Articles

May 31, 2011
Will Obama Sink the Democrats?
James Lewis
When Americans become serious again -- when Iran's big bomb goes off, or the Great Recession keeps going -- they will vote out Obama and the Democrats. More

May 31, 2011
A Real Act of God in Joplin, Missouri
Heather Carlton
What happened in Joplin, MO was not an Act of God. It was a natural act of nature. The Act of God was what came later. More

May 31, 2011
Are Obama's Academic Defenders Vulnerable?
Jack Cashill
An academic reviewer shows some grit taking on Obama's literary output. It remains to be seen how true it is. More

May 31, 2011
Obama May be Getting Tough with Gaddafi
James G. Wiles
For Moammar Gaddafi, the "or else" part of "leave or else" is about to arrive off the Libyan coast. Every now and then, Obama does something commendable. More

May 31, 2011
Palin and the White Working Class
Christopher Chantrill
There's a good reason why the white working class is up for grabs. More

May 31, 2011
Obama and the Frog Pot Boil
Jeff Clancy
We all know the metaphor for dangerous incrementalism: put a frog in a pot, slowly raise the temperature, and the frog will boil to death; rapidly raise the temperature, and the frog will jump free to safety. More

May 31, 2011
Syria to Become Iranian Vassal or Saudi Ally
Robert Rabil and Walid Phares
This battle may not only decide the future of Syria, but also the future of the region. More

May 31, 2011
Dear 'World Community': You Are Not Our Equals
William A. Levinson
The so-called world community has no standing to tell the U.S. how to run its affairs. More

May 30, 2011
The Nazis Find a Home in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Andrew G. Bostom
A natural home for a scourge once vanquished, now full of ugly resonance with the country's Muslim masses. The so-called "Arab Spring" has unleashed sinister forces. More

May 30, 2011
Will America Suffer the Fate of Rome?
Robert Klein Engler
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." These words by Barack Obama echo through time. Have they been heard before, in another language, in another age? More

May 30, 2011
America's Exceptionalism and Destiny
Steve McCann
A tale of American exceptionalism. More

May 30, 2011
Our Holiday
Bruce Walker
The left does not grasp that the men and women who volunteer to place their bodies between us and those who hate us are held in special respect by all the rest of us. More

May 30, 2011
They Who Serve
Lee DeCovnick
An extraordinary story for Memorial Day. More

May 30, 2011
Beyond the Folded Flag
Grace Harley
Each year, mourners gather in Washington, DC for a national grief seminar and honor ceremony via the esteemed program appropriately named "TAPS" -- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. More

May 30, 2011
Happy Memorial Day/ Tea Are The World
Lloyd Marcus
Celebrate America's heroes and celebrate America. More

May 30, 2011
Memorial Day: We Honor Warriors While Surrendering Our Civilization
Jeff T. Allen
What have the citizens of the West done with that most precious gift of liberty, one so often described as a debt that can't be repaid? More

May 30, 2011
Freedom's Worth
Matthew Council
Today is a day to honor brave men and women like Lance Cpl. Thomas Parker whose life was changed forever in the blink of an eye. More

May 30, 2011
Obama and Immigration
Elise Cooper
Earlier in May President Obama gave what was billed as an "immigration speech" in El Paso, Texas. What he said was factually misleading and politically motivated. More

May 29, 2011
Anti-Palin Books Proving to Be Commercial Flops
Steve Flesher
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. More

May 29, 2011
Washington Post Enlists Holocaust Against Israel
Leo Rennert
Scott Wilson worked for several years as the Washington Post's Jerusalem correspondent. So you would think that he learned something about the ancient historical, political, national and cultural ties of Jews to the Holy Land. More

May 29, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: The Quest for the Great Pizza
Clarice Feldman
A woman and her mission. More

May 29, 2011
Scotland and Jews
Eileen F. Toplansky
Scotland is the only European country which has no history of state persecution of Jews. Unfortunately, that is changing. More

May 29, 2011
Laughing at Prophets of Doom
Fay Voshell
The irresistible urge to proclaim The End has afflicted cultists and fringe groups from time immemorial. More

May 29, 2011
The Audacity of Reality
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Obama's refusal to credit Israel's freedom as a value for Arabs is symptomatic of an epic error: the insistence on acting on political ideology rather than asking what's really best for the people on the ground. More

May 29, 2011
The Five Stages of Islam
Richard Butrick
Forget the Five Pillars of Islam. It is the Five Stages of Islam that threaten the fundamental freedoms of Western Democracy. More

May 29, 2011
Judea and Samaria Will Outlive Us All
Dov Fischer
Loftier personages than Barack Obama have tried to uproot the Jews in Judea and Samaria. Every one of them failed. More

May 29, 2011
Israel's 1967 Borders: What's The Big Fuss?
Yonatan Silverman
What's really at stake. More

May 28, 2011
CNN's Zakaria: Couldn't He Just Call Netanyahu a Slut?
William Tate
Just when you thought the Obama-Kool-Aid-swilling media couldn't sink any further into their foul muck, along comes ersatz expert-on-everything and Obama sycophant Fareed Zakaria. More

May 28, 2011
President Obama and Numbergate
Henry Percy
Quietly simmering on the back burner, President Obama's Social Security number is waiting for its moment in the spotlight. More

May 28, 2011
Islamic Spring, American Winter, Jewish State
Anurag Maheshwari
The conspicuous absence of a broader moral, demographic, and strategic calculus in Obama's call for Israel to recede within its 1967 borders is beyond belief. More

May 28, 2011
Liberal Media Chicken Littles: 'The Republican Sky Is Falling!'
Sonny Palermo
The Obama game plan for 2012 is revealed. More

May 28, 2011
Netanyahu's Victory Lap
Jerold S. Auerbach
Within a remarkable ten-day span Prime Minister Netanyahu forcefully articulated peace terms for Israel and the Palestinians. More

May 28, 2011
Guaranteeing a Double Dip Recession
Frank Gutting
Monetary policy has created a no-win situation for the economy. More

