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September 30, 2008
The Trillion-Dollar Question: Are the Bookkeepers At It Again?
Jim H. Ainsworth
Why should America attempt an expensive, controversial, and possibly ineffective bailout strategy for the current financial crisis when a virtually costless and simpler change could solve much of the problem? More

September 30, 2008
Fannie Mae Strong-Arm Monitoring of Race
Ralph Alter
Being a veteran of the sub-prime wars, the revelations emerging in the Fannie-Freddie debacle are illuminating practices that previously seemed insignificant in the hey-day of my mortgage brokering career. More

September 30, 2008
From Which of These Guys Would You Buy a Used Car?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
My grandfather's election question has always been the most reliable: "From which of these guys would you buy a used car?" More

September 30, 2008
Pledging Allegiance to 'the Economy'
Andrew Sumereau
Lost in the debate over "bailouts" and "rescue packages" and "infusions of liquidity" is any concern about the proper role of the federal government as delegated and enumerated by the law of the land, the Constitution. More

September 30, 2008
Confronting Evil Then and Now
Bruce Walker
The common element in the Munich Accord and the world now is how to confront evil. So far we have not learned much from the experience of 70 years ago today. More

September 29, 2008
How allies of George Soros helped bring down Wachovia Bank
Ed Lasky
Funding the left wing attack machine with profits from subprime mortgages. Welcome to the world of billionaire "progressives" Herbert and Marion Sandler. More

September 29, 2008
For Palin, Fewer Rallies, More Retail
J. Robert Smith
After Senator McCain lifts his campaign suspension, it's time for him to unshackle Sarah Palin. More

September 29, 2008
The Financial Mess: How We Got Here
Abraham H. Miller
"How can you vote Republican when they so messed up the economy?" a liberal friend screams at me. Of course, my friend never heard of the Community Reinvestment Act. More

September 28, 2008
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
James Simpson
Barack Obama has associated himself with a movement of radicals aimed of forcing radical change through manufactured crisis. More

September 28, 2008
Obama, Oprah, and the Guru: Malignant Narcissism
Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr.
Grandiosity, more than anything else, is what characterizes Obama's character and campaign. Grandiosity is also, more than anything else, what characterizes narcissism. More

September 28, 2008
Apparently 99% of Books Have Been 'Banned'!
Randall Hoven
What is so bad about a mayor, or even a student's parent, asking a school's library to remove a book from its shelves or just not display it as prominently? When a librarian does it, it is called "selection." More

September 28, 2008
End the Masquerade of the 'Religion of Peace'
D. L. Perry
Jihad has come to Britain, and the courts of law are clueless. More

September 28, 2008
Abbas Is Mistaken in Sanctifying The Palestinian 'Right of Return'
Richard L. Cravatts
Palestinian chairman Mahmoud Abbas is still adamant that "Palestinian refugees must have the right to return to their homeland." More

September 28, 2008
Pride, prejudice and the okey doke
Bob Weir
Are you as tired as I am of hearing the liberal lamentation that Sarah Palin would be a "heartbeat away from the presidency" if anything happened to McCain? More

September 28, 2008
Mr. King Never Asked...
Amil Imani
CNN's king of the talk-show hosts and the icon of one of the major television networks, Larry King, hosted an interview on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 with the devil himself.  Many Iranians felt completely betrayed by Mr. King's line of... More

September 27, 2008
Clowns in the Cockpit
Herbert E. Meyer
As you've probably noticed by now, the twenty-first century has gotten off to a rocky start. More

September 27, 2008
Why Obama Will Lose
Miguel A. Guanipa
Moments of crisis have their purpose, not least of which is to witness how those weathering them will measure up to much greater challenges ahead. More

September 27, 2008
Botox and Numbskulls
Jan LaRue
You have to wonder how thoroughly the FDA tested Botox before approving it for use on human heads. Consider the Speaker of the House. More

September 27, 2008
The Golden Anniversary of de Gaulle's France
Bruce Walker
Americans love to hate France. This dislike is reciprocated. Maybe, at times, this all seems like vast pettiness to us, but there are some things to learn from the difficult French leader Charles de Gaulle. More

September 26, 2008
Barack Obama and Slavery
Bill Warner
Slavery still stalks the American consciousness, its wounds yet festering in many hearts. If Barack Obama were to set his mind to it, he could heal much of the damage this peculiar institution wrought on our national soul. More

