Articles

June 30, 2008
Obama's Callous Indifference
Peter Kirsanow
I disagree with nearly all of Obama's positions, but that wouldn't necessarily make me dislike him. One matter, however, is different. More

June 30, 2008
McCain, My Man
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I'm ready to stand front and center now, dear readers, and admit that I voted for John McCain in the 2000 Republican primary. More

June 30, 2008
Those Mean-Spirited Liberals
Christopher Chantrill
Every now and again our learned scholars in the liberal university come up with a study, financed by taxpayers' money, that concludes what every liberal already knows. Conservatives are rigid and not very intelligent. More

June 29, 2008
Free Speech, the Obama Campaign, and the Washington Post
Andrew Walden
Barack Obama's campaign efforts to "stop the smears" are quickly morphing into an attack on free speech. More

June 29, 2008
Old Media News In The Tank
Lee Cary
The old broadcast and print media outlets have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and impartiality in this year's general election, further eroding their credibility. More

June 29, 2008
Justice Anthony Kennedy and Our Schizophrenic Supreme Court
Larrey Anderson
Conservatives were, rightly, thrilled by the recent Supreme Court decision that affirmed our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Not so fast. More

June 29, 2008
The Bible and Conservatism
Jamie Glazov
Author David Klinghoffer discusses why it makes sense for Conservatives to look to the Bible for wisdom on specific practical political issues More

June 29, 2008
Don't Let These Old Soldiers Just Fade Away
Dylan Gwinn
How will we remember men like Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden who died this past Tuesday? Dryden was one of the original members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron and later the 332nd Fighter Group, known to all of us now as the Tuskegee Airmen. More

June 28, 2008
Jizya, Jihad, and the Murder of Archbishop Rahho
Andrew G. Bostom
The New York Times (June 26, 2008) has published a somber account of the recent murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho, and how the Iraqi Christian population has been subjected to the full recrudescence of dhimmitude More

June 28, 2008
Why Shakir Can't Read
Helen Cadogan
I was talking to a friend the other day who teaches at an elementary school and has a student whom I shall name Shakir. More

June 28, 2008
Culturecide of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Amil Imani
The Islamist zealots ruling Iran for the past 30 years have undertaken a systematic campaign of endangering and destroying the cultural sites of pre-Islamic Iran. More

June 27, 2008
Obama's Symbolic Blunder
J.R. Dunn
What kind of campaign picks one of its party's greatest disasters for use as a symbol? More

June 27, 2008
Where are the Bush Democrats?
Paul Kengor
George W. Bush may be winning the war on terror, but he has not won many new voters to the GOP. More

June 27, 2008
Is Europe Repainting Its Nazi Past?
Janet Levy
Europe's soccer games have long been the preserve of boisterous fans, drunken brawls and riots. Lately, they have also become the province of anti-Semites and neo-Nazis More

June 27, 2008
The SCOTUS and Guns: How Far-reaching a Decision?
John Huffman
Lovers of freedom, rejoice! Defenders of the Constitution, celebrate! For today, the Supreme Court, that erstwhile judicial body turned dictatorial oligarchy, officially and finally endorsed the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. For posterity, I reprint the text of... More

June 26, 2008
Our Troops Deserve All We Have to Give
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Our American troops have given us all they have to give. Today with the From the Frontlines webathon, we have a chance to give something back in a meaningful way. More

June 26, 2008
James Dobson and Obama's Theory of Abortion Relativity
Lee Cary
In his confrontation with James Dobson, Senator Obama faces a degree of absolutism that pales in belligerent intensity compared to what he could, as President, face from America's most hostile adversaries. More

June 26, 2008
The Maturing Presidency of Barack Obama
Miguel A. Guanipa
The awesome responsibilities of the presidency has the potential to bring out the best in a person. How might Barack Obama, currently the frontrunner, react to a defining challenge in office? More

June 25, 2008
War, Hell and Civilian Juries
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Until a few weeks ago, I wasn't even aware that our Congress had enacted legislation in 2000 to require civilian prosecution for criminal acts committed in war More

June 25, 2008
It's Time McCain Picks Up The Glove
Lee Cary
Senator Obama's statement at a Jacksonville, Florida fundraiser last Friday is being heralded as a brilliant political move by many in the MSM.  It was, in fact, a shameless and unjustified insult to all Republicans, and all Americans. The man... More

June 25, 2008
Barack Obama's Diplomatic Code Words
Rick Richman
Barack Obama apparently has trouble with diplomatic code words. More

June 24, 2008
The Obama Left
J.R. Dunn
The American left can be divided into three distinct strands, each with its own characteristics, identifiers, and methods of operation: the wimp left, the weird left, and the hard left. More

