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February 28, 2011
Two Solutions to the Wisconsin Stalemate
Cliff Thier
The Republican majority of the Wisconsin State Senate has at hand the tools to end its stalemate now. More

February 28, 2011
The Geraldo Rivera of Presidents
Betsy M. Galliher
If Kennedy was the "King of Camelot," and Reagan, 'the Teflon President,' Barack Obama is the "Geraldo Rivera President." More

February 28, 2011
Obama Nixes Safe Drilling
Jeffrey Folks
By refusing to grant a single deep-water permit in the Gulf, Obama has shut down access to one third of America's oil supply. More

February 28, 2011
We Must Not Fear the Tyrants of Tripoli
Joel B. Pollak
The idea that America ought to fear the reaction of an embattled dictator is so feeble, and so contrary to 200 years of U.S. military tradition, that one wonders whether Obama believes it. More

February 28, 2011
The Entitled Party
Karin McQuillan
President Obama and the left wing of the Democratic Party think they are entitled to win. From our narcissistic President to screaming union organizers, they are puffed up with self-righteous zeal. More

February 28, 2011
Sharpton and Obama Ignore Planned Parenthood's Racist Underbelly
M. Catharine Evans
Reverend Al Sharpton called a press conference this past week to denounce an anti-abortion billboard, buying into Planned Parenthood's targeting blacks for abortion. More

February 28, 2011
Bury Keynesianism, not Cash in Coal Mines
Peter Wilson
John Maynard Keynes once suggested that the government could create jobs by burying bottles full of money in coal mines, covering them with trash, and encouraging people to dig them up. More

February 27, 2011
The Fierce Moral Urgency of WTF
Clarice Feldman
Unfortunately for the Obamas, we are less distracted by the shiny objects the White House dangles before us these days More

February 27, 2011
Obfuscating Inflation
Steve McCann
It is beyond time for truth telling in Washington D.C. as the economy begins to tip into another downturn that maybe further accelerated by the chaos in the Middle East. More

February 27, 2011
Welcome to Brazil: Lessons for the American People to Learn
Pedro Primavera
Recently, Hillary Clinton touted the ways of Brazil as an economic lesson to the world. Before extolling the virtues of beat-down market socialism, maybe our politicians should do their homework first More

February 27, 2011
Barry and the Pirates
Eric Clary
After the brutal murders of four American retirees by Somali pirates, the Obama administration continues its incompetent foreign policy. More

February 27, 2011
End Forced Unionism
Bruce Walker
Where would we be without labor unions? We would be much better off. More

February 27, 2011
The Sharing of Miseries
Jeff T. Allen
The government that devours our GNP. More

February 27, 2011
Wrestling with Morality: Boys vs. Girls on the Mat
Selwyn Duke
We put boys in an unreasonable position: They either have to contribute to the defeminizing of the fairer sex or the emasculation of their own. More

February 27, 2011
Sailing with Barry
James Stepan
It is no accident that Longfellow called the United States a "Ship of State" More

February 27, 2011
Another Bum Steer Award for Lubbock
Camie Davis
Besides cotton, Lubbock is known for Buddy Holly, dust storms, and Red Raiders. After Thursday though, we are now known for having a would-be terrorist in our own backyard. More

February 27, 2011
William F. Buckley, Jr. Left Us Three Years Ago Today
Paul Shlichta
God rest ye, merry gentleman. We miss you More

February 26, 2011
Michelle's Healthy, Hunger-Free Menus
Peter Wilson
A guide to the First Lady's school luch fatwa More

February 26, 2011
NY Times Uses Rescued Chilean Miners' Pilgrimage to Holy Land to Score Points Against Israel
Leo Rennert
Only a reporter for the New York Times would find it startling that other journalists would depict the miners' visit without injecting their own political slants. More

February 26, 2011
America Is Not an Empire
Zbigniew Mazurak
A number of liberal and libertarian politicians and columnists, led by Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan, have been falsely claiming for years that America is (or possesses) an empire. More

February 26, 2011
The Union Gang
Kevin Jackson
Unions have taken a big hit as their greed has become visible to more and more Americans. More

February 26, 2011
Toasting the Father of Our Country in Washington
Robert Morrison
An honor for the Father of our Country that shouldn't have been unusual, but was. More

February 26, 2011
Your Money Belongs To Politicians
Priscilla Petty
If I had to pinpoint one single way in which our country has gone astray, I'd say that it's when we allowed politicians to manipulate the tax code to benefit those whom they favor. More

February 26, 2011
Sarah Palin: Even Conservatives Duped by Liberal Media Branding
Lloyd Marcus
The Left launched their "Sarah Palin is Stupid" campaign the next day after her incredible VP nomination acceptance speech. More

February 26, 2011
Piracy is Tragedy of the Commons
Stephen Mauzy
Somali piracy is unlikely to vanish anytime soon. To the contrary, it will likely intensify before it abates. More

February 26, 2011
The Media's Deadly Sin
Carol Peracchio
The average liberal "journalist" today is a rigid ideologue who is unbelievably lazy. More

February 25, 2011
'It's the End of the World As We Know It'
Robin of Berkeley
A light went on in my head. More

February 25, 2011
Leaders Among Us
Peter Heck
Despite the miserable failure in the Oval Office, there are leaders among us. More

February 25, 2011
Afghan Government to Seize Shelters
Wendy Wright
Women's shelters in Afghanistan may soon come under the control of government leaders who follow Sharia law. More

February 25, 2011
Jack Cashill's Deconstructing Obama
Jack Kerwick
Unfortunately for Obama and his followers, Cashill makes a compelling case. More

