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February 29, 2012
Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name
S. Fred Singer
On the one side are the "warmistas," with fixed views about apocalyptic man-made global warming; at the other extreme are the "deniers." Somewhere in the middle are climate skeptics. More

February 29, 2012
Creative Destruction at the Academy Awards
Peter Wilson
As the movie business struggles with digital distribution technology, the Academy Awards honor a film that is a technological throwback about an artist who resists technological change. More

February 29, 2012
Some 'Splainin' to do in Chicago
Lee Cary & Marty Watters
The star witness in the federal corruption case, and the report of $400,000 in cash given to Tony Rezko to pass to Barack Obama. More

February 29, 2012
A Guide to the Liberal Mind
Victor Volsky
If you believe that your choice of a car affects the planet's climate while sunspot activity doesn't, you are a liberal. More

February 29, 2012
What Needs to Come Out of the Obama-Netanyahu Meeting
Rick Richman
It will be critical for Obama and Netanyahu to emerge from their March 5 meeting with a realistic red line and a deadline for action on Iran's nukes. Right now there is neither. More

February 29, 2012
Culture Wars: Conservative Freedom vs. Liberal Liberation
Christopher Chantrill
We should thank President Obama for forcing us to choose between freedom and liberation. Usually liberal politicians try to muddy the waters. More

February 29, 2012
The Blood of Religious Liberty Enabled Freedom of Speech
Geoffrey P. Hunt
If religious liberty can be dismantled, even piecemeal, wholesale erosion of the rest of the First-Amendment rights won't be far behind. More

February 28, 2012
Exclusive Interview: Infidel Victim of Pennsylvania Sharia Judge Reveals Inside Details of Case
Pamela Geller
It's begun. Sharia trumped the First Amendment in an American court. The victim is not giving up. Coming next: billboards. More

February 28, 2012
Fakegate Opens a Door
Russell Cook
More than meets the eye in the Heartland controversy. More

February 28, 2012
Barack Obama, in His Own Hand
Marion DS Dreyfus
A graphanalysis of the president's handwriting, based on his signature. More

February 28, 2012
The Obama Presidential Library
Arnold Cusmariu
Where will it be, what will be in it, and what won't. More

February 28, 2012
Catholics Need Not Apply?
Andrew Sumereau
Are serious Catholics in effect barred from presidential consideration? More

February 28, 2012
The Work Ethic and U.S. Unemployment
Robert Weissberg
The problem that dare not speak its name: the work ethic, unemployment, and our economic future. More

February 28, 2012
The Folly of Interstate Health Insurance Competition
Jeff Spiers
Consolidating regulatory power to Washington, D.C. is never the answer. More

February 27, 2012
Here Comes Obama's 3 AM Phone Call
James Lewis
No American president has ever allowed an international crisis to come so close to the brink. Obama has now allowed the Middle East to deteriorate so far that he has lost control. He now owns whatever is going to happen. More

February 27, 2012
The Deal Between Romney and Paul?
David Fontaine Mitchell
If it works, it might save the election for the GOP. More

February 27, 2012
Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Fort Hood Massacre
Scott Swett
Submission to Islam has been institutionalized by our national security apparatus. The official handling of the Fort Hood massacre proves the case. More

February 27, 2012
Spreading the Wealth Around Gets Personal
Warren Beatty
Some anecdotes to help make the case for Obama as the food stamp president. More

February 27, 2012
The Audacity of Ambition
Scott Mayer
President Obama seems to be downsizing the American Dream, speaking of "unrealistic expectations" and "that small measure of an American Dream." More

February 27, 2012
So Now It's the Lacrosse Murder
R.B. Parrish
How the media love to hate lacrosse players. More

February 27, 2012
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime
Bruce Walker
If this is the most important election of our lifetime, then for conservatives like me, it will have been the ninth or tenth such election in recent memory. More

February 26, 2012
Road to Road Island
Clarice Feldman
This week the White House website announced that the Vice President was traveling to "Road Island," an error typical of the many risible illiteracies that regularly appear there More

February 26, 2012
Why is Obama in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Ted Belman
Many would argue that Obama is "anti-Western, anti-Christian, [and] antisemitic." Judging by his policies, they would be right. More

February 26, 2012
The Jihad against Bengali
Janet Levy
In the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent, Muslims have for centuries used Arabic languages as part of their jihad against Christians and Hindus. More

February 26, 2012
A Forced Marriage of Church and State
Fay Voshell
The Obama administration is seeking to achieve a forced marriage of Church and State, a loveless arrangement that has been attempted before. More

February 26, 2012
The Silence Regarding the Persecution of Christians
Robert Weissberg
Why is the U.S. so quiet when it comes to persecuted Christians abroad? The answer is as simple as a cost-benefit analysis. More

February 26, 2012
President Obama's Theology: Is It Phony?
Adam G. Mersereau
Is Obama using Christian language improperly to justify liberal government policies? More

February 26, 2012
Gary Sinise: An American Hero
Matthew S. Harrison
Few celebrities do as much as Gary does for our troops and their families. More

February 26, 2012
Was Obama's Apology to Karzai Appropriate?
Monte Kuligowski
Once again, President Obama is elevating Islamic beliefs above the vital interests of the United States. More

February 26, 2012
The Energy of Poverty
G. Murphy Donovan
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum drew fire from the usual suspects the other day for his remarks on the utility of inequality. Santorum's argument is underwritten by history. More

February 26, 2012
Can Sanctions Change Iran's Mind?
Efraim A. Cohen
What we can learn from U.N. sanctions on Iraq. More

