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September 30, 2011
Justice Kennedy and the Fate of ObamaCare
Joseph Ashby
When ObamaCare hits SCOTUS, the court's decision likely will rest with Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy's recent votes are both cause for hope and concern for those fighting ObamaCare. More

September 30, 2011
The Coming Obama Administration War on Doctors
Scott Kirwin
Finding scapegoats for rising medical costs in all the wrong places. More

September 30, 2011
It Is Not the Economy, Stupid
Bruce Walker
I pray that we do not surrender to the damnable vice of utter materialism. If we do, nothing can save us. More

September 30, 2011
American Citizens and the Drift from First Principles
Matthew May
Earlier this month I was present at a public appearance by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who had just finished touring a thriving and growing business on the North Shore. What followed was an explicit demonstration of the corrosion of our political discourse. More

September 30, 2011
What If We Held a Debate and Nobody Came?
Carol Peracchio
The early debates are not helping the GOP hopefuls. So why do they keep showing up for them? More

September 30, 2011
Supply-Side Snookinomics
Derek Israel
Liberals learn to embrace supply-side principles. More

September 30, 2011
The Dark and Dangerous Road of Modern Politics
Robert Eugene Simmons Jr.
It is as if the left has tossed out the window any sense of morality, ethics, tolerance, and diversity of opinion that they professed to believe in for a hundred years. More

September 29, 2011
Obama's Numbers
J. R. Dunn
No president in recent decades, and perhaps no president ever, has been in such a miserable position a year before the election. More

September 29, 2011
Hezb'allah Cells Active Worldwide, Including in U.S.
Reza Kahlili
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander reveals "resistance cells" preparing to bring an all-out attack to create a new world order in which Islam will rule the world. More

September 29, 2011
Is Gadaffi's Yellowcake Going to Adolf?
James Lewis
Like Aladdin's Genie, Moammar Gaddafi has disappeared in a puff of smoke back in Libya, but he left a piece of yellowcake behind for the rest of us. No, not fattening cheesecake. Bigger than that. More

September 29, 2011
Private Foundations: Benefactors or Malefactors?
Ross C. Reeves
The "Super Committee" charged with deficit reduction should take notice of a tax policy that permits the wealthiest Americans to divert a third of their tax obligations away from the Treasury and to causes of their own choosing. More

September 29, 2011
Islamizing the Curriculum in Georgia
Pamela Geller
Georgia schools using a lesson plan that glorifies the cloth coffin that Muslims dress women in, as well as polygamy. More

September 29, 2011
Coddling Misinformation About Taxation
Chris Banescu
President Obama and Warren Buffett are spreading misinformation about all the taxes corporations and individuals actually pay. More

September 29, 2011
Obama's Jobs Act Wouldn't Work. Here's What Would.
Raymond Richman and Howard Richman
How to create huge numbers of jobs without costing the federal government a dime. More

September 28, 2011
Herman Cain Swims with the Sharks
C. Edmund Wright
Conventional wisdom is missing the shifting of several electoral tectonic plates beneath our feet. More

September 28, 2011
Obama Does 'Rich Man, Poor Man'
Jeffrey Folks
Obama wants to turn middle-class Americans against the rich in the 2012 election, but what he doesn't tell them is that it's those same rich investors who helped create their jobs. More

September 28, 2011
Elizabeth Warren: A Harsh Mistress
Derek Israel
Warren's idea of the social contract is highly suspect, in particular because she is using it to justify an obligation to pay taxes. More

September 28, 2011
Hugo's Gold Finger
Brendon S. Peck
Venezuela's Marxist dictator goes for the gold. More

September 28, 2011
Unanswered Questions Haunt Family in 'Fast and Furious' Case
Elise Cooper
Americans need to understand that the family is frustrated and angry since "we paid the price for this operation; we lost our son." More

September 28, 2011
Negotiating 'Peace' and Not Getting There
Shoshana Bryen
The Middle East Quartet (United Nations, the United States, the European Union, and Russia) is promoting new "peace talks" as a means of holding off the Palestinian bid for independence...but to what end? More

September 27, 2011
Predicting Obama
J.R. Dunn
Obama is about to learn that the curve of fate has two sides; what goes up the one side must go down the other More

September 27, 2011
Despotism Breeds Federal Paranoia
Hugh de Payns
Any environment where secrecy and social and political control are the operating parameters can breed paranoia. More

September 27, 2011
What Are Democrats Thinking?
Christopher Chantrill
Are the Democrats waking up to the possibility that President Obama might be leading them off a cliff? More

September 27, 2011
Obama's Interior Chokehold on America
Jim Adams
How a bureaucratic bottleneck in the Gulf of Mexico will cost the U.S. economy nearly $20 billion and wipe out hundreds of thousands of jobs as far away as Ohio, Pennsylvania and California More

September 27, 2011
Electoral College Reform to Preserve States' Rights
Bruce Walker
State legislatures are currently looking at two different approaches to correcting perceived problems in the election process. More

September 27, 2011
Obama Leads the Liberalism Parade
Joseph Ashby
The president's newest 2012 election strategy gives mainstream Americans a rare look at the Democrat Party's voter base. More

September 27, 2011
EMP: The Greatest Threat to America, and What We Can Do about It
JanSuzanne Krasner
A recent EMPactAmerica conference points out why we should be concerned about an EMP in or over America...and how best to protect ourselves against one. More

September 26, 2011
Tax Demagogues Are Lying Liars, in One Graph
Randall Hoven
The rich pay lower tax rates than we do. Bush's tax cuts were only for the rich. You hear these lies and others like them every day. More

September 26, 2011
Green Twilight
J. R. Dunn
There's something satisfyingly symbolic about the unfolding Solyndra scandal. More

September 26, 2011
The Cynicism of Obama's Soak-the-Rich Policy
Steve McCann
Overt class warfare and demagoguery in order to win reelection and shift the spotlight off the economic and societal failures of his policies. More

September 26, 2011
Obama Is Dangerous for Peace
James Lewis
The Middle East has been "community disorganized," and Obama's to blame. More

