Articles

May 31, 2010
What Memorial Day Means to a Veteran
T.J. Woodard
I learned about sacrifice in Iraq. More

May 31, 2010
Standing with Heroes
Lance Fairchok
Senior Airman Bradley Smith was killed in southern Afghanistan supporting the 4th Infantry Division on January 3, 2010. Remember Brad on this Memorial Day. Bow your head in thanks for the terrible sacrifice his family has made for us. More

May 31, 2010
When Masculine Virtues Go Out of Fashion
Tom Hoffman
Exit the cowboy and enter the mama's boy. More

May 31, 2010
Never Give Up Your Weapons
David Deming
History demonstrates that destruction awaits those who attempt to placate their enemies by surrendering their weapons. More

May 31, 2010
A Thank You on Memorial Day
Steve McCann
Saved by an American soldier. More

May 31, 2010
Remembering the Forgotten
Bruce Walker
When these men have fallen or when their young bodies have been maimed forever in defense of our safety, the poignant moment of thanks we give inevitably dissolves over the years into an empty, formalistic expression of gratitude. More

May 30, 2010
How the Liberal Mind Works
Jack Cashill
Splashing down in the refined waters of the liberal elite. More

May 30, 2010
Obama's Charm Offensive Masks Israel Policy Change
Leo Rennert
Obama charms Jews at a gala White House event and takes an action that kicks them in the rear as they leave the premises. More

May 30, 2010
Blumenthal, Reagan, and the Big Lie
James Kahn
Ronald Reagan's memory is being defamed in an effort to defend a Democrat attorney general caught lying about his military service. The tactic has deep roots on the left. More

May 30, 2010
Wise Guys: The End of Free-Market Capitalism
John Griffing
President Obama is exploiting the government-caused mortgage crisis to usher in councils of regulators to replace Congress in a host of key policy areas. More

May 30, 2010
South Lebanon Will Be Liberated from Hezb'allah
Charbel Barakat
...despite Ehud Barack's unforgivable betrayal. More

May 30, 2010
Pax Israeli
Tom White
Pax Israeli may indeed be a relative peace, but it is the only version of peace we can hope for in the Middle East for the foreseeable future. More

May 30, 2010
Of Semites and Semantics
Cherryl Smith
For a blatant display of Jew-hatred on a public university campus, this month's award goes to Jumanah Imad Albahri of the Muslim Students' Association at UC San Diego. More

May 30, 2010
American Jews and Israel
Eileen F. Toplansky
As a nightmare scenario of escalating anti-Semitism plays out, commentators struggle to cope with the indifference of so many Jews to the threat. More

May 29, 2010
The End of Democratic Socialism
Monty Pelerin
They have run out of other people's money. More

May 29, 2010
Enemy of the States
Cicero
The federal government appears to be becoming more a parasite than a protector to the several states that organized its creation. More

May 29, 2010
How Did We Get There?
Dana Ferrell
The individual's right to bear arms is explicit in the Constitution yet is unsettled in law, while a woman's right to privacy (to an abortion), not mentioned at all in the Constitution, is settled in law. More

May 29, 2010
How to Cripple the Free Economy
Chris Banescu
The socialist policies implemented by the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership undermine America's economic prosperity and prolong the misery for millions More

May 29, 2010
The Euro: This Marriage Can't Be Saved
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
And why it hurts the U.S. More

May 29, 2010
Don't Speak for Me
Adrienne A. Price
Who invited the thought police to the Tea Party? I am a traditional conservative, and I'll speak for myself, thank you very much. More

May 29, 2010
Louisiana Falling, Rising, Falling
Chuck Rogér
Louisianians will never know for sure, but the paradise may have been defensible had people who wanted to act swiftly been allowed to act swiftly. More

May 29, 2010
The Liberal Trilemma
Christopher Chantrill
The trilemma is not a universal problem. It is only a liberal problem. More

May 28, 2010
When Professor Obama Meets Dirty Reality
C. Edmund Wright
Nothing in Barack Obama's background full of lectures and textbooks makes him fit for any job where getting things done is important. More

May 28, 2010
Obama the Abject
Robert Morrison
President Obama promised us we would make history. We certainly have. More

May 28, 2010
Leave Arizona Alone
Jim Price
As a Southern Arizona Mexican-American, I'm sick of politicians calling for boycotts and intruders demanding that my tax dollars pay for their freebies. More

