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March 31, 2011
Adventures in Federal Budget Cutting
S. Fred Singer
I have served in five different positions under both Republican and Democrat administrations and have had some modest success in cutting authorized spending. But at quite a personal cost. More

March 31, 2011
Fear of a Government Shutdown?
Steve McCann
Leading Democrats are hoping for a government shutdown over the budget, planning to blame the GOP and Tea Party. They should be careful what they wish for. More

March 31, 2011
Mr. Boehner: Shut Her Down!
C. Edmund Wright
Take a look at what has happened outside Washington since 1995. It's a brave new world out here Mr. Speaker. I invite you to take a peek at it. More

March 31, 2011
Obama's Good War
James Lewis
Obama's the worst enemy the Left has had since Reagan, and the best thing is that they're still in love with him. More

March 31, 2011
The Liberal Addiction to Bureaucracy
Christopher Chantrill
In a brand new agency we can see a great national problem that everyone ignores, pretending it isn't there. It is the liberal addiction to bureaucracy. More

March 31, 2011
Confusion In The Ranks - U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
C. Hart
The outcome of Obama's Middle East actions is that the U.S. is much much weaker today than it was two months ago. More

March 31, 2011
The President's Snooze Button
Jeffrey Folks
For more than two years, Obama has been hitting the snooze button on energy. More

March 30, 2011
Two Libyan States?
J.R. Dunn
We are now facing the possibility of an East and West Libya. Hostilities over the next few weeks are likely to fall into stalemate. More

March 30, 2011
Obama's Slippery Slope
Neil Snyder
The principle cited Monday night by President Obama justfying action in Libya is dangerous to our sovereignty. More

March 30, 2011
President Obama: 'Mosques Destroyed'
Robert Morrison
President Obama's speech to the nation raised as many questions as it answered. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs were not consulted, but the Arab League was. More

March 30, 2011
When Dumb Wars Become Brilliant
Peter Heck
How a man who persistently derided the Iraq War as "dumb" could justify intervention in a less dangerous state like Libya. More

March 30, 2011
The Discovery and Use of American Exceptionalism
Henry Oliner
There is more than irony in Obama's decision to attack Libya. The rationalization of the action speaks louder than the action itself. More

March 30, 2011
Barack Obama's 'I am not a Crook' Moment
T.L. Davis
The Senate Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs might get a little more heated than usual on March 31, 2011. More

March 30, 2011
Oregon Attorney General's Uncharitable Legislation
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
An attempt to shut down grassroots charities. More

March 30, 2011
Progressive Fallacy Number 667: Wealth Redistribution Creates Societal 'Harmony'
Chuck Rogér
Barack Obama demonized high earners and faulted America for having "the greatest income inequality since any time since the gilded age." So what if it does? More

March 29, 2011
Hillary's War
Victor Sharpe
Oh, what noxious weeds has Hillary Clinton sown! More

March 29, 2011
Assassinating Gaddafi
Paul Kengor
Now the story can be told. More

March 29, 2011
Obama's Scary Discomfort with American Power
Seth Forman
President Obama's conviction that American power must be harnessed to the predilections of other countries continues to be his predominant presidential trait. More

March 29, 2011
An Unnatural Love Affair
Stephen Mauzy
If one anthropomorphizes a rock, one is a nut job. If one anthropomorphizes billions of rocks, one is an environmentalist. More

March 29, 2011
Obama's High Food Price Policy Stealing Milk from Babies
Jeffrey Folks
The first time in American history when an administration is deliberately forcing food prices higher in order to increase dependency and extend government control over the economy. More

March 29, 2011
Our New-Age Saboteurs
John Pechette
Progluddite Definition: a misinformed, misguided political ideologue who believes that technological regression will force humanity to build a New Age Utopia. More

March 29, 2011
Another Fine Pension Mess
Gary Jason
If you liked paying for the UAW retirement benefits that drove GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy, you're going to love paying for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation's liabilities. More

March 28, 2011
Biden's Journalist-in-the-Closet Caper Is a Big Bleeping Deal
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The "most transparent" administration in the history of the world locks a reporter in a closet to keep him from mingling with Party fat-cats More

March 28, 2011
Soros Wins Under Obama's Energy Policies
Ed Lasky
We pay the costs and George Soros picks up the profits. A nice deal, if you can get it. More

March 28, 2011
Ladies Who Launch
Jan LaRue
Why is the Commander in Chief allowing the Secretary of State to appear to be in charge of a "kinetic military action" that's run and funded by the Department of Defense? More

March 28, 2011
Obama, Islam, and the Forcible Virginity Test
James Lewis
"All the best revolutions are organic" was Obama's Leninist piece of wisdom when he was yelling at Hillary in the White House several weeks ago. "All the best revolutions." Think about that. More

March 28, 2011
Did Obama Forget to Have a Gaddafi Meeting 'Without Preconditions'?
Monte Kuligowski
Mr. Obama might have missed his big diplomatic moment to work the magic his disillusioned fans have been waiting for since the failed Olympics bid. More

March 28, 2011
Gouging Taxpayers in the Chicago Suburbs
Nancy J. Thorner
Getting rich as a "public servant." More

March 28, 2011
Is That a Cry for Democracy in the Middle East?
Jim Yardley
The authoritative voices, who describe the not-exactly-a-war in Libya as a "kinetic military action," tell us that the people of the Middle East have had enough of dictatorial regimes. More

March 28, 2011
The Bias They Can't See: The NPR Set's Lack of Self-Awareness
Mark Browning
They honestly believe that they play the journalism game very close to, if not right down, the middle, and that's the bigger problem. More

March 27, 2011
Ishtar II: The Audacity of the Artless War
Clarice Feldman
If Hollywood did remakes of box office flops, it might look a lot like what is going on in our nation's capital. More

March 27, 2011
Can We Save America?
Steve McCann
It has been difficult and heart-rending to watch over the years what has happened to a nation we have all come to love. More

