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February 28, 2009
Conservatism Speaks at CPAC
Larrey Anderson
I wondered what Conservatism (incarnated as a principle or an ideal) would want to say to the members of CPAC. More
February 28, 2009
The Difference Between Change and Reform
Christopher Chantrill
Did you notice that when Gov. Sarah Palin was campaigning for vice-president she talked about "reform?" Candidate Obama campaigned on a different theme, "Change We Can Believe In." More
February 28, 2009
What I Learned at Duke University's 'Gaza Teach-In'
Jay Schalin
I attended a "teach-in" about Israeli-Palestinian relations at Duke University the other night. Part of my job is to attend college lectures and report on them, in order to provide the public with some idea of who is being invited... More
February 28, 2009
Superficially Wise (But Actually Foolish) Sayings of Smart People (A Contest)
Frank Dudley Berry, Jr
Apparent expressions of great wisdom can prove lacking. More
February 27, 2009
The Obama Steamroller: Is Resistance Futile?
Richard Baehr
The political reality at the moment is that whatever will be proposed by the Obama administration or Congress in the next two years, it will pass. More
February 27, 2009
Carbon Regulation: One Scientist's Unscientific Dream?
Marc Sheppard
A look into the process by which supposedly scientific conclusions were drawn about carbon dioxide as a pollutant. It's not pretty. More
February 27, 2009
Obama's Busted Budget
Randall Hoven
When do deficits go below 3% of GDP in President Obama's projections? Basically, never. More
February 27, 2009
Mubarak is the Only One Who Got it Right
Dan Gordon
It's been four weeks since I've been home from Israel and the fighting in Gaza. Three weeks since I turned in my helmet, body amour and M-16 More
February 26, 2009
How He Did It: A Diagrammatic Analysis of the Obama Campaign
Paul Shlichta
Like the spear-carrying soldiers of Ethiopia, overwhelmed by Mussolini's tanks and poison gas in 1936, the Republicans simply don't know what hit them in last year's election. More
February 26, 2009
Where Have You Gone, Bill Casey?
Paul Kengor
What if America played the war on terror to win? More
February 26, 2009
Turning Universities into Graveyards
Amil Imani
the ever-conniving mullahs are gradually transforming Iran's universities, cradles of knowledge about life, to mausoleums More
February 26, 2009
Keeping Hate Alive
Bob Weir
When the New York Post went ape in a cartoon, the enemies of freedom and equality showed their colors. More
February 25, 2009
Eric Holder's Tragic Prison
Ed Kaitz
Citizens of all colors are about to witness on a national scale what has been quietly fermenting for decades within the Ivory Tower. More
February 25, 2009
Paying for Government Health care, Madoff style
Douglas O'Brien
Unfortunately, the change Obama promised is not the change he is focused on implementing. More
February 25, 2009
A Month of B.O.
