Articles

November 30, 2009
The Ghost of Lysenko
Bruce Walker
The imaginary science of man-made global warning can now be entered into the infamous history of politicized science. More

November 30, 2009
The Mathematics of Global Warming
Peter Landesman
Why the mathematics of global warming doesn't work. More

November 30, 2009
Terrorist Criminal Trials and the Coming Jihad
Abraham H. Miller
Look what happened the last time al-Qaeda terrorists and their attorneys got a hold of the discovery process. More

November 30, 2009
It's that Silly, Politically Correct Holiday Season
Sammy Benoit
I understand that people are trying to be fair, but it just doesn't make sense. More

November 30, 2009
How Do You Measure Integrity?
Bob Weir
Even after corrupt politicians get arrested and indicted, there's a suspicious silence among those who have worked with, and probably partied with, the crooks. More

November 30, 2009
Thinking about Mark Twain on His Birthday
Harold Witkov
They sure don't make American icons like they used to. More

November 30, 2009
Rebooting the Debate
Michael D. Harbison
The defining moment, and how to own it. More

November 29, 2009
Global Warming Fraud and the Future of Science
J.R. Dunn
If the Western world wishes to continue its magnificent upward journey, then we have to save science from itself. More

November 29, 2009
Justice for Accused Navy SEALs?
Jonathan F. Keiler
While it is too early in the process to make a judgment as to the commandos' guilt or innocence, there is good reason to suspect that the military has overreacted in pressing criminal charges. More

November 29, 2009
The Feminine Mistake
Larrey Anderson
Marxism and the far left are not female friendly. More

November 29, 2009
If We Sacrifice Jerusalem, Why Defend London?
James Lewis
Life after Pax Americana may hold some unpleasant surprises. More

November 29, 2009
Hating Sarah
C. Edmund Wright
The Alaska governor is far more than someone who appeals to the (conservative) base; she is someone who can make the base appeal to America More

November 29, 2009
Semantic Engineering
Jim Guirard
Needed to strengthen the lexicon. More

November 29, 2009
Why the ADL Became a Partisan Mouthpiece
Joel J. Sprayregen
The ADL has declined into an autocracy where no opinion counts other than that of its long-time and very well-paid National Director, Abraham Foxman. More

November 29, 2009
Obama's Deadly Strategy of "Compromise"
Kyle Nathaniel Alfred Becker
One must know one's political objectives before fighting a war. More

November 29, 2009
Leaving Corporate America
John Dietrich
Michelle Obama stated, "We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we're asking young people to do. Don't go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community." More

November 28, 2009
The Five Obama Fails
Adam Sparks
The Obama Administration burst onto the presidency with a historic wealth of good will, hope, and change. It is now marked by one failure after another. More

November 28, 2009
The Pathology of Evil in Politics
Andrew Thomas
Do purely evil individuals exist who can hide their true nature from the rest of the world? And are these individuals drawn into politics as a conduit for dominating an unsuspecting and acquiescent populace? More

November 28, 2009
Midwifing Leviathan
Joe Herring
Coming our way via "reform." More

November 28, 2009
Obama's Medical Monopoly
Scott Lazarowitz
If there's anything worse than a private-sector monopoly, it's a government-run monopoly. More

November 28, 2009
Senator Reid Wants to Talk about History
Bill Claydon
A popular revolt against an elitist expanding the federal government. More

November 27, 2009
The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah
Jack Cashill
Side by side, they reveal remarkable things. More

November 27, 2009
Obamazilla Is America's True Nemesis, Not Fellow Patriots
Lloyd Marcus
Eleven months ago, he landed on the shores of the presidency, destroying everything in his path. More

November 27, 2009
Politics and Greenhouse Gases
John McLaughlin
Another blow has been struck against the basic "science" used to support the case for man-made global warming. More

November 27, 2009
Terrorist Criminal Trials and the Coming Jihad
Abraham H. Miller
If ever you needed a reason why terrorists have to be dealt with as foreign combatants, and not as criminals, it would have stared you in the face from the discovery process of Sheik Rahman's trial. More

November 27, 2009
Obama Is an Impediment to the Mideast Peace Process
Lauri B. Regan
From the outset of his presidency, Obama foolishly made Israeli settlements the focal point of his administration's admonishments of Israeli policy. More

November 26, 2009
Blessed with freedom? Thank a soldier.
Kyle-Anne Shiver
We now have a Commander in Chief, who in shallow, selfish mode, regards our troops as a "pretty good photo op." More

November 26, 2009
A Thanksgiving Resolution
Steve McCann
For those who believe in American exceptionalism, individual liberty, and freedom, this has been a dismal twelve months. More

November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving Links between the Internet and Freedom
Janice Shaw Crouse
This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the internet and the opportunity it affords for free expression. More

November 26, 2009
The Pilgrims, Famine, and the End of Feudalism
John Hunt
Famine stalked the Pilgrims the first years. But their conquest of famine helped end old-world feudalism. More