September 26, 2011
Obama's 'Hate the Rich' Campaign
Lloyd Marcus
Obama's "Hate the Rich" campaign appeals to our lower nature and encourages the sin of covetousness. If Obama's despicable campaign proves successful, it will be a sad commentary about who we have become as a people and how far we have fallen as Americans. More

September 26, 2011
Redistricting Chaos: Partisan Gamesmanship in California and Arizona
Elise Cooper
The "citizen commissions" in California and Arizona aren't exactly making the redistricting process in those states a cake walk. More

September 26, 2011
The Bugaboo of the Left
Victor Volsky
With the possible exception of that eternal bogeyman, Richard Nixon, nobody is hated by the left with such abandon; nobody is more vilified; nobody is targeted with such volcanic eruptions of insane hatred and vitriol as former Vice President Dick Cheney. But why? More

September 25, 2011
Solyndra: Obama's Marble Boat
Clarice Feldman
Just as Cixi's marble boat impoverished China and placed it at risk, the foolish actions of this administration impoverish us and place us at risk. But the optics! More

September 25, 2011
How the Dual Income Destroys the Lower Classes
Jeremy Egerer
How the dual income contributes to American poverty has not been adequately addressed -- perhaps, considering how feminism pushes women into the workplace, because it is now culturally offensive to do so. More

September 25, 2011
Kody Brown, His 'Sister Wives,' and the Return of Polygamy
Fay Voshell
Tinseltown is seeking to mainstream polygamous relationships. More

September 25, 2011
'Why do Women always...?': Generalizations and the Building Blocks of Reality
Selwyn Duke
To condemn generalization in principle is to descend into radicalism. More

September 25, 2011
Watergate and Today: How the Voters Swing Back to Normal
Roger D. Luchs
Americans of all stripes and from all walks of life will, despite an occasional deviation from the norm, sooner or later return to the government the Founding Fathers had in mind. More

September 25, 2011
Don't Blame the Bankers
F. Swemson
It's the politicians themselves, and their accomplices in the media who are to blame for our current dire financial position, not bankers More

September 25, 2011
The True Story of Moderate Islam
Robert Small
To find a true moderate Muslim, you have to know the full story of modern Islam. It begins in 1925 (seven years before the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was established), when Saudi Wahhabis conquered Mecca and Medina More

September 25, 2011
The Perfect Constitutional Question for Republican Candidates
Gerard V. Bradley
In a single sentence it puts on the table three central concerns of Republican primary voters More

September 25, 2011
Multiculturalism and Religiously-Sanctioned Rape
Pieder Beeli
Providing a meaningful moral evaluation of Islam is not good multiculturalist etiquette. More

September 25, 2011
Leave the Rich Alone
James E. Miller
Despite the widely circulated myth, the rich don't leave money "idle" unless they physically put it under their king-sized, satin-lined mattresses. More

September 25, 2011
How about No Taxes at All?
Gary Horne
Recent debates about who pays taxes and how much miss the point. Instead, people should be asking why the current system allows unlimited power to tax, restricted only by the "wisdom" of Congress. More

September 25, 2011
Propaganda is War by Other Means
Ted Belman
When a government intends a war of aggression, it must first inculcate hatred of the indented victim. This is done through propaganda More

September 25, 2011
A Conflict With No Solution?
Judith Bron
The solution to the bubbling caldron in the Middle East is simple, we are told. If only Israel, A.K.A the Jews, would "give back" the territories conquered in the June 1967 war all would be forgiven. More

September 25, 2011
Evil Studies History
Christine M. Biediger
Evil is silent. It sneaks up in the night, gaining footholds one drib at a time; one drab at a time. While the good people sleep, it sets a trap for its prey. More

September 24, 2011
Does Romney Truly Embrace Tea Party Principles?
Lloyd Marcus
Here is what happened at our Tea Party Express V national bus tour rally in Romney country -- that is, Concord, NH. More

September 24, 2011
How Perry Can Beat GOP Heel-Nippers
J. Robert Smith
Texas Governor Rick Perry's been getting pummeled lately...but he can turn the tables. More

September 24, 2011
The Problem with Paul
Anthony W. Hager
As Social Security is considered the third rail of national politics, Ron Paul is the third rail of the Republican Party. Shame he's right about almost everything. More

September 24, 2011
A Tea Party Conservative's Defense of Ron Paul...and His Supporters
Russ Paladino
I still disagree with a good many of his views, but I have come to realize that Ron Paul is most definitely a patriot. More

September 24, 2011
No More 'Sound[ing] Like Crazy People' - in Any Language
James G. Wiles
We need a return to Reagan's eleventh commandment. A good place to start is to put an end to conservative Know Nothing-ism. More

September 24, 2011
Is America Ready for a Christian President?
Christopher Chantrill
For liberals, it is easy to miss the importance of today's enthusiastic Christianity. You need a different kind of cultural radar to make sense of the rising moral movement that Palin, Bachmann, and Perry represent. More

September 24, 2011
The Left's Big Obsession
Jon N. Hall
The "leftist mind" has been undone by its allegiance to bad ideas. More

September 24, 2011
Conservatives, Sisyphus, and the Renewed Constitutional Movement
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
The key to saving America and its exceptional nature is in the math, but it's also very much about the law. More

September 24, 2011
They Don't Call It Capitalism for Nothing
Bob Weir
What's the first thing a prospective candidate must consider before running for elective office? If you answered "money," you've learned how the system works. More

September 24, 2011
A Response to Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
David Yerushalmi
Shmuly Yanklowitz, who wears the tile of "Rabbi" and is a Hillel director at UCLA, has penned an essay in the Jewish Week against the anti-sharia movement. He takes the time to mention me by name. This is my response. More

September 24, 2011
The Democrat Handbook: Playing Like It's 1936 All Over Again
James W. Lucas
In 1936, Roosevelt won the presidency by a large margin, the Democrats made large gains in Congress, and Democrats have been using the class warfare playbook ever since. How can Republicans avoid the same fate in 2012? More

September 24, 2011
The Professional Poor
Albin Sadar
With class warfare on the march, it's important to understand the difference between the "genuine poor" in America and the "professional poor." More

September 23, 2011
The Real Identity Thieves
Kevin Jackson
Despite what liberals may say about me, I can't imagine, nor have I ever imagined, being anything other than black. More