February 25, 2011
The United Caliphate States of Europe
Samuel J. Mikolaski
From Bosnia and Kosovo we now have one of the largest and most virulent drug cartels in the world, the worst of white slavery and prostitution trafficking into Europe, and terrorist training compounds. More

February 25, 2011
The New Uncivil War
Jack Curtis
Arizona didn't surprise when it diverged from its federal master's border policy but Wisconsin taking on teachers' unions is one Progressive family member turning against another. More

February 25, 2011
Charging the Bleachers for Change
Jeannie DeAngelis
Democrats have a long history of exploiting the type of naïveté endemic to idealistic youth. More

February 24, 2011
Obama Completes His Trifecta
Richard N. Weltz
With a bold political announcement, President Barack Obama has completed the trifecta -- bringing into his White House the powers and functions of the other two branches. More

February 24, 2011
Meeting Young Obama
John Drew
I know something about what Barack Obama believed in 1980. At that time, the future president was a doctrinaire Marxist revolutionary. More

February 24, 2011
The Price of Weakness
James V Capua
With Libya, a terror state in the balance, the Obama administration is playing the role of a pitiful, helpless giant. More

February 24, 2011
Madison and the Schoolkids
Josiah J. Cantrall
Why must some people be subjected to reality while others live like it doesn't exist? More

February 24, 2011
They'd Rather be Right
David Pietrusza
I hardly expected to find the musical version of Amity Shlaes' bestselling critique of New Deal economic policies playing in a 99-seat theater on New York's Upper West Side. But, in a very real sense, I did. More

February 24, 2011
Are We Facing 'The West's Last Chance'?
Janet Levy
The Muslim Brotherhood is the most important entity promoting Islamic supremacy, Shariah law and the caliphate. Its mission in the West is sedition or dismantling the constitutional republic. More

February 24, 2011
Pensioner's Dilemma
Stephen Mauzy
The right to a leisurely retirement has been imprinted on at least five generations of Americans, which is why so few consider whether it is practical or even desirable. More

February 24, 2011
Rubio and Reassurance
Chet Arthur
If there is one word that answers Sigmund Freud's old question, What do women want?, it is this: Reassurance. More

February 23, 2011
Post Traumatic American Syndrome
Robin of Berkeley
With the riots in Wisconsin, the country is getting a sneak preview of what life will be like for everyone if the left prevails. More

February 23, 2011
Will Senate Republicans Snatch Budget Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
Steve McCann
Are the Senate Republicans going wobbly, again? More

February 23, 2011
The View from Wisconsin
Frank Burke
For those outside the state to fully appreciate the significance of what is happening in Wisconsin, it is necessary to understand the local political situation over the past decade. More

February 23, 2011
The American Pharisees of Madison
Marvin Folkertsma
In the current political climate, meretricious nobility reigns supreme. More

February 23, 2011
The Party of Big Government
Vasko Kohlmayer
There is only one major party in this country. It is the Party of Big Government. Democrats are the hardliners while the GOP stands for the more moderate wing. More

February 23, 2011
The Jinn Is Out of the Bottle
David Bukay
No modern Arab-Islamic regime is immune to what is happening now. More

February 23, 2011
Radical Suits and Their Suckers
Christopher Chantrill
For the best part of two centuries the radical suits have been playing the workers for suckers and it's about time they got called on it. More

February 22, 2011
Obama Retreats, Ahmadinejad Advances
James Lewis
The biggest Western gamble since the Hitler appeasement policy of the 1930s. I don't know where the first major aggression will explode, but we are inviting attack on multiple fronts. More

February 22, 2011
Why We Bleed from Greed
Jeff T. Allen
We are wounded today, bleeding red ink, and everyone knows who is guilty. Our suffering is the fault of a small group of people, here and abroad: they are the greedy. More

February 22, 2011
The ABA's Jihad
Pamela Geller
The American Bar Association (ABA) has decided to undertake the fight for Sharia law. More

February 22, 2011
Qaradawi and The Treason of the Intellectuals
Andrew G. Bostom
Last Friday marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood "Spiritual Guide" Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a man being systematically misrepresented in the major American media More

February 22, 2011
Unionized Public Servants Meet Their Enemy
John F. Di Leo
Public servants who think themselves wronged by their government have been demonstrating for days in Madison, Wisconsin. Such a thing has happened before. More

February 22, 2011
Doin' the Madison Mis-Step
Bill Markin
The strange show that's playing in Madison, Wisconsin may have the exact opposite of the effect the Dems and unions hoped for. More

February 22, 2011
Muslim Separatists Plan Bloodbath for 2014 Sochi Olympics
Kim Zigfeld
Ignoring repeated and unmistakable warnings, President Obama still intends to allow American athletes to walk into what can only be called the meat grinder of the 2014 Olympic Games. More

February 21, 2011
Obama and Israel at the Security Council: A Tie?
Richard Baehr
So what should we make of the U.S veto of a Security Council resolution on Friday, after which our Ambassador to the U.N. effectively endorsed the very resolution she had vetoed in a sneering attack on Israeli settlements More

February 21, 2011
The Real Revolution Has Begun
J. Robert Smith
Two years of Obama-Reid-Pelosi overreach and excesses may have been the table-setter for the real revolution now unfolding. More

February 21, 2011
Media Gone Mad
Jeffrey Folks
The battle to reform spending on public employees is underway in a dozen states, and there's little doubt as to which side the mainstream media is taking. More