September 26, 2008
Lest we forget
William D. Zeranski
While the Democrats continue in their mad dash to obscure the history of and the responsibility for the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation still tiptoes on the edge of an energy disaster. More

September 26, 2008
A Look at Celebrity Economics
Dave Smithee
There are economic reasons why Hollywood celebrities skew toward the lunatic left. More

September 26, 2008
The Song of O
James Lewis
(An alphabet song) More

September 25, 2008
Barack Obama and Alinsky's Rules for Psychopaths
James Lewis
A psychopath is a person without conscience; someone who constantly breaks the moral rules of the community. Saul Alinsky was a "community organizer" who found a career that fit that personality disorder. More

September 25, 2008
They're Launching America's First Carbon Cap-And-Trade Program Today?
Marc Sheppard
Did you know that a 10 state coalition is holding our nation's first ever carbon allowance auction at 9:00 AM EDT today? Needless to say, the timing stinks More

September 25, 2008
The Myth of No Oil
Janet Levy
Oil prognostication and exploration have come a long way since the first U.S. oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.  At the time, wood and coal were the primary sources of energy and the nation's petroleum supply consisted of... More

September 25, 2008
Whatever the plan, is Paulson the man?
Dennis Sevakis
If there's potential for a conflict of interest related to resolving the current financial "crisis," Treasury Secretary Paulson's relationship with and ties to China might seem to fit the bill. More

September 25, 2008
Charles Rangel and the forensic squad: CSI Harlem?
Ralph Alter
The Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee has hired a forensic accountant to help untangle the web of artifice the Congressman has submitted for the past 10 years in lieu of legitimate tax returns. More

September 24, 2008
Andrew Cuomo and John McCain
Patrick J. Casey
Why in heaven's name did Senator McCain tell 60 Minutes that he thinks that Cuomo would make a good SEC Chairman in a McCain Administration? More

September 24, 2008
Obama, Hillary and Palin's Disinvite
Pamela Geller
The notorious disinviting of Sarah Palin from an anti-Ahmedinejad rally in New York is a product of the secret war Hillary Clinton is waging against the Obama presidential campaign. More

September 24, 2008
Obama's Faith, Family and Variable Values Tour
Jan LaRue
Senator Obama apparently is beaming a guiding light for the faithful ones seeking the "epiphany" he promised his followers at Dartmouth College last January More

September 23, 2008
Obama and Daley's Public Housing Plan
Lee Cary
When faced with the choice of supporting his well-connected developer friends making millions in Chicago's Plan for Transformation, or his district's poorest public housing residents, the former community organizer was an expedient politician. He followed the money. More

September 23, 2008
Obama Dollars
Mac Fuller
Watch the money flow. Obama dollars can tell us a lot. More

September 23, 2008
The press discovers 'unconscious racism'
James Lewis
The Associated Press has discovered racism, and it's in you --- yes, you, the ones who have doubts about Obama. More

September 23, 2008
Here We Go Again
Durham Ellis
Once again, we have a financial crisis, and once again, the American lemmings are rushing off the cliff to our destruction, running to our nanny government for help. More

September 23, 2008
Is This The Turn?
Christopher Chantrill
A century ago in in the Panic of 1907, the US experienced a similar crisis of confidence in its financial institutions. More

September 22, 2008
Congressional Shell Games
Richard A. Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons
If, like many Americans, you are fed up with "fat cats" using political contributions to buy influence with members of Congress, here's something you should know: Many of those fat cats are the members of Congress themselves. More

September 22, 2008
Big Labor's Billion Dollar Bet on Obama
Mallory Factor
The dirty little secret of Big Labor's massive support for the Obama campaign is the anticipated end to state right-to-work-laws and secret ballots in unionization campaigns. More

September 22, 2008
Fact-checking Obama's Conference Call to 900 Rabbis
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama held a conference call this week with more than 900 rabbis. Here is a quick fact-check after his latest expression of support for Israel. More

September 21, 2008
Sarah Palin and the Archetype of the American Frontierswoman
J.R. Dunn
When Sarah Palin appeared on the national stage, she was stepping into an archetype that already existed. In personality, looks, and behavior she resembled nothing less than our cultural image of the frontier woman. More

September 21, 2008
Fully invested in your misery
Bruce Walker
What was the historic maxim of the Left? "The worse, the better." More

September 21, 2008
Responding to Neo-Atheism
Rick Richman
Neo-atheism has had a very successful publishing run over the past several years, with best-selling books by Christopher Hitchens ("god is not great"), Sam Harris ("Letter to a Christian Nation") and Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion"), More

