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June 30, 2011
The Mendacity of Barack Obama
Steve McCann
An AT classic, republished by popular demand in the wake of Obama's press conference More

June 30, 2011
The Obamayyad of Barry Hussein
James Lewis
Nature abhors a vacuum, and Obama has this special Vacuum Grenade he keeps throwing at teetering regimes around the world. More

June 30, 2011
How Race Gets Rubbed Out of the Story
John T. Bennett
For the Chicago Tribune, the political correctness blinders are working overtime. More

June 30, 2011
Ten Lessons From Federal Spending
Randall Hoven
Sanity on the budget, backed up by facts. More

June 30, 2011
American Leftism: An Infantile Disorder
Victor Volsky
Obama and his followers do indeed want to make America into a socialist paradise...they just have no idea how to go about it. More

June 30, 2011
Are Mormons Second-class Citizens?
Bob Weir
A recent Gallup Poll indicated 22% of Americans would not be willing to for vote for a Mormon for president. More

June 30, 2011
The Arizona Fires and the Border
Elise Cooper
The three recent fires in Southern Arizona once again bring the issue of border security to the forefront. More

June 30, 2011
A Nutshell History of Climate-Change Hysteria
Anthony J. Sadar
A brief look at progressive airy predictions of the past. More

June 29, 2011
Is Obama Making His Next Career Move?
James Lewis
I believe Obama is already planning his next promotion. That's a rational political calculation, as well as fitting his personal grandiosity. More

June 29, 2011
The Un-American American President
Jay Clarke
Something is wrong with Barack Obama. We all know it. We all see it. When he speaks about America, Americans cringe. More

June 29, 2011
A Union 'Off-Target'
Brendon S. Peck
Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW. More

June 29, 2011
Alice Walker Is Sailing in the Wrong Direction
Dan Gordon
Acclaimed American writer Alice Walker is setting sail to break the Israeli Naval blockade of weapons bound for Hamas-controlled Gaza. More

June 29, 2011
Iraq and the Misnamed 'Arab Spring'
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
We can view the development of protests in Iraq over time as a case in point of the existence of disunity and factionalism among demonstrators. More

June 29, 2011
Robert Gates' Disastrous Tenure at DoD
Zbigniew Mazurak
Robert Gates plans to step down as SECDEF tomorrow -- and not a moment too soon. More

June 29, 2011
Unreasonable Judge, Unreasonable Ruling
Mario Diaz and Sheila Willamowski
Even the most biased judge can be deemed impartial when his friends have his back. More

June 28, 2011
President Quixote's Legacy: Confused, Ill-Educated and Not Too Bright
Monty Pelerin
In Obama's world, success and failure are moral rather than economic outcomes. Success is a marker for evil. Failure is due to someone else's success. More

June 28, 2011
Obama's Mickey Mouse Administration
Bruce Thompson
Given the well-established Disney empire of theme parks, it might be forgotten why the term "Mickey Mouse" first entered the public mind as a dysphemism. More

June 28, 2011
The Fatal Flaw Crippling Recovery
Bernie Reeves
There is a fatal flaw that occurred early on during the financial meltdown that helps explain why the economy remains in a stall. More

June 28, 2011
Putin's Russia And Obama's America
Kim Zigfeld
Proud KGB spy Putin is just doing what he learned to do in Soviet times. What's surprising is that the President of the United States is helping him get away with it. More

June 28, 2011
When It's OK for Liberals to Demonize the 'Other'
Christopher Chantrill
The whole point of the liberal value system these days is to celebrate diversity. With one notable exception. More

June 28, 2011
Warmist Cargo Cult Science Returns
Timothy Birdnow
This is in no way, shape, or form science; it is advocacy in costume. It's a play with sets, props, actors pretending to be a work of science. More

June 27, 2011
Obama's Poll Wasteland
Brendon S. Peck
Not with a bang, but a whimper More

June 27, 2011
What a Real Victory in 2012 Would Look Like
James V Capua
A new president, to have any chance at all, will need more than a narrow personal victory. Obama's failures place reigning orthodoxies and their champions in unprecedented peril. More

June 27, 2011
Jews Not Welcome to Buy Delta Tickets to Saudi Arabia
Pamela Geller
Once we accept these racist Sharia-compliant regulations, it is a slippery slope. More

June 27, 2011
The Oil Reserve Plunder Blunder
Steve McCann
Release of oil reserves to moderate prices was not only misguided, but fraught with potential problems for the future. More

June 27, 2011
Pavlov's Voters
Carol Peracchio
Pavlov's dogs drooled at the sound of a bell. Humans also experience conditioned reflexes. That's what the Democrats are counting on. More

June 27, 2011
Wisconsin Battle Moves from Collective Bargaining to School Choice
Josiah Cantrall
Governor Walker's epic battle with Democrats and their union allies has transformed into a new confrontation over the educational freedom of low-income and middle-class families. More

June 27, 2011
When Evils Collide
Bruce Walker
Seventy years ago, Hell fought Hell. On June 22, 1941, Hitler abandoned his close alliance with Stalin, and began total war against his erstwhile friend. More

June 26, 2011
Fast and Furious Fiasco: Time to Abolish the ATF
Clarice Feldman
Voltaire observed "It's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others." More

June 26, 2011
My Weekend in the Belly of the Beast
Stuart Kaufman
A report from the 2011 International Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan. More

June 26, 2011
The Gulf Cooperation Council vs. Iran
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The Gulf Cooperation Council, with troops deployed in support of Bahrain's monarchy, is adding members as distant as Morocco, and forming a Sunni axis against Iran and the Shi'a. More

June 26, 2011
Everyone v. Everyone: The Era of the Class Action Lawsuit
Pete Machera
The definition, or at least the current usage, of the word "discrimination" has become so blurred that it no longer resembles its original definition at all. More

