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September 30, 2009
The Patron in Chief's Copenhagen Surge
Lee Cary
Europe leans right. The U.S. leans left. Afghanistan hangs in the balance. And Obama goes to Copenhagen. What's up with that? More

September 30, 2009
Obama's Work Ethic
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own More

September 30, 2009
New FCC Chairman Targets internet
James G. Lakely
Tt would be foolish to replace the swift judgment of millions of consumers with the dictates of a handful of slow-footed, uninformed, unaccountable bureaucrats. More

September 30, 2009
Re-imposing totalitarian information control in Russia
Kim Zigfeld
The internet, Russia's last source of information free of state control is now under threat. Seizing control of internet freedom could be the next step in the re-imposition of totalitarianism in Russia. More

September 30, 2009
Why I hope Obama brings the 2016 Olympics to Chicago
Richard Baehr
Let's get real here: if a President can go on vacation for a few weeks, he can spare a day for this trip. More

September 30, 2009
Obama's Olympic Hallucination
Jeannie DeAngelis
Our peace-loving President believes beating swords into javelins and spears into tennis rackets could potentially usher in world peace. More

September 30, 2009
Disarmament for All (Except the UN)
John Griffing
In the midst of one of the greatest existential threats of our times, President Obama is pursuing severe reductions in US military strength.  His recent statements at the United Nations have merely added fuel to the fire. When combined with... More

September 30, 2009
Energy Secretary Chu and the Toll of Silly Physics
Claude Sandroff
Given our current national energy crisis, we have never been more in need of grown-ups in charge of energy policy. More

September 30, 2009
How to Lose a War in 180 Days
Trent Hickman
Without more troops, the war in Afghanistan is lost. More

September 29, 2009
Unmasking Obama
Thomas Lifson
Another mask worn by Obama has been removed. He is a literary pretender. He lied about Ayers and the authorship of his books. Can the media embargo this story much longer? More

September 29, 2009
Polanski Crime Worse Than People Know
Jack Cashill
[Caution: contains explicit reference to sexual acts which may disturb some readers] More

September 29, 2009
Are We Witnessing the Collapse of Liberalism?
J. Robert Smith
The question now isn't will the United States pay a terrible price for the President's policies, but when. More

September 29, 2009
The Perils of a 'Policy' President
Christopher Chantrill
The last three Democratic presidents are similar. They are policy presidents: they all believe in the rational, systemic approach to governance. More

September 29, 2009
Revenge of the Golden Goose
Robert Weissberg
As taxes increase, and inflation brings bracket creep, expect tax avoidance and outright tax cheating to soar in America. More

September 29, 2009
Tom Delay Dances with the Stars
Natalie Axton
Delay did not disappoint in week one. Like all the best contestants, Delay is gracious with his partner and seems to be having a great time. There is, however, a caveat. More

September 29, 2009
Where History Gets Weird
Mark Butterworth
Barack and Michelle Obama find themselves in an odd psychological trap with Bill Ayers. More

September 29, 2009
Poverty and the Poor Whites
Emily Greenwood
A member of the last group society openly insults (as "trash") is becoming a celebrity explaining poverty and what to do about it. More

September 29, 2009
Huckabee Attempts to Follow Reagan's Path to Victory
Paul Cooper
A political strategy being closely emulated. More

September 29, 2009
Eisenhower and Afghanistan
Andrew Sumereau
The reluctant warrior of old might have had advice most opportune for Obama and the nation in the current quandary of Afghanistan. More

September 28, 2009
Our Sexual Identity Crisis
Selwyn Duke
Reality isn't negotiable. More

September 28, 2009
Stop Allowing The Left To Set The Rules
Lloyd Marcus
I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the rules against their opponent. More

September 28, 2009
Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More
Jack Cashill
The major media will not likely tackle the emerging evidence of Obama's stunning literary fraud, but the days of Obama's boasting about his writing skills are just as likely over. More

September 28, 2009
Redefining Sarah Palin
James Lewis
As President Obama fumbled badly at the UN and G-8 last week, Sarah Palin began re-defining herself as presidential timber. More

September 28, 2009
Another Blow to European Leftism
Bruce Walker
Yesterday's election in German means that Merkel finally can form a right of center government in Germany More

September 28, 2009
Is This Any Way To Fight A War?
Pamela Geller
Barack Hussein Obama was finally talking tough last week. More

September 28, 2009
What makes Kay Bailey run?
Bob Weir
Here we have a 3-term senator planning to vacate her position before the end of the year and try to unseat the governor of a state with an economy that has done exceedingly well More

September 28, 2009
Rights vs. Profits
Matt Spivey
The medical field should be the most capitalistic industry of all. More

September 28, 2009
Rookie Mistakes
Aaron Gee
The press is all agog over the President leading the UN security council which came out with extremely artfully worded resolution that endorses the eventual goal of "a world without nuclear weapons". More

September 27, 2009
The History Lesson Obama Missed
Lauri B. Regan
"Ever since Mein Kampf, you have to take these guys seriously." More

September 27, 2009
Dial 911 for suicide assistance?
Rita L. Marker
Enter the twilight zone that is Washington State. More

September 27, 2009
Who is doing the governing?
Robert A. Bonelli
Considering how much time Mr. Obama is still spending campaigning, it is appropriate for the American people to question who is actually governing our nation? More