November 26, 2009
Days of Thanksgiving Past
Bruce Walker
Thanksgiving 2009 finds many Americans doubting that our republic can survive and wondering whether we truly have that much to be thankful for these days. God forgive our pettiness. More

November 26, 2009
The Truth of Thanksgiving
Matt Spivey
Our nation has dramatically changed since the inception of this special day. More

November 25, 2009
CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered
Marc Sheppard
These revelations of the fraud cooked into CRU's computer programs should leave no doubt that warming skeptics have been right all along. More

November 25, 2009
Climate Fraud and the Environmental Agenda
J.R. Dunn
Environmentalism is a revolutionary ideology, deriving much of its thinking, rhetoric, and practice from the left. Like other left-wing cults, it is explicitly anti-capitalist. More

November 25, 2009
A Progressive Constitution
Larrey Anderson
If the left is going to change America, first they should change the basic rules set down to guide (and limit, and, in some cases, prevent) their proposed changes More

November 25, 2009
Dismiss General Casey
Ken Blackwell
How was it possible for an Army medical officer to openly express treasonous statements and not be court-martialed? More

November 25, 2009
Anti-Defamation League Runs Interference for Anti-Israel Obama
Don Feder
Is there any doubt that the ADL has become an adjunct of the DNC? The Anti-Defamation League pushes a leftist agenda in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry. More

November 25, 2009
ACORNing the Climate Change Movement
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
The climate change movement may have been caught in its first ACORN moment, with the publication of emails suggesting global warming data has been manipulated or suppressed. More

November 25, 2009
After a Takeover of Health Care, Can a One-Child Policy Be Far Behind?
Robert A. Bonelli
"For the public good." More

November 25, 2009
ObamaCare's Hot Water Treatment
Christopher Chantrill
ObamaCare is a big step towards transforming health care into a rational national bureaucracy. More

November 24, 2009
The Wilding of Sarah Palin
Robin of Berkeley
Why liberalism is not healthy for women and other living things. More

November 24, 2009
The KSM Show Trial
J.R. Dunn
We have an interesting conception here: a new twist on the ancient show trial formula, one truly worthy of Daley's Chicago. More

November 24, 2009
Free Speech Silenced at Columbia and Princeton
Pamela Geller
A shocking cave-in. More

November 24, 2009
Sarah Palin and the Low Ebb of the Cultural Left
Claude Sandroff
This deep, joyful, personal connection Palin makes with the middle class is crudely trivialized by an angry media, revealing only that they fear her more than they hate her. More

November 24, 2009
Obama and the Cult of Youth
Matt Patterson
The difference between healthy societies and sick societies is that sick societies take advantage of the young. More

November 24, 2009
Annex Judea and Samaria
Ted Belman
Everyone knows that there is no diplomatic solution. Israel won't make further compromises to those offered and the Arabs have never compromised in a hundred years. More

November 24, 2009
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Federal Trust Funds
Jon N. Hall
The Congress of the United States of America is consigning you, your children, and their progeny to slavery. More

November 23, 2009
Farewell, Oprah: How About a Gift to Black America Before You Go?
Lloyd Marcus
I have a history with Oprah Winfrey. More

November 23, 2009
Obama the Racist?
Kevin Jackson
Obama is the best kind of racist to whites, but the worst kind of racist to blacks. More

November 23, 2009
Cloward-Piven Government
James Simpson
It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity, and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact. More

November 23, 2009
Why Obamanomics Will Not Improve the Economy
Monty Pelerin
I don't think I have ever seen a more harmful economic environment for the country. More

November 23, 2009
Mary Landrieu Takes Louisianans for a Ride
J. Robert Smith
If the Democrats' health care grab ever becomes a reality, plenty of Louisianans will end up paying through the nose like the rest of us taxpayers. More

November 23, 2009
Academic Cheerleaders for Terrorists
Candace de Russy
Professors with favorable regard for terrorists and a somnolent disconnect from their victims have shown themselves impervious to shame. More

November 23, 2009
Obama's Failed Asia Trip
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
President Obama went to Asia this month with great hopes that he could persuade the Chinese government to let its people buy more American products. He failed. More

November 22, 2009
CRU Files Betray Climate Alarmists' Funding Hypocrisy
Marc Sheppard
It seems that while scientists who accept funding from oil companies are branded as bought-and-paid-for shills, those financed by renewable energy interests remain unchallenged authorities in their fields. More

November 22, 2009
Sarah Palin and the Bard
Joseph Hatch
I was once told that if I truly wanted to understand human nature, all that was required was a careful study of one literary body of work: Shakespeare's. More

November 22, 2009
Obama -- and Reagan -- Go to China
Paul Kengor
Speaking truth to power -- or not. More

November 22, 2009
Deliberative Analysis: RIP
Keli Carender
There no longer appears to be an interest by many on the left to engage in deliberative analysis and debate about proposed legislation. More