June 26, 2011
Restore the RTC
David L. Auchterlonie
There's a powerful way to fix the economy...and we've used it before. More

June 26, 2011
How to Fix U.S. Health Care
William A. Levinson
Enormous savings and quality improvements can be achieved with application of the ISO 9001-compliant QMS. More

June 26, 2011
Doctors' Loss of Moral Agency
Joel Levine, MD and Wendell Wallach
When physicians lose moral agency, everything becomes possible. More

June 26, 2011
Anxiety and Absurdity in the State of Israel
Louis René Beres
Freud said that no one person is ever truly capable of imagining his own death. Thus with Israel. More

June 26, 2011
Economic Slavery: Modern-Day Indentured Servitude
Frank Ryan
The more honest translation of "soak the rich." More

June 26, 2011
Another Anti-Semitic/Radical Left Group Rears Its Ugly Head
Harold Witkov
Meet the intactivists. More

June 25, 2011
Bernanke's Soft Patch: It's the Uncertainty, Stupid!
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Mr. Fed, Ben Bernanke, told reporters this week that he's clueless as to why America's economy is in this "soft patch." More

June 25, 2011
Critics Don't Get Tree of Life
Jack Cashill
Critics know they are supposed to like Terrence Malick, the reclusive auteur who has made just five films over the course of his 40-year career. More

June 25, 2011
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is an Obama '12 Reelection Asset
Claude Sandroff
Libya was the excuse, but Obama's multi-front economic failures and sagging popularity were the real reasons behind the recent SPR-draining policy announcement. More

June 25, 2011
Why Palin Can Win
Robert Eugene Simmons Jr.
If Palin doesn't run it will be a disaster for the Republican Party and quite possibly the country. More

June 25, 2011
The Ideas Behind the Words
Bookworm
Words matter. But all too often the left and the right have different concepts underlying the same words. More

June 25, 2011
Rick Perry: Drawing the Lines Clearly
Peter Heck
The best thing for the Republican Party -- and the country -- is for there to be a sharp distinction between the two parties' nominees. More

June 25, 2011
The Death of Art Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Roland Toy
"Soulless technology" not withstanding, art will be just fine. Here's why. More

June 25, 2011
Romney as Kerry Redux
Marc Tracy
A wealthy politician from Massachusetts saddled with accusations of unprincipled flip-flops runs for the Presidency. John Kerry, meet Mitt Romney. More

June 25, 2011
Are We Ready for a Woman President?
Bob Weir
Will the first black president be replaced by the first woman president? More

June 25, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Vs The American Anti-Male Justice System
Theo Willem
Though many conservatives took some schadenfreude in seeing the Socialist fat-cat Dominique Strauss-Kahn being perp-walked several weeks ago in New York City, I see what happened to Mr. Strauss-Kahn differently. More

June 25, 2011
A Conversation with Journalist Lisa Daftari
Amil Imani
What is going on in Iran, and what are the prospects for the future? An informed Iranian-American journalist speaks. More

June 25, 2011
The Public Sphere and Tea Party Philosophy
Raymond Usell
Scorn directed at Tea Party groups for their interest in our Founders is out of step with respected philosophy and science. More

June 24, 2011
An Aristocracy of Incompetence
Keith Riler
An aristocracy of incompetence exists and has flourished, in which a self-crowned ruling class plays by different rules, rules that reflect their dim view of voters. More

June 24, 2011
Michele Bachmann, the GOP, and the Race Conversation
Chidike Okeem
Michele Bachmann is confidently articulating in public what most other conservatives are too timid to whisper in passing conversation. More

June 24, 2011
Before the Surge Troops Leave Afghanistan, Do Waziristan
James G. Wiles
Within living American memory, there's a precedent for how to do this. It can, if executed with sufficient nerve, mean something which looks a great deal like victory. More

June 24, 2011
Cash for Pumpers
Jeffrey Folks
Emptying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for political purposes is a dreadfully irresponsible act on the part of this or any president. More

June 24, 2011
Voter ID Showcases Democrat McLovins
Kevin Jackson
Let's just call Democrats what they are when it comes to voter ID fraud: McLovin. More

June 24, 2011
Georgetown and the Islamist Money Changers
Stephen Schwartz
A curious interpretation of "Islamophobia." More

June 24, 2011
Understanding Supply Side Economics
Henry Oliner
The Obama administration's failure to understand this reality is devastating the economy. More

June 23, 2011
Did the Supreme Court Tip its Hand on ObamaCare?
Frank Miniter
A ruling last week written by Justice Anthony Kennedy (the Court's "swing vote") offers encouragement to ObamaCare foes. More

June 23, 2011
More B.O. Than Anyone Can Stand
Ralph Alter
America has gotten a steady whiff of B.O. emanating from the White House and its environs for two and a half years now, and are turning away. More

June 23, 2011
China's Espionage Threat
J.R. Dunn
American counterintelligence misunderstands the Chinese intelligence mindset, leading to disaster after disaster in recent decades. More

June 23, 2011
American Denial
Steve McCann
Overwhelming peace and prosperity, over the past many decades, has sown the seeds that will lead to rapid erosion in the American way of life. More

June 23, 2011
Atlas Is Shrugging In The US And Flexing His Muscles Elsewhere
Monty Pelerin
Capital is relocating to regions where it is treated more favorably. The increasingly adverse climate at the federal level motivates moving outside the country More

June 23, 2011
Inflation climbs to 3.6% in May. Palin was right!
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
Inflation hit 3.6% in May, even though gasoline prices actually fell that month. Inflation has been rising since November, exactly as Sarah Palin predicted More