March 27, 2011
President Bush Runs the Gauntlet to Visit Christian University
Matt Spivey
Lessons in civility from the left, and from a man who understands the concept. More

March 27, 2011
Preschools Are Using a Marxist's Theories to Manufacture Collectivists
Chuck Rogér
The drumbeat of collectivism begins in preschool. And a long-dead Soviet psychologist helped define that drumbeat. More

March 27, 2011
Why Gaddafi? -- the U.S. and the March of Folly
David Bukay
Obama's domestic agenda may be dictatorial, but his foreign policy is exactly the opposite: appeasing, oblivious, hesitant, and undetermined. More

March 27, 2011
Even Worse than British Unions
Robert Feneron
American and British unions both have been colonized by the left, but in the UK, the forces of democracy have fought back. More

March 27, 2011
Prospects for Liberal Democracy in the Middle East
Whitson G. Waldo, III
Liberal democracy grows only in certain cultures. More

March 27, 2011
House Calls Are Cheaper Than Hospital Beds
Deane Waldman
Being healthy is cheaper than being sick, whatever the cost to stay healthy or to restore health...except our healthcare system and the massive bureaucracy that supports it, actually feeds off illness. More

March 27, 2011
Remember Haman
Sam Abady
Soldiers of Allah, aching for butchery, have not been distracted by democratic forces sweeping the Middle East or seismic forces sweeping Asia. More

March 27, 2011
The Progressive West Supports the Quest for a Judenrein State of Palestine
Matthew M. Hausman
The continuing support for the Palestinian cause by the United States and European Union would indicate an abdication of reason if the true goal were to achieve a lasting, substantive peace. More

March 27, 2011
Supernanny State
Ryan Hansen
Raising a nation of spoiled brats. More

March 27, 2011
The Question of Imperialism
Jeremy Egerer
Imperialism reconsidered. More

March 26, 2011
Who is the Real Cowboy?
Jack Kerwick
Obama and his predecessor reconsidered. More

March 26, 2011
I, Public Employee
Matthew Giuffrida
My name is Matt, and I'm a public employee. More

March 26, 2011
Will Conservatives Defend Atlas Shrugged This Time Around?
Theo Willem
On April 15, tax day, the movie Atlas Shrugged will be released, and the attacks from the Left have already begun. More

March 26, 2011
It's About Time Those Kinetians Stepped up to the Plate!
Robert Morrison
Of course the president had an exit strategy: Wait until Congress exits the capital. More

March 26, 2011
Libya: Through the Glass Darkly
J. Robert Smith
If actions fail in Libya, what are the consequences? More

March 26, 2011
Be Bold!
Bruce Walker
The political courage shown by Governor Walker and Republican legislators in Wisconsin should be an object lesson to all conservatives: Be bold! More

March 26, 2011
What does 'Presidential' Mean?
Michael Hauschild
Many have something to say about Sarah Palin, but most don't have a clue as to what she represents, or are incapable of critical analysis. More

March 26, 2011
End the War on Drugs Now
Zbigniew Mazurak
Making America's drug problem worse, not better. More

March 26, 2011
Staying Focused
Jim Yardley
In a bit less than 20 months the nation will have another election. More

March 25, 2011
And Where it Stops, Nobody Knows
Paul Shlichta
Excuse me for not joining in the cheering for the recent uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and other Islamic countries . I'm very nervous about revolutions, especially those that take place in February. More

March 25, 2011
The Crisis of Modern Male Immaturity
Janice Shaw Crouse
Amidst all the serious problems facing America is a sleeper issue: we haven't come to terms with the crisis of modern male immaturity. More

March 25, 2011
The Liberal Media Cult
James Lewis
Media leftists are liars. That's the only way they can say the same words on the same day, every day. Normal human beings don't talk in lockstep. More

March 25, 2011
The New York Times and Itamar
Andrea Levin
In its coverage of the brutal terror murder of the Fogel family, the New York Times has plumbed a new low. More

March 25, 2011
The Energy Myth That Won't Die
Jerry Shenk
Ethanol remains a case study in poor choices and the negative effects of government intervention in markets. More

March 25, 2011
Crusaders at Work
Ed Timperlake
A much honored, even legendary term from history, "Crusaders", has fallen by the wayside in this era of political correctness and American engagements in Middle East wars. More

March 25, 2011
Hamilton vs. Jefferson, on Welfare Reform
Susan A. Carleson
With federal and state budgets exploding, welfare reform is once again on the menu. More

March 24, 2011
Obama's Big Blunder in Libya
J.R. Dunn
Why has the Obama thrown one of the basic elements of military success to the four winds? More

March 24, 2011
ACLU v. Religious Liberty
J. Matt Barber
Monday the ACLU suffered a tremendous setback while freedom took a significant step forward. More

March 24, 2011
After Gaddafi, Democracy or Jihadists?
Walid Phares
As far as Libya is concerned, removing Gaddafi is not the question. That should have been done years ago on the grounds of abuse of human rights. The question is who will come next? More

March 24, 2011
Saudi Tanks Roll Where Obama Fears To Tread
Claude Sandroff
The Saudis, tired of Obama's reluctant, indecisive and incoherent Middle East policy, have decided to take matters into their own hands. More

March 24, 2011
Who Will Buy the World's Government Bonds?
Paul B. Matthews
Japan's earthquake and tsunami are severely aggravating the crisis facing the the world's heavily indebted profligate governments. More

March 24, 2011
What Israel Knows About Hamas
William Sullivan
The West's delusional approach to groups like Hamas makes it, in part, culpable for the men, women, children, and babies who are routinely targeted and murdered in Israel. More

March 24, 2011
Democrats' Tyranny of the Minority
Peter Heck
As far as they are concerned, elections don't have consequences -- when they lose. More

March 23, 2011
Obama's War on the Middle Class
Jeffrey Folks
Obama acts like a political general in the class war -- the war of the government services-dependent poor and unionized public sector against the middle class. More