September 27, 2009
Liberal Jews and the Legacy of Neoconservatism
Larry Greenfield
Religion used to be a skeptic of, and counter-balance to, government. In the hands of the religious left, however it has become government's leading advocate. More

September 27, 2009
Nimrod's Tower
Randy Fardal
President Obama has begun speaking in a foreign tongue. At least some of the claims he made last Sunday during his unprecedented five-show media blitz certainly seemed foreign. More

September 27, 2009
Two Jews
Anne Lieberman
Two Jews stand like bookends, with nearly a hundred years and six million murdered relatives in between. More

September 27, 2009
The Ugly American
Bruce Walker
The Obama Administration has brought the Ugly American back to life. More

September 27, 2009
Stimulating Our Way to Depression
David Nace
It worked like a charm for FDR. More

September 27, 2009
Global Warming 'Science'
John McLaughlin
Work done on several fronts over recent years casts serious doubt upon the IPCC work and, in fact, may make a case for claiming scientific fraud. More

September 26, 2009
The Public Option Roach Motel
Eric Singer
The Healthcare Reform Bill proposed by Senator Baucus is an incomparably cynical piece of legislation More

September 26, 2009
A sham 'compromise' health care bill waiting in the wings
Dennis B.Cooke MD & Carolyn Cooke
Will Wyden-Bennett be trotted out as another "grand compromise" piece of legislation? More

September 26, 2009
Meryl's Mad Green Meanderings about Julia
John Berlau
It is strange that Meryl Streep seems so ungrateful to Julia Child, whom she portrayed in a movie, and whose legions of fans flocked to the theatres to see Julie & Julia More

September 26, 2009
Barack Obama's Uninspiring Legacy
Miguel A. Guanipa
There should be no cause for apprehension, before openly appraising the performance of our elected public officials More

September 26, 2009
Cut Taxes? Are you crazy?
David Hass
People look at me like I'm crazy when I suggest that the government should cut taxes. More

September 26, 2009
Compassion: Islamic Republic Style
Amil Imani
A tale of horror. More

September 26, 2009
De-Romanticizing Terror
William Doino Jr
Terrorism as a career, a culture and a way of life More

September 25, 2009
Obama and the Trust Factor
Kyle-Anne Shiver
If universal healthcare proves to be the president's Waterloo, as suggested by John Boehner (R-OH), the mushrooming ACORN scandal may yet be his Watergate. More

September 25, 2009
Obama and the Last Hurrah of Liberalism
Steve McCann
Sometimes in the history of a nation what appears to be an action that could lead to long term disaster may, in fact, be its long term salvation. More

September 25, 2009
Sliming Conservatives: A Short History
Richard Viguerie and Steve Allen
A new generation of conservative activists has come forth, and many of the newcomers have never experienced the kind of nastiness to which liberals are inclined More

September 25, 2009
Czar wants parallel government broadcasting system
Lee Cary
President Obama's diversity Czar at the Federal Communications Commission proposes adding a vast public broadcasting system to the growing list of Obama's parallel institutions. More

September 25, 2009
America's Relativist in Chief
George Joyce
When Obama disparages the promotion of democracy he effectively eliminates the only legitimate means for the 'people' to determine their own destiny. More

September 25, 2009
The Perestroika Deception
John Griffing
Decades of communist strategy, on the record. More

September 25, 2009
The R-bomb: Are You A Racist?
Stewart Potter
Somewhere along the line, what began to identify racism seems to have changed, from the behavior itself, to whether someone took offense. More

September 25, 2009
The Real Nuclear Option
Gene Schwimmer
A modest proposal. More

September 25, 2009
Advice from Fidel Castro for Ahmadinejad and Gadhafi
Humberto Fontova
Ahmadinejad and Gadhafi got many New York doors slammed in their face this week. Fidel Castro could offer them some advice on getting the attention of Manhattan's movers and shakers. More

September 24, 2009
The Soros-Axelrod Axis?
Ed Lasky
There is no proof, but there certainly is reason to suspect that Soros also has been working in cahoots with David Axelrod, Obama's former campaign strategist and now his numero uno domestic policy adviser. More

September 24, 2009
The blessings of Pax Americana, the good cop
James Lewis
It's not comforting to have a president in charge who has absolutely no concept of history; who has in fact flipped it all upside-down. More

September 24, 2009
And the Winner Is ... Moammar
Amy D. Goldstein
Following U.S. President Barack Obama, Qaddafi stole the show. The question is: will anyone understand the import of his speech? More

September 24, 2009
'Our Time has Come' Or Has It?
Ken Blackwell
Some Muslims are organizing a Capitol Hill Prayer Meeting for this Friday. Their theme is "Our Time Has Come." They quote President Obama's victory statement from last fall. More

September 24, 2009
Obama and ACORN
Pamela Geller
"It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to." More

September 24, 2009
The Public Option for Dummy Talk-Show Hosts
Randall Hoven
Now if what we want is competition, is there a better, or cheaper, way to get it? More

September 24, 2009
More Regulation Not the Answer for Wall Street
Jeffrey R. Carter
Will we get meaningful regulatory reform that will help the market function more efficiently? It's highly doubtful. More

September 24, 2009
When Did Anti-Zionism Become An International Issue?
Alex Grobman
For more than 20 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, anti-Zionism was a regional phenomenon - a conflict between Arab and Jewish national movements More

