Articles

March 31, 2010
The Shock of Barack
Robin of Berkeley
I've been feeling funky since Black Sunday, the day of the health care debacle. As a therapist, I'm usually able to identity my feelings. But this one had left me stumped. More

March 31, 2010
We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight
Stuart Schwartz
Okay. Obamanation won this round of the ObamaCare battle. But he will not win the war. More

March 31, 2010
Tea Parties and the Republican Party
Bruce Walker
The idea that the two political parties are fundamentally the same is either simple-minded or insincere. More

March 31, 2010
Natural Law and the 'Right' to Health Care
Daniel H. Fernald
Is there a "right" to health care? The U.N., the EU, and now the U.S. Congress are on record as taking the affirmative on this question. More

March 31, 2010
The Ruins of Byblos
Joel B. Pollak
The motives for anti-Israel hatred are surely irrational, but the encouragement that anti-Israel forces are drawing from the events of recent weeks is surely rational. More

March 31, 2010
Israel's Crisis and Opportunity
Steven M. Goldberg
Rahm Emanuel famously proclaimed, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste." The leadership of Israel would do well to heed his advice. More

March 31, 2010
Obama and Wilson
David Pietrusza
What do Woodrow Wilson and Obama have in common? Far more than you think. More

March 30, 2010
A Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy
Jack Cashill
How a libel was spread. More

March 30, 2010
We Are Expected to Believe
Joseph Smith
"Health Care Plan Gains Favor," insists the White House message, echoed incessantly by the me-too media and passed off as news across the land. More

March 30, 2010
Listen to the Panther
Ed Kaitz
A leftist who wised up has much to say to a new generation. More

March 30, 2010
So You Say You Want a Revolution?
Matt Patterson
How are the people to react to the destruction of their liberty that is the Obama health care regime? More

March 30, 2010
Whom Do You Trust?
Christopher Chantrill
Too many people give the benefit of the doubt to government but are outraged when corporations are less than perfect. More

March 30, 2010
Obama's Ire, Not U.S. Interests, Directs Israel Policy
Jonathan F. Keiler
Obama, like any American, is entitled to his personal preferences and prejudices. However, President Obama has a duty to act in the best interests of the American people. More

March 30, 2010
ObamaCare and the Forces of History
Jayme Sellards
Democrats describe the passage of the new health care legislation as "historic." What do they mean by that? More

March 30, 2010
Obama Blames China
Jeffrey Folks
Obama has spent the first fifteen months of his presidency blaming others for his mistakes, so it is not surprising that he is now blaming foreign competition for the continuing loss of jobs at home. More

March 29, 2010
Big Brother Becomes Big Bully
Ed Lasky
Has our government become a big bully? Let us count the ways. More

March 29, 2010
Farewell and Adieu, Jack Bauer
Rick Moran
Jack Bauer may be the first fictional character in history who has been accused of inciting war crimes. More

March 29, 2010
The Supreme Court and FDR's Power-Grab
J.R. Dunn
How great a chance do we have to overthrow ObamaCare in the courts? To answer that question, we need to look into that bleak pit of falsehood and mendacity that America's left would like us to ignore at all costs: the historical record. More

March 29, 2010
Charlie Rangel Faces His Scott Brown
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
What better message to send to Washington than to defeat an old bull like Charlie Rangel? More

March 29, 2010
Capping Insurance Rates: Engineered Chaos
John Griffing
Attempting to control prices is like trying to control rain: It cannot be done, and those who try will get wet. More

March 29, 2010
Making the Housing Crisis Worse
Dan Nagasaki and Glenn Doi
The Obama administration has announced a new plan to help homeowners facing foreclosure due to under-employment and unemployment. More

March 29, 2010
Islamist Gülen Movement Runs U.S. Charter Schools
Stephen Schwartz
A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools -- which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum -- on U.S. soil More

March 29, 2010
Sucking the Blood of the Ambitious
Bob Weir
The fact that workers are already paying about 50 percent of their earnings in taxes every year is of no interest to those who live by sucking the blood of the ambitious. More

March 29, 2010
The Roots of Washington's Failures in Dealing with Rogue Regimes
Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker
The United States has had a lousy track record in dealing with rogue regimes for at least the past three decades. More

March 28, 2010
Hope and Change, as Predicted
Randall Hoven
In January 2009, I made ten fairly specific predictions about Obama. How did they turn out? More

March 28, 2010
Uplifting the Poor One Lie at a Time
Robert Weissberg
The desire to expand the social welfare state, even if by quackery, has become so ingrained in certain academic departments that it resembles a religious faith. More

March 28, 2010
Democracy and Freedom
Bruce Walker
We often confuse democracy with freedom. The greatest good of government is liberty -- that is what our Declaration of Independence emphatically states. More

March 28, 2010
Positioning Israel as the Nazi of Nations
Richard L. Cravatts
The medieval blood libel still appears as part of Arab world's vilification of Jews -- now transmogrified into a slander against Israel. More

March 28, 2010
The Protocols of the Elders of Christendom?
Alan Roebuck
Theocracy-watchers believe that they have discovered a sinister Christian plot to take over America. More

March 28, 2010
The Toyota Problem: Is It Driver Error?
Danny Huddleston
Toyota chased General Motors for years until finally passing the General to become the world's largest automaker, and now...disaster. More

March 28, 2010
Stealing Capitalism: The Crime of the Century
Jill S. Sprik
It's been 105 years since a clandestine plot was hatched to purloin America's capitalist system and replace it with socialism. More

