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June 30, 2009
Seventy-Five Years after the Night of the Long Knives
Bruce Walker
June 30, 2009 is the seventy-fifth anniversary of a ghastly reminder about the nature of evil in the modern world. More

June 30, 2009
Saving Democracy in the Honduran 'Coup'
Burwell Stark
The theory and practice of fighting tyranny and protecting liberty in Honduras. More

June 30, 2009
Dancing to a new tune in Latin America
Douglas O'Brien
While it took days for Obama to pass judgment on events following Iran's presidential election, he swiftly expressed "deepest concern" over Zelaya's ouster at the hand of the Honduran government. More

June 30, 2009
The GM Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court
Beth Eiseman Grey
Two recent Supreme Court decision show a Court presently willing to curb executive power not found in express statutory terminology. More

June 30, 2009
Obama's Attraction to Human Rights Violators
Lauri B. Regan
Obama is dissing every freedom-loving man, woman and child living under repressive regimes. More

June 30, 2009
Real vs. an authentic world
Susan Stanton
When did we become a nation of habitual voyeurs, panting with anticipation awaiting the next social or cultural train wreck? The King of Pop is dead - so what? More

June 29, 2009
The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom
Pamela Geller
The ultimate question is what a regime change, or even modification of the regime with a Mousavi as president, would mean to Iran's nuclear program. More

June 29, 2009
The Mullahs and the Tiananmen Option
Ed Timperlake
The key is to watch how far the Iranian rulers will go in following what the PLA did in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. It will get very ugly, I think. More

June 29, 2009
Obama's Middle East Strategy Meets Reality
Avigdor Haselkorn
Mr. Obama apparently believes his main role is that of the advertiser-in-chief where he can employ his undeniable personal qualifications and attributes to get a target audience to "buy" his "new and improved" American product. More

June 29, 2009
Bush's Domino Effect
George Joyce
Barack Obama's rather suspicious early response to the exciting and poignant cry for freedom in Iran should have finally ripped the blinders off of Obama's swooning supporters in the human rights establishment. More

June 29, 2009
A Government Healthcare Plan? You Can't Be Serious
Matthew Council
Excessive Government involvement is what's wrong with our current healthcare system. More

June 29, 2009
Painkiller Healthcare?
Harold Witkov
"Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller." - President Obama (healthcare town hall meeting, June 24, 2009) More

June 28, 2009
Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama's 'Dreams'
Jack Cashill
Has literary detective Jack Cashill closed his case that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's first book? Take a look and see what you think. More

June 28, 2009
The Fed: Our economy's protector?
Mikiel de Bary
Is the bubble even over? More

June 28, 2009
America's Socialist Past
Ryan Craig
Socialism has been failing for centuries in America. More

June 28, 2009
Stoning of Soraya M actress spreads comforting falsehoods
Robert Spencer
Does stoning really have "nothing to do with Islam"? More

June 28, 2009
Forgive Mousavi, But Never Forget His Name
Kazem Kazerounian
In recent years Iranians have turned the New Year's celebrations, soccer matches, or even petty grumble against bad university cafeteria food into widespread anti regime demonstrations. More

June 28, 2009
Unjustly Imprisoned Sailor Denied Parole for At Least Five More Years
Sally Zelikovsky
Should not our sons be accorded the same legal protections as our daughters if they are raped or fighting off an attempted rape? More

June 27, 2009
North Korea's March to War
Pamela Geller
North Korea has been busy, busy, busy since the election of our weak President. More

June 27, 2009
If the President doesn't stand for Freedom
William Tate
If the President of the United States does not stand for freedom, who will? More

June 27, 2009
Socialized Healthcare is a Severe Threat to Individual Liberty
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
Nowhere in our founding documents does the provision for government-funded healthcare appear -- mainly because one individual's health cannot be taken away by another. More

June 27, 2009
Brits Melt Down over Naughty MPs
Christopher Chantrill
Brits of every age and class are having a collective meltdown over the shocking publication of the expenses claimed by their Members of Parliament. More