September 24, 2009
Small Business Owners Sound Off on Health Care Reform
Brad O'Leary
In his speech to Congress two weeks ago, President Obama made a strong sell to small business owners that his health care reform plan would be a blessing. According to polling data, they are going to need a lot of convincing. More

September 23, 2009
ACORN and the AGs
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Despite years of warning signs that ACORN was violating the law, many state attorneys general have not investigated the organization or brought enforcement actions. More

September 23, 2009
The Dawning of the Age of Obama
Robin of Berkeley
Why the left is bad for children and other living things More

September 23, 2009
White Racism Forever
Robert Weissberg
Until the 1970s "white racism" never arose as explanations of racial inequality. Since then, the term has become the glib reason for imperfect racial progress, an irresistible tool for the left. More

September 23, 2009
The Catholic Bishops and ACORN
Mark Wauck
This is a good news/bad news story More

September 23, 2009
Medicaid Expansion: Budget-Busting Reform
Linda Halderman, MD
California has chosen to indulge its poor with what President Obama might call the "Cadillac version" of Medicaid, with all the optional equipment, and no pesky documentation requirements. As a result, financial chaos looms. More

September 23, 2009
An Unwelcome Message for Obama
Lee Cary
A recently released economics book will not likely be featured by the legacy media as a selection for the Obama Book of the Month Club. More

September 23, 2009
Obama and Health Care: a Pinocchio Tale
Greg Halvorson
That the president portrays those who question him as liars (he's going to "call them out") is at best fantastic, at worst farcical, and at baseline hypocritical. More

September 22, 2009
The New York Times Aims Low
Stuart Schwartz
"We Suck Less." This is the catchphrase used by New York Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. to describe his operating and journalism philosophy. It is his "pet" expression More

September 22, 2009
Obama's Elusive Auto Insurance Analogy
C. Edmund Wright
Team Obama and the media continue to flail away at an auto insurance analogy in an attempt to sell Obama Care. It is almost funny how they seem not to understand even the most basic concept of insurance. More

September 22, 2009
Two Tweaks to the Constitution
Jon N. Hall
Sometimes, We the People discover that we have made a serious mistake, and we don't want to wait for the next election to correct it. More

September 22, 2009
Pelosi's Pretense
Jan LaRue
When rhetoric led to mob violence in San Francisco, did Nancy Pelosi speak up? More

September 22, 2009
Plain as Day
Joseph Ashby
Poorly hidden intentions have been a hallmark of the current health care debate. More

September 22, 2009
School Blues
Matt Spivey
The American university is the anti-Disneyland... the saddest place on Earth. More

September 22, 2009
Irving Kristol and Conservatism's Future
Christopher Chantrill
Kristol did as much as anyone to make Ronald Reagan happen. Today, in another century, we live at another inflection point. More

September 21, 2009
Hillary's Humble Pie
Ed Lasky
Hillary history repeating itself. More

September 21, 2009
'Killing Granny'
Cliff Thier
A virulent moral blindness has seized hold of a substantial slice of America's educated elite. More

September 21, 2009
Obama cedes Eastern Europe to Putin and A'jad
James Lewis
Welcome, Mr. Obama, to your First Spectacular Foreign Policy Failure More

September 21, 2009
Death talk for seniors
Rita L. Marker
There's plenty already, so why pay for more? More

September 21, 2009
Suppressing Dissent is Un-American
Ellen Sauerbrey
Dissent can be effectively stifled by keeping people too ignorant to form opinions More

September 21, 2009
Apostasy and the Islamic Nations
Andrew G. Bostom
A clear, irrefragable global context for any rational, objective consideration of the ongoing plight of apostates from Islam, such as 17 year-old Rifqa Bary More

September 21, 2009
Jimmy Carter's Sanctimonious Guilt
Steve Hines
The recent exploitation of racism by former President Jimmy Carter reminds me of something I detected long ago in a lot of Americans from his generation More

September 21, 2009
Racists Anonymous: The 12-Step Program for White Redemption
Claude Sandroff
We are powerless over racism More

September 20, 2009
Did America betray us? Or it was just Obama?
Michal Wisniewski
From Poland: It's impossible to remain so positive towards the U.S. now - people are reacting emotionally. More

September 20, 2009
Vietistan
Bruce Walker
It looks like Lyndon Baines Obama is about to repeat the mistakes of his Democrat predecessor. More

September 20, 2009
Did Ayers Help Obama Get Into Harvard?
Jack Cashill
Although terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers claims not to have met Barack Obama until the mid-1990s, there is reason to believe that he not only knew Obama much earlier, but that he helped get him into Harvard Law School. More

September 20, 2009
The Blago Code
Andrew Walden
Rod Blagojevich has a message to his former political cronies: "If I'm going down, I'm taking all of you with me." More

September 20, 2009
Will the real racists please stand up!
Bob Weir
When a majority of voters elected the first African-American to the highest office in the land, one would have thought it was a positive sign that racism had been dealt a serious blow. More

September 20, 2009
Science Proves: Maureen Dowd Is A Racist.
James Lewis
Guilt tripping white middle class people is the road to power for the Left. It is the key to all their thuggery, More

September 20, 2009
The Real Problem with Third Parties
C. Edmund Wright
Not only do they lose elections... More