June 24, 2008
Obama's lack of ordinary modesty
James Lewis
In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility. And yet he hardly sounded humble More

June 24, 2008
James Hansen: Abusing the Public Trust
Brian Sussman
Monday, James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), addressed Congress and brought a new twist to his tired global warming song and dance routine. More

June 23, 2008
Well Oiled Fear Tactics
Brian Sussman
I am thoroughly disgusted by the Democrat's use of fear in trying to dissuade our government from allowing oil exploration and drilling off our coasts More

June 23, 2008
Carbon: the New Chemical Villain
Geoffrey P. Hunt
According to the popular press, carbon has now joined toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and cadmium on Peck's Bad Boy list. More

June 23, 2008
Your 2007 Carbon Footprint
Steve Boler
We often hear of how we must reduce our carbon footprint. Let's get a little perspective on the matter. More

June 22, 2008
Renewing Hezb'allah's Jihad Genocide Against Jews Everywhere
Andrew G. Bostom
Hezb'allah, supported by its patron Iran, is poised, once again, to launch a lethal attack against "Jewish targets" far removed from the battlegrounds of the Middle East. More

June 22, 2008
The Second Amendment: Much Ado about Firearms
Larrey Anderson
The Second Amendment is not that hard to understand -- not if the person reading it has a lick of sense. I'll prove it. More

June 22, 2008
Has Affirmative Action run its course?
Bob Weir
Now that an African-American has achieved the nomination for president by a major political party, are we ready to come to the conclusion that Affirmative Action (AA) has worked? More

June 22, 2008
Real Men Dearth
Adar Kielczewski
Society is promoting an entirely new type of leader: the wimp. More

June 21, 2008
Why Do We Call Them 'Democrats'?
Lance Fairchok
We all knew it even though Democrat spokespersons denied it. Apparently, the camouflage is no longer needed. The masks are off. They now openly call for the nationalization of private business More

June 21, 2008
High Gas Prices and the Marxist tactic of Crisis revolution
AWR Hawkins
For the Democrats, every crisis is but a segue toward the passage of more and more legislation. There's some history to that tactic. More

June 21, 2008
Will Estonia Liberate the United States?
Nicholas J. Kaster
Estonia, liberated from communism in part by music, has embraced supply side economics and economic freedom. This small Baltic nation may have some lessons for America. More

June 21, 2008
John Howard and the Inextricable Link Between Freedom and Faith
Janice Shaw Crouse
America was founded and our democratic society succeeded because its roots were grounded in Judeo-Christian principles. More

June 20, 2008
The Fairness Doctrine at Work
William Tate
While some Democrats push to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine, an example of the harmful effects of doing so has played out in the most unlikely of places--the Aspen airport. More

June 20, 2008
Know your enemy
Raymond Ibrahim
Although military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine, Islamic war doctrine, which is just as if not more textually grounded, is totally ignored. More

June 20, 2008
How Big Money is Hijacking a Small Business Technology Program
Paul Shlichta
Congress has inflicted a death blow to one of the great incubators of technological small businesses. More

June 19, 2008
The Dems and their Lumpy Obama Bed
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Politics makes strange bedfellows. And when you try to straighten the sheets afterward, stubborn telltale lumps remain. More

June 19, 2008
McCain's Elevator Speech Needs Work
Lee Cary
Elevator speech: A succinct monologue promoting a business concept or action delivered by an advocate to a decision-maker during the elevator ride up to the executive offices. More

June 19, 2008
War and Its Moral Equivalent
Christopher Chantrill
There is a big difference between the issue of the Guantanamo detainees and the problem of energy prices and climate change. It is the difference between war and the moral equivalent of war. More

June 18, 2008
The Unity Weapon
David Bueche
Next time you hear a liberal politician speaking, check your watch and count the seconds until you hear a call for unity. More

June 18, 2008
The Mistakes That Launched 3,000 Rockets
Richard Baehr
Israeli withdrawal from Gaza has been disastrous -- leading to the creation of a lawless terrorist haven from which come thousands of crude rockets lobbed indiscriminately into southern Israel. More

June 18, 2008
The Problem with Obama's Father's Day Speech
Bruce Walker
Barack Obama's gave carefully calculated political speech on Father's Day made one good point, but left out something important. More

June 17, 2008
How our Marxist faculties got that way (corrected)
Edward Bernard Glick
Straight talk from someone who saw it happen. More

June 17, 2008
Conservatives must act
James Lewis
Conservatism is embedded deep within the American spirit. But it requires constant loving care and outright cheerleading to feel free to express ourselves. More