September 23, 2011
Palestinian Statehood and the United Nithings
William A. Levinson
Nithing, a word of Scandinavian origin, is the most inherently offensive word in existence. It's time to apply it to the U.N. More

September 23, 2011
Iran Considering Attacking U.S. Facilities in Mideast
Reza Kahlili
Destroying American military positions in the Middle East is the most effective method to get the "Great Satan" to abandon the region, Iran now believes. More

September 23, 2011
How About a Moderate Democrat Challenge to Obama?
Bruce Walker
Standing up for working people whose jobs Obama's ideological purists on the radical left destroyed, a moderate challenger could have strong appeal in red-state Democratic primaries, and even some blue states. More

September 23, 2011
Handicapped Kids...Better Off Dead
Peter Heck
A couple in West Palm Beach just won $4.5 million. How? They sued their doctors for allowing their handicapped child to be born. More

September 23, 2011
The Tyrants' Muse: The Persecution of Music and Musicians in the Islamic World
Geoffrey Clarfield
"We have to be careful what we say about music -- the fundamentalists are everywhere." More

September 23, 2011
Missile Defense Systems: Why and How
Zbigniew Mazurak
How best to protect the United States in an increasingly nuclear world? Mutually assured destruction is too risky, and a first strike would be disastrous. No, the answer is missile defense. More

September 22, 2011
Obama's Math: More Fuzz Than a Peach
Mercer Tyson
He's looking more like a bobblehead every time he speaks. From left to right, nose in the air, all the while talking down to those of us he views as stupid. More

September 22, 2011
Perry's Solyndra?
Brian T. Carter
In Texas, bio-tech firm Convergen LifeSciences looks a lot like Governor Rick Perry's Solyndra. More

September 22, 2011
The Questions Never Asked About Palestine
Steve Feldman
Once again the wrong questions are being asked, while the pertinent questions every reporter, activist, and foreign minister should be asking never arise. More

September 22, 2011
The Self-Deception of the Left
Ryan Scott Welch
How can the left possibly defeat a movement that they do not understand and, worse, that they purposely misunderstand? More

September 22, 2011
Science for Stupid Idiots
Randall Hoven
You might be a stupid idiot, like me. At least I must be a stupid idiot, since I'm called that quite often. You see, I have doubts about some things. Things like catastrophic, man-caused global warming. More

September 22, 2011
Death of an Industry: The President's Impoverishment of America's Fishermen
Mike Johnson
While Obama lazed in Martha's Vineyard last year, the fishermen of New England ran a full-page ad in the Vineyard Gazette titled "Mr. President, We Need Your Help." How did that work out for them? More

September 22, 2011
Why Liberals Love Compromise
Jay Haug
Cheered on by the media, the left demands that politicians in Washington and everyone else "compromise" for the good of the Republic. But compromise is the problem, not the solution. More

September 21, 2011
Will Scandal Drive Obama Off the 2012 Ticket?
Monty Pelerin
The next two years will be hard on Obama. As much as he is hated by freedom-lovers in the country, it is likely that he will be hated more by his remaining Democrats. More

September 21, 2011
Solving the Democrats' Obama Problem
Hershel M. Chicowitz
How do you convince a failed narcissist to get out of the way so the grown-ups can take back the party? More

September 21, 2011
Obama's Fascist Economy
Steve McCann
The economic philosophy that is fascism is alive and well and being pursued in the United States by those whose desire it is to control the people of the country and reinforce their domestic power base. More

September 21, 2011
Eight Problems with a 'Balanced' (Tax-Raising) Approach
Randall Hoven
There's nothing balanced about the Simpson-Bowles plan. It is a high-taxing, high-spending plan. It simply "balances" revenue and spending at unprecedentedly high levels. (At least unprecedented prior to Obama.) More

September 21, 2011
Republicans to Obama: The Whole Country Can be Rich
Karin McQuillan
The good news is that America has wealth beyond dreams that can be realized in the next decade, producing a million new jobs. The bad news is that only the Republicans want to develop fossil fuel energy. More

September 21, 2011
The World After Obama
James G. Wiles
We may be at a world-historical moment, akin to the Versailles Conference, the Congress of Vienna, the Congress of Berlin, and the end of the Second World War. More

September 21, 2011
All Entitlements Are Not Created Equal
Deane Waldman
The four big U.S. entitlements are all different. However, in one way, they are absolutely identical. More

September 20, 2011
Beating the Racism Card
J.R. Dunn
The time is right, the strategy has been tested, and the GOP has the means. More

September 20, 2011
Obama's None-Too-Divine Comedy
Robert Gelinas
Perhaps for the very first time in his career, the golden child is being openly laughed at -- and deservedly so. More

September 20, 2011
Hey Professors, Pay Up
Randall Hoven
Two bioethics professors have offered to pay more than $10,000 for medical records that prove that the anecdote Bachmann told after Monday night's Republican presidential debate is true. More

September 20, 2011
The Palestinian Bid for Statehood: Dire Implications for the U.S.
C. Hart
A stab in the back to U.S. mediation efforts that will cause U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East to fall off the beaten track into the abyss. More

September 20, 2011
The Postmodern Party
Paul Jacobson
Republicans are regularly called "stupid" by Democrats, but one label comprehensively describes and predicts the political behavior of today's left-dominated Democratic Party. More

September 20, 2011
Why the Health Care System Can't Cure Cancer
Joel Levine, MD
To understand the real reason why we have not achieved our health care ambitions, we should ask what many editorials scrupulously avoid: why was American medicine so good for so long? More

September 20, 2011
The Barbarians of Issue 2
Rich Hoffman
Unions are fighting with their backs to the wall in Ohio. More

September 19, 2011
Watergate Times Three
Robert J. Mack
You think Richard Nixon's presidency was the worst scandal ever? Well, so far, anyway. More

September 19, 2011
Obama's Hope and Lies
Jeffrey Folks
Obama has been operating on little more than "hope" for three years now. When rosy predictions fail, one can always resort to lies. More

September 19, 2011
Obama's Recipe for Tax Disaster
Adam Yoshida
President Obama's "Buffett Tax" proposal to change the nation's tax laws may sound seductively reasonable, but it would be a disaster for the economy. More