March 28, 2010
What You Get with Free Health Care
Janice Shaw Crouse
Under ObamaCare, Uncle Sam becomes Santa Claus. But sooner or later, the bills come in, and all those "gifts" turn out to be pretty expensive after all. More

March 28, 2010
The Obama Zone
Lauri B. Regan
The past fifteen months of living under the Obama presidency bring to mind the 1950s television series "The Twilight Zone." More

March 28, 2010
The Scapegoating of Jews
Amil Imani
Without scapegoats to blame, we are forced to look to ourselves for our problems. More

March 27, 2010
Welcome to the Machine: Cultural Marxism in Education
Chuck Rogér
What reduced American education to its current state? More

March 27, 2010
Electric Green Waste
Bruce Thompson
Green initiatives are costing hard-pressed Americans billions of dollars. More

March 27, 2010
The Wishful Thinking Election of 2008
Jeannie DeAngelis
Sappy sentimentality has left the country with an ineffectual, ill-equipped leader. More

March 27, 2010
Health Care, Sick Care, and ObamaCare
Michael Applebaum, MD
There are simple reasons why the ObamaCare approach can never and will never work to accomplish its stated goals. More

March 27, 2010
Federalized Higher Education
Ron Lipsman
By dangling dollars, the federal government controls the operation, enrollment, budget, facilities, and curriculum of our esteemed institutions of higher education to a greater degree than most would acknowledge. More

March 27, 2010
A Look at Preexisting Conditions
David S. Van Dyke
Unless you happen to be in absolutely perfect health, you probably have a preexisting condition. It's all a matter of degree. More

March 27, 2010
Obama and Herbert Croly
John B. Parrott
President Obama, in his quest for victory on health care, has striven mightily to do everything the progressive believes the socially conscious leader ought to do. More

March 27, 2010
Freedom of the Mind and the Emasculated Society
Gary Wolf
Lessons for America today from the ancients. More

March 27, 2010
What If Johnny Appleseed Turned Out to Be Johnny Rotten-Appleseed?
Harold Witkov
What if Johnny Appleseed had been a prankster? More

March 27, 2010
The Blight of the Cherry Blossoms
Jeannie DeAngelis
Natural surroundings speak symbolically as the environment makes manifest the sad state of affairs afoot in American politics. More

March 26, 2010
The Weatherization Boondoggle
Peter Wilson
Leave it to the left to turn something as sensible as insulating your house into a big-government organized-labor boondoggle. More

March 26, 2010
Engineering the New Electorate
Jon N. Hall
How to create an enlarged Democrat voter base and win elections forever. More

March 26, 2010
It's Hard to Make a Doctor
Richard Hailey
We should not take for granted that a doctor will always be there when we need one. More

March 26, 2010
No Limits on Federal Power?
Louis Case
We're going to be hearing a lot about the commerce clause. More

March 26, 2010
The Last Line of Defense between ObamaCare and Kansans
Milton R. Wolf, MD
I am Milton Wolf. After this last week, you probably know me as the doctor who is Barack Obama's cousin. I wish my cousin well, but my oath is to my patients. More

March 26, 2010
An English Perspective on Health Care
Adam Shaw
President Obama tells stories of woe where Americans have been subjected to "unnecessary procedures" and "five tests instead of one," when people in England are finding it difficult to get approved access to necessary procedures. More

March 26, 2010
Coercive Charity Destroys the Human Spirit
Joseph Rosenberger
Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that the ObamaCare effort reflected American's founding declaration of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Nothing could be farther from the truth. More

March 26, 2010
A Nation of Dependents
Beth Haynes, MD
ObamaCare is one more destructive iteration of central planning. More

March 26, 2010
The Looting of America
Sidney Sherman
Now that we've crossed the bridge to utopia by simultaneously shredding the Constitution and establishing the health-care state, it's worth looking back and seeing March 21, 2010 in the context of recent history. More

March 26, 2010
Mexico's Drug War and America
Scott Erickson
It is time for the Obama administration to up the stakes. More

March 25, 2010
Downsizing America's Economy
Steve McCann
You can thank President Obama for the lower standard of living coming your way. The numbers tell the story. More

March 25, 2010
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
Robin of Berkeley
When I woke up Monday morning, I felt like I had the world's worst hangover...though I hadn't drunk a thing. More

March 25, 2010
The Progressives' Perfect Trojan Horse
Lloyd Marcus
Democrats say that their mission is to give all Americans health care. Democrats are lying. More

March 25, 2010
No Longer Able to Save on Health Care Insurance
C. Edmund Wright
The president has promised that his health care plan will save the average American family 2,500 dollars a year in insurance premiums. What an amateur! More

March 25, 2010
Sabotaging the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Leo Rennert
Manufacturing phony "news" to aggravate a ginned-up crisis. More

March 25, 2010
End of the Road
Joel B. Pollak
Effectively, the Obama administration has made progress towards a two-state solution difficult, if not impossible. More

March 25, 2010
Secularism's Ongoing Debt to Christianity
John D. Steinrucken
We secularists should recognize that we owe much to the religionists, that we are not threatened by them, that we should grant to them their world. More

March 25, 2010
Petraeus of Arabia
Avi Davis
If supporters of Israel have been roiled lately by the tense exchanges between Washington and Jerusalem, they are soon in for another shock. More

March 25, 2010
Juan Cole: The Ted Williams of Middle East Studies?
Winfield Myers
University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole is desperate for you to know that he is eminently qualified to speak publicly on the Middle East. More