February 26, 2012
Don't Be Evil?
Jeffrey Folks
Is not doing evil enough? It's nice to believe that one has not been tainted by materialism or greed, but is an absence of wrong-doing enough? More

February 25, 2012
Obama Skins the Cat
S. Fred Singer
How White House ideology circumvents the Congress and impoverishes American households by making energy prices "skyrocket." More

February 25, 2012
A Gentle Reproof for Bill O'Reilly
James G. Wiles
The top-rated Fox News commentator falls into error in describing what to do about high gasoline prices. More

February 25, 2012
Psychological Warfare Must Precede Strike on Iran
William A. Levinson
Any attack on Iran's nuclear program will, in the absence of preparatory psychological warfare, unite the Iranian people against the attacker. More

February 25, 2012
Scientists Behaving Badly
Rick Rinehart
A huge scandal has erupted in the global warming community, as a scientist who was fancied an expert on ethical behavior has confessed to identity fraud. More

February 25, 2012
The Effect of Political Correctness on Politics
Warren Beatty
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." More

February 25, 2012
For Conservatives, Winning's the Thing
Neil Snyder
To win the conservative battle, you need to take a long-term view. More

February 25, 2012
Nero Fiddled but Kennedy Partied
Humberto Fontova
The horrifying real history of the Cuban Missile Crisis reveals the vast gap between the public perception of JFK and the reality of his actions and attitudes. More

February 25, 2012
The Poison in Our Polity
Mark W. Hendrickson
We have descended into a dog-eat-dog, predatory society in which one knows that he is surrounded by citizens plotting to grab some of his property. More

February 25, 2012
The NAACP's Fight for Racial Preferences in California
Allan J. Favish
While the Supreme Court revisits affirmative action, proponents of racial preferences are actively seeking to restore them in the state of California. More

February 25, 2012
A Blind Eye toward Athens
Gary Horne
From ancient Greece to the present day, free enterprise has proven time and again to be the best strategy for society. More

February 25, 2012
The Honorable Clerk
Jeremy Egerer
It is time we give the honest working man the respect he deserves, and hail the honorable clerk. More

February 24, 2012
Gasoline Prices and Dollar Prices
Joseph Svetlic
It's not that gasoline is more expensive; it's that your dollars are worth less. In real money not inflated away by the Fed, like silver or gold, gasoline prices are falling. More

February 24, 2012
On the Cusp of a Natural Gas Bonanza, Massachusetts Bets on Wind Power
Peter Wilson
Gov. Deval Patrick's policy of forcing utilities to purchase expensive offshore wind power will lead to economic prosperity, according to the Boston Globe. More

February 24, 2012
Will Voters Bite?
Cindy Simpson
Obama and his Democrat trainers are passing out treats, with leashes attached. And the majority of Americans have learned to heel. More

February 24, 2012
Act of Valor
Elise Cooper
Anyone who believes that movies should be realistic and not necessarily politically correct should see Act of Valor. More

February 24, 2012
Invisible Hand at Work?
Perry Fisher
It is almost as if an invisible hand is a work, pulling the cosmic voting levers so as to keep the race alive for the next round. There is room for creativity. More

February 24, 2012
Obama and the Problem of Evil
Jan LaRue
The Catholic leaders who believed Obama's call to honor the conscience of pro-life Americans in his commencement speech at Notre Dame in 2009 helped pull the wool over the eyes of the sheep. More

February 24, 2012
Obama Has Already Lost, and He Doesn't Even Know It
David Coughlin
Despite approval ratings lower than any president's in recent history, the media push-polls are trying to sell us the idea that Obama has a good chance to be re-elected. But Americans have woken up. More

February 23, 2012
A U-Turn Strategy for the GOP
Herbert E. Meyer
A wholly new approach to the 2012 election -- not just for whoever emerges as the GOP's challenger to President Obama, but for Republican candidates at all levels of government. More

February 23, 2012
The Media's Brokered Convention Hypocrisy
John Ziegler
During the current lull in actual voting contests in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the most prominent narrative point (non-Satan division) in the media has been related to the prospects of a "brokered convention." More

February 23, 2012
Note to GOP Candidates: It's ObamaCare, Stupid!
Arnold Cusmariu
The repeal of ObamaCare must be the centerpiece of the Republican campaign and a key element of the GOP platform to be drafted this summer. That leaves Mitt Romney in serious trouble. More

February 23, 2012
Barack 'Bad Fruit' Obama Redefines Christianity
Jeannie DeAngelis
At the National Prayer Breakfast, partial "bitter clinger" Barack Obama, missing only a gun, tried to tell the crowd of 3,000 that he was a Scripture-quoting, Bible-toting Christian. More

February 23, 2012
Son of Marx
Jeffrey Folks
Clearly, Obama is not the son of Islam, or of Christianity, but he is very much the son of Marx. More

February 23, 2012
The Iranian Plan to Annihilate the Jews
Reza Kahlili
A well-known strategist within the Iranian government has introduced a new doctrine not only to destroy Israel in a preemptive attack, but to commit to genocide and kill the Jewish people. More

February 23, 2012
Reza Kahlili and the Truth About Iran
Pamela Geller
Pamela Geller interviews the former CIA agent inside Iran's bloodthirsty Revolutionary Guards. More

February 22, 2012
Obama the Lawbreaker versus the Catholic Church
Richard Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons
In response to the Obama administration mandate requiring Catholic institutions to pay for contraception coverage, U.S. Catholic bishops announced that they will not "obey" that "law." The bishops have gotten it wrong and backwards. More

February 22, 2012
Media Power Defining Santorum
Steve McCann
A grossly unfair and disgusting bit of character assassination, but it will be effective. More