Ralph Alter
Has it been but a single B.O. Presidential moon? More
February 25, 2009
I Will Defend to the Death Their Right to Silence You
Peggy Shapiro
The Global War Against Freedom of Speech More
February 25, 2009
Hamas and Jihadism
Moshe Dann
Attempts to resolve conflicts based on false assumptions, inadequate information, and denial are doomed to failure. More
February 24, 2009
No Surrender
J.R. Dunn
Thirty days into the Obamiate, we have seen that the man cannot put together a working cabinet. And yet some conservatives are ready to surrender. More
February 24, 2009
Hate Speech At San Francisco State University
Richard L. Cravatts
What is and isn't hate speech will astound you. More
February 24, 2009
The Coming Battle of Reapportionment and Redistricting
Bruce Walker
And what Republicans can do about it. More
February 24, 2009
Lesson Plans for 'Change'
Matt Spivey
In just over thirty days, our children have learned some very valuable lessons. More
February 24, 2009
Capitalism is the Best Company You Ever Worked For
John Redding
And socialism is the worst. More
February 23, 2009
Racism, Eric Holder, my Son and Me
Larrey Anderson
You wanna talk racism, Mr. Holder? Okay. It's time we talked. In fact, we should have had this talk thirty years ago. It's time someone like me talked to someone like you about race. More
February 23, 2009
Clinton Grovels at the Panda's Door
Lee Cary
While visiting China recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton groveled for more money at the Panda's door, and got it. More
February 23, 2009
Relax, Rush
Clarice Feldman
Much has been made of the possibility of a revival in one form or another of the Fairness Doctrine, an obvious ploy to diminish the considerable impact of conservative radio hosts, notably Rush Limbaugh. More
February 23, 2009
Media Credibility, Not Ice Caps, In Meltdown
Peter C Glover
Eco-warriors and media hype aside, the fact is, as we head into 2009, that the world's ice mass has been expanding not contracting. More
February 23, 2009
Primates Fear Backlash
Randall Hoven
A 55-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted by her friend's roommate Wednesday. Doctors listed Charla Nash's condition as critical. More
February 23, 2009
Real Racism
Andrew Sumereau
Dr. King's dream of a colorblind society based on character content, while vaguely celebrated, would be, if achieved, the diversity industry's worst nightmare. More
February 22, 2009
The Akaka Bill: A Cash Cow for Democrats
Andrew Walden
President Obama's multi-billion dollar nationwide scheme to circumvent campaign spending laws comes neatly disguised as a Hawaii-only deal for "reconciliation" and "justice". More
February 22, 2009
Geert Wilders and the 'Koran Ban'
Andrew G. Bostom
Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders will be in the United States this week, arriving direct from Italy where he received the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award. More
February 22, 2009
Pity a Poor Banker
Christopher Chantrill
Let's get some clarity here. Banking is a government program, the means by which the government control the credit system. Bankers are the government's toadies. More
February 22, 2009
Hating Whitey
Selwyn Duke
Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it's always blowing on some people somewhere. More
February 22, 2009
Coloring History
Rita Kramer
This is Black History Month, perhaps an appropriate time to call attention to an aspect of black history that has been papered over and all but forgotten in the official accounts and in what is taught in schools More
February 21, 2009
American Idle
Christopher S. Brownwell
President Obama is auditioning American Idle contestants. These non-producers of our society stole the show at his town meeting in Ft. Meyers More
February 21, 2009
Politics in Jeopardy
Big Fur Hat
The February 17th, 2009, episode of Jeopardy served up a heapin' helpin' dose of reality More
February 21, 2009
The Wagon Analogy
Mike Williams
The westward-bound Conestoga wagons of the 19th century are an emblem of America's expansion. They also offer a useful analogy for our current situation. More
February 20, 2009
A Nation of Cowards?
Matthew May
Of course, Eric Holder is correct. The cowardice of Americans was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today. More
February 20, 2009
Here Come the Interns
Carol Peracchio
America, our economy is in the intensive care unit and look out -- here come the interns, well educated but inexperienced. More
February 20, 2009
Is there a sanctions shift coming toward Iran?
Ed Lasky
The candidate who at one time promised no preconditions to negotiating with Iran may very well be on the verge of applying a precondition on America that Iran would welcome: a shift on our sanctions policy toward that nation. More
February 20, 2009
Deal Making In Israel and the Middle East
C. Hart
Israel's Security Cabinet met Wednesday, February 18, 2009 to debate on an imminent deal with Hamas which includes the freeing of Israeli P.O.W. Corporal Gilad Shalit. More
February 19, 2009
Who Are the Big Spenders?
Randall Hoven
How can any Republican complain of Obama's spending habits or complain about his stimulus, given the way Republicans spent "the last eight years"? Well, I'm going to tell you exactly how. More
February 19, 2009
The Democrat Show Trials
J.R. Dunn
In the past few weeks a number of influential Democrats have expressed an interest in legal prosecution of members of the Bush administration. More
February 19, 2009
US Airways Accidents - Then and Now
David Paulin
Two decades ago, another US Airways flight departed LaGuardia for Charlotte and landed in the water after takeoff, with fatalities. A lot of useful learning took place in the interim. More
February 19, 2009
U.S. at Durban II: A Dangerous Game to Lose
Peggy Shapiro
Would President Obama attend or send a U.S. delegate to a Klu Klux Klan planning meeting with the hopes of changing its agenda? More
February 19, 2009
The hatred that never dies
Victor Sharpe
The hatred that never dies was alive and well this last month in the streets of London.
