Articles

December 31, 2010
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Unintelligence Report
Pamela Geller
Disinformation and outright lying from leftist propagandists. More

December 31, 2010
Goldman Sachs Prospers at Taxpayers' Expense
Fred N. Sauer
If prudent investors can make only 0.5% on short-term assets, how does Goldman Sachs prosper? More

December 31, 2010
If I Do It, It Is Holy
Henry Percy
Whatever a great man does is good because, well, he's great. Sound familiar from our contemporary politics? More

December 31, 2010
The Future and the United States
Steve McCann
As the opening decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, what is the future of the United States in an increasingly complex and fluid world order? More

December 31, 2010
Why Do Schools Fire Losing Coaches But Not Bad Teachers?
Dale Bandy
Have you ever heard of a bad history or English teacher who was taken out of the classroom and sent to coach football or basketball? More

December 31, 2010
Law in the Empathetic Society
Jeremy Egerer
Must an increase in empathy signal a decrease in law? More

December 31, 2010
Baseball Judaism
Jerold S. Auerbach
As the 1/1/11 centennial of Hank Greenberg's birth approaches, it is important to understand what he has meant to American Jews ever since, and why. More

December 30, 2010
Obama's Inaugural Address: Two Years of Broken Promises
Lee Cary
This time, the threats ride in on a slow tide. More

December 30, 2010
Obama Dims the Light on Missile Defense
Paul Kengor
Missile defense continues to lose under Obama, disappointing our allies and strengthening Russia's hand. More

December 30, 2010
The Return of Obama Gravitas
Stuart Schwartz
Stay tuned for 2011, when the political and media establishment will declare that, indeed, Barack Obama has found his misplaced gravitas. More

December 30, 2010
Colorblind America: A Malignant Fallacy
Chidike Okeem
The fanciful idea of living in a colorblind society is one of the greatest impediments to sophisticated discussions about race in America. More

December 30, 2010
Clinton Counsels the Con
Jeannie DeAngelis
After a few afternoons with Slick Willy, Barack Obama managed to transform his image. Call it learning from the master. More

December 30, 2010
Bloomberg's Snow Job
Richard Kantro
Bloomberg is an overachieving, bored, self-important billionaire of no particular observable administrative acumen. More

December 30, 2010
Greece Stumbles
Brian Koenig
Greek society is ingrained with the ideology that government, rather than individual investment and private enterprise, creates wealth. It is about to hit reality. More

December 29, 2010
Early Obama Poem Shows Davis's Hand
Jack Cashill
Another clue to Barack Obama's real past surfaces. More

December 29, 2010
The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked
Tony Kondaks
Here's a surefire formula to stop any liberal dead in his tracks. More

December 29, 2010
How Not to Help Blacks Find Employment
Robert Weissberg
The federal government wants to ban employers from checking credit and criminal histories so as not to "unreasonably" disadvantage black job applicants. More

December 29, 2010
Is the Republican Party Finished?
Michael Filozof
The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress proved one thing beyond a doubt: the Republican Party does not represent the interests of conservatives. More

December 29, 2010
Moscow's Blizzard/New York's Blizzard
Kim Zigfeld
Just after Christmas, both New York City and Moscow, Russia, faced blizzard conditions, and their airports were shut down. More

December 29, 2010
How's That Religion of Peace Doing These Days?
Eileen F. Toplansky
Only a few days remain until 2011, and still there is no end to Islamic hatred in the world. More

December 29, 2010
Murder or Mediocrity in the Cathedral: Thomas à Becket's Medieval Lesson for Today
Mark Browning
A political murder 840 years ago has particular relevance for today's Americans. More

December 28, 2010
The Missing Link in the Evolution of Barack Obama
Selwyn Duke
What is nuttier: to claim that this man is a communist or to claim that such an assertion is out-of-bounds? More

December 28, 2010
Islamic Supremacists Envision a Takeover of the Internet
Pamela Geller
America under Obama has given up much of its power over the internet, and in its place has empowered -- surprise! -- the "Arab states." More

December 28, 2010
Feed Me, Obama, Feed Me: The Plan for Food Dependency
John Griffing
The greatest tyrants in history have used food as a method of control. More

December 28, 2010
Russia in NATO?
G. Murphy Donovan
Today, America has more in common with Russia than it does with many nations in Europe and almost all of the Muslim world. More

December 28, 2010
Multiculturalism vs. Morality and National Survival
Pieder Beeli
For the sake of analysis, let's consider a hypothesis: The texts of Islam are a terror manual, and the Prophet of Islam is the world's terror-commander. More

December 28, 2010
Bill O'Reilly's Mindslaughter
Andrew G. Bostom
It is somewhat ironic that immensely popular Fox News host Bill O'Reilly epitomizes willful blindness to the encroachment of Sharia in the U.S. More

December 28, 2010
Political Psychology
Deborah C. Tyler
The American Psychological Association (APA) has been cooking up an atheist/humanist vision that contradicts traditional American faith and values. More

December 27, 2010
Obama Destined to Be a Footnote in Presidential History
Rusty Weiss
Barack Obama has set a course that will leave his legacy as no more than a footnote in American presidential history. More