February 22, 2012
Sharon Jasper: Obama's Vision For America
Lloyd Marcus
Sharon Jasper -- living in a voucher-backed apartment with hardwood floors and a 60-inch HD TV -- epitomizes the type of voter Obama seeks and is working to create. More

February 22, 2012
The Endless Party of the Party-Master-in-Chief
Mark Browning
Fat Tuesday is over. It's time to hand the reins of the United States over to the Wednesday party. More

February 22, 2012
Free Chocolates Next?
Mary Nicholas
Finally the announcement came from the Ministry of Health: there would be free contraceptives for all women in Workers' Paradise. No longer the wrenching choice between chips or contraception: proles can have both. More

February 22, 2012
Female Military Pioneer Running for Congress
Elise Cooper
Colonel Martha McSally, a Republican candidate running for Gabby Giffords' former congressional seat, has an interesting and highly decorated past. More

February 22, 2012
America's Best Fuel: 'A Moral and Religious People'
George Scaggs
As America's performance increasingly declines, John Adams's simple axiom beckons. More

February 21, 2012
How Obama Makes Decisions
Ed Lasky
There is a cliché in Washington. There are two things you do not want to see made: sausage and laws. To those we may add a third: Barack Obama's decisions. More

February 21, 2012
Obama Faces Fearful Political Geography in November
Adam Yoshida
The geographic concentration of much of President Obama's political support in a few large Blue States and urban areas means that he could be defeated for re-election this November even while winning the popular vote. More

February 21, 2012
Taking Socialism Seriously
Larrey Anderson
In a master/slave world there is no right or wrong. There are the strong and the weak (the rich and the poor). Socialism sees the world through the prism of master/slave. More

February 21, 2012
Reports of the Tea Party's Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Sally Zelikovsky
According to some in the press, the Tea Party is all but dead. Or is that just wishful thinking? More

February 21, 2012
All Hail Obama
Harvey M. Sheldon
The willingness of the White House to exceed the Constitutional powers of the President and assert authority beyond that directed in federal statutes is starting to show up more frequently. More

February 21, 2012
Nelson Rockefeller's Lesson for Mitt Romney
Chris DeSanctis
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, out-funded and out-organized, is winning presidential primaries and caucuses because of Mitt Romney's Rockefeller problem. More

February 21, 2012
The Problem With Intellectuals
Richard F. Miniter
The one individual upon whom the entire Left-Wing Liberal movement depends, and must depend for its galvanic power: the liberal intellectual. More

February 20, 2012
The Obama Obfuscation Alliance
Steve McCann
When faced with an issue they do not care to discuss the Obama administration is doing what any adolescent would do -- change the subject. More

February 20, 2012
Does Israel Have to Defend the West?
James Lewis
After three and a half years of bowing low to Dark Ages tyrants and shafting our democratic friends, with Iranian nukes well on the way, the Deep Thinkers of Foggy Bottom are now worried sick that Israel might attack Iran. More

February 20, 2012
Media Matters For America vs. An Ordinary American
Jack Cashill
With the creepy mischief of Media Matters for America (MMFA) much in the news, I thought it might be useful to show how the Soros-funded MMFA conspires to keep even a semi-obscure, self-employed scribe like me in check. More

February 20, 2012
From Obama, What Next?
Warren Beatty
We have witnessed President Barack Obama, and his administration, issue edicts, work against and/or ignore the US Constitution and Congress, and be inconsistent when it suits him. What's next? More

February 20, 2012
The Heartland Institute Flap
S. Fred Singer
Opponents of the free-market think-tank use fraud to extract private documents but are tripped up when they forge a Confidential Planning Memorandum More

February 20, 2012
Georgia and Birthright Citizenship
Cindy Simpson
Some interesting events have been transpiring in Georgia over the last few weeks. At least, that is, in the right wing blogosphere's view -- the mainstream media orchestrated a complete blackout. More

February 20, 2012
Being Kevin Johnson
M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane
Retired NBA star, first black mayor of Sacramento, leading light of the education reform movement, close friend of Barack and Michelle Obama, and a man with a history of sexual harassment allegations. More

February 20, 2012
A Budget Rear-View Mirror
Christopher Chantrill
How did the federal government's budget estimates compare with actual outcomes? More

February 19, 2012
Leni Riefenstahl: Congratulations on the HHS Regulations
Clarice Feldman
A memo to our president from Leni. More

February 19, 2012
Who Truly Deserves a State? The Kurds or the Palestinians?
Victor Sharpe
The Kurdish experiment has shown the world a decent society, where all its inhabitants enjoy far greater freedoms than can be found anywhere else in the Arab and Muslim world. More

February 19, 2012
Islam Detoxification
Amil Imani
The bottom line is this blind dependency on toxic Islam that promises and provides easy answers for much of humanity's underclass. More

February 19, 2012
Foreign Aid and American Priorities
Shoshana Bryen
If the minimal condition is that American money should advance American interests, it is worth considering money spent on the Palestinian Authority and on Egypt, as well as in support of what remains of the "Arab Spring." More

February 19, 2012
Mitt Romney's Cross of Gold?
Douglas Flint
Capitalism itself is under attack by the Left once again, and will be an issue in the presidential election. Before conservatives commit to a full throated defense, they should consider a few political realities. More

February 19, 2012
Lost in the Magoo: Women and the Great Political Divide
Jan Whitt
Women pride themselves on engaging compassionately and productively with one another and encouraging harmony in their families. More

February 19, 2012
The Left's Hatred of Religion
T.R. Clancy
You can't count on people to defend religious liberty who view religion as an unwelcome survivor of the grim past, like polio, the plague, or monogamous heterosexuality. More