September 20, 2009
Trading Away Spiritual Integrity
Nick Baldock
Outsourcing decisions to government seemed a reasonable price to pay for more free time and a free ride on self-indulgence More

September 19, 2009
Who taught you to lie, call people names, and accuse people of racism?
Scott Strzelczyk
Where did the Democratic Congress, the Obama administration, and the main stream media learn to act so rudely, obnoxiously, and disingenuously? More

September 19, 2009
Obama's new protectionism
Joseph Smith
The President has once again achieved a trifecta of policy outcomes favoring his agenda: a victory for the United Steelworkers union, a boost for ObamaCare and another blow in his war on prosperity to boot. More

September 19, 2009
Single Payer and the 'Slacker Liberals'
Christopher Chantrill
The self-centered logic. More

September 19, 2009
Electronic Health Records 'Savings'
Gerald T. Riess
The savings which could be made in reduced use of paper, document storage, and transcription costs are trivial More

September 19, 2009
The left still doesn't get it
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Despite steady progress in achieving their ambition, lefties have acquired neither clue nor interest in how things actually work. More

September 19, 2009
Defining Obama
Ted Keller
What do you call a man who marries the state to management of the fundamentals of the economy in times of global economic turmoil? More

September 19, 2009
HRW's lame evasion
Carl in Jerusalem
Obsessive reporting on the Israeli-Arab conflict, in which Israel is invariably faulted can't be so easily explained away. More

September 18, 2009
Munich of the Skies
Ken Blackwell
President Obama has chosen this day -- the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland -- to announce the abandonment of U.S.-backed missile defense for Eastern Europe. More

September 18, 2009
Sorry honey, but truth trumps the race card
Kyle-Anne Shiver
President Obama has the rightful honor of being just as publicly scorned, ridiculed, disliked and embattled as every single white-male president who has preceded him. More

September 18, 2009
How To Find Millions of Racists
C. Edmund Wright
How do you create millions of white racists? I have a theory. More

September 18, 2009
Obama the Great Divider
J. Robert Smith
In one of life's delicious ironies, the President, who campaigned as the Great Uniter, is worsening the split between the right and left and losing support in the process. More

September 18, 2009
Dangers to Democrats of End-Running Cloture
Bruce Walker
What goes around, comes around. More

September 18, 2009
A Roadmap for Terrorists
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
The Goldstone Commission, appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to investigate... More

September 18, 2009
Baby 'Bigots'
Jan LaRue
The Ku Klux Klan may start marketing a line of baby bigot wear if they fall for Newsweek's Sept. 14, cover story, "See Baby Discriminate." More

September 17, 2009
ACORN and corruption go together
James Simpson
The shocking ACORN videos produced and distributed by James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Brietbart reflect the founding purpose of ACORN: creating chaos to overwhelm the system. More

September 17, 2009
Maureen Dowd's Descent into Fury
Stuart Schwartz
Angry. Bitter. Desperately trying to avoid irrelevance. Clinging to past glories. Welcome to the world of Maureen Dowd. More

September 17, 2009
The Not-So-Silent Majority
Bruce Walker
The Silent Majority forty years ago was cowed, afraid, and ashamed. My, how times have changed. More

September 17, 2009
What Would a Communist Do?
Randall Hoven
Look familiar? More

September 17, 2009
A Biased Media at Work
Janet Levy
A left-leaning media is no mere opinion or perception. More

September 17, 2009
Senator Baucus: what $856 billion buys you
Linda Halderman, MD
A new set of government-enforced obligations for American citizens of every age, health and employment status. More

September 17, 2009
Profiles in Courage
Craig S. Lerner
Staff Sergeant Jared C. Monti receives a posthumous Medal of Honor today in a White House ceremony, as critics debate whether enough heroes of the War on Teror have been recognized with the nation's highest honor. More

September 17, 2009
The House That Obama Built
Miguel A. Guanipa
An updating of the beloved classic children's book. More

September 17, 2009
The All Purpose Tool
Keli Carender
More useful than the Leatherman Tool, if you're a liberal. More

September 16, 2009
Democrats Jumping the Race-Card Shark
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Welcome to the post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, in which it has suddenly become a racial issue when American citizens dare to criticize the president. More

September 16, 2009
The race bullies
James Lewis
Today, in spite of decades of immense black progress since Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights laws, the media and Demagogues love to read "racism!" into the minds of ordinary, decent Americans. More

September 16, 2009
Is Obama a Narcissist?
Robin of Berkeley
Probably, but that's the least of our problems More

September 16, 2009
Al Qaida moves the battle to Iraq
James Lewis
Suppose you were Osama Bin Laden or his successor, and you're pitted against Barack Bin Obama. More

September 16, 2009
Calling Obama Out on HealthCare
Monte Kuligowski
Finally, that which Obama had utterly dismissed and ignored, the passion of the people, found expression through the brave lips of Wilson. More

September 16, 2009
Black Tea Party Express Tour Team Member Experienced Racism
Lloyd Marcus
The racial hate expressed against me all came from the left, people who support President Obama's radial socialist agenda More

September 16, 2009
Obama Is Redefining the American Presidency
Lee Cary
It's time we question the popular assumption that the power of the Presidency should "bring relief and prosperity" to the American people More