November 22, 2009
Profiling the Psyclops
Deborah C. Tyler
The American Psychological Association (APA) has been the most influential force in American psychology for many years. More

November 22, 2009
If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem
Victor Sharpe
Just who is the "occupier"? More

November 22, 2009
Which America Do Americans Want?
John Morgan
Philosophically speaking, there are two Americas, each with a founding father. More

November 21, 2009
The Evidence of Climate Fraud
Marc Sheppard
A folder containing documents, data, and e-mails purportedly "hacked" from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking-gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming. More

November 21, 2009
The Obama/Holder Bushwhack
Jan LaRue
The history of military tribunals for prosecuting unlawful enemy combatants dates back to the Revolutionary War. More

November 21, 2009
The EPA and Me
Nancy Brown
Outside the parameters of acceptable oversight. More

November 21, 2009
The Killers Within
Bernie Reeves
A time bomb began ticking in the mid-1970s. More

November 21, 2009
Pirate Politics
John Leonard
"That's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something, you simply make it illegal." More

November 21, 2009
It's Character, Stupid
Scott Boerman
Character matters -- above all else -- for the preservation of liberty and prosperity. More

November 20, 2009
Obama's Expatriate Years
Thomas Lifson
Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the crucial years Barack Obama spent growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1967 to 1971, ages 6 to 10 in his life. More

November 20, 2009
Entrepreneurs Go on Strike
C. Edmund Wright
Why the economic recovery won't happen. More

November 20, 2009
Obama's Indecision
Ken Blackwell
It's costing us dearly far beyond Afghanistan More

November 20, 2009
Americans Are Messaging Each Other 'S.O.S.'
Lee Cary
In many and varied ways, Americans are tapping out the international distress signal to each other since Washington, D.C. isn't listening. More

November 20, 2009
The Jewish Vote, One More Time
Richard Baehr
The election two weeks ago and the change it shows. More

November 20, 2009
Marriage Versus the Obama/Pelosi Nanny State
Janice Shaw Crouse
Marriage is one of society's foremost incubators of virtue ­­­­­-- those attitudes and habits that promote health and well-being in the individual and all those with whom he or she interacts. More

November 20, 2009
Masters of the Language
John Dietrich
The left's control of the language of political discourse. More

November 19, 2009
Will 2010 Be the Perfect Storm?
Bruce Walker
Seven indicators suggest that 2010 will be a very tough year for the Obama administration. More

November 19, 2009
No Political Purge
James Simpson
There has been a story flying around the internet in recent days that the Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the bureaucracy by using a new federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rule More

November 19, 2009
Remember When
Matt Spivey
After a bumpy year with our new president, it seems appropriate to reminisce about the many labels he assumed for himself and was granted by his admirers. More

November 19, 2009
Jerusalem Stone and the Genocide of Titus
James Lewis
Where Obama sees "settlements," Israelis see both homes and defensive fortifications. More

November 19, 2009
A Tale of Two Community Organizers
Elinor Lynn Warner
A startling parallel. More

November 19, 2009
Islam-Bashers Repent
Amil Imani
What does it take to make Islam-bashers mend their ways? More

November 19, 2009
Death and Life on American Samoa: Update
Linda Halderman, MD
Was Abe's life worth the cost? More

November 18, 2009
The Coming Jihadi Trial Disaster
J.R. Dunn
Criminal justice reform was a major pillar of liberal utopianism during the postwar period. That's the paradigm Obama is now applying to jihadi terrorists. More

November 18, 2009
Fact-Check This, Associated Press!
Jack Cashill
The media continues to ignore glaring contradictions in the biography of the world's most famous man. More

November 18, 2009
Honest Liberals on Mob-O-Care
James Lewis
Yes, Virginia, there really are honest liberals, though they may go extinct long before the last polar bear slides off that melting ice floe. More

November 18, 2009
Why the Left Fears Sarah
Bob Weir
The mortal threat she presents. More

November 18, 2009
Of RINOs, Moderate Democrats, and Men
Bruce Walker
All RINOs are not the same, even when they profess almost identical beliefs. More

November 18, 2009
Cosby and Obama
Paul Shlichta
Obama does have considerable potential as a comedian. He just needs better writers and a slightly more exaggerated delivery. More

November 18, 2009
Hit the Reset Button on Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda
Lauri B. Regan
Paying the price of Obama's misguided decisions. More

November 17, 2009
Obama's Mind Game
Robin of Berkeley
The messiah and his masses. More

November 17, 2009
Trita Parsi: Iran's Nuclear Helper?
Ed Lasky
As Iran advances toward nuclear weapons, investigators focus on a man who has eased the way. More

November 17, 2009
Debating Obama's Health Care Clichés
Carol Peracchio
Trite phrases deserve a response. More