February 19, 2012
Our Father, Who Art in Washington
Ebben Raves
When the state eliminates God, the state becomes god. And the state is a jealous god, especially when it takes guidance from a book dedicated to Lucifer. More

February 19, 2012
Hatred versus Occupation
Yonatan Silverman
The concept of Israeli "occupation" of Palestine is a bag of wind. More

February 19, 2012
Griswold vs. Obama
Michael Barry
Taking serious the right to privacy in the bedroom. More

February 19, 2012
Why is the Catholic Church Surprised?
Trevor Thomas
The Catholic Church teaches that health care is "a basic human right," and has been very supportive of the idea of the U.S. federal government implementing universal healthcare. More

February 19, 2012
When Conservatives Wax Liberal: Is Sex a Qualification?
Selwyn Duke
Is it a conservative position that only women are qualified to comment on abortion? More

February 18, 2012
Obama Perverts Ex-Im Bank into Competitor for Domestic Banks
John F. Di Leo
Acting without any legal authority, President Obama has overridden the federal charter of the Export-Import Bank, and turned it into a competitor for domestic loan business, in utter defiance of the law. More

February 18, 2012
The Big Picture on Why the Palestinians Always Say 'No'
Jack Schwartzwald
The notion that Israel bears any (much less primary) responsibility for the absence of peace or Palestinian statehood is a difficult case to make. More

February 18, 2012
Project Gunrunner Wasn't Fast and Furious by Any Means
Russ Vaughn
Liberals are jumping all over the falsehood that Fast & Furious was conceived and put into play during the Bush Administration as Project Gunrunner. More

February 18, 2012
Are Conservatives with Ginsburg or the Founders on the Constitution?
Selwyn Duke
In truth, while conservatives generally mean well, most just play at constitutionalism. More

February 18, 2012
The Car Bomb: From Belfast to Baghdad
Mohammad I. Aslam
The use of remote car bombs is still a phenomenon which conflicts around the world have failed to overcome, and with good reason. More

February 18, 2012
Does Ryan Now Agree with Gingrich?
Kevin Tharp
There is a perception lingering about Newt Gingrich that he was a critic of Paul Ryan's budget plan and therefore a critic of conservative fiscal policy in the House of Representatives. More

February 18, 2012
The Myth and Danger of Non-Interventionism
Josh Holler
Simply put, returning to a period of isolationism is not an option for the United States, and no reasonable person should argue for it. More

February 18, 2012
War, Tragedy, and Hope
Jim Mahoney
Many are beginning to realize that saving the republic involves much more than the ballot box. More

February 18, 2012
Enfant Terrible, or Why are American Parents Inferior?
M.J. Braun
Where conservative Americans and the French can find common ground. More

February 18, 2012
Sexy Sports
Noel S. Williams
Feminists are getting their panties in a twist because women's sports garner more attention by costuming beautiful athletes in sexy garb. More

February 18, 2012
Obama and the Negotiator's Tactic
Russell Nagelkirk
There is a pattern to how Obama has advanced the project of a command and control economy -- i.e. fascism with a veneer of capitalism. More

February 18, 2012
TANSTAAFL
Jim Yardley
No, TANSTAAFL isn't a new type of Swedish meatball. Nor is it the name of a solar-powered sauna. More

February 17, 2012
Lessons From Obama's Home State
Chad Stafko
What's happening in Illinois is a reminder of how destructive tax policy and bloated government can be on a people. More

February 17, 2012
Thank you, sir! May I have another?
Lauri B. Regan
As China continues to finance Obama's disgraceful and irresponsible spending spree, what is the Debtor-in-Chief to do but bend over to that country's future president and say, "Thank you, sir! May I have another?" More

February 17, 2012
Unions and Government: A Suicide Pact for Everyone
Jim Yardley
The relationship between the U.S. Department of Labor and the NLRB flies in the face of economic reality, although it does fit nicely with Obama's re-election strategy. More

February 17, 2012
American Politics in One Easy Lesson
Michael Bargo Jr.
It's really not that complicated. More

February 17, 2012
Conservatives Lose on Health Care Mandate
Jason Pappas
The recent Obama mandate for universal birth control gave the Republicans an opportunity to fight for individual liberty -- and they missed it by a mile. More

February 17, 2012
Rationing our Rights
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
They said it would never lead to rationing. But rationing is already here. Under the latest assault by the Obama administration, they are rationing our rights. More

February 17, 2012
John Louis Esposito for the Defense (of an Alleged Would-be Terrorist)
Stephen Schwartz
Professor John Louis Esposito of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. has found a second calling -- as a court expert in the trials of accused Muslim radicals. More

February 17, 2012
Beware the ObamaCare Win-Win
Randall Smith
The cold calculus behind the contraceptive mandate on religious organizations. More

February 16, 2012
Obama's Catholic Church Gambit: Lessons from American Communists
Paul Kengor
Did Obama take a lesson from childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis in taking on the Roman Catholic Church? More

February 16, 2012
Can Michelle Obama's Media Blitz Erase Her 'Angry Black Woman' Image?
Janice Shaw Crouse
Trying to re-sculpt her image into that of a pro-America, pro-military, and patriotic mom who is fun-loving and pleasant to be around. More

February 16, 2012
The Rising Fever of Despotism
Lee DeCovnick
The United States now suffers the fever of despotism, in great part because Congress has relentlessly abrogated its sworn constitutional duty. More

February 16, 2012
The End of the Race Card?
Vaughan Starr
Just think of the reaction the last time a liberal talking head played the card. Was there fear? Or, instead, outright derision? More