February 21, 2011
A Madisonian Case for Rubio in 2012
Chet Arthur
We are going to need to match Barack Obama's charisma to galvanize the grassroots. More

February 21, 2011
Why I Changed My Mind About Unions
Michael Filozof
I dislike unions. But I didn't always feel that way. My first job as a 16-year old grocery store shelf-stocker was a union job. I grew up in a union household; my father was an employee of one of the Big Three automakers. More

February 21, 2011
Risky Business: Lara Logan and CBS
G. Murphy Donovan
Real Muslim attitudes toward women and the manufactured narrative of the anti-Mubarak revolution. More

February 21, 2011
No Due Diligence on Abortion?
Keith Riler
Opponents of Texas's proposed mandatory pre-abortion sonogram willfully promote ignorance. More

February 21, 2011
Tea Party Democrats
Mark W. Hendrickson
The political ideals and values of some prominent Democrats are so right-wing that they make most Tea Party leaders seem like liberals in comparison More

February 20, 2011
End Public Sector Unions...Period
C. Edmund Wright
The problem is that our country has been lulled to sleep over decades of hearing that government workers are dedicated and low paid public servants who trade good pay for security. More

February 20, 2011
Government Worker Unions: The Long Good-bye
Steve McCann
The beginning of the end of the incestuous relationship between government and the unions. More

February 20, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: The Gift of Words
Clarice Feldman
I think if there is a heaven, a special place must be found there where the best teachers in the world have thrones of glory. More

February 20, 2011
The Wrong Budget Debate
Bill Wagner
The real issue is quite simply the role of government in our lives. More

February 20, 2011
The Battle of Wisconsin
Jim Yardley
The evolving legislative crisis in Wisconsin has illuminated the political symbiosis of the Democrat Party and Big Labor. More

February 20, 2011
The Oil Spill Crisis That Didn't Go To Waste
Bruce Thompson
The extent of the Obama Administration's political opportunism in the Gulf oil spill is being revealed by the Deepwater Invetsigation. More

February 20, 2011
The Egyptian Army in Politics
David Bukay
The anatomy of a praetorian state. More

February 20, 2011
Ingrid Mattson: No Longer Leading ISNA, but Still Advancing Radical Islam
Stephen Schwartz
The first female and first Muslim convert to serve as president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) continues her career as a promoter of radical Islam. More

February 20, 2011
The Catholic Church and the Left
Jack Kerwick
The "progressivism" of secular leftism has made sizable inroads into the Catholic Church. The significance of the left's infiltration into this institution has gone largely unnoticed. More

February 20, 2011
Russian Orthodox Leader Stands for Principle
Janice Shaw Crouse and George Tryfiates
Challenging the World Council of Churches on the most important moral issues of our day. More

February 20, 2011
Judge Goldstone Contradicts the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Maurice Ostroff
Encouraging words from Judge Richard Goldstone who headed the UN Mission to Gaza that produced the controversial Goldstone Report. More

February 20, 2011
Taking Down the Harvard President
John B. Parrott
When the left "frames" a controversy. More

February 19, 2011
When Teachers Strike: A Memoir
Beverly Gunn
In 1980, teachers at all the schools in the town of Sierra Vista decided to go on strike. They were encouraged by the NEA to do so, since the NEA was powering up to unionize in other states More

February 19, 2011
Obama Hoisted by Own Petard on Israeli-Palestinian Front
Leo Rennert
Obama, it turned out, came to office praising the peace process -- and ended up burying it. More

February 19, 2011
Revolution in the Middle East? Ask Burke
Jack Kerwick
The "revolution" that began in Egypt just three weeks ago and that is now spreading across the Middle East has many Americans smiling. Not so fast. More

February 19, 2011
What do Climate Data Really Show? The Berkeley Climate Data Project
S. Fred Singer
Cautious optimism for getting reliable data on climate -- from Berkeley! More

February 19, 2011
Common Ground for Justin Bieber and the American Left
William Sullivan
Maybe it's time to revisit why many of our own naïve and ignorant people agree with a naïve and ignorant kid like Justin Bieber. More

February 19, 2011
The Bright Line
Bruce Walker
We cannot subsist on cynicism. Disdain for RINOs is ultimately a distraction. We must have the Republican Party as a vehicle to recapture our country More

February 19, 2011
Thus Ever Are Tyrants
Jim Mahoney
Contempt for the people and their just laws are the hallmarks of tyranny. More

February 19, 2011
The Problem With Rights
Sterling T. Terrell
United States Senator Bernie Sanders declares that health care is a right, not a privilege, for Americans. The United Nations agrees More

February 19, 2011
America's Immigration Problem
Ron Lipsman
What's wrong, and what must be done. More

February 19, 2011
Obama Squandering Our Capital
Bryan S. Myrick
"Now is the time to invest in America," President OBama tells American business. More

February 19, 2011
Can Truth Prevail in a Culture of Spin?
Judith Anderson
Truth is what is unequivocally true. It is not constrained by ideology, creed, or spin. More

February 18, 2011
Greece, Not Egypt
Joseph Ashby
Clearly the Mob in Madison sees themselves as a reincarnation of the Crowd in Cairo. But they are the most hazardous monopoly of all. More

February 18, 2011
The Doomed President
Bruce Walker
Pundits muse how Obama can save his presidency. He cannot. Obama, politically, is doomed. More

February 18, 2011
Christie Showing the Power of the Real New Tone
C. Edmund Wright
Move over President Bush. Step aside Karl Rove. There's a real "new tone" in town. More

February 18, 2011
Obama's Economics of Deception
Steve McCann
Destroying the financial future of the country while lying about a supposed economic recovery underway. More

