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July 31, 2008
Political Prisms
Herbert E. Meyer
What's going on today in our country isn't normal politics. It is more like a domestic Cold War. More

July 31, 2008
Obama the Understudy
Miguel A. Guanipa
Not everyone -- apparently not even Obama himself -- knows that to be president takes a little more than just wanting to be one or pretending to be one. More

July 31, 2008
The Credit Problem
Joseph Y. Calhoun, III
A long wave of credit stimulation has been allowed to obscure the underlying problem of capital accumulation in the United States. We are paying a price, but not solving the problem. More

July 31, 2008
Those Who Choose the Sword: Deciphering Modern Terrorism
Dennis Sevakis
Brett McCrea's new book comparing the IRA, al Qaida and Hezb'allah is fascinating, and raises significant implications for our conduct of the War on Terror. More

July 30, 2008
'Obama Doesn't Really Think This Way'
Christopher Chantrill
This last week conservatives spent a lot of time in the vomitorium. Everything that Candidate Barack Obama has done has seemed like an invitation to upchuck. More

July 30, 2008
Obama and the Affirmative Action Media
James Lewis
It's obvious that the media are in the bag for Obama for one big reason, and one reason only: his race. More

July 30, 2008
It Can't Get Any Worse?
David Bueche
Idling behind a Lexus this morning I saw the latest bit of agitprop from the Obama campaign - a "Got Hope?" bumper sticker. The first question that popped into my mind was, "How bad can it be if you're driving an ES 350?" More

July 30, 2008
Obama's Prayer: The Intended Audience (updated)
Helen Cadogan
Barack Obama wanted the world to know that he can pray like a Christian. Thus, he penned a 'note to God' on stationery from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and he generously gave a copy to the international media More

July 29, 2008
Did I Mention That I'm Noble?
Michael J. O'Shea
Is it 297 or 643 times we've heard Barack Obama toot: "I turned down more lucrative jobs and went to work for a group of churches"? More

July 29, 2008
Meet Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Jim H. Ainsworth
Who are these folks? With such nice, friendly, down-home sounding names, I expect they are really wonderful people. As a native Texan, I automatically like people who answer to two first names. More

July 29, 2008
The Third Lebanon War
Mark Silverberg
There is something to be learned from the frenzied love-fest given in Beirut in mid-July to the most notorious of the Lebanese prisoners released by Israel. More

July 28, 2008
The Operative Term is 'Hubris'
J.R. Dunn
He has a seat on his campaign aircraft marked "president". He has taken a shot at creating his own presidential seal, complete with Latin motto. He has laid claim to personal control over the world's oceans and seas. Barack Obama embodies hubris in chemically pure form. More

July 28, 2008
The Deobandi Fatwa Against Terrorism Didn't Treat the Jihadi Root
Walid Phares
Many in the West were impressed by the issuing of a fatwa (Islamic theological edict) condemning Terrorism by one of the leading religious centers in the Muslim world. Not so fast. More

July 28, 2008
Deconstructing Obama
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Deconstruction, I'm told, is still all the rage on college campuses throughout the Land. More

July 27, 2008
The Case of Expelled Embed
David Paulin
U.S Marines expelled an embedded photojournalist in the latest case of military-media tensions in the Iraq war. Why has the mainstream media largely ignored the fascinating case of Zoriah Miller vs. the U.S. Marines? More

July 27, 2008
Obama the Postmodern Candidate
David Bueche
Barack Obama has earned his place in history as the first postmodern candidate for president. His "texts" have no fixed meaning. More

July 27, 2008
Savage misguidance?
Doug Powers
Radio talk show host Michael Savage has made some people mad. More

July 27, 2008
California Legislature: More Uninsured, Please
Sam Aanestad
one of the bills making its way through the California legislature will add frustration-and expense-to the striggle of families to provide for their health care. More

July 27, 2008
Islamic Terror Breeds in Iran
Amil Imani
The Islamic Republic terror machine once again has taken off at the speed of light in Iran and exemplifies a depraved, clerical system of government More

July 27, 2008
A Tale Of Two Druze
Micah D. Halpern
One Druze is from Lebanon, his name is Samir Kuntar. He is a notorious terrorist, he is a child killer. More

July 26, 2008
The Racism Cry Returns
Matthew May
Having begun softly during the primary season, an incessant drumbeat has steadily gained strength and will soon reach its deafening crescendo as we march toward November: More