May 28, 2010
Israel and America's Jews
Richard Baehr
There are many explanations for why younger Jews do not feel the same way about Israel as earlier generations. More

May 28, 2010
The New Cleaning Ladies of Leftism
Bruce Walker
The decline and fall of feminism. More

May 28, 2010
Has the SEC Charged the Right People with Securities Fraud?
Larry N. Smith and C. Gary Moody
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and fraud. More

May 28, 2010
Trillion-Dollar Deficits and the Press
Jon N. Hall
Why it's Paul Krugman's fault. More

May 28, 2010
The Endgame of Class Warfare
John Griffing
Obama has appointed a czar to oversee what he deems "excessive" pay. And according to President Obama, there is a point at which someone has "enough" money. More

May 27, 2010
Americans Fleeing Border Invasion
Leo W. Banks
Meet Terrie and Glen Stoller. Smugglers -- armed, numerous, and brazen -- have frightened them off their southeast Arizona property. More

May 27, 2010
The FCC's Covert Mission to 'Balance' Broadcast Media Ownership
Chuck Rogér
The man whose job is to "diversify" conservative talk radio out of existence. More

May 27, 2010
Another Sham Stimulus Bill
Jeffrey Folks
The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 is an exercise in political cynicism. More

May 27, 2010
Less Well-Known Legislation from Arizona
T.J. Woodard
With all the excitement about Arizona's new immigration enforcement efforts, most do not realize that the state legislature also passed a number of other measures to protect its citizens. More

May 27, 2010
Environmentalists with Oil on Their Hands
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
When evaluating in an honest way all factors that contributed to the current pollution of the Gulf, we must ask why BP was drilling in 5,000 feet of ocean when there are so many other accessible and safe alternatives. More

May 27, 2010
Positive and Negative Government
Mark W. Hendrickson
Early on in life, kids are taught the concepts of positive and negative in science. Unfortunately, few schools teach the concepts of positive and negative as they pertain to civics and government. More

May 26, 2010
Illegals and the Election
J.R. Dunn
Thanks in large part to Governor Jan Brewer's bold action in signing SB 1070, immigration is shaping up as the issue of the 2010 election. The left cannot win that match. More

May 26, 2010
Duty, Honor, and Other Countries
Jeannie DeAngelis
Graduation Day comes, and America's finest are forced to respectfully endure oratory drivel, spoken by a left-wing radical loosely disguised as a president. More

May 26, 2010
Obama the Warrior
Ron Lipsman
In some sense, Obama actually is a warrior -- not in any military context, but rather in the classic parlance of the progressive movement. More

May 26, 2010
Living in Obama's Loony Parallel Universe
Kelcy Allen
According to my psychoanalyst, I have issues. More

May 26, 2010
Obamanomics 101
Miguel A. Guanipa
Theory meets a fellow named Joe. More

May 26, 2010
Nazis in Arizona?
Eileen F. Toplansky
Allusions to Hitler and the Nazis are incessantly and recklessly employed concerning the Arizona immigration law SB1070. More

May 25, 2010
Come on Down to Independence Slavery Mall
Rob Morris
How did a national shrine to the origins of the Executive Branch morph into racial propaganda? More

May 25, 2010
Rifqa Bary Suffering from Cancer, Her Lawyers Bring In Her Parents
Pamela Geller
There has been a terrible development in the case of Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who fled from her home in fear for her life after her devout Muslim father found out she had become a Christian. More

May 25, 2010
Nonpartisan Proof: Cap-and-Trade Is an Economy-Killer
Brian Sussman
A nonpartisan report that accepts global warming theory as fact concedes that Cap-and-Trade will be a job-killer. More

May 25, 2010
Socialism: The New Feudalism
Michael Aaron Jones
Exactly which side of the political spectrum is dragging us toward the past? More

May 25, 2010
Dhimmicrats on the March?
Ken Blackwell
A dhimmicrat is a person who, while not Muslim himself, nonetheless clears the path for shariah law to be adopted and incorporated into otherwise free nations. More

May 25, 2010
Courage Doesn't Require a Megaphone
Bob Weir
I think if I had spent any time around Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and heard him continually talk about his service in the Vietnam War, I would have figured he was a phony. More