June 27, 2009
Outing Gay Hypocrisy
Deborah Weiss
"There exists a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy to keep gay and lesbian politicians as closeted as possible." So begins the recently released film "Outrage" More

June 27, 2009
Nonie Darwish: 'An Arab for Israel'
Véronique Chemla
Nonie Darwish is an Egypt-born American writer. Her father was the chief of the Egyptian Military Intelligence in Gaza and was killed by the Israeli army in 1956. More

June 26, 2009
When did the lowbrows take over the culture?
James Lewis
I've been trying to grasp for a truth that is so obvious that all of us know it. But it's not a polite truth, so we don't talk about it. More

June 26, 2009
The 'Rape' of Israel
Moshe Dann
Two years ago, Haaretz 's chief editor David Landau advised US Sec of State Condoleezza Rice to "rape Israel," to force it into making concessions. Now, that policy seems to be led by President Obama himself. More

June 26, 2009
Mullahs Cannot Stop the Persian Reawakening
Alicia Colon
There are, in fact, two Irans, and the lesser known one to most Americans is undergoing a renaissance that the ruling Iranian mullahs fear the most More

June 26, 2009
Sarah Palin: Revenge of the Vagina (Monologues)
Stuart Schwartz
The feminist elites meets their worst nightmare in Sarah Palin. More

June 26, 2009
Sarah Palin: Whose family values?
Kidist Paulos Asrat
Sarah Palin's Letterman incident, especially the conservative world's reaction to it, proves that feminism has won. More

June 26, 2009
Sarah Palin At High Noon
Lloyd Marcus
A strong, gutsy, bold, stand-on-principles hero, Sarah Palin, is in her own modern day version of High Noon. More

June 25, 2009
Obama, the African Colonial
L.E. Ikenga
The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial. More

June 25, 2009
Recovery When? How About If?
C. Edmund Wright
Shhh. Don't let this get around, but Warren Buffet just let the cat out of the bag -- no economic recovery in sight. More

June 25, 2009
Looking for competition in all the wrong places
James Eaves
Competition could work to improve quality and lower costs in health care, if the right mix of policies were part of health care reform. More

June 25, 2009
The government-funded $10 tomato
Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
Follow the logic of government involvement. More

June 25, 2009
Not Much Ado About Nothing
Nancy Coppock
Lack of emotion, unless ridiculing political opposition, is the hallmark of Leftist intellectual prowess. More

June 25, 2009
The Real UN Resolution 242
Sammy Benoit
Since we are about to embark on another fruitless peace effort in the Middle East, it probably makes sense to take another look at the UN Resolution we will be hearing a lot about over the next few months More

June 24, 2009
The little president who wasn't there
James Lewis
The White House is now occupied by a little president who just isn't there when he is called upon to take a clear, moral stand. More

June 24, 2009
How much information can the government demand from us?
Bookworm
How much personal information are you comfortable revealing to your government? More

June 24, 2009
Masquerade In Iran
Rob Miller
There is very little evidence that the label of "democratic reform," attached to Mousavi and many of his followers, is anything but a masquerade More

June 24, 2009
The regulation of essential elements of life
Lonnie E. Schubert
The EPA is now considering designating CO2 a dangerous pollutant. The regulation of essential elements of life by our government scares me. It should scare us all. More

June 24, 2009
The Dual Arts of Saving and Creating
Miguel A. Guanipa
The president claims to save or create millions of jobs. Presently Obama can not simultaneously do the saving and creating; only God can. But just give Obama enough time. More

June 24, 2009
After Global Warming
Larrey Anderson
The house of cards that is the science behind "climate change" is collapsing at exactly the same time it is being imposed by the Obama administration and Congress as an ideological "truth." More

June 24, 2009
Neda: An Angel of Freedom
Amil Imani
Your name, our beloved Neda, the martyr daughter of Iran, literally means , or Divine Summons, in Persian. More

June 23, 2009
Hello Europe, Good-bye Europe
Randall Hoven
There has been much talk recently that the US is becoming more like Europe. To be more technically accurate, we should say that the US is becoming more like what Europe used to be. More

