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January 31, 2012
President Obama's Civilian Soldiers
Christopher Chantrill
I don't believe that the president is incompetent. And I don't believe he has reneged on his promise of bringing us together. To me, everything about President Obama makes sense. More

January 31, 2012
Israel to Iran: It's Crunch Time
James Lewis
President Obama has been tip-toeing away from the Iranian nuclear end-run for three years, playing chicken with Israel on a second Holocaust. That is grossly irresponsible, but it is about to come to an end. More

January 31, 2012
Our Elective Despotism
Lawrence Sellin
There are many things obvious to ordinary Americans that cannot be mentioned publicly in the polite political company of the Republican and Democratic establishments or among their press agents in the mainstream media, who obligingly pirouette around the truth. More

January 31, 2012
Hormuz Hysteria
S. Fred Singer
There has been much unnecessary concern about Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz. More

January 31, 2012
Ron Paul: The Ghost in the Political Machine
Irving Louis Horowitz
So what, then, prompts this dedicate "also ran" to stay the course? Why is Ron Paul still standing? Better yet, what makes the good doctor run? More

January 31, 2012
The Republican Identity Crisis
Perry Fisher
In the hurley-burly of the GOP's ongoing primary scramble, it is easy to overlook what a wonderful thing it is to see a major American political party in the midst of rediscovering who it is. More

January 31, 2012
Obama's Dismal Job Performance
William L. Gensert
Hanlon's Razor states that one should "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." It's a fitting adage for Barack Obama. More

January 30, 2012
Media Blackout in Obama Georgia Ballot Eligibility Case
Cindy Simpson
Last week a sitting president ignored a subpoena to a historic court hearing that discussed his eligibility to run for a second term. Isn't there a headline in there somewhere? More

January 30, 2012
Lessons from Haditha's Quiet Denouement
Jonathan F. Keiler
A legal fiasco and nightmare for brave Marines who did nothing wrong ended with a whimper, not a bang last week. It reveals deep problems in the way we fight our wars. More

January 30, 2012
Sarah, Newt, and the GOP Establishment
Sally Zelikovsky
Sarah Palin seems to be setting Tea Party conservative against Republican Party conservative; many of us are both. In this fight, we have no choice but to work together. More

January 30, 2012
The Republican Establishment's Strategic Blunder
Steve McCann
The Republican Party has a tenuous hold on the conservative movement in America. More

January 30, 2012
The Civilized Man vs. the MTA Savages
Pamela Geller
A lawsuit is challenging New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority's restriction of free speech and sanctioning of Jew-hatred in the city's subways. More

January 30, 2012
Al Sharpton and Sheila Jackson Lee Translate Racial Code
Jeannie DeAngelis
New and heretofore undreamed-of ways to be a racist. More

January 30, 2012
Not Newt, Rick
Abie Rubin
The guy who apologized for criticizing Paul Ryan's entitlement reform plan as right-wing social engineering is now heavily supporting Medicare in the Sunshine State, which is home to many seniors. More

January 30, 2012
Davos Disneyland
Jeffrey Folks
This year's World Economic Forum, which meets at Davos, Switzerland each year, adjourned with calls for more "social responsibility" and less pure capitalism. Sessions included "remodeling capitalism," "fixing capitalism," and the virtues of the "Chinese model." More

January 29, 2012
The Debate Show
Clarice Feldman
For months now we've been watching a series of kick lines fatuously called debates. More

January 29, 2012
Why Eric Holder Must Go
Elise Cooper
Eric Holder has had his own agenda, supported by the Obama Administration. As chief law enforcement officer many of his decisions have not been in the best interest of this country. More

January 29, 2012
How China Transformed Its Economy
James E. Miller
The real story behind the monumental land reforms which transformed the communist dystopia of China into a productive powerhouse has been revealed. More

January 29, 2012
Alex Jones and Kremlin Propaganda
Ricardo Galván Estrada
It is high time we pointed a spotlight on the real provocateurs and propagandists in this country. More

January 29, 2012
Palestine, Back to the Future
Ted Belman
There was a time when the lands now known as Israel (including Judea and Samaria and Gaza) and Jordan were called "Palestine." More

January 29, 2012
Why the Welfare State Is Doomed to Fail
Nicholas Cheong
Why is gambling bad? Why do so many religions and governments abhor gambling? More

January 29, 2012
The Palestinian Narrative of Victimhood
Michael Curtis
The narrative of victimhood uses myths and symbols as well as a controversial interpretation of events and actions. It may be emotionally effective, but it won't accomplish anything for those who support "the oppressed." More

January 29, 2012
The Wives of Others: Covetousness and Social Liberalism
Jeremy Egerer
Liberals have an unconventional cure for covetousness: when there is no objective standard of property, there is no true covetousness at all. More

January 29, 2012
The Broken Window Theory of Crime Applied to Broken Marriages
David Lawrence
How a tragedy has become a trend. More

January 28, 2012
Reuters Busted on Rubio Hit Piece
Thomas Lifson
The only question is how deep does the rot go at Reuters? More

January 28, 2012
It's Not About Newt
Joseph M. Koenig
The statement being sent to the GOP elite isn't about Newt, and it goes beyond even Romney. It is about a deep dissatisfaction that has been building for years within the Republican rank and file. More

January 28, 2012
'Thank You, Warren.' 'No, Thank You, Mr. President!'
Joe Herring
One hand washes the other. More

January 28, 2012
Gov. Brewer On Her Tarmac Encounter with President Obama
Elise Cooper
On January 25th of this year President Obama showed just how unpresidential he is with the confrontation of Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ). More

January 28, 2012
Obama's Love of Neo-Soviet Russia Shines Through in SOTU Address
Kim Zigfeld
President Obama is once again placing Russian interests before American ones in the hopes of scoring cheap election-year PR. More

January 28, 2012
Is Newt Gingrich Canoodling with the Truth?
Jeannie DeAngelis
In order to snag a candidate who can explain the conservative platform, many Republicans seem willing to overlook Newt Gingrich's tawdry adulterous past as well as his loose grasp on the truth, which seems to loosen more by the day. More

January 28, 2012
Buffett's Bunk
George P. Harbison
Buffett's assertions about tax fairness are a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the facts and simply cannot go unchallenged. More

January 28, 2012
Contesting Leftists in Democrat Primaries
Bruce Walker
Conservatives must not simply surrender the Democratic Party to the left. More

January 28, 2012
An Army of Magic Alexes
Gene Schwimmer
When it comes to spending, there is one place in particular where the Democrats and the Beatles can find common ground. More