December 27, 2010
Bootleg Lightbulbs Coming to California
Luminus Maximus
Starting January 1, Californians will no longer be able to buy 100-watt incandescent light bulbs...legally, that is. More

December 27, 2010
CARB's Carbon Capers
S. Fred Singer
In a nearly unanimous vote, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) just approved a statewide cap-and-trade scheme to limit emissions of carbon dioxide from six hundred major industrial plants. More

December 27, 2010
The Winner of This Year's 'Best Climate Predictor' Award (Clue: It Wasn't Al Gore!)
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
Given the terrible beginning of winter in the U.S. and Europe this year, we ought to reward those who accurately predicted it and condemn those who got it wrong. More

December 27, 2010
Fannie, Freddie, and Fur
Jeffrey Folks
The history of harmful government meddling in markets in the name of justice is older and more troubled than most Americans know. More

December 27, 2010
Downgrading Defense Capabilities
Zbigniew Mazurak
The U.S. is no longer unrivaled in terms of conventional weapons, yet it continues to cut vital weapons systems. More

December 27, 2010
Who Will Be on Top at the End of this Century?
Edward Bernard Glick
What will the world look like? More

December 26, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: Kentucky McConnell and the Temple of Pork
Clarice Feldman
Don't believe the hype about Obama as the "comeback kid" and the "most productive lame duck Congress ever." More

December 26, 2010
Showdown with Evil
Ion Mihai Pacepa
The American nomenklatura's designs on our freedoms. More

December 26, 2010
Kudzu: A Lesson in Big Government Failure
Joseph Haas
A disaster for the South, courtesy of the wise and benevolent FDR. More

December 26, 2010
No Comparison: Shariah and Jewish Religious Courts
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Many stealth jihadists pushing to have Shariah law applied in America are making the preposterous claim that Shariah Courts are similar to Jewish religious courts More

December 26, 2010
Hugo Chavez's New Power Grab
W. Mitchell Yeager
Showing the entire world exactly how any power-hungry leader can achieve totalitarian control. More

December 26, 2010
Questioning the Dispensation of State Violence
Jeremy Egerer
Eventually, all forms of governmental law cannot function without the use or threat of violence, which means that government and violence are necessarily intertwined. More

December 26, 2010
Historical Illiteracy
Eileen F. Toplansky
Pervasive dumbing down of America has succeeded. More

December 26, 2010
A Plague of Blowhards
Carol Peracchio
Where do blowhards come from? Why are there so many now? And why are so many of them Democrats? More

December 26, 2010
The Universal Card
C.W. Getz
Americans need a safe, foolproof identification card. More

December 26, 2010
The Aspen Institute's Futile Middle East Initiatives
David J. Kudish
Good intentions meet implacable hostility. More

December 25, 2010
Who He Is
Vasko Kohlmayer
What follows is the Jesus of the Bible. More

December 25, 2010
Saved by Christmas
Steve McCann
A Christmas classic offered again today. More

December 25, 2010
Yes, Virginia, There is a God
Brad O'Leary
In 1897, Francis Pharcellus penned a famous response to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon confirming the existence of Santa Claus. More

December 25, 2010
A Christmas Carol from Paul
David R. Stokes
A case can be made that the greatest Christmas song ever written is one with no familiar music. More

December 25, 2010
My Conversation with God
Bob Weir
I was sitting alone in my room the other day, and I had a talk with God. More

December 25, 2010
Count Your Capitalistic Blessings
Charlotte Cushman
Our enjoyment of the holiday has been greatly enhanced because of Capitalism. More

December 25, 2010
God and the Republic
Ron Hunnicutt
Progressives delight in proclaiming that God is not mentioned in the Constitution. More

December 25, 2010
A Srebrenica Christmas
Richard L. Kent
Christmas Eve 2000, Eagle Base, Tuzla, Bosnia. More

December 25, 2010
A Special Christmas Song
Frank Burke
In the season of joy, one song's poignant lyric recalls the darkest days of the Second World War and provides a message of hope for today. More

December 24, 2010
Unethical: Bloomberg/Rauf Collusion
Pamela Geller
They're emailing each other? More

December 24, 2010
Middle East Bloody Endgame
Lee DeCovnick
The slow, simmering buildup to war between the Iranian proxies of Hamas and Hezb'allah and Israel continues to ramp up in rhetoric, intensity, and violence. More

December 24, 2010
What's My Motivation? The Arguments for Immigration Reform
Mark Browning
A close look at the arguments -- and motivations -- of the legalization advocates. More

December 24, 2010
UCLA's Professor of Fantasy
Cinnamon Stillwell and Eric Golub
Defense of Shariah and slander. More

December 24, 2010
The Meaningless Social Security Tax Rate Cut
Joe Gimenez
As a holiday service to the government, here's one perspective on how the Social Security tax rate drop won't do diddly in 2011. More

December 24, 2010
The Sierra Club's Mission
Chuck Rogér
Exactly how do zealots react when confronted with stunning proof of the pointlessness of their zealotry? Zealots double down. More

December 24, 2010
Government as God
Miguel A. Guanipa
A God of sorts -- and not a terribly merciful one at that -- to whom citizens should resign their fate. More

December 24, 2010
A Grim Sesquicentennial
Bruce Walker
Was the Civil War really necessary? More

