Articles

February 28, 2010
To Be or Not to Be Conservative
Randall Hoven
Should conservatives support moderate Republicans? I provide here pragmatic arguments for supporting more conservative Republicans right now. More

February 28, 2010
We Are Doomed -- Again
John Dietrich
Global warming is far from the first apocalyptic prediction, or even the first based on computer models. More

February 28, 2010
Decrypting Obama's 'Pop'
Jack Cashill
The youthful poem that raises so many questions about Barack Obama. More

February 28, 2010
If You Get Too Cold, I'll Tax the Heat
Peter Wilson
When James Hansen came to town to hawk his book, I was prepared to come face to face with a fanatic. More

February 28, 2010
Obama and Charity
Roger Banks
Is Obama's faith in a tender, loving bureaucracy (aka entitlements) consistent with his professed faith in Jesus Christ? More

February 28, 2010
This Isn't Eugenics ... No, Wait!
Mark P. Mostert
Any allusion to present-day biomedical practices as being eugenic usually leads to quite hysterical denials and the accusation of painting with an inappropriate Nazi brush. More

February 28, 2010
Swimming with Killer Whales
Jeannie DeAngelis
And the lessons for politics. More

February 28, 2010
American Christians and Moral Relativism
Selwyn Duke
In this age of media insolvency and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling as religion writers. More

February 28, 2010
Christian Nihilism
Nancy Coppock
America is experiencing a spiritual renewal. This tent revival of American exceptionalism will define the upcoming electoral debate concerning the proper role of government regarding the separation of church and state. More

February 27, 2010
Prosecuted for Saving a Girl's Life
Pamela Geller
A girl flees from her home in fear for her life -- and law enforcement goes after the people who helped her. More

February 27, 2010
Why Not Nominate the Next Reagan in 2012?
Bruce Walker
Who would that be? More

February 27, 2010
Do Liberal Editors Read Their Papers?
Ken Blackwell
The bygone great age of newspapers has been fading from memory as they become more distanced from the real life of our people. More

February 27, 2010
Black Civil Rights Activist Murdered by Castro Regime
Humberto Fontova
On Feb 23, black human rights activist Orlando Zapata-Tamayo died after an 83-day hunger strike and a series of savage beatings by his Castroite jailers/torturers. More

February 27, 2010
Noblesse Oblige: Why the Left Has It All Wrong
Joseph Finlay
While the concept itself likely conjures images of royalty or aristocratic obligations to help the poor during the knighted era, the idea is in fact ancient and stands as a pillar of Western Civilization. More

February 27, 2010
Who Lost Iran?
James Lewis
That slogan "Who lost China?" reminded American voters to elect Ike Eisenhower, the right president for the First Nuclear Age. More

February 27, 2010
The Internet and the Agora
G. Murphy Donovan
The blogosphere seems to be flushing the mainstream downstream. The blowback is venomous and not a pretty sight. More

February 27, 2010
The Man Who Would Take Murtha's Seat for the GOP
Alan Fraser
AT's Alan Fraser interviewed Lt. Col. Bill Russell, who is running for the congressional seat left open by the sudden death of Jack Murtha. More

February 27, 2010
Handgun Derangement Syndrome Grips Restaurateurs
Chuck Rogér
The aftermath of Arizona's new concealed carry law. More

February 26, 2010
Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund
Ed Lasky
The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. More

February 26, 2010
Powerless Against Palin
Gene Schwimmer
The real reason the left devotes the enormous amounts of time, effort, ink, and pixels to attack one woman, Sarah Palin, private citizen. More

February 26, 2010
We Are Being Governed by the Elite? Oh, Really?
Jim Yardley
Who exactly are these supposed betters that are running things for us? More

February 26, 2010
Citizen Cadres of Conservatism
Bruce Walker
Our nation is undergoing a quiet, peaceful removal of a ruling class from power. Here is why. More

February 26, 2010
Congress, Toyota, and CAFE Standards
Scott Strzelczyk
Congress excoriated Toyota executives over recent safety issues even though Congress is responsible for killing far more Americans in car crashes, via the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program it enacted into law. More

February 26, 2010
The 'Jobs Bill' and Baby Steps
Kevin Jackson
The Republicans who voted for the small -- incremental is a better word -- "jobs plan" are really showcasing their ignorance of history. More