January 28, 2012
And Just How Do You Define 'Fair'?
Jim Yardley
"Fair" is one of those warm, fuzzy words that allows the listener to define it to his own personal taste -- and the definition changes from one specific case to another. More

January 28, 2012
'Hope and Change' in a 'Precautionary Principle' Administration
Bruce Thompson
If there is one lesson I learned from the debates over how to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil spill, it is how strongly committed the Obama administration is to the "Precautionary Principle." More

January 28, 2012
The Time for Social Security Reform Is Now
William Sullivan
It might not seem sympathetic, but Republicans should have good reason to oppose this extension of the recently agreed-upon 2% payroll tax holiday. More

January 27, 2012
Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks On By
Cindy Simpson and Alan P. Halbert
Two reports from yesterday's hearing in Georgia over Obama's eligibility for the presidential ballot. More

January 27, 2012
Why America Hates Its Politicians So Much
Monty Pelerin
Today, American Idol appears to be the litmus test for electing a president. Is someone cool, hip, and exciting? Is he/she good-looking? On that basis Obama is eminently qualified. More

January 27, 2012
Heads Up, America: Time to Take Back Our Kids
Lloyd Marcus
Something that has bugged me for years is the way '60s-generation movie and TV producers think it is "far out" (cool) for kids to speak disrespectfully to their parents. More

January 27, 2012
Saving Private Fido
Jack Cashill
If I ever needed reminding that the words "compassion" and "government" should never appear in the same sentence, this was it. I could not let Fido drown. More

January 27, 2012
Israel and the US Perspectives on Iran at Odds
Shoshana Bryen
Where and how the United States and Israel differ in their analysis of the problem posed by Iran's nuclear activity. More

January 27, 2012
Green Lebensraum: The Nazi Roots of Sustainable Development
Mark Musser
Environmental planners just exchanged brown paint with red paint -- all the while keeping the interior green. Nazi spatial planners played an early critical role in the development of the EU's sustainable development policies. More

January 27, 2012
Wealth Transfer on the March: 'Reforming' the Lifeline Program
Henry Percy
Do you pay your phone bill? I do. Should you also pay for those who do not wish to? You already do. More

January 27, 2012
Let's Be Fair about Taxation
Dale Bandy
When I hear others say "fair share," I know what is coming -- a diatribe against the wealthy followed by recommendations to more heavily tax "millionaires and billionaires." More

January 26, 2012
Why, Precisely, is America so Great?
Herbert E. Meyer
"Politics" isn't just about choosing one candidate or another, or even about choosing one party or another. Politics is the relationship between the individual and the State. More

January 26, 2012
Fox News Drifting Leftward?
James Simpson
The already unfavorable media environment for conservatives may look like the good old days all too soon. More

January 26, 2012
The GOP Must Be on the Attack
John Fricke
When the left gets this loud, this angry and hateful, this emotional, and this certain, it is because the left is running scared. More

January 26, 2012
The Marvelous Meekness of Merely Mitt
Stuart Schwartz
He is all cattle and no hat, a man who is meek in the actual biblical sense of the word -- those who walked boldly but quietly with confidence and conviction, tight with God and firm in belief. More

January 26, 2012
Aborting Reason
Peter Heck
The left's logical case for abortion rights had officially collapsed. We can thank CNN's Piers Morgan for administering last rites. More

January 26, 2012
The Social Welfare State, Compassion, and Political Self-Interest
Monty Pelerin
It's now apparent that the siren song of Socialism contains the seeds of destruction that threaten the very foundations of civilization. More

January 26, 2012
Mitt, the Outsider
Rosslyn Smith
Why does Mitt Romney have such a hard time connecting with voters? More

January 26, 2012
ACLU and the Gitmo Leak of CIA Agent Photos
Lee Cary & Marty Watters
Missouri congressman Todd Akin believes that concerns over the ACLU's John Adams Project role have not yet been addressed. More

January 25, 2012
Obama's State Of The Union: The Hollow Man Speaks
Rob Miller
I've got a pretty strong stomach - but last night's festivities were truly something else. More

January 25, 2012
Newt Gingrich the Jacksonian
Burwell Stark
Newt resembles a former president, alright, but it is not Reagan. Newt Gingrich seems to be a 21st Century return of President Andrew Jackson. More

January 25, 2012
Brian Williams v. Crowd: Who Is More Intelligent?
C. Edmund Wright
When you compare the substance of the so-called rowdy mob debates in South Carolina with the serious Brian Williams exercise in Florida, there is simply no contest. More

January 25, 2012
Crony College Capitalism, Chicago-Style
Gary Jason
There is a move afoot to cronyize colleges -- that is, reward the key segments of the college industry that vote and contribute money the "right" way, and punish those whom the cronies of the administration in power wish to punish -- most especially, for-profit colleges. More

January 25, 2012
Are We Losing Our Constitutional Republic?
Janet Levy
While pundits at opposite ends of the political spectrum seldom agree, many seem to have reached accord over recent Obama administration deviations from constitutional principles. More

January 25, 2012
'Pro-Choice' Obama Forces Religious Institutions to Pay for Abortion Drugs
Chris Banescu
President Barack Obama, a lifelong champion of abortion, is hell-bent on forcing religious institutions to pay for birth control and abortion drugs coverage for their employees. More

January 25, 2012
We Know How You Feel
Carol Peracchio
The elites believe we'll never vote for Newt Gingrich because he's an old, fat guy. They know that Americans always vote for the guy who looks "presidential." More

January 25, 2012
Citizenship: Easy Come, Easy Go?
Cindy Simpson
"Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth," Obama explained in a 2010 speech on immigration reform. "It's a matter of faith. It's a matter of fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear." More

January 24, 2012
Brace Yourself for the Anti-Mormon Slime Machine
Kyle-Anne Shiver
If you thought that aggravating race- and wealth-based divisions was as low as the Obama machine could get, just wait for the religious bigotry that will be unleashed on Mitt Romney if he obtains the GOP nomination. More

January 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich Is Shameless
Christopher Chantrill
Is shamelessness the #1 skill you need to be a successful elected politician? For decades the Democrats have been the naughty party and Republicans the uptight party. What if the parties are changing their positions? More

January 24, 2012
Fidelity: Should It Matter?
Vaughan Starr
Should marital fidelity matter in a political candidate? And yes, I am talking about Newt Gingrich. More

January 24, 2012
He's No Damn Good
John W. Howard
It is not about sex at all, and it is not about adultery. It is about cheating. It is about lying. It is about integrity. More