September 19, 2011
In Defense of the Pennsylvania Electoral College Plan
John Ziegler
Pennsylvania Republicans have a plan that could thwart Obama's reelection. Cue the New York Times' favorite polling guru. More

September 19, 2011
Kansas 'Rodeo Exception' Claimed Unborn's Life
Jack Cashill
The perverse details of abortion doctor George Tiller's practice finally came to light this past week, and the media averted their eyes. More

September 19, 2011
Groucho Marx Saves America
Stella Paul
The more America laughs at Obama, the more we recover our natural spirit. So go ahead. Release your inner Groucho. More

September 19, 2011
Rick Perry and the Wingnuts for Jesus
Stuart Schwartz
Rick Perry came to Liberty University in Virginia just this past week and, despite the fears of the mainstream media resentfully tagging along, the republic still stands. More

September 18, 2011
Hall of the Blue Dog
Clarice Feldman
There's a secret hall at the Smithsoniam they are adding to record the passing of moderate Democrats from the American political scene and remind museum goers who these people were and what they represented. More

September 18, 2011
Michelle Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood
Eileen F. Toplansky
Is this a recipe for disaster? More

September 18, 2011
Quit Coddling the Rich. Quit Coddling the Poor. Quit Coddling Everybody.
Mercer Tyson
Coddling has no place in a strong, capitalistic economy. More

September 18, 2011
The Ought-acity of Power
Andrew Schwartz
The word "ought" has no business being issued toward the legislature from the executive. More

September 18, 2011
The Durban Follies in New York
Michael Curtis
It is ironic the Durban meetings, the so-called World Conferences against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, should have been the forum for ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism. More

September 18, 2011
Social Darwinism and Barack Obama
George Boykin
The shameful racist legacy of progressivism lives on in the policies of the Obama administration. More

September 18, 2011
ObamaCare's Individual Mandate: A New Twist on Old Despotism
Monte Kuligowski
Congress already forces citizens to purchase things, but only from government -- not from other citizens. That's where ObamaCare comes in. More

September 18, 2011
Please, Mr. Netanyahu, Don't Make Trouble!
Robert Morrison
If the Obama administration says there should be a two-state solution, how after twenty years can we stop the U.N. General Assembly from recognizing Palestine? More

September 18, 2011
American Laws for American Courts
Christopher Holton
The right way to prevent both the entry of unconstitutional foreign laws such as shariah in American jurisprudence and the use of transnationalism by activist judges. More

September 18, 2011
John L. Esposito: Apologist for Wahhabi Islam
Stephen Schwartz
A profile of one cynical booster of radical Islam and his disciples. More

September 18, 2011
Erdoğan's Not-So-Sublime Porte
Victor Sharpe
In Turkey, Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdoğan is deliberately ratcheting up an anti-Israel policy that may soon spin out of control. More

September 18, 2011
Did Darwin Believe in God?
Richard Weikart
Both Christians and atheists have tried to claim Darwin. Both sides have problems. More

September 18, 2011
What NY-9 Portends for the Jewish Vote
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Pro-Israel Jews have learned that, in general, non-Jewish conservatives are more dependable allies than liberals within the Jewish community itself. More

September 17, 2011
My Drill Instructor
Navy One
Officer Candidate School, Pensacola. I sit in my rack, my bed, listening to the early Florida morning. Soon, the drill instructors will arrive. I know -- I heard the gouge from years past. My eyes close, but refuse to let me sleep. More

September 17, 2011
McGinniss Book About Palin: Yet Another Attack on America
Lloyd Marcus
The McGinniss attack along with the other numerous attacks on Sarah Palin are really about attacking you; mainstream Americans with traditional values. More

September 17, 2011
Ron Paul's Poisonous Partisans
Larry Bailey
Some of Ron Paul's most avid (some say "rabid") supporters are not friends of America. More

September 17, 2011
Perry's Reagan Moment
Bruce Walker
Frontal rhetorical attack on dangerous leftist nonsense is the key to conservative victory. More

September 17, 2011
Look to Henry Ford, not Barack Obama, to End Unemployment
William A. Levinson
The man who not only helped make the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, but also left us a legacy of books that describe how he did it. More

September 17, 2011
Business-Killing Obama Is No Candyman
Don Ross
Even candy stores are feeling the bite of the president's business-unfriendly policies. More

September 17, 2011
The Statist Dictionary
Robert A. Hall
It's difficult to discuss policy with or even listen to Statists, because their words and phrases don't mean what we in the real world understand them to mean. More

September 17, 2011
The New Deniers
Richard Haddad
A characteristic of newspaper editorials advocating more attention to catastrophic global warming is that they rarely offer any evidence in support of the cause. More

September 17, 2011
Don't Bet on Green
Linda Halderman, MD
No legislator would seriously suggest that a roulette wheel be employed to dig California out of its financial mess. Yet elected officials routinely gamble with taxpayer money. More

September 17, 2011
New-Wave Conservatives and the Lesson of Churchill
Steven Goldfien MD
The political backlash engendered by the election and actions of President Obama and the Democratic congressional majorities has encouraged a new wave of conservatives to run for political office. More

September 17, 2011
Avoiding a Predictable Crisis
Bernie Reeves
This is no way to run a railroad, much less the United States. More

September 17, 2011
Sweeping the Oil under the Rug: More Chicanery on the BP Spill
Bruce Thompson
Amid a cloud of controversy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has just released its final report on the Deepwater Horizon accident. More

September 17, 2011
Who's afraid of the Iranian opposition?
Fathiyeh Naghibzadeh and Andreas Benl
The West has spent more than thirty years looking for incentives for compromise with the Islamist regime in Iran. More

September 16, 2011
Obama Wants Fairness More than Jobs
Karin McQuillan
Our president has made it completely clear that for him, making America a more fair country trumps mundane economic considerations. More

September 16, 2011
Barack Whobama?
James Lewis
Oh, how soon they forget! Was it only a few years ago that Democrats and their Eurosocialist friends were knocking foreheads on the sidewalks of Manhattan and London, hailing the Great Idol Barack? More

September 16, 2011
Obama's Unreliable Facts From Reliable Figures
Steve McCann
How Obama falsely claims to have created 2 million jobs. More

