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August 31, 2008
Sarah Works
Bruce Walker
The selection of Sarah Palin works, on many levels and in many ways. McCain knew what he was doing when he picked her More

August 31, 2008
Experience is More Than a Punched Amtrak Ticket
Geoffrey P. Hunt
The Obama campaign asserts with a straight face that Joe Biden's experience, nearly 40 years of Amtrak round trip ticket punching from Union Station to Wilmington, Delaware is of vice presidential grade More

August 31, 2008
The Tanks of August
Joel J. Sprayregen
Three events in the first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as epic turning points in world geopolitics: 9/11, the Iraq War and the Russian invasion of Georgia in August, 2008. More

August 31, 2008
Well, This Is What the State Department Wanted in Pakistan
Patrick J. Casey
Be careful what you wish for. More

August 31, 2008
The Religion Vote
Miguel A. Guanipa
Do you ever wonfer what demographic group is being referred to when the media insouciantly bandies about the phrase "The Religion Vote"? More

August 30, 2008
McCain and the OODA Loop
Charlie Martin
There are two military concepts here that explain the (absolutely spectacular) choice of Governor Sarah Palin. Both of them are important to the training of a fighter pilot. More

August 30, 2008
Bush and Putin and Iran and Georgia
Michael Margolies
Backing down on Iran may have opened the way for the Georgia crisis More

August 30, 2008
Free Gorki Aguila!
John Mendez
It's not very often that a punk rocker becomes a leading dissident in a totalitarian regime, but it's happening now in Cuba. More

August 29, 2008
Defending Against the First Attacks on Sarah Palin
Patrick J. Casey
It's important to prepare for the attacks on Sarah Palin that will be launched, starting this afternoon, by the Democrats and the media. More

August 29, 2008
Obama, the Showman-in-Chief
Thomas Lifson
Appearances are at the center of Barack Obama's career. Those who believe he has never accomplished anything overlook his chosen career as a political impresario, a master of creating illusions that dazzle the public More

August 29, 2008
The Singular William Jefferson Clinton
Ronald Wieck
His name is Clinton, and the rules don't apply to him. Learn it; accept it; live it. More

August 29, 2008
The Politics of Hurricane Gustav
C. Edmund Wright
Remember the good ol' days back when hurricanes were weather events and not political happenings? More

August 28, 2008
Whose Voice Will Obama Use Thursday?
Lee Cary
Will Obama deliver his acceptance speech with his own voice, or return to the oratorical style that permeated his primary victory speeches when he used the voice of Martin Luther King? More

August 28, 2008
Sticking it to Gazprom
Joseph Somsel
Given Russia's new aggressive foreign policy as seen by its invasion of Georgia, few can doubt that it will exploit the power of European gas dependency. The question is, how does the West blunt that power? More

August 28, 2008
The broken dream of police brutality in Denver
Larrey Anderson
The dream of recreating Chicago 1968 may live among radicals and journalists, but not the professionals of the Denver Police Department. More

August 27, 2008
Obama's Bag of Tricks
Ed Lasky
The presumptive Democratic nominee from Chicago brings with him knowledge of the dark arts of politics. More

August 27, 2008
A Brief History of Bush's Time
Randall Hoven
The current narrative of the Bush Presidency is that it is a failure. I have another narrative. More

August 27, 2008
The Life of Barry
J.R. Dunn
In entertainment news, it has been confirmed that the surviving members of Monty Python will reunite to film a remake of their classic religious satire, Life of Brian. More

August 26, 2008
Rollback Russian Expansionism
J.R. Dunn
We have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of outlaw behavior. We know what works and what does not. More

August 26, 2008
Thy brother's keeper?
Douglas O'Brien
As America has gotten to know Barack Obama many have noted his apparent disconnection from many fundamental elements of his own life. More

August 26, 2008
Obama Lacks an Economic Narrative
Christopher Chantrill
What will "Obamanomics" look like? How would he know? More

August 25, 2008
The Biggest Missing Story in Politics
Bruce Walker
It's been hiding in plain sight for years now. Keep it in mind as you watch the Democrats this week. More

August 25, 2008
Where Did Obama's Mo Go?
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's big shiny campaign bus rolled into Denver with more money in the bank than air in the tires. So, where'd his Mo go? More