February 26, 2010
Let free enterprise take over health care
Tom Jahn
The way Congress has mishandled health care has made rationing a certainty. Let it be self-rationing via the market. More

February 25, 2010
Who Will Lead the TEA Party?
Mike Church and Larrey Anderson
What kinds of people can we expect to step up as actual candidates from the new grassroots movement, the TEA Party? More

February 25, 2010
The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory
Alan Siddons
An idea has been drummed into our heads for decades: that roughly 1% of the atmosphere's content is responsible for shifting the earth's surface temperature from inimical to benign. More

February 25, 2010
Worse than Awful
C. Edmund Wright
The debate over third parties and how bad the Republicans are comes down to this: evil versus awful. More

February 25, 2010
Danny Williams' Surgical Sojourn
Jeannie DeAngelis
The esteemed premier of Newfoundland and Labrador left the Canadian health care system far behind to receive minimally invasive mitral valve heart surgery in the United States. More

February 25, 2010
Obama's Socialism
Adam Shaw
Here in Britain, we look at the continuing battle as to whether Obama is a socialist or not as a rather odd American quibble. More

February 25, 2010
As Despotic as They Need to Be
Joseph Ashby
If Republicans remain united in opposition to the health care bill, then Obama will use their opposition as leverage to take more extreme measures. More

February 25, 2010
Blacks, Youths, and CPAC
Lloyd Marcus
Lloyd Marcus at CPAC. More

February 25, 2010
Olympic Pawns
Janet Lynn
The formation of a new and permanent White House Office of Olympics, Paralympics and Youth Sports will establish more centralized control over "amateur" sports and harm our unique sporting culture. More

February 25, 2010
America's Health Care Options
Anthony J.Ciani
The current health insurance reform bill seems to be the new Schroedinger's cat; it is in a simultaneous state of being both dead and alive. More

February 25, 2010
Be Careful What You Wish For
Bob Weir
Especially if you are connected to President George W. Bush in any way. More

February 24, 2010
Obama's Ides-of-March Moment is Near
Monty Pelerin
By the end of March, Barack Obama's administration will face its destiny, its Brutus a pawn of the fates. More

February 24, 2010
Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason
Rex McBride
Maybe he's been advised by legal counsel to do it. More

February 24, 2010
The Left Will Try to Split the Conservative Vote
James Lewis
If they can't win honestly, the Left is happy to split the conservative vote by hook or by crook. More

February 24, 2010
What Do You Expect with Obama?
Miguel A. Guanipa
It's funny how the media almost always use the word "unexpectedly" whenever they report this country's state of affairs under the Obama administration. More

February 24, 2010
Obama Giving U.S. R&D to China
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
The United States and China are involved in a trade war, the outcome of which will determine who gets America's remaining manufacturing industries and research and development centers. More

February 24, 2010
A Pending American Temperaturegate
Edward R. Long
Our study of data-massaging by the U.S. government agency charged with collecting temperature information raises uncomfortable questions. More

February 24, 2010
The Marriage of Terrorism and Nuclear Capability
C. Hart
Few people think about the implications of an Iranian nuclear umbrella providing a cover for terrorism and subversion. More

February 24, 2010
Najibullah Zazi: Genome of the Homegrown Jihadist
Walid Phares
The Zazi case shows that America is being penetrated by a network that is producing the jihadists, whether as lone wolves or in cells. More

February 23, 2010
Obama's Clean Energy Ploy a Sucker's Game for GOP
J. Robert Smith
Barack Obama has baited a trap for the GOP. More

February 23, 2010
Glenn Beck vs. C. Edmund Wright
C. Edmund Wright
In the spirit of FOX News: I report, you decide. More

February 23, 2010
What Do Muslim Nations Think about Terrorists?
Michael I. Krauss
The good news and the really bad news. More

February 23, 2010
Backing Losers, Shackling Winners: Obama-Style Industrial Policy
Jeffrey Folks
Team Obama seems intent on selecting the weakest players to represent the American economy in global markets. More

February 23, 2010
Recovery via Spending Cuts, Low Taxes, and Cheaper Government
Jeffrey L. Scribner
There is an 800-pound gorilla in the room, and the 535 members of our Congress have done their best for several years to ignore him. More

February 23, 2010
How to Cut the Budget
Christopher Chantrill
There are alternatives to the liberal government programs, and they work every time they are tried. More

February 23, 2010
The Man Who Wants to Take Murtha's Seat for the GOP
Alan Fraser
American Thinker interviews Congressional Candidate Lt. Col. Bill Russell. More