February 16, 2012
The False Promise of Contraception
Keith Riler
"Contraception reduces unintended pregnancies" has joined its fantastic make-believe friends "death with dignity," the "efficacy" of embryonic stem cells, and the "certainty" of man-made global warming, in the leftist vernacular. More

February 16, 2012
The Ministry of PropOganda
William Sullivan
Here come the 2 million Obama "Truth Team" members. More

February 16, 2012
Contraception, Churches, and the Left's Phony Argument
J. Robert Smith
Liberal talking heads, like little wind-up toy soldiers, have been all over the airwaves, yakking about the supremacy of "women's health" and what a majority of Catholic women are supposed to want. More

February 15, 2012
Impeach Them All
Monty Pelerin
Obama is a problem on many levels. But he is merely a product of the corrupt system. Both parties have lost their will to do what is right and what they are legally obligated to do More

February 15, 2012
Obama, the Great
William L. Gensert
Our President has never been more than an epigone of a great man. And the cold glare of history will see Barack Obama for the man he truly is. More

February 15, 2012
Renewable Green Nuclear Energy: Here, Now
Alan Aszkler with Stephen Tauriello
Yes, renewable green nuclear technology does exist. It was invented in Oak Ridge, Tennessee decades ago! More

February 15, 2012
Politics and the President's Pill. Are They Healthy for Women?
Mary Nicholas
There is an regarding the recent HHS mandate that lies beyond the grave religious and constitutional issues therein: do contraceptives harm women's health? More

February 15, 2012
Brace Yourself for the Santorum Smears
Tom Thurlow
As Santorum has become the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, we can expect to see a wave of negative ad hominem attacks against him not only from competing Republicans, but also from the media, academia, and Hollywood. More

February 15, 2012
Unequal Protection Under the Health Care Law
Hal Scherz
It is not surprising that during President Obama's State of the Union address, there was no mention of the Affordable Care Act. More

February 15, 2012
The Abramoff Effect
Bernie Reeves
From campus conservative activist to lobbyist to prison to pundit, Jack Abramoff's story has lessons worth learning. More

February 14, 2012
Are Libs Smarter?
Jeffrey Folks
Every teacher knows that one can make any group of kids look smart just by altering the content of the test. That is what's behind several studies purporting to show that liberals are smarter than conservatives. More

February 14, 2012
Liberals Forced to Bare Their Teeth
Christopher Chantrill
Liberals were a sorry spectacle this month, when they were forced to bare their teeth on the Planned Parenthood/Komen caper. A real hegemonic ruling class at the peak of its power doesn't need to make threats. More

February 14, 2012
Obama's Eligibility Diversion
Cindy Simpson
After almost four years into the reality of Obama's presidency, many Americans are beginning to wonder if the portrait painted by the media during the 2008 campaign was fiction. More

February 14, 2012
Thanks to Conservative 'Issues,' Obama Now Holds All The Cards
John Ziegler
It is becoming increasingly difficult to see how President Barack Obama is not re-elected, potentially by a healthy margin. More

February 14, 2012
There He Goes Again: Obama's Waivers to the No Child Left Behind Act
Mark W. Hendrickson
What is objectionable about Obama's waivers is not that he is neutering NCLB, but how and why he is doing it. More

February 14, 2012
Has the Tea Party Peaked?
Perry Fisher
What has been gained stands to be lost. More

February 14, 2012
Health Care Overreach: Federalism and Federal Mandates
Randall Smith
Let's see whether I can make the consternation over the HHS mandate a little clearer to our liberal friends. More

February 13, 2012
Barack Obama: In the Footsteps of Twentieth Century Despots
Steve McCann
How many times will the American people have to be hit over the head before they understand that Barack Obama is the most corrupt, dictatorial and ideologically driven President in American history? More

February 13, 2012
OK Rush: You Own Santorum Surge
C. Edmund Wright
A strong case could be made that Rick Santorum owes much of the credit for his recent surge to Rush Limbaugh -- whether Rush wants that credit or not. More

February 13, 2012
Why the Babies? Why?
Lloyd Marcus
Why are these leftist blacks more loyal to their Holy Grail of abortion than they are to their fellow blacks -- all the while claiming that rich white Republicans and the Tea Party are the enemies of black America? More

February 13, 2012
Bullying Statists Are Destroying Private Philanthropy
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
The bureaucrats and lawyers who regulate charities tend to be big-government statists who disrespect private property and other constitutional rights. They are ruining private philanthropy. More

February 13, 2012
CNN Tilts East, Fires 4 Jewish Journalists in Jerusalem
Michael Widlanski
CNN has reportedly fired most of the Jews in its Jerusalem bureau, cutting half the bureau but leaving Arab workers and reviving charges of CNN's pro-Arab slant. More

February 13, 2012
No More Evasion: Mr. Obama Chooses to 'Scare the Bear'
James G. Wiles
In standing pat on his DHHS regulations, President Obama has framed the issue for November's election. More

February 13, 2012
Can We Rely on the Executive Branch for Unsullied Data?
Jim Yardley
What good are unemployment statistics if the footnotes run ten times as long as the statistics themselves? More

February 12, 2012
Won't You Come Home Bill Daley?
Clarice Feldman
How the geniuses in the White House got themselves into a damaging battle against religious liberty. More

February 12, 2012
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
J.R. Dunn
Obama has elevated 2012 from an ordinary electoral campaign to the archetypal tale of the foolish, proud mortal taking up arms against eternity. And we all know how that one ends. More

February 12, 2012
American Sniper
Elise Cooper
American Thinker interviews former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle on his bestselling book and the savage enemy he fought in Iraq. More

February 12, 2012
Litigating for Israel
Jerold S. Auerbach
How an Israeli lawyer with a mission has stymied enemies of Israel. More