November 17, 2009
A Double-Blow to the Laws of War
Jonathan F. Keiler
The finely wrought effort to apply the rule of law to warfare is steadily unraveling in -- of all places -- Manhattan. More

November 17, 2009
Obama's Polls
Steve McCann
Propping up a power-grab with squishy numbers. More

November 17, 2009
Obama's Copenhagen Suicide Pact
William R. Hawkins
Still planning to cripple our economy. More

November 17, 2009
The Liberals' 'Other' Problem
Christopher Chantrill
As we know from our liberal friends' constant badgering, there is scarcely anything worse than dividing the world into "Us" and "Them." More

November 16, 2009
The Principle of the Excluded Moderate
Larrey Anderson
Why D.C. Republicans become spenders, and what conservatives can do about it. More

November 16, 2009
Sarah Palin's Walmart Strategy
J. Robert Smith
What's notable about Sarah Palin's book tour, which starts midweek, is where she's not going. More

November 16, 2009
The California T Party (T Is for Tax)
Brian Stomski
Fleecing taxpayers is much more fun than cutting spending. More

November 16, 2009
Obama's NYC Show: Starring Khalid Mohammed
Monte Kuligowski
Why try five 9/11 terrorists in civilian court and five by military commission? More

November 16, 2009
Obama and Plummeting Military Morale
Candace de Russy
Morale has fallen sharply among soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Perhaps this has something to do with doubts about their commander-in-chief's commitment to win this war. More

November 16, 2009
The Future Is Now
Steve McCann
The credibility and economic future of the the United States as viewed by the international financial community has never been at such a low point. Most people are oblivious to the consequences. More

November 16, 2009
Devaluing the Dollar by Trashing Private Health Care
Eric Singer
It is not a coincidence that the dollar's decline relative to other currencies and gold has accelerated over the last three months as health care legislation looms closer. More

November 15, 2009
The AT Readers' Complete Lexicon of Political Speech
Lee Cary
Words still mean things, despite the best efforts of politicians. More

November 15, 2009
The Anything-but-Islam Pundits Strike Out
Edmond D. Smith
Not long after Major Nidal Malik Hasan pulled the trigger for the last time at Ft. Hood, the mainstream media began assembling their preposterous, anything-but-Islam narratives. More

November 15, 2009
How America Created the Fort Hood Shooter
Andrew Walden
The Hasan case provides a strong argument for a "broken window" approach to fighting Islamic extremism. More

November 15, 2009
Homeland Insecurity
Jeannie DeAngelis
A tale of two fanatics. More

November 15, 2009
The Decline of the Left
Bruce Walker
The Republican landslide in Virginia and the stunning upset in New Jersey were not the only bad news for the left in the last few months. More

November 15, 2009
Fomenting Anti-Semitism in Europe
Gregg J. Rickman
Once again, it is becoming dangerous to be a Jew in Europe. More

November 15, 2009
Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists
Cinnamon Stillwell
The media has turned to Middle East studies "experts" for enlightenment on Major Hasan...if by "enlightenment," you mean moral relativism and obfuscation. More

November 15, 2009
The Peculiar Exploits of the 111th Congress
Miguel A. Guanipa
Little do we know that many of these unsung heroes spend their workdays perpetually standing up for the rights of the oppressed. More

November 15, 2009
The Differences Between Marriage and Cohabitation
Janice Shaw Crouse
Most people have no clue about the differences between marriage and cohabitation. More

November 14, 2009
Tea Party Express II Tour: IT'S OVER...for Now!
Lloyd Marcus
At our final rally in Orlando, Florida, a reporter approached me. She had a "these people are a bunch of nuts" attitude and a smirk on her face. More

November 14, 2009
'Islamism or Islam? Islamist or Islamic?'
Andrew G. Bostom
The accepted distinctions between Islam and "Islamism," and the corollary distinctions between Islamic and "Islamist" are not only invalid, but obfuscate important realities the West must confront. More

November 14, 2009
Not Too Big to Fail
Ben T. Briscoe
Where does spending based on debt lead? More

November 14, 2009
McDonald's and the Berlin Wall
David Paulin
The all-American restaurant chain with its iconic golden arches helped bring down the Wall and has paid a price for it ever since. More

November 14, 2009
The Carpetbagger
Lee Kayser
An allegory for our time. More

November 14, 2009
Bill Clinton in Kosovo
Georgy Gounev
The former president of the United States undertook a long journey to the middle of the Balkans in order to take a look at his own figure standing twelve feet above the rest of humanity. More

November 14, 2009
A Cracking of the Heart - Interview with David Horowitz
Jamie Glazov
David Horowitz discusses his new book, A Cracking of the Heart. More

November 14, 2009
The Fruits of Labor
Pete Morin
We now have a government that considers it public policy to take from those who are productive and give to those who they believe are less productive. More

November 14, 2009
Iranian Demonstrators Destined for Victory
Arash Irandoost
How Islamists grabbed power in Iran, and how they will fall. More