February 23, 2010
Targeting Health Insurance Companies Not the Answer to Healthcare Reform
Creighton Hill
The cost of insurance is merely a reflection of health care cost. Attacking health insurance companies misses the target. More

February 22, 2010
I Am Sarah Palin's Brain
Stuart Schwartz
I'm here, I'm healthy, and I'm doing very well, thank you. Contrary to what you're told by the elites of both right and left, I exist. More

February 22, 2010
CPAC's Odd Ending
C. Edmund Wright
Someone please tell me: Just what the heck happened to a convention that was off to such a wonderful conservative start? More

February 22, 2010
Teaming Up with the Democrats?
Randall Hoven
Leave it to third-string, has-been quarterbacks of the Republican Party to throw an interception at the precise moment conservatives are about to turn the game around. More

February 22, 2010
Is Obama Steering the Ship of State Toward the Rocks?
James Lewis
This is Obama's Audacity of Desperation. More

February 22, 2010
Time for America to Act on Iran
Reza Kahlili
It is becoming increasingly clear that President Obama's policies toward Iran have failed and that disaster is in the offing, writes an ex-CIA spy in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran More

February 22, 2010
What Iran Sanctions Won't Do and What They Can Do
Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker
If sanctions and even embargoes will not stop the mad mullahs, what's to be done? More

February 22, 2010
Knights or Fools?
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Amidst the usual fanfare, President Obama signed the executive order deputizing Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson to head up his Debt Reduction Commission. More

February 21, 2010
Time to Turn Up the Heat on the Warmists
Selwyn Duke
At one time, some would call them "deniers." The more generous called them "skeptics." But now, increasingly, it appears that they can be called something else: sane. More

February 21, 2010
I Have a Dream, Too
Malcolm Hunter
Contrary to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream, I am judged harshly by the color of my skin because my opinion is usually not voiced by 95% of voting African-Americans. More

February 21, 2010
The Pill and Breast Cancer
Tim Collins, MD
Bad news for women who have been using birth control pills, although you won't learn about it from the mainstream media. More

February 21, 2010
The War on Truth
Bruce Walker
Has Obama ever seriously searched for truth? More

February 21, 2010
The Fraud of Progressive Nobility
Chuck Rogér
In order to be progressive, one must keep up the appearance of helping the "less fortunate." More

February 21, 2010
Climategate: What's Wrong with this Picture?
Dexter Wright
More problems revealed by the leaked e-mails. More

February 21, 2010
Climate Change Debate Over? It's Just Begun!
Ken Blackwell
Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets that they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and global warming. More

February 21, 2010
Your Political Mission, Should You Decide to Accept It
Harold Witkov
My fellow conservative, there is an election this November, and I have a political mission for you. More

February 20, 2010
Killing for Tenure
Kathy Garriott
Amy Bishop, arrested for murder, not only wanted tenure, but expected it. More

February 20, 2010
A Tax Holiday for Corporations?
Jon N. Hall
America has the second-highest corporate tax rate on Earth. But rather than cutting rates, why not suspend the Corporation Income Tax altogether? More

February 20, 2010
What Americans Don't Understand about Obamacare
Brad O'Leary
Mr. President, you are correct. We Americans don't understand. More

February 20, 2010
The Wisdom of Conservatism
Andrew Foy, MD
How a young conservative came to appreciate the wisdom of his grandfather. More

February 20, 2010
The Economic Crisis Is Only a Symptom
Monty Pelerin
There are few economic problems that don't originate in politics. More

February 20, 2010
The Left's Great Motivator
Scott Strzelczyk
Beneath the the promise of a utopian society, leftist ideology embodies a darker motive. More

February 20, 2010
John Edwards, Mesothelioma Man, and Health Care Reform
Ralph Alter
John Edwards is perhaps the finest example possible to demonstrate the problems of current tort law. More

February 20, 2010
Family Breakdown and the Nation's Pocketbook
Janice Shaw Crouse
Nothing better illustrates what's wrong with American culture today than a large bronze sculpture in the lobby of the Department of Health and Human Services. More

February 20, 2010
The Incontestable Tenets of the Green Church
Anthony W. Hager
If discussing politics and religion should be avoided at all costs, then science must join the list. More

February 19, 2010
Aren't We Supposed to Win?
Jeffrey Folks
Fear and ambition trump hope and change every time. More