June 23, 2011
Our Wiley Coyote Moment Has Arrived
Scott Strzelczyk
The current state of economic affairs reminds me of the Saturday morning cartoon where the Roadrunner is chased by Wiley Coyote. More

June 23, 2011
Obama and the Art of Wooing Big Business
James E. Miller
Collectivist rhetoric makes good talking points, but always takes a back seat when it comes to winning reelection. More

June 22, 2011
Ban the Burqa
Pamela Geller
A case in Australia shows why the ban must be implemented. More

June 22, 2011
Clinton Unzipped: One of the Worst Presidents Ever
Stella Paul
Conventional wisdom has it that Bill Clinton was a flawed man, but a good president. In this case, conventional wisdom isn't so wise. More

June 22, 2011
Obama Era Economic Stagnation Explained by Lemonade and Cookies
C. Edmund Wright
We don't need to ask the wizards of the Ivy League why Obamanomics is not working. Everything we need to know can be explained with lemonade and cookies. More

June 22, 2011
Questioning Michele Bachmann's Foster Parent Claims
Jeannie DeAngelis
In order to understand liberalism, all one needs to do is take note of what the left applauds versus what they attack. More

June 22, 2011
Obama's Grand Illusion
Roger D. Luchs
The leftist view of how people behave under compulsion has been tested and vetted for nearly a century and has proven to be an utter failure. More

June 22, 2011
The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland
Joe Herring
Environmentalists strike again. More

June 22, 2011
'Peace Flotilla' = Radical Left + Islamic Fascists
James Lewis
The publicity front of a new, anti-Western crusade, hoping to knock the West over quickly, and then have it out against each other. More

June 21, 2011
The Democrats' Recall Bomb
J. R. Dunn
In Wisconsin, Democrats are testing out a new political weapon: the use of recall elections against Republicans, as the GOP establishment slumbers. More

June 21, 2011
Barack Obama is a Bad Man
Jay Clarke
When he first entered the national political arena, I thought Barack Obama was a sincere man, mistaken in some of his political beliefs, but an honest advocate of them. Not anymore. More

June 21, 2011
Is Another Shoe Yet to Drop in Opinion-gate?
James G. Wiles
President Barack Obama just got caught opinion-shopping for a government lawyer. How far will the scandal reach? More

June 21, 2011
The Coming Fall of the Teachers' Unions
Bruno Behrend
A devastating exposé of teacher union power reveals the seeds of destruction already planted. More

June 21, 2011
Is Obama's Libyan Attack Legal or Not?
Jack Curtis
Obama's being hassled because he's dropping bombs and bullets on Libyan targets without Congressional permission. More

June 21, 2011
Science and Smear Merchants
S. Fred Singer
With billions at stake in scientific scare-mongering, opponents of the panic merchants are subject to smear campaigns. More

June 21, 2011
Mixing up Mamet, Hayek, Hitchens, and Sowell
Christopher Chantrill
In his waspish review of The Secret Knowledge by newly conservatized playwright David Mamet, Christopher Hitchens proves that "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on." More

June 20, 2011
Republicans Flicker On Light Bulb Ban Repeal
Geoffrey P. Hunt
The Republican House is flinching on passing the simplest and most symbolic piece of legislation this term: repeal of the incandescent light bulb phase out. More

June 20, 2011
TSA Now Storming Public Places 8,000 Times a Year
Tara Servatius
Americans must to decide if, in the name of homeland security, they are willing to allow TSA operatives to storm public places in their communities with no warning, pat them down, and search their bags. More

June 20, 2011
Twenty-Nine Reasons to Be Angry And/Or Scared
Monty Pelerin
If you're not both angry and scared at the world's current situation, you're not paying attention. More

June 20, 2011
The Insolvency Index
Steve McCann
A simple index that tells us volumes on the fate of nations. More

June 20, 2011
China's Counterfeit Economy: The Hidden Global Threat
Andrew Thomas
Are you having continual computer problems? Do you go through faulty cellphones like beer nuts? More

June 20, 2011
More Enviro-Anomalies
Gary Jason
Scratch up more deaths to the Greens. More

June 20, 2011
Obama Selling Out Our Allies
Burwell Stark
Why are our elected leaders abandoning the ones who have stood by them for years? More

June 19, 2011
Happy Father's Day
Clarice Feldman
I hope all you dads are having a great day. But if it's less than perfect, remember it could be worse. You could be Anthony Weiner's dad listening to his resignation speech in which he thanks you and his mom for instilling in him "the values that carried me so far." More

June 19, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood and Weiner
Eileen F. Toplansky
Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner's dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. More

June 19, 2011
Racism, Injustice, and the Left
William L. Gensert
The left is right, there is racism everywhere in America, the problem is that they choose to see it only where they want to see it, while ignoring it where it truly is. More

June 19, 2011
Thoughts About My Dad
Lloyd Marcus
Even our neighborhood winos respected my dad; partly because he was a true man of God, but I believe mostly because Dad respected them. More

June 19, 2011
Understanding the Taliban Insurgency: The Cause, Motivation, and Culture of Resistance
Khaled Nasir
An essential guide to what's really going on in Afghanistan. More

June 19, 2011
Bahrain: Can The U.S. Do Anything?
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
A vital Arab ally of the United States, the Persian Gulf base of our Fifth Fleet is imperiled, and there is little we can do. More

June 19, 2011
It's Not about Israel - It's about Democracy
JanSuzanne Krasner
Americans must understand that all this finger-pointing at Israel is just a distraction. More

June 19, 2011
The Knowledge That Could Have Saved Congressman Weiner
Ed Kaitz
An avoidable self-inflicted inferno. More