November 14, 2009
I Am a Lincoln Republican
Yervand Kochar
While interviewing people on the streets of L.A. and N.Y. for a documentary about the Civil War, we came to the staggering realization of how many people assumed that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat . More

November 13, 2009
The audacity of extremism
James Lewis
Obama is running the most extremist administration in American history. It's chockfull of wild-eyed bizarros. More

November 13, 2009
Race, Violence, and the Columbia Professor
John Leonard
Columbia University architecture professor Lionel McIntyre was arrested for assaulting university employee Camille Davis during a heated debate on race in a Harlem bar. More

November 13, 2009
Inside the Tea Party Express
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Kyle-Anne Shiver reports from aboard the Tea Party Express II. More

November 13, 2009
Obama's Man-Caused Disaster Chickens Come Home to Roost
Neil Braithwaite
President Obama's new Homeland Security doctrine has taken our country from being the world's strongest and most intimidating superpower to a weak and vulnerable nation. More

November 13, 2009
Why?
Miguel A. Guanipa
Like me, I'm sure there are a lot of people waiting to hear what Mr. Hasan has to say. More

November 13, 2009
The Income Tax and Government Spending
Gene Schwimmer
Unleashed appetites can ruin a personal life. So also with government. More

November 13, 2009
Twisted and Nuts
Jan LaRue
Listening to government leaders and media avoid any connection between Islamist terrorism and the murderous attack at Ft. Hood is, to use their terminology, about as "twisted" and "nuts" as it gets. More

November 13, 2009
Pelosi Health Care: Drill, Baby, Drill
Harold Witkov
The way I see it, the Democrat health care plan is like a dentist hustling to pick up some extra bucks. More

November 12, 2009
It Isn't Political Correctness; It's Shariah
Pamela Geller
Shariah law forbids criticism of Islam. And here we are. More

November 12, 2009
Academic Freedom for Thee, but Not for Me
Don Feder
Of all the sins of the campus left, the worst is hypocrisy. Academic freedom is a spigot they turn on and off at their convenience. More

November 12, 2009
Tea Parties: Misunderstood and Vastly Underrated
Kyle-Anne Shiver
In a nutshell, the Tea Parties are a visible expression of the widespread rekindling of the love of liberty. More

November 12, 2009
It's Time to Surrender in Afghanistan
Michael Filozof
We have already surrendered in deed, if not in name. More

November 12, 2009
Why Wall Street Isn't Main Street
Jeffrey R. Carter
What we can change to fix Wall Street. More

November 12, 2009
Behind the House Health Care Vote
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
Three reasons why we didn't have representation on health care. More

November 12, 2009
Does Islam Breed Violence?
Amil Imani
There is a division of the house. More

November 12, 2009
What's Wrong With Socialism?
Joe Herring
The Left will not willingly lay claim to the true legacy of socialism, so we will have to hang it around their necks. More

November 11, 2009
When Our Military Is Attacked, Obama Is a Nowhere Man
Robin of Berkeley
He's a real nowhere man, living in his nowhere land... More

November 11, 2009
Breaking Promises and Betraying an Ally at the U.N.
Ed Lasky
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice promised a new direction. Unfortunately, it is backwards. More

November 11, 2009
To Hell with the Constitution?
Jon N. Hall
The federal government has no authority to operate a health care system.. More

November 11, 2009
The "Good American" Who Was Taught to Hate
Brad O'Leary
You've got to be taught. More

November 11, 2009
Rep. Cao vs. Retired Gen. Honoré
Denis Keohane
The single Republican to vote for Speaker Pelosi's version of ObamaCare and the future of New Orleans. More

November 11, 2009
Obama's Post-American World
Monte Kuligowski
When thinking about what defines the Obama doctrine, we might be tempted to say it encompasses blaming America first or apologizing to the world for an unjust America. More

November 11, 2009
Victims, Villains, and Heroes
Ben Voth
Since the Vietnam War, the media has designated soldiers as falling into one of two unfortunate categories: victim or villain. More

November 11, 2009
Remembering Our POWs Who Never Returned
Edward Olshaker
The long search for the truth. More

November 11, 2009
A Lesson in Biofuels from Tennessee
Jeffrey Folks
A boondoggle soaks taxpayers. More

November 10, 2009
Ignoring Infiltration
J.R. Dunn
The narrative has been set down: the problem isn't jihadist infiltration of the military and other organizations, but nonexistent mobs running the streets of America, waving ropes and looking for anyone wearing a dishdash. More

November 10, 2009
The President of Resentment
James Lewis
Obama has never quite displayed his bitter, long-harbored resentment toward America quite as obviously as he did after the Fort Hood massacre. The president couldn't figure out how to respond with the dignity fitting his office. More

November 10, 2009
The Accidental Landlords
Timothy Birdnow
Fannie Mae, that little spendthrift tartlet and loose date for the Democrats, has found a new way to squander money and wreck America's financial institutions. More