September 16, 2011
Political Connections and Health Care Data
Rusty Weiss
With over $19 billion in stimulus money being dedicated to health IT, the selection of members to occupy the Health Information Technology Policy Committee was a crucial one for the Obama administration. More

September 16, 2011
The TARP Test
Joseph Ashby
Almost completely ignored thus far in the Republican presidential race are the candidates' positions on the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program. More

September 16, 2011
The Crisis of Socialism
Adam Yoshida
The crisis of socialism is, like the crisis of communism that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall over two decades ago, an hour of maximum danger for freedom. More

September 15, 2011
Would Obama Retaliate against a Nuclear Attack?
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
What if a Muslim country, such as Iran, launched a nuclear attack against us, or if agents aligned with Pakistan using dirty bombs were to attack America? More

September 15, 2011
Seniors Can Handle the Truth
Jan LaRue
When it comes to Social Security, Republicans should stop treating seniors like a feeble-minded demographic. More

September 15, 2011
The Presidential Qualification Issue
Bruce Walker
Marco Rubio is on most short lists for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The principal objection many conservatives have is whether Rubio is constitutionally eligible. More

September 15, 2011
The Security Sex
Selwyn Duke
Withering patriarchy nourishes the paternalistic state. More

September 15, 2011
Social Issues Are Not Going Away in 2012
Janice Shaw Crouse
How the government spends taxpayer money comes down to moral issues. More

September 15, 2011
Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama
Chuck Rogér
As America flirts with permanent economic decline, certain GOP presidential contenders talk of gay marriage, Charles Darwin, and religiosity. Are we losing our minds? More

September 15, 2011
Talking with Dick Cheney
Elise Cooper
American Thinker talks with the former vice president about his new book In My Time, the War on Terror, and his life. More

September 14, 2011
Even Republicans Rejected Info About Obama's Past
John Drew
What would you do if you knew that the top Democrat running for president was lying about his past? More

September 14, 2011
No Ron, 9/11 is Not Our Fault
Peter Heck
It is sad that a man who speaks so eloquently about the benefits of human liberty like Dr. Paul does fails miserably to acknowledge the existential threat it faces from global jihad. More

September 14, 2011
Religion and the Election
Steve McCann
The major concern of the American left and the media is the preservation of their lifestyle and political power against an imaginary right-wing horde of Republican presidential candidates determined to impose a theocracy. More

September 14, 2011
The Let-Illegals-Drive-without-a-License Bill
Jeannie DeAngelis
Leave it to a liberal to come up with a law to assist lawbreakers in their efforts to break the law. More

September 14, 2011
Your Double Life
Scott Mayer
Every time you go out and spend your hard-earned money, just be aware that your twin is in essence right there with you buying the exact same things with the other half of your money. More

September 14, 2011
Inequality: It's a Good Thing
Jon N. Hall
Equality is the highest value of the American political left. So the left is always on the lookout for any trace of inequality. And of course they find it -- everywhere. More

September 14, 2011
Ben Franklin Skewers Obama's Jobs Proposal
William Sullivan
An essay by Ben Franklin directly responds to President Obama's jobs proposals. More

September 13, 2011
The Player and the President
Jeffrey Folks
Serena Williams and Barack Obama disgraced themselves in related ways last Sunday. More

September 13, 2011
Stop Calling the Tea Party Extreme. It Isn't.
Mercer Tyson
The left-leaning mainstream media and liberal Democratic politicians continue to refer to the Tea Party as extreme, wacko, and out of touch with the American public. Clear evidence indicates exactly the opposite. More

September 13, 2011
Obama Has Aggravated Muslim Extremism
James Lewis
We have the first administration in American history that's both fabulously incompetent and anti-American to boot. More

September 13, 2011
The Separation of Blackness and State
Chidike Okeem
As a consequence of gross Republican inarticulateness, the Democrats have triumphed in the battle of making membership in their party an integral part of black identity. More

September 13, 2011
What Third Rail?
Christopher Chantrill
All politicians like to frighten the voters. Rick Perry is signaling that he's ready to play sound-bite volleyball on entitlements. More

September 13, 2011
Lemonade Wars: The State Battles Entrepreneurialism
Anthony W. Hager
There must be an explanation for government's hostility toward adolescent entrepreneurs. More

September 13, 2011
And They Still Haven't Tried KSM
Mercer Tyson
It has been 10 years since one of the most horrific and demonic events in history. We know who did it -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He confessed in March of 2007. And we still do not have a trial date. More

September 12, 2011
Obama's Gift Has Stopped Giving
Joseph Ashby
Obama has a reputation as something of a gifted orator; just ask him. But the "gift" he told Harry Reid he enjoys has stopped giving. More

September 12, 2011
The Democrats' 2012 Victory Plan
M. Simon
The Democrats have a plan. A plan to defeat the Republicans in 2012. Impossible, you say? Well, read on, because I not only think it is possible. I think it can work. More

September 12, 2011
That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful, and Voting-Booth Realities
Selwyn Duke
The serious impact of a trivial factor: the looks of a candidate for president. More

September 12, 2011
What Awaits Young Americans
George Scaggs
If twenty-somethings ever figure out what government has set them up for, the counter-culture unrest of the 1960s may look a picnic. More

September 12, 2011
Techniques for Untruth
Mark Browning
Two recent NPR stories display some techniques available to journalist-activists, allowing them to misrepresent truth while at the same time maintaining an appearance of objectivity. More

September 12, 2011
The Great Obama Welfare State
Chad Stafko
The U.S. has become an ever-growing welfare state under Obama. Government dependence is at its highest level in American history More

September 12, 2011
Extradite the Lockerbie Bomber
Lawrence J. Siskind
The United States has only a limited ability to influence whether calm or chaos follows the ascension of the new regime in Libya. But there is one thing we can and should try to influence. More

September 11, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Ten Years After 9/11
Clarice Feldman
Quickly the fear and outrage we felt was considered by the elite to be too dangerous to acknowledge or validate. They consider the rest of us moronic murderers it would seem. More