March 24, 2010
Obama's Empty Health Care Victory
J.R. Dunn
One major fantasy of American liberalism is the illusion that they get the last word. More

March 24, 2010
Anatomy of a Racial Smear
Jack Cashill
For the last year, the media have been desperately trying to hang the "racist" tag around the Tea Party movement as a way to discredit it. This past weekend, they would seem to have finally succeeded. More

March 24, 2010
The ObamaCare 'Acceptance' Strategy
Richard J. Little
There is a huge new public relations offensive being unleashed by the Democrats and their allies in the progressive left designed to undermine opposition to and hasten acceptance of ObamaCare. More

March 24, 2010
Stupak and His Sheep
Bruce Walker
At least Pelosi and Obama can be seen as honestly, horrifically wrong. Some people simply do not grasp the evil of unrestricted abortion. More

March 24, 2010
Roosevelt Redux?
Jon N. Hall
Despite the pain of millions of Americans during his first two terms, it is precisely this part of FDR's tenure that generations of Democrats have held up as his triumph. He expanded government as he prolonged the Depression. More

March 24, 2010
T.R.'s Worst Mistake
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
T.R. and nationalized health care. More

March 24, 2010
Our Problem Is a Lack of Health Care -- the Moral Variety
Selwyn Duke
ObamaCare was entirely predictable, even decades ago. More

March 23, 2010
In Defeat, Defiance
Christopher Chantrill
ObamaCare is about raw political power. It is about threats, deals, arm-twisting, and paying for votes with taxpayers' money. More

March 23, 2010
The Moral Case Against Health Care Reform
Andrew Foy, MD
Some members of society today confuse the concept of true freedom or liberty with the concept of how many options are available to an individual. More

March 23, 2010
Obama's Audacity of Tenacity
J. Robert Smith
Freedom-lovers will simply need more audacity and tenacity than Mr. Obama possesses to defeat him and roll back his schemes. More

March 23, 2010
Healthy Community Initiatives: A Microcosm of What We're In For
Barney Quick
Say hello to the nanny state, and get ready for the personal to always be political when it comes to health care. More

March 23, 2010
How Many Pounds of Flesh Will It Take to Kill Israel?
Harold Witkov
Ariel Sharon, thinking himself clever and insightful, thought he could appease the hungry lions of the world with the pound of flesh of his choosing: Gaza. More

March 23, 2010
Be Careful What You Wish For
Avi Davis
Obamacare enters history as a modern-day version of the Rosetta Stone, to be interpreted and reinterpreted by our judges and legislators for many generations into the future. More

March 23, 2010
Obama and Clinton Flunk the Pinocchio Test at AIPAC
Leo Rennert
Their comments and pledges of all-out support of Israel now ring quite hollow in light of their unrelenting pressures and criticisms of Israel. More

March 23, 2010
Dissembling, Death, and Deficits
Geoffrey P. Hunt
This past weekend marked more than the passage of ObamaCare by the U.S. House of Representatives. It confirmed the revealed truth of Democratic Party politics. More

March 23, 2010
Obamacare and Bleeding-Heart Liberals
Grant Giske
Bleeding-heart liberals need a vibrant private free enterprise economy to generate the wealth which they can then redistribute to those for whom their hearts bleed. More

March 22, 2010
Where Were You When the Republic Died?
Matt Patterson
In November 2008, Americans elected a socialist as their president. In March 2010, they woke up stunned to find themselves living in a socialist country. More

March 22, 2010
Obamacare's Achilles Heel
Bruce Phillips
The bipolar aspect of liberalism buys us little. More

March 22, 2010
America Lost
Steve McCann
We know that this health care bill will be nearly impossible to fully repeal, but more importantly, it will pit the government against the individual. More

March 22, 2010
The One Preexisting Condition Getting a Cure
C. Edmund Wright
We have the debate over ObamaCare to thank for one thing at least: the treating of the preexisting childlike delusion that bipartisanship is possible, let alone desirable, when the other side is the Obama Democrats. More

March 22, 2010
Third Act for the Jerusalem Crisis this Week
Leo Rennert
Relations between the United States and Israel hit crisis level last week. Events this week will determine whether the drama will be a tragedy or farce. More

March 22, 2010
Voter Backlash Beyond ObamaCare
Rosslyn Smith
ObamaCare is far from the only flashpoint of voter anger. More

March 22, 2010
I Love Her, Scars and All
Frank. V. Johnson
I have found that the love I have for her is something that cannot be shaken by the doubts and criticisms of other people. More

March 21, 2010
Aristotle's Warning
Ed Kaitz
"People are prone to think that the fact of their all being equally free-born means that they are all absolutely equal." More

March 21, 2010
Is BHO the New FDR?
Jack Cashill
The parallels between FDR and BHO are hard to miss More

March 21, 2010
The Demon Pass and Its Self-Executing Slaughter Solution
Robert Gelinas
The political carnage in November will surely be breathtaking to behold, but recognize clearly that the body count has already begun More

March 21, 2010
Process Is Liberty
Bruce Walker
Process -- adherence to the fundamental rules of representative democracy -- is liberty, and liberty is the only real good democracy offers. More

March 21, 2010
When Freedom Fails: The Myth of Decolonization
Robert Hoffman
The politically incorrect results of decolonization in the Caribbean Basin. More

March 21, 2010
Bin Laden, Manson, and Martha
Jan LaRue
According to the Obama administration, America-haters will turn warm and cuddly toward us when they watch our civil justice system try jihadists as if they're a remnant of the Manson Family. More