February 18, 2011
Egypt Gets Its Khomeini
Barry Rubin
Up until now, the Egyptian revolution generally, and the Brotherhood in particular, has lacked a charismatic thinker, someone who could really mobilize the masses. More

February 18, 2011
How ObamaCare Kills Medical Innovation
Fred N. Sauer
Now we know what rationing will look like under Obama Care. More

February 18, 2011
It's the Teachers, Stupid!
Jack Curtis
Unionized teachers outnumber other government workers and run the schools in every state; why do we keep on accepting their decades of miserable results? More

February 18, 2011
The Sad State of the State of California
S. Fred Singer
Many must be wondering whether the state of California is beyond repair. More

February 18, 2011
Google and the Government
Bernie Reeves
That the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is accusing the Obama administration of a "cozy" relationship with the Internet behemoth Google is hardly a surprise. More

February 17, 2011
Alfred E President
Bruce Walker
Barack Obama resembles, more and more, the hapless, clueless, sappily cheerful mascot of MAD Magazine, Alfred E. Neuman. More

February 17, 2011
American Pundits and Policymakers Don't Understand that Democracy Isn't Necessarily More Moderate
Barry Rubin
What must be written in order to promote one's career in Washington or popularity in the Western world, and what must be written in order to understand the Middle East are two very different things. More

February 17, 2011
Creative Destruction and the Federal Deficit
Frank Ryan
Cuts of $100 billion are not even a good start, yet such cuts may be all that is politically possible at this point. Our creative destruction is underway. More

February 17, 2011
Europe Dumps the Multicult
James Lewis
Europe is turning against its own cult of multiculturalism. Behind the scenes thousands of Euro journ-O-lists are trying to figure out ways to spin their way out of this one. More

February 17, 2011
Another Liberal Ponzi Scheme
Michael Fraley
Liberal elitists are hatching another Ponzi scheme to prop up a pet cause which the free market will not sustain. More

February 17, 2011
Still Very Possible: How to Repeal and Replace ObamaCare
Jim Guirard
Currently being evaluated by a dozen or more Republican senators and an equal number of House GOP leaders is the following roadmap to success. More

February 17, 2011
Patriot Act Palpitations
Elise Cooper
An abstract commitment to the concept of civil liberties should not stand in the way of permanent approval of the Patriot Act. More

February 16, 2011
Liberalism and the Fear of Death
Robin of Berkeley
While conservatives and progressives disagree about pretty much everything, there is one common denominator: everyone who is alive this very moment will one day no longer walk this earth. More

February 16, 2011
Faking Our Way to Sovereign Bankruptcy
Monty Pelerin
Political lip service will not solve this problem, only spending cuts will. Yet lip service is all we get. More

February 16, 2011
Cooking the Intelligence Books
G. Murphy Donovan
A survey of the reviews of Donald Rumsfeld's Known and Unknown, reveals a uniform list of complaints -- or, more accurately, talking points. More

February 16, 2011
Conservatives and Libertarians
William J. Upton
The consummately rambunctious Young Americans for Freedom have seen fit to boot the libertarian-Republican from Texas, Congressman Ron Paul, from their board of advisors. More

February 16, 2011
Time to Defend the West
Robert Weissberg
Nobody fears those who will not defend their own civilization. Time to take the gloves off. More

February 16, 2011
Egypt's Putative Revolution
David Bukay
The demonstrations and riots erupted through Egypt, were neither a revolution nor a rebellion (a mass movement upheaval). However, they were an excuse of an successful internal coup d'état. More

February 16, 2011
'Change,' 'Democracy,' and 'Freedom' in Egypt
Terry Heinrichs
Three little words, but they have played a big role in the rhetoric surrounding what is being billed by right and left alike as the "Egyptian democratic revolution." But what do they really mean in Egypt? More

February 15, 2011
The Nazi Origins of Apocalyptic Global Warming Theory
Mark Musser
One of the primary pioneering theorists on apocalyptic global warming is Guenther Schwab (1902-2006), an Austrian Nazi. More

February 15, 2011
BRAC The Deficit
Gregory Buls
A successful model exists for making difficult cuts: The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission process, created by Congress to deal with the politically sensitive problem of shuttering domestic military installations. More

February 15, 2011
Sarah and the San Francisco Poster Wars
Ray Gross
As I stood in front of the vile posters of Sarah Palin, I felt anger and rage. Above all, I felt powerless. I am gay. I live in San Francisco. I am hiding that I'm a conservative. More

February 15, 2011
The Next Black President?
Jeannie DeAngelis
As 2012 approaches, new voices offer a message of genuine "hope" and positive "change." More

February 15, 2011
Trillions and Trillions
Christopher Chantrill
The liberal base wants to hear about Pentagon cuts, but Obama's budget does nothing about entitlements. Can you say, "Dead on arrival"? More

February 15, 2011
The Sharia Apologencia
D.B. Grady
The Muslim Brotherhood has found unlikely defenders in the West, and is now portrayed as a paragon of Islamic moderation. More

February 15, 2011
Indivisible Conservatism
George Scaggs and Sibyl West
The illusion of a split between social and fiscal conservatives. More

February 14, 2011
Egypt is an Opportunity
Herbert E. Meyer
Egypt's had half a revolution, which means the country's future is in play. We have suddenly entered one of those rare moments in history when the world is about to be remade. More

February 14, 2011
Fantasy and the Egyptian Future
Barry Rubin
If one side is sophisticated and realistic while the other engages in fantasies, who do you expect to win? More