September 16, 2009
Voyage of the Mayflower
John Hunt
The Pilgrims set sail for the New World on September 16, 1620. It behooves us to appreciate the tremendous risks of their solo voyage, and the resulting great rewards Americans enjoy to this day More

September 16, 2009
What I Saw at the Revolution
Kathy Garriott
A vivid personal account of the 9/12 demonsation in DC. More

September 15, 2009
Fearing Obama
J.R. Dunn
One of the more puzzling aspects of the public reaction to the ascension of Barack Obama is the abject fear, bordering on sheer terror that he arouses in certain conservative circles. More

September 15, 2009
Understanding 'Angry Mobs'
Mike Grady
Why these times are no ordinary times. More

September 15, 2009
Community service is not what made America great
C. Edmund Wright
Dare we say that the planners of the 9-11 attacks understand more about the greatness of America than our current President and some in Congress? More

September 15, 2009
Understanding the Cause of Health Care Inflation
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
A case study in unintended consequences More

September 15, 2009
Why Did Yale Censor the Danish Cartoons?
Seth Corey, MD
Follow the money. More

September 15, 2009
Why Eggheads Shouldn't be Running Things
Andie Brownlow
Philosophers and career-thinkers from academia have a place. But thinkers are mostly just that -- thinkers, not doers. There is a huge gap of scrutiny and trial and error before an idea should be implemented as policy More

September 15, 2009
Wrong use of the 'P word'
Victor Sharpe
A short history of the word "Palestine." More

September 14, 2009
What's in a leftist's name?
James Lewis
You can never get enough of being something you're not. More

September 14, 2009
Just Words
Randall Hoven
The most important words involving any piece of modern legislation come after that legislation has been signed into law More

September 14, 2009
9/12 was a transformative event
Clarice Feldman and Rosslyn Smith
We are witnessing a very rare phenomenon, the genuine, broad based spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders. More

September 14, 2009
Attack of The Green Meanies
Bernie Reeves
Saving the planet has grabbed the imagination of the naïve in the same grip as the old worker's paradise promised by the Bolsheviks. More

September 14, 2009
Obama and Neosyndicalism
M.J.Motley
It is finally sinking in: Fundamental structural change is what Barack Obama and his merry band of Czars have in mind for America. But what particular label to put on that change remains controversial. More

September 14, 2009
Cash For America?
Neil Braithwaite
Under the guise of stimulating the economy, the Obama administration is implementing government "rebate" programs that have hundreds of thousands of people jumping through hoops More

September 14, 2009
The Protocols of Lyin'
Harold Witkov
The Democrats and their bedfellows, the mainstream media, are with Obama all the way. Their aim is to make sure this President is treated like royalty, never held accountable for what he says and does More

September 14, 2009
The Obama Jingle: I Do It All for You
John Morgan
It's all about Obama, all the time. More

September 13, 2009
America Spoke
James Simpson
America spoke September 12th in Washington, DC. Real America. Not black America, not white America, not Hispanic or Asian America, not even conservative or liberal America. Real America. More

September 13, 2009
Can Israel Make Peace with the Palestinians?
Richard Baehr
A conversation with Ambassador Alon Pinkas More

September 13, 2009
Barack Obama Jumps the Shark
Stuart Schwartz
The Media elite told viewers that The Obama Show would be forever and smartly heroic. Instead, with falling ratings, it is jumping the shark. More

September 13, 2009
Frum's futile quest for a new conservatism
J. R. Dunn
The Candian-born pundit wishes American conservatives could be more like Canadians. More

September 13, 2009
The war Obama is bound to lose
J. Robert Smith
Afghanistan will join Vietnam as a war lost in the political arena, not on the battlefield, and the consequences could be catastrophic. More

September 13, 2009
Can we find clarity in the Afghan strategy debate?
Col. Tom Snodgrass
In view of the president's ambivalence, it is small wonder that there is confusion, consternation, and disagreement over America's policy in Afghanistan. More

September 13, 2009
Barack and Me
Ron Miller
When I started becoming critical of Barack Obama, You would think I had donned a white robe and hood based on the reactions of my black friends. More

September 13, 2009
Is Newsweek Trying to Kill Rifqa Bary?
Pamela Geller
Witness the outrageous treatment that Newsweek gave to her story in its September 9 issue, and especially to Jamal Jivanjee, Rifqa's friend and confidante. More

September 13, 2009
God and Edward M. Kennedy
Miguel A. Guanipa
At the risk of offending a grief stricken media, intent on canonizing the recently departed Senator Edward M. Kennedy... More

September 13, 2009
Senator Kennedy's Final Attempt at Salvation
Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
A month before his death Senator Kennedy wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, which was delivered to him by President Obama. More

September 12, 2009
Why I am no longer an African American
Mary Baker
I select for my identity the title of American. More

September 12, 2009
The Obama Administration, Explained
Gene Schwimmer
Elect this and what else do you expect? More

September 12, 2009
Why Obama Could Not Stage a Coup
Bruce Walker
We need to fight the very real enemies, not imaginary ones. More

September 12, 2009
The spark that has triggered rebellion
Ellen Sauerbrey
Health care reform is merely the spark that has touched off a prairie fire of grassroots rebellion More