March 21, 2010
Faith, Charity, and the Atheist
Miguel A. Guanipa
Helping others simply because it makes us feel good about ourselves in a world of no moral absolutes. More

March 20, 2010
Taxpayer-Funded Abortion on Demand, Courtesy of a Catholic and a Mormon
Eileen McDevitt and Larrey Anderson
It is beyond ironic that a Mormon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a Catholic, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are in charge of passing ObamaCare. More

March 20, 2010
Democrats Have Painted Themselves into a Corner
Jed Skillman
Problem is, it's not just Democrats in the corner; they've got the whole country held hostage with them. More

March 20, 2010
The Exploitation of Israel's Vulnerability
Lauri B. Regan
While many Americans feel like they have been living through an Orwellian nightmare since Obama took office, Jews in particular are waking up to the reality of their vote. More

March 20, 2010
All in a Day's Work for a Cop
Bob Weir
One of the toughest jobs for any police officer is the issuance of traffic tickets for minor violations. Yes, even minor laws must be enforced, but it's not the best public relations opportunity for cops. More

March 20, 2010
Beware the 'Expert'
Daniel H. Fernald
How a dead Frenchman could help save America. More

March 20, 2010
Community Organizing 2.0: 'Climate Community Activism'
Peter Wilson
A casebook study of a new movement of "climate community activism" that pushes sustainability issues in municipal governments. More

March 20, 2010
The Politically Correct Libertarian
Stephen Mauzy
How to elect statists. More

March 20, 2010
Obama and Israel: Making the Same Mistake Again and Again
Jeff Dunetz
The Bible says that the Jews are descended from twelve brothers, and they have always acted that way. More

March 20, 2010
Mr. McDonald's Handgun
Ben T. Briscoe
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in what will be a landmark case for the Second Amendment: McDonald v. Chicago. The stakes have never been higher. More

March 19, 2010
There's No Caring in ObamaCare
Robin of Berkeley
For the old and disabled, the prospect of ObamaCare is a matter of life and death. More

March 19, 2010
How Obama Is Turning America against Israel
Ed Lasky
At best, Barack Obama committed the latest big mistake in his conduct of foreign policy this week. At worst, the president carried out a deliberate operation intended to weaken the U.S.-Israel relationship More

March 19, 2010
Switching Sides
Pamela Geller
In a stunning and historic reversal of American foreign policy, the United States is now backing one of the same horses it fought during World War II. More

March 19, 2010
Is the White House Emotionally Lashing Out at Israel?
James Lewis
Obama's team is still immature, fumbling, and easily triggered to react in predictable ways. More

March 19, 2010
What Crisis?
Ken Blackwell
President Obama needs every vote he can get in the House of Representatives for health care this week. So it would not do to have some of his best friends on the Hill think that there is a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations right now. More

March 19, 2010
Global Warming on Trial
Dexter Wright
Scientific honesty is at the very heart of the global warming debate, and it will likely be the centerpiece for legal questions soon to be presented in the dramatic setting of a federal courtroom. More

March 19, 2010
On Ethics, Let the Minority Rule
Joel B. Pollak
A simple and costless reform to better rein in Congressional ethics abuses. More

March 18, 2010
Bret Baier: 1; President Obama: 0
C. Edmund Wright
Don't you just love it when a young student hammers the arrogant professor in a debate? That was the distinct feel of last night's "Special Report." More

March 18, 2010
Chris Christie's New Jersey Revolution
Claude Sandroff
When the The Star-Ledger, can post a headline that reads, "Action Leaves Democrats Seething," you know the right person is in charge. More

March 18, 2010
Breaking the Obama Code: The Green Money Machine
Patti Villacorta
As a few dozen dot-com billionaires gathered in a Palo Alto living room one evening in early 2007, then-Senator Obama rallied potential new donors More

March 18, 2010
ObamaCare is Tyranny, Not Legislation
Janice Shaw Crouse
What we're seeing in Washington, D.C. is not "politics as usual" with the arm-twisting and "horse-trading" that is typical in getting a bill passed More

March 18, 2010
No Reason for Economic Optimism
Earl A. Thompson
The response to the economic crisis has been bungled. More

March 18, 2010
The President's Middle East Playbook
Avi Davis
Barack Obama has achieved the impossible: He has managed to bring together secular Israelis and ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heated campaign against him. More

March 18, 2010
Obama's Trade Policy Agenda
Raymond Richman, Howard Richman, and Jesse Richman
This may be America's first "five year plan." More

March 18, 2010
A Man Named Rick
Jeffrey Folks
It is obscene to hear the president boasting about how many jobs he has created or saved when, in fact, jobs continue to disappear, and while decent men like Rick sit outside in the cold, asking only for a chance to work. More

March 17, 2010
Obama Is a Stranger in a Strange Land
Robin of Berkeley
Obama has been called a Citizen of the World. While liberals find this appealing, what it actually means is that Obama has come from nowhere and belongs nowhere. More

March 17, 2010
Bill Maher to God: Stand Aside for ObamaCare
Stuart Schwartz
The way Bill Maher sees it, resistance to ObamaCare is all God's fault. More

March 17, 2010
Hanks, Hollywood, and History
Bruce Walker
Surely even Tom Hanks can grasp the pure evil of Saddam Hussein. More

March 17, 2010
The Subtext of the Obama-Israel Dispute
Amy D. Goldstein
For excellent reasons, Jews are particularly sensitive to attempts to limit their "natural growth" and the area in which they can live. More