June 23, 2009
Not a Theocracy but a Thugocracy
Bruce Walker
The mullahs are vulnerable to the charge of abusing Islam. More

June 23, 2009
Healthcare Reform: A Looming Policy Disaster
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
How to spend much more without improving health outcomes. More

June 23, 2009
Personal Reflections of a Conservative Who Wants To Be Liked
Harold Witkov
I believe I now understand my uneasiness and perhaps the root problem of the entire conservative movement: America's preoccupation with television and the human desire to be liked. More

June 23, 2009
Death Knell for 'Mainstream' Journalism
Gary Larson
Some wags might say, "Good riddance." But the loss of our daily newspapers plainly sucks. More

June 22, 2009
Women and the Iranian Unrest
Rosslyn Smith
Are the Ayatollahs learning that hell hath no fury like 34 million women scorned, forced out of the workplace, harassed and humiliated by religious police for three decades? More

June 22, 2009
How about this, President Obama? We win. They Lose.
Bruce Walker
President Obama is floundering for the right tactics when what he needs is the right strategy. More

June 22, 2009
On OJ Simpson and Barack Obama
James Lewis
No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. More

June 22, 2009
When America's Enemies Experience Domestic Unrest
Leslie S. Lebl
I was a young U.S. diplomat in Poland in 1980, and what I learned is that people's entire frame of reference is transformed if they can say something in public that previously could only be said in private. More

June 22, 2009
Caucasus Unrest Threatens 2014 Olympics
Kim Zigfeld
In less than ten days, between June 5th and 13th of this year, three high-ranking local officials in Russia's Caucasus region were assassinated. More

June 22, 2009
Simple Healthcare Math
Randy Fardal
Estimates for the cost of Obama Care show it will be no bargain. More

June 21, 2009
Pimp My Ride DC Style
Eric Singer
In a Freudian slip, "Cash for Clunkers" is the latest Washington brainstorm to goose car sales while striking a fashion pose of being green. "Pimp my ride" would be more accurate. More

June 21, 2009
Who Really Inspires Violence, the Right or Left?
Selwyn Duke
Is the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder? More

June 21, 2009
Confessions of a Lapsed Atheist
Jenn Q. Public
Before my parents had children, they decided to raise their kids in a secular home. More

June 21, 2009
Wishing Fathers Weren't Vital
Bruce Walker
Fathers matter. Often, fathers make all the difference in the lives of children. Fathers, of course, become expendable in this dreary dystopian reality. More

June 21, 2009
Obama's Extremism
Miguel A. Guanipa
It's not easy being a right winger these days; or as most liberals prefer to call us: extremists. More

June 21, 2009
Money talks - Justice walks
Bob Weir
How does a court arrive at a 30 day sentence for someone who was driving drunk and killed a pedestrian? More

June 20, 2009
'Freedom Fighters' and the American President
Paul Kengor
The huge historical opportunity before President Obama's eyes is going to naught. The lesson of history is clear. More

June 20, 2009
Obama's Worst Role
Randy Fardal
So what exactly is wrong with Mr. Obama's plan? The short answer is that he is attempting to stimulate demand, rather than stimulating supply. More

June 20, 2009
Stimulating America's Decline
Alan Aronoff
It's time to take a hard look at the stimulus bill's effects. More

June 20, 2009
Che Guevara, the Counterinsurgent
Humberto Fontova
Following the Communists' grab of power, Che Guevara became a guerilla fighter in the same sense the cowboys of the Old West were indian fighters. More

June 20, 2009
NYT Peddles the Obama Version of Mideast Peace Efforts
Leo Rennert
New York Times diplomatic correspondent Helene Cooper is peddling a history-distorting canard More

June 20, 2009
Today Everyone is an Iranian
Amil Imani
It is critical that freedom-loving people, governments and media, rally behind the Iranian people and end the tyrannical mullahcracy that is a scourge on Iran as well as the world. More

June 19, 2009
Explaining Obama: Our First Islamist President?
Richard Baehr
One might think that Barack Obama's obsession with Jewish settlements in the West Bank would wane a bit, given the events in Iran. More