June 19, 2011
Remembering the Altalena
Jerold S. Auerbach
In June 1948, six weeks after declaring independence, Israel confronted internal conflict that raised the specter of civil war. More

June 19, 2011
The Piñata of Spring
Andy Lappin
The sweet bouquet of the Arab Spring has somehow managed to obscure the outright onslaught now underway by Team Obama. More

June 19, 2011
When the Pursuit of Liberty Is Liberty's Greatest Enemy
Jeremy Egerer
What is liberty? Anything outside the simplest definition sets us on a dangerous path. More

June 19, 2011
Liberals Outsourcing Morality
Frank Ryan
Twenty-first-century liberalism uses the tax code to absolve itself of the moral responsibility to truly care for the very citizens they claim to be protecting. More

June 19, 2011
There is a Cancer Growing on the IPCC and Al Gore
Russell Cook
Most of us expect an intergovernmental agency not to have enviro-advocacy people influencing its reports. More

June 19, 2011
The War on the Family Rages On
Trevor Thomas
According to the U.S. Census, one-third of American children are growing up without their biological fathers, while 40% of newborn babies in the U.S. are delivered to unmarried mothers More

June 18, 2011
The Honor of Leftists and Conservatives
Bruce Walker
The political news is filled with three personal scandal stories -- all liberal Democrats. Not by accident. More

June 18, 2011
AARP: Money First, Seniors Second
Russel Hanson
AARP has been allowed to masquerade as a non-profit organization, dodging taxes and hiding its true purpose: to sell insurance. More

June 18, 2011
The Alternate Universe of Democrats
Marc Tracy
How else to explain Debbie Wasserman Schultz? More

June 18, 2011
Has America lost its resolve?
Nicolouw M. Kruger
A South African conservative looks at President Obama and wonders. More

June 18, 2011
Don't Worry, Be Happy: Rubio-Kyl in 2012
Chet Arthur
A ticket of Marco Rubio and Jon Kyl would carry forty states. So why be depressed? More

June 18, 2011
Why America Needs Governor Perry as its President
Yossi Gestetner
It is time for Obama to pack his bags and let Perry take over. More

June 18, 2011
Rick Perry, A Moderate's Conservative
Jay Valentine
Every day we in Texas hear disbelieving conservative citizens on local talk radio asking "...is the national media serious about Rick Perry as a conservative president?" More

June 18, 2011
Why History Says that Mitt Romney Will be the GOP Nominee
Adam Yoshida
I'm far from 100% sold on Mitt Romney at this point in time. Yet, at the same time, I would be reluctant to write the man off -- and I would certainly discourage any Republicans from doing so. More

June 18, 2011
Why Newt?
J.J. Speelman
The better question is "Why not Newt?" More

June 18, 2011
I Miss Trump, But I Don't Want Him Back
Pete Machera
It's interesting to reflect on how angry Trump made people. More

June 18, 2011
A Conservative Woman's Problem with Palin
Lisa Fritsch
A better candidate for prom queen than for president of the United States. More

June 18, 2011
Trains to Nowhere
Gary Jason
The Department of Transportation is determined to waste as many millions as possible on passenger rail service, and President Obama could not be more enthusiastic. More

June 17, 2011
Bimbo Feminism
G. Murphy Donovan
The sorriest aspect of philandering politicians is often their wives, the spouses who stand by their man and play the victim in the service of political viability. More

June 17, 2011
The Golf Summit
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Golfing while our Republic burns. How apropos for the modern era. More

June 17, 2011
Obama Wants Engineering Students and 'Diversity'
David Paulin
President Obama wants America's universities to graduate 10,000 more engineers annually than they're now turning out. Just one small problem. More

June 17, 2011
To Sext, or Not to Sext
Jeffrey Folks
The case of Anthony Weiner will soon be forgotten, but unless the liberal culture of license is repudiated, scandals like his will become an ever more common occurrence. More

June 17, 2011
Loose Pics Sink Ships
J.L. North
Congressman Anthony Weiner's virtual debauchery is more consequential than just a marital wrinkle between newlyweds. More

June 17, 2011
It Is Easier To Vote Than to Get Hired Without a Proper I.D.
Nicholas Cheong
A national retail chain treats eligibility to work more seriously than the Federal Government treats eligibility to vote. More

June 17, 2011
UNRWA: Protesting Too Much
Arlene Kushner
UNRWA, the U.N. agency charged with the care of "Palestinain refugees," must have its mandate renewed at the end of this month. Could it be that UNRWA is running scared? More

June 16, 2011
Barack O'Bully Wants to End Israel
James Lewis
In a world of reality, not high-flown rhetoric, Obama wants to terminate a viable Jewish State in Israel More

June 16, 2011
We Can Do Better
Jeffrey Folks
A roadmap to victory in 2012. More

June 16, 2011
The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice
Chuck Rogér
Something subtle and disturbing is happening under parents' radar. Growing numbers of progressive educators are twisting a four-thousand-year-old concept in order to induce schoolchildren to adopt amoral worldviews. More

June 16, 2011
Unions, Judicial Activists and Democrats Lose Big in the Badger State
Gary Larson
Justice has been served in Wisconsin, with the rebuke of a judicial activist judge, union dues taking a hit, and Democrats losing a source of coerced donations. More

June 16, 2011
A Mortgage For Every Family?
Charles T. Stewart, Jr
The American ideal of everyone owning a home is seriously misguided, both for individuals and the overall economy. More

June 16, 2011
Medicare Reform: It's the Price-Fixing, Stupid
John Lilly
Transforming the medical marketplace into a normal marketplace begins with eliminating Medicare price-fixing. More

June 16, 2011
A Party of Political Peacocks
Jeannie DeAngelis
"The collective name for a group of peacocks is a party," and in politics former President Bill Clinton and Congressman Anthony Weiner turn out to be two of the best examples of a "party" of peacocks. More