September 11, 2011
Obama and Our 9/11 Trauma
Stella Paul
Where did the idea of Obama come from? Let's examine an obvious, yet overlooked source: the rubble of the Twin Towers. More

September 11, 2011
Ten Years On From 9/11 Why Is NYPD Still Being Attacked?
Joel J. Sprayregen
How can it be that less than ten years after 9/11, the NYPD is under coordinated attack for acting to prevent recurrence of terrorist atrocities? More

September 11, 2011
Ten Years Later, 9/11 Reveals Depth of American Decline
Michael Filozof
After 9/11, the left (which had undertaken a largely-successful 40-year campaign to undermine American values and American patriotism) was terrified to see Americans rally to the flag, to the military, and to patriotic values. More

September 11, 2011
Leaders Reflect on 9/11
Elise Cooper
VP Cheney and other leaders spoke to American Thinker about the event we commemorate today. More

September 11, 2011
Ten Years After 9-11: Two Muslim Women in America
Karen Lugo
Validating cultural practices to the degree that American notions of justice and equal protection are denied is accommodation gone too far. More

September 11, 2011
Answering 9/11 with Mozart's Requiem
James Lewis
In spite of ten years of massive disinformation by the left and the media about the events of 9/11/01, around the United States there are September 11 ceremonies to mark what really happened. More

September 11, 2011
The UNRWA Anomaly
Asaf Romirowsky and Nicole Brackman
In an ironic and absurd twist of reality, Palestinians themselves are attempting to hold UNRWA accountable for services that they themselves should be providing -- especially given their push for independence and statehood. More

September 11, 2011
R.I.P. Israel - 1948-2012?
Michael Applebaum, MD
2012 - Maybe the Mayans got it partly correct - right outcome, wrong target. More

September 11, 2011
9/11 Narcissism is a Left-Wing Disease
Robert Oscar Lopez
Here's a funny piece of projection. Nation columnist Gary Younge accuses the United States of being "narcissistic" in its response to 9/11. More

September 11, 2011
Anti-Anti-Islam
Jason Pappas
The critical examination of Islam is no longer possible as it is deemed "hate speech" that is prosecuted in some Western nations and swiftly condemned in all the rest. More

September 11, 2011
The U.S. Wealth Machine: In Reverse
Jack Curtis
It seems that not only will democratic societies reject capitalism, but they also have a predilection toward socialism. More

September 10, 2011
Ponzi Scheme Pedigree
Rosslyn Smith
It is instructive to look at where that term has been used before to describe the American Social Security system and by whom. More

September 10, 2011
The Businessman Versus the Career Politician
J. Robert Smith
Whom do Republican voters want as president, asked Romney: a businessman like him or a career politician like Perry? A slam-dunk choice for career politician-averse GOP voters, you say? More

September 10, 2011
The Real Perry/Aga Khan Curriculum Is Bad For Children
Pamela Geller
Last weekend the Thinker ran an article by Amil Imani and a blog by Andrew Bostom, both of which gave a stamp of approval to Rick Perry's public-school Islamic school curriculum. More

September 10, 2011
Do We Matter?
Richard Baehr
David Horowitz, fierce enemy of the left, on death, the fate that awaits all living things. More

September 10, 2011
The School Budgeting Con
Peter Wilson
Before crying too many tears over budget cuts, look at where the money goes. More

September 10, 2011
The Continuing Disgrace of U.S. Education
Gary Jason
If Americans dared to hope that their K-12 educational system might be improving, several new articles will bring the poor souls back to reality. More

September 10, 2011
The Black Friday Effect
Michael Hoag
Rescinding promises to the mob is out of the question; there is a legal precedent for their elevated status and a fear of their power. More

September 10, 2011
Famous Economist Inadvertently Blurts Out the Truth About Keynesian Economics
Fred N. Sauer
Thank you to a Princeton professor. More

September 10, 2011
Andre Carson's Racist Family Ties
M. Catharine Evans
It should be no surprise the representative from Indiana's 7th district fabricated racial incidents in 2010 and used KKK imagery last week to smear the Tea Party. More

September 10, 2011
In My Backyard
Jim Gammon
In my backyard, things are different from the world we see in the media. Life in my backyard makes sense to me and my family, it's a simple place. More

September 10, 2011
President Obama Offers the Military a 'Risky Scheme'
Elizabeth Herring
When President Obama provides his roadmap for saving the economy, he needs to explain why it is bad to privatize Social Security but good to privatize military retirement. More

September 10, 2011
Defense: Neglected, Ignored, And Marginalized
Zbigniew Mazurak
This neglect of, and disinterest in, defense by the electorate and the political class alike has helped cause the low state of readiness of the U.S. military today and made it easier for opponents of a strong defense to gut it. Here's how. More

September 10, 2011
I Took a Look at a Book on my Nook
Ron Lipsman
I love books, always have. For most of my life I was a frequent patron of the local library. So I figured that I would try an e-reader. More

September 10, 2011
Facing the Challenges of College Today
Janice Shaw Crouse
Two much-loved young family members just left for college. More

September 10, 2011
Father Absence and the Riots
Richard Haddad
Decades of research on single-parent families in the U.S., almost all of them headed by women, have made it pretty clear that the problems of the children raised in these families have very little to do with poverty and very much to do with father absence. More

September 9, 2011
Obama's Address Was About Style, Not Substance
Mercer Tyson
Since Obama has nothing new to say, how he says it is everything. More

September 9, 2011
Obama's Crony Capitalism
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama has his own stable of Enrons, companies benefiting from close ties to the president, seemingly able to leverage campaign donations, receiving taxpayer dollars to boost their prospects. More

September 9, 2011
The Road to Hell Is Paved with 'Electable' Candidates
Joseph Ashby
Electability is important. Less important is what Republican Party intelligentsia deems "electable." More

September 9, 2011
Republicans Should Make Intellect the Issue
Peter Heck
"The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does." More

September 9, 2011
How Much White Guilt Can We Afford?
Bob Weir
Why not get serious this time and disregard skin pigment? More

September 9, 2011
Hoffa Does Not Speak for Working Americans
William A. Levinson
Mr. Hoffa has done at least as much as if not more than any conservative columnist or talk show host to mobilize the Tea Party movement. More