May 24, 2010
Hawaii Republican Djou Heads for Congress: 67% Reject Inouye Machine
Andrew Walden
In Saturday's special election, 67% of the vote went to candidates styling themselves as business- and taxpayer-friendly opponents of the Inouye machine. More

May 24, 2010
Is This Just a Nightmare, or Did It Really Happen?
Jared E. Peterson
Over the past week we have witnessed Presidential and congressional disloyalty without precedent in American history. More

May 24, 2010
Maureen Dowd: Sex and the Single Kagan
Stuart Schwartz
For Maureen Dowd, the reasons offered for opposing Kagan are patently absurd. There can be no principled opposition to this Ivy League woman of "appealing swagger" except...sex. More

May 24, 2010
Obama Speaks His Mind at West Point
Jonathan F. Keiler
What he said, however dull and clichéd, represents not just the sometimes-flighty emanations from his remarkable brain, but also United States policy at large. More

May 24, 2010
Socialism's Downfall
Steve McCann
Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will continue to do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers in the Obama administration and the rest of the world. More

May 24, 2010
The Istanbul-Moscow Axis of Evil
Joel J. Sprayregen
The failure of Obama's engagement policy is leading to a geopolitical catastrophe: a Russian-Turkish alliance stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. More

May 23, 2010
The Senator from Sandy Berger
Jack Cashill
Should Democrat Joe Sestak be elected the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania, he will owe his seat to Sandy Berger. Who is behind this man? More

May 23, 2010
The Remarkable Rise of Jan Brewer
J.R. Dunn
One oddity about the Arizona illegals controversy is how little fallout, positive or negative, has touched the politician who set it off: Governor Jan Brewer. More

May 23, 2010
Demonstrations and Dependency
Robert Weissberg
What makes taking to the streets so alluring is its ease. As the Greeks can tell you, joining a rally far outshines paying taxes or any other personal remedy. More

May 23, 2010
War of Wordcraft
Cindy Simpson
The newest tactical weapon of this administration against our terrorist enemies appears to be one constructed of language. More

May 23, 2010
The Enemies Within
Miguel A. Guanipa
A certain form of profiling has effortlessly gained traction among many of today's most prominent media pundits, Hollywood elite, and left-wing politicians. More

May 23, 2010
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Jed Gladstein
The political elite in Washington, D.C. are determined to malign and destroy the Tea Party movement. More

May 23, 2010
Reviving Jewish Race Science at Columbia U Conference
Brendan Goldman
"The population of Jews in the US is three percent ... but [their 'genius'] leads to their controlling so much power that even presidents are scared..." More

May 22, 2010
Blumenthal and the Liars' Party
Bruce Walker
Richard Blumenthal did more than lie about his military service: He lied about lying. This is a special moral pathology of the left. More

May 22, 2010
In God We Trust... In Government? Not So Much
Jim Yardley
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans don't trust their own government. More

May 22, 2010
Newt 2012?
J. Robert Smith
Could Newt Gingrich's time be coming? More

May 22, 2010
Sugarcoating Socialism the French Way
Jeffrey Folks
The American left embraces a romantic myth of the superiority of French socialism. More

May 22, 2010
Can Women Return Us to Beauty?
Christopher Chantrill
Vietnam opera and Girls Gone Mild. More

May 22, 2010
The Speaker Who Won't Speak with the People
Kirk W. Kelsen
Everywhere we turn, we stumble over Nancy Pelosi. Or rather, we stumble over the micro-regulations Nancy Pelosi adores. More

May 22, 2010
Memo to Woody Allen: Generalísimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead
Mike LaSalle
Woody Allen the artist: a Master of Meaninglessness. More

May 21, 2010
Michelle Obama's Global Graduates
Jeannie DeAngelis
Rather than toss a graduation cap, Michelle Obama's commencement address at George Washington University was enough to make a graduate fall on the ground weeping. More

May 21, 2010
Do Elites Belong on the Supreme Court?
Chris Arledge
Elena Kagan is by all accounts a brilliant thinker. But is she a lawyer? More

May 21, 2010
How to Get Put Out of Business by Government Guarantees
John F. Risko
Government management of the economy is clumsy at best, and it often backfires, harming those it is ostensibly helping. More

May 21, 2010
Obama's Lesson in Realpolitik
David Paulin
Obama's foreign policy bumblers are getting a lesson in realpolitik in an extradition standoff with Jamaica. More