January 24, 2012
Obama's Social Justice Capitalism
Jesse Weed
Much has been made of the firms that get government capital having made contributions to the Obama campaign. That misses the point. Obama is motivated not just by kickbacks. More

January 24, 2012
A Generation Losing Hope: The Shattering of the American Dream
Frank Ryan
Before our very eyes, a generation of Americans is losing faith in the American dream and adopting attitudes and behaviors that emphasize living for the day, not planning to take care of their own futures. More

January 24, 2012
Takers Taking Over
Jeffrey Folks
Ominously, the percentage of takers, those who collect benefits and pay no federal income tax, now sits at 49%. Anything beyond that and the country is lost forever. More

January 23, 2012
New Docs Reveal How DOJ Kowtows to Muslim Brotherhood
Pamela Geller
In what promises to be an enormous document dump, I have received the first in a series of DOJ bundles in response to my FOIA request filed close to a year ago. More

January 23, 2012
The Self-Destruction of the Mainstream Media
Steve McCann
For the past forty years the mainstream media has become increasingly liberal and more overt in promoting the policies of the Democratic Party. This evolutionary process reached its zenith in 2008 More

January 23, 2012
Gingrich v. Leftism
Bruce Walker
Newt Gingrich can beat Obama and add more Republicans to elective office. More importantly, however, he can actually defeat leftism in America. More

January 23, 2012
On the Intellectual Inferiority of Liberalism
James Lewis
Liberalism is dead. The radical left has killed it. Then the left stole its good name. More

January 23, 2012
Newt Gingrich and the Rise of the Flawed Conservative
Kevin Jackson
Hard to believe that the old white establishment politician may be just what the doctor ordered for Republicans in unseating Obama in the next election. More

January 23, 2012
Keystone XL and Obama's Subjugation Economics
J. Robert Smith
What Mr. Obama and the left are engaged in is an ongoing war of aggression against the nation's Heartland and traditional America everywhere. Underlying the Keystone decision is politics and power. More

January 23, 2012
White Middle-Schooler Beaten Unconscious by Group of Black Students
John T. Bennett
The story is shocking enough, even without bringing race into it: a thirteen-year-old girl was beaten unconscious and reportedly went into a seizure after being attacked on the school bus by a group of fellow students. More

January 23, 2012
I Finally Understand Democrats
Johnny Alamo
After years of puzzlement and curiosity observing modern day Democrats, I think I have finally figured them out. More

January 22, 2012
Newt's Third Law
Clarice Feldman
Isaac Newton's Third Law is familiar to most of us. Simply put: " To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." This week Newt Gingrich showed that the laws of motion are equally applicable to media manipulation More

January 22, 2012
Psst: Hear the Roar and Pay Attention
C. Edmund Wright
The roar is passion. The roar is intensity. The roar is pent up frustration. The roar, put another way, is the national mood of conservatives. More

January 22, 2012
Newt's Open Marriage With Conservatives
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Newt wants conservatives to honor marriage vows with him, while he is free to carry on multiple love affairs with liberal progressives and Democrats. More

January 22, 2012
In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress
Selwyn Duke
Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it? More

January 22, 2012
The Path to Peace for Palestinians and the Hashemites
Alan Bergreen
Jordan, as the homeland of Palestinians, and with the Hashemites as the Palestinians' protector, could lead the Middle East out of its most intractable problem. More

January 22, 2012
Al Gore's Last Theorem
Jerome J. Schmitt
Math is hard and Al Gore flunks. More

January 22, 2012
Eyeless in Gaza
Michael Curtis
It is saddening that leaders of mainstream churches, unlike most Evangelicals, have expressed such little concern about the fate of Christians and Jews alike in the Middle East. More

January 22, 2012
It Was 'A Wonderful Life'
John Wharton
The dark side of America's favorite film fairy tale. More

January 22, 2012
Obama's Head-Fake on U.S. Energy Development
Gary Jason
The "insanity" of Obama's Keystone XL pipeline decision is only the latest of the administration's actions to block American fossil fuel production to attract notice. More

January 22, 2012
Understanding Islamofascism
Yonatan Silverman
Even though it is convenient to call brutal Islamic regimes like Iran Islamofascist, the brutality of these regimes emanates not from fascism -- but from Islam. More

January 22, 2012
Listen Up Girls: This is the Way Things Work
Janice Shaw Crouse
Scenario: The girl decides she is going to have sex with her male friend, taking their casual friendship into what she believes will be a romantic involvement. More

January 22, 2012
Romney: Flip-Flopping or Open Minded?
Mercer Tyson
Is Romney a flip-flopper? It's a valid charge, although I disagree with the tone of the expression. I prefer to call it open-minded and flexible. More

January 22, 2012
Barack Obama: The World's Most Powerful Person
Lauri B. Regan
The man who ran on his ability to heal the nation's wounds has instead used class warfare to further his aim of replacing capitalism with socialism.... More

January 22, 2012
The Golden Rule of Economics: People Want Stuff
Allan Nadel
Many people equate wealth with money, but this is often a mistake. So let's talk about wealth, rather than money. More

January 22, 2012
The Three Problems with Ron Paul
Andrew Foy, M.D. & Brenton Stransky
Ron Paul does not have the smile of Obama, the folksy likability of Romney or the carving wit of Gingrich. In fact, Ron Paul looks (and sounds) nothing like a Washington elitist. More

January 22, 2012
GOP Candidates' Middle East Conundrums
Dina Gusovsky
Regardless of what is happening here at home, one of the most important responsibilities of a president, and one that often defines his character, is how he deals with issues abroad. More

January 21, 2012
Why I'm Giving Newt a Pass on the Scarlet-A Factor
Kyle-Anne Shiver
How could I, outspoken defender of monogamy and premarital chastity, so compromise my own principles to vote for a man who has trashed his own wedding vows and, if he wins the presidency, would ensconce his former mistress as first lady? More

January 21, 2012
Oprah and the Obesity Epidemic
Neil Snyder
Oprah Winfrey may have provided the tipping point, turning America's obesity problem from a contagion to an epidemic. More

January 21, 2012
Why the U.S. Has Troops around the World
Bernie Reeves
No news outlet I know of has presented the background that explains why the U.S. has a military presence in key areas around the world. Since no one else will, let's review the situation. More

January 21, 2012
Red Tails and Reality
Elise Cooper
AT spoke to Lt. Col. Alex Jefferson, a Tuskegee pilot, about Red Tails, the new George Lucas-produced movie about America's all black fighter 332nd Fighter Group. More