September 9, 2011
Clinton, Bush, and Osama bin Laden: The WikiLeaks Cables
David Paulin
Whatever you think of WikiLeaks, the recently released tranche of diplomatic cables reveal naiveté and illusion in America's pre-9/11 attempts to deal with the Taliban. More

September 9, 2011
When Government Investment is Bad Investment
Anthony J.Ciani
What happens when government applies criteria different from market demands? More

September 8, 2011
Seeing Red at the Reagan Library
Robert Morrison
Fortunately, I had my shoes off last night. So I couldn't throw them at the television when NBC's insufferable Brian Williams and Politico's John Harris came on. More

September 8, 2011
Green Pigs Don't Fly
Jeffrey Folks
Green jobs are at the heart of President Obama's domestic agenda because green pork results in donations to the Democratic Party. More

September 8, 2011
Amateur Hour at the White House
John Stapleton
The president's 2012 ship is sinking fast. More

September 8, 2011
Battleground Poll: Is the Conservative Movement Losing Momentum?
Bruce Walker
Why has the widely respected bipartisan Battleground Poll shown a downturn in the number of Americans calling themselves conservatives? More

September 8, 2011
Sailing into Uncharted Waters with Obama at the Helm
Whitson G. Waldo, III
Obama has not set the country up well for another downturn, whether it's one that sinks slowly into recession or jolted downward by European meltdown. More

September 8, 2011
The Watermelon Regime's Pay-to-Play Way
Gary Jason
Green on the outside, red on the inside, and rewarding its friends. More

September 8, 2011
When Al Jazeera Comes to Town
William Sullivan
A reporter from Al Jazeera named Gabriel Elizondo wanted to watch a high school football game in Texas... More

September 8, 2011
Thuggery in the Wisconsin Union Battle
Gary Larson
Resistance to union reform in Wisconsin has descended to the level of outright thuggery. More

September 7, 2011
As A Writer, Obama's No Lincoln
Jack Cashill
The teleprompters at President Barack Obama's inaugural address were still powering down when British literary heavyweight Jonathan Raban deemed Obama "the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln." More

September 7, 2011
Obama Green Jobs Con Job and the Ill Wind That Blows from Spain
Ed Lasky
Those green jobs we have been promised have been a mirage. They are often temporary in nature and come at an extraordinary high price. More

September 7, 2011
Obama's 2012 Campaign Strategy: War?
Jay Clarke
It's happened before in America. More

September 7, 2011
Invisible Hand vs. Clenched Fist
Christopher Chantrill
The Clenched Fist has failed every time it's been tried, from the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Revolution, from the New Deal to the Obama stimulus. More

September 7, 2011
The Coming Chaos
John Griffing
America is about to be destroyed by debt. And we're acting like it's business as usual. More

September 7, 2011
EPA: Fundamental Transformation through Regulation
Joe Herring
The EPA, finding organized resistance to its regulating machine, has turned to offering "guidance," which it then enforces as if said "guidance" were the product of regulatory channels. More

September 6, 2011
The Democrats' Invincible Ignorance
Paul Kengor
I've only recently come to realize the nature of the hurdle this country faces in trying to turn around a stalled economy and horrendous deficit. More

September 6, 2011
The President You Can't Avoid
Ronald J. Kozar
Obama is everywhere. How many days go by without a sound-bite or two from him? That can't be good. Even if you like Obama and his agenda, it can't help him to be heard from so often. More

September 6, 2011
Obama Leaves the Bases Loaded. Dems Lose.
Mercer Tyson
In what appeared to be a no-lose situation, the Dems sent an amateur to the plate. Now, with serious damage done to the Democratic Party, they're scratching their heads wondering what happened. More

September 6, 2011
An Economics Lesson Even a Liberal Can Grasp
Herbert E. Meyer
Since the president and his advisers haven't got a clue about how our economy works, here's an economics lesson so short and simple even a liberal can grasp it. More

September 6, 2011
Stupid Republicans, Ignorant Democrats
Paul Jacobson
The etymological ancestors of "stupid" and "ignorant" can provide crucial insights into the profound difference, at a foundational cognitive level, between Republicans and Democrats. More

September 6, 2011
The New Libyan Regime Protecting the Lockerbie Bomber
Robert Morrison
I think of Dick Cawley every time I read about modern-day Libya. Dick Cawley was flying home from Europe on Pan Am 103. He was murdered by Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. More

September 6, 2011
The Warmists Strike Back
Timothy Birdnow
Oppose the warmists, and they will enact punishment upon you. More

September 5, 2011
On Being Governed By Scientific Frauds
James Lewis
Two centuries after Jefferson, Franklin, and Benjamin Rush, we are now governed by science frauds. More

September 5, 2011
McDonald's, Technology, and Job Creation
Bruce Thompson
With all the blather about "green energy," a real story about using technology to improve energy efficiency and thereby create jobs seems to be in order. More

September 5, 2011
China Trade Policy and the Fallacy of 'Idea-Land'
Greg Autry
In Idea-Land, we will design and market fantastic products and not worry about what goes on in Chinese factories. More

September 5, 2011
Baseball's Juice Stain
Joseph Di Sante
Baseball is the one pure thing that America still owns, and the dark cloud must be removed. More

September 5, 2011
Fortunately, Dr. Salk's Attempt to Eradicate the Scourge of Polio Has Failed
Tony Kondaks
Where is the "fortune" in proving your opponent wrong if it means the suffering of millions? More

September 5, 2011
Obama Leads the Liberalism Parade
Joseph Ashby
The president may well recapture a measure of enthusiasm among his base, but the rest of America would be wise to take note of the methods, goals, and eventual dire results of liberalism. More

September 5, 2011
Reagan's Growth Lesson for Obama
John Chapman
The difference in the Obama and Reagan policy approaches stems from diametrically opposed economic philosophies. One works; the other doesn't. More

September 5, 2011
Questioning Educational Assumptions
P Michael Reidy
Two recent publications raise fundamental questions about the way we organize the education of our children and the soundness of the assumptions on which education systems are built. More

September 4, 2011
Obama's Road to Bali
Clarice Feldman
A stupid miscalculation was the Obama finale for August, but September is bringing him fresh agita More