February 19, 2010
Barack's Bi-Polar Nuclear Policy
John Leonard
President Barack Obama recently took drastic steps forward to carry through on his campaign promise to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility before it ever opens for business. More

February 19, 2010
Brain-Dead in Berkeley
Robin of Berkeley
A week in the life of an ex-leftist. More

February 19, 2010
What Does 'Racial Socialism' Sound Like to You?
James Lewis
The United States today has slipped toward race-based socialism: That's the true name for an overwhelming bias for one race above others. More

February 19, 2010
Obama Is Already Achieving Bipartisanship
Libby Sternberg
If his goal is truly bipartisanship, President Obama should relax. On his major policy initiatives, he's achieved it. More

February 19, 2010
Follow the Leader
J.C. Arenas
Let's not fret over the Left's response in the aftermath of the Austin plane attack; they're just boorishly engaging in their usual game of follow the leader. More

February 19, 2010
Opposite Day Obama
D.L. Hammack
It would appear that America has been treated to a full year of opposite days with our president. More

February 19, 2010
Republican Revivification
Jeannie DeAngelis
Back from the dead. More

February 18, 2010
The Re-Establishment of America
Herbert E. Meyer
America is on the verge of something unprecedented in history: the peaceful, constitutional replacement of our country's entire political establishment. More

February 18, 2010
Bill Gates, Environmental Kook
Claude Sandroff
Adoration from liberals comes with a high price. More

February 18, 2010
What Congress May Look Like in Three Years
Bruce Walker
America is overwhelmingly conservative, but that conservative will has long been frustrated. That may be about to change. More

February 18, 2010
Obama's Stone Age
Pamela Geller
Another radical step for Obama, one giant step backward for mankind. More

February 18, 2010
President Incompetent
Ron Ross
The president is not a good strategist. He is not a good judge of probabilities. He has a tendency to pick fights he has little or no chance of winning. It almost appears that he likes losing. More

February 18, 2010
Planning to Fail
Pedro Primavera
If Obama is not incompetent, then surely somebody is trying to ruin the economy while Obama is unaware. More

February 18, 2010
King Had a Dream, but Blacks Now Face a Nightmare
Chris W. Bell
It seems incredible that in the 21st century, we could be backsliding, but the facts don't lie. More

February 18, 2010
How the Left Reveals Itself
Robert Huff
I have recently come to the conclusion that leftists reveal their innermost thoughts when attacking those with whom they disagree. More

February 17, 2010
The AGW Smoking Gun
Gary Thompson
A key component of the scientific argument for anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been disproven. The results are hiding in plain sight. More

February 17, 2010
Sarah Palin Is One Tough Mother
Robin of Berkeley
It's astonishing what her critics continually ignore: that Palin is a mom -- not once, but five times over. More

February 17, 2010
Reasonably Sane Sustainability
Randall Hoven
Our federal budget is on an unsustainable path. Therefore, it will not be sustained. Our only choice is the manner in which it will not be sustained. More

February 17, 2010
Who's an "Ideologue"?
Mark W. Hendrickson
With all due respect, Mr. President, quit being coy and 'fess up. You are an ideologue. More

February 17, 2010
Tea Party Movement Untamed
Lloyd Marcus
It appears that everyone and his brother is seeking to categorize, direct, and control the incredible, increasingly powerful phenomenon known as the Tea Party Movement. More

February 17, 2010
Bending the Curve
John Lilly
Over the last several years, numerous politicians including President Obama have used the phrase "we need to bend the curve" when talking about health care expenditures. More

February 16, 2010
Liberals Say U.S. Is Ungovernable. Again.
Christopher Chantrill
Liberals were saying exactly the same thing in 1980, thirty years ago, in the darkest days of the Carter administration. More

February 16, 2010
Jihad: The Political Third Rail -- At CPAC
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
The jihad against America is more active and assertive than ever -- and hardly anyone is talking about it. More

February 16, 2010
Why Citizens United Helps the Grassroots (and Scares Incumbents)
Richard A. Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons
The catcalls from the political and media establishments about the Citizens United decision are actually music to our ears. More

February 16, 2010
McCain and Hayworth: Tale of the Tape
Randall Hoven
Who is more conservative -- John McCain, or his primary rival, J.D. Hayworth? More