March 23, 2011
Yes, Violence Can be the Answer
Selwyn Duke
It was the body slam heard around the world. When some Australian schoolboys decided to videotape themselves bullying 15-year old Casey Heynes, one of them got more than he bargained for. More

March 23, 2011
President Sorta, Kinda, Maybe
Jim Yardley
Listening to our President, we now know that, in the issue of Libya, we are sorta, kinda, maybe going to get rid of Gaddafi. Or not. More

March 23, 2011
Can Europe Stabilize Libya?
James Lewis
In Libya today, Europe's absurd self-image is being challenged. The United States should get out of the way and let Europe take responsibility for its own fate in its own neighborhood More

March 23, 2011
Obama, the Left, and War
Jack Kerwick
Obama is no appeaser. He, and the left to which he belongs, embrace violence when it suits their purposes. More

March 23, 2011
A Bad Day for Liberty
J.D. Thorpe
Today is a sad anniversary, and yesterday was if anything even worse. More

March 23, 2011
What Would Sherman Say?
Christopher Chantrill
Are conservatives expecting too much from their Republican heroes? More

March 22, 2011
The Fall of the House of TEPCO
Thomas Lifson
Every good drama needs its villain, and in the nuclear crisis afflicting Japan that role has been filled by Tokyo Electric Power, aka TEPCO. More

March 22, 2011
Libya: Obama's Got Some 'Splainin' to Do
Bill Wagner
There have been so many positions on Libya taken by so many different folks in the administration, from State to Defense to Executive, over the past 2-3 weeks that I am a tad confused. More

March 22, 2011
In Praise of Michael Savage, Bible Thumper
Stuart Schwartz
The Michael Savage show is the stuff of Old Testament. Listening to him is like reading the Psalms, all anger and angst and despair. More

March 22, 2011
Where Have All the Cold Warriors Gone?
R.B.A. Di Muccio
The clarity of purpose and the unanimity of cause enjoyed during the Cold War are but faint memories in today's world. More

March 22, 2011
Are We Getting Our Money's Worth in Higher Education?
Aaron Gee
One of the hallmarks of bad government is spending that is out of proportion to what is actually bought. More

March 22, 2011
In Defense of Obama over Libya
Liam Ryan
Unfortunately, even though the use of force is the most prudent option now, Obama's main reason for using it is misguided. More

March 22, 2011
More Climate Disruption Drivel
Anthony J. Sadar and Stanley J. Penkala
It certainly didn't take long for someone, a British academic this time, to couple the tragedy in Japan to the specter of future tsunamis caused by global warming. More

March 21, 2011
Obama in Exile
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Obama is in full retreat. Disengaged and decoupled. A pathetic creature, soon to be deserving of mercy rather than scorn, if only his hubris were in lockstep full retreat. More

March 21, 2011
Obama, The Accidental President
Victor Volsky
Faced with a blatant display of indolence and indomitable refusal to fulfill the duties of his office, Obama's supporters are puzzled: What happened to the giant who bestrode the world during the election campaign? More

March 21, 2011
Paul Krugman and The Know-Nothings
James Lewis
Everybody has limits, but no sane person boasts about his ignorance. More

March 21, 2011
The Conservative Case for the Libyan Intervention
Adam Yoshida
Intervention in Libya may have come weeks too late -- and it may not be executed correctly by those who have been entrusted with the responsibility -- but it is absolutely the right thing to do. More

March 21, 2011
The Big Obama Defeat the Media Ignored
J.R. Dunn
Sometimes the biggest victories are the ones that make the least noise. More

March 21, 2011
Do We Need Obama's Leadership
Jack Kerwick
Over the last couple of weeks, many on the right have complained about President Obama's lack of "leadership" vis-à-vis the current world scene. More

March 21, 2011
The Deadbeat Administration
Sibyl West
Sometimes all one's bad karma arrives in one person. More

March 20, 2011
Let the American People Vote on a Recovery Plan for the Economy
Fred N. Sauer
Let the taxpayers/workers choose which fiscal policy they would have preferred More

March 20, 2011
Obama Attacks Libya, and Where's Congress?
J.B. Williams
We have a runaway government acting against the interests of the United States and beyond its legal authority. More

March 20, 2011
The Fukushima 50 and the White House Cipher
Clarice Feldman
This was a week of enormous contrasts, in which we saw colossal courage and integrity and bravery on the part of U.S. troops and ordinary Japanese, and cowardice and childishness in the White House. More

March 20, 2011
Libya and the Left's Sickening Hypocrisy on the Use of Military Force
Michael Filozof
President Obama has just committed American forces to engage in acts of war against Moammar Qaddafi. Where are the protesters? Where are the accusations that Obama is a liar and a Nazi? More

March 20, 2011
Shutting America's Military Out of the Combat Theater
Zbigniew Mazurak
Whether we like it or not, the U.S. military will, in the future, often be forced to strike from far over the horizon -- usually from over a thousand miles. More

March 20, 2011
Japan's Earthquake: Can the Aging Samurai Recover?
Anurag Maheshwari
The deeper crisis Japan faces is not from rare earthquakes, but the long, seemingly irreversible momentum towards a relatively fast aging population and sub-replacement birth rates over the last 50 years. More

March 20, 2011
The Japanese Earthquake and the Techno-Progressive Mindset
Tim Thorstenson
When the progressive mindset meets unalterable physical realities. More

March 20, 2011
Same Mob, Different Caption
Nidra Poller
Once again mobs fill the streets of Arab capitals. Purported freedom fighters, but are they really? More

March 20, 2011
Taqiyya and American Education
Jed Gladstein
If America is to survive in freedom, it must shake itself out of the deadly lethargy that allows taqiyya to be practiced in our schools. More

March 20, 2011
Caution: American Dreams Are Contagious!
Lloyd Marcus
Miraculously, Mary's impossible dream became possible. More

March 20, 2011
Self-Reflection and Self-Blame; Israel and Obama
Kenneth Levin
President Obama reportedly told a Jewish group earlier this month that Israelis should search their souls concerning the quest for peace. More