July 26, 2008
Obama the Prideful
Jeff Dobbs
Many people are noticing the high regard Obama has for himself as a defining hallmark of the candidate and his campaign. He has proven unable to stop the flow of telling signs. More

July 26, 2008
In Election Coverage, 'Sizzle' Outweighs Fairness
Pamela Meister
Obama's hot. Ask anyone in the media. They even say he has 'sizzle'. More

July 26, 2008
Iran and the Lessons of Dunkirk
Steve Feinstein
Military planners contemplating an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities have three serious challenges. More

July 25, 2008
A Runaway Ego is Barack's Blind Spot
James Lewis
Every political campaign has its weak spot. Every human being has his own blind spots. In politics and war, it's those blind spots that eventually make for victory or defeat. More

July 25, 2008
Obama's Berlin Transfiguration Speech
Lee Cary
Obama's Berlin speech was the platform for his transfiguration into the presumptive victorious candidate for global leadership. More

July 25, 2008
The Stealth Bailout
Nancy Coppock
Stealthily, with minimal legislative deliberation (much less media attention), a vast new claim on the United States Treasury is being enacted into law by Congressional Democrats. More

July 25, 2008
Obama's European Love Parade
Soeren Kern
More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear: More

July 24, 2008
The Bubble of Obama Supremacy
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Barack Obama is riding within the biggest fantasy bubble this side of Oz. You know what happens to bubbles. More

July 24, 2008
Obama on Jerusalem, Properly Phrased
Rick Richman
Barack Obama's continuing explanations of his AIPAC speech, in which he said Jerusalem "must remain undivided," raise more questions than they answer. Obama added yet another explanation yesterday in Sderot. More

July 24, 2008
A Murderer Acclaimed as a Hero
Joel J. Sprayregen
Is there any place other than in the psychopathology of the Arab world that a Kuntar--freed by Israel last week in exchange for mutilated corpses of two abducted soldiers -- could be acclaimed a "hero"? More

July 23, 2008
The Complex Success of the Surge
Randall Hoven
The "surge" in Iraq sure appears to have worked. But before we give all the credit to the "more boots on the ground" stompers and all the blame to Rumsfeld and the neo-cons, let's take a second look More

July 23, 2008
Obama's Berlin Moment
James Lewis
Obama's Premature Inauguration Syndrome is still giving him trouble, witness the mass Obama rally scheduled for Berlin's SiegessSaeule or Victory Column More

July 23, 2008
Eliminate the Middleman
William Shepherd
Once again villainous speculators have emerged as a scapegoat. There's a lot of history to this practice. More

July 22, 2008
Big Media Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
William Tate
To prove bias in the media, just use an old journalistic canon -- although one rarely used for this purpose. Follow the money. More

July 22, 2008
The McCain Administration
Randall Hoven
What can John McCain do to get conservatives to vote for him, enthusiastically and in numbers, while maybe even gaining votes from independents and sane liberals? I think I have a way. More

July 22, 2008
Breeding Evil: Hezb'allah's Children
Lance Fairchok
Whole generations have come of age without education, indoctrinated in an ideology of Islamic fanaticism and blind hatred, kept destitute and embittered, the most efficient way to breed terrorists. More

July 21, 2008
Republicans Could Tap a Gusher of Support Off the California Coast
Ed Lasky
California's Democrats have long opposed efforts to tap that state's (and other states') vast offshore oil reserves. This spells opportunity for Republicans. More

July 21, 2008
The AP's New Man on the 'Race and Ethnicity' Beat
David Paulin
The Associated Press just announced an important change in a high-profile news beat that's overseen by its national desk -- a beat called "race and ethnicity." More

July 21, 2008
Let Me Count the Ways
Michael J. O'Shea
"How do I love thee, Barack Obama?" his media maids and man-servants coo: "Let me count the ways." More

July 20, 2008
Hawks need to back off from Bush over Iran talks
Ray Robison
Can we take a moment to consider that President Bush is making this move toward talks with Iran for a good reason? More

July 20, 2008
Obama's Civilian National Security Force
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's recent words to promote his image as Community Organizer in Chief were not about forming a paramilitary force of volunteer brown shirts. They were about turning America into one, giant, community organizer's sandbox More

July 20, 2008
Shi'ite Iran's Genocidal Jew Hatred
Andrew G. Bostom
The annihilationist threat to Israel posed by a Shi'ite Iranian regime gripped with an apocalyptic, Jew-hating fervor did not spring from a vacuum. More