May 28, 2011
Doctor in the House
Bob Weir
Congressman Michael Burgess, 26th District in Texas, has written a revealing book on health care and Congress. More

May 27, 2011
A Thank-you to Islamic Extremists
Andrew Kirkland
Little did I know, your attacks proved to be the foundation to save my guilty soul. More

May 27, 2011
The Obama Disconnect
Richard Butrick
Whatever else is said of our President, he does not let his principles of governance interfere with the implementation of his policies. More

May 27, 2011
DSK Scandal Shakes French Socialists
Nidra Poller
Things are happening too fast. It is all out in the open. There isn't enough damage control in all of France to handle this story. The fate of the Socialist party is tied to the downfall of DSK. More

May 27, 2011
A Generational Divide?
Jeffrey Folks
Fears of younger generations are justified: their reluctance to fund boomer retirement is entirely rational, given the bleak prospects ahead. What is less understandable is their refusal to blame the left for these prospects. More

May 27, 2011
The Administration's No New Energy Policy
Elizabeth Ames Jones
The reality is that there is plenty of domestic hydrocarbon energy to be produced if only the government would get out of the way and let us go and get it. More

May 27, 2011
Open Mind or Empty Head?
John T. Bennett
No one is too young to be indoctrinated. Kindergarteners at a Minnesota school are forced into "conversations about race," and federal tax dollars are paying for the farce. More

May 27, 2011
A Coming Intifada of Arab Suicide Demonstrators
JanSuzanne Krasner
President Obama's '67 borders declaration is to be followed by a June 5th "border uprising" and then a new "Gaza flotilla." More

May 26, 2011
Waiting for the Miracle to Come
Pamela Geller
For those of you waiting for the miracle to come, I am here to tell you that it is here. The events of the last week were stunning. This week, the home team scored big in the face of overwhelming odds More

May 26, 2011
Be Wary When the Polls are on Your Side
Eugene Slaven
Did Republicans make a big mistake in selling the Ryan Budget Plan? More

May 26, 2011
In a Sanctuary City, An Illegal Immigrant Gets the Death Penalty
David Paulin
Areli Carbajal Escobar, a violent 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, had a long rap sheet. Over the years in the sanctuary city of Austin, Texas, police and prosecutors had many contacts with him. More

May 26, 2011
Obama's Revisionist History
Philip Averbuck
There's a grain of truth in Obama's argument that his new "1967 lines as a basis for peace" formulation for Israel's borders is, hey, "nothing new." But a mountain of lie. More

May 26, 2011
Too Big To Punish
Bernie Reeves
The new HBO film of the book Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin omitted several key factors in an otherwise suspenseful true-life drama depicting the near collapse of the American financial system. More

May 26, 2011
Matt Drudge: An American Pioneer
Theo Willem
It is amazing how one man can have such an ability to know what is news, and how to make it headline news, instantaneous and world-wide. More

May 26, 2011
ACLU Turns Blind Eye to Sharia in America
Stephen M. Gelé
American courts are already applying sharia law. More

May 25, 2011
Congress Gets an American President -- For a Day
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
It was fitting that Barack Obama was out of the country on the day when a leader walked into a joint session of Congress and spoke the way an American President should. More

May 25, 2011
The Truth about Islam and Book-Burning
Ashraf Ramelah
The burning of holy books, including the Quran, is part of the history of Islam. Don't be duped by psychological warfare. More

May 25, 2011
Open Mind or Empty Head?
John T. Bennett
No one is too young to be indoctrinated. Kindergarteners at a Minnesota school are forced into "conversations about race," and federal tax dollars are paying for the farce. More

May 25, 2011
No Dog in That Fight, Mr President?
Christopher Chantrill
Why does the president treat people that want to harm the United States better than he treats conservatives and Republicans? More

May 25, 2011
Closets and Christians
Peter Heck
Why do the very people that constantly tell us that what a person does in their bedroom is no one else's business, simultaneously find it necessary to inform everyone of what they do in their bedroom? More

May 25, 2011
Will Today's GOP Repeat the 'Contract with America' Bait and Switch?
Chuck Rogér
Will today's reenergized GOP go down in history as a fiscal and economic game changer or as just another chatty bunch that makes dreamy promises only to create horrific nightmares? More

May 25, 2011
Good News for School Choice
Gary Jason
Democrats in D.C. and Indiana are wringing their hands as Republicans score a much-needed victory for our kids. More

May 24, 2011
Apocalypse Later?
Randy Fardal
Harold Camping's prediction of the world ending Saturday caused mirth and merriment among many progressives, whose own predictions of doom have proven equally inaccurate. More

May 24, 2011
AARP's ObamaCare Endgame Revealed
Chuck Rogér
We now have a clear picture of the treachery in which AARP has engaged since President Obama took office. Crony capitalism on steroids. More

May 24, 2011
Chris Wallace says Israel 'Kicked Out' Palestinians
Richard Baehr
One of the best of the television news interviewers needs to do some more reading. More

May 24, 2011
The Myth of the Palestinian 'Refugee Camps'
Peter Wilson
Calling Palestinians "refugees" and continuing to treat them like helpless victims does them no favors. More

May 24, 2011
Where are the Democrat Grown-ups?
Steve McCann
The Democrats, and their titular leader Barack Obama, act as of this entire chapter in American history is a video game of gotcha with their political opponents More

May 24, 2011
The Samson Option: 'Palestine' and Israel's Nuclear Strategy
Louis René Beres
How Israel can best walk the nuclear tightrope. More

May 24, 2011
Obama's Israel Speech Fools Few
Elise Cooper
"D" should no longer stand for "Democratic" but rather the "disastrous" Israeli policy of the Obama Administration. More

May 23, 2011
Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are - our Nation Needs a Leader
Carol A. Taber
Republicans, we've got a problem. Or better said, boy, do we have an opportunity! More

May 23, 2011
The Dead-End Street of Identity Politics
Dean Malik
Rather than healing old wounds and developing a cohesive sense of national identity independent of race or ancestry, Obama instead has rubbed salt in those wounds. More