September 21, 2008
Yankee Stadium and The Yankees, My Yankees
William Staneski
Baseball is only a game, but it is more than that. It is a part of America residing deep in our national psyche More

September 21, 2008
Mass-going Catholics
William D. Zeranski
For the Democrats, the election season has become disturbingly unpredictable as traditional Democrat voting blocks become more unreliable. More

September 20, 2008
The Drumbeat
William Staneski
It's the drumbeat of the left. It is political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything More

September 20, 2008
The Left's Crooked Umpires
Bruce Walker
The left has politicized many arenas of life, and in place of impartial professionals, we now have politicized operatives advancing an agenda. More

September 20, 2008
MSNBC and the Maturation of Cable News
Gregory A. Collins
MSNBC has swung sharply to the left and that's a good thing. For the network itself, for the American left, and for conservatives and centrists too. More

September 19, 2008
Mistress of Disaster: Jamie Gorelick
C. Edmund Wright
Ken Lay and Jack Abramoff must be green with envy over the all the mischief that has been accomplished by Jamie Gorelick, with scarcely any demonization in the press. More

September 19, 2008
A Taxpayer Stickup
Jim H. Ainsworth
Will Congress Sell Life Insurance Now? More

September 19, 2008
Why Islamists Cheer For Obama
Vasko Kohlmayer
One of the most striking aspects of this presidential campaign is the enthusiasm the candidacy of Barack Obama has engendered among Muslims both at home and abroad. More

September 19, 2008
Comparing the Candidates' Colleges
Jeff Carter
Let's compare the schools the candidates McCain and Obama went to, how they were graded, and what was expected of students. More

September 19, 2008
Our Allies Want McCain
Richard L. Benkin
Despite the carefully crafted image of Obama as the choice of the world beyond our borders, those people fighting the war on terror alongside us support McCain overwhelmingly. More

September 18, 2008
A Portrait of American Wisdom: John McCain
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The more I read about John McCain, the more I admire him. And to be perfectly honest, it is sometimes what others refer to as his "rougher edges" that I admire the most. More

September 18, 2008
Presidents and the Economy
Randall Hoven
We are in the season of evaluating a President's impact on the economy. I crunched some numbers so you don't have to. The data lead to interesting insights. More

September 18, 2008
Palin, the Base, and the Northeast Corridor Conservatives
J.R. Dunn
The selection of Sarah Palin as Republican vice-presidential candidate has revealed a serious chasm in conservatism, a chasm separating conservative elites from the vast population of center-right Americans they purport to represent. More

September 18, 2008
Obama and Bush agree on more than you think
Ben Voth
Despite his avowed aversion toward the policies of President Bush, it is useful to examine important arguments made by Senator Obama which are similar and supportive of President Bush's own policies. More

September 18, 2008
Election 2008: Hollywood Redux
Pamela Meister
You know election time is drawing nigh when celebrities flex their intellectual muscle. More

September 17, 2008
McCain's Big Invisible Advantage
Thomas Lifson
John McCain stands to benefit as a little-noted but significant change takes place in the way the American public forms its political preferences. More

September 17, 2008
What states are really in play?
Richard Baehr
How the election will be won or lost depends on a handful of states where the two campaigns are playing very different ground games. More

September 17, 2008
Khrushchev's Shoe Returns to Russian Diplomacy
Joel J. Sprayregen
ISTANBUL, TURKEY -- By the shores of the Bosporus, I listen to a high Russian official utter bellicose threats, unprecedented since the demise of Communism. More

September 17, 2008
Political Elections, Cultural Elections, and the Votes that Really Matter
Selwyn Duke
Both candidates deserve to lose. Only, one deserves to lose more. More

September 17, 2008
Is 2008 Really an Unusual Election?
Ari Kaufman
Rce and gender aside, what's so different this year? More

September 16, 2008
McCain and Leadership in a Time of Financial Crisis
Ed Lasky
How will all this financial turmoil affect the Presidential campaign? The times demand a real leader. More

September 16, 2008
Obama 's Friends and Chicago's New Slums
Lee Cary
In 1993, Barack Obama joined a Chicago law firm that specialized in helping develop low-income housing. In time, the job would bring him political support from slum landlords who make Clinton's shady Arkansas associates look like teenage shoplifters. More