June 15, 2011
Obama's America: Prosperity Lost
Steve McCann
Shocking data showing our path to poverty under Obama. The situation is not yet hopeless, but time is running out. More

June 15, 2011
The Deep Dish Debate
Robert Morrison
John King, moderator of Monday night's GOP debate, just could not help himself. Every question offered by King was framed in liberal terms. More

June 15, 2011
Confession of a Reluctant Tea-Partier
Luba Sindler
When candidate Obama showed up, I realized that I had heard his typical stump speech every single day of my old Soviet life from big and small Communist party bosses -- the same structure, the same cadences, the same bogeymen. More

June 15, 2011
The Sorry State of Liberal Compassion
Peter Heck
The famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill that, "If you're not liberal at 20, you have no heart...if you're not conservative by 30, you have no brain," may need some tweaking given the recent antics of the American left. More

June 15, 2011
A Marine Returns to Duty
Dean Malik
What was I thinking? Here I am, forty years old and back in the fight again. More

June 15, 2011
The 'Achievement Gap' Fraud
John T. Bennett
Our educational system is self-destructing, taking away opportunities from good students in a misguided effort to help underperforming students. More

June 15, 2011
Islam 2.0: Coexistence
William A. Levinson
How to alienate the extremists and court the mainstream. More

June 14, 2011
The Obama Campaign Team's Electoral College Obsession
Richard Baehr
The Obama campaign team are providing early signals on the states where they think the 2012 contest will be decided. More

June 14, 2011
How's That Hope and Change Working Out for Obama Supporters?
Chad Stafko
The three demographic groups that provided strongest support for Obama in 2008 have all fared even worse than average Americans during his presidency. More

June 14, 2011
Publicly Funded Leftism on Community Television
Peter Wilson
Community television began, like many bad ideas, in the 1960s, when self-styled "media activist" George Stoney and others began lobbying the FCC to mandate "public access" More

June 14, 2011
Anthony Weiner: The Tweet Smell of Success
David Pietrusza
We have seen Anthony Weiner before. But not among the faces in the long line of disgraced, discarded political figures that have preceded him. In the movies. More

June 14, 2011
Roosevelt Redux: How Obama is Creating a Great Depression of His Own
Robert R. Barker
Obama is treading the same path as FDR, repeating the same steps that turned a recession into the Great Depression. More

June 14, 2011
Economics for Babies
Christopher Chantrill
Economics is too hard for liberals and many others. So it is time to dumb economics down. Here is how it works. More

June 14, 2011
NATO's Libyan Misadventure is No Joke
J. Robert Smith
Even with an eventual victory in Libya, NATO has already botched it. NATO's enemies have a predator's keen eye and instincts. More

June 13, 2011
Crony Capitalism and Obama's Anti-Coal Crusade
Ed Lasky
When your electricity bill goes up 40%, a company financially linked to Barack Obama, David Axelrod, and Rahm Emanuel (and even Bill Ayers) will reap huge gains. More

June 13, 2011
Barracuda Snakecharmer Sarah and the Mob
James Lewis
Palin is turning the tables on the press, and they don't like it. Manipulating people is their job. More

June 13, 2011
Weiners, Wusses and Wonks
Stuart Schwartz
What hath Anthony Weiner wrought? Clarity. More

June 13, 2011
California: The Sanctuary State
Elise Cooper
The line between legal and illegal immigrants is being erased in California with new legislation. More

June 13, 2011
Chicago's Violent Flash Mobs
Robert Klein Engler
How 'the most segregated city in America' got to be that way with the help of the Democrat Machine. More

June 13, 2011
The Alinsky Alert System
J. R. Nash
A tool for dealing with the left. More

June 13, 2011
A Good Man, Slighted: Christopher Hitchens deserved a knighthood this year. He didn't get it.
James G. Wiles
A native-born Englishman, Hitchens deserved a gong last week and he didn't get it. Shame on the House of Windsor. More

June 12, 2011
The Flasher and the Journalist Flash Mobs
Clarice Feldman
For those of us who think the mainstream media is so ludicrous it deserves to be unemployed, this week was fabulous. More

June 12, 2011
Why UK's Daily Mail Got Cold Feet on 'Dreams' Fraud
Jack Cashill
How a leading UK newspaper got very close to breaking the most consequential literary fraud of our time, but got cold feet at the last minute. More

June 12, 2011
Barack Obama, George Soros and the Religious Left
Jason Lee
As Obama's allies on the Religious Left step forward to promote Obama's agenda and build momentum for his 2012 campaign, we should be prepared to expose them for who they really are. More

June 12, 2011
The Post-Economic Age
Bruce Walker
The Left, grounded in the childish superstitions of Marx, views life as economics. More

June 12, 2011
What Does Peace Mean Anyway?
Rob Miller
The road to peace in the Middle East will not be found at the negotiating table More

June 12, 2011
Did Cruising with Callista Doom Newt's Campaign?
Jeannie DeAngelis
The peroxided paramour who helped administer the death blow to Newt Gingrich's political aspirations in the 1990's strikes again. More

June 12, 2011
What Religious Freedom Means in Vietnam
Michael Benge
Textbook brutality in a well-known communist bastion. More

June 12, 2011
Refuting Obama's Attack on Small Business
Lloyd Marcus
Our favorite restaurant fell by the wayside and closed. More

June 12, 2011
The 'World without Nuclear Weapons' Fiction
Zbigniew Mazurak
This is a childish fantasy, and it's time for the U.S. to stop pursuing it. More

June 12, 2011
Nietzsche and the Left
Jack Kerwick
Who are the "masters" and who are the "slaves"? Take three guesses. More