May 23, 2011
Tiger Mother, Burning Bright
John Barnett
Amy Chua became an instant internet sensation by suggesting that the Chinese approach to child-rearing is simply superior to the indulgent American one. Did she have a point? More

May 23, 2011
Should We Elect Judges?
Bruce Walker
Should justice be political? Whether judges should be political or not, they have been since at least the Dred Scott case in 1858. More

May 23, 2011
Barack Obama: Yet Another Roadblock to Zionism
William Sullivan
For Obama's policy suggestion to be found reasonable, one has to view it from a singularly Palestinian perspective. More

May 23, 2011
The Budget: How We Got Here
Greg Richards
What a long, strange journey it has been. More

May 23, 2011
The Political Basis for the FairTax
Robert E. Dell and David G. Tuerck
The FairTax offers a rare opportunity for a conservative-progressive-libertarian "win-win-win." More

May 22, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Obama and the 'Teutonic Shift' in the Middle East
Clarice Feldman
One wonders if this is finally the week that the scales fall from the eyes of those Jews who voted for and supported Obama. More

May 22, 2011
Rock You Like a Herman-Cain
C. Edmund Wright
While that idea may seem fanciful to the pundits and the mainstream media, Herman Cain has the "it" factor, as was obvious to most attending his campaign kickoff rally yesterday in Atlanta. More

May 22, 2011
The Coming Deflationary Contraction
Peter Raymond
Already, the ominous signs of economic stress caused by historic intervention measures are becoming evident. More

May 22, 2011
A Tale of Two Sex Scandals
Fay Voshell
What makes people like Strauss-Kahn and Schwarzenegger act this way? More

May 22, 2011
The Coming Assault on Israel
James Lewis
Nobody who reads the European news can doubt that the radical left is colluding with radical Muslims to delegitimize Israel and drive the Jews into the sea. More

May 22, 2011
A Tale ofTwo Betrayals
Steve McCann
A history lesson for President Obama. More

May 22, 2011
The Judicial Branch Mess
Roger D. Luchs
Today's Federal court system has become an aging edifice that decades ago lost touch with those it was supposed to serve, and the taxpayers who fund it. More

May 22, 2011
Why Israel Has Become A Not-Quite Tragic Hero
Louis René Beres
The sordid promise of peace with a persistently genocidal adversary is always a delusion. Protracted war and terror are very bad options for Israel, but, tragically, they are certainly better than death. More

May 22, 2011
Freedom Fueled the American Moon Shot
Larry Greenfield
Fifty years ago this Wednesday, on May 25th, 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to win the space race, thus fulfilling one of humanity's dearest dreams. More

May 22, 2011
China and America: Rising Dragon, Bleeding Eagle
Anurag Maheshwari
The world balance of power is changing, presenting Americans with a new set of challenges. More

May 22, 2011
Syria and the 'Resistance' Bloc: Buddies No More
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
How Syria's Middle East relations are breaking down, and why every possible outcome is good for Israel. More

May 22, 2011
Moosa and the Madrassas
Stephen Schwartz
Ebrahim Moosa tries to downplay madrassas as training grounds for terrorists. More

May 22, 2011
Strategies to Help Identify anti-Israel 'Jewish' Groups
Allon Friedman and Elliot Bartky
It is profoundly troubling to see mainstream Jewish organizations contribute to the undermining of Israel's security by acting under the irrational assumption that every group claiming to be Jewish and/or pro-Israel must be taken at its word. More

May 21, 2011
A Testament to Armed Forces Day
S.H. McGuire
I was drafted on November 6, 1953, the day my wife and I were married. It wasn't much of a wedding present. More

May 21, 2011
Boomer Barons?
Jeffrey Folks
Are the baby boomers really baby barons, unfairly burdening future generations? More

May 21, 2011
Elitist, Lead Thyself
Christopher Chantrill
Although I never got the official proclamation, last week seems to have been Blame the Elite Week. More

May 21, 2011
The Middle East Operational Codes: Five Keys to Understanding
David Bukay
Understanding the ME does not require complicated pundit analyses and convoluted explanations. More

May 21, 2011
Sarah Palin, Leader of The Pack
Lloyd Marcus
Folks, it is a bit too early to go all in on any presidential candidate, but here's my favorite, for now. More

May 21, 2011
'Obama Sides with the Palestinians' - Again
Lauri B. Regan
And yet somehow, American Jews continue to support him. More

May 21, 2011
The Prince of Wales's Speech
Robert Morrison
Maybe His Royal Highness Prince Charles should stop talking. It is rather hard to take seriously his jeremiads. More

May 21, 2011
Regulation Cannot Control Malignant Melanoma
S. Fred Singer
It turns out that melanoma may have nothing to do with the alleged depletion of the ozone layer, the Antarctic Ozone Hole, or Freons. More

May 21, 2011
Skoropadsky and the Course of Russian-Ukrainian Relations
Michael Averko
From anti-Tsarist rebellions to the Bolshevik insurrection and beyond, the Ukraine and Russia have long had a shaky relationship. What new wrinkles does the future hold? More

May 21, 2011
A Princeton Instructor's Suicide and the Broken Immigration System
Nicholas Cheong
Mr. Obama wants to pass the DREAM Act, but he should first consider the effort, time, and money that legal immigrants have to spend order to get a green card. More

May 20, 2011
Obama's borders Caused 60 Years of War
James Lewis
Obama has just given an eager world his fantasy answer for the last sixty years of Arab-Israel conflict. More

May 20, 2011
Disturbing Questions about President Obama's Vision for Israel
Peggy Shapiro
President Obama's speech yesterday about U.S. policy in the Middle East in general and about the Israel-Palestinians conflict specifically calls for democracy yet abandons the only democracy in the Middle East. More

May 20, 2011
What Should Netanyahu Say?
Jerold S. Auerbach
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu will address Congress this week. What should he say? More

May 20, 2011
Married Women - Better Sex, More Money
Janice Shaw Crouse
Much to the dismay of our anti-marriage cultural elites, married women are happier and better off financially. More