June 17, 2008
'It Will Almost Certainly Cause More Americans to Be Killed'
Joel J. Sprayregen
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling last week means that terrorism detainees captured overseas have the same rights as U.S. citizens facing shoplifting trials at home. More

June 16, 2008
Conservatives Must Not Practice the Politics of Despair
J.R. Dunn
2008, we're told, is a "transformational" election, a revolutionary moment in which everything that went before will be overturned, and the nation's entire political sphere utterly changed. Not so fast. More

June 16, 2008
Top 10 reasons to blame Democrats for soaring gasoline prices
William Tate
This started out as an attempt to create a light and humorous, Letterman-esque list. Turns out it is tragic. More

June 16, 2008
The Big O
Christopher Chantrill
Like Peggy Lee in "Is That All There Is," conservatives keep wondering if they are missing something about the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama. More

June 15, 2008
Can McCain Remain Competitive?
Ned Barnett
If money is the mother's milk of politics, then Senator John McCain seems intent on going on a hunger strike. More

June 15, 2008
McCain and the Bitter Conservatives
Andrew Sumereau
John McCain is clearly the preferable option for conservative voters come November though he is detested, and deservedly so, by many Republicans. More

June 15, 2008
Why Irish Voters Rejected the Lisbon Treaty
Soeren Kern
Irish voters on June 12 said 'No' to the superpower ambitions of European political elites. Here's how that shock to the eurocrats came about. More

June 14, 2008
Farewell, Tim Russert
Thomas Lifson
Tim Russert, whom I only knew through his work, seemed a good man: hard-working, well-prepared, bursting with energy, and infectiously ebullient. Judging by the farewell he got from his television news colleagues yesterday, he was also a major political figure More

June 14, 2008
Thank you, Big Oil
Todd Keister
So, you hate "big oil" and the soaring gasoline prices they are forcing on you? You've bought into the rhetoric. More

June 14, 2008
Straight talk from Clinton's trade negotiator
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
It is rare when a government official actually blames himself for his mistakes. That More

June 13, 2008
The Climate Alarmist Manifesto
Marc Sheppard
Just as class struggle forms the nucleus of Marxism, so does it sit at the very core of the Left's climate alarmism. More

June 13, 2008
Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists
Paul Kengor
Liberals are (still) suckers for the far left; Obama's radical past proves the point More

June 13, 2008
Revisiting Obama's Speech to AIPAC
Rick Richman
Barack Obama's June 4 speech to AIPAC received a favorable initial response, but the more one scrutinizes it, the more troubling it becomes. More

June 12, 2008
Losing the Information War with Amendment 56
Lance Fairchok
It's also time for a little vengeance on the Pentagon by Congressional Democrats. More

June 12, 2008
Countering Democrats on Drilling
Patrick J. Casey
The Democrats have rolled out their main talking point against any more domestic drilling. Here's how to disarm it. More

June 12, 2008
It's Getting Crowded Under Obama's Bus
Rick Moran
On Tuesday, Barack Obama faced the glare of the cameras and tried to deal with what was rapidly becoming one of those "distractions" he so despises. More

June 11, 2008
Obama's Defense Policy
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama's defense policy plans threaten foreign policy consequences inimical to American interests, and would pose perilous problems for some of our key allies More

June 11, 2008
Obama and his Next Goal
James Edmund Pennington
Democrat elders and activists, having engineered, or submitted to, their choice of Obama, can now begin attending to the risk they have created. More

June 11, 2008
Chavez Decrees More Castroism -- then Backs Off
Humberto Fontova
Last week Hugo Chavez took his aping of Castro's regime to a frightening new level... and then backed off. More

June 10, 2008
Barack Obama has Women Troubles
Charlie Wolf
Barrack Obama has women troubles, and Hillary Clinton is far from alone as being a problem. Danger lurks much closer to home. More

June 10, 2008
Obama's War
Andrew Walden
Those who believe Barack Obama would avoid wars after withdrawing from Iraq are not paying attention. He has laid out a coherent strategy for fighting wars. More

June 10, 2008
A Third Option For McCain
Lee Cary
When both options available are problematic, create a third one. That's what the McCain campaign can do to find a way for him to communicate without delivering a prepared speech. More

June 9, 2008
Congress Fiddled With Warming While Earth Cooled
Marc Sheppard
Last week Democrats tried to kill the economy in the name of solving a problem that doesn't exist. Republicans should hang this bill around their necks More

June 9, 2008
Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Antisemitism
Kyle-Anne Shiver
When I read the Black Liberation Theology books of James H. Cone, I saw a subtly disguised, resentful kind of antisemitism which I had never encountered before. More