September 12, 2009
When truth trumps protocol
Bob Weir
After 8 years of blistering attacks on President Bush by the top echelon of the Democrat Party, suddenly they've become prudish about references to the country's Chief Executive. More

September 12, 2009
Passenger Rail: A New Conservative Position
Alex Kummant
A major federal government role in building and maintaining significant national assets that make the country competitive is entirely consistent with conservative philosophy. More

September 12, 2009
Virtue and Sarah Palin
Claude Sandroff
Ultimately, virtue is the result of recognizing evil and ensuring that it does not prevail over good. It's a simple formulation, but who in politics is audacious enough to speak in such stark terms? More

September 12, 2009
Being Sexually Deprived in a Sex-Saturated Culture
Janice Shaw Crouse
Clearly, something is weird when everybody's talking about it and nobody's doing it. More

September 12, 2009
Calling all heroes

Many of America's heroes gave their lives defending freedom; the least we can contribute is our voice. More

September 11, 2009
9-11: The Desecration
Pamela Geller
Add another Obama insult to injury on 9-11. More

September 11, 2009
The War on '9-11'
Walid Phares
Gradually, 9-11 symbolism may be on its way to a museum, or perhaps to cold storage. More

September 11, 2009
Eight years and many still don't get it
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Historical moments, frozen and encapsulated in each individual's memory, sometimes define whole generations. More

September 11, 2009
Why Obama Won't 'Hit the Reset Button' on Health Care
Monte Kuligowski
All who oppose full-blown entitlement healthcare ought to be happy that President Obama decided to show his hand so early into his presidency More

September 11, 2009
I Remember
Straley M. Thorpe
I remember the tower burning; the second tower struck.  I remember the horrific vision, surreal, of men and women leaping and falling to their deaths from the burning towers.  The only choice left to them, how to die.  I remember... More

September 11, 2009
Is the US Government bankrupt?
Pete Morin
Before we continue to debate the merits of any Obama health care plan, we need to consider a few important facts. More

September 11, 2009
How Obama Can Make Healthcare Better Without Congress
Bruce Walker
President Obama could take action to improve our nation's healthcare system right now, without waiting for congressional approval More

September 11, 2009
The enemy of my friend is my friend says Obama on Honduras
Humberto Fontova
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is up to no good in Honduras, and Obama is smoothing his way. More

September 11, 2009
Terror-Sponsor China Awarded 9-11 Memorial Tower Contract
Edward Olshaker
The regime that armed al Qaeda before and after 9/11/01, and rejoiced over the attacks, has reason to celebrate yet again. More

September 10, 2009
Obama's 'Gift' Has Stopped Giving
Lee Cary
President Obama's healthcare address to Congress displayed the oratorical gift he once revealed to Harry Reid. But the gift has stopped giving. More

September 10, 2009
Obama and the Plight of the Dancing Masquerade
L.E. Ikenga
An African proverb reveals why Obama will fail. More

September 10, 2009
Whose Mess?
Randall Hoven
President Obama inherited a mess of an economy. He inherited it from his fellow Democrats in Congress. More

September 10, 2009
Who is the 'we' who 'spend too much' on elder care?
James Lewis
According to the Left "we" are losing money on keeping sick people alive. "We" have to economize, and where better than at the end of other people's lives? More

September 10, 2009
Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Health Care?
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
The French health care system was ranked first by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is urged as a model for America. For the sake of freedom and prosperity, let's hope not. More

September 10, 2009
The Power and Importance of New Media
Paul Miller
Tom Friedman of the New York Times calls internet news sources an "open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information." He's wrong. They are the new beat reporters and investigative journalists of our time. More

September 10, 2009
Green Termites
Joseph Smith
Under the surface and out of the spotlight, green termites are busily chewing away at the foundations of our capitalist economy. More

September 10, 2009
I Volunteer to be the Normal American Czar
Teri O'Brien
In the interest of reaching out to President Obama and creating that elusive new tone in Washington, I want to offer my services as the Normal American Czar. More

September 09, 2009
Barack Ozymandias
J.R. Dunn
The real story this summer, the one that the scholars will be pondering for decades to come, concerns the absolute collapse of the American messiah. More

September 09, 2009
Power to the Patients, Please
Kyle-Anne Shiver With Dr. Joseph Spooner
Presenting the American people with the utterly false choice of a my-way reform vs. no reform whatsoever has backfired precisely because it was blatantly dishonest in the first place. More

September 09, 2009
Obama's Dog of a Health Care Message
Sammy Benoit
Having spent much of the past thirty years of my life in the advertising industry, the flaws of President Obama's health care message are apparent and massive. More

September 09, 2009
Czar Dish
Clarice Feldman
Van Jones will not be the only White House czar forced from office. More

September 09, 2009
Obama's Wasted Year
Christopher Chantrill
It's about a year since Barack Obama has been at the center of US national politics, but it's probably not too early to say that his first year was wasted. More

September 09, 2009
ObamaCare: More Point and Counterpoint
Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
This article is the second of a point / counterpoint series on Mr. Obama's health care plan. More

September 09, 2009
School Day Subjugation
Jeannie DeAngelis
On the first day of school the White House strongly encouraged teachers relinquish their traditional role of setting the tone for the year More

September 09, 2009
Rethinking the Political Spectrum
David G. Muller, Jr.
The classic 20th-century political spectrum is gravely flawed as a depiction of the range of philosophical opinion. More