June 12, 2011
Here Comes Another Flotilla
Jerold S. Auerbach
Pro-Hamas activists have organized a new flotilla, scheduled to depart for Gaza later this month. Another confrontation with the Israeli navy is likely More

June 12, 2011
J Street's Boston Gambit
Janet Tassel
J Street, the Soros-funded front lobbying group that describes itself as "pro-peace" and "pro-Israel,'' is desperately seeking legitimacy by wangling its way into local Jewish Community Relations Councils, made up of grassroots groups. Unlike typical JCRC members,  J Street comes... More

June 12, 2011
Weiner's Choice
Mario Diaz
To Rep. Weiner, this is an unfortunate personal matter. The fact that he lied to our faces with an arrogant smile apparently carries no weight. More

June 11, 2011
Are the Mainstream Media Enameling Sarah Palin With Teflon®?
Thomas Lifson
The media feeding frenzy over 24,000 emails pertaining to Sarah Palin's governorship in Alaska is already redounding to her benefit, while further eroding the vestiges of credibility once enjoyed by the shrunken giants of American journalism More

June 11, 2011
Fanning Imaginary Flames: A Look Back At The Great Church Fire Propaganda Campaign
Scott Swett
How an obscure radical group teamed up with a leftist national church organization, an unprincipled President and a legion of compliant news outlets to create a media firestorm based on lies. More

June 11, 2011
Is Perry the One?
Bruce Walker
A candidate who could very quickly and almost bloodlessly win the Republican nomination, and go on to win the presidency. More

June 11, 2011
A Case For Cain
Lloyd Marcus
The main reason I believe America needs Herman Cain is his character. Wow, why does that sound so corny? More

June 11, 2011
In Defense of Romney, the Alleged Flip-Flopper
Pete Machera
Romney is the most appealing Republican candidate at this juncture. He exudes competence when he discusses complex issues. More

June 11, 2011
Obama's Phone-It-In Economy
Kevin Jackson
The Ivy-League man-child doesn't exactly have his finger on America's economic pulse. More

June 11, 2011
The Socialist Phobia of Scarcity
Andrew Thomas
My new son-in-law is an enthusiastic member of ISO, the International Socialist Organization. He is on the verge of a Master's in Political Science More

June 11, 2011
Obama's Lip Service to Adam Smith
Ed Kaitz
Surprisingly, President Obama cited Adam Smith in his speech to the British Parliament. If only he really understood what he said More

June 11, 2011
The 'Other' Ryan Plan
R.B.A. Di Muccio
A funny thing happened on the way to saving Western civilization ... it could all come down to Paul Ryan. More

June 11, 2011
Clown Bandits and Dictators
Jeannie DeAngelis
Whoever they are and wherever they're from, common thieves are all the same. More

June 11, 2011
Giving the Good Game of Golf a Bad Name

Obama's golfing habit is jarringly out of place in this crappy economy. More

June 11, 2011
When Will We Ever Learn?
Deane Waldman
The three big lies of ObamaCare. More

June 10, 2011
Morally-Schizoid Liberal Women and Their Weiner Husbands
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Evidently, the liberal woman is capable of the most severe form of psychological denial known to humankind. More

June 10, 2011
The Real Lesson of Weiner: A Thought Experiment
C. Edmund Wright
A modest proposal to limit the corruption of Congress. More

June 10, 2011
The Oedipal Left
James Lewis
The one Oedipal drama I keep seeing in real life is the left. They just keep doing it over and over again, as if they're compulsively playing Oedipus Rex. More

June 10, 2011
Recovery Slumber
Jeffrey Folks
Obama is too cowardly to stand up to his political base even if that base is dragging the country down. More

June 10, 2011
America's Looming Quagmire in Yemen
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The Obama administration is risking a fourth war in the Muslim world, escalating covert air attacks in Yemen. More

June 10, 2011
Is Permanent Recession the New Normal?
James G. Wiles
The capital strike, and, thus, a stagnant economy, will likely continue until Obama's out of office. More

June 10, 2011
A Nation of Government Dependents
Jerry Shenk
Most of us are in some way dependent upon the central government. It's only ignorance of our dependency that permits many to deny it. More

June 9, 2011
Obama's Undeclared War on America
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Whatever Obama's disposition of the War Powers Act concerning Libya, it is trivial stuff compared with Obama's undeclared War on America. More

June 9, 2011
Europe's Shift to the Right of Obama
Adam Shaw
It was inaccurate for Mitt Romney to imply that Obama is following European policies, for even Europe has realized that such policies lead only to destruction. More

June 9, 2011
Sole Loyalty: The Identity Politics of Immigration Reform
Dean Malik
The most striking feature of the campaign for immigration amnesty is the blatant plunge into identity politics by the movement's proponents. More

June 9, 2011
Both Sides Would 'End Medicare As We Know It'
Peter Heck
Right now, the gravest threat Medicare faces is the self-serving politician who champions complacency towards the issue with shameless demagoguery. More

June 9, 2011
Sex Sex Sex
Bernie Reeves
Sex rears its ugly head so often in today's human drama that the citizenry is indifferent. More

June 9, 2011
The Twilight of the Educated Gods
Christopher Chantrill
It seems only yesterday that we saw our liberal masters, the educated gods, crossing their rainbow bridge into liberal Valhalla. More

June 9, 2011
NOAA Fisheries Science: A Guess, a Coin-Flip, and a Kick in the Teeth
Mike Johnson
How to bankrupt fishermen with shoddy science and guesswork. More

June 8, 2011
Obama and the End of Western Civilization
Steve McCann
The handwriting is on the wall; will anyone pay attention? More