February 14, 2011
Democratic, Oligarchic or Islamic Revolution in Egypt?
LTC Joseph C. Myers
The Egyptian military leadership is an oligarchy, and how much they will allow constitutional changes for greater democratic space is yet to be seen. More

February 14, 2011
A Tipping Point Is Nearing
Jeff T. Allen
We are facing a tipping point. There will soon be a crisis affecting US citizens beyond any experienced since the Great Depression. More

February 14, 2011
The Coming Battle for Egypt
Steve McCann
While there is never an ideal time for an overthrow, there are factors at play that will make peaceful transition to a true democracy exceedingly difficult and open the door for the radical Islamists. More

February 14, 2011
The Polygamists Make Their Move
Peter Heck
Once the trail has been forged by homosexuality activists, polygamy is nothing but the next logical step. More

February 14, 2011
Obama, Now -- and Then
Betsy M. Galliher
Obama on political change, in his own words. More

February 14, 2011
Why Worship Democracy?
Bruce Walker
What will happen in Egypt? Democracy will prevail. Why are we so happy about that? More

February 13, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Arianna for President
Clarice Feldman
If we insist on having egotistical self-aggrandizers for president, at least let's have one who understands how to read a balance sheet More

February 13, 2011
Does Obama Want the Best for America or Does He Want to Destroy It?
Jack Kerwick
Or is there a third possibility? More

February 13, 2011
The Collapse of Arab Civilization?
Michael Fraley
While Islam itself continues to grow and thrive around the world (and indeed, is continuing to make swift inroads into Western states), it has been specifically in the Arab world where one has seen the turmoil of civilization in decay. More

February 13, 2011
B.H. Obama: Shameless Imperialist
James Lewis
We've just watched Obama commit an act of imperialistic aggression against a peaceful sovereign state. More

February 13, 2011
Multiculturalism and Conservatives
Chidike Okeem
Liberals have successfully advanced one particular brand of the concept of multiculturalism, and used it effectively to meet their malevolent goals. Conservatives are missing an opportunity. More

February 13, 2011
The Cesspool Obama and I Crawled Out Of
Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D.
A Memoir of life in Hyde Park. More

February 13, 2011
Caring, Consequences, and the Commonweal
Stephen Mauzy
Few terms are more sentimentalized than "I care." More

February 13, 2011
American Islamists Find Common Cause with Pamela Geller
M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.
Both resort to false libelous attacks against Muslim reformers while offering no solutions for Muslim radicalization. Dr. Jasser responds. More

February 13, 2011
J. Edgar Holder and His Misplaced Priorities
Frank Burke
The recent "mob roundup" in New York is emblematic of the disconnect on multiple levels between Eric Holder's Justice Department and the real world problems facing law enforcement . More

February 13, 2011
The Right Way to 'Spread the Wealth Around'
Jim Yardley
The phrase "spread the wealth around" simultaneously reveals Obama's command and control view of the role of government and his startling naïveté regarding how basic economics actually works. More

February 13, 2011
The Gaza Blockade: Not War But Defense
Solon Solomon
Not the laws of war, but self defense. Not a means of warfare but a security-defense option. Thus should be perceived the mainly Israeli imposed closure of Gaza. More

February 13, 2011
The Birther Card
Cindy Simpson
Two states are considering bills that contain additional eligibility requirements that trump a long-form birth certificate More

February 12, 2011
How Much in Egypt Has Really Changed? Less Than It Seems
Barry Rubin
The story of Egypt is in a very real sense totally different from the narrative being portrayed today. The same regime is still in place. Only one man has left. More

February 12, 2011
The Era of the Obama 'Blank Screen' is Over
Monte Kuligowski
"I serve as a blank screen," Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope, "on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." That's history. More

February 12, 2011
America's Most Dangerous Law
Adam Yoshida
Thinking the unthinkable. More

February 12, 2011
David Frum's Bad Advice for the GOP
Zbigniew Mazurak
Liberal Republicans, led by David Frum, continue to argue for a remolding of the GOP into a Democrat-lite party. More

February 12, 2011
What's Missing from Healthcare in Rwanda?
Deane Waldman
In a country where the annual per capita income was $510 in 2009, patients get as high quality medical care as we get here in the richest nation on earth. How's that possible? More

February 12, 2011
Growing Up
Chuck Rogér
Two simple truths live at the heart of the struggle to grow up. More

February 12, 2011
The America of Samuel F. Smith
Michael Fraley
The man who wrote "My country 'tis of thee" and what he celebrated. More

February 12, 2011
Jobs and Revolution
Christopher Chantrill
Pretty soon the voters will be ready to throw the bums out and vote for hope and change. More

February 12, 2011
What Conservative Women Want
Nancy Morgan
A guide for men. More

February 12, 2011
Islamic Justice: Justice Par Excellance
Amil Imani
Trial by noose, trial by missiles, and more More

February 12, 2011
The Artful Illogic of Blow-Up
Paul Marrone
Thirty-five years after its release, an enigmatic film continues to fascinate. More

February 11, 2011
The Real 'Birther' Conspiracy Theory
Jack Cashill
Occam's Razor meets the controversy over Obama's documentation. More

February 11, 2011
No Coal, No Power, No Gas
Jeffrey Folks
How was it that Texas suffered an extended period of rolling blackouts at a time when there's a glut of coal and natural gas waiting to be used? More

February 11, 2011
Hyperinflation is A Small Price to Pay?
Monty Pelerin
The US is hurtling toward out-of-control inflation while the political class tries to convince the hoi polloi that inflation is not a problem. More