March 17, 2010
Neo-Soviet Russia and America
Kim Zigfeld
As Russia moves toward neo-Soviet brutality, Obama has suggested resetting only U.S. attitudes towards Russia -- in other words, appeasement. More

March 17, 2010
The Keynesian Fraud
Monty Pelerin
Keynesian economics is mostly a fraud and always has been. It has little theoretical basis and no empirical support, but its fans include many dependent on the big-government spending it justifies as stimulative. More

March 17, 2010
America's Political Crisis
Deborah B. Sloan
We are told that there is no time to think and we must act immediately -- Washington will do the thinking for us. More

March 16, 2010
Obama to Israel: 'Drop Dead'
Richard Baehr
It took awhile -- fourteen months, to be exact -- but both the ADL and AIPAC have issued very solid statements condemning the president's new verbal war on Israel. More

March 16, 2010
The Coffee Party Con
Thomas Lifson
The new and much-publicized Coffee Party movement sports a fairy tale narrative about being a spontaneous uprising of concerned Americans. More

March 16, 2010
Soros's Deal
Vasko Kohlmayer
George Soros has another terrible idea, one that will make him even richer. More

March 16, 2010
Hope(fund) and Change: Breaking the Obama Code
Patti Villacorta
Always looking ahead for the next stage, Barack Obama launched his Hopefund PAC on January 25, 2005, twenty days after he was sworn into the U.S. Senate. More

March 16, 2010
Wake-Up Call for the Tea Party
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Tea Partiers who think they're onto something special are right. In terms of competing with the organized left, though, they're light-years and hundreds of millions of dollars behind. More

March 16, 2010
Why the Rules Matter
Christopher Chantrill
Back in Bush era it was Republicans that got fed up with the rules. Democrats in the US Senate were filibustering conservative judge nominees. Now the Democrats are in power and they are frustrated with the rules. More

March 16, 2010
An Historic Synagogue Reopens to Joy and Sadness
Leo Rennert
Twice destroyed by Muslims, a synagogue reopens to become a political football. More

March 15, 2010
Pelosi and Marx on 'Freedom'
Ed Kaitz
Nancy Pelosi wants to give birth to a new kind of freedom in America -- the freedom from being "job-locked." She's not exactly the first to push the concept. More

March 15, 2010
No Taxation with Misrepresentation?
Rosslyn Smith
If Congress passes a takeover of health care via dubious means, flaunting the consent of the governed, the consequences may be far more profound than dreamed by Reid, Pelosi, and Obama. More

March 15, 2010
What I Will Do If ObamaCare Passes
Harold Witkov
My top four "Plan B" safety-valve ideas if ObamaCare passes. More

March 15, 2010
Class Conflict in Obama's America
Steve Bartin
Marxists have long stated that class conflict exists between workers and the owners of capital. Today's biggest class conflict is between privileged government workers and the citizens they purportedly serve. More

March 15, 2010
The Attack on Netanyahu
Leo Rennert
As if Mideast diplomacy doesn't face enough hurdles, Obama has made things worse by orchestrating fierce attacks by Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More

March 15, 2010
International Condemnation of Israel -- So What's New?
C. Hart
The U.S., once again, is overplaying its hand. More

March 15, 2010
Obama the Entrepreneurship Expert
Monty Pelerin
We have a president who believes that he is always the smartest man in the room, no matter what room. More

March 14, 2010
The Real Tea Party Story: Community Builders vs. Community Organizers
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The counterfeit altruism of Saul Alinsky's community organizer movement has more than met its match in the Tea Partiers, genuine community-builders. More

March 14, 2010
'Are Liberals, Atheists More Evolved than Conservatives?'
James Lewis
National Geographic asks this profound question in a first screen headline on its website. More

March 14, 2010
Logical Positivism and the IPCC: 'The Best-Laid Schemes...'
Larrey Anderson
An astonishing episode in the early part of the 20th century in mathematics and logic which conceptually roughly parallels the current crisis of science behind AGW... More

March 14, 2010
It's the Culture, Stupid
Jack Cashill
Had the culture celebrated marriage and the government rewarded it, there would have been no subprime crisis, and all other tax-eating pathologies would have been contained. More

March 14, 2010
Backing Away from the Wall
Ben Voth
It is an article of faith on the left that a "Wall" separating church and state justifies hounding religion out of the public square. But the federal courts have been backing away from that metaphor. More

March 14, 2010
Global Warming and Cold War Thinking
William R. Hawkins
China sees climate change as another opportunity to help topple the United States from global preeminence, which remains its primary strategic goal in world politics. More

March 14, 2010
Islamists Respond to Terror Cases with Denial
Sid Shahid
Obfuscation, smokescreens, and the victim card when Muslims commit terror attacks. More

March 14, 2010
The Cuba I Saw
Megan Smith
Interested in seeing Barack Obama's dreams for the U.S. in real time? More

March 14, 2010
What's Wrong with the Brits?
Bernie Reeves
Across the pond, the British are subjected to an Iraq War Inquiry seeking political and cultural vengeance for former Prime Minister's Tony Blair's decision to join with America in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. More

March 14, 2010
Contract FROM America: Giving the People a Voice in Congress
Daniel P. Crandall
Tea Party Patriot Ryan Hecker is the moving force behind this grassroots, bottom-up document. More

March 13, 2010
The Big Lie of Health Care Reform
Robert Gelinas
A leviathan of a lie, whose only practical impact for generations to come will be increased welfare-state dependency. More