February 12, 2012
Viability for Me, but Not for Thee
Keith Riler
You may not have heard the story of Amelia Rivera, a beautiful three-year-old Philadelphia girl denied a kidney transplant because she was considered "mentally retarded." More

February 12, 2012
Alan Dershowitz Says Media Matters Could Cost Obama the Election
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Unapologetically pro-Israel Alan Dershowitz takes on noted BDS advocate Max Blumenthal. More

February 12, 2012
Fond Memories of Ronnie
Lloyd Marcus
Our 40th president's birthday earlier this month caused me to reflect upon how Ronald Reagan impacted my life. More

February 12, 2012
Christians and the Democratic Party
Albin Sadar
Why do so many Christians almost blindly enter the voting booth every two years and pull the lever for the Democrats? More

February 12, 2012
The Contraception Commandment And The Progressive Religion
Mercer Tyson
The Progressive Religion, under the guise of government, is forcing its religious views on everyone else. More

February 12, 2012
The Limits Of Obama's Pro-Israel Pronouncements
Abraham Katsman
Enough already. How many times do we Americans in Israel need to hear the ludicrous claim that this is actually the most pro-Israel administration in history? More

February 12, 2012
There Was Never a Country Called Palestine
Jerrold L. Sobel
Let's try taking the U.N.'s demands of Israel and applying them to other countries around the world. More

February 12, 2012
The Poor Palestinians
Ted Belman
If you thought the title was referring to the Palestinians living in Gaza, or even Judea and Samaria, you were wrong. More

February 12, 2012
Calling Obama's Fairness Bluff
Arnold Cusmariu
Democrats routinely portray Republicans as greedy, heartless, unprincipled Gordon Gekko clones. More

February 11, 2012
How Obama Betrayed His Constituents, and Why They Won't Care
William Sullivan
Sometimes, when a governing body betrays its indoctrinated masses, the betrayal is easily spun to be for their benefit. More

February 11, 2012
How Incompetence and Malfeasance Infect the Voting Process
Janet Levy
Violations of the voting process are manifold and include incompetence, fraud, partisanship, and intimidation or thuggery. Fortunately, people are finally starting to catch on. More

February 11, 2012
Why Obama Loves Ginsburg Best
Jan LaRue
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a taxpayer-funded trip to Egypt where she advised Egyptians to look elsewhere than the U.S. Constitution in drafting their own. More

February 11, 2012
When the Sun Was His Smile
Rick Richman
A review of In Darkness, one of this year's five nominees for Best Foreign Film. More

February 11, 2012
It's Bush's Fault
Victor Volsky
As much as Obama loves this old hobby-horse, one thing in particular really is Bush's fault. More

February 11, 2012
North Carolina Apologizes for Past Sterilizations. What about the Present?
Casey Mattox
A task force's new findings have uncovered North Carolinians who were sterilized as recently as 1974. But is this really just a sad chapter of North Carolina's past? More

February 11, 2012
The Revealing Moon Debate
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
Through a trick of rapid-fire debates and a lack of time to focus-group their opinions, the four remaining GOP candidates managed to express what they really think in the Florida debate. Now we can really examine their economic plans. More

February 11, 2012
We Must Remember, Too
Mike Landry
License plates in Quebec have a slogan "Je souviens," French for "I remember." Within the United States is a growing movement of people who also remember. More

February 11, 2012
No Warming for Fifteen Years. But Does It Even Matter?
Vaughan Starr
The most quotidian data can make for revelations when scientists become priests. More

February 11, 2012
Has the Constitution Lost Its Sex Appeal?
Jim Yardley
From the New York Times to President Obama, people seem to think that our Constitution is passé. More

February 10, 2012
America Desperately Needs A Hero...but Who?
Lloyd Marcus
Obama needs to go in November, for America's sake. But who will replace him? More

February 10, 2012
Israeli Deterrence and Dolphins
Jonathan F. Keiler
Israel appears to be in the process of creating the world's first nuclear counter-strike force based on small conventionally powered submarines armed with long range cruise missiles More

February 10, 2012
The Great Election Undercurrent
Melanie Kowalski
The candidate who taps into this undercurrent, gives it voice, and is able to draw distinctive contrasts between his vision for the future vs. our current state, will be able to beat Obama. More

February 10, 2012
On the Church, the Military, and the Descent into Tyranny
Fay Voshell
A government without free institutions which act independently to correct, temper, and resist the monopolist impulses of an all-powerful state will find its moral strength quickly dissipating. More

February 10, 2012
The Political Reality Behind the HHS Mandate
Janice Shaw Crouse
Coldly political calculations set the stage for the health policy mandates that shred religious liberty. More

February 10, 2012
Ten Things to Consider Before Launching an Attack against Iran
Neil Snyder
Should the worst-case scenario occur, it is helpful to consider what we know about Iran's Islamist rulers and their line of attack in previous military engagements. More

February 10, 2012
It's the Leadership, Stupid
James V Capua
The recent anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth brought home why so many have been discouraged by the Republican primaries. More

February 9, 2012
The Underlying Issue of the 2012 Campaign
Steve McCann
Though it's easily ignored, the very foundation of the 2012 elections is the angst of the American people. More

February 9, 2012
Will 'Known Unknowns' Put Romney into the White House?
Michael Filozof
How the emerging "Super-PACs" could land an undeserving and uninspiring candidate a seat in the Oval Office. More

February 9, 2012
Turnout Proves That Mitt Really Did Scorch the Earth
C. Edmund Wright
Mitt Romney's scorched-earth campaign might serve him in the primary, but it is a surefire losing strategy in the general. More