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February 19, 2009
Pennies from Heaven
Bob Weir
Why the stimulus is unlikely to work. More
February 18, 2009
Awaiting the Awakening of the Forgotten Man
Lee Cary
It took less than a month for the default leadership style of President Obama to appear. How long will it take for the forgotten man who believed in him to awaken to the consequences? More
February 18, 2009
Barry Honey, can we talk about hypocrisy?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
"Mr. President" seems way too stiff and stilted for you, our most populist-appealing president ever. More
February 18, 2009
Is a Venezuelan diplomat promoting antisemitism?
Ed Lasky
It appears that a website fanning the flames of antisemitism is registered to a Venezuelan diplomat posted to the United States. More
February 18, 2009
Giving Obama a Chance
Selwyn Duke
Criticize the president and you're admonished for being unfair and partisan. "Give the man a chance!" hiss the critics. More
February 18, 2009
The Stimulus will lead America in the direction of Western New York
Michael Filozof
If you want to know what President Obama's new style of government-led, Democratic Party economic and political policies will bring to the country, you need look no further than Western New York More
February 18, 2009
The Foolish War on Corporate Aircraft
Jeff Eriksen
If President Obama and the congressional majority are serious about stimulating the economy, they might better consider why businesses use private aircraft before they vilify such expenditures. More
February 17, 2009
Obama and the Pantheon
J.R. Dunn
With less than a month in office, the Big O is being compared to not one, but an entire bench of previous A-team presidents. More
February 17, 2009
Has NASA's Hansen Finally Lost His Mind?
Marc Sheppard
Even Al Gore's dream of "capping" carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants won't satisfy NASA's James Hansen. He wants to shut them all down. More
February 17, 2009
The Audacity of the Obamas
Lauri B. Regan
The extravagances that the Obamas have enjoyed in their first few weeks in office are turning into the bitter pill that the rest of the hard working Americans will have to swallow over the next four years. More
February 17, 2009
The Prince of Thieves
Lance Fairchok
The era of Obama-inspired bi-partisan goodwill was very brief. As with all his carefully choreographed pandering, it was in large measure a rhetorical tool. More
February 17, 2009
When Your Wife Deploys to Iraq
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
My wife has just been deployed to Iraq. In light of the long history of warfare, her mission is a role reversal of sorts that seems odd to me. More
February 17, 2009
The New York Times and 'Book Banning'
Humberto Fontova
Most of America, for instance, applauds "parental involvement" in their children's education. But a recent New York Times editorial decries it. More
February 16, 2009
How Democracies Become Tyrannies
Ed Kaitz
Can a free people willingly choose servitude? Is it possible for democracies to become tyrannies? How? More
February 16, 2009
The Stimulus Bill Smells of Turpentine
Paul Shlichta
I suspect that Obama has in mind a definite ulterior plan, for the sake of which he wants the current stimulus bill to fail to revive the economy. More
February 16, 2009
President Obama and the Politics of Fear
Monte Kuligowski
In an unprecedented campaign to sell his trillion-dollar taxpayer spending plan, President Obama has gone beyond talking down the economy. More
February 16, 2009
Chaos, Crisis and Terror Serves the Islamic Republic
Amil Imani
A regime addicted to crisis. More
February 15, 2009
Obama delays signing 'urgent' stimulus for Chicago fun
Thomas Lifson
How to explain this odd behavior? Was this a calculated move? What could be the thinking behind it?
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February 15, 2009
The Real State of the Union
Randall Hoven
It is almost State of the Union time. So what is the real state of our union's finances, specifically our federal budget? Are we going to hell in a hand basket? Or do we have nothing to fear but fear itself? ... More
February 15, 2009
Can Israel make it alone?