May 20, 2011
The US is Running Out of Ammunition for the Coming Economic Crisis
Steve McCann
The Obama administration, since its inauguration up to the present, still refuses to acknowledge that there is a fiscal crisis -- except to pay lip-service as part of its re-election strategy. More

May 20, 2011
'Racial Incident' in Texas School Plunges City into Turmoil
David Paulin
It's being called an ugly "racial incident." There were no racial epithets used in this incident, however. There was no "hate crime." And nobody was discriminated against. More

May 20, 2011
Bernanke's Economic Time Bomb
Chuck Rogér
Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve has laid the charges, connected the leads, and now stands ready at the detonator. America waits. More

May 19, 2011
From the 'Global War on Terror' to 'Let's Make a Deal'
Randall Hoven
I think something serious changed in the last two years regarding our defense policy, especially regarding the Global War On Terror. More

May 19, 2011
Eye of Newt, Butt of Donkey
Stuart Schwartz
The truth is out. Newt Gingrich is what so many true conservatives have long suspected, a quintessential Washington insider. More

May 19, 2011
The Dangers of CFLs Even Greater Than Previously Known
Edmund Contoski
People are being forced to switch from a reliable, economical, environmentally safe product to one which is none of these -- and a health and safety hazard to boot. More

May 19, 2011
The Real Conservative Majority
Bruce Walker
When the Soviet Union fell, it was "discovered" that no one believed in Marxism any longer. When the left falls in America, won't we find out just the same thing? More

May 19, 2011
Back to the Gold Standard
Vasko Kohlmayer
There is a way to bring about fiscal restraint. It is called the gold standard, and it the only foolproof method of placing the government under fiscal discipline. More

May 19, 2011
Ron Paul's Controversial Statement Exposes Foreign Policy Rift
Tim Daniel
As our nation teeters on the edge of the bankruptcy, we can no longer afford the decades-past vision of government both domestic and military. More

May 19, 2011
Kids 'Scared Straight' to Climate Activism
Anthony J. Sadar and JoAnn Truchan
If the climate scare-mongers can't frighten the adults, the next logical step is to heap angst on their children who then frighten (or better, pester) the adults into action. More

May 18, 2011
Corsi Book An Important One
Jack Cashill
Jerome Corsi's much-anticipated book, Where's the Birth Certificate?, is important in ways that go beyond the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president of the United States. More

May 18, 2011
The Nearly Aborted President
Peter Heck
New information reveals it's not a stretch to believe that Obama's dad didn't want to be "punished with a baby." More

May 18, 2011
Glenn Beck and the Struggle for Israel's Survival
Pamela Geller
Glenn Beck has announced a "Restoring Courage" rally in Israel this August. He has been a singular voice of late in the defense of Israel. More

May 18, 2011
What about Afghanistan?
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Apropos my previous article on U.S. policy towards Pakistan, several readers have asked me how my suggested change in approach relates to American strategy in Afghanistan. More

May 18, 2011
Central American Peril
Chris Lewin
The political situation of Honduras, our longtime Central American ally with a history of aversion to Communism and Socialism, appears to be lurching toward danger. More

May 18, 2011
Environmentalist Schizophrenia
Gary Jason
Several recent noteworthy articles sharply illuminate the increasingly schizophrenic environmentalist worldview. More

May 17, 2011
The Curious Case of the Lying Law Student
M. Catharine Evans
The University of Virginia law student who lied about racial harassment will graduate on May 22, with Eric Holder giving the commencement address. How appropriate. More

May 17, 2011
Just Who is Gouging Us on Gasoline?
Jeff T. Allen
Let's have the courage to name those who are getting the biggest cut from our gasoline dollars, and put a stop to it. More

May 17, 2011
Obama on the Arab Spring
James V Capua
Obama's State Department speech on Thursday may be our contemporary equivalent of the 1949 State Department "White Paper" on China. More

May 17, 2011
Putin as King Midas
Kim Zigfeld
America and the West are being led into a trap set by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. More

May 17, 2011
Secularists, or Just Anti-Christians?
Keith Riler
Why liberal secularists encourage religious freedom for Muslims and squelch it for Christians. More

May 17, 2011
Judaism Got Hijacked
Stella Paul
Forget all the caterwauling about radical Muslims hijacking a great religion. The real story of our time is the hijacking of Judaism. More

May 17, 2011
Politics and Violence - Undermining Israel's Efforts to Make Peace
C. Hart
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to fly to Washington to deliver speeches to the U.S. Congress and AIPAC, he is carrying the weight of several current and critical Middle East events. More

May 16, 2011
The Article Liberals Are Too Stupid to Write (and Republicans too reluctant to read)
Randall Hoven
Why, after all this, does President Obama enjoy an approval rating near 50%? Well wonder no more. More

May 16, 2011
The American Flag Is 'Offensive' in Schools Now
Selwyn Duke
Increasingly, it seems that the American flag is joining toy guns and dodgeball on the banned-from-school list. More

May 16, 2011
Fast Train To Hell
Bernie Reeves
Investing in rail is like building livery stables when automobiles took over highways. Airports are the key to the transportation future. More

May 16, 2011
Against a Balanced Budget Amendment - Come Again?
J. Robert Smith
So, let's see a show of hands. Who really trusts politicians to do the right thing rather than the self-serving thing? Precisely More

May 16, 2011
Taj Mahal Schools
Robert Weissberg
A new wave of ultra-expensive public schools, some costing well more than a hundred million dollars, purports to fix America's edication problems. They are bound to fail. More

May 16, 2011
Government Schools: Antiques Preserved in Political Amber
Jack Curtis
No one will fix the schools; everyone who can depends on their staying as they are. A genuine fix would destroy the public education empire exactly as the industrial revolution destroyed agrarian society. More

May 16, 2011
Deconstructing the Left's Argument for Increasing Tax Rates on the Rich
Jim Stuart
A closer look at what the rich earn and pay in taxes reveals they have been getting a worse deal over the past several decades. More