March 20, 2011
We Are All Adrift on a Ship of Fools
Eugene Veklerov
The tsunami of immigration and the fate of the West More

March 20, 2011
Linda Greenhouse's Hatchet Job On Justice Scalia
Lester Jackson
"Not to be taken serously." More

March 20, 2011
Bernie Sanders, Free Marketeer?
James W. Lucas
Making a Progressive Case for a More Jeffersonian Government More

March 20, 2011
Mohamed ElBaradei and Egyptian Identity
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The best future for Egypt will arise when Egyptians see themselves first and foremost as Egyptians, and not part of a greater Arab or Muslim collective. More

March 20, 2011
The Reasonableness of Christianity
Jack Kerwick
That Christians labored tirelessly to establish God's existence upon rational grounds is a fact of which far too many of our contemporaries, Christian and otherwise, need to be reminded More

March 20, 2011
Appeasement and the Itamar Slaughter
Helen Freedman
Is it any wonder that Arab terrorists should jump a security fence in Itamar, enter a Jewish home, and brutally murder a mother, father, and three children? More

March 19, 2011
Wisconsin after the Union Takeover
Josiah Cantrall
The new norm in Wisconsin: an unrivaled, systematic assault is leveled against anyone who refuses to carry the union's water. More

March 19, 2011
The Totalitarian Minority
Lance Fairchok
Saul Alinsky's confused disciples in Wisconsin envisioned themselves as the freedom fighters of old. But they are really just protecting their right to steal from the taxpayer. More

March 19, 2011
Steinbeck's The Pearl as an Allegory for the Obama Administration
Patricia McCarthy
A book written in 1947 that brings a timeless message about hope and change. More

March 19, 2011
Social Security Isn't Broken?
Christopher Chantrill
No, Social Security isn't broke. It's worse than that. More

March 19, 2011
Sheer Sophistry
Jed Gladstein
The problem is not between Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs, as today's "elites" would have the world believe. Anyone who believes that is a deluded fool More

March 19, 2011
Americas Home Invaders
Bill Costello
If someone broke into your home, would you treat him as an invited guest? That's what we've been doing with illegal aliens in America. More

March 19, 2011
The Case against Mitch Daniels
Zbigniew Mazurak
Billed as a genuine conservative who can defeat Barack Obama, reform the federal government, and balance the budget More

March 19, 2011
What if King George III had had Google?
James Lampe
As Lincoln observed; "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power." More

March 19, 2011
The 'Extreme' Label
Frank Santarpia
One man's extremism is another man's common sense. More

March 19, 2011
We Are the Dead: The Progressive Legacy of World War I
Mark Browning
World War I stands as a memorial to human vanity and over-confidence, a monument to statism-gone-mad. More

March 19, 2011
Just Say the Magic Words
Carol Peracchio
Could it be that we are entering a new phase in political communication -- one where candidates no longer have to memorize the "magic words" and where the electorate is expected to actually listen to more than slogans? More

March 19, 2011
'Nothing Stamped in the Divine Image'
Robert Morrison
It is doubly tragic to engage in lethal experimentation on embryonic humans. More

March 19, 2011
The Ten best Man v Aliens films of all-time
John Fricke
Having just sat through Battle: Los Angeles, I got to wondering what my list would look like of the ten best man v alien films More

March 19, 2011
Lessons from the Late Republic
Ed Houser
What we can learn from the end of the Roman republic to save our own. More

March 18, 2011
Qadaffi's Chicago Connection
M. Catharine Evans
So why is the colonel getting a pass from Obama? More

March 18, 2011
The Media and the Republicans
Steve McCann
The American mainstream media has lost its credibility and is in the process of losing its influence. Yet the Republicans in Washington D.C. still cower in fear of their by-gone power. More

March 18, 2011
Obama's Puddles
Cindy Simpson
The media and elites will someday cease laying down their cloaks over the path of The One, probably beginning with the murky puddle of his past. More

March 18, 2011
The Warmist Cult
Andrew Thomas
Just another doomsday cult, as is becoming increasingly obvious. More

March 18, 2011
America Slouching Towards Fiscal Armageddon
Chris Banescu
America is in grave danger. Our government's out-of-control spending and our politicians' refusal to implement meaningful budget reforms are leading us towards a fiscal crisis that can undermine our very way of life. More

March 18, 2011
Conditioning for Dhimmitude
Janet Levy
The aftermath of the Mohammed cartoons incident established Muslims as a uniquely protected group to be effectively shielded from all critique and ridicule. More

March 18, 2011
The Lesson in the Death of Yoav Fogel
William Sullivan
The death of eleven year-old Yoav Fogel and his family illuminates just how literally some Muslim neighbors of Israel take some of the Quran's injunctions More

March 18, 2011
Honoring All our World War I Heroes
Ken Blackwell
The black heroes of the Great War remembered, as the last of the Doughboys left us this week. More

March 17, 2011
The Nuke Scare
J.R. Dunn
To imply that the Fukushima accidents are representative of current developments in nuclear power is similar to claiming that car safety has remained unchanged since the Model A. More

March 17, 2011
Jesse Jackson: Stop Playin' Us Bro, Insulting Our Intelligence
Lloyd Marcus
Jackson and company are intentionally distorting the truth, misleading, manipulating and abusing the American people. They have been getting away with it for far too long More

March 17, 2011
Europe Misses the Tide
James Lewis
Libya was about as good a case as we will ever see of a hated little Generalissimo right under the soft underbelly of Europe, ready to be pushed out in favor of a better, if not perfect regime. More

March 17, 2011
Much, Much More than Budget Cutting
J. Robert Smith
Absent a countervailing vision and strategy for a return to limited government, the left may lose some battles but win the war -- a war that its leader, Barack Obama, declared in the opening days of his presidency. More

March 17, 2011
Exploiting the Japanese
Jeffrey Folks
For the left, no crisis is too terrible to go unused. So it is with the horrific suffering that has taken place in Japan. When the left says that no crisis should be allowed to go to waste, it means what it says. More