March 13, 2010
The Problem with Blaming Insurance Companies
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
Absurd and disheartening lies from President Obama. More

March 13, 2010
The Granularity of Climate Models
Bruce Thompson
One basic fault of the Hadley Climate models is their granularity. More

March 13, 2010
The Land of Entitlements
David S. Van Dyke
Even though more than half of government spending goes to entitlements, the era of entitlements is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of our country. More

March 13, 2010
The Rube Goldberg Progressives
Robert T. Smith
Progressives in America are wedded to the Rube Goldberg approach to the running of our economy. More

March 13, 2010
Hey, GI!
Jim Mahoney
The stories almost never told. More

March 13, 2010
Roll Over, Roy Orbison
Pedro Primavera
There is irony in a rock and roll icon dying of old age. More

March 13, 2010
The Cut-and-Paste Doctrines of the Left
Robert Huff
Why is it that the doctrines of one leftist cause can be obtained from another by simply cutting and pasting a few phrases? More

March 12, 2010
NBC's Castro-Driven Journalism
Humberto Fontova
Why is NBC partnering with a Stalinist regime's military robber-barons to boost their currency booty and hide their tortures, mass-murders, and mass-jailings? More

March 12, 2010
The Soul of America
Kevin Jackson
If American women in general are the heart of America, then black women are certainly its soul. More

March 12, 2010
Lessons from the Coffee Party
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
For the free publicity given by its allies in the media, the Coffee Party is pure boredom. Yet there are lessons here for conservatives. More

March 12, 2010
Biden Trip Reveals Ominous Side of Obama's Treatment of Israel
Leo Rennert
The unbalanced pursuit of an elusive peace that has thrown Obama's diplomacy off-track from the start. More

March 12, 2010
Free Citizens or Tail-Wagging Pets?
Jeremy L. Lantz
The American people are not animals. We are not content merely to be fed, walked, and taken care of. More

March 12, 2010
Step Away from the Computer
Matt Patterson
The Analogue Counter-Revolution. More

March 12, 2010
Ringmaster-in-Chief
Neil Braithwaite
Obama obviously believes, as P.T. Barnum did, that "there's a sucker born every minute," and he thinks that selling his entire socialist plan for America completely depends on it. More

March 11, 2010
I'm Sorry, Madam Speaker -- the Republicans Won't Let Me Vote for It
Carol Peracchio
How the GOP can help the Blue Dogs kill Obamacare. More

March 11, 2010
The 'Progressives' Are Really 'Oppressives'
Ryan Scott Welch
The tactical case for dictating the verbal terms of a political engagement. More

March 11, 2010
Obamacare and Las Vegas
Matt Spivey
Democrats need to learn a little lesson about Sin City. More

March 11, 2010
Emperor Obama and the Kamikaze House Democrats
Jeannie DeAngelis
Although in the majority, Democrats are experiencing decreased capacity to successfully wage political war as a "divine wind" blows through the nation's capital. More

March 11, 2010
How to Pollute a Mind: Lessons from John Dewey and Van Jones
Chuck Rogér
No progressive can tolerate natural law. More

March 11, 2010
Obama through the Looking Glass
Lauri B. Regan
If Obama's health care meeting provides a window into his negotiating style and diplomatic acumen on the international stage, then the country's irreparable decline may be even more imminent. More

March 11, 2010
Obama and the Left at the Brink
Steve McCann
It is difficult to admit mistakes, but the time has come for those on the Left who have been hoodwinked by the true believers in the movement to wake up to reality More

March 11, 2010
Tax the Top, Hit the Middle
Daniel Cross
"Tax the rich" has been the inveterate battle cry of liberals from the beginning. More

March 10, 2010
Drones and Terrorism
J.R. Dunn
Drones have compiled an impressive record, taking out a number of high-ranking al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. But the technology will not be an American monopoly forever. More

March 10, 2010
Reconciliation and the Senate Bill
Marilyn M. Barnewall
Why are the Republicans not using the strongest point available to prevent the reconciliation process? More

March 10, 2010
Nancy Pelosi and the CIA: Who's Lying Now?
Jane Jamison
Once the full truth is known from the CIA memos, Pelosi will be caught in a web of her own making. More

March 10, 2010
California's Toxic Air Scare Machine
John Dale Dunn MD JD
Private citizens taking on regulators who seek to impose unreasonable environmental demands. More

March 10, 2010
Is the NFL 'Socialistic'?
Peter Wilson
With the threat of an NFL player walkout in the news, the Boston Globe editorial board grabbed the opportunity to bring up the fatuous argument that football is a socialist enterprise. More

March 10, 2010
Obama Aims to Impose a Solution on Israel
Ted Belman
Why did Obama repudiate the Bush letter which his man, Sen. Mitchell, had two months earlier endorsed in his name? More

March 10, 2010
The Philosophic Roots of Eco-Theology
Daniel H. Fernald
How did we ever get to the point where the global warming fraud was able to take over the scientific establishment? More

March 9, 2010
Ungovernable Savages?
Mason Boyer
Saying that Washington is broken is so yesterday. Those on the cutting edge have moved on for now. It's not Washington that's broken -- it's the American people! More

March 9, 2010
Obama's Iran Policy Collapses to the Accompaniment of Mockery Around the Globe
Joel J. Sprayregen
Obama's Iran policy is collapsing to the accompaniment of open mockery around the globe. More

March 9, 2010
Obama Is Late to the Party
Robert T. Smith
The One We Have Been Waiting For must be disappointed to have arrived at the spending party so late. It's just about over. More