July 20, 2008
Shi'ite Iran's Genocidal Jew Hatred (continued)
Andrew G. Bostom
Back to Page OneThe Khomeini "Revolution"-Back to the FutureThe so-called "Khomeini revolution", which deposed Mohammad Reza Shah, was in reality a mere return to oppressive Shi'ite theocratic rule, the predominant form of Persian/Iranian governance since 1502. Conditions for all non-Muslim... More

July 20, 2008
The Day Hitler Should Have Died
Dylan Gwinn
Today is the anniversary of the plot to kill Hitler. It almost succeeded, but for the tiniest of factors. More

July 19, 2008
Bush's Mission Accomplished
Paul Kengor
It is time to reassess the now infamous "mission accomplished" landing and speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln. More

July 19, 2008
Real Time News and its Enemies
Nancy Coppock
We are entering the next step of personalized news. But Congressional Democrats are suspicious of the ability of their colleagues to bypass media gatekeepers. More

July 19, 2008
A kindly case of murder
Bob Weir
This week in Los Angeles, two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives. More

July 18, 2008
Obama is Just Another Politician
Bruce Walker
Barack Obama is just another politician. That is the increasingly obvious fact of the presidential campaign. More

July 18, 2008
Beyond The Blame Game
Christopher Chantrill
In politics the game always goes to the politician who can stick the blame on the other guy. Sometimes, like New York Senator Charles Schumer, you can even nudge a bank into receivership. More

July 18, 2008
Mapping the Victim Curriculum
Bob Myer
"Victim" is not a natural state of being -- that self-preception must be impressed upon a person. Traditionally, this has been done through the infliction of some real violence, but schools can now serve as recruiting centers. More

July 17, 2008
Jesse, Barack, and African-American Support
J.R. Dunn
Jesse Jackson's infamous "hot mic" remarks have raised to the surface tensions seen earlier within the black community. More

July 17, 2008
Call Me a Proud, Scared Conservative
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Barack Obama is quite fond of disparaging what he has derisively labeled, "the politics of fear." More

July 17, 2008
The New York Times and the al-Dura Hoax
Joel J. Sprayregen
Why won't the New York Times accept responsibility for repeatedly publishing a falsehood which caused many deaths? More

July 16, 2008
Obama and the Independent School District
Lee Cary
The signature initiative of an Obama campaign for a second term would be nationalizing public education, kindergarten through grade 12. If it happens, say goodbye to the Independent School District (I.S.D.) as we've known it. More

July 16, 2008
The Party of Defeat
Richard Baehr
The political success of the effort by the Party of Defeat was tied to creating a story, repeated constantly by members of Congress, former political figures, and cooperative journalists, that the Iraq war was a mistake. More

July 16, 2008
Can Senator Obama Avoid His Iraq Trap?
Ray Robison
Senator Barack Obama who told a crowd at the Chicago History Museum last March that he would "listen to the generals" where President Bush had not. So how would he carry out his plan to withdraw from Iraq promptly if they recommend staying? More

July 15, 2008
Memory and the Left
J.R. Dunn
It's difficult to avoid exasperation over the left's absolute refusal to acknowledge the new realities of the Iraq war, as if one the most impressive turnabouts in modern military annals never took place. More

July 15, 2008
Stabilizing the Middle East -- then and now
Bruce Walker
Fifty years ago today, an American president successfully stood up against the Moslem tide in the Middle East and won a victory. Too bad the event and its lessons have been forgotten. More

July 15, 2008
When is Obama Not Lying?
James Lewis
Barack the messiah has fallen from grace. The liberal media are down on him today -- but of course they're counting on the Braindead Vote to forget all about that in November More

July 14, 2008
Iraq and the Surrounding Region, As Obama Wanted It
Patrick J. Casey
It's worthwhile for us to imagine what Iraq would look like today had Barack Obama been in control way back in 2007 More

July 14, 2008
Yet Another Obama
Michael J. O'Shea
Behold Barack doing yet another Obama, this one vintage 2006 More

July 14, 2008
Slowing to 55 MPH Could Speed us into Recession
C. Edmund Wright
There is no better example of how out of touch Washington is with reality than the idea that our energy crisis can be addressed with a reduction of the national speed limit to 55 miles per hour. More