March 17, 2011
King Blew It
Pamela Geller
Rep. King's hearings started inauspiciously, yet for all his failures, looks great compared to Barack Hussein Obama. More

March 17, 2011
The Great Intervention of 2012
F. Owen Smith
America has become dependent on social steroids, the kind pushed under the street-name HGH, standing for Huge Government Handouts. More

March 17, 2011
Pakistan, Friend or Foe?
Elise Cooper
A badly fraying relationship, with no good options. More

March 16, 2011
Obama's First Two Years a Disaster for America
Chad Stafko
Hope and change, reconsidered. More

March 16, 2011
We're All Golf Widows Now
Betsy M. Galliher
Obama reached out to our crippled ally, Japan, on a Friday afternoon, and managed to escape to the links by Saturday, which should surprise no one. In fact, it's become the norm for Obama. More

March 16, 2011
Ellison's Tears Make the Case
Peter Heck
Rep. Keith Ellison's tearful testimony unintentionally provided the best arguments in favor of the very hearings he condemns as intolerant. More

March 16, 2011
From Bloomberg to NPR: Selling out to Shariah for Fun and Profit
Stella Paul
To you and me, the brutal Islamic law of Shariah is a nightmare; to America's elites, it's a cutting-edge growth industry. More

March 16, 2011
Imams, Dons and RICO
Richard Butrick
The RICO Act is an untapped tool that could be used to bring down jihadis, though it remains unused for that purpose. More

March 16, 2011
The Russian Dilemma
Georgy Gounev
So why is Russia enveloped in such a powerful blanket of mistrust and hatred for the United States? More

March 16, 2011
Can Niall Ferguson Save Civilization?
Bernie Reeves
The magnificent achievements of Western Civilization have been out of fashion among the left for over a generation, infecting our education system. More

March 15, 2011
Why The Japanese Aren't Looting
Thomas Lifson
Hint: it isn't just culture. There are lessons to be learned. More

March 15, 2011
Why Isn't Awlaki on the Most Wanted List?
Jan LaRue
You might think that a top terrorist targeted for assassination by the Obama administration would be on the FBI's list of "Most Wanted Terrorists." More

March 15, 2011
None of the Above on Energy
Jeffrey Folks
In terms of energy policy, as in so much else, the Obama administration is in leaderless disarray. The only thing it seems capable of doing is delaying and shutting down energy production. More

March 15, 2011
A Bully For You
James Lewis
The President of the United States came out against bullying the other day, which I certainly found heart-warming. Even if he comes from Chicago, a city where bullying is practically unknown. Like racism. More

March 15, 2011
Quantitative Easing: Our Tiger by the Tail
Monty Pelerin
There are only two choices left for our political class. More

March 15, 2011
J Street: 'Maybe Israel really ain't a good idea'
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Is this clear statement by one of J Street's founders -- that if the Arabs will force Israel to defend herself, then the Jews should abandon the Middle East -- enough to prove that J Street is not "pro-Israel" at all? More

March 15, 2011
Where Have All the Children Gone?
Jerome Koch
Postmodern secular nations are committing suicide. More

March 14, 2011
Lessons From the Battle of Madison
J.R. Dunn
Long, drawn-out crises can be frustrating in more ways than one. More

March 14, 2011
Barack Obama: A Management Appraisal
Frank Burke
How Obama measures up. More

March 14, 2011
Why Would Mitch 'White Flag' Daniels Dis Rush Limbaugh?
Robert Morrison
Why, if you were a Republican even thinking about running for president, would you begin with a wholly gratuitous swipe at Rush Limbaugh? More

March 14, 2011
Academic Excellence and the Mix of Students
Robert Weissberg
We are not a nation of mediocre students; we are nation of millions of very smart kids and a nation of many not-so-smart youngsters. More

March 14, 2011
Doomsday and Why America Should Not Default
John Griffing
If action is not taken to reduce American debt, a tidal wave -- called the "doomsday scenario" by economists -- will consume American economic power, effectively ending American preeminence. More

March 14, 2011
Selection Sunday for Savages
Richard Baehr
What it takes to become an honored Palestinian. More

March 14, 2011
Solving US Energy Problems
Seldon B. Graham, Jr.
The solution is disarmingly simple. More

March 13, 2011
The Chic of Araby
Clarice Feldman
Not since the 1978 FBI Abscam sting when FBI agents posing as a fictional sheikh and his associates, has Washington D.C. been so entertained by make believe Arabs exposing corruption by those who think they are smarter than we are. More

March 13, 2011
Good bye, Kyoto
S. Fred Singer
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, after surviving 15 years, mostly spent on life support. It was a fraud right from Day One. More

March 13, 2011
The Value of American Promises
James Lewis
When Obama brutally pushed Hosni Mubarak out of power, he also pushed over the biggest pillar of stability in the Middle East, the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. More

March 13, 2011
Helpful Business Advice from the New York Times
Kim Zigfeld
If you are the nation's preeminent fast food purveyor, no good deed goes unpunished -- by the New York Times. More

March 13, 2011
The Middle East Uprising: An Interim Balance Sheet
David Bukay
The question is not stability versus democracy, and not ancient autocratic regimes versus reformists and democrats, but instead autocratic military regimes versus Islamic, autocratic, anti-democratic "world jihad" movements. More

March 13, 2011
Moby Bob on the Beach
Robert Morrison
My first encounter with Medicine4geezers More

March 13, 2011
Israel's Future in the 'New Middle East'
Louis René Beres
For Iran and for an emergent "Palestine," murdered Jews are not so much a means to an end, as a prayed-for end in themselves. More

March 13, 2011
J Street: A Dead End
Adrienne A. Price
J Street's race for mainstream legitimacy will have long-term divisive effects on the American Jewish community. More