May 15, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Waiting for Moammar
Clarice Feldman
Guess who showed up on the other side of the Ouija board. More

May 15, 2011
The Day of the Arab Catastrophe
Mark Cantora
Strap on your costume bomb-belts and hold high your toy Kalashnikovs! Dress the kids as Farfour the Genocidal Mouse. Today is Nakba Day! More

May 15, 2011
The Big Lie Called Nakba Day
Yonatan Silverman
A prime example of Palestinian brazen malicious deceit against Israel is their so-called "Day of Catastrophe" or Nakba Day. More

May 15, 2011
Tariq Ramadan Discovers His Inner Flower Child
Jonathan Gelbart
Tariq Ramadan -- a member of the world's most famous Islamist family, as the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan el-Banna -- spoke at Stanford University recently. More

May 15, 2011
Martial Virtues and the Survival of Civilization
Bruce Whitsitt
We make superhuman demands on our police and soldiers. Yet so many of them are unappreciated, ostracized, or misunderstood. More

May 15, 2011
A Patriot's Wedding
Lloyd Marcus
Folks, this has nothing to do with politics, but I feel compelled to share it with you. More

May 15, 2011
Israel's Losing Diplomatic Strategy: Play Only Defense
Abraham Katsman
Every frustrated sports fan knows the risk of abandoning a winning offensive game plan and adopting instead a strategy of playing to "not lose." More

May 15, 2011
Helping to End Eminent Domain Abuse
Daren Bakst
The United States House is currently considering the "Private Property Rights Protection Act." More

May 15, 2011
Planned Parenthood's Cobalt Blue Sex Education
Chuck Rogér
Santa Fe Planned Parenthood "health educator" Denise Jennings, who wants to "normalize sex," trains teens to train other teens in "the five circles of sexuality." More

May 15, 2011
Osama's Death and The War on Terror
Liam Ryan
It has been two weeks of hysteria across the world regarding the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. The most discernible observation is a growing dismissal on the "War on Terror" as a chapter of a bygone era. More

May 15, 2011
American Christians And The 2012 Election
Samuel J. Mikolaski
Here is what will solidly consolidate the vote of Christians in America for a presidential candidate. More

May 15, 2011
Oh, Che Can You See?
Christopher S. Brownwell
The problem with relativists is they don't accept the consequences of their philosophy. More

May 14, 2011
Charlie Chan and the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Dollar
Lee Cary
As the value of the dollar continues to decline, that legendary Honolulu police detective of yesteryear, Charlie Chan, is summoned to question several persons-of-interest. More

May 14, 2011
Dealing with Our Coming Economic Disaster
Frank Ryan
Here is what you can do personally to avoid being swept away by the tidal wave of fear, anxiety and trepidation More

May 14, 2011
Happy 63rd birthday, Israel
Amil Imani
This week, Israel celebrates its 63rd birthday. Sixty-three years ago, May 14, 1948, was the rebirth of one of the oldest cultures and nations in history More

May 14, 2011
Japan's Disaster May Accelerate Realignment in the East
Fay Voshell
The coastline of Japan is not the only shift that will have been caused by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11. More

May 14, 2011
TSA Tot-Screening is a Bad Civics Lesson
Robert Small
Anonymous once said, "If you can't explain it to a child, you really don't understand it." I don't envy parents who have to explain TSA's airport screening policy to their children. More

May 14, 2011
Waterboarding is Not Unconstitutional
William A. Levinson
The Constitution does not forbid the infliction of physical pain on another person to force his compliance with certain courses of action More

May 14, 2011
Regulation Cannot Control Malignant Melanoma
S. Fred Singer
Melanoma has little to do with ozone or Freons. The Montreal Protocol will do nothing to stop the rise in melanoma cases. More

May 14, 2011
The Ever-Shifting Price of ObamaCare
Jon N. Hall
With "free" government healthcare, cost shifting is inescapable. Only when all payers pay the same price can the true price of any good be known. More

May 14, 2011
Bullets over Bubbles
Jeannie DeAngelis
The media is buzzing because for the first time in recent history a journalist actually demanded an answer from a liberal to a logical question. More

May 14, 2011
The Unknown Story of Pocahontas
Charlotte Cushman
Yesterday was the anniversary of the landing at Jamestown How many people know the story of its survival, a story that reflects our American heritage? More

May 13, 2011
Yes Mr. President, I Do Want Alligators in My Moat
Lauri B. Regan
I am getting sick and tired of his kitschy, fighting rhetoric designed to pit citizen against citizen. More

May 13, 2011
Restoring America's Standing
Steve McCann
The killing of Osama bin Laden, while good for a week's worth of fawning press coverage by the American media, does not mitigate the fact that United States foreign policy is adrift on a sea of uncertainty. More

May 13, 2011
The Battle to Reduce Entitlements: Fight or Flight?
Chuck Rogér
"History's revolutions and upheavals ... are rarely fueled by the starving and despised, but by the subsidized and frustrated." More

May 13, 2011
Protection from Oil Price Surges and Inflation
Jim Johnston
A financial mechanism exists to moderate the swings in oil markets, if only the political will to use it can be mobilized. More

May 13, 2011
ObamaCare Appellate Judges Playing Semantic Games
Frank Miniter
Is it really that difficult figuring out what an "activity" is? More

May 13, 2011
A Good Hot Shower
Jeffrey Folks
What seems to motivate the environmental movement is a neurotic anxiety concerning the possibility that somewhere, somehow, someone is wasting resources that, for some reason, need to be conserved. More

May 13, 2011
Jeb Bush, the Education Governor
Elise Cooper
AT talks with Florida's last governor about education reform. More

May 12, 2011
Did Obama Delay the Osama Raid for Political Reasons?
J.R. Dunn
Did the administration deliberately delay the raid to yield the greatest benefit for Obama? More

May 12, 2011
Obama Demeans Himself on Immigration
Steve McCann
"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" More

May 12, 2011
Black Race Pimps: I'm Callin' You Out!
Lloyd Marcus
Using race to bully people into submitting to an agenda is racist, pure and simple. More