September 08, 2009
Challenging the Torah of Liberalism
Rick Richman
For many modern Jews, conversion from liberalism to conservatism is roughly equivalent to what conversion to Christianity was to their ancestors in Eastern Europe. More

September 08, 2009
The Emerging Obama Doctrine
Joseph Ashby
American contrition has always been a central tenet of the Obama foreign agenda. More

September 08, 2009
The Democrats re-fight an old battle
Rosslyn Smith
It seems that a decades-old battle for the soul of the Democratic Party has reemerged in the Obama administration. More

September 08, 2009
The Confidence Party
Rich Evanns
The resignation of Van Jones marks some sort of turning point. And the Democrats know this, consciously or not. More

September 08, 2009
My Little Comrades
Robin of Berkeley
The now-discarded first draft of the president's speech to the nation's schoolchildren More

September 08, 2009
Letter 2 Presadint Obama From a Kid Thx 4 Enspiring Me!!
Jon Sanders
dear presadint obama, how r u? i hope ur ok. thx 4 speaking 2 us in schl 2day. ms smith sed u wanted 2 no how u enspire us. well its alot! More

September 08, 2009
Brainwashing you can believe in
Neil Braithwaite
A close look at the top two definitions of brainwashed, clearly illustrates how well the term actually defines what the Obama administration is trying to do to Americans. More

September 07, 2009
Dog Days
Randy Fardal
So what actually is preventing Democrats from finally realizing their authoritarian dream of controlling the multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry? More

September 07, 2009
On Bullying, Costco Disconnects from Reality
Ed Kaitz
Wouldn't a campus warrior do as much for our kids in the long run as a campus psychotherapist? More

September 07, 2009
A Beau Geste: the 9/11 Tear Drop Memorial
Troy Nelson
Something at once beautiful, powerful, provocative and meaningful that the media prefers to ignore. More

September 07, 2009
Are we being Absorbed into the Blob?
Bob Weir
If the Democrats continue to gobble up sections of the economy like a hungry blob of protoplasm, voters may have to use extinguishers and put them in the deep freeze next year. More

September 07, 2009
Why Should We Want Politicians To Redesign Our Healthcare?
David Gibberman
Why should anyone think that politicians would do a better job redesigning our healthcare than the free market? More

September 07, 2009
Bursting the Government Bubble
Alan Aronoff
In the last decade, we have witnessed the bursting of two bubbles More

September 07, 2009
American Socialism & Chinese Capitalism
Raymond Richman and Howard Richman
Congress is well to the left of China. More

September 07, 2009
Afghanistan Matters
John Byrnes
If we abandon our foothold in Afghanistan, we abandon our contacts on the ground. More

September 06, 2009
The Brainwashing Bunch
Ed Lasky
Where Obama got the idea of using the schools to push his agenda More

September 06, 2009
Making it up in global warming theory
James Lewis
Science Magazine has good news for global warming crowd: The Hockey Stick is back! It was shown to be a fraud before, but now -- Shazam! It's back! More

September 06, 2009
The revolt against the elite
Gary Horne
The philosophical breach between the American people and the intellectuals is the hope of the United States. More

September 06, 2009
Talking Seniors to Death
Rita L. Marker
Technically, a patient would not be forced to have an advance care planning consultation, but doctors who didn't provide the end-of-life talk would not be paid for any other services. More

September 06, 2009
Swine Flu: Path to Martial Law?
John Griffing
When the President considers the Constitution to be nothing more than an archaic suggestion, no travesty is unthinkable. More

September 06, 2009
Is Sarah Palin crazy?
Howard Lurie
Was she out of her mind when she implied that the Obama health care bill was going to create a "death panel" that would encourage the elderly to check out early? More

September 06, 2009
The Obama Pain Index
Andrew Thomas
There is a serious requirement for a quantitative rating system to accurately determine the precise amount of anguish and suffering being exacted on American citizens by each action and policy of the Obama administration More

September 06, 2009
ObamaCare and Catholic social teaching
Mark Wauk
Roman Catholic Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa has published an important discussion of Catholic social teaching and health care in his diocesan newspaper. More

September 05, 2009
Obama's Orders Requireth Haste
Miguel A. Guanipa
Now Obama and his administration find themselves once again in a race against time More

September 05, 2009
Remember the Golden Oldies, Dr. Emanuel
Yale Kramer, MD
What those "worthless" old people bring to life is one of the most precious contributions there is-hope. More

September 05, 2009
The Point of the Dagger
Jed Gladstein
A dagger is pointed at the heart of America. Its point is the deliberate misuse of the English language for the purpose of influencing how Americans speak and think. If the dagger is driven home, reason itself will be the principal victim. More

September 05, 2009
By the Book: How Democracies Perish
Lance Fairchok
"Extravagant criticism" and "Exaggerated self-criticism" are perhaps the best descriptions for one of the fundamental strategies used by America's radical left to gain and keep power. More

September 05, 2009
The Big 'Green' Picture
Tad Wintermeyer
The left implores America to live greener, more eco-friendly lives, while at the same time advocating policies and theories that directly contradict their own agenda. More

September 05, 2009
ObamaCare: Establishing God's Kingdom on Earth
Monte Kuligowski
The universal health care push illustrates the far left's ignorance of our constitutional system better than anything imaginable. More