June 19, 2009
Obama's Missed Opportunity in Iran
Joel B. Pollak
The Iranian regime has been using foreign paramilitaries from Hamas and Hezb'allah to attack pro-democracy demonstrators in the streets of Tehran. More

June 19, 2009
Government Won't Allow Fair Competition
Brian Garst
Proponents of socialized medicine learned an important lesson from the 1993 failure of Clinton Care. More

June 19, 2009
'Shock the Monkey' Healthcare
Andrew Thomas
Why do liberals keep supporting programs that will bring negative consequences? More

June 19, 2009
Ahmadinejad and the Price of a Handgun
Harold Witkov
I have been on a quest for the perfect metaphor to best illustrate the type of man I believe Ahmadinejad to be, and what will happen next on the world stage regarding Iran More

June 19, 2009
Our Truest, Coolest, Sexiest Patriots
Cliff Thier
Things are not going as planned for the Obama administration. But I think I see a possibility the president needs to explore. More

June 18, 2009
After Obama Fails
George Joyce
A failed presidency for Barack Obama could turn into liberalism's worst nightmare. More

June 18, 2009
The Real Importance of the Sotomayor Fight
Richard A. Viguerie
If Senate Republicans fail to understand what's at stake, not only might the next election be the last for many of them, history will point a mercilessly unforgiving finger at them. More

June 18, 2009
Brother, Can You Spare a Bulldozer
J. Robert Smith
Progress to a Progressive, like President Obama, has come to mean something entirely different these days. It's now about bulldozing blighted areas of cities More

June 18, 2009
Witness to Liberals as They Really Are
Christopher Chantrill
People are wondering what to do about the Sotomayor nomination. Should conservatives robustly oppose this Affirmative Action baby to the utmost? More

June 18, 2009
Lies, Damned Lies and BBC Climate Reports
Peter C Glover
When the global warming alarmist house of cards finally collapses, among the first led out into the public square for ritual humiliation ought to be BBC 'science' and 'environment' correspondents. More

June 18, 2009
The National Debate about Late-Term Abortions
Janice Shaw Crouse
The left is using Dr. Tiller's murder as evidence that those who take strong moral stances on public issues are a public threat. More

June 17, 2009
Sotomayor's 'Fundamental' Flaws
Jan LaRue
Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor claim that her Second Amendment rulings are examples of "judicial restraint." The problem is that she's restraining the Second Amendment. More

June 17, 2009
Back to ACORN General Hospital
Carol Peracchio
Guess who's going to be much better off thanks President Obama's health care scheme? More

June 17, 2009
Medical Tort Reform
Jeffrey Folks
President Obama was booed this week at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago More

June 17, 2009
Government Health Care Won't Fly
Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
What if we ran the airlines the way we run health care? More

June 17, 2009
It Has Always Been the Mullahs
Pamela Geller
Obama was "deeply troubled by the violence" in Iran. In contrast, he was "shocked and outraged" when late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered. More

June 16, 2009
Iran Election: The Beginning of the End
Amil Imani & Dr. Arash Irandoost
The vote was so obviously rigged that violence has resulted. The police and official security apparatus are less and less willing to exercise brute force to suppress the people. In short, Iran is in a state of serious upheaval. More

June 16, 2009
Health reform is all downside for most Americans
Douglas O'Brien
The best those with private coverage can hope for is the status quo More

June 16, 2009
Health Care Is Not That Complicated
C. Edmund Wright
It is no more practical to have "health insurance" to pay for prescription drugs and routine doctor visits than it is to expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil changes and tire rotations. More

June 16, 2009
Hell No, We Won't Go
Randy Fardal
Is Barack Obama about to face his own version of Viet Nam? More

June 16, 2009
Obama's Real Agenda: Israel's Dimona Nuclear Facility
Moshe Dann
President Obama's target in dealing with Iran's nuclear program is not what it seems to be. More

June 16, 2009
Was the Times describing A-Jad, or Obama?
William Tate
Without a trace -- not even one pixel -- of irony, the editor of the New York Times Monday accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a "shrewd and ruthless front man" for a political elite. More