July 13, 2008
Could 2008 Be a McCain Landslide?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Ah yes, dear readers, this title has nailed me. I'm an unconventional thinker, a woman who is wont to go madly against the grain, in nearly all matters. More

July 13, 2008
Embracing Delusions: Lessons for the Olmert Government
Mark Silverberg
Governments and armies must forever be concerned to avoid the element of surprise, yet history is replete with their failures to do so. More

July 13, 2008
A Short History of Zero
Lawrence Murray
Ancient Greek Philosophers, those who gave us the Pythagorean theorem, Euclidian Geometry and the basics of Number Theory did not ever consider zero as a number. More

July 12, 2008
Is the Media Business Giving GE Indigestion?
Christopher Alleva
Many commentators have wondered aloud what GE is thinking with regard to its NBC Universal division (NBCU). More

July 12, 2008
Andrew Sullivan's Taboo Topics
Andrew Walden
Apparently Andrew Sullivan wants to stigmatize scrutiny of part of Barack Obama's life story. More

July 12, 2008
New Hope for Global Warming Deniers
Christopher Chantrill
Why would anyone be a global warming denier? James Hansen of NASA wants oil company CEOs tried for "high crimes against humanity." More

July 12, 2008
Rest in Peace, Tony Snow
John B. Dwyer
Tall, telegenic, affable Tony Snow first took the podium in the James S. Brady briefing room on May 16, 2006. More

July 11, 2008
Low expectations for Congress
Rick Moran
Public approval of Congress is so low that a few Republican optimists dream of overcoming the structural factors favoring the Democrats, holding steady or even gaining seats. More

July 11, 2008
Seven Steps to McCain Narrowing The Speech Gap
Lee Cary
McCain can narrow, not eliminate, the speech gap between him and Obama and thereby improve his chances for victory in November. But it won't happen around a teleprompter. More

July 11, 2008
Torture redefined
Ray Robison
Three burly men in military uniform forced me to don a mask. I could barely see through the slits in it. But what I could see made me shudder. More

July 10, 2008
How McCain Could Win
Richard Baehr
Absent some of the unique structural or environmental advantages that exist for Democrats this year, John McCain should be running away from Barack Obama. So how can McCain realize some of this potential? More

July 10, 2008
How the Greens Captured Energy Policy
J.R. Dunn
How the Greens killed nuclear power and other stories. And why they are going to see their favorite policies reversed. More

July 10, 2008
Obama, the PAC-Man
William Tate
Look who's sending big bucks to the big O. And look how the law is being stretched. More

July 10, 2008
Obama's Poor English Lesson
Bruce Walker
Barack Obama has questioned, implicitly, the value of English as a primary language. At best this is ignorant; at worst, malicious. More

July 09, 2008
The State of the Race
Richard Baehr
Is it Obama's to Lose, or Can McCain Win it? More

July 09, 2008
Axelrod's Fall Riefenstahl Strategy
Lee Cary
This fall, watch for David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager, to choreograph at least two post-convention mass events at least slightly reminiscent of the stagecraft of Leni Reifenstahl More

July 09, 2008
Memo from Leni Riefenstahl
Clarice Feldman
Dear Mr. Obama: I've been reading of your plans for the Invesco Field mass rally in Denver. I've had some experience documenting such things and am delighted to offer my suggestions. More

July 08, 2008
The 550 Tons of Yellowcake
Randall Hoven
For years, the media and Democrats have sold the public an understanding that Gerorge W. Bush fabricated a story that Saddam Hussein had a WMD program. More

July 08, 2008
What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party
Andrew Walden
American voters must make up their minds about what Barack Obama really believes in, if anything. We must look to his past for help in understanding the inner Obama. More

July 08, 2008
Stealing Freedom: Democrat 'Media Reform'
Lance Fairchok
A week or so ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stated she supported the return of the Fairness Doctrine. Now that the Democrats have conservative talk radio in their sights again, new proposals will be more carefully crafted More

July 07, 2008
Obama and the Woods Fund of Chicago
Richard Henry Lee
Barack Obama served on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993 to 2001. During that time, the tax exempt foundation made some interesting grants, while some of investments are surprising. More

July 07, 2008
Obama: Radical in Liberal Clothing
Peter Kirsanow
The reigning media narrative is that because this is a heavily Democratic year, Senator McCain is a clear underdog to Senator Obama. The narrative has almost nothing to do with the appeal of the candidates' respective policies More