May 21, 2010
Transit Equity?
Peter Wilson
The Obama administration has announced new criteria for awarding Department of Transportation grants. More

May 20, 2010
America's Death by Professor
Stuart Schwartz
Where professors rule, life is cruel. This is an administration stuffed with academics. More

May 20, 2010
Obama is Kicking the Dog
Jeannie DeAngelis
Obama and the highest form of manipulative obfuscation. More

May 20, 2010
Ground Zero Mosque: A Cultural Center or Islamization?
Ashraf Ramelah
As a professional architect, I wonder why the Planning Commission of lower Manhattan decided to keep its residents uninformed about a project in this sensitive location with such purpose and proportion. More

May 20, 2010
Federal Immigration Law Is Obsolete
Louis Case
The Constitution's Supremacy Clause and non-enforcement. More

May 20, 2010
With Arizona, You Get Egg Roll on Your Face
Robert Knight
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley "standing up to America." More

May 19, 2010
The November Impact of the Primaries
Richard Baehr
The first of the mini-Super Tuesdays has come and gone, and both parties can find things to cheer about. More

May 19, 2010
Another Very Bad Night for Obama, Democrats, and the Media
C. Edmund Wright
The U.S. dollar and good news for Democrats have a lot in common these days. No matter how much of either liberals print, the absolute value keeps declining. More

May 19, 2010
Saul Alinksy's American Dream
Kevin Walker
Among the radicals I have met -- or even among the average liberals, and even a few conservatives -- I have heard only scorn for the idea of the "American Dream." Not so with Saul Alinksy. More

May 19, 2010
Democrats and Vote Fraud: On the Road to Rigged Elections
Scott Swett
Why the evident lack of concern over the unpopularity of Obama's policies? Perhaps they intend to cheat. More

May 19, 2010
I Think, Therefore I Profile
Carol Peracchio
Whatever you do, the elites tell us, don't profile! But is that even humanly possible? More

May 19, 2010
Talks of Peace -- Threats of War
C. Hart
Recently, an Israeli think-tank launched simulated war games, gauging international reaction to a possible long-range missile attack on Tel Aviv. More

May 19, 2010
Waking Up to Urbane Anti-Semitism
Cheryl Halpern
Sophisticated in its presentation, pedagogical in its outreach, and international in its acceptance. More

May 18, 2010
Diverting Kagan Questions
J.R. Dunn
So we're facing another Supreme Court confirmation, and perhaps as a sign of the times, a brand new category of question has arisen: What is the nominee's sexual preference? More

May 18, 2010
A Rookie Supreme
Jan LaRue
Chief Justice John Roberts once said, "The job of a judge isn't to pitch or bat -- it's to call balls and strikes." Compare the qualifications for becoming an MLB ump with Kagan's qualifications for the Court More

May 18, 2010
Cannibalizing Capital
John F. Di Leo
Wanton destruction as economic policy. More

May 18, 2010
The Black Church's Commitment to Obama
Lloyd Marcus
As a black Christian, I have struggled with whether or not to address this sensitive topic. More

May 18, 2010
Citizens or Subjects: Keynesian Economics
Lance Fairchok
Many Americans watch with alarm as their government attempts to lurch from servant to master of its citizenry. More

May 17, 2010
'Brighter Days Ahead'
Jeffrey Folks
President Obama has compared himself to a lot of other presidents, including Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan. He is starting to sound a lot like Herbert Hoover. More

May 17, 2010
Climategate Taxpayer Fraud Investigation Draws Ideological Heat
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
The civil investigation is making some people sweat. More

May 17, 2010
Barack Obama's FCC Information Police
Chuck Rogér
The president warns us that Americans must beware of "the craziest claims" and "arguments" in which "information becomes a distraction" that puts "pressures" on "our democracy." More

May 17, 2010
The Left's War on Free Speech
Bruce Walker
The left is utterly wedded to thought control. Like all sibling totalitarianisms, the left in America is addicted to power and repelled by truth. More

May 17, 2010
Combat Operations in the Border Zone
T.J. Woodard
Elites on the coasts don't want to recognize what can be described only as combat operations conducted north of the U.S. - Mexican border. More

May 17, 2010
Computer Gamers: Conservatives in Waiting
Chris Joel
Maybe Barack Obama knew what he was doing when he criticized Xboxes and Playstations. More