June 15, 2009
Sarah Palin, the 21st Century 'It' Girl
Jay Valentine
The left is telling us something many feel, many find as a hunch, that Sarah Palin is the most dangerous threat to the Obama administration with no close second. More

June 15, 2009
The Murder of Civil Life
Bruce Walker
We no longer have a civil public life. It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism and fantasy causes. What has happened to Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean has happened to our whole social fabric. More

June 15, 2009
Obama's Government Health Plan Will Look Like Public Schools
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Obama's health care plan isn't goign to look like a larger scale Medicare or national health scheme in Canada or the UK. It's just as likely Obama's inspiration is the failed public school model. More

June 15, 2009
Latinos Need Not Apply
J.C. Arenas
If Latinos were to believe the fantasy that is Sonia Sotomayor, we could all celebrate her implausible catapult from the slums of the Bronx to the United States Supreme Court. More

June 15, 2009
Obama to Jews: I'm Just Not That Into You
Stuart Schwartz
American Jews can no longer afford the luxury of wishful thinking. More

June 15, 2009
Netanyahu Lays Down His Markers
Leo Rennert
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his long-awaited foreign policy address, laid down clear markers to President Obama, Palestinians, the Arab world, the mullahs in Tehran, and to Israelis at home More

June 14, 2009
Comedy, Bullies, and American Politics
Rosslyn Smith
Saul Alinsky taught two generations of American leftists to use ridicule as a potent political weapon. When the left infiltrated America's entertainment outlets, the practice achieved industrial scale. More

June 14, 2009
Obama's Other Controversial Church
Andrew Walden
It didn't start with Trinity United Church of Christ. "As the twig is bent...." More

June 14, 2009
Liberals: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Lloyd Marcus
I still remember the knot in my stomach upon seeing the sea of white faces from the window of our school bus. It was the first day of school 1961. More

June 14, 2009
Inside Letterman's Head
Paul Shlichta
His inane and nasty canards against the Palins must be partly forgiven because it's the only thing he knows how to do. More

June 14, 2009
A Real Free Market Health Care Solution
Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
A free market alternative that would save trillions. More

June 13, 2009
Desperately Seeking Scapegoats for Obama
Miguel A. Guanipa
A caveat of absolute inerrancy entails that Obama can be absolved a priori of any responsibility, being such a likeable guy and all. More

June 13, 2009
California's expensive policy for increasing CO2 emissions
James Eaves
In April, California adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The policy will, at best, be much more expensive and less effective than a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, and, at worst, increase global CO2 emissions. More

June 13, 2009
Wright is right
Peggy Shapiro
I never thought I would say this, but in when I heard the coverage of the most recent interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, I thought that the virulently anti-Semitic pastor got some things right. More

June 13, 2009
Talking Turkey: My Own Speech in a Muslim Country
Joel J. Sprayregen
Last week, I gave my own provocative speech in a Muslim country. More

June 13, 2009
Losing Mum and Pup
David Swindle
A satirist's eye on the death of his larger than life parents. More

June 12, 2009
Michael Steele: The Faltering Leader of a Struggling Party
AWR Hawkins
Steele appears to be a nice enough guy, but leading the Republican Party isn't necessarily about being nice. More

June 12, 2009
Still Open Season on Sarah Palin
J. Robert Smith
David Letterman's jabs, and the continuous stream of invective and ridicule aimed at Palin, speaks volumes about what the left thinks about America's Joes and Janes. More

June 12, 2009
Obama's Missed Opportunity
Ryan Craig
President Obama's recent speech in Cairo was a great example of a missed opportunity to change the course of history. More

June 12, 2009
Time To Use the 'T Word'
Bob Feferman
When addressing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Cairo, President Obama failed to mention a key word that could have made this historic speech a truly transformative speech More

June 12, 2009
Obama's Address to Muslims misses the Point
Richard L. Benkin
The "violent extremists" aren't the only problem. More

June 12, 2009
Fusion energy
M. Simon
There are a lot of fusion experiments going on in the world that don't get much publicity More