June 8, 2011
Call Democrats Out for Racist and Anti-Semitic Connections
William A. Levinson
The Republican campaigns of 2006 and 2008 consisted of long litanies of dropping the ball when it comes to the Democrats' vulnerabilities. We need to make 2012 different. More

June 8, 2011
RAND Corp: Iran 8 weeks from the Bomb
James Lewis
Half a year ago, US air strikes and a no-fly zone might have prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb. That window has now slammed shut. More

June 8, 2011
GOP Contenders: Please Put Your Egos On Hold
Jim Yardley
It is critical that contenders for the Republican nomination not lose sight of one simple fact. More

June 8, 2011
2012 is Not about Unemployment. It's about Oil.
Randy Fardal
Many in Big Media now say that the jobless rate will be a key determinant of next year's election outcome. They're wrong. Obama's fate hinges on the price of oil. More

June 8, 2011
The Strategic Debate We Need To Have
Jeff Lukens
Our military footprint is shrinking because we are broke, and we must make hard choices about what is important to our nation's security. More

June 8, 2011
The Predictable Middle East Crisis
Eugene Veklerov
Coming in August, this year. More

June 7, 2011
Rep. Weiner and the Failure of Anger
Ed Kaitz
Lying, like bravery, generosity, and prudence, is acquired by habit, which becomes part of our character, and character determines conduct. More

June 7, 2011
Virtual Money, Ugly Reality
Jim Mahoney
Lessons from the great inflation of the 1970s. More

June 7, 2011
Who Spent the Peace Dividend?
Bruce Walker
Maybe a better question is who stole the Peace Dividend. More

June 7, 2011
OK - Just What Is the Ryan Medicare Plan?
John McLaughlin
Though hype and rhetoric surround the subject, little real understanding has seeped down into the public at large. Let's try to sort it out. More

June 7, 2011
The Federal Reserve and Financial Repression
Anthony J. Tarquinto
It is being speculated in some circles that the undercapitalized Fed will force the broker-dealers into buying chunks of its massive portfolio, effectively taking it off their hands. More

June 7, 2011
Medicare is Bad Medicine for Young America
Brenton Stransky
Paul Ryan is the champion of young America. More

June 7, 2011
Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy Queen
Norman Rogers
Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky. More

June 7, 2011
The Real Problem with Taxes
Richard Butrick
Taxes, too little? Too much? Is that even the question? More

June 6, 2011
Why Our Elites Just Can't Get No Respect
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Alas, the higher one climbs upon his own high horse, the more ignominious his fall from grace. More

June 6, 2011
Government-Assisted Economic Suicide
Monty Pelerin
There is no economic case for quantitative easing, nor has there ever been one. Quantitative easing is simply a political gimmick. More

June 6, 2011
Operation Saving Congressman Ryan
Lloyd Marcus
What part of "the Paul Ryan Budget Proposal does not affect the Medicare of seniors 55 and older" do Democrats and the liberal media not understand? More

June 6, 2011
The Obamas: Chilidogs and Couture
Jeannie DeAngelis
A problem arises when the first couple exercises a lifestyle that their policy edicts try to deny everyone else. More

June 6, 2011
My Super Summer Vacation
Piper Palin (channeled by Betsy M. Galliher)
I'm having a super cool time with my mom on her "One Nation" bus tour. More

June 6, 2011
Leaving Louisiana
Tom Roberson
Educated young people are fleeing Louisiana for better opportunities. More

June 6, 2011
Losing Dorothy Rabinowitz
Ed Kaitz
Should the GOP really ignore the longer term in making its case? More

June 5, 2011
You Did Not Learn All You Needed to Know in Kindergarten
Clarice Feldman
Combining willful blindness with feelings of moral superiority. More

June 5, 2011
Mosques as Barracks in America
Andrew G. Bostom
Alarming survey data from a representative national sample of US mosques More

June 5, 2011
A Subtle Tyranny
Fay Voshell
Tyranny does not always initially come like the wolf on the fold, red in tooth and claw. Sometimes it comes tip-toeing on velvet little feet, quietly, one soft step at a time. More

June 5, 2011
Liberal vs Conservative: A Spiritual Battle
Lloyd Marcus
The battle being fought in America today goes beyond politics; right vs left. It is a spiritual battle; good vs. evil. More

June 5, 2011
Amphibian Politics
G. Murphy Donovan
Great political metaphors earn a long shelf life. More

June 5, 2011
The Coming of the Mahdi
Amil Imani
Up to this point millennialism was a belief and a hope. No one ever aspired to or had the means of making the anticipated events come about. More

June 5, 2011
Making Sense of the Syrian Uprising
Khaled Nasir
Ruled by a tribe comprising 7% of the population, supported by Iran, and experiencing four years of drought. More

June 5, 2011
Germany Opts for Economic Suicide
Steve McCann
The government of Germany in an astonishing about face has decided to phase out all nuclear energy by 2022, shuttering many plants (up to 17) this year. More

June 5, 2011
Protecting the Indian Casino Monopoly in Minnesota
Gary Larson
When liberal media, Democrats, and a privileged minority protect a lucrative gambling monopoly, expect to hear cries of "racism." More

June 5, 2011
Politician, Heal Thyself
Tom Roberson
Healing is a term that has been co-opted from the psychobabble crowd and misapplied by politicians to serious situations so often that it has lost any semblance of meaning. More

June 5, 2011
God in a Small Town
Christine M. Biediger
Medina Valley High School, in Castroville, TX, is to lose a long held, traditional graduation prayer. A single student who would be offended ended the tradition More

June 5, 2011
Joel Greenberg, the Washington Post's Palestinian Propagandist
Leo Rennert
Shielding the Palestinian side from any critical scrutiny, even if this means butchering real history in the process. More