June 9, 2008
O, Stalinoid Canada
James Lewis
If you want to look ahead to the United States under Barack Obama and an expanded Congressional majority for the Democrats, consider Canada. More

June 8, 2008
Are Conservatives Dead or Resting?
Christopher Chantrill
America is moving on into a new political era. More

June 8, 2008
Ahmadinejad and the Erratic Mind of the Democrat Voter
Miguel A. Guanipa
How does Iran's president play to the American left? More

June 8, 2008
Why Islamists Persecute the Baha'is
Amil Imani
Millions of members of the Bahai faith are being persecuted in Iran. The Islamists have their reasons. More

June 7, 2008
The Audacity of the Democrats
Rocco DiPippo
A look forward, and back, at the Democratic Party's strategy to regain power in the midst of a war More

June 7, 2008
Obama at AIPAC: Too Much Room for Doubt
Peggy Shapiro
I was among the 7,500 pro-Israel activists who listened to Barack Obama's magnificently designed oration to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on June 4. More

June 7, 2008
The War on Common Sense
AWR Hawkins
Watching young people compile and try to display knowledge in a college classroom is similar to watching an epistemological famine.  I can say this as an adjunct professor in college and university systems since 2002.Their lack of knowledge is not... More

June 6, 2008
Obama's Oratory and McCain's Problem
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's oratorical skills will always exceed John McCain's. But McCain could do much more to close the gap. More

June 6, 2008
Obama About to Break His First General Election Promise
Patrick J. Casey
It's in writing, but the media doesn't seem to notice this flip flop on an important promise. More

June 6, 2008
Global Whining vs. the Truth
Brian Sussman
"105° tomorrow? We'll be sending you out live," the television producer informed me. Like most TV Meteorologists, I loathed the heat wave live-remotes More

June 5, 2008
Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx
Kyle-Anne Shiver
From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. But the Black Liberation Theology he discovered at Trinity United differs from conventional Christianity. More

June 5, 2008
Obama's Conflicted Message On America
Lee Cary
Senator Barack Obama cannot keep bottled up the clashing visions of America he has on offer for his presidency. More

June 5, 2008
Obama's church must not be forgotten
James Lewis
The evidence is by now overwhelming by now that Trinity United is a front for the hard Left, which is trying to turn American blacks into another angry proletariat More

June 4, 2008
How to measure al Qaeda's defeat
Walid Phares
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden is quoted as portraying al Qaeda movement as "essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world." But that judgment depends on what the measure is. More

June 4, 2008
Would a Jihadi by Any Other Name Smell as Foul?
Raymond Ibrahim
The terminology we use to describe our enemy in the war on terror matters a lot. A spirited debate More

June 4, 2008
Father Pfleger Ousted by his Cardinal
Rosslyn Smith
Pfleger's out. He's been asked by Cardinal George to take a leave of absence. The archdiocese has done the right thing, belatedly. But the stakes for it are higher than many might imagine More

June 3, 2008
The Clinton-Obama Battle Continues
Thomas Lifson
The next stage of Hillary Clinton's battle with Barack Obama is coming into focus. More

June 3, 2008
Phony-Ops build the Obama Myth
James Lewis
Barack Obama's appeal to his legions of enthusiasts rests in no small in their hearts. And where the heart is concerned, myths, images, and archetypes work their wonders on the nonrational faculties of the mind. More

June 3, 2008
Textbook Islamic Antisemitism
Andrew G. Bostom
Orthodox Islamic archetypes of Jew hatred are being disseminated by the most respected, mainstream Islamic institutions. More

June 2, 2008
One For The Money, Two For The Votes
Lee Cary
Last week we witnessed two markedly different exercises of political expediency. More

June 2, 2008
Was the Iraq War Worth It?
Jeff Lukens
The recent silence from the mainstream news media on Iraq is speaking volumes. While the war remains unpopular, our success there has been unmistakable. More

June 2, 2008
For Liberals, Soldiers are Victims
Jeffrey Schmidt
Not surprisingly, something went unnoticed in the establishment media's coverage of Barack Obama's latest gaffe. More

June 1, 2008
The New Copperheads
Bruce Walker
During the Civil War, when the issues of right and wrong were clear, one of President Lincoln's appointees, General George McClellan, betrayed him. More

June 1, 2008
The Obama Way of Ending Divisiveness
Jeff Dobbs
When Barack Obama says he wants to end the divisiveness in politics, I believe him. But I don't like what he means by that. More

June 1, 2008
Who Separates Church from State?
Larrey Anderson
A 'wall of separation between church and state' is a good idea, as Jefferson seems to have intended it. More