January 21, 2012
Krugman's Premature Victory Lap
Jon N. Hall
But wait, the night is young. More

January 21, 2012
Mr. Gingrich's Neighborhood
William Campenni
Blind indifference to Americans who must daily endure the disturbing, debilitating, and devastating effects of illegal immigration to which the elites are themselves immune. More

January 21, 2012
The Difference between Planning and Social Engineering
Henry Lamb
Local government planning should, first of all, protect the private property rights of its citizens. But no such rules exist when it comes to social engineering. More

January 21, 2012
The Flowers of War
Brendon S. Peck
Having been featured in three war films, Christian Bale is once again off to do battle. More

January 21, 2012
Forest Fires, Earthquakes, the Titanic, and Healthcare
Deane Waldman
Henry David Thoreau wrote that "[a]ll perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." Let's use analogies to comprehend the seemingly incomprehensible: healthcare in the U.S. More

January 21, 2012
What's the Matter with the Democratic Party?
James G. Long
Can you name a Democratic Party member who exhibits the following characteristics? More

January 20, 2012
The Myth of 'Newt The Great Debater'
John Ziegler
Does anyone think the same rules would apply to a debate with Obama? More

January 20, 2012
A GOP Candidate's Bitter Ex-Wife Receives More Coverage Than a Video of Obama Dining with Terrorist-Supporters
Lauri B. Regan
Has the media double standard ever been more acute? More

January 20, 2012
The Phony Saints of Liberal Land
James Lewis
I don't know any conservatives who think they are saints. Funny thing -- I know lots of liberals who just know with absolute certainty that they are holier than thou. More

January 20, 2012
The Proposed Enemy Expatriation Act: Sending American Citizens into Exile
Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson
Sparked by the nation's so-called war on terrorism, the government has been charging full-throttle into another war -- a war on liberty. More

January 20, 2012
Venture Capitalism not Crony Capitalism
Larrey Anderson
We could be witnesses to the death of venture capitalism and its replacement by crony capitalism. More

January 20, 2012
Jordan's King and the Muslim Brotherhood: An Unholy Marriage
Mudar Zahran
While the fear of the Islamists hijacking Arab revolutions is a valid one, it is likely that Jordan is different, as the Muslim Brotherhood there is the regime's ally. More

January 20, 2012
Chivalry Sinks under Equality's Murky Waters
Charlotte Hays
Long ago, feminists launched an attack on the concept of manliness, and you can see the fruits of their campaign in the Costa Concordia. More

January 20, 2012
Progressives and the Media: Still Together after 100 Years
Andrew K. Boyle
How the marriage between progressives and the media first reshaped our Republic a century ago. More

January 19, 2012
Are The GOP Debaters Foolish Enough to Take CNN's Bait?
C. Edmund Wright
So CNN's executives have let it slip. Why is this so hard to figure out? More

January 19, 2012
Mitt's Game
J.R. Dunn
One factor that's gone unmentioned as regards Mitt Romney's primary campaign is his status as the sole candidate who displays any grasp of electoral strategy. More

January 19, 2012
Now We Know Who Was Right about Obama
Karin McQuillan
Now we know. After three years in office and the launching of his second election campaign, we have experienced President Obama's leadership. We can see who we elected President -- the mystery man of 2008 revealed. More

January 19, 2012
New Team Obama Re-Election Gimmick: Is America a Post-Racial Society?
Lloyd Marcus
All this talk about a post-racial society, which sounds like it came out of a marketing strategy meeting, is designed simply to accuse all who are against Obama's re-election of being non-post-racial. In other words, racist. More

January 19, 2012
Russia: Re-Elect Obama, or It's World War III
Kim Zigfeld
Last week, Americans learned that they are, or soon may be, at war with Vladimir Putin's Russia. That is, unless they do just exactly what the Kremlin asks, which is pretty simple, consisting largely of reelecting Barack Obama. More

January 19, 2012
Tea Party Failure? Not So Fast
Peter Heck
The truest sign of whether the Tea Party movement is having success is not to gauge whom the Republicans nominate as much as it is to evaluate the ground upon which the debate for that nomination is being fought. More

January 19, 2012
Castrating Children
Fay Voshell
Here in the USA, supposedly an enlightened country, a couple appears intent on doing by chemical means what a knife would otherwise achieve. More

January 19, 2012
Conservative Happy Warrior Challenges Warmist Ed Markey for House Seat
Peter Wilson
Veteran Massachusetts congressman faces challenger willing to make global warming a campaign issue. More

January 18, 2012
The Six Dirty Secrets of Presidential Politics in 2012
John Ziegler
You simply can't properly evaluate what will happen this November without first understanding them. More

January 18, 2012
Newt and the '10 PM Question'
C. Edmund Wright
So it's not exactly "the 3 am phone call" from the 2008 race. No, it's scarier than that. It's the "10 pm question." And you can bet your bottom dollar it's coming to a general election debate near you. More

January 18, 2012
Gingrich's Practical Conservatism
Judy Holloway
Newt Gingrich identified the very core of conservatism with his remarks in the first South Carolina presidential debate. His vision of conservatism is the one that most Republicans don't understand and most Democrats don't want you to know. More

January 18, 2012
The Left's Victimization Gig
Mary Nicholas
The latest "victim" of the left is Jeremiah Wright, according to David Axelrod, chief political strategist for Obama's re-election campaign. More

January 18, 2012
If Republicans Want to Win, They Must Stop Talking about Capitalism
Selwyn Duke
One of the simplest rhetorical truths is that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate. More

January 18, 2012
Conduct Unbecoming
Frank Ryan
Why Congressman Allen West and presidential candidate Rick Perry are wrong about the videos of Marines allegedly urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban. More

January 18, 2012
Confirmed: Charter Schools Beat the Daylights Out of Public Schools
Gary Jason
Is it any surprise that the mainstream media is ignoring the many recent reports that confirm the vast qualitative divide between public and charter schools? More

January 17, 2012
The Transformational Tyrant
William L. Gensert
Today, we stand on the cusp of history. Will we be governed or ruled? More

January 17, 2012
Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President?
Steve McCann
If ever a candidate mirrored the mindset and approach of George H.W. Bush, it is Mitt Romney. This is the last hurrah of the Republican establishment. More

January 17, 2012
Romney Denialists
Gene Schwimmer
Romney Denialists are grassroots Republicans who so virulently oppose Mitt Romney that they are in total denial that Romney is, in fact, the overwhelming choice of the Republican grassroots. More