March 13, 2011
Second Amendment Culture Wars: Eastern Elites vs. Gun-Friendly Red States
David Paulin
America's gun-rights debate has moved into some new territory that highlights the ideological divide separating gun-hating Eastern elites from Americans in fly-over country. More

March 13, 2011
Gilad Farm and Middle East Peace
Jerold S. Auerbach
Gilad Farm lost its anonymity on February 28. Before dawn, Israeli security police arrived in force. More

March 13, 2011
Challenging the Teachers Unions
Jerry Shenk
The public school monopoly on taxpayer education funds is under challenge, and the unions are fighting back hard. More

March 13, 2011
An Interview with an Arab Dissident
Yoel Meltzer
Mudar Zahran is a Palestinian Jordanian who fled Jordan and currently resides in England. A former political insider, he is very critical of the Hashemite regime in Jordan. More

March 12, 2011
Japan's Third Disaster
Thomas Lifson
The Fukushima nuclear plant explosion will have long lasting consequences for Japan's ability to recover from the earthquake and tsunami. More

March 12, 2011
Can America Survive a Catastrophe?
Steve McCann
Obama's financial and spending policies leave no margin for error in the event of an apocalyptic natural or man-made calamity. More

March 12, 2011
What Mexican Texas Teaches Us about Unbridled Immigration
Nicholas Cheong
The Mexicans learned the lesson. Will we? More

March 12, 2011
President Obama Passes Over Lincoln and Cuccinelli
Robert Morrison
Too busy golfing. More

March 12, 2011
Privatize Education
Bruce Walker
Is there harm in the creepy teacher goons of Madison striking? Actually, there may be more harm in them returning to work. More

March 12, 2011
The Mind of a Jihadist
Steven Simpson
Clarity and sobriety as to what Jihad, and ultimately, Islam really stands for. More

March 12, 2011
The Green Dream Is an Economic Nightmare
Gary Jason
Environmentalists oppose all the economically feasible sources known to work, such as oil, gas, nuclear power, hydroelectric power, and coal. More

March 12, 2011
Obama's Great LEAHP Backward
Jim Guirard
A no-holds-barred energy policy whose overarching goal is quite clearly that of Less Energy At Higher Prices -- LEAHP for short. More

March 12, 2011
It's Time for Gays to Get Married
Bill Flax
Gay marriage appears inevitable. It is the next step in the dance of dissonance across America. More

March 12, 2011
Solving the Gay Marriage Dilemma
F. Owen Smith
When force enters, logic flees. More

March 12, 2011
Futilitarians
Joe Herring
Not so NICE. More

March 12, 2011
It Takes a Potemkin Village
Michael Moeller
Enter the modern Age of American Progressive Potemkinism -- not of decaying buildings, but of decaying principles More

March 12, 2011
Syrian Regime Unlikely to Fall
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Why the ruthless regime in Damascus is unlikely to be a domino. More

March 12, 2011
Women and the Secret of Life
G. Murphy Donovan
Irish mothers like to say that your son is your son until he marries, but your daughter is your daughter until the day you die. For a fortunate few, such epigrams are true. More

March 11, 2011
The Soft Evil of Barack Obama
Stuart Schwartz
We have a leader in the vanguard of a malevolence pushing into the mainstream through a thousand barely perceptible actions and words. More

March 11, 2011
Ted Kennedy's Vietnam Plot
Paul Kengor
An eye-opening March 2, 1967 memo, written by an FBI officer whose name is redacted, raises a troubling episode in the late Senator's career. More

March 11, 2011
Obama: 'The best revolutions are organic'
James Lewis
We finally have a quote from Obama that sounds authentic. More

March 11, 2011
The University of Chicago, The Black Community, and Obama
Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D.
The University of Chicago has decided to destroy the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan in Hyde Park. That's the University of Chicago I know and do not love. More

March 11, 2011
There Is No Democracy Movement In Egypt
Karin McQuillan
In Egypt, as in America, it's the economy, stupid. More

March 11, 2011
The Curious Case of Ron Paul
Andrew Foy, MD
Kind of like a rock star, a nerdy professor, and your crazy uncle rolled into one. More

March 11, 2011
The Leftist-Libertarian Security Policy Problem
Adam Cassandra
The popular libertarian movement in America today adheres to a view on national security and foreign policy that can best be described as leftism wrapped in a Gadsden flag. More

March 10, 2011
Three Cheers for Jack Cashill
Herbert E. Meyer
Jack Cashill proves in Deconstructing Obama that it is preposterous to believe that President Obama actually wrote his lyrical, extravagantly praised autobiography, Dreams from My Father. More

March 10, 2011
Thanks for Small Favors, President Obama
Jeffrey Folks
This is the way bureaucracy operates under crony socialism. More

March 10, 2011
Obama Calling Tea Party Racist Reveals A Far More Disturbing Reality
Lloyd Marcus
Callously and strategically, the President of the United States is pitting millions of black and white Americans against each other. Lord help us, that is pure evil. More

March 10, 2011
The Politics of Social Security Reform
Randy Fardal
The best way to privatize Social Security is to grant Democrats their wish: refuse to privatize it. More

March 10, 2011
Turkey and the Restoration of the Caliphate
Janet Levy
Realizing the dream of Neo-Ottomanism -- a return to Turkey's Muslim imperialist past. More

March 10, 2011
Blue Corruption puts Wisconsin in Red
Terry Heinrichs
Wisconsin's ongoing crisis is exposing the channeling of taxpayer money to unions, and thence to Democrats. Taxpayers are being swindled by a system in which their interests come second. More

March 10, 2011
Dear Rep. King: Forget 'Radical' -- Islam is the Culprit
Amil Imani
Republican Congressman Peter King has strengthened his security in the wake of "hostile phone calls" and threats from overseas. More

March 9, 2011
The White Man's Burden
Robin of Berkeley
I was just filling out an application to be a provider for an insurance panel. And one of the questions they ask is, "Are you a GLBT-owned business?" More