September 04, 2009
Camelot and Obamalot
Robin of Berkeley
Why the left hates conservatives More

September 04, 2009
ObamaCare -- Or Else!
James Lewis
Is there something disquieting about a president who only wants to spread love and compassion to all Americans -- or else? More

September 04, 2009
Teaching American kids that compassion for deadly enemies can be . . . deadly
Bookworm
What kids learn in public schools is hazardous to our survival. More

September 04, 2009
Teddy Care and the Legend of El Cid
Harold Witkov
The Deemocrats are trying, metaphorically speaking, the same trick that the Christians pulled on the Moors 1,000 years ago. More

September 04, 2009
Lies about Bush's record on science
Zbigniew Mazurak
Even though President Bush has left office, the media don't stop lying about his record. More

September 04, 2009
Israel, Taiwan, and the UN
Moshe Phillips
Outcast Isarel can draw some important lessons from the treatment afforded outcast Taiwan. More

September 04, 2009
Support Warren's Law!
Gene Schwimmer
While most of us have been watching, awestruck, as The Messiah parts the waters and walks upon the unparted portions, a tragedy has been unfolding in America. More

September 03, 2009
The Science of Global Warming: Saving the World or Hunting for Ghosts?
Larrey Anderson
There are people who pretend to be scientists and pretend to have explanations for how certain things work -- things that either don't exist or aren't anything like the phenomena that the pretend scientist claims that the things are. More

September 03, 2009
The Not Ready for Prime Time President
Bruce Walker
President Obama seemingly has no clue about what he is doing, and, increasingly, it shows. More

September 03, 2009
Medical Care is a Successful and Growing Industry, not a Liability
Wesley Clark, MD
How is it that growing the revenues and the success of the automobile industry is essential and wonderful, while the success of the healthcare industry is a social evil that must be rectified? More

September 03, 2009
Obama's Death Panels to Unravel Lightbulb Savings
Luminus Maximus
Once Obama's death panels get to work seniors won't live long enough to see enough of the energy savings they have been promised to break even from buying higher priced CFLs More

September 03, 2009
Surging Ahead in Afghanistan
John Byrnes
Just over one year ago, on August 19, 2008 my friend was murdered. Taliban gunmen assassinated Mohammed Ayoob on his doorstep, in a village along the Kunduz River, in the Kunduz Province of Northern Afghanistan. More

September 03, 2009
Castro Thanks Kennedy Family, Bashes Nixon and Bush
Humberto Fontova
The Castro brothers have a lot to thank the Kennedys for. More

September 03, 2009
Senatorial folly
David Fennell
Through the chance of history and some political maneuvering, the fate of ObamaCare could fall upon the decision of a single man who has never been elected to national office. More

September 02, 2009
Sarah Palin vs. Dr. Death
Stuart Schwartz
The president's health care czar sees the growing resistance to his vision, to his brave new world of government-run "communitarian" health care. He doesn't quite understand how it all came apart on him, but he does know who started the unraveling: Sarah Palin. More

September 02, 2009
The Smiling Demagogue of the Age
James Lewis
Every age gets the demagogues it deserves. Barack Obama has been a model demagogue so far. More

September 02, 2009
Skeptics Surprise in Skokie
Joel B. Pollak
If Rep. Jan Schakowsky hoped to use Monday night's town hall meeting as a pep rally for the "public option," she failed. It wasn't for lack of trying. More

September 02, 2009
The Kennedy Test
Christopher Chantrill
You can say say this about the Kennedys: they always seemed to know what Democrats wanted. More

September 02, 2009
Teddy Kennedy's Very Quiet Catholicism
J. Robert Smith
Like a big lump of clay, Teddy Kennedy is being worked and reworked into an immortal. More

September 02, 2009
When Post Editors Attack
Robert Knight
The Washington Post's behavior lately goes so far beyond mere bias that it looks like a caricature cooked up by a comedian or saboteur. More

September 02, 2009
Kennedy's legacy: Chappaquiddick end-of-life care
William Tate
You can bet your grandma's iron lung that under ObamaCare neither she nor you nor I will receive the end-of-life care provided to Kennedy. More

September 01, 2009
Obama's Next Big Push
Lee Cary
Regardless of the outcome of ObamaCare, if past behavior signals the future, the Obama administration's next big push will be to mute its most successful critics. More

September 01, 2009
The Prince of Lies
John Griffing
President Obama's skill as a liar is critical to his success as a Socialist. More

September 01, 2009
Obama's Dog Didn't Bark
Ken Blackwell
The Obama administration is going to great pains to deny that abortion is in their health care plan. The President himself says he prefers not to be "distracted" by this question. More

September 01, 2009
Stay off the bus
Gary Horne
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. More

September 01, 2009
No redemption for the wicked
Steven Zak
There are consequences when we forgive the depraved. More

September 01, 2009
No Dead Parrots Here
Christopher Chantrill
It must have all looked so appealing back in the winter.  Why not publish The Death of Conservatism by New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus on September 1?  The book is, the Economist reviewer says, "an appeal for... More

September 01, 2009
Obama's Legacy: Hope on the Ropes
Edmond D. Smith
Predicting a President's legacy in the seventh month of his first (and only?) forty-eight month term may seem a bit premature but the momentum of this President's economic policies seems inexorable. More