August 25, 2008
Why are liberals so gullible?
James Lewis
The Democratic National Convention is a great time to reflect on the Conundrum of The Century: Why are our liberal buddies so amazingly gullible? More

August 24, 2008
Who Lied About Iraq?
Randall Hoven
Do not believe that post-invasion intelligence invalidates our justification for using military force against Saddam's Iraq. The truth is the exact opposite. More

August 24, 2008
The Rainbow Candidate and the Plain Vanilla Veep
Bruce Walker
Has Bob Dole been secretly advising the Obama? More

August 24, 2008
Obama, Biden, Foreign Policy and the Catholic Vote
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Well, I must admit that over the course of the past 8 months, Barack Obama has given me quite a few What-in-the-world-is-he-thinking-? moments... More

August 24, 2008
Is the Presidency above Obama's Pay Grade?
Selwyn Duke
The truth is that, sans teleprompter and prepared speech and contrary to myth, Obama is at best a mediocre speaker. More

August 24, 2008
Who is Rich in America?
Jim H. Ainsworth
Rick Warren asked the presumptive presidential candidates to define rich in America during the Saddleback forum. More

August 24, 2008
Style vs. Substance
Steve Feinstein
Let's take a quick look at the public perception as put forth by the MSM of Republican vs. Democratic presidents elected since WWII More

August 24, 2008
Guess Who Said It
Randall Hoven
Here is a game you can play between (or during) the speeches at the conventions. Read the following quotes and guess who said them. More

August 23, 2008
Europe Betrays Itself in Georgia
James Lewis
Can Europe ever learn to avoid repeating its own suicidal history? More

August 23, 2008
Obamacide
J. Matt Barber
What does one call a lawmaker who would condemn to death the child survivor of a botched abortion by permitting doctors to refuse that child, once born alive, potentially life-saving medical treatment and nutrition? More

August 23, 2008
Jihad, Conflict, and Culture
Andrew G. Bostom
A straight-talking anthropologist from Montreal has written a persuasive and revealing book analyzing Arab societies and Islam, including jihad. Andrew Bostom explains its insights. More

August 22, 2008
Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure
Thomas Lifson
William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. The two men built a bond far more robust than either wants to admit to the public. More

August 22, 2008
Obama, Justice Thomas and Col. West: On Morality
James Lewis
Let's compare the moral seriousness and intellectual heft of three black heroes: Barack Obama, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Lt. Col. Allen West. More

August 22, 2008
Hope
Bruce Walker
Take heart. Hope. Think for a moment about why the good guys will win the war against dishonesty, brutality, and power-mongering. The big picture is often hard to see. More

August 21, 2008
Obama's Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light
Thomas Lifson
The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama's most important administrative leadership experience: helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed. More

August 21, 2008
Tales From The 57 States: John Wins in Shaman Rick's House
Lee Cary
It came to pass in the eighth year of the third millennium that a long race decided who became Leader of the Realm of the Fifty-seven States. A position many called The Potus. More

August 21, 2008
Another Cohort of Kids Failed by Government Schools
Christopher Chantrill
Public schooling in too much of America has run down to mediocrity and worse. It's almost inevitable, and worse in some places than others. More

August 20, 2008
The odd choices in Barack Obama's career
J.R. Dunn
Barack Obama has a history of making career choices that are impossible to either understand or explain. More

August 20, 2008
Why Obama's Red Mentor is News
James Lewis
Barack Obama is still an enigma because a lot of his life has been carefully hidden. More

August 20, 2008
Forty Years after the Death of a Party
Bruce Walker
Forty years ago, in the third week of August 1968, something horrible happened to the American Left and to its host, the Democratic Party. More

August 19, 2008
An Anatomy of Flip-Flopping
Paul Shlichta
With accusations of flip-flopping coming from all sides this summer, we should make sure that we are using the word correctly. More

August 19, 2008
Obama, Party Loyalty, and His Own Best Interest
Rick Richman
There has been a lot of commentary already on the forum at Saddleback Church, but one Obama answer bears some further fact-checking. More

August 19, 2008
Sec. Rice Brokers Another Disaster
Joel J. Sprayregen
Condoleezza Rice -- supposedly an expert on Russia -- rushed to Tbilisi last week, persuading reluctant Georgian President Saakahsvili to sign a cease-fire containing enough loopholes for a Russian tank battalion to drive through. More