June 11, 2009
Nationalizing Public Education Comes After Health Care
Lee Cary
After Congress passes a national health care plan, nationalizing public education will be next. More

June 11, 2009
Honoring the Victims of Honor Killing
Pamela Geller
For the very first time, non-Muslims have begun to take note of the victims of Islamic honor killing, and to serve notice to their killers that the victims will not be forgotten More

June 11, 2009
The Liberal Housing Crash
Christopher Chantrill
The mainstream media has shown a vivid disinterest in getting to the bottom of the housing crash. Nevermind, Dr. Thomas Sowell explains it very well. More

June 11, 2009
Armistice is Dangerous
Jack Lott
When the North Koreans abrogated the 1953 armistice, it elicited little more than yawns. That could be a huge mistake. More

June 11, 2009
Obama's Moral Slide Rule
Jan LaRue
In President Barack Obama's moral and constitutional universe, unfettering abortion and coddling terrorists trump innocent life. More

June 11, 2009
How to Really Create or Save Two Million Jobs
Jeffrey Folks
President Obama has spoken recently of "creating or saving" 600,000 jobs at a mere expense of $787 billion. Sixty thousand of these, he claims, have already been created or saved. Just last month, of course, it was a million jobs... More

June 10, 2009
Obama and the Settlements
Richard Baehr
Why is Barack Obama spending so much time focusing on Israeli settlements in the West Bank? More

June 10, 2009
The Ethical Case for Boycotting Chrysler and GM
Gary Jason
The unprecedented action by the current administration in manipulating the bankruptcies of Chrysler and GM, and in effect nationalizing the companies, is egregiously unethical by every one of the major ethical perspectives. More

June 10, 2009
Dear Senator Cornyn
Larrey Anderson
I received your urgent letter today from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. You said that you needed to hear from "our Party's most trusted supporters..." More

June 10, 2009
Call It What It Is: Rationed Health Care
Robert Knight
Fresh from grabbing much of the U.S. auto and banking industries, the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are moving briskly toward nationalized health care. More

June 10, 2009
Left-Wing Media Bashes Adam Lambert
Deborah Weiss
Left wing bullies try to force the American Idol runner-up to say, "I'm gay." More

June 9, 2009
The 1% Myth and the Victimization of America
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
Have the rich really gotten richer? And can they pay for all of Obama's spending? More

June 9, 2009
62 Million Voiceless Americans
Nancy Morgan
Is it still called debate when only one side controls the conversation? That's the question the 62 million Americans who didn't vote for Obama are asking themselves. More

June 9, 2009
Who Has Lost Their Way?
Lauri B. Regan
In the first five months of his presidency, Obama has traveled the world apologizing for the transgressions of America committed by the 43 previous administrations. More

June 9, 2009
The best justice money can buy?
Bob Weir
On Monday, the Supreme Court made a ruling that should have been an absolute no-brainer for anyone with common sense. More

June 9, 2009
Obama Care: Robbing From Peter to Pay Paul
Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
President Obama is committed to fixing health care. He wants to make health care affordable for all Americans. In much the same way, Barney Frank and company wanted to make houses affordable for all Americans More

June 9, 2009
The Collapsing Global Left
Bruce Walker
American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that conservatism is dead, but the collapse of the Left proceeds apace elsewhere in the world. More

June 8, 2009
Fidel-ity: Three Decades of the Myers Spy Ring
Clarice Feldman
Last week a Department of State retiree and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Cuba for thirty years. In this article I will sort out what we know, don't know and need to explore about this matter. More

June 8, 2009
More Cuban Spies?
Jennifer Verner
As Kendall Myers joins the pantheon of civil servant traitors who spy for totalitarian Communist regimes, Americans are left wondering, "who else is out there?" More

June 8, 2009
Stunning Victory at the Polls for Democracy in Lebanon
Rick Moran
It wasn't supposed to happen like this. While no formal polling is allowed close to the election, many analysts still gave a slight edge to the Hezb'allah backed Development and Resistance bloc More

June 8, 2009
Obama's Broken Feedback Loop
Rosslyn Smith
How does a president learn and grow, if the press won't criticize him, and instead treats him as a god. More