June 5, 2011
Israel's Pain -- Beyond Human Language
Louis René Beres
Our Jewish pain is ultimately incommunicable -- deeply and inextricably rooted in the confining space of each individual body. More

June 5, 2011
The Coming UN Crisis
Michael Curtis
UN General Assembly Resolution 377, introduced by the United States in 1950, is a ticking time bomb More

June 4, 2011
Obama's Mounting Media Manipulation
Edward Olshaker
Rewarding terror-friendly Al Jazeera while punishing American critics More

June 4, 2011
The End of Family Pets?
Jack Curtis
Middle-class family pets are following the stay-at-home mom to the museum and if you think about it, for similar reasons. More

June 4, 2011
Another Devastating Jobs Report
Jeffrey Folks
How could it be otherwise with a President whose only interest in the free market lies in what he can extort from it? More

June 4, 2011
ObamaCare: 'A Health Care Reform For All'?
C. Steven Tucker
Kathleen Sebelius and Eric H. Holder say it is. The facts say otherwise. More

June 4, 2011
A Peaceful Neo-Nazi?
Ann Barnhardt
Is such a thing possible? More

June 4, 2011
Ryan-Cantor 2012
Gene Schwimmer
Paul Ryan, whether he wants to be president or not, needs to declare his candidacy, the sooner, the better. More

June 4, 2011
Top Ten Reasons Why Michele Bachmann Could Win the 2012 Republican Nomination
Jay Kronzer
Michele Bachmann is the only candidate in this race so far who truly contrasts with Obama in every way. More

June 4, 2011
American Made In Your Hometown
Rusty Weiss
A chain of department stores that sell American made products exclusively is planned. Can it succeed? More

June 4, 2011
National Curriculum or National Standards?
P. Michael Reidy
President Obama has been touting the role of the federal government in education. Is a national curriculum coming? More

June 4, 2011
Paul Krugman: The Lesser of Two Evils?
Jon N. Hall
According to the Nobel laureate New York Times columnist, the right time to tackle the deficit apparently is...never. More

June 4, 2011
Mix It Up: Poetry Beyond the White House
Robert Klein Engler
Recently, the rap-artist Common, whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, was invited by Michelle Obama to present his "poems" to an audience of students. More

June 3, 2011
A 'Brain-Dead Liberal' Awakens
Rick Richman
David Mamet, America's foremost dramatist, turns conservative, and tells the world why. More

June 3, 2011
It's Official: The Left Is Out of Ideas
Peter Heck
Futility is all that remains in the left's idea bag. The only thing that is unclear is whether Americans will recognize it. More

June 3, 2011
Impeach the Czars!
Wesley Clark, MD
Since taking office, President Obama has adorned himself with a crown of czars. It's time for Congress to pry them loose. More

June 3, 2011
The USA: Last Stop in Western Civilization
John Griffing
Intervention has become the hallmark of American foreign policy. More

June 3, 2011
The GOP and the Working Class
James V Capua
Obama's "Change" agenda threatens our social fabric. Republicans need to demonstrate they've noticed. More

June 3, 2011
Intellectual Disgrace at Ohio University
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
Students march in lockstep alongside freedom's worst enemies. More

June 3, 2011
No Recovery
Hugh de Payns
Recently, we have been hearing talk about the economy, how it is improving. I wish that were the case. More

June 2, 2011
Dr. Krauthammer and Gov. Palin: Analyzing the Analyst

What exactly is Charles Krauthammer's beef with Governor Palin? More

June 2, 2011
How to Win Payoffs and Intimidate Enemies in Obama's America
Gary Jason
Some recent stories instruct us anew on the cardinal tenets of Obamanomics, a.k.a, pay for play the Chicago way. More

June 2, 2011
Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about Race
John T. Bennett
If we're going to have a conversation about race, we should include violent black mobs in the list of conversation topics. More

June 2, 2011
Barack Obama and the Betrayal of Black America
Chidike Okeem
Obama has not only failed to deliver in a general sense, but he has also completely betrayed his most loyal constituency -- the black community. More

June 2, 2011
Primetime Propaganda
Carol A. Taber
How the left took over your TV. More

June 2, 2011
Bashing Israel on Campus, from California to New York
Stella Paul
Pop the champagne! It's party time at the City University of New York (CUNY) for Israel-loathing professors. Why should California have all the fun? More

June 2, 2011
Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
The Arabs' rejection of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is a key part of their stony negotiating stance. To appease them, Mr. Obama goes the extra mile. More

June 1, 2011
Stop It Already -- He's Not So Smart
Dov Fischer
The media would have us believe President Obama is a genius, with brains to spare. Really? More

June 1, 2011
Everything I Need to Know About 2012 I Learned From American Idol
Stuart Schwartz
The bottom line: if enough people are exposed to the truth, they will ignore the experts and go with their hearts. More

June 1, 2011
Why The Elites Hate Sarah Palin
Nancy Morgan
The media is in a frenzy and elite pundits are all atwitter. Why? Because Sarah Palin refuses to let them define her. More

June 1, 2011
Crowding Out
Keith Riler
Two words explain all you need to know about our national economic debate. These words have the instant appeal of common sense. More

June 1, 2011
ObamaCare Makes Us Sicker and Poorer
M. Catharine Evans
Major corporations, food retailers and self-insured businesses are slapping whopping deductibles onto their employee medical benefits packages More

June 1, 2011
Sustainable Nonsense
Jeffrey Folks
Like so many core values of the left, sustainability can be made to mean whatever one wishes it to mean. More

June 1, 2011
A Balanced Budget Amendment is not enough - Give Us Back Our Constitution
James W. Lucas
The price for extending the debt limit should be structural More