March 9, 2011
Confiscate Americans' Wealth to Pay Government Workers?
Steve McCann
Michael Moore is vocally calling for more confiscation of the wealth of the rich to pay for the bloated incomes of government workers and openly stating that all wealth belongs to the state. More

March 9, 2011
Why I do not have Solidarity with the Public Unions
Marc Hitson
Why an old logger like me does not support the persecuted public unions. More

March 9, 2011
A Time for Soul Searching
Dan Gordon
President Obama urged American Jewish leaders to "search your souls" over Israel's seriousness about making peace. He should follow his own advice. More

March 9, 2011
What Do They Fear From Peter King?
Richard L. Benkin
To hear a bevy of usual suspects tell it, Congressman Peter King (R-NY) should be outfitted with a white sheet and hood for daring to hold hearings on the threat of radical Muslims in the United States. More

March 9, 2011
Can 'Muscular Liberalism' Save the West?
William Sullivan
Western European leaders have been calling for the application of a more "muscular liberalism" in recent months. Does it have a chance of succeeding? More

March 8, 2011
Obama's Edifice Complex
Ed Lasky
Obama is insatiable when it comes to leaving monuments to his own reign behind. We were warned that he had a bit of the megalomaniac about him years ago. More

March 8, 2011
'Where are My Carriers?'
James G. Wiles
This President has no options because, a month into the Arab Spring, he has decided against moving American naval assets to give himself options. More

March 8, 2011
Obama gets Carter's Disease in Libya
James Lewis
Welcome to America as paper tiger. We produce no oil, but we make really slick excuses. More

March 8, 2011
Cut Wages and Benefits for Public Employees
J. Robert Smith
The time has come to return to the concept that government workers are servants of the people, and not just professionals who have found comfortable niches at taxpayers' expense. More

March 8, 2011
Quids and quos, but never a pro
Jerry Shenk
The Congressional Democrats show their cards on earmarks. More

March 8, 2011
American Moslems and Rep. King
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
How many more Americans must be threatened and murdered by Moslems yelling Allahu Akbar before the political establishment acknowledges there is a profound threat to Americans coming from within the Moslem community? More

March 8, 2011
The End Result of Obama's Logic
Jeannie DeAngelis
In Barack Obama's economy, it appears as if making a philosophical point is worth the loss of American lives. More

March 7, 2011
The Powers of This President
Jack Curtis
Not all the powers President Obama has wielded or claimed seem clearly identifiable in the U.S. Constitution. More

March 7, 2011
Charlie Sheen: Typical Addict
Nancy Morgan
I know Charlie Sheen. I've never met him, and I don't wish to. But I know who he is and how he feels. He is no super-star and he is not unique. He is merely a typical addict/alcoholic. More

March 7, 2011
While Obama Dithers
Ronald G. Pittenger
With no clear Middle East policy developing, the cost of not making a decision mounts. More

March 7, 2011
The View from Crackerland
Robert T. Smith
The recent vexation expressed by Eric Holder over being questioned regarding the New Black Panther voter intimidation case depicts a new low in race relations here in America. More

March 7, 2011
Islamo-phobia and Palin-phobia
James Lewis
Who's afraid? More

March 7, 2011
'Israel Apartheid Week': Language as Weapon
Arlene Kushner
When words are used in this fashion, there is no compunction about dishonesty. Whatever causes damage is fine, as long as the words appear to have legitimacy. More

March 7, 2011
Imported from Detroit
Vince Black
It's time to back it up. More

March 6, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Picture This
Clarice Feldman
Why, in a land full of boundless opportunities, the poor stay poor. More

March 6, 2011
The Strength of Nations
Lawrence J. Siskind
Power comes in many different forms. More

March 6, 2011
Towering Illusions
Robert Morrison
Do we think our great republic cannot collapse? That's what some pretty intelligent people thought about France in 1940. More

March 6, 2011
New York Dems Divide and Conquer Conservative Immigrant Group
David Storobin
A substantial immigrant community is experiencing political disenfranchisement, much to the indifference of immigrant rights groups and the media. More

March 6, 2011
Qadaffi's 'Offer' to Libya's Vanished Jews
Andrew G. Bostom
The bloody despot's wacky plan to bring Jews back to Libya. More

March 6, 2011
Change, Identity, and the Fundamental Transformation of America
Jack Kerwick
The real meaning of a change so profound, so sweeping, that it would "fundamentally transform" America. More

March 6, 2011
John Esposito: Apologist of Islam or Messenger of Islamic Da'wah?
David Bukay
From the very beginning, Islam has been spread by two arms: the violent jihad and the political Da'wah More

March 6, 2011
The CO2 Tax Redux
S. Fred Singer
Who will touch the third rail? More

March 6, 2011
The Fallacy of Tyranny
Jed Gladstein
While the extension of federal control over health care sparked the Tea Party Movement, the flames of popular indignation are big enough to engulf a multitude of powers now claimed by the federal government. More

March 6, 2011
The Liberal Culture of Compulsion
Christopher Chantrill
A political culture that turns every social problem into a government program More

March 6, 2011
The Generation That Will End Abortion
Peter Heck
Events that have unfolded the last several months have convinced me that this will be the generation that brings an end to the practice of legalized abortion in the United States. More

March 5, 2011
Was the Economic Crisis Manufactured?
Nancy Morgan
A new Pentagon report raises serious questions. More

March 5, 2011
Gunwalker Goes Primetime
T.L. Davis
A bureaucratic cover-up of a lethal scandal is coming apart at the seams before our eyes. More

March 5, 2011
Obama's Dithering
Keith Riler
In its stupidity, cowardice, self-loathing and lack of moral clarity, Obama's reflexive assumption of the guilt of imperialism fazes even some liberals. More

March 5, 2011
History's Repetitions: "Never Forget"
Lauri B. Regan
What we are witnessing in the Mideast and elsewhere in the world today is a repeat of history that is not only leading us into World War III, but that will entail a fight for survival for which the present U.S. leadership is not up to task. More

March 5, 2011
The Global Warming Health Scare
Timothy Birdnow
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) have declared Global Warming a serious public health threat. More