May 12, 2011
How to Switch to CNG while Saving Taxpayer Money
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
How to reduce imports, save money, and cost taxpayers nothing. What's not to like? More

May 12, 2011
GOP? What GOP?
Bruce A. Riggs
The core problem is that the GOP is a philosophically schizoid entity. It's effectively two parties. More

May 12, 2011
Alternative Energy and the King Canute Strategy
Charles Stewart
Proponents of so-called "renewable energy" suffer from the delusion that it can replace a large share of our coal, oil, and nuclear energy. They ignore or deny the consequence: a decline in real income. More

May 12, 2011
Puddle Power Grab
Jerry Shenk
Barack Obama's EPA means to implement the major provisions of failed legislation by regulatory means, a massive power grab with frightening implications. More

May 11, 2011
Maureen Dowd and the Barack Man's Burden
Stuart Schwartz
The New York Times columnist -- notorious for her disdain of all things testosterone -- let Times readers know this past week that she has finally found a man she can admire, a man of "muscular purpose." More

May 11, 2011
Citizen Cain
Matthew May
Now is the time to test whether the Tea Party means business because, judging by last week's Republican presidential debate, the Tea Party candidate for president in 2012 is self-evident. More

May 11, 2011
The Road to Bin Laden Went Through Iraq
Peter Heck
Who knew how quickly a little extralegal military assassination done on the watch of a Democrat president could turn the left's resurgent "peace community" into a fist-pumping, flag-waving, patriotic cabal of jingoistic chickenhawks? More

May 11, 2011
What to Do About Pakistan?
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The only realistic way of safeguarding our security interests in the region. More

May 11, 2011
New 'Great Game' Limits America's Options in Pakistan
James G. Wiles
There is an 800-pound gorilla in the room with Pakistan and the US -- one to whose existence both the media and political commentators are loath to admit. More

May 11, 2011
Two Sides of a Vanity Coin
Jeannie DeAngelis
Concern for outward appearance and public image takes up residence in a certain type of person. More

May 10, 2011
How the Media Falsify Obama's Origins Story
Jack Cashill
In her new biography of Ann Dunham, A Singular Woman, New York Times reporter Janny Scott corrupts Barack Obama's nativity story even more than a cynic might have thought possible. More

May 10, 2011
Obama: Deniability Man
James Lewis
Never mind those Navy SEALs and their helicopter crews, or the CIA guys and gals on the ground; Barack Obama is so heroic! More

May 10, 2011
A Sluggish Recovery for President Obama
Christopher Chantrill
The mainstream media did a heroic job of making the mixed jobs numbers on Friday look good. More

May 10, 2011
'I Felt As If I Were Walking With Destiny'
Robert Morrison
Winston Churchill's great lesson for Barack Obama. More

May 10, 2011
The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is NICE
Joe Herring
This is the Cloward-Piven strategy applied to health care. More

May 10, 2011
Proposition Twenty
John McClaughry
If the 112th Congress is serious about putting a stop to runaway deficit spending, never mind the Balanced Budget Amendment. Go for Proposition 20, instead. More

May 10, 2011
They Thought America Was Weak
T.J. Woodard
They thought we would not come after them and hunt them down. They thought we were too soft for a long war in difficult terrain. They were wrong. More

May 9, 2011
Is Obama a Serial Liar?
Nancy Morgan
In just the last month, Obama has made several statements that are just not so. Statements made to the American public that were in direct conflict with known facts. More

May 9, 2011
Obama's Worst Enemy
J.R. Dunn
Obama's worst enemy is Obama, and his downfall will commence when voters awaken to the fact that many of his current "crises" -- and all the most critical ones -- are self-inflicted. More

May 9, 2011
Are We at War or Spectators at a Sporting Event?
Grant Giske
What more can we do to aid our enemy in telling them how we fight, what resources we have, what we will not do to kill them, and what we know about them? More

May 9, 2011
Cut the Bloat: Both Ours and Washington's
Paul Gessing and Deane Waldman
Why is the federal government subsidizing programs that make Americans fat? More

May 9, 2011
Glide Path to Federal Budget Sustainability
Greg Richards
A glide path for federal spending to return the federal budget to break even, which is the same thing as long term sustainability, is possible. More

May 9, 2011
It is Immoral Not to Allow Enhanced Interrogations
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Nothing guides liberal policy more than how a particular policy effects their reputation among their liberal and left wing colleagues across the globe. More

May 9, 2011
Warmist Mantra Wearing Out
Russell Cook
Recycling doesn't work when it comes to corrupt smears. More

May 8, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: About Abbottabad
Clarice Feldman
It should have been a great week for the White House. More

May 8, 2011
CSI: Climate Science Investigation
Anthony J. Sadar and Albin Sadar
An uncomfortably close comparison, if you're pushing hockey sticks. More

May 8, 2011
Free the Federal Lands for States to Develop
Samuel J. Mikolaski
When the United States was formed the Congress owned no lands. It is time to establish the right of land ownership for every state in the union. More

May 8, 2011
The Noble Mother
Jeremy Egerer
What kind of woman is this, who sacrifices her life for God, country, and family? More

May 8, 2011
The Best-ever Symbol of Government Incompetence?
Alan M Aszkler
Forty-nine years of government folly, environmentalist demonization, and media sensationalism have managed to escalate the cost to end an ecological disaster from under $100,000 in the early sixties to over $600 million today. More

May 8, 2011
Naming Your Baby the Muslim Way
James Lewis
Some new baby names, so your child can grow up happily in a Shari'a world. More

May 8, 2011
Lenin's Journalists
Ari Morgenstern
Lenin's view was that the media "is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organizer." More

May 8, 2011
Education that Corrupts
Chuck Rogér
It is the job of educators to "change the thoughts, feelings, and actions of students." So proclaimed psychologist Benjamin Bloom, originator of Outcome-Based Education. More