December 23, 2010
Republican Winning Margins
Seth Forman
The truth behind the midterm aftermath. More

December 23, 2010
Saved by Christmas
Steve McCann
A Christmas tale you will never forget. More

December 23, 2010
The Art of War and DADT
Kevin Jackson
Repeal of DADT is just the liberals' way of attacking an institution. More

December 23, 2010
The Cost of DADT Repeal
Elizabeth Herring
Despite being lauded as the right thing to do, repeal will struggle for legitimacy because the process was clouded in dishonesty. More

December 23, 2010
Can Communist China Be America's Partner?
Zbigniew Mazurak
If you ask the Obama administration or the foreign policy establishment in D.C., the answer is "Of course! And it already is!" More

December 23, 2010
NOAA's Catch Shares Fisheries Debacle
Mike Johnson
Barrack Obama came to office with an agenda to fundamentally change America. An element of his agenda is a plan, known as catch shares, to restructure the nation's fishing industry. More

December 23, 2010
Rethinking the Significance of the WikiLeaks Cables
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
On what basis should it be deduced that the cables reflect Arab affinity with U.S. policies? More

December 22, 2010
Why America Needs Nuclear Arms
John Griffing
Those governing from the shadows desire that America be no better, no more powerful, and no more influential than any other country. More

December 22, 2010
A Sarah Palin Christmas
Stuart Schwartz
The collectible world has found a political figure whom a significant segment of the nation loves...or loves to hate. More

December 22, 2010
The Federal Reserve: Aging Magician of the Welfare State
Mikiel de Bary
The Federal Reserve System may have met its master. More

December 22, 2010
Seeds of Financial Catastrophe
Fred N. Sauer
Safeguards discarded. More

December 22, 2010
PETA's Thirty-Year Legacy
Chad Dechow
There may be no worldview that provides less support for treating animals humanely than the naturalism that underlies PETA's beliefs. More

December 22, 2010
The Legislative Branch has Become Poison Oak
Randy Fardal
Where would we be if the last two Democrat-led Congresses had taken a four-year vacation? More

December 22, 2010
Objective Islam, Subjective Islam
Bill Warner
Different logic, different conclusions. More

December 21, 2010
Obama's Problem as 'The Smartest Person in the Room'
Larrey Anderson
Since Obama first stepped on the national stage, pundits have fallen all over each other in a race to declare that Obama is special type of genius. More

December 21, 2010
The College Diploma Fraud
Robert Weissberg
A guide to schools desperate to increase minority graduation rates. More

December 21, 2010
The Picture of Barack Obama
Cindy Simpson
Barack Obama offered 2008 voters an empty canvas upon which they projected their fantasies. Three years later, the real picture emerges. More

December 21, 2010
Why Obama Surrendered the Missile Shield
Zbigniew Mazurak
WikiLeaks documents reveal a shameless cave-in to Russian pressure and explode the Obama administration cover story. More

December 21, 2010
Off-the-Books America
Christopher Chantrill
We are becoming two Americas -- not the familiar complaint about the rich and the poor, but rather the regulated and the off-the-books Americas. More

December 21, 2010
My Discovery of America (Progressive America, That Is)
Eugene Veklerov
This is a true story, but it could have been written by Franz Kafka. More

December 21, 2010
The Rich Who Laid the Golden Eggs
Bill Costello
America now has the most progressive income tax system among nations that belong to the OECD. More

December 20, 2010
Stopping Obama: A Republican Game Plan
Ed Lasky
How will the new Congress deal with a president who is relentless in his agenda to create a transformed America? A guide to slowing the Obama bulldozer. More

December 20, 2010
Media Misinformation 2010 vs. 2008
John Ziegler
The left as come up with an explanation for the Republican landslide in 2010: the voters were ignorant thanks to biased media coverage perpetrated mostly by Fox News. More

December 20, 2010
Sarah Palin: Fishing for American Exceptionalism
Michael Prell
Watching "Sarah Palin's Alaska" is like stepping back in time -- not to a time when Americans lived off the land and the sea, but to a time when our desire to be #1 was celebrated and not scorned. More

December 20, 2010
Really Free and Open
Jeffrey Folks
"Freedom and openness" has become a mantra for many on the left. More

December 20, 2010
U.S. Congressman Gutierrez Wants to Hijack the Civil Rights Movement
Gayle Kesselman
United States Congressman Luis Gutierrez has threatened civil disobedience if the DREAM Act is not passed into law. More

December 20, 2010
The Clinton Tax Myth
Yossi Gestetner
Dems love to claim that under Clinton, we raised taxes on the top earners in the country and gained 22 million jobs in the following years. More

December 19, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: This (Class) War Is Lost
Clarice Feldman
Rev. Senator Harry Reid famously said before the Bush surge in Iraq, "This war is lost." It wasn't, but the Democrats' favorite war is now. More

December 19, 2010
'Tis the Season to Celebrate Jesus, Not Obama
Lloyd Marcus
A dear black relative reminded me by e-mail that the holidays are a great time to be "thankful for" the "blessing" of having Obama as president. More

December 19, 2010
Secondhand Smoke, Lung Cancer, and the Global Warming Debate
S. Fred Singer
The tobacco-smoking issue has become a favorite tool for discrediting climate skeptics. More