November 10, 2009
GOP Branding Blunders
Lyall Swim
The big tent meets brand management. More

November 10, 2009
Democrats' Pearl Harbor Attack on Health Care
J. Robert Smith
Make no mistake: the late-night vote on health care is a sign -- not of Democrats' strength, but of their great weakness. More

November 10, 2009
One Wall Falls, Another Rises
Walid Phares
It makes sense that President Obama skipped the Berlin celebration. More

November 10, 2009
The Purpose of Bureaucracy
Christopher Chantrill
Why does anyone think that a vast bureaucratic health system is going to deliver good health care? Bureaucracies are not instituted among men to provide service. More

November 10, 2009
Losing Our Republic
Matt Patterson
What emerged from the House on Saturday night was a malignant, Republic-killing tumor. It left me wondering about the tea party movement, and how much effect it has really had in this whole affair. More

November 10, 2009
Malia Reeducates Dad
Jeannie DeAngelis
Obama recently went beyond the written text to share with the audience a personal account of his first daughter Malia's educational struggles. More

November 10, 2009
Obama's Middle East Policy Falls Apart
Sammy Benoit
President Obama's Middle East policy is in ruins. More

November 9, 2009
Obama's Wall
Bruce Walker
Twenty years ago today an architectural monument to human enslavement melted before the eyes of the world. More

November 9, 2009
Fatal Correctness
Bob Weir
The brutal massacre of thirteen unarmed soldiers and the wounding of dozens more at Fort Hood, Texas could have been prevented if not for an insidious cloud of political correctness. More

November 9, 2009
Bush or Obama: The Quiz
Randall Hoven
Ask a liberal to take it. More

November 9, 2009
Fresh Faces Require Fresh Techniques
Rosslyn Smith
One reason voters see all politicians as being more or less the same is that that so many candidates in each party follow a campaign template designed more to annoy than to enlighten. More

November 9, 2009
Jihad and America: The Land that Cried Sheep
Selwyn Duke
Why was an obvious jihadist in our military in the first place, let alone promoted to major? More

November 9, 2009
American Medicine Through the Looking Glass
Linda Halderman, MD
What Alice would see on American Samoa. More

November 9, 2009
The New York Times Helped Build the Wall
Jack Cashill
No English-speaker was more responsible for the savage sprawl of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain that reinforced it than the Times' own ace reporter, Walter Duranty. More

November 8, 2009
Constitutional Chess
Larrey Anderson
The rules of interpreting the Constitution have been rigged to support a progressive ideology. More

November 8, 2009
Who lost NY 23 for the GOP?
Rosslyn Smith
There is an old saw in the art world that while critics love to talk about sweeping trends, when artists get together they usually talk about where one can find the best price on canvas and brushes. More

November 8, 2009
The Left and Terror
J.R. Dunn
The terror conflict is a two-front war. The time to open the second front is coming. More

November 8, 2009
Memo to ABC: There's a Reason He's Not Called Smith
C. Edmund Wright
Diane Sawyer was dreadfully upset that the mass murderer from Fort Hood was not named Smith. More

November 8, 2009
Religious Extremism or Traditional Values?
Bob Weir
Behavior must have consequences; otherwise, we'll be ruled by animal instincts. More

November 8, 2009
A new (and old) plan for Mideast peace
Gene Schwimmer
History teaches a startling lesson about the grounds for peace between Arabs and Jews. More

November 8, 2009
The True Cost of ObamaCare
James Simpson
Rising taxes are only the beginning. More

November 8, 2009
Obama's Unnecessary War
Miguel A. Guanipa
Before it became his cross to bear, President Barack Obama redefined the war in Afghanistan as a war of necessity. More

November 8, 2009
National Health Care Reform
Howard J. Warner
A practitioner's view of what works and what doesn't. More

November 7, 2009
The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk
Ed Lasky
The caviar is flowing in Tehran. More

November 7, 2009
Loyalty and the Lunatic Fringe
Thomas M. Kelly
I'm not loyal to the Republicans because they have no loyalty to the opposition of the lunatic Left of the Democratic Party. More

November 7, 2009
The Price of the Public Option
Jon N. Hall
What health care can learn from enterprises that have stable prices. More

November 7, 2009
Do I Wake or Sleep?
Susan D. Harris
Wake up, America. Everything will not be okay. Splash some cold water on your face and look in the mirror. Shake off the grog, the indifference, the despair and depression. Wake up and focus. More

November 7, 2009
Whither Music?
Mark Butterworth
It's a strange time for musicians. More

November 7, 2009
Blackouts and Bankruptcies
Dan Whitfield
How Cap and Trade is destroying the economies of Europe. More

November 7, 2009
Saint Cronkite: Journalism's Twice-Blemished Icon
Eric Rozenman
A myth congeals around memories of Walter Cronkite. More