May 16, 2010
Why Conservatives Love the Founders
James Lewis
A Salon writer wonders, "What's the conservative fetish with the Founding Fathers?" More

May 16, 2010
The Pro-engagement Lobby and US Failure with Iran
Hassan Daioleslam
Are the US government, think-tanks, intellectuals and policy makers so inept that they cannot even learn from their repeated mistakes? More

May 16, 2010
The Ugly Side of Social Justice
Sean Parr
Behind the social justice banner lurks an ugly choice. More

May 16, 2010
Test-Tube Life
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Since the early 1950s, people of self-denominating "scientific" attitude, including researchers engaged in active projects, have predicted that technicians will soon produce life in the laboratory. More

May 16, 2010
The Genesis Machine
Noel S. Williams
Is a revolution in science and religion underway? More

May 16, 2010
What Exactly Is 'Social Justice'?
Jayme Sellards
It sort of sounds good, until you think about it. More

May 16, 2010
The Dollar's Demise is not Inevitable
Jon N. Hall
Confusion about public debt. More

May 15, 2010
Let It Burn
Demosthenes
Detoxing America will cause social, political, and economic strife of a sort unimaginable, and yet it is a process we must endure. More

May 15, 2010
A Gathering of Wolves
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Homo homini lupus, goes an old Latin proverb: Man is wolf to man. More

May 15, 2010
The Health Insurers' Faustian Bargain
Paul Hsieh, MD
At first glance, ObamaCare might seem a good deal for insurance companies by guaranteeing them a market for their services. More

May 15, 2010
Highland's Low Road
Jeannie DeAngelis
Powerless parents of Highland Park High School's female athletes are still "outraged." More

May 15, 2010
Hell in the Pacific
Bernie Reeves
It was with great anticipation that World War II fans tuned into the ten-part HBO docudrama "The Pacific." More

May 15, 2010
Che and the Workers
Humberto Fontova
The hero of so many leftists was not really what they think him to be. More

May 15, 2010
Obama Learns What It Is Like to Be a Republican
Pedro Primavera
I'm sure that like most right-thinking Americans, you had to uncross your eyes when Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama shared pleasantries in Washington last Wednesday. More

May 14, 2010
The Real Reason the Left Loves Illegals
J.R. Dunn
What the Democratic Party learned from the Ottoman Empire, and what it means for America. More

May 14, 2010
Obama Buyer's Remorse
Robert Weissberg
President Obama's disappointing performance has indisputably brought enormous buyer's remorse to many of his fans More

May 14, 2010
Governor Ganja
Bruce Hanson
If money is the mother's milk of politics, Marijuana, Inc. is a wet nurse of the Democratic Party. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer's suckling rise to stardom perfectly illustrates the point. More

May 14, 2010
Sloppy Jihadists
Russ Vaughn
Diabolical or doofus? More

May 14, 2010
Cinco to Midnight: The Great Mexican End Game
Selwyn Duke
We have become a hyphened nation, and much worse lies ahead. More

May 14, 2010
Media Demands, 'Take Us to Your Leader, Sarah Palin!'
Lloyd Marcus
Why is Sarah Palin the liberal mainstream media's great white whale? More

May 13, 2010
Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud
Jack Cashill
When Barack Obama's two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. More

May 13, 2010
Will the GOP Wake Up and Smell the Tea?
J.R. Dunn
The signs are not encouraging. More

May 13, 2010
Welcome to the Era of Expensive Energy
Ed Lasky
Are liberals actually maneuvering to increase gas prices at the pump? More

May 13, 2010
The Nebbish Nominee
Bruce Walker
Elena Kagan seems a pleasant sort. But she is not in the company of giants. More

May 13, 2010
The Baehr Essentials
Richard Baehr
AT's chief political correspondent on key stories of the day. More

May 13, 2010
Dancing with the Devil: David Cameron's Path to Power
Chris Powell
How the British Conservative Party lost its conservatism and the election it should have won. More

May 12, 2010
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'... Anything about Shariah Law
Alan Foster
Elena Kagan and the hypocrisy of Harvard Law School. More

May 12, 2010
Elite Media vs. Tim Tebow, Christian
Stuart Schwartz
What do women, Tim Tebow, and evangelical Christians have in common? They are all largely despised by the sports journalism division of our media elite. More