December 19, 2010
Merry Christmas...without the 'X'
Peter Heck
'Tis the season for the atheist/humanist crowd to make fools of themselves. More

December 19, 2010
Why the Tax Compromise Won't Work
Paul B. Matthews
Making Republicans vulnerable to flanking maneuvers by America's left. More

December 19, 2010
Obama, McCartney, and the Taxman!
Ken Blackwell
Sir Paul McCartney honored President Obama by singing "Michelle." A more relevant song would have been "Taxman." More

December 19, 2010
Government Undermined
Tom Roberson
Our government is accelerating down the path to irrelevance with actions that undermine our faith in its ability to govern. More

December 19, 2010
Academia Is Revolting!
Bruce Walker
Over the last century, colleges have devolved from places of serious study and intellectual inquiry into vast, generally malign, priestly castes. More

December 19, 2010
America's Israel Policy Stuck on 1949
Ted Belman
The U.S. is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. More

December 19, 2010
Thatcher, Reagan, and Those Revolting British Students
David R. Stokes
The long-term damage socialism does. More

December 18, 2010
The Left's Politics of Retribution
William Sullivan
When the left defends a tax increase for the wealthy as anything other than punishment, it sounds less like the truth and more like an unintended confession of a guilty conscience. More

December 18, 2010
The Courage of Marine Corps Leadership on DADT
Ken Ireland
They have publicly stood their ground in support of continuing the current policy More

December 18, 2010
Sacrificed Survivors of 9/11
Jack Kemp
A new documentary, entitled Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque provides the information and images the media is too cowardly to show. More

December 18, 2010
Nancy Pelosi: A Ruler of Fools
Anthony W. Hager
If Pelosi were stupid, teaching her would be yeoman's work. More

December 18, 2010
Bill Clinton in Lifeboat No. 1
Robert Morrison
"Unlike Bill Clinton, who is a survivor, Obama is an adapter,' says Democratic pollster Peter Hart. 'If Clinton were on the Titanic, he'd be in Lifeboat No. 1.'" More

December 18, 2010
The Wolves Who Cry Boy
Harry Beadle
The Reverends Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jim Wallis, and Jeremiah Wright, and Father Michael Pfleger, insist that racism is alive and well in America. More

December 18, 2010
Hollywood's Aaron Sorkin the Puritan; Alaska's Sarah Palin the Hedonist
Humberto Fontova
Slaughterhouse rules! Happy now, Greenies? More

December 18, 2010
The Case of the Curious Climate Covenant
Russell Cook
Which is the bigger sin? Failing to stop a so-called global warming crisis which has increasing credibility problems, or breaking the 9th Commandment? More

December 18, 2010
America's Shanghai Surprise
Bill Costello
What American education can learn from China. More

December 18, 2010
Profiling: American as Apple Pie...
Russ Vaughn
Profiling is an essential part of organized life. More

December 18, 2010
Why Did Teddy Roosevelt Support the Death Tax?
Mark Browning
Whenever given a chance, Theodore Roosevelt championed the estate tax. More

December 17, 2010
A White Kid's Dream
Kevin Jackson
If you need evidence that we are indeed in a post-racial America, I have it. More

December 17, 2010
Nancy Pelosi: The Girl in the Plastic Bubble
Bruce Walker
Being a leftist in America means never needing to actually hear or grasp what conservatives believe. More

December 17, 2010
The Adolescent Left
Keith Riler
As tempting as it is to view the machinations of the left in masterfully calculated Dr. Evil terms, today's progressive is better-understood as a ranting teenager. More

December 17, 2010
Solar Eclipse
Jeffrey Folks
The prospects for solar and wind companies have declined significantly in the last few years. Pity the poor investors. More

December 17, 2010
Expose the Public Pension Mess
Gary Jason
A modest educational proposal. More

December 17, 2010
Hubris and the History of Forecasting
Anthony J. Sadar
Just a few hundred miles from the site of the Cancun climate talks is a reminder of the hubris of forecasters. More

December 16, 2010
Middle-Class Hypocrites
Larrey Anderson
The most dangerous of hypocrites come from the middle class. More

December 16, 2010
Why Do They Hate Sarah So Much?
Victor Volsky
The one reason, above all, why Palin arouses such elemental fear and hatred on the left. More

December 16, 2010
Femi-not
Pamela Geller
The recent feminist "flash mob" in Philadelphia denouncing Israel and supporting the Palestinian jihadists showed yet again the abject failure of feminism. More

December 16, 2010
Citizen, Class Warrior, Florida School Board Gunman...and Good Humanist
Selwyn Duke
The gunman listed his religion as "Humanism" on his Facebook page. Imagine if he had been a Tea Party advocate. More

December 16, 2010
No Deal on the Tax Deal
Randall Hoven
Doing nothing is better. More

December 16, 2010
Are We Feeling Better Yet?
Deane Waldman
The president's reform of the U.S. health care system is in full swing. Are we feeling better yet? More

December 16, 2010
The ObamaCare Ruling Time Bomb
Peter Raymond
The recent ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act could be very bad news for the insurance industry and opponents of single-payer government health care. More

December 15, 2010
The Only Thing That Will Save Us Now Is Fear Itself
Herbert E. Meyer
Let me use a little story to illustrate the effect of fear on human behavior. More