August 18, 2008
The Shape of the Race Changes
Richard Baehr
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the contest for President has become a real horse race, close to a tossup More

August 18, 2008
Gang of 10 on Nuclear Energy
Joseph Somsel
Nuclear energy doesn't get the same amount of press as offshore drilling, solar, wind, and other sources. But it is a vital part of any energy program for America. More

August 18, 2008
Bringing Back the Union Label?
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Were you around for the steelworkers strike in the early 1980s? The steel industry in the US expired by the end of the decade. More

August 17, 2008
Obama's Christian Creds Vs. Abortion and Infanticide
Kyle-Anne Shiver
If there is one issue, upon which Barack Obama has been willing to take a front-and-center political stand, it is on abortion and, yes, even infanticide. More

August 17, 2008
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot
Michael Geer, with Oleg Atbashian
The perfect code breaker to decipher the nonsense that is the left, the Democrats and especially Obama, is flourishing on the internet. Meet Oleg Atbashian, a former agitprop artist from the Soviet Union. More

August 17, 2008
The Edwards Enigma
David Jeffers
Would a Democrat or someone from the mainstream media (as if there is a difference) help me understand something? Why are all of you picking on poor John Edwards? By your standards, what exactly has he done wrong? More

August 17, 2008
How the GOP Can Counter Pelosi on Energy
Patrick J. Casey
One of the major criticisms of the Republicans in this Congress has been their inability to take advantage of issues that fall into their laps. More

August 17, 2008
Lights Out: EMP Warfare
David Bueche
Last month, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse released a 200-page report detailing the potential effects of an Electromagnetic Pulse, (EMP), attack on the continental US. More

August 17, 2008
Too Fat to Execute? Ohio's Capital Punishment Dilemma
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
An adage has it that one can never be too thin or too rich, and this adage is now being tested. More

August 17, 2008
The Clueless White Guy Vote
Russ Vaughn
Contrary to their politically correct aims, the advertising industry in this country has created a voting bloc that I am positively sure they never intended. I refer to all us Clueless White Guys More

August 16, 2008
Why artists hate conservatives
Mark Butterworth
Conservatives have a problem with artists, just as most artists have a problem with conservatives. More

August 16, 2008
The Sham of Women's Rights Under the Shari'a
D. L. Perry
The United Kingdom is on taking a first step toward a parallel legal system for Muslims, and garnering applause for it. More

August 16, 2008
The Coptic Conundrum
Raymond Ibrahim
Why are Egypt's Coptic Christians so apathetic about their persecution? More

August 15, 2008
Obama's Abortion Challenge
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama faces a formidable challenge in his attempt to win pro-life voters in key states without alienating the Democratic Party's abortion faction. More

August 15, 2008
Barry the Unready and Putin the Poisoner
James Lewis
Leaders were once named after their most (in)famous acts. More

August 15, 2008
How the East Was Lost
Bruce Walker
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War almost without firing a shot. Today, China is a brash, tough power, Russia invading a neighbor, and Moslems believe overwhelmingly that America, the liberator of tens of millions of Moslems from godless Communism, is the "Great Satan." What happened? More

August 14, 2008
Obama's Alinsky Hoodwink is Coming Home to Roost
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Winning a national Presidential election is not at all the same thing as organizing a group of citizens to agitate for more government interventions and taxpayer money. More

August 14, 2008
Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes
Pamela Geller
I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident. More

August 14, 2008
South Ossetia: The perfect wrong war
Walid Phares
The confrontations taking place today in the Caucasus were triggered strategically in the Balkans few months before. We were warned. More

August 13, 2008
The Obama Phenomenon is Not New
J.R. Dunn
A figure appears from nowhere, a secular messiah from the heartland -- unique, appealing, promising solutions that are effective, fast, and easy. He stirs up an immediate and vastly excited following across the country. It's happened before. More

August 13, 2008
Nemesis stalks the Democrats
James Lewis
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, said the sly old Greeks. The madness they were thinking of was hubris, of course More

August 13, 2008
John Edwards and the Truth Scandal
Bruce Walker
The news spinners of the mainstream media have tried to portray the Edwards Affair as a sex scandal. It is not. It is a truth scandal. More

August 12, 2008
Barack Obama, Legal Scholar
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama promises to accomplish quite a lot if he becomes our next President. Has he fulfilled his promise as a legal scholar? That's one of his most important claims to achievement. More