February 11, 2011
Napolitano Goes on Offense
Leo W. Banks
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has gone on offense and it's not pretty. We have a big problem the country needs to understand, free of Napolitano's spin and political hackery. More

February 11, 2011
Crony Capitalism Comes to the Fishing Industry
Mike Johnson
Force out the little guy, consolidate the industry, and make big bucks, all in the guise of environmentalism. More

February 11, 2011
Democrazy: Egypt and the Eternal Constitution
Selwyn Duke
Something must be remembered about a government of the people, by the people and for the people: It will look like the people. More

February 11, 2011
What to do about Yemen?
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Another Arab regime faces protests, and its president has announced he will not seek another term. What's going on, and what can America do? More

February 10, 2011
What Will GOProud Bring to the Conservative Table?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
There is something fundamental missing in this big, fat heap of internecine squabbling over GOProud participating in CPAC. More

February 10, 2011
The Essential Barack Obama
Steve McCann
Barack Obama has used and manipulated ideological true believers into being the foot soldiers for his personal ambitions. More

February 10, 2011
Converging on Chicago, Again
Richard Kantro
So what crisis is Rahm Emanuel hurrying home to Chicago to ensure doesn't go to waste? More

February 10, 2011
Tariq's Tricks: How the West's Favorite Islamist Spins His Web
Barry Rubin
The recent op-ed in the New York Times by Tariq Ramadan is full of lies. Yet virtually no Western reader, no matter how suspicious of the Muslim Brotherhood, will notice any of them. More

February 10, 2011
The CAFE Effect
J.R. Dunn
The liberal elite has been busy purging itself at both ends of the mortal coil -- prior to birth through abortion, and in later years in preventable fatal car crashes. More

February 10, 2011
The Welfare State of the Union
Jeffrey Folks
The impact of food stamps, Section 8 housing subsidies, Medicaid, and other support programs has been to create a permanent welfare class which, in terms of skills and attitudes, is poorly equipped to return to work. More

February 10, 2011
Muddling Through in Egypt
Elise Cooper
Hopeful signs that Egypt and America's other allies, notably Jordan and Saudi Arabia, will not fall into the hands of radical Jihadists. More

February 10, 2011
How Should We Interpret the Constitution?
Bruce Walker
Who are the real guardians of our liberties? More

February 9, 2011
Obama's Foxy Evasions
Jan LaRue
Bill O'Reilly's interview of President Obama on Fox News just prior to the Super Bowl confirmed that the President remains a self-absorbed leftist. More

February 9, 2011
Dueling Narratives: Reagan vs. Obama
Paul Kengor
Errors, and the men who make them. More

February 9, 2011
From an Eye-Witness to the Egyptian Rebellion: If not Now, then When?
James Bloom
In Egypt at present, the West has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to influence and abet the end of autocracy in the Mid-East and North Africa. More

February 9, 2011
Egypt's Elusive Democracy
Jonathan Edelman
How is it possible that the President of the United States conflates crowd intimidation with democracy, when it is in fact the antithesis? More

February 9, 2011
Islam and the Egyptian Political Future
Bill Warner
The future will probably be some version of the past, a past driven by Islamic political doctrine. More

February 9, 2011
Obama, Russia, and Trust
Kim Zigfeld
Obama's Russia policy is a good illustration of why the world feels it can't trust Obama or, more and more, any Americans. More

February 9, 2011
Islam, Human Rights & The Iranian Regime's Killing Spree
Reza Kahlili
How much does Islam value the life of a human being? What did Allah say to the Prophet Mohammad about life, about mankind, about how we need to respect and treasure it? More

February 8, 2011
Egypt After Mubarak
Barry Rubin
The problem is not an Islamist Egypt in a year or two but a radical Egypt that will wreak havoc on regional politics More

February 8, 2011
President Stealth Strikes Again
Ed Lasky
How Obama and his merry band are trying to evade the will of the people. More

February 8, 2011
Egypt and Israel's Changing Defense Strategy
C. Hart
Some Israelis say that these new challenges to the Jewish State are the most serious since 1948, as Israel faces the possibility of a future multi-front war against overwhelming odds. More

February 8, 2011
Bill Kristol, Stand for Truth
Pamela Geller
But Kristol is so wrong, inexcusably so, as he admonishes those on the right for not embracing the catastrophic events unfolding in the Middle East. More

February 8, 2011
Misconception or Betrayal? The U.S., Egypt, and Iran
David Bukay
Cairo 2011 is more likely to become Tehran 1979 than Berlin 1989, and the big question remains: would Obama even care if Egypt becomes another Iran? More

February 8, 2011
Investment in Decline
Joseph Ashby
It's more obvious that ever that pinning a nation's economic hopes on bridges to nowhere eventually leads a national economy nowhere. More

February 8, 2011
Republicans: Boxed In on the Budget?
Frank Santarpia
For the Dems, if they refuse to compromise and hold the line against budget cuts, it appears to be a win-win situation -- one of the few they have enjoyed since the election of President Obama. More

February 8, 2011
Get Back to CPAC
John Stapleton
Certain groups and individuals have chosen not to attend this year's CPAC out of protest because of the inclusion of one particular organization named GOProud. More

February 7, 2011
Obama's Prayer Breakfast Knuckleball
Jack Cashill
Team Obama is preparing the media for a shift in the official Obama saga. More

February 7, 2011
U.S.-Egypt Relations Under Attack
Ion Mihai Pacepa
There is good reason to believe that the current political crisis in that country is geared toward breaking Egypt's close ties with the United Sates, not toward installing democracy. More