January 17, 2012
2012: It's Bain Capital vs. Obama Capital
Christopher Chantrill
Genius at work somewhere deep in the brains of the Romney campaign. More

January 17, 2012
Ron Paul's Successful Brand Strategy
Mark Edward Taylor
The key to Paul's current success in his third run for the presidential nomination is his political branding. Paul has become the savviest pitchman in the narrowing Republican primary field. More

January 17, 2012
Harry Reid: Friendly like a Rattlesnake
Jeffrey Folks
Sen. Harry Reid urged Republican lawmakers to abandon their partisanship and join him in passing everything Democrats could dream of. More

January 17, 2012
Has al-Qaeda Ceased to Exist?
Kerry Patton
Arguably, al-Qaeda is now nothing more than a label placed on various and sundry Sunni Islamic terrorist groups. More

January 16, 2012
How Obama Betrays Martin Luther's King's Dream
George Picard
President Obama has mocked Martin Luther King by policies and actions that judge people by the color of their skin and not by the content of their character. More

January 16, 2012
Michelle Obama and Stokely Carmichael on Collective White Guilt
M. Catharine Evans
When Michelle Obama chose the Black Supremacist, radical, separationist, and anti-Semitic ideas of Stokely Carmichael to shore up her Princeton thesis, the writing was on the wall. More

January 16, 2012
Could Iran Close the Strait?
Stephen Bryen and Shoshana Bryen
Iran could be in the catbird seat while Western navies, including the U.S. Navy, are at a considerable disadvantage even with aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. More

January 16, 2012
The Left's War on Voter Fraud Reform
Robert Knight
Pretty soon, the right to cast a meaningful vote might be just a memory. More

January 16, 2012
Seizing the Wealth of Landlords, One District at a Time
Roger D. Luchs
The real property of the landlord class is being liquidated, slowly but steadily, in one odd corner of America, with the nation as a whole blissfully unaware of the slow-motion seizure underway. More

January 16, 2012
AMERITOPIA: Mark Levin Connects the Dots
C. Edmund Wright
When I came across the line that "Utopia misapprehends man's nature," I had to stop reading and make a note to self. I do this with any brilliantly succinct and accurate notion. More

January 16, 2012
Settling for Mitt Romney
Robert Weissberg
He's the double-cheese pizza of the GOP field. More

January 16, 2012
Welcome to the Plantation
Ebben Raves
Think the Democratic Party runs the only plantation in American politics? Think again. More

January 15, 2012
Voguing for Obama
Clarice Feldman
Quentin Crisp's take on fashion and fashionistas comes to mind whenever I read Style section writers like Robin Givhan ogling the First Lady's clothing choices: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are." More

January 15, 2012
The Tale of the Swine
Rob Miller
Once there was a tribe of wild pigs who lived in a remote area of the woods. More

January 15, 2012
Obama and the Will of Allah
Jesse Weed
Obama's accommodation strategy for the Islamic world is looking more and more like appeasement. More

January 15, 2012
The Abolition of Gender
Fay Voshell
It's happening, forced on the world by elites, aimed at ushering in a communal utopia. More

January 15, 2012
OWS: The Children's Crusade Redux
Jeff Lipkes
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the Children's Crusade. There are some intriguing parallels, and contrasts with OWS as it sputters into the new year. More

January 15, 2012
Taqiyya for Kids
Janet Tassel
An outrageous curriculum is indoctrinating public school children with lies about Islam, courtesy of Harvard. What happened when one outraged parent complained. More

January 15, 2012
Strait of Hormuz in Greater Context
Arash Irandoost
The West is finally realizing that their differences with the Islamic Republic are irreconcilable. More

January 15, 2012
Saving Face: The Middle East Minefield
Neil Snyder
The Iranians may well believe that their long-term goal of regional hegemony depends on saving face, and if so, they're probably right. More

January 15, 2012
Washington, Moscow, and the Invisible Tip of the Syrian Iceberg
Georgy Gounev
It is Moscow that plays the main role, along with Iran, in the survival of the Baathist regime. More

January 15, 2012
Gilad Sharon on His Father
Elise Cooper
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son opens up on the man his father was and the tough decisions he had to make. More

January 15, 2012
How Israel's National Security Deals with Continuing Terror Threats
Jared Feldschreiber
Sophisticated weaponry and strategy help keep Israel off the list of extinct nations. More

January 15, 2012
The Devil's Advocate and Free Speech
Michael Curtis
To this point, no protest has been registered by any activist concerning the invitation to the French-Vietnamese lawyer Jacques Vergès to take part in a debate on international justice. More

January 15, 2012
America, Rome, and Military Expenditures
Jeremy Egerer
While America and Rome both exerted the power of empire, the former in but a short while has already found herself tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. More

January 15, 2012
Americans, Lend Me Your Eyes
Joel J. Sprayregen
It's time for Americans to understand that President Obama's foreign policy has been an utter failure. More

January 14, 2012
The Big Switch
Albin Sadar
Now that the 2008 idea to "make history by voting for the first African-American president" is yesterday's news, what will be done to spice up the current election season? Perhaps a woman as the Democratic running mate? More

January 14, 2012
The Tebow Effect
Lloyd Marcus
Unintentionally and, I believe, unknown to him, Tebow appears to be leading a movement toward a miracle cure for America's ills. More

January 14, 2012
Unsolved Mystery: D.C. Public Schools Cheating Scandal
M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane
The Washington, D.C. school system is failing to hold higher-ups accountable for their 2008-2010 test cheating scandal and keeping the public in the dark. More

January 14, 2012
Mad at Santorum over Specter? What Would Reagan Do?
Chet Arthur
Former Sen. Rick Santorum is taking a lot of heat in his presidential campaign for backing the RINO Specter over true-blue conservative Pat Toomey in 2004. More

January 14, 2012
Team Obama and the Voters
Jim Yardley
This year, on November 6, will we be voting for a chief executive, or will we, in fact, be voting for an entire administration? More

January 14, 2012
Even Hollywood Can't Make Abortion Pretty
Catherine Glenn Foster
Hollywood may appear to be America's main manufacturer of cultural influence, but all too often, some starlet will come forward and remind us how out of touch Tinseltown is with mainstream America. Take Maggie Gyllenhaal. More

January 14, 2012
The Company Men
Jon N. Hall
A terrific 2010 movie that examines the heartbreak caused by corporate downsizing has come to cable TV. More

January 14, 2012
South Carolina Can Settle the 2012 Un-Civil War
Mark Skoda
The Republican primary election cycle seems to have broken down into all-out war. It's time for South Carolina to talk sense. More