September 16, 2008
Obama's Foul Weather Friends
Scott Swett and Roger Canfield
The lack of media interest in the role of former domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in Democratic nominee Barack Obama's political ascent in Chicago is one of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign More

September 15, 2008
Media Cooking the Books on Palin
Cecil Turner
The breathless accounts of Mayor Palin banning books in Wasilla are based on disputed versions of two meetings, and almost certainly overblown. More

September 15, 2008
Bill Moyers Fights Conservative Talk Radio on PBS
Peter Barry Chowka
In his weekly prime time national taxpayer-supported PBS show on September 12, 2008, left wing icon Bill Moyers targeted talk radio -- and not for the first time. More

September 15, 2008
Ten Tips for Obama
Randall Hoven
Senator Obama, the latest news is that this presidential election is close, that there is, ahem, some possibility that you might, er, lose. I offer you some tips to keep your campaign on track. More

September 14, 2008
The Loneliness of the Blue-State Conservative
Judy Gruen
Hours after I slapped a McCain bumper sticker on my car, somebody tore it off in the parking lot of a local courthouse. I laughed when I thought that whoever had done it probably claims to support "diversity." More

September 14, 2008
Palin's Experience Weapon
C. Edmund Wright
One of the strokes of genius by John McCain with the pick of Sarah Palin is how it lured the Obama Campaign right back into the "experience" debate. So eager to pounce on Palin's "lack of experience" compared to Senator... More

September 14, 2008
Oregon's Suicidal Approach to Health Care
Rita L. Marker
Oregon seems to have found a surefire way to lower health care costs: Tell the patient you'll pay for drugs that will end her life, but not those that would extend her life. More

September 13, 2008
To Blink or not to Blink
E. L. Burton
A lot has been made of Sarah Palin's response, I never blinked," to Charlie Gibson's question about whether she was qualified to be Vice President. More

September 13, 2008
Obama and Life
Miguel A. Guanipa
One clever way to skirt a loaded question is to simply plead ignorance and yield to a higher (and preferably not easily accessible) authority More

September 13, 2008
What Europeans are Saying about Sarah Palin
Soeren Kern
European commentary on Sarah Palin has ranged from ridicule, to ridicule, to more ridicule, to reluctant acknowledgment that Barack Obama may have met his match More

September 13, 2008
Bruce Walker's The Swastika against the Cross
Steve Cates
The Swastika against the Cross is an important new book. Important because the work uncovers so much hidden history and illuminates how that history may parallel modern societal trends. More

September 13, 2008
Daniel J. Flynn's A Conservative History of the American Left
Judith Reisman
To catch the current Obamania, we need to see its original old script. More

September 13, 2008
Now set for publication, 'The Jewel of Medina'
David Paulin
A new book may enrage conservative and liberals alike. More

September 12, 2008
Putting Lipstick on the Community Organizing Pig
Kyle-Anne Shiver
No matter how much lipstick, finery and linguistic switcheroo Obama employs, his gig as a community organizer is still just a fancy-dancy way of explaining the role of a paid people's agitator. More

September 12, 2008
Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's friends, allies, and donors in the Chicago housing industry have done well, unlike the Senator's constuents stuck in their failed projects. More

September 12, 2008
Will Chotiner's Law Work in 2008?
Paul Shlichta
Murray Chotiner was the Ty Cobb of political campaigning, a ruthless and brilliant exponent of the philosophy that "politics is war." What would he think about this year' election? More

September 11, 2008
Palin and the Left's Comprehension Gap
Dave Smithee
It's always been true, but as the Palin mayhem demonstrates more extravagantly then ever, the left and their media allies possess a dangerous, childish ignorance of their conservative opposition. More

September 11, 2008
Why Feminists Fear Strong Women
James Lewis
Why do Leftist feminists fear Sarah Palin? Because their personal ego-trips and their political power depend upon The Big Lie of women as victims. More

September 11, 2008
Pigs, Obama and Sarah Palin
Vasko Kohlmayer
The word "lipstick" became a potent political symbol on September 3, 2008, when Sarah Palin metaphorically expressed to the American people the dual nature of her persona: the tough bulldog reformer and the feminine, attractive, grown-up lipstick-wearing executive. More

September 11, 2008
Obama, 9/11, and Freedom of Conscience
Andrew G. Bostom
Mr. Obama has thus far squandered an unparalleled opportunity to highlight and extol a profoundly important virtue of this flawed, but still great country of ours. More