February 7, 2011
Obama's Role in Empowering the Muslim Brotherhood
Ed Lasky
Has Barack Obama been ahead of the curve? Only if you think he wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to assume power. More

February 7, 2011
Appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood -- Obama's Rubicon Moment
Eileen F. Toplansky
It is now time to test Obama's moral compass. He needs to be directly asked if he believes the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to the United States. More

February 7, 2011
What Obama Should Learn From Bush on Egypt
Carol A. Taber
Historically, the only kind of Middle Eastern democracies Democrats like are the ones that are anti-American. More

February 7, 2011
David Cameron Lifts the Lid
Gregory Buls
Pandora's Box is open -- the West may not be dessicated after all. More

February 7, 2011
Citizens Must Know Their Place
Denis Keohane
The bureaucracy must not be challenged. More

February 6, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: The Incredible Lightness of Obama
Clarice Feldman
A little like Honduras before him, Hosni Mubarak outsmarted and outplayed the community organizer. More

February 6, 2011
Hawaii's Governor Manipulates Birthers
Andrew Walden
It should be no surprise that Abercrombie is doing everything he can to increase the visibility of birtherism in the run-up to the 2012 elections. More

February 6, 2011
America Must Lead, Not Hype an Election
William Sullivan
The Egyptians that now seek a reformation do not look to elect an innovator vying for peace; they look to elect an enforcer. More

February 6, 2011
Fix Education Now!
Brad Fregger
When it comes to education, this administration, along with education elites, is ignoring the elephant in the room: the absence of classroom discipline. More

February 6, 2011
A Hollywood Ending
Gary Jason
In the face of soaring budget deficits, a number of states are ending the subsidization of film production. More

February 6, 2011
The Code Pink Blues
Betsy M. Galliher
Let's face it: the Code Pink ladies just don't wear red, white, and blue all that well. More

February 6, 2011
Privilege, Equality, and Law
Jeremy Egerer
Our bedrock of equality may be eroding more quickly than we think. More

February 6, 2011
Why, Harold?
Miguel A. Guanipa
Harold Camping, a widely respected evangelist, tells us that the end of the world is at hand. More

February 6, 2011
Turning Egypt into Chicago
James Lewis
Obama's apparent aim is to turn Egypt into Chicago, which also doesn't have real elections, one party is in charge forever and nobody fights City Hall. More

February 6, 2011
Celebrating Ronald Reagan's Birth Day
Robert Morrison
The moral lights around us yet burn. For that, we owe a great deal to Ronald Reagan. More

February 6, 2011
Energy Dollars and Sense
Jerry Shenk
The economics of biofuels are grim. Time to stop dreaming. More

February 6, 2011
The Obama Administration and the Middle East: A Half-Time Assessment
Barry Rubin
How's that hope and change working out in the Middle East? More

February 6, 2011
Professors Push Israel to Negotiate with Hamas
Janet Doerflinger
Prominent Middle East studies professors argue that Israel should conduct negotiations with Hamas, a terrorist organization responsible for murdering and maiming many innocent Israelis More

February 6, 2011
Hollowing Out Science and Engineering Careers
Eugene Veklerov
How to lose America's ability to manufacture. More

February 6, 2011
Exporting Our Prosperity to China
Tom Roberson
America's technological lead is melting down as its innovations are increasingly transferred to China as the cost of doing business. More

February 5, 2011
Obama Well Knows What Chaos He Has Unleashed
Victor Sharpe
Our president has now opened a Pandora's Box in the Middle East. It may well usher in a catastrophe not seen since World War 2. More

February 5, 2011
Executive Orders and Presidential Prerogatives
Zbigniew Mazurak
Obama will make a serious mistake if he tries to advance his liberal agenda by executive fiat. He has no constitutional prerogative to do so. More

February 5, 2011
Islam on a Collision Course
Amil Imani
Protests in Iran and protests in Egypt -- very different anti-government movements. More

February 5, 2011
NBC News: Making No Difference
Jeffrey Folks
For several years now, NBC Nightly News has concluded its broadcasts with a feature called "Making a Difference." More

February 5, 2011
A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism
Drew Belsky
Communism, people say, is a fine and noble system -- it's just been flawed in its execution. More

February 5, 2011
The Progressive Disdain for the Rule of Law
Andrew Thomas
President Obama is forcing us toward a constitutional crisis. More

February 5, 2011
The Constitution Lives to Fight Another Day
Peter Heck
Enter Judge Vinson. More

February 5, 2011
Obama's Home State and City Falling Fast
Chad Stafko
Exporting failure across America. More

February 5, 2011
Obama and FDR Power Grabs: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Robert T. Smith
FDR's Brain Trust progressive thinkers were so smitten with their cognitive prowess that they had no concern over unintended consequences or consideration of "what then?" Sound familiar? More

February 5, 2011
Judge Vinson's Bittersweet ObamaCare Ruling
Monte Kuligowski
The unmitigated arrogance of Obama, Reid and Pelosi -- as witnessed in the health care "reform" debacle -- is pushing even postmodern constitutional jurisprudence to its very limits. More

February 5, 2011
ObamaCare vs. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Deborah B. Sloan
Claims that "health care is a right" are not merely mistaken -- they are also wicked and destructive. More

February 5, 2011
The Backs of Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
Christopher Chantrill
How do you reply when your liberal friend says, "No one should have to go without health care!"? More

February 5, 2011
Can Executing Murderers Save Lives?
Chris DeSanctis
Connecticut's new governor and Democratic legislative majority have promised to abolish capital punishment despite public opinion to the contrary. More