January 14, 2012
Santorum's New Hampshire Fumble
Arnold Cusmariu
The senator should have skipped his (fallacious) diatribe against Romney about "middle class" and instead amplified in moral terms a view he seems to hold about America being a classless society. More

January 14, 2012
An Endless Parade of Small People
Jeff Greenlee
Despite the physical and mental differences, they are all connected by one common thread -- they are all morally and ethically challenged. And they all gravitate toward Washington, D.C. More

January 13, 2012
California overfishing wealthy taxpayers
Lee DeCovnick
California's share of top-earners has dwindled even as their numbers climbed nationally More

January 13, 2012
The Liveliest Campaign Season Since 1968
Jack Cashill
We are seeing the most engaging Republican race in my memory, likely ever. Republican candidates have rarely embraced such strong conservative positions as they are doing this year almost uniformly More

January 13, 2012
Vulture Capitalism
Scott Mayer
Vultures are unsightly scavenger birds but they form a vital role in the eco-system just as "vulture capitalists" form a vital role in the free market economic system. Both consume the dead or dying for personal gain. More

January 13, 2012
A Portrait of the First Lady as an Angry Young Woman
William Sullivan
One does not have to take a leap of faith to believe Mrs. Obama to be an "angry black woman." It is nothing more than a logical conclusion given the evidence she has provided. More

January 13, 2012
Three Jihadis
Pamela Geller
It is almost every day now. Jihadi attacks in America. This past week there were three attempted jihad attacks. And the media yawn. More

January 13, 2012
Whither Santorum and Those 'Guns and Bible' Voters?
Janice Shaw Crouse
Voters who take the importance of candidates' principles and character very seriously still matter in the race for the GOP nomination. More

January 13, 2012
Fiscal Reality Bites
Bill Beach and Dustin Siggins
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman remains oblivious to the debt disaster that looms for the American economy. More

January 13, 2012
How's That Government Meddling Workin' Out for Ya'?
Richard N. Weltz
Shortages, pricing screw-ups, unwanted products, unintended adverse consequences, and micromanagement of citizens' private lives used to be confined to the old communist bloc. No longer. More

January 12, 2012
Panderer-in-Chief: Why Obama's National Security Record Is Weak and Dangerous
Jay Kronzer
One of Obama's greatest strengths, according to the mainstream media and establishment pundits, is his national security and defense record. Maybe they're talking about a different Obama. More

January 12, 2012
Refocus: It's Obama
J. Robert Smith
To defeat that disaster named Barack Obama, the presidential sweepstakes needs to be exclusively about the current occupant of the nation's executive mansion. More

January 12, 2012
Romney Supporters: Herbert Hoover Was a Successful Businessman and Manager, Too
Claude Sandroff
A record of sound or even brilliant business leadership is a lousy predictor of eventual political success in either gaining the presidency or governing successfully after winning it. More

January 12, 2012
Tim Tebow and the College Generation
Jan Whitt
The target market for sports television programming often includes the same young men and women who attend American colleges and universities, and the Tebow phenomenon has captivated them. More

January 12, 2012
Ron Paul and Double Standards
Seth A. Foreman
Now that Ron Paul has achieved electoral respectability in the Republican primaries, the media is in high dudgeon over his extremism. Elsewhere, though, the same media is noticeably silent. More

January 12, 2012
In Defense of Libertarians
Rachael Williams
Throughout the primary election season there's been a group unfairly villainized by the rest of the Republicans...and I'm not talking about the establishment folks. More

January 12, 2012
Patrick Fitzgerald's Rezko Mole Probation Sentence Terminated Early
Lee Cary & Marty Watters
The New York felon whom U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wired against Chicago's Tony Rezko got three years' probation that just ended two years early. More

January 11, 2012
The Myth of Bad Republican Candidates
Selwyn Duke
The current GOP hopefuls are the best group of presidential contenders we've had in a very long time. Yes, you read that right. More

January 11, 2012
GOP Timidity Is a Path to Defeat
Joseph M. Koenig
The American people in general, and the Republican rank and file in particular, are fed up, angry, worried, and supremely frustrated. The GOP should take note. More

January 11, 2012
Time for National Right to Work
Bruce Walker
Indiana is considering becoming a Right to Work state, which would make it the first state since Oklahoma in 2001 to end coerced unionism. This is a good start. More

January 11, 2012
Obama, Tebow, and America's Hunger for Heroes
Jeannie DeAngelis
Greek columns and Teleprompters have schooled us on how to discern the sincere from the bogus, and with Barack Obama as the measure, Tim Tebow's gold stands in contrast to Obama's dross. More

January 11, 2012
The Myth of the Rogue Paulite
Andrew Schwartz
Ron Paul supporters are vilified almost as much as the man himself. More

January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney, Vulture Capitalist?
Mike Razar
What a shock it was to find out that self-righteous so-con stalwarts like Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are actually socially conservative socialist/crony capitalists. More

January 11, 2012
The Bad News on Unemployment
Christopher Chantrill
Yes, it's fabulous that employment is finally turning upward, but the labor force isn't expanding as it should in a healthy recovery. More

January 10, 2012
The Answer That Would Have Won the Nomination
Peter Heck
To say the moment was ripe for any earnest conservative who wanted to capture the Republican nomination for president would be an understatement. More

January 10, 2012
Europe's Unfriendly Skies
Brian Sussman
Flying to and from Europe just became more expensive thanks to the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). More

January 10, 2012
Non-citizen Voting in Connecticut
Jon N. Hall
The mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, John DeStefano, a Democrat, wants to let non-citizens vote in city elections. More

January 10, 2012
Ron Paul Is Wrong about Iran
Michael Filozof
There's a lot I like about Ron Paul. But his Iran policy is dead wrong. More

January 10, 2012
Why a Young Conservative Supports Ron Paul
TJ Martinell
We're looking for someone who practices what he preaches. More

January 10, 2012
Showdown in November: Marx or Mill?
Arnold Cusmariu
The Marxist erosion of our freedoms must stop. John Stuart Mill would be a good place to start. More

January 10, 2012
The Taliban and the PLO
Shoshana Bryen
In 2010, Obama stated that Afghanistan is "not another Vietnam." But that's not the correct analogy at all. More

January 9, 2012
Obama's Political Ploys Could Backfire
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama is taking a bigger risk than he realizes. More

January 9, 2012
The Top 5 Reasons Obama Must Be Removed as Commander-in-Chief
Stella Paul
He may not have a limit to what he'll inflict; but our collective blood pressure may have a limit to what we can bear. More