May 12, 2010
Whiteout
J.R. Dunn
The American left is celebrating its hope to racially transform America. More

May 12, 2010
President Hamlet's Energy Policy
Gary Jason
Obama is proving to be as indecisive on energy policy as he is on so many other things. He is a leader as indecisive as Hamlet. More

May 12, 2010
Greek Crisis Nothing New
Christopher Chantrill
For Americans, there is something shocking about a sovereign debt crisis, when a government reneges on its debt. But nothing could be more ordinary. More

May 12, 2010
Does J Street Stand For Jordan Street?
Moshe Phillips
J Street, the controversial Jewish pressure group that was created to lobby for a Palestinian state, is back in the news. More

May 11, 2010
Elena Kagan and the Yale-Harvard Nexus
Michael Filozof
If it sometimes seems that the nation is governed by an elite liberal clique of college fraternity and sorority pals who are out of touch with average Americans, that's because it's largely true. More

May 11, 2010
The Failure of the Unfree Market
Randall Hoven
If you had believed in the 72-Year Rule, you would have seen this coming. More

May 11, 2010
The New Middle East Peril
James Lewis
In an unwanted "first," Israel turns out to be the first country in history to face a massed attack by intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). More

May 11, 2010
Greece: A Preview of Things to Come
Vasko Kohlmayer
Can't happen here? More

May 11, 2010
Deep Cover at Organizing for America
Jed Skillman
Is that all they've got? More

May 11, 2010
New York State Opens a Door to Vote Fraud
David Pietrusza
Card check -- the scheme that violates the traditional American freedom of the secret ballot in labor union organizing elections -- has just captured a beachhead in New York State general election law. More

May 10, 2010
Cap-and-Trade Is Back
Brian Sussman
On Wednesday Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to introduce legislation designed to inflate the cost of energy, strain family budgets, and decimate America's manufacturing sector More

May 10, 2010
Tea Parties and Racism
Robert Weissberg
Get used to it, Tea Partiers: You are going to be called racists. More

May 10, 2010
Why the Ground Zero Mosque Must Be Stopped
Madeline Brooks
Planting a mosque just two blocks from where Muslims murdered Americans on 9/11 in the name of Islam is a huge slap in the face. More

May 10, 2010
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Bruce Walker
Seventy years ago, on May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain. More

May 10, 2010
Obama's Misguided Approach to Peacemaking
Matthew Brooks and Matthew R.J. Brodsky
Peace will come only when the Palestinian leadership accepts Israel's right to exist. More

May 10, 2010
Obama Space
Alex Gimarc
To my shock, I find myself wholeheartedly supporting the Obama administration's approach to manned space flight. More

May 9, 2010
The Problems with Al Gore
David Deming
Al Gore may not know what he's talking about, but he's not alone. More

May 9, 2010
Welcome to the Long Run
Randall Hoven
Our national debt problem has become so obvious that even liberals are noticing it. More

May 9, 2010
Is America Conquered When the American Flag Is 'Offensive'?
John Griffing
How did America get here? More

May 9, 2010
Nonsexual Zones of Trust and Military Policy
R. L. Bernard
The military is under pressure to remove the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. But to understand what our troops stand to lose if this policy changes, one must first understand sexualized zones, nonsexual zones, and the benefits of taboos. More

May 9, 2010
The World Turned Upside Down
Ed Lasky
Why has political correctness run amok in so many fields? British journalist Melanie Phillips has a good theory. More

May 9, 2010
If America Were a Free Country, Immigration Would Not Be a Problem
Deborah B. Sloan
Prior to the early twentieth century, immigrants to America were typically poor when they arrived here. But they sought no unearned handouts. More

May 9, 2010
The Narrative of Defeat
Janet Levy
Will we wake up and face the enemy head-on before it is too late and all is lost? More

May 9, 2010
Embracing Iran
Janet Doerflinger
Appeasers and those who welcome them. More

May 9, 2010
No Blanks: Kent State 40 Years Later
Avi Davis
Much of what we know about the event popularly referred to as the Kent State Massacre has come down to us only in history's shorthand. More

May 8, 2010
'Vote for the Crook. It's Important.'
Jed Skillman
If you ever wonder why politics in the State of Illinois is such a bucket of worms, you need look no farther than this. More