December 15, 2010
Crucible of a Hero
Richard Kantro
When Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, M.D. walks out of the chamber where has has faced a court-martial this week, he will emerge -- regardless of the verdict -- a towering American hero. More

December 15, 2010
Cuccinelli's Other ObamaCare Victory
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
What Cuccinelli did in defeating (for now) the individual mandate also prevents an historically massive expansion of the federal government's audit and investigation powers. More

December 15, 2010
U.N. Gets New Oversight
Wendy Wright
It's a delicious irony. More

December 15, 2010
It's Production, Stupid
K.E. Campbell
President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and many other liberals proclaim that unemployment compensation payments promote economic growth. They're dead wrong. More

December 15, 2010
What WikiLeaks Cables Really Reveal
Vasko Kohlmayer
Hyperbole directing the public's anger from its rightful target. More

December 15, 2010
From Bad to Worse in Russia
Kim Zigfeld
Once again, the Russian government is moving rapidly to arrest and imprison a prominent regime critic. And the appalling cowardice of Barack Obama is greasing the Russians' skids. More

December 14, 2010
Obama: Pawn or Mastermind?
Tom Roberson
Obama's detractors seem to believe that he is either an incompetent pawn in over his head as president or an evil mastermind directing an international conspiracy to subvert America. More

December 14, 2010
Tax Cuts Clearly Explained
Randall Hoven
If you go to the White House website, right at the top is a bar you can click on to see "Tax Cuts Clearly Explained." More

December 14, 2010
Guess Who Got Eric Holder's Briefs in a Bundle?
Jan LaRue
Is Holder not smart enough to get it, or is he just faking outrage? More

December 14, 2010
Britain's Left Are Panicking
Adam Shaw
London's descent into anarchy over a rise in university tuition fees shows just how deeply the entire leftist enterprise relies on its takeover of the university system. More

December 14, 2010
Income Taxes, Millionaires, and Billionaires
Christopher Chantrill
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is reported to be "irked" that President Obama didn't take his advice and use the tax bill to "corner Republicans into defending millionaires and billionaires." More

December 14, 2010
The Modern Left (Unmasked)
Dmitri Rutkowski
Contemporary conservatives should recognize the left by the fruit it bears. More

December 14, 2010
The Energy Equation: Practical Fact vs. Political Fiction
Frank Burke
Politically motivated energy solutions continue to exacerbate the problems they were supposed to counteract. More

December 13, 2010
The Lesson of the Tax Deal and the Deficit: Teach Your Kids Chinese
Richard Baehr
Politicians love complexity. So do lobbyists, who get paid to produce it. More

December 13, 2010
The Theft of Ground Zero
Pamela Geller
Islamic supremacists are grifting the system big time. And yet the biggest theft of all is one that everyone has overlooked. More

December 13, 2010
Sarah Palin and the Haters of American Normal
Stuart Schwartz
We are just south of Christmas, and the nation's insiders have declared open season on Sarah Palin. More

December 13, 2010
Sarah Palin's Basic Instinct
Humberto Fontova
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, Mr. Aaron Sorkin. More

December 13, 2010
The left sees history's fist coming. Again.
James Lewis
Want to know why the Democrats in Congress are mumbling "f*** the president"? More

December 13, 2010
Hillary and WikiLeaks
Vasko Kohlmayer
The secretary of state has been constrained by the WikiLeaks revelations in her ability to be an effective diplomat. But is this a necessarily a bad thing? More

December 13, 2010
Teen Tyrants
Jeffrey Folks
Teens in Europe and America seem all too self-assured, even smug, emboldened by the belief that they can deploy any means to obtain their political ends. More

December 12, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: The Incredible Shrinking President
Clarice Feldman
What's the theme here? No bread and no circuses? More

December 12, 2010
Vote Fraud as a Democrat Strategy
Peter Raymond
The Democratic Party's message to politically involved citizens is unmistakably dire. More

December 12, 2010
Flash Attack
Jim Mahoney
The nightmare for progressives takes flesh! More

December 12, 2010
An Extraordinary Speech
Alan Fraser
Lieutenant General John F. Kelly, USMC delivered an extraordinary speech four days after his son, First Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly, was killed in action in Sangin, Afghanistan. More

December 12, 2010
Thinking beyond the Deficit
Andrew Foy, MD
The very nature of our society is at risk. More

December 12, 2010
President Obama's Speech Impediment
Hugh MacKenzie
The one word our president just can't seem to pronounce. More

December 12, 2010
The Ramsayization of Society
Stephen Mauzy
Gordon Ramsay isn't really to blame; he's only the apotheosis in the profusion of the most socially accepted, if not most entertaining, emotion -- anger. More

December 12, 2010
WikiLeaks and the Middle East Mirage
Matthew R.J. Brodsky
The new WikiLeaks release may have caused diplomatic embarrassment around the globe, but a closer look reveals important lessons with implications for American foreign policy. More

December 12, 2010
Hillary's Tilt against Israel
Leo Rennert
Secretary of State Clinton's reset of U.S. Mideast peace strategy again tilts heavily against Israel. But give Team Obama credit for persistence. More

December 12, 2010
The Target of the Terrorists Has Always Been Our Economy
T.L. Davis
Undermining and destroying prosperity. More