February 9, 2012
Tarnished Halos
J.R. Dunn
Behold the halo organization: a left-wing entity whose unassailable reputation masks untold quantities of internal rot. The Komen Foundation could take Planned Parenthood as an example. More

February 9, 2012
First Global Warming - Now Global Sweetening!
Jim Yardley
From the same sort of academic busybodies who gave us the ever-popular global warming panic comes a new prediction of catastrophe. More

February 9, 2012
Is Exporting Democracy Subversive?
Robert Weissberg
Egypt's Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi certainly seems to think so. More

February 9, 2012
The Obama Ballot Challenges: A Crisis of Confidence
Monte Kuligowski
Reasonable doubt will remain as to Barack Obama's eligibility to be president until the Supreme Court squares the Constitution's requirements with the facts of Obama's parentage and conflicting allegiances at birth. More

February 8, 2012
How to Win the Marriage Debate
Selwyn Duke
The flaw in the Ninth Circuit's (and most everyone else's) reasoning. More

February 8, 2012
How Dangerous Is Obama?
James Lewis
This nuclear brinkmanship with Iran is simply characteristic of Barack Obama and left-of-leftist maniacs like him. More

February 8, 2012
Let's Stop Obama-ing Apart
Christopher Chantrill
There are four pillars to ensure a successful society...and the Obama administration is chipping away at all of them. More

February 8, 2012
CPAC for Sissies: Self-Censoring for Sharia
Pamela Geller
CPAC starts tomorrow, but one particular subject of incredible import to conservatives is absent from the roster...or at least, it's almost absent. More

February 8, 2012
Obama's War against Catholics
Keith Riler
Between the Army's squelching military chaplains and Obama's recent contraception edict against the church, there is no doubt that a state-sponsored war on Catholicism is actively underway. More

February 8, 2012
Voter Integrity Laws Gathering Momentum across the U.S.
Elise Cooper
Contra the Holder DOJ, states across the Union are ramping up protections against fraudulent voting. More

February 8, 2012
I Will Pay My "Fair Share" of Taxes When...
Robert J. Mack
President Obama is being totally unfair to the people he wants to tax in order to pay for his dream of an evenhanded America. So here's when I'll pay my fair share. More

February 8, 2012
Understanding Unemployment Statistics
Chris W. Bell
It may come as a surprise that according to the federal government, an out-of-work person who who scours every available newspaper's want ads every morning and visits every job search website on the web with no luck may not be counted as unemployed. More

February 7, 2012
Will We Have a 'Fair' Election in 2012?
Gene Schwimmer
What if a computer can predict the results of the 2012 election, no matter whom we nominate? More

February 7, 2012
No Sex, Many Lies, One Videotape, and a Soldier's Unnecessary Death
James Simpson
The Army is misleadingly using the Geneva Conventions to justify ridiculous rules regarding the deployment of medevac helicopters -- and soldiers are dying as a result. More

February 7, 2012
So You Say You Want a Revolution?
Ebben Raves
Better think twice before you start sharpening that pitchfork. More

February 7, 2012
Turning towards Santorum
N. Richard Greenfield
Mitt Romney is not inevitable, and neither is Barack Obama. But to turn the odds against both of them, we'll need Newt Gingrich to perform a truly heroic act. More

February 7, 2012
Enough Oil?
Jeffrey Folks
Leftists insist that we can get by on the oil we have, but this is utter nonsense. More

February 7, 2012
Komen Disgraces Its Own Cause
Peter Heck
In less time than it takes to scald a child to death with a saline injection into the womb, a rabid pro-abortion lobby descended like vultures upon the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. Call it Planned Parenthood's war on choice. More

February 7, 2012
The Real America
Bruce Walker
The media isn't overeager to say so, but conservatives still outnumber liberals in America with breathtaking consistency. More

February 6, 2012
Americans Are Better Than Who Obama Thinks We Are
Lloyd Marcus
It is extremely disheartening that the president of the United States believes he can win the votes of a majority of Americans by exploiting the sin of covetousness and hatred for the rich. More

February 6, 2012
If Fox Fails Us
Bruce Walker
Rupert Murdoch may be the only one keeping Fox News conservative. But the possible fall of Fox shouldn't worry right-leaning people for a couple of reasons. More

February 6, 2012
The Civil Rights Movement's Wrong Turn
Bill Flax
This February, let's acknowledge several forgotten heroes from black history. More

February 6, 2012
Bringing Electricity to an Indian Hogan
Henry Percy
Would you spend $60,000 to install solar generating equipment on an Indian hogan? I, and all those who pay their bills to my local utility, have. More

February 6, 2012
Santorum the 'Good Son'? Not So Much.
C. Edmund Wright
Much like the good son in the biblical parable, thin-skinned Rick Santorum has shown a fair amount of open resentment over the embrace conservatives have given prodigal Newt Gingrich upon the latter's return to the conservative scene. But is Santorum even entitled to feel this way? More

February 6, 2012
Health Care: The Straw That Should Break Newtmania's Back
Calvin Freiburger
The idea that Newt Gingrich would be preferable to Mitt Romney on health care is about as unserious as it gets. More

February 6, 2012
America after Obama
Jeff Lukens
Barack Obama has gone from the "one we've been waiting for" to the one we can't wait to kick out. More

February 5, 2012
We're All Nonprofit Now
Clarice Feldman
I have been watching over the years as non-profit foundations enormously have increased their assets and sway over the political and cultural life of America (essentially on our dime) with no real oversight or controls. More

February 5, 2012
The Fatal Backward Step: Penn State's Public Relations Catastrophe
William A. Levinson
Be it in war, politics, or business crisis management, it's rarely the initial threat that kills you. It's far more important to pay attention to how you handle that threat. More