July 07, 2008
Obama and the 'Image Thing'
Miguel A. Guanipa
At a fundamental level, elections hinge upon the most trusted intuitions voters have about their candidate's character. More

July 06, 2008
Disconfirmations Disconfirmed: Saddam Had Nuke Program (Updated)
Randall Hoven
The media have been telling us for years that Saddam had no WMD, so "Bush's War": was based on a "lie." And those who believed Saddam did have WMD or WMD programs were delusional or worse. More

July 06, 2008
Barack Obama and Equal Pay for Women
Selwyn Duke
What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? More

July 06, 2008
The Struggle for Civilization
Jack Lott
The "War on Terror" is over, even as combat with terrorists continues. The gulf between public perception and the grim reality couldn't be greater or more important to bridge. More

July 06, 2008
Why is Dressing Down the New Dressing Up?
Steve Amoia and Andrew T. Durham
Our National Dishevelment continues apace. What if anything can be done? More

July 05, 2008
Victory in Anbar? What victory?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Victory in Anbar Province, Iraq? If you Google, "Anbar + victory," all you will find is a bunch of outdated stuff. Let the elitists live in their bubble of unreality, folks. We'll celebrate on our own. More

July 05, 2008
Kosovo, Ho!
Clarice Feldman
Our reporter recounts a visit through Yugoslavia almost forty years ago, in distinguished and insightful company. More

July 05, 2008
The Ultimate PC Novel
James Lewis
There are no pleasant, constructive or even likeable human beings in this gigantic critically accalimed book, written by an American Leftwing atheistic Yiddishist, living in Berkeley, California. More

July 04, 2008
GW's War
Otis A. Glazebrook IV
Democratic republics never engage in war willingly. Wars are never popular for long. More

July 04, 2008
Do Liberals Love America Too?
Rick Moran
A great chasm that separates liberals and conservatives when it comes to defining the word "patriotism." More

July 04, 2008
Operation Gratitude Doing 4th-of-July Patriotism Year-round
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Happy Independence Day, dear readers! Now, you might want to take a short break from waving your flag, put your sparklers on hold and grab a hanky. This story is going to put a lump in your throat More

July 04, 2008
The Thin Margin of Freedom's Victory
Lee Cary
In 1776, as today, the triumph of freedom was by no means assured. More

July 04, 2008
Declaration of Freedom
Bruce Walker
In at least some ways, British North America was increasingly "independent" from Britain. The Declaration of July Fourth was about much more than independence. More

July 03, 2008
Obama Vs. McCain: The Wisdom Factor
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I have watched, with terrific amusement, Barack Obama's arrogant strutting of his stuff on the campaign stump. He reminds me of a young bull, all pumped up with pride, ready to charge with lightning speed More

July 03, 2008
The Coming Hard Choices
Christopher Chantrill
Nobody likes to make hard choices. But we have some big ones ahead. More

July 03, 2008
Mr. Obama: Don't Betray My People
Amil Imani
It looks like Mr. Obama may well be the next resident of the White House. It also looks like my people are going to be betrayed once again. More

July 02, 2008
The Meta-Messages in Obama's Patriotism Speech
Lee Cary
Senator Obama's "The America We Love" speech, delivered in Independence, Missouri on June 30, might be more accurately entitled, "My Definition of Patriotism." It was as much about him as America. More

July 02, 2008
The Lighter Side of Obama
Paul Shlichta
There is something intrinsically ridiculous about Obama's retinue of starstruck devotees. History has seen this sort of thing before, and a couple of famous satirists have made merry at exactly the same phenomenon. More

July 02, 2008
How to Lower Oil Prices Now and in the Future
Patrick J. Casey
Last week, Barack Obama and his ideological fellowship mocked John McCain after the Senator stated that opening up domestic oil exploration would have an immediate negative impact on oil prices More

July 01, 2008
The Obamas and their Mortgage (updated)
Richard Henry Lee
Sweetheart mortgage loans to Senators are much in the news of late, so I took a look at some of the publicly available information on Senator and Mrs. Obama's mortgage. More

July 01, 2008
The Obamas are Just the Ghosts of Clintons Past
James Lewis
It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons -- who are now attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped on. Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side."  Bill, says an MSNBC blogger,... More

July 01, 2008
Colombia's Turnaround Story
Mark Loftin
Next week John McCain will be visiting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, a brave leader surrounded by leftist regimes who deserves much praise for turning the country around. More