December 12, 2010
Understanding Homegrown Terrorism
Abu Khawla
A new tactical shift that embraces attacks on Western countries conducted from within, by their own Muslim citizens. More

December 12, 2010
The Assault on Christmas and Other American Norms
George Scaggs
Over the last several decades, government's sanctioning of secular fundamentalism has emboldened its proponents, aiding a slow but sure erosion of our societal norms. More

December 11, 2010
Elena Kagan's First Vote Was Both Baffling and Predictable
Anthony W. Hager
Embodying everything objectionable and inexplicable about the Supreme Court, judges, lawyers, and the legal system in general. More

December 11, 2010
Ending the TSA Madness: Listen Up, Folks, Here's How You Win the Profiling Debate
Selwyn Duke
One thing that saddens me about the TSA security controversy is that we're missing a great opportunity. More

December 11, 2010
Obama Chooses Badly: Recovery Thwarted
Jon N. Hall
There is a model for Obama to bring America out of its economic crisis, if only he will look. More

December 11, 2010
On Innocent Blood
Vasko Kohlmayer
Our politicians cast Julian Assange as the ultimate villain, because -- they claim -- he has innocent blood on his hands. More

December 11, 2010
Death of the Global Warming Myth
Peter Heck
When your cockamamie theory is collapsing around you, it's probably best to take your plight to a higher power. But if that isn't possible, a fake jaguar goddess could work. More

December 11, 2010
Another Reason for a Flat Tax: Freedom of Speech
Monte Kuligowski
The current tax system robs U.S. citizens not only of their financial liberty, but also of their free political speech. More

December 11, 2010
Obama and Arab Imperialism
Amil Imani
Why does the President favor Arabs? More

December 11, 2010
Who Governs?
Gene Schwimmer
Sledgehammers have delivered messages more subtly than the American electorate delivered theirs to President Obama and the Democrats on November 3. More

December 11, 2010
Welcome to AT&T!
Paul Shlichta
I'm pleased to inform you that Consumer Reports has rated AT&T as the worst of all major cell phone carriers. I can assure you that they deserve the honor. More

December 11, 2010
The 9/11 Responders Health Bill Failure
Jack Kemp
Thursday, the Senate Republicans got blamed for not passing the Zadroga Bill, a $7.4-billion piece of legislation to aid 9/11 responders at the World Trade Center. More

December 11, 2010
When Beauty and Heroism are Wrong
Jeremy Egerer
The other day, I came across a feminist blog about the movie Tangled, a movie I know almost nothing about other than that it's racist, sexist, and evil. More

December 10, 2010
Obama's 'Missing Link'
Paul Kengor
From Marxist mentor to Marxist professors to Marxist policies. More

December 10, 2010
Why Constitutional Conservatism Is Ascending
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
If 2009 was the year of birth of the Tea Party movement, 2010 was the year of ascendancy of constitutional conservatism. More

December 10, 2010
Asclepius Shrugged
Bruce Walker
As ObamaCare adds to the financial and regulatory burdens faced by medical doctors, America will find more and more physicians becoming John Galt, M.D. More

December 10, 2010
Bernanke to China: Stop Hurting Us or You'll Hurt Us
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could not resist telling the Chinese government how to run its economy. More

December 10, 2010
Small Complicated Climate Building Codes
Peter Wilson
Treating citizens like dependent children who have to be told how many lights they need in their kitchens. More

December 10, 2010
America's Political Class: In Business for Themselves
Jerry Shenk
We have a political class populated by those whose livelihoods depend on maintenance of a system they have made incoherent and unsustainable. More

December 9, 2010
WikiLeaks, Stuxnet, Cyberwar, and Obama
J.R. Dunn
War is transforming itself before our eyes, turning into something unfamiliar and strange. More

December 9, 2010
Class Warriors Got What They Wished For
Randall Hoven
A funny thing happened on the way to spreading the wealth: wealth dried up. More

December 9, 2010
The Economic Legacy of the Four-Year Democratic Congress
Yossi Gestetner
The numbers tell the story. More

December 9, 2010
Home Foreclosures and Social Justice
Henry Percy
The story of Hannah Swearengin and her mortgage woes tugs at the heartstrings. More

December 9, 2010
Stella Paul's Top Ten Government Follies of 2010
Stella Paul
For American lovers of governmental idiocy, fraud, cowardice, and tyranny, 2010 was a year to be cherished. More

December 9, 2010
Hanukah in Poland
Bruce Walker
Although anti-Semitism among Polish Catholics is very real, this virus has been attacked most passionately by those most Catholic. More

December 9, 2010
Social Security: Successful Failure
Marc H. Rudov
Big Government "succeeds" only with citizens who've opted into group subjugation and out of individual liberty. More

December 8, 2010
WikiLeaks Crocodile Tears
Vasko Kohlmayer
Obama administration concern for the troops is simply a gambit to divert attention from the information that threatens the pols' own careers. More

December 8, 2010
Hillary's Bad Hair Week
Ken Blackwell
Hillary's leaks scandal reminds me of a joke recited by Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev -- perhaps the only joke told in seventy years of Communist misrule. More

December 8, 2010
Cancun's Climate Crock
Brian Sussman
It began with a prayer to the Mayan moon goddess, and it has quickly devolved into a junk science circus. More