January 9, 2012
Chicago Political Turf War Heats Up
Lee Cary & Marty Watters
A political turf war in Chicago, pitting the old Machine against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new regime, is underway. More

January 9, 2012
Michelle Obama: Critical Advocate
Jeannie DeAngelis
One tough cookie. More

January 9, 2012
Obama's Fascist America in 10 Easy Steps
Timothy Birdnow
Writing back in 2007, Naomi Wolfe catalogued the steps to creating a dictatorship (which she sought to apply to George W. Bush). Interestingly enough, they apply far more to the man who replaced him. More

January 9, 2012
A Defense of Ron Paul and Political Boldness
Andrew Foy, M.D. & Brenton Stransky
The problem with political campaigns in general is that candidates intentionally run on platitudes, all the while providing very few specifics. Not so with Ron Paul. More

January 9, 2012
Take This Job, and Keep the Change
Jeffrey Folks
Every era in American culture has its signature song. For the late 1970s, the era of gas lines, stagflation, and national decline, it was Johnny PayCheck's "Take This Job and Shove It." Now, the Obama era may have its own musical tag. More

January 8, 2012
How To Win Power by Selling Out Your Own Union
Clarice Feldman
The story of how a once powerful institution's leaders repeatedly sold out its members as the nation drifted from large scale industrial production of power and goods to being a producer of private and public services More

January 8, 2012
A Provisional Anatomy of Truth
Paul Shlichta
We frequently criticize MSM journalists for distorting the truth. But what is "truth"? More

January 8, 2012
Looming Destruction: Will Jews Ever Learn?
Victor Sharpe
Vladimir Jabotinsky, the "Jewish Garibaldi," would blanch if he could see the blindness of modern Jews. More

January 8, 2012
Judicial Activism and the Rule of Law
Jonathan Kinlay
The problem is simply that there are no adverse consequences for judges who misconduct proceedings in this way... More

January 8, 2012
The Democratic Party's War on Transportation
John F. Di Leo
The newly announced "Hours of Service" rules are just a drop in the bucket. More

January 8, 2012
Appeal Offers Last Hope for Endangered Neighborhood
Wendy Lack
It's not religious bigotry that's stalling the construction of a huge Sufi sanctuary in San Francisco -- but Sufism Reoriented is determined to make it seem that way. More

January 8, 2012
AD 2012 or 2012 CE?
Elizabeth Lauren
Political correctness has seeped into the way we write our dates -- but "the Common Era" causes far more problems than it solves. More

January 8, 2012
Equal Rights and Sacred Liberty
Ronald R. Cherry
The inferior creatures have restricted liberty; their activity is obstructed within limits drawn around them by the superior rights of others... More

January 7, 2012
Dear Tea Party Patriots: We Are Family
Lloyd Marcus
As we enter the year which will make or break America as we know it, I wish to remind all of you that We Are Family. More

January 7, 2012
Ron Paul Supporters Are Worth Talking to Amicably
Timothy Gordon
A philosophy which distills both conservatism and libertarianism cannot be called a new amalgam More

January 7, 2012
The Price of Obama's Peace Dividend Is an Increased Risk of War
Jim Yardley
Competent foreign policy is like making the first move in a game of chess. Unless you are thinking ten moves ahead, you might just as well not play the game. More

January 7, 2012
The Left's Heart of Darkness
Bruce Walker
We can't go on like this. All we love, all we cherish, all we hope for is spiraling down a long, snaky drain into the leftist heart of darkness. More

January 7, 2012
Red Flag on the Red Planet: China's Great Leap Marsward?
Zoran Pazameta
As America's space program withers, China's thrives. More

January 7, 2012
Islamism at UCLA Law School
Jamie Glazov
Why is Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl, a champion of sharia law, a law professor at UCLA? More

January 7, 2012
25 Things Every Guy Should Not Know How to Do
Sterling T. Terrell
Twenty-five might seem like a lot, but then again, it's much easier not to know how to do something. So man up and read. More

January 7, 2012
Civilization's Centurions
Jim & Ada Lynch
If you are among the willfully misplaced in the teaching profession, a regulatory labyrinth of paperwork and red tape can provide you with credentialed cover...but that's all it will do. More

January 6, 2012
Obama: The Mask is Off
Steve McCann
The mask is fully off. Barack Obama is the most corrupt, power-mad president in this nation's illustrious history. More

January 6, 2012
How Obama Lost His Postmodern Groove
Jack Cashill
Although postmodernism is as hard to define as pornography, postmodernists are not hard to spot. More

January 6, 2012
Academia Shrugs: Obama's Citizenship and the Presidency
Cindy Simpson
Will academia break that silence by addressing the question of Obama's eligibility with at least the same attention and level of scholarship given to McCain's? More

January 6, 2012
The Heart of the Clause 5 Issue
Bruce Walker
On one hand, we have Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio. On the other, we have Barack Obama. Which side is eligible for the White House? More

January 6, 2012
True Spy Story behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Bernie Reeves
It's great stuff -- and it's true. More

January 6, 2012
How to Get Washington out of Health Care
Steven Goldfien MD
Federal interference in medical practice is escalating rapidly and will soon lead to the de facto regulation of physicians and medical practice by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. More

January 6, 2012
The Promise of ObamaCare: Hospice for the Healthy
Joe Herring
Great Britain, Obama's socialized medicine inspiration, has fallen into a habit that should be troubling to even the most deadened senses of decency. More

January 5, 2012
Obama: America's Greatest Asset
William L. Gensert
The future of America depends on electing a new president in 2012, and the best asset for any potential challenger is Barack Obama. More

January 5, 2012
The Left's Rights Scam
Steve McCann
The left invariably frames its policy pronouncements under the mantle of so-called "rights" that only the government can guarantee. More

January 5, 2012
Will Obama Go to War?
Jim Yardley
As we enter 2012, the question of whether our president is planning to go to war might seem far-fetched, but some troubling news developments indicate otherwise. More

January 5, 2012
Daydreaming about a President Perry
Alicia Colon
I know, I know. Gov. Rick Perry came in fifth place in that dumb Iowa caucus. But I'm a daydreamer, and I want to see that handsome coyote-killer go all the way. More

January 5, 2012
Incomprehensibly Stupid Army Regulation Killing Americans in Afghanistan
James Simpson
Why does the U.S. Army continue to adhere to rules of engagement that unnecessarily kill our soldiers? More

January 5, 2012
Bonyads: Iran's Greatest Strength against Sanctions
Kerry Patton
Iran can subvert sanctions via a very secretive economic program that few Westerners understand -- the Bonyads. More