February 16, 2010
Mister Cool and Detached
Geoffrey P. Hunt
For this president, "cool and detached" means "clueless and bewildered." More

February 16, 2010
The Winter Olympics: A Dying Proposition?
Joseph Finlay
The Winter Olympics in the not-so-distant future may face a death sentence. The diagnosis is as simple as it is pernicious. More

February 16, 2010
A Trying Time of Year
Jeffrey Folks
Liberals do not seem overly concerned about the possibility of the decline in our nation's living standards heralded by the rising cost of servicing our ballooning national debt. More

February 15, 2010
Wind Energy's Ghosts
Andrew Walden
Bankrupt Europe has a lesson for Congress about wind power. More

February 15, 2010
Katie Couric: Return of the Palin Slayer
Stuart Schwartz
Katie the Palin Slayer is back, accessorizing with bias and making the nation safe for Obama More

February 15, 2010
California is America's Greece
R.H.J. King
To think that Greece's troubles are an ocean and a sea away from where we stand in North America is to have your head in the Mediterranean sand. More

February 15, 2010
Let's Make a Deal?
Jeffrey Folks
Obama's half-day TV special will probably be a lot more like "Cold Case" than "Let's Make a Deal." Either way, it sounds like a big loser. More

February 15, 2010
The Last Shuttle and the Rise of China
Jonathan F. Keiler
Conservatives who are pleased with any federal belt-tightening might think twice in the case of ending America's manned space program. More

February 15, 2010
Playing Chicken with China
Jesse Richman, Raymond Richman & Howard Richman
There is a game of chicken being played on trade policy with China, with potentially severe consequences for the world. More

February 14, 2010
Climategate's Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud
Marc Sheppard
Climategate's leading man takes the stage hoping to explain his actions, but instead affirms his awareness of the fraud he and his fellow climate cheats were perpetrating. More

February 14, 2010
A Further Inquiry into Obama's Origins
Jack Cashill
Making sense of the facts and chronologies known about the birth and early years of Barack Obama. More

February 14, 2010
A Cautionary Valentine for Lovers
Paul Shlichta
Anyone who attempts to define love or advise lovers is a fool. Since I have never claimed to be anything else, I shall try to do both. More

February 14, 2010
Obama and the Horizontal Axis of Faith
Adam Shaw
The Obama administration has taken a swipe at religious belief. More

February 14, 2010
The Anachronism of Apostasy
Amil Imani
Whereas the practice of slavery enslaves the body, the dogma of apostasy ensnares the mind. More

February 14, 2010
Is It Possible for a Practicing Muslim Soldier to Swear Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution?
Thomas Snodgrass
The Islamic jihadi murders of military brothers in arms raise an uncomfortable question. More

February 14, 2010
Common Criminals or Enemy Combatants?
Miryam Lindberg
One year in office, and the president must be regretting what Obama the candidate often said so eloquently, and even candidly, against Bush's policies. More

February 14, 2010
Ezekiel's Tomb on the Edge of Destruction
Ariel Harkham
A short fifteen-minute drive outside Kerbala, Iraq, one can witness the frontlines of the clash between East and West, Islamism and progress. More

February 13, 2010
The Ambassador and His Twitter Account
Kim Zigfeld
Twitter is proving itself a valuable, if sometimes disconcerting, means of gathering insight into the psyche of powerful people. More

February 13, 2010
Whatever Happened to Toni Morrison?
Jeffrey Folks
And what does she have in common with Barack Obama? More

February 13, 2010
On the Greatness of Kipling's Kim
James Lewis
Kipling's famous novel of Anglo-India, titled Kim, is one of the most enjoyable works in English. More

February 13, 2010
Why Tenure Harms Education
Bernie Reeves
An expensive practice under scrutiny. More

February 13, 2010
Obama and 'First Americans'
Philip C. Bom
President Obama's mandate to implement tribal consultation across all federal departments by February 3, 2010 jeopardizes our national sovereignty and constitutional federalism. More

February 13, 2010
A Different Kind of Avatar
Miriam E. Mendelson
The blockbuster movie's depiction of soldiers leaves much to be desired. More

February 13, 2010
'Tis the Tax Season
Cindy Simpson
Yes, it's that time of year when most of us begin the arduous task of completing our 2009 income tax returns. More

February 12, 2010
Obama and the Government Employees
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama may not have learned much at Harvard regarding the Constitution, but he did learn in Chicago how politics works. More