August 12, 2008
Georgia: The First Shot in a New Cold War
Lance Fairchok
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In a replay of classic Soviet interventions from the cold war, using the flimsiest of contrived pretexts, Russia came to the rescue of a supposedly beleaguered minority in South Ossetia,... More

August 12, 2008
Another Bipartisan Betrayal
Christopher Chantrill
It makes complete sense that a gang of five Republican United States Senators would form a cabal with five Democratic senators to betray the Republican base on energy. More

August 11, 2008
March of the Obots
James Lewis
My son-in-law is an Obot. I'm sorry, that's the kindest thing I can say. A specimen of his thinking is this: He likes Barack Obama because Hillary is just too white. More

August 11, 2008
Obama's Neo-Isolationism
Douglas Stone
It's one of the ironies of modern "progressivism" that it looks to the past for so many of its policies. More

August 11, 2008
Why Barack Obama Will Not Win
Steven M. Warshawsky
For months now, I have been reassuring my right-leaning friends that Barack Obama will not be elected president. More

August 10, 2008
Solzhenitsyn, Reagan, and the Death of Détente
Paul Kengor
Alexander Solzehnitsyn played a significant role in the American effort to place a stake in the heart of militant, atheistic Soviet communism More

August 10, 2008
There Is No Such Thing as Making Peace
Victor Sharpe
On September 10th, 1964, the Radio Times, a British magazine, quoted President Woodrow Wilson that, "Right is more precious than peace." The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many years before that, "... we all love peace, but not peace... More

August 10, 2008
Replacing the Irreplaceable
Bruce Walker
2008 is becoming a year in which we must replace the irreplaceable More

August 09, 2008
The Politics of the Social Safety Net
Christopher Chantrill
There is an unspoken assumption that "safety net" and "government program" are just about one and the same thing. More

August 09, 2008
Fearing Muslim backlash, Random House scraps novel
David Paulin
Courage and commitment to democratic values are flowering in Iraq and withering in American publishing. More

August 09, 2008
Will the Islamobile reach Main Street?
Amil Imani
Muslims are establishing Mosques all over America, powered by petrobillions. But if your town or neighborhood doesn't have one yet, an Islamobile may fill the void some day, as it already does in Germany. More

August 09, 2008
Olympic Pause
Matthew May
The Olympics have long been a joke. But hosting the games in a police state is even worse. More

August 08, 2008
McCain's Country-First Life Is a Winner
Kyle-Anne Shiver
If Barack Obama presents a target-rich environment in his inflated balloon of media hype over one non-accomplishment after another, John McCain presents the opposite. More

August 08, 2008
Does O Understand Anything About Ballistic Missile Defense?
James Lewis
If the Middle East -- and the rest of the world -- survives the aggressive rise of Iranian nukes and missiles, it will be thanks to Ballistic Missile Defense -- a completely new technology that is just being put into place. More

August 08, 2008
Obama Outside the United States
Michael J. Economides
This US presidential election has rekindled emotions outside the US, affecting how the world views America, from presumably allied countries in Europe to the developing world and, especially the Muslim world. More

August 07, 2008
Could Obama still lose the nomination?
Denis Keohane
Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? More

August 07, 2008
The Case for Cantor
Bruce Walker
Congressman Eric Cantor may very well be the best possible Republican to run with McCain -- for several different reasons. More

August 07, 2008
Obama's Abstract Patriotism
Larrey Anderson
When Barack Obama gave a speech on patriotism, he equated patriotism with the abstract concepts of "sacrifice" and "service to a larger cause." Senator Obama does not understand what patriotism is -- or how it works. More

August 06, 2008
Recycling Jimmy Carter
J. Robert Smith
Barack Obama doesn't just talk about conservation, he practices it. In his thinking and proposals on energy, the Illinois senator has expertly recycled Jimmy Carter. More

August 06, 2008
Emperor Obama's New Clothes
James Lewis
What I want to know is, how did Hans Christian Andersen know about Barack Obama more than a century ago? More

August 06, 2008
The Imperious Nancy Pelosi
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Power is known to do some mighty strange things to otherwise quite normal people. More

August 05, 2008
JaMarcus Obama
Michael J. O'Shea
JaMarcus Russell, at 6-6 and 260, sure looks like a pro quarterback, and Barack Obama sure wows reporters as a "gifted politician." More