May 8, 2011
The Invisible Mandate: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Roger D. Luchs
Can states force business owners to enroll in a voluntary Federal program, and thereby subject them to the regulations, requirements and red tape that typically accompany such programs? More

May 8, 2011
Radical Islam at UC Berkeley Law
Stephen Schwartz
The exploitation of the University of California's Bay Area law schools as platforms for Arab and Islamist propaganda continues. More

May 8, 2011
How Apprehensive Should an Israeli Be?
Ron Lipsman
Think of the average beleaguered Israeli as he contemplates his environment during any period in recent times. More

May 8, 2011
Willy the Wedded One Opines
Jeannie DeAngelis
Marriage expert and relationship pundit Bill Clinton has stepped forward on the issue of legalizing gay marriage in the state of New York. More

May 8, 2011
The 'Social Justice' Trap
Kate Wright
What is Social Justice? Ask 10 people, get 10 different answers. More

May 8, 2011
How to Raise a President
Carol Peracchio
If our president is going to behave like an adolescent, perhaps it is time to treat him as one. More

May 7, 2011
Charlie Chan and the Mystery of the Mansion Hideout
Lee Cary
As the story of the death of Osama bin Laden grows more curious by the day, it's time we call in that legendary Honolulu police detective of yesteryear, Charlie Chan, to visit the scene. More

May 7, 2011
Who Botched John Galt?
Lawrence J. Siskind
After viewing the disastrously disappointing movie version of Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus, Rand's fans, friends, and even casual acquaintances have a right to know how the guardian of this legacy could have allowed this to happen More

May 7, 2011
Wintour's Whitewash: Vogue on my Mind
Pamela Geller
Why is a major fashion magazine avoiding the truth about Islam? More

May 7, 2011
What the Canadian Election Means
Bruce Walker
The blizzard of news surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden has focused attention away from the very significant general election in Canada. More

May 7, 2011
Canada Is Ready for Her Star Turn
James G. Wiles
For sixty-six years, Canada has punched below its weight in world affairs. With the conservative victory in this week's election, that may be about to change. More

May 7, 2011
What's Your Tea Party Story?
Lloyd Marcus
I was thinking the other day about the extraordinary chain of events which lead to me being involved in the Tea Party movement More

May 7, 2011
How Liberalism Killed Osama
Tom Trinko
As more details come out, it appears that the administration wasn't following its mantra of terrorist-as-crook when it came to executing, no pun intended, the Osama raid. More

May 7, 2011
Do The Math, Mr. President
Christopher Chantrill
Obama's FY12 Budget 2.0 isn't really a budget because he hasn't actually got any numbers to back up his rhetoric. So let's do the numbers for him. More

May 7, 2011
The Donald's [Expletive Deleted] Desert One Experience
Chet Arthur
Maybe it's in the water out there in the desert. But when a prospective candidate for president goes to Las Vegas, it would be a good idea to avoid drinking too deeply at the local fountains of wisdom. More

May 7, 2011
Beinart's Wrong Again - The War On Terror Is Not Over
Moshe Phillips
The cliché that even a stopped clock is right twice a day doesn't apply to pundits. More

May 7, 2011
Why the Balanced Budget Amendment Must Be Stopped
Zbigniew Mazurak
There is only one way to balance the budget, and the BBA is not it. More

May 7, 2011
Slouching Toward Palestine
Louis René Beres
In September, probably with very little prodding, the U.N. General Assembly will take up the issue of membership for "Palestine." More

May 7, 2011
The Eccentric Economist
Sterling T. Terrell
Everyone knows serious academics can be odd. If you are looking for eccentricities in the world of economics, look no further than Thorstein Veblen. More

May 6, 2011
Misreading Obama
Jack Cashill
The chair of the Harvard History Department has assembled his insights into a misreading of Obama so sincere and so profound that it causes one to doubt the entire academic enterprise More

May 6, 2011
Obama's Truest Kin
Richard Kantro
When your biography contains fiction, then fiction contains your peers. More

May 6, 2011
Obama: The Unlikely Assassin
Geoffrey P. Hunt
How is it possible this president, reluctant to assert American power, even loath to admit its exceptional reach and moral imperative, ordered such an assassination? More

May 6, 2011
Obama's Courage Vastly Overrated in Pakistan Raid
Victor Volsky
It is easier to believe in the tooth fairy than to suggest that the Pakistanis were totally in the dark More

May 6, 2011
Of Course We Should See the Photo
C. Edmund Wright
Of course we have the right to see it. We all are the victims. More

May 6, 2011
Obama got Osama? Oh, Mama!
William Tate
It could be argued that Osama bin Laden is roasting in hell right now largely despite, not because of, Barack Obama. Obama got Osama? Good rhyme. Bad logic. More

May 6, 2011
Go Ahead, Make Our Day
J. Kowalski
A 21st century Intolerable Act; The Obama Administration re-floats the automobile mileage tax, and why this is a good thing. More

May 5, 2011
President Obama and the Masked Face of Justice
Lee Cary
President Obama, who aims to avoid offending the Arab Street by withholding the photo of a dead Osama bin Laden, seems to care little about offending the American Street. More

May 5, 2011
Why Obama's Polling Bounce is So Anemic
J.R. Dunn
It's not likely to get any better for him, and here's a short checklist as to the reasons why. More

May 5, 2011
The Sacrificial Presidency of George W. Bush
Paul Kengor
Will the left credit Bush? Will there be a public confession or apology or commendation for this man they pilloried, who helped make possible the triumph enjoyed by the president they revere? Don't hold your breath. More

May 5, 2011
The Next Election and Race
Jack Kerwick
There can be no doubt that the presidential campaign of 2012 is underway, for Barack Obama's supporters have begun to accelerate the rate at which they charge the president's critics with "racism." More

May 5, 2011
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden Unlikely to Achieve Much
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The death of OBL is unlikely to translate to anything significant in the fight against Al-Qa'ida and other like-minded Islamist militant groups. More

May 5, 2011
Michelle O's Porked-Up Food Folly
Rosslyn Smith
The idea that residents of rural America need an initiative planned by Michelle and her merry band of academic experts to be run by Washington based bureaucrats to help us put nutritious food on our tables is ludicrous. More