November 7, 2009
I Am a Lincoln Republican
Yervand Kochar
While interviewing people on the streets of L.A. and N.Y. for a documentary about the Civil War, we came to the staggering realization of how many people assumed that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. More

November 6, 2009
A More Likely Scenario
Andie Brownlow
Whether Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan acted out of insanity or some bizarre moral dilemma, he conducted an attack of a terrorist nature on U.S. soil. More

November 6, 2009
Medical Response to the Fort Hood Massacre
John Dale Dunn MD JD
A report from a physician at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, writing of "the best damn mass casualty drill that could be imagined, made so by extraordinary efforts in the face of a mountain of awful human carnage." More

November 6, 2009
That Light in the Tunnel Is Still a Locomotive
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Did the two GOP victories this week signal a beam of sunshine in a tunnel gone dark with fear and gloom? Or is that light conservatives see just the same old Obama locomotive? More

November 6, 2009
Resolving the Cognitive Dissonance of Islam
D.L. Adams
The negative spiritual and intellectual consequence of believing two mutually exclusive concepts is "cognitive dissonance." Our interaction as a society with Islam is a direct cause of cognitive dissonance, for us as individuals and as a culture.  Resolution of the... More

November 6, 2009
Mark the Date
Tom Bruner
Tomorrow marks an important anniversary that is on nobody's calendar. More

November 6, 2009
Dems Exploit Infant Deaths to Sell ObamaCare
William Tate
There are lies, there are damned lies, and there are the statistics that Democrats have ginned up to try to sell ObamaCare. More

November 6, 2009
U.K. Renewables Revolution Threatens Blackouts
Peter C Glover
Britain faces a a new "dark age" thanks to the church of environmentalism. More

November 6, 2009
Glenn Beck's Jihad on Moderate Republicans
Elliot Schimel
Tuesday night, Democrats took New York's 23rd Congressional District -- a feat they haven't achieved in sixteen years. More

November 5, 2009
Will the Left Try a Kamikaze Rush?
James Lewis
Obama and his dead-enders have to reckon with the likelihood that they will never have more power than right now. More

November 5, 2009
Obama-Pelosi to Health Insurers: Shut Up or We'll Shut You Down
Brad O'Leary
President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and their Democratic followers in Congress have a rather draconian message for the private sector: Speak now, and we'll make you forever hold your peace. More

November 5, 2009
The Great Mystery
Steve McCann
How could a country founded on the principle of individual freedom develop a political class bent on transforming the nation into a collective dominated by a powerful central government? More

November 5, 2009
It's a Gas
Steven Feinstein
I've got a proposition for President Obama. More

November 5, 2009
Obamerika
Greg Lewis
It might be time to take a page from the left's playbook. More

November 5, 2009
Is It Time to End the IMF and WTO?
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
This year's Nobel Prize for Economics was co-won by Elinor Ostrom for her work showing that local solutions often work better than government regulation for solving problems as diverse as preventing over-fishing, conserving rainforests, and policing cities. Perhaps it is... More

November 5, 2009
At the J Street meeting
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
The Washington conference of the new organization "J Street" was a fascinating but scary cultural experience. More

November 4, 2009
The Genie's People Speak at the Polls
Lee Cary
The peoples' Genie spoke yesterday. But will they keep speaking, or will the Genie ease back into the bottle? More

November 4, 2009
Forget the 2-1 Spin; It Was a Rout
C. Edmund Wright
The Democrats did not lose a 2-1 squeaker last night. They lost two huge races, saw an overall evaporation of 25 basis points of support -- and lost by nearly 500,000 cumulative votes in the three high-profile elections. More

November 4, 2009
The Sociopathic Epidemic
Robin of Berkeley
Why the H1N1 flu is not the true national emergency. More

November 4, 2009
Obama Pal Edward Said Another Fraud
Jack Cashill
Birds of a feather... More

November 4, 2009
Conservatives, End the Apology Tour
Mary Grabar
Ever since the left wing captured the universities and media, putative conservatives desiring media favor and intellectual respectability have been apologizing for conservatism's most popular and effective figures. More

November 4, 2009
The Gray Lady Goes Gaga
Ken Blackwell
Do the editors of the New York Times do anything these days besides lay off writers? More

November 4, 2009
Revenge of the Do-Gooder
Scott Boerman
Words are the weapons in the war of ideas. Maybe an old expression deserves new attention. More

November 4, 2009
American Doc in American Samoa: Update
Linda Halderman, MD
The island remains beautiful as we enter hurricane season. More

November 4, 2009
A Privileged Press?
Lance Fairchok
Leakers and the politicians that enable them may be put above the law when they damage national security. More

November 3, 2009
An O-Care Victory Will Make Him More Narcissistic
James Lewis
O-Care is an awful idea for all kinds of reasons, but one that has not been discussed is the problem of giving Obama -- a narcissist who has surrounded himself with thugs -- a crucial psychic victory. More