January 5, 2012
The Insult of Leftist Lies
Richard N. Weltz
Every time liberals bemoan the reduction of social welfare programs, they insult the American people. More

January 4, 2012
By His Fruits Ye Shall Know Him: Obama's Subversive Appointments
Jesse Weed
When Obama made his initial cabinet appointments upon assuming the presidency, it looked as if he had been a moderate Democrat. Now we know better. More

January 4, 2012
Green Blue Laws
Noam Neusner
The retro-puritanical environmental movement has resorted to the equivalent of blue laws -- a state-imposed ban on otherwise harmless behavior to satisfy the moral urgings of a powerful political bloc. More

January 4, 2012
Iowa Should Not Matter
C. Edmund Wright
The eight-month spectacle that is the Iowa caucuses every four years is almost political porn. More

January 4, 2012
Crime Without Punishment
Lester Jackson
Out of thin air, a right has been officially and surreptitiously created exclusively for select previously convicted murderers: the right to commit, cost-free, further violence, and even further murders. More

January 4, 2012
Ron Paul and the Dictatorship of the Libertariat
Adam Yoshida
Ron Paul has done a serious disservice to the libertarian movement. More

January 4, 2012
Whitewashing History for California's Kids
Tricia Owen
California's efforts to be inclusive in the classroom could spell disaster for education. More

January 4, 2012
Libertarians and Political Insanity
Walt Ughes
The two are all but mutually exclusive. More

January 3, 2012
Americans Elect: Obama's Third-Party Tar Pit
Jared E. Peterson
The real action that may well decide our next president is quietly going on in the state offices that qualify candidates and parties for the November 2012 presidential ballot. More

January 3, 2012
The Stratfor Scandal
J.R. Dunn
Stratfor, the "private intelligence service," has been whacked by Anonymous. The humiliation here is total, and Stratfor will be lucky to survive. But should it? More

January 3, 2012
Why the Left Fears You
James Lewis
The hard left is very afraid, judging by their over-the-top hysteria and name-calling. It's fear that drives their rage, probably because they know what oddballs they are in America. More

January 3, 2012
Anybody but Mitt is Obama
Mark Skoda
The anybody-but-Mitt crowd may be get their wish, and it won't be another Republican. Obama wins that argument. More

January 3, 2012
Victimology and the Phony 'Digital Divide'
John Bennett
When someone says that poor black kids don't have "access" to technological resources, he's probably making things up. Different racial groups simply have different preferences and priorities when it comes to purchasing gadgets. More

January 3, 2012
The Case against Presidential Primaries
Robert Weissberg
America would be far better off if we returned to an era when party nominees were chosen at conventions, not primaries. More

January 3, 2012
Why the Decline of Violence?
Christopher Chantrill
Liberals think that they and Leviathan can claim credit. Seriously. More

January 2, 2012
Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!
S. Fred Singer
One of the world's leading global warming skeptics lays it on the line. More

January 2, 2012
Witch Hunt in the Heartland
Jack Cashill
"The destruction of the Christian pillars that have stabilized the country for more than two centuries." More

January 2, 2012
New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows
Alan P. Halbert
Of all the rumors flying around on the internet, one just refuses to die, and it concerns America's FEMA camps. More

January 2, 2012
Unlimited Domestic Energy...Right Now
Gary Jason
It now appears that in 2011, America will become a net petroleum product exporter for the first time in 62 years. More

January 2, 2012
U.S. Delusional about Arab Spring, Iran Insists
Reza Kahlili
The radicals ruling Iran believe that Khamenei is the mythical figure who will pave the way for the Mahdi's return. They believe the current uprisings in the Middle East -- as they call it, an "Islamic awakening" -- are another sign that the end is near More

January 2, 2012
Hawkeye Hoopla and the Rueful Paul Reality
Jan LaRue
My New Year's resolution is never hearing the words "Iowa caucuses" ever again. More

January 2, 2012
The Second Coming of Huey Long and Father Coughlin
Fay Voshell
The right has not been immune to extremists rising over the years. In fact, we have one such candidate on our side even now. More

January 1, 2012
Two Silly Notions: Biofuel Mandates as Carbon Neutral and Rhino Horn Medicine
Clarice Feldman
I don't know why it is so, but it seems as if the folly of others causes so much suffering in Africa, a place which could do without extra disadvantage. More

January 1, 2012
They Went. I Played Basketball.
Mercer Tyson
It was 1968; the Viet Nam War was in full tilt. I was playing basketball. More

January 1, 2012
Invented People or Invented History?
Jonathan F. Keiler
Claiming a legitimate national identity is serious business, and it requires a legitimate historical basis. But the Palestinians can't seem to stick to one narrative. More

January 1, 2012
Constitutional Education at Your Fingertips
Matthew May
If you have access to a computer with an internet connection, you can rediscover a lost faith in academia this coming February. More

January 1, 2012
Will the Animosity against Israelis ever End?
Michael Curtis
The anti-Israeli lobby is still engaged in the abuse of international law, under the guise of universal jurisdiction, for political expediency and for harassing Israelis. More

January 1, 2012
Timshel, America
Cindy Simpson
Human volition and liberty More

January 1, 2012
The Angel Chorus in Judeo-Christian Civilization
James Lewis
For three thousand years, an immensely humanizing way to see the world. More

January 1, 2012
If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem...
Ted Belman
As laudable as the search for peace in the Middle East is, many would argue that agreeing to the terms of the PA -- or the EU, for that matter, not to mention Hamas -- would not result in peace in our time any more than such wrangling did in Neville Chamberlain's time. More

January 1, 2012
Embarrassed to be a Jew
Richard N. Weltz
It seems that a sub-group of ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews have been stoning, taunting, cursing and spitting at an 8-year-old girl as she walks to school each day. This makes all Judaism look bad. More

January 1, 2012
New TV Show Idea: All-American Christian
Lloyd Marcus
In a spirit of fairness, compassion, and tolerance, a TV show promoting Christianity is simply the right thing to do. More

January 1, 2012
America: The Living Portrait of Dorian Gray
John Griffing
All things considered, Americans can no longer say that "the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away." Nor can they utter in passing the words "at least I know I'm free." More

January 1, 2012
United Nations and Israeli settlements
Dangerous Company
An overwhelming majority of Palestinians oppose a ban on settlement construction and very few see it as an impediment to negotiations More

January 1, 2012
Response to Robert Small
Andrew G. Bostom
The debate continues on whether Islam can live in peace with the West More