February 12, 2010
Dear Mr. President: Why We Are Not Hiring
C. Edmund Wright
Mr. President, did I really hear you say businesses aren't hiring because they can't get bank loans? More

February 12, 2010
Why Obama Can't Drop Health Care Reform
SusanAnne Hiller
And who supports him in this effort. More

February 12, 2010
The Dangerous Linkage of Naïveté and Good Intentions
Janice Shaw Crouse
A road better not taken when it comes to protecting our children. More

February 12, 2010
The (Re)Public(an) Option
Gene Schwimmer
As long as the Democrats want to raise the subject... More

February 12, 2010
The Insatiable Need
Michael Charles Keehn
Health care is unique in that it is an insatiable need of humans. More

February 11, 2010
The Rise and Fall of Frank Church: A Lesson for Conservatives
Larrey Anderson
"You need to spend more time around politicians." More

February 11, 2010
Why Real Men Get Their Hands Dirty
Robin of Berkeley
The other day I asked a client for her new cell number. She blushed with embarrassment, held up her left hand, and confessed that she had scribbled the number on it. More

February 11, 2010
Deception as a Principle of Governance
James Long
The Democrats all agree that President George Bush received a surplus when he took office after President Clinton's term, and he passed a deficit to President Obama. Democrats are outrageous prevaricators. More

February 11, 2010
Recommitting America to Missile Defense
Scott Erickson
Within the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama has systematically reduced the capability of the United States to defend itself from the growing threat of global nuclear proliferation. More

February 11, 2010
Our National No-Energy Policy
Claude Sandroff
"No administration in history has done more to ensure producers do less." More

February 11, 2010
Dissing America
Lloyd Marcus
Taking pride in being an American simply is not what it used to be. More

February 11, 2010
Is Bipartisanship a Desirable Goal?
Deborah B. Sloan
A rising tide of calls for bipartisanship coming from the left. More

February 11, 2010
Jew-Hatred on Canadian Campuses
Richard L. Cravatts
Is assaulting Jewish students on Canadian campuses now considered legitimate criticism of Israel? More

February 10, 2010
The end of the IPCC
S. Fred Singer
How 'ClimateGate' saved our economic future More

February 10, 2010
Paranoia Strikes Deep in Obama's America
Robin of Berkeley
In search of the White Supremacist Coalition. More

February 10, 2010
Green Police Aren't Just in Super Bowl Ads
Peter Wilson
If you've been watching the daily scandals destroy the credibility of the U.N. IPCC, then you might not realize that Cambridge, Massachusetts is in a state of climate emergency. More

February 10, 2010
Multiplier Effect Defect
Jeffrey Folks
Defending government spending as investment, liberal economists fall back on the Keynesian theory of the "multiplier effect." As if it works. More

February 10, 2010
A Tragic Use of Language
Alan Fraser
In today's world, the repeated use of the word "tragedy" to describe terror atrocities is self-destructive. More

February 10, 2010
Supreme Arrogance
John Griffing
President Obama and the independent judiciary. More

February 10, 2010
An Obamageddon Snow Job
Jeannie DeAngelis
Barack Obama remained undaunted during the biggest blizzard to hit Washington, D.C. since 1922. The historic snowstorm brought down a presidential snow job. More

February 9, 2010
I Was a Teenage President
Greg Lewis
The Obama administration resembles nothing so much as a big house in the suburbs where the parents are away for the weekend. More

February 9, 2010
Democrats, Meet Your Biggest Nightmare
Carol Peracchio
Believe it or not, my husband's cousin, Paulette. More

February 9, 2010
Party of 'No'...and Proud
Matt Spivey
Conservatism is about being not obstructionist, but principled. More

February 9, 2010
Barack Obama and Corpse Man
Jeannie DeAngelis
Barack Obama continues to astonish only himself by pronouncing Pack-is-tann "Pock-i-stahn," and he hasn't a clue about titles in the military he commands. More

February 9, 2010
No More Rock Stars!
Lauri B. Regan
What happened to the days when experience and wisdom mattered? More

February 9, 2010
Federal Overreach and the New States' Rights Movement
Jon N. Hall
America is not only on the wrong track -- she's on an express train to Big Government hell. More

February 9, 2010
Liberal Conceit
Christopher Chantrill
The Achilles' heel of the left. More

February 8, 2010
Who'll Call the Blue Dogs Out?
J. Robert Smith
Congressional Republicans need to call out the Blue Dogs to help defeat the Obama budget. More