James Lewis
Israel's planners have to be thinking that with Obama and his crowd in power, the United States may simply pull out the rug from the democratic and modern state of Israel More
February 15, 2009
Modern Feminists and their Folly
Alicia Colon
If I were a conspiracy buff, I'd think that the entire movement was engineered by men. More
February 15, 2009
Is Obama another FDR?
Ned Barnett
Modeling himself on a man who sold a myth. More
February 15, 2009
Can Governments have 'Bubbles'?
Paul Shlichta
Can governments, like commodities or companies, be victims of "bubble" collapses. More
February 15, 2009
Hamas Vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine
Clare M. Lopez
As a new American administration takes office promising renewal of the Middle East 'peace process,' and Israel looks to national elections in February 2009, the Palestinians have no real government at all. More
February 14, 2009
Charm is not an economic policy
Douglas O'Brien
Some of the president's apologists have the gall to tell us that we cannot criticize the administration so early in the game. More
February 14, 2009
The Rhetorical President
Janice Shaw Crouse
The snake oil is especially obvious in Barack Obama's slick salesmanship as well as his shrewd manipulation of rhetoric.
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February 14, 2009
The Law Liberals Always Break
C. Edmund Wright
There's a law that liberals always shatter. (And no, I'm not talking about tax law.) It's the law of unintended consequences. More
February 13, 2009
Israel after the election
Richard Baehr
In Israel, across the broad political spectrum, almost no one thinks the Palestinians are a serious negotiating partner. More
February 13, 2009
Alinsky-ites at the Gates of Talk Radio
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Fellow citizens, if you like what ACORN did to the home mortgage industry, then you're going to just plum love what the Democrats have in mind for talk radio. More
February 13, 2009
Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'
Candace de Russy
At the root of the Stimulus Bill is a vision of citizens as suffering, victimized, helpless children in need of rescue from a cruel world. More
February 13, 2009
Israel's Red Lines
C. Hart
The February 10, 2009 election results in Israel, while complicated and unresolved, are also revealing. More
February 13, 2009
Will Old Folks Get in the Way of our Brave New World?
Pamela Meister
Obama is gearing up to withdraw medical resources from the eldery. An example helps illustrate what this will mean. More
February 13, 2009
Why Gaza is imploding
Moshe Dann
It may be convenient to blame Gaza's disintegration on Israel, but the world, and especially the Arab world knows better. More
February 13, 2009
Q & A With Uncle Sam
Randall Hoven
If you ever try to reconstruct the sequence of recent financial events, and our government's reactions to them, you might very well find yourself suffering from Who's-On-First syndrome. More
February 13, 2009
Obama's Letter to Ahmadinejad
Lauri B. Regan
I won! (I just love saying that.) And as promised throughout my historic campaign, I am now reaching out to you Mahmoud, More
February 12, 2009
The Emerging Liberal Oligarchy
Christopher Chantrill
Liberal elites now constitute an American aristocracy well on its way to becoming merely America's ruling oligarchy. More
February 12, 2009
Back to Mercantilism
J.R. Dunn
We'll be hearing a lot about state-business "partnerships" over the months to come. More
February 12, 2009
How to Wreck the American Economy
Steve McCann
Think it's hard for American business to compete in the world economy now? Wait until Obama's planned measures take effect. More
February 12, 2009
Opposed to dumb stimulus spending
Brian Gates
I am not opposed to all spending. I'm opposed to dumb spending.
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February 12, 2009
Government overreach isn't stimulating
Jeffrey A. Rendall
Government can't create enough jobs to employ everyone, and it shouldn't even try. More
February 11, 2009
Murphy's Law, the Peter Principle and Barack Obama
Kyle-Anne Shiver
What happens when everything that can go wrong in a person's character formation does go wrong, and that person continues to be promoted to his level of incompetence? More
February 11, 2009
Bibi and Barack: Make Me a Match?