December 8, 2010
Crony Car Capitalism
Gary Jason
What a cesspool of crony capitalism the American auto industry has become! More

December 8, 2010
Supreme Court to Hear Global Warming Case
Russell Cook
The 12/6 announcement by the Supreme Court to hear an appeal in a global warming nuisance case is a classic example of a double-edged sword. More

December 8, 2010
Why the Senate Should Reject the New START
Zbigniew Mazurak
The new START is irredeemably flawed. More

December 8, 2010
Secretary Clinton's Cultural Conundrum
Jeannie DeAngelis
A dilemma arises when a liberal feminist diplomat faces a foreign philosophy that deems inferior all things female. More

December 8, 2010
The Third War on Terror
Russ Vaughn
In the same period that almost 1,400 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly 7,000 Mexican citizens have been killed by drug violence. More

December 7, 2010
Obama's Blind Spot
Janice Shaw Crouse
And what the president doesn't understand. More

December 7, 2010
CableGate's Grand Illusion
Vasko Kohlmayer
Governments around the world want you to believe something utterly fantastic. They want you to believe that the actions of Julian Assange pose a great danger to you. More

December 7, 2010
Put Uncle Sam on an Allowance
Monty Pelerin
This country is headed for financial disaster. There is a way out, but it will not be easy. More

December 7, 2010
FCC Commissioner Wants to Control the Content of Broadcast Media
Chuck Rogér
A clear and present danger to the First Amendment. More

December 7, 2010
Warren Buffett, Robber Baron?
Christopher Chantrill
The Sage of Omaha and the estate tax racket. More

December 7, 2010
Power Corrupts
Lauri B. Regan
From the passage of ObamaCare to the offensive TSA screenings, this country's citizens have seen the Constitution trampled upon. More

December 6, 2010
Obama's War on Chris Christie
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama knows of only one kind of preemptive war: against those who threaten his throne. More

December 6, 2010
Censoring Caucasian College Clubs
Jeannie DeAngelis
West Chester University is presently embroiled in a debate over flyers advertising the establishment of a "White Student Union." More

December 6, 2010
Politically Incorrect Powerful Women
Bruce Walker
Too threatening to the left. More

December 6, 2010
Let's Compromise on Taxes
Randall Hoven
I say we compromise: let the rates go back up for everyone who makes less than, say, $200,000 per year. More

December 6, 2010
Entrapment and the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber
Elise Cooper
Will Mohamed Osman Mohamud be able to slip through by claiming entrapment to a Portland jury? More

December 6, 2010
Auditing the President's Oil Spill Commission
Bruce Thompson
The blinders are on when it comes to assessing the role of the executive branch in this disaster. More

December 6, 2010
TSA Collateral Damage
G. Murphy Donovan
You read a hundred stories about the horrors at airports these days, but reading can't hold a candle to an actual flight. More

December 5, 2010
Multiculturalism Hits the Wall
J.R. Dunn
Multiculturalism is the most recent, and perhaps final, expression of the late 20th-century left-wing ascendancy. More

December 5, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: Some Things about Politics I Don't Understand
Clarice Feldman
I have lived in Washington for over forty years, but there are some things I will never understand. More

December 5, 2010
Obama's Authoritarian Multiculturalism
Seth Forman
Authoritarian multiculturalism today possesses an advantage it never had before: one of its most enthusiastic adherents currently occupies the White House. More

December 5, 2010
Overheard -- and Overlooked -- at the Sorbonne
David R. Stokes
When a civilization loses the will to live. More

December 5, 2010
The Death of Modern Liberal Feminism (And its Rebirth in the Conservative Movement)
Robert Eugene Simmons Jr.
It seems only a few short years ago that feminism was a major force for liberals that drew millions of women to vote for the Democratic Party. More

December 5, 2010
Lloyd Marcus' Top Ten Tea Party Patriots of the Year
Lloyd Marcus
My "Top Ten Most Fascinating Tea Party Individuals/Groups of the Year." More

December 5, 2010
The Chinese Ant and the American Grasshopper
Bill Costello
Aesop and the two biggest economies in the world. More

December 5, 2010
How Soccer Explains Conservatism
J.L. North
Conservatives should give more than a passing nod (or smirk) to the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. More

December 5, 2010
American Freedom and Religious Morality
Andie Brownlow
Liberals and conservatives both believe that as Americans, we should be moral people. The major difference is where their morality intersects with their politics. More

December 5, 2010
Hanuka For Jews and Christians
Michael Zimmerman
The events commemorated by Hanuka were necessary for the continuation and ultimate spread of monotheism. More

December 5, 2010
J Street U Takes Sides on Campus
Joel Pollak and Alex Jakubowski
J Street -- the new left-wing lobby group in Washington -- has entered the fray through its campus affiliate, J Street U. More

December 5, 2010
Rendell's Record on Islamofacism and Terror
Moshe Phillips
The retrospectives on Governor Ed Rendell's twenty-four years of service to Philadelphia and to Pennsylvania are starting in earnest now. More

December 4, 2010
Young and Conservative in Manhattan
Drew Belsky
What happened to me to derail fifteen years of liberal inculcation? More