March 5, 2011
To Save America, We Must Dethrone King Obama
Lloyd Marcus
Incredibly, Obama continues to boldly go where no other president has gone before. Apparently, none of the rules apply to him. More

March 5, 2011
A Requiem for Multiculturalism
Noel S. Williams
Like a pariah sucking the blood from its host, multiculturalism often latches onto the righteous aims of true diversity. More

March 5, 2011
Quitting Kumbaya: Why Division Works
Jeremy Egerer
If conservatives are going to win the battle against the left, can they necessarily do so under the biggest of tents? More

March 5, 2011
The Entitlement Lie: A Conservative Reform of Social Security
David Butler
It was our money in the first place. We saved it at the insistence of the government. We want it back when we retire. More

March 4, 2011
The Only Way Out for the American Economy
Steve McCann
America is uniquely positioned to rebound and recover our economic preeminence. All that is necessary is a political decision More

March 4, 2011
The Ted Kennedy Chronicles: A Look at the Latest Declassified FBI Files
Paul Kengor
The roguish-philandering-comical Kennedy is acceptable for the attention of the liberal media -- no harm done there. But matters of reaching out to Soviet communists -- those get deep-sixed immediately. More

March 4, 2011
How Do We Check Runaway National Power?
Jon Bruning
Suggestions from the Attorney General of Nebraska More

March 4, 2011
Why Does Uncle Stupid Have to Handle Libya?
James Lewis
Sending a dozen jet planes to buzz Col. Khadafi is well within the military capabilities of 300 million prosperous people in Europe. But nobody is talking about it. More

March 4, 2011
The Warmist's Dilemma
Adam Yoshida
Even if the warmists were correct in their doomsaying, their proposed course of action makes no sense. More

March 4, 2011
The Queen's Speech, 1991
Robert Morrison
A real life snafu at the White House. More

March 4, 2011
Time on the J Street Ward
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Psychologists teach that an obsession is "a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling." More

March 3, 2011
The Death of Common Decency
Frank Ryan
To deny the family of a slain serviceman or woman a peaceful burial is immoral, despicable, and dishonorable. It is the highest form of hatred imaginable. More

March 3, 2011
Obama at the Abyss
James Lewis
We are seeing the biggest international shake-up since 1953, the year Stalin died and the Soviet Union went nuclear. More

March 3, 2011
Europe: The Parasite and the Host
Victor Volsky
A strategy of conquest that mimics nature. More

March 3, 2011
Jihad Has Come to India
Richard L. Benkin
It is real, and it is happening now. I have seen it first-hand. The Obama administration's studied denial will find us caught as flat-footed in India as we were in Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere. More

March 3, 2011
Obama: Lost in Translation
Roger D. Luchs
One would think that the President's legal education and background would have caused him to appreciate that presidential power has its limits. More

March 3, 2011
America's Fiscal Civil War
Chad Stafko
The two sides are distinct, polarized, and growing angrier at each other. More

March 3, 2011
Are Public Unions Speeding American's Destruction?
Paula Dierkins
Make no mistake, a victory for the unions means greater tyranny and suffering for the public. More

March 3, 2011
Charlie Sheen 'the Che Guevara of Television' says Piers Morgan
Humberto Fontova
What a wacky party-animal, that Che Guevara! More

March 2, 2011
George Soros Handicapping American Energy
Ed Lasky
Orchestrating the decline of the American oil industry for fun and profit. More

March 2, 2011
Obama's Magic Trick
William Sullivan
Given his celebrity, it's easy to think of Barack Obama as an entertainer. More

March 2, 2011
If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention
Robin of Berkeley
The left's outrage is self-righteous because it is laser focused on the self. Not only is the left's outrage ego-based, but it is rooted in greed. More

March 2, 2011
Obama, the Apostate
Jack Kerwick
Has being born to a Muslim father made it more difficult for President Obama to deal with Islamic terror? The question must be asked. More

March 2, 2011
Is History Repeating Itself in New York?
Bill Lalor
The New York State GOP establishment may be on the precipice of handing another Congressional seat to the Democrats, as it did less than 2 years ago. More

March 2, 2011
The Social Security Trap
Fred N. Sauer
Entitlements can only be killed off when the political class honestly proclaims the truth that you will always be better off saving your own money for your retirement and for your own health care. More

March 2, 2011
Do You Have a 'Right' to the Internet?
Deane Waldman
What is a right? What rights do Americans have and which ones are we denied? More

March 2, 2011
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, In the Hand of God
Wendy Wright
Dr. Bernard Nathanson described himself as a man who "helped usher in this barbaric age" of abortion-on-demand, "the most atrocious holocaust in the history of the United States." More

March 1, 2011
President Obama's Yawning Heights
Robert Morrison
President Obama is finding that tens of millions of Americans have tuned him out as he summons us to the heights. More

March 1, 2011
Preparing for War in Australia?
Randall Hoven
Am I the only person with a major Win-The-Future reaction to something Robert Gates said on Friday, speaking to West Point cadets? More

March 1, 2011
The 2012 Nomination Lead is There for the Taking
C. Edmund Wright
It's right there for all to see: a hanging curve ball moving so slowly that even a "Republican strategist" should see the stitches. More

March 1, 2011
Presidential Candidates and Demographic Games
Chidike Okeem
According to purportedly "colorblind" conservatives, race matters in order to defeat Obama. I -- a black man -- am arguing that it patently does not. More

March 1, 2011
America Should Default
Claude Sandroff
It would be better for us to honestly default at a time of our own choosing than to be globally humiliated by our mercantilist creditors. More

March 1, 2011
The Vanishing Constitution
Bill Costello
The Obama administration plans to continue with implementation of ObamaCare despite recent rulings by two federal district judges. More

March 1, 2011
Courting Disaster
Fay Voshell
There is a malodorous wind wafting its way from the White House. It bodes ill for the fate of the US judiciary and the Republic of these United States. More