Michael M. Rosen
Four candidates, each problematic for different reasons. Israelis had a tough time making their choice. More
February 11, 2009
What is Plan B?
Tom Bruner
What is Plan B for the Stimulus Plan? More
February 11, 2009
What Michael Steele Should Do
Bruce Walker
Tactical victories and cosmetic changes are not enough to make the Republican Party the majority party again.. More
February 11, 2009
Imitating Failure
Nicholas J. Kaster
Before passing Obama's "new" New Deal, Congress should check out the results of the "old" New Deal.
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February 10, 2009
Obama's Busted Bubble
J.R. Dunn
As put by the noted political philosopher Clint Eastwood: "A man's got to know his limitations." O now has a vague glimmering as to what his limitations are. His followers, as yet, do not. More
February 10, 2009
Change: The First Three Weeks
Randall Hoven
President Obama has had almost three weeks in office, and some patterns are beginning to emerge. More
February 10, 2009
Abortion and Orwell
Sam Aanestad
Under the guise of "access to primary care," the Regents of the University of California have been conducting an experiment on women in Concord, Los Angeles and San Diego. More
February 10, 2009
Who's Committing Crimes against Humanity?
Janet Levy
In December of 2008, the Taliban mounted an aggressive attack against Swat, Pakistan. Civilians and tribal leaders were massacred, public executions were held, bridges were bombed, schools destroyed and travel virtually blocked into the region. Also in December of 2008,... More
February 10, 2009
Who caused the housing bubble?
Rosslyn Smith
Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act certainly did their part, but I know where the blame really lies for the housing bubble. More
February 10, 2009
Altruism: the most profitable gig in America
Matt Spivey
Doing good, or just doing well? More
February 09, 2009
The Rapacity of Odacity
James Lewis
Socialism is rapaciously greedy -- that's what endless envy warfare comes down to. More
February 09, 2009
Democrat Wage Controls Mean Mediocre Management
Randy Fardal
Over the ages of human existence, wage and price controls have ended the reign of Egyptian pharaohs, brought down the Babylonian Empire, and further weakened the Nixon administration. More
February 09, 2009
The Bureaucratic Coup Targeting Hillary and Israel
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama is centralizing power in the White House, marginalizing Hillary Clinton and the State Department, while offering ever-clearer signs that Israel's status as a close American ally is imperiled. More
February 09, 2009
Jihadism in Gaza
Moshe Dann
Attempts to resolve conflicts based on false assumptions, inadequate information, and denial are doomed to failure. More
February 08, 2009
Mr. Obama, Speak First at Touro
Andrew G. Bostom
Before President Obama delivers his much anticipated address in a Muslim capital, he should emulate George Washington, and visit America's first synagogue in Newport, R.I. More
February 08, 2009
Deluded Are the Peacemakers
Dexter Van Zile
The debate over who bears responsibility for the Palestinian deaths caused by Israel's attack on Hamas will continue for the foreseeable future -- probably until the next round of fighting. More
February 08, 2009
The Bill Gates Mosquito Circus
Ralph Alter
Is Bill Gates entering the Howard Hughes school of eccentric billionaires? More
February 08, 2009
Turkey's Prime Minister Leads His Country Down a Destructive Path
Joel J. Sprayregen
It is dismaying to see a country I have admired and worked for propelling itself outside the mainstream of western civilization. More
February 07, 2009
The (Peripatetic) One
Matthew May
The public spotlight can be a dangerous addiction in a president. More
February 07, 2009
Pigeons, Rats, and Democrats
Don R. Melquist
How does one best deal with pests? More
February 07, 2009
Castro and Che's Victims Honored this Week-End
Humberto Fontova
The Cuban Memorial, in honor of Castro and Che's victims is probably unfamiliar to you. The mainstream media ignore it, preferring to celebrate the murderous miscreants. More
February 07, 2009
The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery
Nancy Coppock
Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. More
February 07, 2009
Smarter Environment Spending For Jobs and Business Relief
Harvey M. Sheldon
If America wants economic stimulus from environmental clean-up, there is a much smarter way to do it than found in the current stimulus proposal. More
February 06, 2009
Economics, Evidence and Enlightenment
Randall Hoven
We know what works and what doesn't in growing an economy. We just prefer to ignore the truth. More
February 06, 2009
President Obama's TV interview on al Arabiya
Walid Phares
President Barack Obama chose to grant the Saudi-funded, Dubai-based al Arabiya TV the first media salvo of the new presidency. More
February 06, 2009
Palestinian Death Sentences Symbolize a Return to Arafat
Daniel Tauber
Far from fulfilling its obligations to fight terror of its own accord or by cooperating with Israel, the Palestinian Authority punishes, in the worst way possible, those who do.