December 4, 2010
The Presidency that Saved America
Peter Heck
In fifty years, I have little doubt that we will regard the administration of Barack Obama as the presidency that saved America. More

December 4, 2010
Fantasy Figures, Real Pain
Jeffrey Folks
The real question is, Why are there so few jobs being created? More

December 4, 2010
The Unemployment Crisis Catch-22
J.B. Williams
Taxation and unemployment are directly related, and if every American doesn't understand this, then Americans will continue to lose jobs. More

December 4, 2010
Playing Chicken with Seniors
Jerry Shenk
Democrats have been playing games with Social Security for decades. More

December 4, 2010
Stopping the Inevitable
Doug Lucas
Build a firewall between the treasury and those who seek to plunder our nation's future. More

December 4, 2010
Déjà Vu, All Over Again?
David Coughlin
Already I am getting a sinking feeling in my gut that this new crop of politicians may fall prey to the same inside-the-Beltway disease. More

December 4, 2010
Why They Call It Taxachusetts
Miguel A. Guanipa
Upon reexamining my hotel receipt, I spied several charges that did not make much sense. More

December 4, 2010
The Pedophile's Guide Is Another Sign of Our Moral Decline
Anthony W. Hager
A warning illustrating how a society can adapt to moral degeneration. More

December 4, 2010
A Foolish DREAM and its Nightmare Consequences
Frank Burke
Like most liberal ideas, the DREAM Act is not what it appears to be and leaves open numerous avenues for waste, fraud, and government expansion More

December 4, 2010
Wind Power Promoted, Even as Subsidies Dry Up and the World Nukes Up
Nancy J. Thorner
Mandates for wind power waste consumers' money and add instability to the power supply. More

December 3, 2010
Sarah Palin's Charisma
James Lewis
Why does the left hate Sarah Palin with such screaming rage? Why do they lose their cookies at the very idea of our Sally? More

December 3, 2010
Apocalypse Now! (Or Pretty Soon, Anyway)
Jeffrey Folks
Now that the theory of man-made global warming has been unmasked as the fraud that it is, get ready for the next-generation justifications for global environmental control. More

December 3, 2010
Criminalization of Politics and the Scourge of Tom DeLay
Sibyl West
I cannot help but notice the overwhelming silence from the GOP on the matter of ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's prosecution and trial. More

December 3, 2010
Successful Politicians Like Meetings
Mark Butterworth
Most people hate meetings, but tolerance for endless meetings seems to be all but essential for a successful political career. More

December 3, 2010
Dems Fume over Wall Street Trillions
Christopher Chantrill
All of a sudden, liberal pundits are getting worked up about the influence of Wall Street. More

December 3, 2010
A Cultural Think-Tank for America
Daniel P. Crandall
In order to broaden the cause of liberty and personal responsibility beyond politics, we must engage the cultural influence professions. More

December 3, 2010
Obama's Middle East Hidden Agenda
Moshe Dann
Why would President Obama place American prestige, money, and influence on the line for a three-month restriction on Jewish building in areas conquered by Israel in 1967? More

December 2, 2010
The U.S.'s 'Little Shop of Horrors' Turns 40
Andrew Thomas
The EPA turns forty today. More

December 2, 2010
The Bourgeoisie, Egalitarianism, and the Death of Culture
Larrey Anderson
Egalitarianism is precipitating the dissolution of our culture and the self-destruction of the middle class. More

December 2, 2010
Liberals and the Coming Redistribution of Fault
J. Robert Smith
It's coming. Expect it. Liberals blaming everyone and everything but themselves for the nation's continuing economic crisis. More

December 2, 2010
Liberal Excuses for Conservative Victory
Jay Haug
Following their electoral repudiation, the left is handing out very few mea culpas. More

December 2, 2010
WikiLeaks Exposes White House's Conscious Support of Islamists
Seth Mandel
An unflattering portrait of a White House that sides with Islamists both in and out of power around the world. More

December 2, 2010
Hillary Analyzes Argentina's President
Jeannie DeAngelis
America's most famous woman scorned dared to probe into the marriage, relationship, and emotional stability of another female leader. More

December 2, 2010
WikiLeaks Embassy Cables Reveal Venezuela's Health-Care System Collapsing
David Paulin
Socializing medicine fails again. More

December 2, 2010
Supreme Court to Hear Political Welfare Case
Daren Bakst
Political frees speech and taxpayer subsidies at issue. More

December 1, 2010
Rethinking Foreign Policy
Vasko Kohlmayer
Imagine that CableGate happened when the name of the American President was George W. Bush and the name of the Secretary of State was Condoleezza Rice. More

December 1, 2010
The Arabs, Iran, and WikiLeaks
Daniel R. DePetris
America's leaders are not the only ones shone in a negative light by the WikiLeaks document dump. More

December 1, 2010
Change Tea Party Goals?
Jim Yardley
In the past week, there has been a call for the Tea Parties to introduce social issues into their "platform." More

December 1, 2010
Could China's Instability Threaten America?
Jeff Lukens
Growth has limits, and China may soon be reaching them. More

December 1, 2010
Congressional Earmarks: Embracing and Ignoring a Message from Voters
Jerry Shenk
Eight foolish Republican Senators voted to retain earmarks, ignoring the voters' message of November 2. More