September 11, 2008
9/11 and Future Jihad
Walid Phares
When the second jet slammed into the north World Trade Center Tower in Manhattan, I immediately told students standing next to me, "It's a jihad Ghazwa ... they have chosen the Yarmuk option." More

September 11, 2008
Osama Bin Laden as Robin Hood?
Raymond Ibrahim
Are Osama bin Laden and other "salafi" Muslims being true to Islam's tenets or are they simply "freedom fighters" articulating their grievances against Western imperialism through an Islamic paradigm? More

September 10, 2008
Why Sarah Palin Makes such a Big Difference for the GOP Ticket
C. Edmund Wright
The Alaska Governor is far more than someone who appeals to the base, she is someone who can make the base appeal to America. More

September 10, 2008
The Phantom Foursome: Obama, Rezko, Biden & Cari
Lee Cary
While media bloodhounds examine the circumstances surrounding the birth of a Down syndrome baby and Palin family traffic tickets, we're getting only bits and pieces of a much bigger story involving the Phantom Foursome More

September 10, 2008
Would Obama have given up after Pearl Harbor?
James Lewis
Why is Hawaii an American State, rather than a subject colony of the Empire of the Rising Sun? Does Barack Obama understand? More

September 9, 2008
Media's Treatment of Palin and Obama
James Edmund Pennington
If Barack Obama's past had been subjected to one tenth the media scrutiny during the full year of his candidacy, to which Sarah Palin has been subjected during the last two weeks, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. More

September 9, 2008
The Mom and the One
Christopher Chantrill
We know now that the Palin phenomenon is for real. We can tell because our lefty friends have come up with a new pejorative: "Caribou Barbie." More

September 9, 2008
The Party of Genuine Tolerance and Inclusion: Republican
Humberto Fontova
Our next vice President eats mooseburgers from moose she has killed, yet her speechwriter is an animal rights activist. Now that's a big tent. More

September 9, 2008
Sarah Palin is Sounding the Death Knell to 'Feminism' As We Know It
Pamela Meister
The selection of Sarah Palin for vice president on the John McCain ticket has sent feminists and their supporters into a frantic tizzy. More

September 9, 2008
Palin Heat Threatens Planet
Jan LaRue
Where in blazes is Global Al Gore when the planet really needs him? The CO2 emissions emanating from some major gasbags in response to Gov. Sarah Palin's nomination are off the charts. More

September 8, 2008
The Culture War's Decisive Battle has Begun
Herbert E. Meyer
Unexpectedly -- perhaps even astonishingly -- this year's presidential campaign is shaping up as the decisive battle in the Culture War that's been tearing apart our country for decades. More

September 8, 2008
Sarah Palin's Not That Special
Alicia Colon
Sarah Palin is not that special. In Fact, she's typical of the conservative American women who don't whine about how difficult it is to wear so many hats. We just do it. More

September 8, 2008
Thirty Years after Camp David
Bruce Walker
Thirty years ago Jimmy Carter tried to change the world by getting the leaders of nations to agree. The result, in September 1978, was the Camp David Accords. Did it work? More

September 7, 2008
The Tribe of Sarah: A Guide for the Perplexed Media
Thomas Lifson
Our friends in the media just do not understand the popular following Sarah Palin has attracted. In an effort to help, I thought I should explain her popular appeal to them in terms even an Ivy League graduate could understand. More

September 7, 2008
Science slows global warming!
James Lewis
Yes, kids, science is a wonderful thing. But not nearly as wonderful as climate modeling, which can perform supernatural miracles. Honest! More

September 7, 2008
The Economic Problem of Sin
Bruce Walker
But put faith aside for a moment. Take God out of the picture. Sin is an economic problem. More

September 6, 2008
The End of Boomer Weirdness?
James Lewis
Believe it or not, this used to be a normal country. Maybe John McCain and Sarah Palin are a sign of a return to normal More

September 6, 2008
Cold Warriors and the Georgian Crisis
Tony George
Russia's invasion of Georgia was a masterful operation using all of the tools in the combined arms and services toolbox. More

September 6, 2008
Georgia's Human Chain Stronger than Russian Tanks
David J. Smith
On Monday, Georgia came to a halt or, rather, it came to life. A massive human chain gripped the avenues of Tbilisi, the streets of Russian-besieged Poti, the squares of every city, the lanes of every village and the country roads that connect them. More