February 4, 2011
America and the Middle East Dictators
Barry Rubin
How many dictators is the United States supporting in the Middle East? How many are arrayed against us? More

February 4, 2011
We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East
James Simpson
If their street revolutions are successful, these Middle Eastern countries will rapidly degenerate into radical Muslim thugocracies allied with our communist enemies. More

February 4, 2011
In the Midst of the Egyptian Upheaval: The Elephants in the Room
Dan Gordon
The top five myths that have been shattered. More

February 4, 2011
Faux Ally in a Real War
Robert D. Clark
An American diplomat is under arrest in Pakistan, putting the United States in a no-win situation. More

February 4, 2011
Black American Dreads Black History Month
Lloyd Marcus
Ah yes, another Black History Month! Time to pitch as many new guilt-trip government entitlement programs as possible. More

February 4, 2011
Super Bowl 45 Will Break Records
John Fricke
That first Super Bowl wasn't even called the "Super Bowl" -- the name didn't exist yet. Sunday's match-up will be a record-breaker in the series. More

February 4, 2011
Are U.S Servicewomen Trading the Safety of the Helmet for the Hijab?
Margaret Calhoun Hemenway
Cultural sensitivity or capitulation? More

February 4, 2011
Supporting Dictators
Vasko Kohlmayer
How can President Obama control Egypt when he cannot even control what happens in his own country? More

February 4, 2011
Death in the Desert: Project Gunwalker and the ATF Cover-Up
T.L. Davis
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stands accused of covering up a rogue operation on the border. More

February 3, 2011
Driftwood Diplomacy
Steve McCann
A man with no core, incapable of understanding the importance of planning for and anticipating events. More

February 3, 2011
Islam on Its Own Terms
Jack Kerwick
Anyone seriously concerned with coming to terms with "the nature of our enemy" must give up all of this silly talk of "Islamofascists," "Islamonazis," "Islamists," "radical Muslims," and "Islamic extremists." More

February 3, 2011
Egypt's Real Problem: Decades of Authoritarian Socialist Rule
Richard J. Little
The revolution in Egypt is a direct result of the failure of authoritarian socialist ideology and policy. More

February 3, 2011
How Pacifism Led to the Great War -- and Could Lead Us into the Next One
Robert Morrison
In one famous case, pacifism doubtless led the world into a cataclysm. More

February 3, 2011
Obama Picks a Progressive Lawyer for Top Economist
Raymond Richman and Howard Richman
The peculiar progressive preferences of the Yale-educated lawyer now directing the National Economic Council. More

February 3, 2011
Obama: A Roman God Updated?
Jack Curtis
The Romans' Janus faced two directions, surveying the past and the future together; our updated god presents two faces in recognition of what he says versus what he does. More

February 3, 2011
Arab Protests and Israel
Yoel Meltzer
Seemingly positive changes in the Arab or Islamic world frequently lead to unforeseen situations that prove to be as bad as or even worse than the original situation. More

February 2, 2011
The Story of the Egyptian Revolution
Sam Tadros
A day-by-day account from Cairo, written by a sophisticated Egyptian analyst. More

February 2, 2011
The Left and Their 'Good Victims'
Robin of Berkeley
The left divides the world into good and bad victims. More

February 2, 2011
Egypt, the United States, and the Ghost of Khomeini
Georgy Gounev
There is still hope that Egyptians won't display the naïveté of the leaders of the Iranian democratic forces. More

February 2, 2011
There's No Abe Lincoln in the Muslim Hood
James Lewis
There are only bad choices. More

February 2, 2011
Radical Islam or Mainstream Islam?
Dave Gaubatz
If the majority of Muslims adhere to sharia law (at least in their hearts), then we must confront the possibility that "radical Islam" is actually mainstream Islam. More

February 2, 2011
The British Left's Betrayal of America
Adam Shaw
The latest revelations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government advised Libya on how to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber may have destroyed the Anglo-American relationship. More

February 2, 2011
Ten Keys to President Reagan's Effectiveness
Janice Shaw Crouse
Qualities all the more understandable when experiencing their absence. More

February 2, 2011
Judge Vinson Also Smacks Down Crony Capitalists
C. Edmund Wright
Perhaps almost as pleasing as the affirmation of individual freedom and the dismissal of a government-run society is the smack-down Judge Vinson's ruling gave to the concept of "crony capitalism." More

February 1, 2011
Obama's Ongoing War on Inspectors General
Ed Lasky
One after another, inspectors general have been reporting that Obama's stewardship of taxpayer money has failed. More

February 1, 2011
Overachievers with Low Self-Esteem
Tom Roberson
America is up to its eyeballs in people concerned with saving us from their demons. More

February 1, 2011
Obama's Rathole Moment
Robert Weissberg
President Obama got matters exactly backward when he addressed education last week before a joint session of Congress. More

February 1, 2011
Obama's Standing Army of Regulators among Us
Geoffrey P. Hunt
The victims of today's excessive government regulatory zeal face the same enemy confronted by the nation's Founders: unconstrained centralized power. More

February 1, 2011
Stop the Fraud -- Freeze the Debt Ceiling
Monty Pelerin
The debt ceiling is a key to stopping the political insanity. More

February 1, 2011
What Reagan Meant to America
Bruce Walker
Seven years ago, when Reagan died, millions of Americans waited for hours to share a brief moment with this greatest of contemporary Americans. More

February 1, 2011
China's Insight into Human Nature
Bill Costello
And why President Obama misunderstands China's rise. More