May 8, 2010
Defining Dumbness Down
Daniel H. Fernald
Having no substance of its own, the left is inherently parasitic; like a cancer cell or virus, it survives by posing as a healthy member of the same host it attacks and ultimately destroys. More

May 8, 2010
Italy's Littlest Angel
Jeannie DeAngelis
Imagine the surprise in Rossano, Italy when a babe believed to be successfully aborted astounded both mother and medical personnel by doing the unthinkable and refusing to die. More

May 8, 2010
What We Lost on the Border
Shields Fair
An entire way of life has died on the Arizona border. More

May 8, 2010
A Tale of Two Car Bombs
Robert Gelinas
An eyewitness account of a car bombing in which two propane tanks were detonated -- as was planned for Times Square. More

May 8, 2010
The Arizona Desert and Its People
T.J. Woodard
Those in Arizona find it baffling that elitists on the east coast, west coast, and in other large cities like Chicago don't want us to protect ourselves. More

May 7, 2010
Obama's Burden of Brightness
John Dietrich
The elite media's inflated view of the president's intelligence may damage the president's image in the long run. More

May 7, 2010
San Francisco's Unconstitutional Arizona 'Boycott'
Bruce Walker
Under our federal system, state governments and their political subdivisions may not impose undue burdens on interstate commerce. More

May 7, 2010
American Fossil Fuels: The New Alternative Energy Source
Ben Voth
The explosion of the Gulf oil platform this past week is a useful crisis for those advocates who hope to further restrict and prevent the extraction of fossil fuels in the United States. More

May 7, 2010
Dissonance and Victimhood
Gary Jason
Why are so many blacks willing to believe that the AIDS virus was invented by whites to exterminate them? More

May 7, 2010
Free Software and Tech Progress
Keith Curtis
The key to faster technological progress is the more widespread use of free software. Free versus proprietary (or non-free) software bears comparison to the divide between science and alchemy. More

May 7, 2010
A Nation of Lawbreakers
Pedro Primavera
If you are reading this, you most likely have broken the law. More

May 6, 2010
Obama Stands with Muslims as He Promised
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Now that Barack Obama is well into his presidency, it's clear that he is keeping at least one promise he made. More

May 6, 2010
Confession of an Undocumented Alien Who Loves America
Steve McCann
I have a confession to make. I came to the United States as an undocumented alien. More

May 6, 2010
Obama's Supreme Court Choice: No Evangelicals Need Apply
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Would even one Evangelical wind up on President Obama's short list for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court? Don't bet on it. More

May 6, 2010
Obama/Media vs. Arizona/America
Lloyd Marcus
Folks, our country is in big trouble. What kind of man do we have in the White House? More

May 6, 2010
The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism
Lauri B. Regan
If American Jews do not wake up to the reality that there really is a right and a wrong, and stop talking about two sides to every issue, they will find themselves reliving a second Holocaust. More

May 6, 2010
'¡Cuba Si! - Arizona No!' Says Mexican President Felipe Calderón
Humberto Fontova
This new Arizona law "opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement," sputters the Mexican president. More

May 5, 2010
Fixing What Ain't Broke, Hiding What Is
Andrew Foy, MD
The financial-regulatory reform bill currently under consideration in Congress is an exercise in deception. More

May 5, 2010
The Intellectual Hegemon
Randall Hoven
You can say anything, including complete nonsense, and "intellectuals" will accept it, embrace it, and praise it, as long as it flatters their preconceived ideology. More

May 5, 2010
In England, A Victory for Freedom
Pamela Geller
In an unprecedented victory for free people everywhere, a monster mosque costing $27 million that had been planned for the English town of Dudley despite overwhelming opposition from the townspeople has been scrapped. More

May 5, 2010
Peace (Not) in Our Time
Gregg J. Rickman
As President Obama continues his drive to push the Middle East Peace Process toward some movement, he is falling into a trap. More

May 5, 2010
Pity the British Tories
Christopher Chantrill
The British voters are voting tomorrow in a general election after thirteen years of "New Labour" rule. They're in a foul mood. More

May 4, 2010
The Dollar's Inevitable Demise
Vasko Kohlmayer
There is only one conclusion that reasonably can be drawn on the basis of the figures. More