September 5, 2008
Hurricane Sarah Shakes Up the Race
Richard Baehr
Hurricane Gustav wiped out day one of the Republican convention on Monday. But Hurricane Sarah more than made up for it. More

September 5, 2008
Obama's Tattletale Campaign Is Pitiful
Kyle-Anne Shiver
It is time for Barack Obama to grow up and demonstrate to this Country that he is not missing a vital piece of male equipment -- his fortitude. More

September 5, 2008
McCain Haters For McCain
Randall Hoven
I think I'm fairly representative of those conservatives who just could not stand to vote for John McCain. But I now plan to vote for him this November. Let me tell you why. More

September 5, 2008
Sarah's Surly 'Sisters'
Jan LaRue
The sisterhood of the snarling pantsuit, galloping astride their media geldings, launched a pre-emptive strike against Gov. Sarah Palin. More

September 5, 2008
A Week Since Invesco: Was It A Symphony or Playing Scales?
Lee Cary
How will history compare the sizzle surrounding Obama's acceptance speech with the steak of its content? More

September 4, 2008
Palin Rules, Libs Drool
Kyle-Anne Shiver
From liberal women, one hears nothing but complaint and woe-is-me tales of how unbearably hard their lives as women have been. Sarah Palin doesn't wallow. More

September 4, 2008
Palin offers conservatives a moment of truth
J.R. Dunn
For the past five days we have been witness to the most odious media campaign in the history of the Republic. More

September 4, 2008
Just so we're clear
Matthew May
Here's exactly what the dying media expect us to buy-into, if we really believe them. More

September 4, 2008
Rebutting the Democrats' Fearful and Intolerant Attacks on Sarah Palin
Patrick J. Casey
While the campaign against Governor Palin has been viscious, certainly more so than any I can remember previous, it has managed to expose the soft underbelly of the Democratic Party, including the mainstream media. More

September 3, 2008
Sarah Palin and the Two Americas
Thomas Lifson
Sarah Palin's pending nomination for Vice President is exposing the depth of the cultural divide between Middle America and the leftists who have taken over the education, media, and cultural establishment of our country. More

September 3, 2008
How Sarah Palin Handled Corruption
Cynical Alaskan
From an Alaskan who is a very serious cynic about all things political, here is my take on Sarah. I met and spoke with Sarah Palin about two years ago.... More

September 3, 2008
The Day America Stopped Poncing Around
Christopher Chantrill
After a week of watching the Democrats ponce around in the Denver Temple of O, Republicans couldn't believe it when John McCain-who's done his share of poncing around over the years-delivered up Governor Sarah Palin. More

September 2, 2008
Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington
Clarice Feldman
We didn't always have only very rich people or children of politicians running for higher office. Harry Truman, one of my favorite presidents, for one, was a failed haberdasher. More

September 2, 2008
Sarah Palin and the narcissistic wounds of the Left
James Lewis
Senator O is entitled to the presidency. You may not think so, but millions of Leftists do. As the fringe likes to say, "It's only justice." Think about that word "justice" and try filling in "revenge." More

September 2, 2008
McCain's Palin Strategy
J.R. Dunn
The most interesting fact about Sarah Palin's candidacy for veep is being generally overlooked in the legacy media: what it says about McCain. More

September 2, 2008
Will Sarah Palin make the difference for McCain in November?
Kimberly Fletcher
Elections aren't won by parties, despite popular opinion among party leadership. They are won by a myriad of dedicated grass roots volunteers . More

September 2, 2008
Big Lies in the Big Easy: The Ghosts of Hurricane Katrina
Lance Fairchok
Taking responsibility is not a leftist virtue, but blame shifting certainly is. More

September 1, 2008
The Coming Trials of Sarah Palin
J. Robert Smith
Democrats and the left generally can no more accept a Sarah Palin vice presidency than they could Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court justice. More

September 1, 2008
Why Palin Is a Bee in Dems' Bonnets
Kyle-Anne Shiver
If you've ever seen a lady with a bee in her bonnet, and all the crazy contortions she'll make to get the darned thing out before it stings her lovely head, you'll understand precisely why the Democrats are taking such crude swats at Governor Sarah Palin. More

September 1, 2008
Wealthier than Kings
Jerome J. Schmitt
Royalty lived well through command of menial labor. But the role of labor has changed. More

September 1, 2008
A 2008 Voter's Guide
Randall Hoven
How do the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates compare? Here is a brief synopsis of each, in a few different categories. More