November 3, 2009
Twenty-Five Years after the Reagan Landslide
Bruce Walker
On election Day, 1984 -- twenty five years ago -- many thought that the ideological battle of America was won. More

November 3, 2009
"Net Neutrality" Nets Out to Government Control
Lee Cary
There's nothing neutral about the Obama administration's push for net neutrality. More

November 3, 2009
A Liberal Whiff of Panic
Christopher Chantrill
It is, I suppose, natural that when an elite is on its way out, it thinks that everyone agrees that "the problems we are facing cannot be solved." More

November 3, 2009
Health Care Reform in the Breach
Carol Peracchio
A registered nurse discovers how much of her medical and personal information has been made available to researchers without her consent. A portent of an even worse future under ObamaCare. More

November 3, 2009
Should Iran Worry that We'd Nuke Them If They Nuked Us?
David Gibberman
Would it be unreasonable for Iranian leaders to believe that "Citizen of the World" Obama would never act unilaterally and vindictively, but instead would leave it up to the world community if America were nuked by Iran? More

November 3, 2009
Will Obama Try to "Split the Difference" on Afghanistan?
Brian Stomski
The Commander-in-Chief's rhetorical approach may offer some clues. More

November 3, 2009
Power to the People
Randy Fardal
How to waste money on a massive scale. More

November 2, 2009
Election 2009 Forecasts
Richard Baehr
On Tuesday, there will be elections in four states: two governorships and two special elections for U.S. House seats, all four of whose constituencies were won by Barack Obama in 2008. More

November 2, 2009
The Vilification of Rush
Kenneth L. Hutcherson
Liberals would prefer no opposition. Behind the force field of political correctness, there should never be any disagreement once the liberal mind has decided that something is good for society. More

November 2, 2009
Glenn Beck, FOX's 'Rodeo Clown'
Lee Cary
Much of what aggravates the Obama administration about FOX News is what Joe Biden would call a three-letter word: B-E-C-K. More

November 2, 2009
No Health Care in the Constitution
Larrey Anderson
And why the "general welfare" argument is wrong. More

November 2, 2009
Bye-Bye, RINO
Pamela Geller
RINOs are not being gracious in defeat. More

November 2, 2009
But What About the Poor?
Allen Weingarten
How much does poverty cost us? More

November 2, 2009
Commander in Chief or Commander in Least?
Noah Steele Kline
As a Marine, Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, and Honorably Discharged Sergeant, I know a thing or two about mission accomplishment versus troop welfare. More

November 2, 2009
The Mental Dry-Run
Gary Horne
The mental dry-run is the key to understanding the far-left mind and its various conflicts with reality. More

November 2, 2009
Keeping Corporations Honest
Jim Yardley
A better way to audit. More

November 1, 2009
Before Dreams, There Was Roots
Jack Cashill
Two of the greatest literary frauds in American history. More

November 1, 2009
Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich: The Visionary and the Hack
Claude Sandroff
The contrast could not be greater. More

November 1, 2009
O isn't dithering on Afghanistan! It's a Harvard Law Seminar!
James Lewis
Obama isn't sure because he just hasn't thought very much about matters of war and peace. He really needs that Harvard Law Seminar they're having in the White House. More

November 1, 2009
Is Barack Obama Anti-American?
Bookworm
Everything has a fundamental essence, a quality that makes it uniquely itself. More

November 1, 2009
Power Derives from Lawful Authority
Jed Gladstein
The President of the United States has no more legal right to sign a treaty that turns legislative, executive, and judicial functions of our national government over to the United Nations than he has to declare that the United States is an Islamic Republic. More

November 1, 2009
LIVE from Aboard the Tea Party Express II
Lloyd Marcus
I'm going to let the cat out of the bag. I confess. More

November 1, 2009
Will We Lose It All?
Joe Herring
The default setting for societies has always been a brutal mash of exploitation, oppression, and unfettered greed. More

November 1, 2009
Why English Is Not the "Official Language" of the United States
Bernie Reeves
And why it should be. More

November 1, 2009
NY 23: Perhaps Not All Politics Are Local
C. Edmund Wright
That we all know -- let alone care -- about the goings-on in New York's 23rd Congressional District speaks volumes about how far things have gone. More

November 1, 2009
Campus Critics on Trial
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Injecting their hatred of the Jewish State into their teaching and research at the University of California. More

November 1, 2009
21-Gun Salute
Patricia Swicicki
A 21-Gun Salute is the highest military salute bestowed upon Presidents, ex-Presidents, and foreign heads of state. Tomorrow, the US Navy will bestow that honor on the 2,976 who perished in the WTC. More

November 1, 2009
Why Marriage?
Rebecca Dalmas
Like fish in the ocean having little awareness of water, our collective intellect has forgotten about the forces managed by marriage. More

November 1, 2009
OPT-OUT Is the Solution
Scott Strzelczyk
I love the idea of an OPT-OUT option proposed in the health insurance legislation currently pending in Congress, but it needs a little broadening. More