August 05, 2008
What Would President Obama's Foreign Policy Look Like?
Joel J. Sprayregen
Barack OBama's "fired" foreign policy adviser Samantha Power offers a chilling glimpse of how his foreign policy would be handled if he is elected. More

August 05, 2008
Political Power Flowing from the Pump
Timothy Birdnow
Speaker Pelosi's lights out tactic in the House last Friday is illustrative of a deeper malady; a lust for control that transcends the normal political power wrangling between parties More

August 04, 2008
Obama's Craftiness
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama is one crafty fellow, appearing to hold both sides of various issues and claiming credit for the work of others. More

August 04, 2008
The Olympics and the Presidential Games
Paul Shlichta
Is it a coincidence, I wonder, that our presidential elections are held the same years as the summer Olympics? Or is it the natural affinity of one sporting event for another? More

August 04, 2008
The Audacity Hustle
James Lewis
"I've been hustled," said Obama, after a Euro tabloid fell down and worshipped his big muscles at the gym during the Ego Trip to Germany. He should know. More

August 04, 2008
Death of a Giant
Bruce Walker
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. It is a testament to the banality of our times that most people probably do not know what that means. More

August 03, 2008
Why the Left is Unpatriotic and Why the Right Should Say So
Larrey Anderson
The fact is that much of the new left is unpatriotic. And that is okay. The Founding Fathers knew that not all Americans would be patriots; in fact, they counted on it. More

August 03, 2008
Good, Evil and 22-Year-Olds
Randall Hoven
Not too long ago, July 22 as a matter of fact, a 22-year-old fire-fighter was killed in the line of duty. He was not killed by fire or smoke. He was shot. His name was Ryan Hummert. More

August 03, 2008
Barack, meet Wendell
Mark Lajoie
We've seen this before: a young, attractive, and politically inexperienced candidate comes out of nowhere to claim a presidential nomination. Is history repeating itself? More

August 03, 2008
Fear Stalks Muslim Apostates in the West
David J. Rusin
Persuading Western Muslim leaders to repudiate Shari'a-sanctioned violence against apostates can be a frustrating exercise More

August 03, 2008
Nothing uncool about patriotism
Bob Weir
A Dallas area columnist recently wrote that we should all just shut up about patriotism because it's a word that's overused and "kinda uncool." More

August 03, 2008
Breaking Speaker Pelosi's News Blackout
Nancy Coppock
New technologies broke a news blackout attempted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. More

August 03, 2008
Hiroshima Hoax: Japan's 'Wllingness to Surrender Before the Bomb
D.M. Giangreco
So-called enlightened opinion has in recent years been dominated by historicval revisionism on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More

August 02, 2008
Suicide of an Anthrax Suspect
Ray Robison
Heinous terrorist, or innocent but flawed man driven to suicide by an FBI investigation? More

August 02, 2008
On Takings, Taxes, and Entitlements
Steven M. Warshawsky
The Kelo Decision turned three recently, and a grass roots movement grows to limit eminent domain. It's time to rethink takings. More

August 02, 2008
Three Ways for McCain to Drill to Victory
Bruce Walker
The time has come for serious presidential campaigns to settle into a few, clear themes. Senator McCain has not quite done that yet, but he should soon. Here are three that will win him the presidency: More

August 02, 2008
Countering Islamism
Mark S. Hanna
The War on Terror is also a war of ideas. More

August 02, 2008
Time For An Indifferent World To Take A Stand
Bob Feferman
As each day passes, it becomes more obvious that Iran's real intention is to develop nuclear weapons. Why does Iran need nuclear weapons? More

August 01, 2008
Reparations Rising
C. Edmund Wright
Did I just hear Barack Obama call for "reparations?" I think I did. What would that really involve if we are worried about "fairness"? More

August 01, 2008
Barack Obama and Defining Anti-Americanism Downwards
Selwyn Duke
It's one thing to point out what our country could do to become superior to its former self, but quite another to preface such counsel with the implication that it's inferior to every other nation. More

August 01, 2008
Why I'm Thanking God for Obama
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Every day, for the past several months, I've made a habit in my morning prayers of thanking God for the emergence of Barack Obama. Not because my hope is in Obama, but because my hope is always, unequivocally in God. More