March 9, 2010
Methane Madness
Jeffrey Folks
The environmentalist assault on economic growth resembles the old shell game practiced by con artists for centuries. More

March 9, 2010
Defeat vs. Repeal
Christopher Chantrill
Nobody with an ounce of compassion could wish Obamacare on the American people. More

March 9, 2010
Don't Let Obama's Anti-Gun Silence Breed Complacency
Anthony W. Hager
Inaction on gun control doesn't make President Obama a Second Amendment loyalist. More

March 9, 2010
Hollywood Values in the Classroom
John Peeples
Welcome to Avatar Elementary School. More

March 8, 2010
Keith Olbermann: As the Spittle Flies
Stuart Schwartz
Keith Olbermann continues this week to experience death by a thousand clicks, the sound of remotes switching from MS-NBC to...well, anywhere, but mostly FOX. More

March 8, 2010
Guess Who's Coming to Your House!
Ken Blackwell
Federal funding and supervision for a vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids. All buried in the Senate Obamacare bill being forced down out throats. More

March 8, 2010
NYT and WaPo: Muhammad Is the Prophet of God
Johanna Markind
Is Muhammad more deserving of reverential treatment than Jesus? The New York Times seems to think so. More

March 8, 2010
Medicare Part B Therapy Caps: A Preview of Life under Obamacare
Anthony Ughetti
For consumers seeking a sneak-peek into what life under Obamacare may resemble, careful study of the Part B therapy caps is essential. More

March 8, 2010
Tell Us the Truth
Chuck Rogér
In America, we are beginning to sense a nasty reality that President Obama must acknowledge: Our worst economic problems lie ahead, and fixing those problems is going to hurt -- plenty. More

March 8, 2010
Health Care Is Heavily Taxed Now
John Donaldson, MD
Health care is already heavily taxed by government, ballooning the cost in many hidden ways. More

March 8, 2010
Maybe We Can Split a Beer?
Kevin Jackson
Historically recession-proof, even beer is feeling the effects of the Obama economy. More

March 7, 2010
What I Learned from Obama's Pop
Jack Cashill
Lessons from a poem that may be the Rosetta Stone of Barack Obama's life story. More

March 7, 2010
Obama's Fruitless Quest to Extradite Drug Thug
David Paulin
The Obama administration is vexed that "mutual respect" and "honest engagement" have failed to persuade Jamaica to extradite an alleged drug kingpin. More

March 7, 2010
The Keynesian Stimulus Dogma
Mark W. Hendrickson
Most Americans don't believe that the way for Washington to address its gargantuan debt is to increase deficit spending and go deeper into debt. Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman disagree. More

March 7, 2010
'Give-'Em-Hell Barry' in 2012?
David Pietrusza
Another president suffered a precipitous decline in polling after taking office. Could Obama emulate Harry Truman's comeback? More

March 7, 2010
India's Strategic Role in Countering Jihadism
Walid Phares
Three democracies -- India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan -- confront jihadi terrorism. They can and must cooperate more. More

March 7, 2010
Top 100 Films of Obama Era
Big Fur Hat
From Ferris Buehler's Layoff to The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much, a list of fan favorites. More

March 7, 2010
The Felix Awards: The Best Movies You Never Saw
Paul Shlichta
The stories that should have been made. More

March 6, 2010
The Health Care Bill's Prospects
Richard Baehr
Will the health care reform bill pass? Here's what it depends upon. More

March 6, 2010
Dare to Ignore Race
Scott Boerman
Refuse to accept the inherent discrimination of the race industry and opportunistic politicians. More

March 6, 2010
What the Byzantines Can Teach Us about Our National Security
Ishmael Jones
Nearly a thousand years of survival against numerous enemies, and what U.S. intelligence can learn. More

March 6, 2010
(Honorary) Dr. Al Gore
John Leonard
The University of Tennessee announced that former Vice President Al Gore will receive an honorary doctorate of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. More

March 6, 2010
Activist Science
Jeffrey Folks
The unholy alliance among scientists on the one side and politicians, bureaucratic institutions, investigative journalists, and partisan non-profit agencies on the other. More

March 6, 2010
Theories, Facts, and 'Denialism'
Daniel H. Fernald
Just who's a "denier"? More

March 6, 2010
The Neuropsychology of Political Integrity
Deborah C. Tyler
The neurons of the human prefrontal cortex are the only objects in the known universe that are functionally altered by exposure to abstract concepts such as God, truth, freedom, and justice. More

March 6, 2010
Disgusted that Partisan Politics Is Going On
Peter Wilson
Democrat fundraising letters reveal the ugliness beneath demands for bipartisanship. More

March 5, 2010
Texas-Sized Lesson: The New Tone Era Is Over
C. Edmund Wright
The GOP had better heed the main lesson of Rick Perry's thumping of Kay Bailey Hutchison. More

March 5, 2010
Influence, Corruption, and Misconduct: Albany's Lesson for America
Michael Filozof
When politicians go wild. More

March 5, 2010
Poor Obama
Randall Hoven
Even knowing how terrible this inherited situation would be, Barack Obama bravely announced his candidacy for the presidency almost twenty-one months before the election. More

March 5, 2010
Obama Is Bungling Russia
Kim Zigfeld
The tsunami of political devastation known as Barack Obama continues to wreak havoc abroad. More

March 5, 2010
Lying About Bush's Tax Cuts
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
With the Bush tax cuts set to expire, the left's objections are based on lies. More