June 8, 2009
Puke Alert: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn Appear on C-SPAN
Peter Barry Chowka
On June 7, 2009, C-SPAN II a.k.a. Book TV, devoted three hours of live programming to an interview with Bill Ayers. It was a three hour long nightmare in real time More

June 8, 2009
A Revised Government Economic Glossary
Mikiel de Bary
Can we all agree to add these alternate usages to our government's economic glossary? More

June 7, 2009
ICCC Three Brings Climate Reality To Washington DC
Marc Sheppard
Last Tuesday, politicians, economists and climate scientists gathered on Capitol Hill to remind policymakers that the climate debate is far from over and that a thorough cost-benefit analysis of proposed energy tax legislation must precede any action. Here's what happened. More

June 7, 2009
A Wise Latina Spender?
Jeffrey Folks
How can anyone who believes in personal responsibility work for twenty-five years in highly paid positions and have only $1,000 in net savings to show for it? More

June 7, 2009
Empathy and Justice
Lloyd Brown
In his letter explaining why he voted against the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Barack Obama gave us a fascinating glimpse into the wonderful world of liberal logic. More

June 7, 2009
Betrayal of the Democratic Party
George Joyce
A historic warning from a former presidential nominee. More

June 7, 2009
Obama criticizes NY Times coverage of his Israeli-Palestinian agenda
Leo Rennert
The Times has a well-established record of accepting Obama statements at face value. Why not in this instance? More

June 7, 2009
Unsettling: How Obama is using the settlement issue
Richard N. Weltz
Where is this heading? More

June 7, 2009
Reopen the TWA Flight 800 Case
Jack Cashill
The official story is falling apart. More

June 6, 2009
White House Video Features Muslim Proselytizers
Peter Barry Chowka
Your tax dollars at work on President Obama's own White House website More

June 6, 2009
Sotomayor and the Ugliness of Identity Politics
Brian Garst
The calculated nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is the latest example of the rejection of the idea of a color-blind society. More

June 6, 2009
15 Hard Questions about the Cairo Speech
Walid Phares
The building blocks of the Obama "Muslim platform" drawn from his speech. More

June 6, 2009
Obama's Arafat Amnesia
Leo Rennert
To refuse to deal with Arafat's legacy and contnuing impact on Palestinian society is to blind oneself to one of the greatest obstacles to the peace process. More

June 6, 2009
China since Tienanmen
Dennis Sevakis
Twenty years after China turned away from democratization, that nation has emerged as a fearsome competitor for world economic dominance. The playing field, however, is not exactly level. More

June 6, 2009
'D-day'-Day of Glory
Jan LaRue
They gave us 'nothing less than full victory.' More

June 5, 2009
Obama's speech to the Muslim world
Leo Rennert
President Obama fell short of the "honest" dialogue with the Muslim world that he had promised. More

June 5, 2009
Mutual Of Obama's Wild Kingdom
Harold Witkov
What's in a pecking order? More than you might wish to believe, especially considering President Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday. More

June 5, 2009
The Make Believe Sotomayor
J.C. Arenas
As more of her words from the past begin to surface, it has become apparent that who Sonia Sotomayor really is, and who she portrays herself to be, aren't the same person. More

June 5, 2009
Consolations in a Dark Age
James Lewis
Don't look now, but the web is rescuing Western Civ. More

June 5, 2009
Our First Female President?
Ralph Alter
In the same sense that Toni Morrison claimed Bill Clinton was our first black president, Barack Obama could be thought of as another kind of groundbreaker: our first female president. More

June 5, 2009
The Dextrous Alternative
Tim Haering
Carbon be damned! If cutting our atmospheric carbon enthrones China, to hell with it! I'll choke on the smoke, better tighten up my spoke, to keep China from pulling ahead of us. More

June 4, 2009
Obama, Iran, and Israel
Richard Baehr
It gets worse and worse. More

June 4, 2009
Obama's Attack on Achievers and Individual Rights
Lloyd Marcus
There is something wonderful and American about striving to be the BEST, competition, winning, losing, character and hard work. More