September 4, 2011
Erasing Jews from Jerusalem
Janet Tassel
The Palestinian policy of historical revisionism, erasing Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, is ginning up energy for the big day at the U.N. More

September 4, 2011
George Washington Woodbey, Pioneering Black Socialist
George Boykin
Preaching the gospel of socialism more than a century ago. More

September 4, 2011
The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Origins and Solution
Michael Curtis
The controversy over Palestinian refugees is the longest, most deliberately protracted, and most discussed of refugee problems in the world. After sixty years, it remains unresolved. More

September 4, 2011
Egyptian Politician: U.S. Is Impotent against Iran
Reza Kahlili
A high-up official of Egypt's Al Wafd political party is taunting the United States over Iran's nuclear ambitions, saying in effect that Washington is a paper tiger. More

September 4, 2011
A Scientist's Appreciation of Religion
James Lewis
Religion is by far the greatest vehicle of civilization. It is how civilized morals and values have been taught from one generation to the next for the last 6,000 years of recorded history. More

September 4, 2011
Kidnapping Dr. King
William Sullivan
Besmirching such a man's legacy to satisfy a narrow political agenda is a greater shame than I ever hope to bear in life. More

September 4, 2011
Libyan Quagmires and Academic Pilgrims: Media Communication in Closed Regimes
Irving Louis Horowitz
The problem of taking money from a foreign government is that the trustworthiness of the statements made by the recipient becomes as contaminated as the funds are compromised. More

September 4, 2011
What Darwin Said About God
Michael Bargo Jr.
Many who are angrily anti-Darwin have not read the Origin or examined Darwin's personal life. More

September 3, 2011
Obama's Online Suggestion Box
Peter Wilson
At first glance, it seems like pretty innocuous stuff -- perhaps a little gimmicky and lame-o. There is however something unsettling about Obama's initiative. More

September 3, 2011
The 'Yes We Kenya Clan' Reality Show
Jeannie DeAngelis
Just think what a hit a reality show starring the eclectic, zany cast of Barack Obama's Kenyan family members would be. More

September 3, 2011
Ron Paul and 'the Troops'
Robert Oscar Lopez
To understand Paul's appeal, the Republicans must stop and take some time to think about what it is like for enlisted troops right now. More

September 3, 2011
Underwhelmed by Huntsman
Ralph Alter
After cobbling together what he must sincerely believe is an acceptable resume for the job of U.S. president, Jon Huntsman, Jr. is now in full campaign mode for the Republican nomination. More

September 3, 2011
Governor Perry's Islam Connection
Amil Imani
Being a lifelong critic of Islam, red flags popped up in my head at the Texas governor's purported cozy relationship with Islam and prompted me to look very closely at his record. More

September 3, 2011
Three Congresses: A Study in Worldviews
Jerry Shenk
The 112th Congress is on summer hiatus. It's a good time to reflect on the recent activities of the body and contrast them with prior Congresses, most notably those of the House. More

September 3, 2011
Red Light Cameras, Highway Robbery
Bob Weir
The hardworking, law-abiding taxpayer is a lucrative target for municipalities that are always looking for more cash to feed their insatiable appetite for other people's money. More

September 3, 2011
Pope Albert Issues a Bull
Robert Morrison
Only if you're the son of a prominent and powerful racist do you get to throw about bulls like that. More

September 3, 2011
Conservatives vs. the Keynesian Purists
J.D. Thorpe
There has been a growing trend to label conservatives with the misnomer, free-market purists -- a notion devoid of intellectual honesty. More

September 2, 2011
Obama's Joint Session Blunder
Rosslyn Smith
The controversy over President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress underscores his ignorance of history, his lack of understanding regarding the Constitution, and how lacking he is in political skills other than speechifying. More

September 2, 2011
Obama's Creepy Agency Creep
Keith Riler
President Obama has enlarged and shaped the missions of agencies across the federal government to his own purposes, in pursuit of the "fundamental change" he promised voters. More

September 2, 2011
A State of Total Insanity
Gary Jason
Two recent stories out of California show that what is already the most stupidly governed state is slipping into outright insanity. More

September 2, 2011
Big Sister in the Workplace
Chuck Rogér
Will Hilda Solis's Labor Department turbocharge women's "Flexible Workplace Initiatives"? More

September 2, 2011
The Hot-Air Car
Henry Percy
Compressed air is a fantasist's dream. Zero emissions! Big Oil can't patent the air, can they? More

September 2, 2011
Predators with Ph.D.s
Chris Banescu
The latest offensive against morality, decency, and sanity in America has been launched by a pro-pedophilia group and several academics who openly advocate for the normalization and legalization of pedophilia. More

September 2, 2011
Tiberius Redux
Fay Voshell
A reincarnation of the Emperor Tiberius exists in the state of Delaware in the form of one Dr. Earl Bradley, a pediatrician from Lewes, Sussex County, who was recently convicted of sexually abusing his young patients, mostly toddlers. More

September 1, 2011
Barack Obama, Man of the People
Steve McCann
A trait common to many who espouse socialism, inclusive of dictators and Democrats, is an insatiable appetite for self-indulgence. More

September 1, 2011
Does a President's Faith Matter?
Peter Heck
Just a year ago, the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog scolded Americans for apparently caring too much about President Obama's religious practices and beliefs, or lack thereof. More

September 1, 2011
Perry Declares Sky Is Blue, Media Shocked
Joseph Ashby
The leftist media blew up this week when Perry reiterated a point from his book Fed Up! that Social Security and Medicare are Ponzi schemes. More

September 1, 2011
Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American
Matthew Vadum
Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor. It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money. More

September 1, 2011
Obama's Immigration Directive to Face Congressional Hearings
Elise Cooper
An unconstitutional power-grab by the president while Congress is in recess will face scrutiny. More

September 1, 2011
Recovery By The Numbers
Charles T. Stewart, Jr
A single number tells us most of what we need to know about the recession and prospects for recovery. That number is gross private domestic investment. More

September 1, 2011
Actresses and Professors Protest the Pipeline
Jeffrey Folks
No planes, trains, or cars. No heating or air conditioning. No manufacturing or transport. Only green vistas of land returned to wilderness, and lots of yoga. More