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February 06, 2009
Republican Study Committee's Hopeful Message to Conservatives
Patrick J. Casey
Opportunities ahead. More
February 05, 2009
Save The Children (From Global Warming Propaganda)
Marc Sheppard
With more American adults seeing the cold truth behind warming misinformation, alarmists are stepping up efforts to brainwash our schoolchildren More
February 05, 2009
Barry, honey, can we talk about money?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
No one, with two-cents worth of knowledge about money, thinks that the way to work out of a budgetary nightmare is to max out his credit cards, and then apply for umpteen more of the things More
February 05, 2009
Obama's First Fumble
Christopher Chantrill
You'd think the Democrats would do a better job of camouflaging their real agends, given the effort they have put, starting with the 2006 mid-term elections, into wooing the middle class. More
February 05, 2009
Inside Obama's sausage factory
William Tate
In the end, Tom Daschle had to go, not because of his tax problems, but because he had allowed a glimpse inside the Obama sausage factory.
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February 05, 2009
George Soros is Right About the 'Bad Bank'
Patrick J. Casey
To say that I'm not a fan of George Soros would be an understatement. But when he's right, he's right. More
February 04, 2009
Obama may become a disaster
James Lewis
It is still possible that Obama may turn toward the mainstream. But the early omens look dark. More
February 04, 2009
Tune in, Turn on-Get Shot
Humberto Fontova
Benicio del Toro reveals his intellectual infatuation with Che Guevara. More
February 04, 2009
How the Stimulus Bill Could Kill You
Douglas O'Brien
Keep a keen eye out for the components of the bill that don't just steal your money, but that may actually do you great physical harm, if not kill you outright.
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February 03, 2009
Inmates in charge of the asylum in DC
Ed Lasky
The Obama campaign was all about hope and change. Change is happening but not the hope. More
February 03, 2009
Congress: The New Power Class
Larrey Anderson
Most clear thinking Americans no longer hate our Congress -- we now fear it. More
February 03, 2009
Our Indentured Servanthood Returneth
Lee Cary
The 111th Congress is poised to extend the timeline of America's debt bondage to firmly indeterminate, as we return to our past and become ever more a nation of indentured servants More
February 02, 2009
An Elephant Never Forgets
Matthias Reynolds
The Obama forces are counting on the short memory of the American voter. More
February 02, 2009
H.R.1: The House's Pig Pen
Lee Cary
The pork-laden American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 passed by Democrats in the House is a huge pig pen. More
February 02, 2009
Dissing Hansen
Peter C Glover
How the high priest of climate alarmism is bringing NASA's reputation into disrepute. More
February 01, 2009
Top Ten Changes if Congress Bails Out the Super Bowl
Randy Fardal
This year's Super Bowl game generated about $150M for the Tampa Bay area, down $50M from Phoenix's 2008 revenue. What happens if the trend continues and Congress decides a Super Bowl Bailout is necessary? More
February 01, 2009
Predictions of Hope and Change
Randall Hoven
Senator, maverick and jokester John McCain is fond of saying, "It is always darkest just before it goes totally black." In that same jocular spirit, I give my predictions for the Obama Administration. More
February 01, 2009
Gaza's Rich Jewish History
Victor Sharpe
The four thousand year old association of Jewish life in Gaza is little remembered in today's world. More
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