March 5, 2010
A Curious Dalliance with Nullification
J. Robert Smith
Some conservatives, and more libertarians, voice support for nullification, or the idea that states have the right to strike down within their jurisdictions national laws considered unconstitutional. More

March 5, 2010
The Antitrust Trap for Health Care Insurance
Andie Brownlow
A stealth legislative initiative below the media radar that will help enable the feds to drive private health care insurers out of business. More

March 4, 2010
The Pathetic God of Environmentalism
Larrey Anderson
The environmentalists' god is weak, vulnerable. She depends on her followers to save her. More

March 4, 2010
Vanishing American Air Superiority
J.R. Dunn
Eternal air superiority is not guaranteed to the United States as some kind of codicil to Manifest Destiny. More

March 4, 2010
Obama's Malignant Narcissism
James Lewis
Lots of people talk like narcissists. But I think Obama just turned all his grandiose talk into irrevocable action. More

March 4, 2010
Grover Norquist's Jihad
Pamela Geller
The ostensible conservative's disturbing ties to jihadists are worthy of rebuke. More

March 4, 2010
Jim Bunning: None In, None Left On
Jed Skillman
Did Republicans learn anything, and do they recognize what Senator Bunning may have done for them? More

March 4, 2010
Bad News Bair
Jeffrey Folks
There is an extraordinary disconnect between the president's urgent desire that more jobs magically appear and his willful blindness toward the manner in which jobs are actually created in the private sector. More

March 4, 2010
If the Workers Can't Buy, Their Bosses Can't Sell
Edward Bernard Glick
Despite its Puritan origins and its Protestant ethic, the United States is a consumer-driven society. More

March 3, 2010
The Big Problem with Health Care Is Cost, Not Access
Richard Baehr
Four structural changes that would make a difference. More

March 3, 2010
The Weird Failure of the Left
Robin of Berkeley
Some days it feels like Saul Alinsky himself has risen from the dead and invaded my mailbox. More

March 3, 2010
How a Nebraska Bill May Pivot the Abortion Debate
Bruce Walker
The abortion debate may get an interesting twist soon, courtesy of the nation's only unicameral legislature. More

March 3, 2010
How the Congressional Democrats Doom Obama to One Term
Clarice Feldman
The unintended consequences of liberalism turn on the Democrats. More

March 3, 2010
Apartheid is Alive and Well in Araby
Victor Sharpe
The real apartheid that exists in the Middle East can be found not in Israel, but within the territories currently controlled by Arab states. More

March 3, 2010
What's Wrong with Legalizing Prostitution?
Janice Shaw Crouse
The Pretty Woman myth of the glamorous prostitute earning big money from handsome johns works occasionally -- as long as the girl is young, beautiful, and lucky. Usually, it is a different story. More

March 2, 2010
Does Ahmadinejad Want a Radioactive Cloud over Iran?
James Lewis
Why did Iran move its stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to above-ground storage that is vulnerable to air attack? More

March 2, 2010
The Smartest Guys in the Room?
Carol Peracchio
Watching the left grapple with the awful truth that conservatives were right about Obama can be amusing. More

March 2, 2010
Obama's Government without Love
Stuart Schwartz
Gone is the love of the founders for individuals "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. Welcome to the United States of Obama. More

March 2, 2010
King and Parliament, American-Style
John Griffing
Many members of the GOP missed the bigger significance of last week's Obama health care summit. More

March 2, 2010
Science and the Toxic Scare Machine
John Dale Dunn MD JD
United States Federal Agency sponsored research in public health toxicology is as as irresponsible and misleading as the IPCC misconduct. More

March 2, 2010
Science's Big Problem
Christopher Chantrill
The narrative of the disinterested scientist is a myth. More

March 2, 2010
Internationalization of the Fight against the Jihadists
Walid Phares
Salafists and their radicalization network worldwide aim to confront their own foes, mostly democracies, one at a time. We have to turn the tables on them and coordinate the worldwide resistance to jihad. More

March 2, 2010
Liberty Loses a Voice
Jane Jamison
What lies behind the abrupt firing of a conservative San Francisco talk show host? More

March 1, 2010
Soros: Another Golden Match for Arianna
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The vast shadow influence wielded by George Soros and the rise of Arianna Huffington's website. More

March 1, 2010
Secretary Geithner's Got Some Explaining to Do
David Yerushalmi
Treasury Secretary Geithner, as then-head of the NY FED, got away with taking ownership of 77.9% of AIG's equity and voting rights in clear violation of the law. More

March 1, 2010
Presidential Spending Authority Under EESA
Douglas A. Thompson
Is President Obama violating the terms of the TARP legislation in his program to focus on housing markets in five troubled states? More

March 1, 2010
The Facilitator-in-Chief Failed Miserably
Joseph Rosenberger
President Obama, renowned for his love of wonkish talk-fests, utterly failed as a facilitator at last week's Health Care Summit More

March 1, 2010
Healthcare Summit Democrat Demagoguery
Carl Paulus
Over a seven-hour span, American viewers heard fifteen unfortunate stories told by Democrats. More

March 1, 2010
Misery, Thy Name Is Bureaucracy
Joe Herring
What happens when a vast bureaucracy takes over health care. More

March 1, 2010
NAACP Image Award Reaches New Low
Lloyd Marcus
Including once-self-proclaimed Communist Van Jones among the honorees at this year's NAACP Image Award show last night epitomizes the organization's descent into liberal Hades. More

March 1, 2010
We Need a Ready-for-Prime-Time Barack Obama Impersonator
Harold Witkov
Two can play Tina Fey's game. More