June 4, 2009
The Mega-Supreme Court?
David Gibberman
We may need more than 1,000 Supreme Court justices if we expect justices to decide cases the way President Obama wants -- by drawing on their "empathy" and "heart." More

June 4, 2009
The Nature of the Scorpions in the Mideast
Lauri B. Regan
People naïve enough to believe that kindness may bring about drastic changes to a culture's human nature need to face facts about the Middle East. More

June 4, 2009
The Greatest Problem of the Mainstream Media
Bruce Walker
The media -- newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film -- have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial. More

June 4, 2009
The Strange Beliefs of Leonard Pitts
Paul Shlichta
Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts has an irritating habit of adding two and two and getting seven. More

June 3, 2009
Magician-in-chief
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama's political magic is based on an ever-growing bag of tricks, relying on illusion, misdirection, and the media's willingness to believe. More

June 3, 2009
Saint Sonia, or Not
Robert Oscar Lopez
How stupid do Latinos look? Are Democrats like Schumer going to talk about us in the third person this way indefinitely, expecting us never to put two and two together and figure out we're being used? More

June 3, 2009
Cindy Sheehan on Media Bias
Lee Cary
Media bias cuts not just against the Right, but against those on the Left who don't fit their template of the right Left. Cindy Sheehan found this out when she ran for Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat. More

June 3, 2009
What's left for the Jews?
Wallace Edward Brand
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Obama wanted settlement construction in the West Bank to stop. But that is clearly not what he wants. More

June 3, 2009
Cap and Fade
Jeffrey Folks
Passage of cap and trade legislation would torpedo economic growth as it raises taxes and the cost of living. More

June 2, 2009
The Speech Obama should Give in Cairo
Robert Spencer
As Barack Obama prepares to give his long-anticipated major address to the Islamic world from Cairo, as a public service I here offer the speech he should give More

June 2, 2009
Do Liberals Crave A Master?
Andrew Thomas
Contemporary liberals, having abandoned the belief in God-given inalienable rights, masochistically crave a worldly master. More

June 2, 2009
The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter
Alan Aronoff
Remember the good old days of the Jimmy Carter presidency when the US saw the combination of high inflation and high unemployment? We are sowing the seeds for a return to those days of national malaise. More

June 2, 2009
Republican Party Survival Plan for the Obama Years
Harold Witkov
I am sick and tired of hearing that Republicans need to shelve their conservative values if they want to survive. This idea could not be farther from the truth. More

June 2, 2009
Don't Cry for Milton
Christopher Chantrill
Lefty economists like Joseph Stiglitz and James Galbraith and pop authors like Naomi Klein are conducting a triumphal march over the intellectual grave of Friedman. Not so fast. Reality bats last. More

June 2, 2009
Lovely Organic Oil
Tristram Waye
In praise of oil, one of the greatest organic, composted, recycled products available on earth. More

June 1, 2009
May Posterity Forget You Were Our Countrymen
Lance Fairchok
There is something about D.C. that saps the will and dulls the intellect of conservatives. Prolonged exposure makes them fretful and risk-averse, even timid with controversial issues. More

June 1, 2009
Journalists who don't kiss Obama's feet
James Lewis
Tired of the slobbering mainstream media? On Fleet Street they aren't in the Obama trance. More

June 1, 2009
Will the GOP Leadership Fail on Sotomayor?
Rosslyn Smith
The GOP's leadership is hopelessly out of touch with not only the base, but the mainstream of America, when it comes to confirmation hearings for Judge Sotomayor.  If the DC denizens default in their responsibility to expose her radical views... More

June 1, 2009
Republicans and Battered Spouses
Jeanne Donovan
Republican office holders are the battered spouses of American politics. It is time for an intervention. More

June 1, 2009
Chrysler, GM, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Lee Cary
Entirely predictable, the unintended consequences of nationalization will still come as a surprise to Obama partisans and the media. More

June 1, 2009
As a juror, what verdict would you render?
Bob Weir
Is it fair to call the Oklahoma City pharmacy worker who shot and killed a gun-toting robber a vigilante? More