May 4, 2010
Palin and the Leftist Elites
Mark W. Hendrickson
The fury directed against Palin by leftists is so overwrought, and at times maniacal, precisely because her frightening clarity and innate common sense are so powerful and effective. More

May 4, 2010
Update from Cochise County, Arizona
T.J. Woodard
I had cleared buildings before, but that was in Iraq. It was very, very disturbing to have to clear my own house, checking bedrooms and closets, armed and ready to kill, right here in Arizona. More

May 4, 2010
Taking Advantage of an Oil Crisis
Brian Sussman
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel famously said. And why should we think this administration isn't letting the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis go to waste? More

May 4, 2010
Declaration of Independence as Law
Ronald R. Cherry
Our American Declaration of Independence is the supreme, unamendable moral law of the United States. Declarational law preceded and trumps our supreme, amendable secular law, the Constitution. More

May 4, 2010
More Than Just Government
Bruce Walker
We often think our only foe is too much government, but that is a mistake. More

May 3, 2010
How Obama Himself Made More Than 'Enough Money'
Jack Cashill
The president may be projecting guilt from his own excellent adventures in greed. More

May 3, 2010
Sarah Palin Is on a Roll
Ted Belman
Since resigning from her governorship last July, Sarah Palin hasn't made a false move. More

May 3, 2010
America's Growing Vulnerability to Catastrophe
Steve McCann
The current regime in Washington, D.C. does not seem to understand or care that the policies they are pursuing will leave no margin for error in the event of an apocalyptic natural or man-made calamity. More

May 3, 2010
On Becoming an Un-Hyphenated American
Vladimir Steblina
"Are you a Ukrainian-American?" More

May 3, 2010
What If Arizona Were Quebec?
Michael Filozof
Just suppose that Quebec had to deal with hordes of undocumented English-only Americans filling prisons, carrying American flags through the streets, and demanding affirmative action. More

May 3, 2010
The Two Vietnam Wars
Jim Guirard
On Friday of last week, much of the establishment media reminded us about the awful 35th Anniversary of the so-called "End of the Vietnam War" and perpetuated myths about the lessons. More

May 2, 2010
O, Such Sad Deception
Eileen F. Toplansky
What happens when a messiah turns out to be a fraud? More

May 2, 2010
The Reemergence of German Dominance in Europe
Peter Glover and Michael J. Economides
The European Union was supposed to change all that, but it is a hard-boiled geopolitical maxim that nationalism trumps transnationalism whenever national interest is at stake. More

May 2, 2010
CLASS(less)
Limis Ward
Those of us who are taking Nancy Pelosi's advice to "find out" what's in the health care bill are coming to realize that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is badly misnamed More

May 2, 2010
Postmodernism: A Unified Theory of All the Trouble in the World
M.J. Braun
Having colonized every other branch of academics decades ago, postmodernism has now come for science. More

May 2, 2010
Progressive Death
Paul Kengor
Here is the essence of the problem with progressives and their movement, which is a gigantic problem for all of America. More

May 2, 2010
Within an Inch of Their Lives
William Sullivan
In Manchester, England lives a seven-year-old schoolboy, and he is not so different from other children...except that this child survived three attempts on his life before he took his first breath. More

May 2, 2010
The Fate of the Library of Alexandria
John O'Neill
Who really destroyed the great storehouse of classical learning? More

May 1, 2010
Report from Cochise County, Arizona
T.J. Woodard
Being an avid AT reader, and living on the Arizona border in Cochise County, I thought I would provide those who wish to be informed some insight into the truth about the state of the U.S.-Mexican border. More

May 1, 2010
California Considers a Boycott of Arizona
Jed Skillman
Dude, what's with California? More

May 1, 2010
ObamaCare: An Unmitigated Disaster
Janice Shaw Crouse
Finally, officials are owning up to what most Americans already knew. ObamaCare means higher costs and lower quality. More

May 1, 2010
Malevolent Neglect
Joe Herring
What lies ahead for health care when the government is in charge. More

May 1, 2010
How the Dominoes Fell
Avi Davis
Declaring the Vietnam War a just and necessary American war these days is about the equivalent of suggesting that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were humanitarians. More

May 1, 2010
The New Leaders We Need
Jim Lion
We need people who desire to attain national power so they can wield less power than their predecessors. This runs counter to human nature More

May 1, 2010
The Origins of the Lapdog Media
Steve McCann
The process began almost half a century ago. More