May 5, 2011
Pelosi and Progressive Neo-Leninism
Marvin Folkertsma
Call it progressive neo-Leninism: the political left naturally uses victories at the polls when they temporarily grant political ascendancy and disparages electoral results when they do not. More

May 4, 2011
How Obama Bungled the Aftermath of the OBL Mission
Lauri B. Regan
There is an appearance that no one is running the show and no one really knows what transpired. More

May 4, 2011
Time For Conservatives to Put Aside Documents and Focus on Obama's Performance in Office
Steve McCann
Many conservatives are playing into the hands of the Obama re-election machine, falling for the trap of making themselves easily mocked by a sycophantic mainstream media attempting to turn Obama into a victim. More

May 4, 2011
Playing Politics with Islamic Terrorism
Jack Kerwick
If Democrats weren't just playing politics with Bush's prosecution of "the War on Terror," then rather than sing hosannas to President Obama, they would now be talking about bringing him up on criminal charges. More

May 4, 2011
Therapy for the Left
James Lewis
The Obama Administration is all about the psychotherapy of the left. More

May 4, 2011
Interrogation Not Litigation Led to Osama
Jan LaRue
Osama bin Laden is dead because President Obama followed the rules of war and the policies and procedures left to him by President George W. Bush rather than the rules of civil procedure. More

May 4, 2011
Incompetence is the Charitable Explanation of The Federal Reserve Board's Behavior
Fred N. Sauer
Inflation? What, us worry? More

May 3, 2011
OBL's Death a Victory for the Adults
C. Edmund Wright
The credit belongs the adults who put in place these interrogation techniques and who decided they would take place at Gitmo. That would be Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. More

May 3, 2011
Bin Laden's Death and the Vindication of George W. Bush
Adam Yoshida
The strategic vision that brought this glorious moment into being was that of George W. Bush. More

May 3, 2011
Why Bin Laden's Death May Benefit the Republicans in 2012
Adam Shaw
While Obama will almost certainly receive a short-term popularity boost, in terms of the 2012 election there are signs that bin Laden's death may benefit the Republicans. More

May 3, 2011
Bin Laden's Death: A Beginning, Not the End
Dale T. Armstrong
Al Qaeda and similar Islamic terrorist groups are not a recent phenomenon, spawned by hate of the United States or from the formation of Israel in 1948. The roots of hatred for infidels are old and deep. More

May 3, 2011
Inside the Mind of a Birther
Randall Hoven
The epistemology of Obama. More

May 3, 2011
The Coming Crisis at the UN -- and How Not to Waste It
Rick Richman
The Palestinian decision to seek UN recognition in September of a Palestinian state with borders on the pre-June 1967 lines is a threat and an opportunity. More

May 3, 2011
A Palestinian State: the U.N. Gambit
Jerrold L. Sobel
The good, the bad, and the ugly next September, when the U.N. General Assembly takes up unilateral Palestinian statehood. More

May 2, 2011
Does the Death of bin Laden Really Change Anything?
Michael Filozof
There is a lot that it doesn't change. More

May 2, 2011
About Those Oil Subsidies
Randall Hoven
It turns out that they are all tax "breaks." I even hesitate to call them "breaks" because some of them amount to little more than Congress defining accounting terms. More

May 2, 2011
Professors Gone Wild
Stuart Schwartz
The federal government, led by the largest contingent of academics ever to inhabit the Beltway, is failing More

May 2, 2011
Obama's Illegal Lottery
William A. Levinson
Obama's documented use of internet gambling to raise money for his 2008 campaign could end his presidency at the convenience of any member of Congress who turns it into An Issue That Won't Go Away. More

May 2, 2011
The Inconsistent Liberal Mind
Peter Heck
Intellectual honesty is not the order of the day in the modern liberal mind -- a place where if it weren't for double standards, there seemingly would be no standards at all. More

May 2, 2011
The Boom America is Forfeiting
Jeffrey Folks
Australians are partying like it's 1999, but for Americans it's more like 1937. The blame can be laid at the feet of Obama and the Democrats. More

May 2, 2011
Are Democratic Elections Feasible in the Middle East?
Robert Weissberg
After the Ottoman Empire's demise following WWI, Britain installed monarchies in the region as the "natural" political arrangement. Maybe a benign authoritarian regime is not so terrible in the context. More

May 2, 2011
Obama's Hockey Stick: The Federal Debt
Greg Richards
We aren't dead yet, but this is one trend that truly spells crisis ahead. More

May 1, 2011
Trump and the Hunt for Red Obama
Clarice Feldman
The astounding gullibility of the liberals on display this week. More

May 1, 2011
Adventures in the Climate Trade
Norman Rogers
It's not just a dubious theory, it's a multibillion dollar industry, and you are paying for it, like it or not. More

May 1, 2011
House Republican Budget Plan Would Benefit the Poor
Raymond Richman and Howard Richman
Who really is looking out for the poor? Not President Obama. More

May 1, 2011
Cloning is cloning is cloning...
Gene Tarne
A bill is now before the Minnesota state legislature calling for a comprehensive ban on human cloning in that state. More

May 1, 2011
Nuclear Power and Dread Risk
Gary Jason
Level of risk and level of fear are not always commensurate, and when it comes to nuclear power, we pay a high price. More

May 1, 2011
After a Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Statehood
Yonatan Silverman
Until Friday I believed that the Israeli government did not know what to do about the threatened Palestinian statehood declaration in the UN and was doing nothing. More

May 1, 2011
The Danger in Severing God from America's Identity
William Sullivan
The fact that America has a president that is working hard to separate Christianity from the American identity is certainly disheartening. But what is really terrifying is the looming outcome if he succeeds. More

May 1, 2011
May Christians Preach Outside a Philadelphia Mosque?
David J. Rusin
An important but virtually unnoticed Philadelphia case from 2010 demonstrates the impulse toward dhimmitude infecting police and the media. More