February 8, 2010
Did You Feel the Earth Move?
Jim Yardley
The earth is shifting under our feet, and the political class, both in elected officialdom and in the unelected punditocracy, appears to be oblivious. More

February 8, 2010
Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Zeitgeist
C. Edmund Wright
While Barack Obama remains obsessed with George W. Bush, Sarah Palin hardly acknowledged his existence in Nashville at the Tea Party convention. More

February 8, 2010
Obama's Antidisestablishmentarianism and the Tea Partiers
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Antidisestablishmentarianism has too many letters. And its obscure original meaning has long been forgotten. But it has an important lesson to teach Tea Partiers. More

February 8, 2010
Viet Nam, Holder, Obama, and the Christmas Day Terrorist
Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr.
Interrogation of enemy combatants up close and personal. More

February 8, 2010
Cooling The Kennedy Mystique
Phil Boehmke
The Kennedy clan has to be wondering lately: "What the ____ (fill in blank) happened?" More

February 7, 2010
Another Look at Obama's Origins
Jack Cashill
The murky circumstances of Obama's birth invite attempts to make the known facts fit together. More

February 7, 2010
Populist Constitutionalism and the Tea Party
Larrey Anderson
The Tea Party is a unique populist movement and moment in American history. More

February 7, 2010
Fracking the Academic Left
James Lewis
Two seemingly unrelated stories this week came together in my mind. More

February 7, 2010
Lawfare
Lawrence J. Siskind
"Universal jurisdiction" as war by other means. More

February 7, 2010
A Trail of Broken Promises to Nowhere
Rosslyn Smith
A story that should be kept in mind whenever the government promises to do something in the future in return for a sacrifice by its citizens today. More

February 7, 2010
Obama, Freud, and the American Progressives' Guilt Trip
Chuck Rogér
Progressivism gained altitude in the early 1900s, when the left began to mainline poison flowing from the typewriters of elite philosophical intelligentsia. More

February 7, 2010
War for Islamic Sharia Law
D.L. Adams
Shedding American blood to establish constitutions based on Sharia. More

February 6, 2010
What's Wrong with 'Retarded'?
Paul Shlichta
I admit that it's fun watching an adroit manipulator of political correctness get hoisted with his own petard and be forced to meekly eat his words. More

February 6, 2010
Beyond Hope and Change
Steve McCann
The majority of the American people would be willing to endure the hardships necessary to bring unsustainable spending and debt into line if the path were clearly and equitably laid out before them. More

February 6, 2010
Our National Blind Spot
Mark W. Hendrickson
What causes otherwise-honest people to condone the political plunder and redistribution of personal property? More

February 6, 2010
Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
Bob Weir
Why Chris Matthews "forgot that Obama was black." More

February 6, 2010
Abusegate and Children
Janice Shaw Crouse
Sadly, the mothers' boyfriends and fathers are most often the perpetrators of abuse deaths, and mothers are more often responsible for the neglect fatalities. More

February 6, 2010
Tebow's Super Story
Matt Spivey
Tim Tebow has earned the right to have his story heard in any venue. More

February 6, 2010
Justice Alito Dissents
Jan LaRue
The "Free Speech Five" endured Obama's displeasure for actually taking the First Amendment at its word. More

February 5, 2010
Climategate: Is It Criminal?
Dexter Wright
The potential criminality of the Climategate scandal is exactly the issue that is being investigated by authorities in Britain. More

February 5, 2010
Do Democrats Lack a Conscience?
Lauri B. Regan
If only a White House reporter would ask Barack Obama this one question: "How do you look in the mirror every day?" More

February 5, 2010
Liberal Hate Speech
John Dietrich
When Sarah Palin made Rahm Emanuel's expletive-enhanced use of the word "retarded" an embarrassment, she forced the left to live up to its own P.C. standards. Saul Alinsky would be proud. More

February 5, 2010
Sports Heroes and Conservatism
Bruce Walker
Why is there such a strong connection between sports' greatness and conservatism? More

February 5, 2010
The Art of the NFL
Natalie Axton
Sports get a bad rap in the arts world. More

February 5, 2010
Taxpayers Deserve an Annual Report to the Shareholders
Carl Paulus
The federal government is the largest single financial entity in the world. Its owners deserve the same sort of reports corporations are required to produce. More

