. Even when it comes time to vote they vote for the "person" More

April 6, 2008
Boston Threatens Property Rights
Richard L. Cravatts
In a move that may prove shortsighted and misguided, the Boston Zoning Commission recently enacted an ordinance ostensibly designed to curb the anti-social behavior of college students. More

April 5, 2008
Doublethink and the Liberal Mind
Ed Kaitz
The belief that Barack Obama is a candidate who can "unify" the nation may be the most brilliant example of what George Orwell called "doublethink" in the recent history of the Democratic Party More

April 5, 2008
Reflections on Marriage
Janice Shaw Crouse
More and more these days, it seems like the attitude of the younger generation is "Why marriage?" It's a good question More

April 5, 2008
The United States Needs More Conservative Opinion in Spanish
Alberto Acereda
In recent years, the conservative media clout within the United States has risen markedly, at least in the English language. However, there is a vacuum when it comes to Spanish language conservative media. More

April 4, 2008
Rabbi Yoffie Excommunicates Pastor Hagee
Richard Baehr
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, seems to think Israel has too many allies in America. More

April 4, 2008
Rezko Sleaze Engulfs Governor of Illinois
Rick Moran
Maybe it's something in the water. Or perhaps it's a virus that only infects politicians and their cronies in the state where Barack Obama chose to build his political base. More

April 4, 2008
To talk or not to talk: What does Hamas have to say?
Peggy Shapiro
To talk or not to talk to Hamas? That is the question circling among of foreign policy advisors, international experts and the U.S. State Department. In March, the State Department floated the question on its blog and asked if the... More

April 3, 2008
In the Company of Heroes
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Last weekend, I was profoundly privileged to be in a roomful of the some of the most intelligent, reasonable and sane human beings I have ever encountered. More

April 3, 2008
Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy
Marc Sheppard
Al Gore was in a funk following his defeat in the 2000 election. His wife let slip to Lesley Stahl how important it was to him to find a cause. More

April 3, 2008
Obama, the Pardoner, and his Tale
Geoffrey P. Hunt
What are we to make of the extraordinary fervor of some of the supporters of Barack Obama? More

April 2, 2008
The Left Trades Places
Larrey Anderson
One sign that the left is losing (and subconsciously knows it) is the prominence of conspiracy thinking in its fantasies. More

April 2, 2008
The Democrats' cul-de-sac
James Edmund Pennington
The current agony of the Democratic Party, which grows more acute every day, is laden with an unspoken truth. More

April 2, 2008
Palestinian Hate-Education Continues
Peggy Shapiro
Without a population educated to accept peace, no other negotiations or concessions are meaningful between the Palestinians and Israel. More

April 1, 2008
B'rer McCain and the Briar Patch
Clarice Feldman
The co-called Campaign Finance Reform Act is an unconstitutional abomination. But nobody anticipated who would get hurt the most by it. More

April 1, 2008
Does Obama know America?
James Lewis
Does Barack Obama really understand America as it is? Or does he fall for the paranoid narrative of the Left? More

April 1, 2008
Doing Something About the Financial Mess
Christopher Chantrill
The Bush administration launched Part Three of the Bush administration's plan to Do Something. Part One is to have the Federal Reserve System print lots of lovely money. More