February 4, 2010
IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks
Marc Sheppard
Thirty-eight years of U.N. climate scams -- An infuriating recap for those who've been paying attention, and a long-overdue wake-up call for those who haven't. More

February 4, 2010
Cheap Natural Gas and Its Democrat Enemies
Ed Lasky
We have the power to tap vast shale gas reserves that lie under our feet through large swaths of America, but special-interest groups aligned with the Democratic Party are strongly resisting. More

February 4, 2010
Media Insiders Ousted by Citizens United v. FEC
Eileen McDevitt and Larrey Anderson
The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Citizens United stands with Brown v. Board of Education as a landmark refutation of discriminatory treatment. More

February 4, 2010
The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode
David S. Van Dyke
The interesting history of the ozone hole shows striking similarities to the current campaign against CO2 and the anthropogenic global warming fraud. More

February 4, 2010
Desperate Times and Left-Wing Psy-Ops
C. Edmund Wright
This is a naked political psych warfare. More

February 4, 2010
What the Obama Budget Reveals
Jeffrey Folks
Cunning and deceptive. More

February 4, 2010
How to Blame Bush: Lie
Randall Hoven
Has this happened to you? You start reading an article written by a Democrat, wondering if it is just possible that he has a legitimate point. More

February 3, 2010
Obama's Strike Three: The Iranian Bomb
James Lewis
Obama has shown no capacity to deal with national security crises so far. More

February 3, 2010
Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe In
Robert Weissberg
America is addicted to education largess. More

February 3, 2010
Ego, Obama's Achilles' Heel
Lloyd Marcus
The Obama regime had all the power: the White House, a majority in the House and the Senate, and de facto ownership of the media. Yet his agenda is in ruins. More

February 3, 2010
What Is a 'Legitimate' Palestinian Grievance?
Joel B. Pollak
The question that elicited from Obama what used to be called a "Bushism." More

February 3, 2010
Defending Obama's Budget
James Simpson
Monthly versus yearly deficits? More

February 3, 2010
Ivy League Critical Mass
John Kelly
Take away this administration's heap o' sheepskin and you have a group of people lacking the qualifications to do anything other than mouth obscure intentions and display self-esteem. More

February 3, 2010
Thanks to Obama, I Now Worry Less about Israel
Harold Witkov
As the saying goes, "Worry is like a rocking chair -- it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." More

February 2, 2010
The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann
Stuart Schwartz
"It ain't over until the fat lady sings." More

February 2, 2010
James O'Keefe and the Fourth Estate's Double Standards
David Paulin
Lying, cheating, stealing -- all have been employed by gung-ho members of the Fourth Estate for the sake of the public's right to know. More

February 2, 2010
Pelosi's Last Hurrah
Jane Jamison
San Francisco's congresswoman of 23 years, the daughter of a Baltimore mayor, has a sense of self-entitlement and extravagance unimagined by most public servants and ordinary folk. More

February 2, 2010
The Lost Decade
Randall Hoven
President Obama called the "oughts" (2000-2009) the "lost decade." That was his way, yet again, of blaming Bush. More precisely, it was Obama heeding the advice of Homer Simpson. More

February 2, 2010
Budget Fun with Fannie and Freddie
Christopher Chantrill
How to hide $400 billion in government spending. More

February 2, 2010
Do We Have What It Takes?
Vasko Kohlmayer
Even as the American people are increasingly looking to conservatism for deliverance, we need to ask whether we have what it takes to tackle the existential challenges this country faces. More

February 1, 2010
Can Illinois Go Red, and Give the White House the Blues?
Richard Baehr
Illinois has been a disastrous state for Republicans for over a decade. That could start changing tomorrow. More

February 1, 2010
Black History Month Should Be about Black History
Lloyd Marcus
I've often said jokingly that Black History Month should more accurately be called "white people and America suck" month. More

February 1, 2010
It's Not Blowing in the Wind
Brian Sussman
The typical politician two-step: Give the right-wingers a little drill-baby-drill, and give the libbies lots of green power. More

February 1, 2010
The Most Important Story You Didn't See Last Week (and Probably Won't Ever See)
William Tate
A warning worth heeding. More

February 1, 2010
Culture in the Rye
Selwyn Duke
Who really made The Catcher in the Rye popular? More

February 1, 2010
Susan Rice: Another Do-Little Obama Appointee
Ralph Alter
Channeling her inner Desiree Rogers? More