February 5, 2012
The Left's Genocide of Minorities
Mary Nicholas
Genocide is a trademark of the left, and abortion follows in that grim tradition. More

February 5, 2012
America's One True Religion
Jon N. Hall
Just as in Europe, traditional religion is losing its sway in America, and a substitute religion is taking hold. It's especially glaring in the world of sports. More

February 5, 2012
A World Tax? Keep Your Eyes on the Internet
Neil Snyder
We are moving toward a global government with teeth. More

February 5, 2012
Strategic Attrition Still the Goal of Israel's Enemies
C. Hart
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz speaks of the many threats to the Jewish State in 2012. More

February 5, 2012
Harvard's Middle East Outreach Center: Propaganda for Teachers
Stephen Schwartz
Not as flamboyant as the Georgetown installment, but just as insidious. More

February 5, 2012
A Linguistic Ghetto?
Malcolm Unwell
Whether Newt Gingrich was right about Spanish as a "language of the ghetto" is immaterial. Policies, not words, will affect the extent to which Spanish rivals English as the dominant language in the U.S. More

February 5, 2012
A Muslim Apostate Sings the West's Praises
Pamela Geller
In Why the West Is Best, Ibn Warraq lauds the Western civilization that is, in every sense, superior to the Islamic civilization that is challenging the West every which way nowadays. More

February 5, 2012
The Tobin Tax: Stealing from Not Just the Rich
James E. Miller
With the G8 Summit in Chicago approaching, no leftist protest is complete without a full-throated demand for implementation of the Tobin tax. More

February 5, 2012
Hezb'allah's Missiles
Mohammed I. Aslam
The guerrilla movement's increasing missile capacity is raising the Israeli state's level of insecurity to dangerous new levels. More

February 5, 2012
A Real Person for President
Gary Horne
In the 2008 election, an image won the presidential election. Let's have something substantial this time around. More

February 5, 2012
What's Fair
Michael Applebaum, MD
President Obama had a lot to say about "fair" in his State of the Union address. But "fairness" as policy is problematic. More

February 4, 2012
Obama Wins Georgia Ballot Challenge
Cindy Simpson
Judge Malihi took note of and relied upon on the established rule of statutory construction in his earlier order, but then made assertions contrary to that principle in his final decision More

February 4, 2012
The Wrath of the Abortion Movement Unleashed on Komen
Mary L. Davenport, MD
The vicious fury of pro-abortion lobby is the real story of the decision of the Komen foundation to detach itself from grants to Planned Parenthood. More

February 4, 2012
Tea Party Not Monolithic
Mark A. Skoda
About all we can say for certain about people who support the Tea Party movement is that they are as diverse in their support and opinions as is much of the Republican Party. More

February 4, 2012
Hesitatingly, Disappointedly, and Agonizingly...for Mitt
Ron Lipsman
Our prime goal must be to defeat Obama. More

February 4, 2012
The President at the Prayer Breakfast
Janice Shaw Crouse
For the informed listener, well in tune with the facts, the president provided a bumpy ride of cognitive dissonance. More

February 4, 2012
Sins of the (Grand)Fathers
Stu Tarlowe
Obama and Romney compared. More

February 4, 2012
Obama's Debt-Solving Plan: Tax the Rich, Not the Rest
Brenton Stransky
The Occupy movement and the president either don't realize or purposely neglect to mention that our country has one of the most level economic playing fields of any country that has ever been. More

February 4, 2012
When Obama Came into Office...
Yossi Gestetner
Liberals always rely on the "inherited economy" argument when defending Obama. So let's remember exactly how things were when Obama came into office. More

February 4, 2012
Obama's SOTU: Still No Manufacturing Jobs
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
In his January 24 State of the Union speech, President Obama argued that American manufacturing is already coming back under his presidency. But his actual record on manufacturing jobs is dismal. More

February 4, 2012
President Clinton on the Future of the Democrats and America
Sam Mikolaski
Not only Republicans and independents, but also Democrats especially should pay attention to what Bill Clinton says in his recently published book (Back to Work, 2011). More

February 4, 2012
Public Safety: Voluntary Industry Standards vs. Government Regulation
Bruce Thompson
When it's life and death, you have to decide whether government regulations or voluntary industry standards will save you. More

February 4, 2012
The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (Andrew C. McCarthy)
Karen Lugo
According to Andrew McCarthy, the alliance between sharia-advancing Islamists and the left is the most significant betrayal yet of claimed liberal causes like equal protection and basic civil rights. More

February 4, 2012
Tax Reality vs. Liberal Propaganda
Paul Revere
Let's see how the platitudes of people like Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren stand up to the facts of the world we actually live in. More

February 3, 2012
Covering Up Fast & Furiously
Russ Vaughn
If you set a plan into motion that has no provision for achieving the stated goal of that plan, you most probably are in reality looking to achieve another goal More

February 3, 2012
Two Bad Days for the GOP
Steve McCann
The Democrats and the Obama re-election machine have sat by and watched the Republican Follies over the past 48 hours, and by doing nothing they have gathered manna from heaven for the upcoming campaign. More

February 3, 2012
ACLU Fights Sunshine in Wisconsin Recall
Robert Knight
The ACLU has gotten itself into a hypocritical mess in Wisconsin, and now the recall petitions risk exposing voter fraud. More

February 3, 2012
SEAL Team 6: A Big Secret, Unless Obama Wants to Brag
Shoshana Bryen
Having to choose between siding with the Obama administration and siding with the ACLU is tough -- but the ACLU wins this one. More

February 3, 2012
Obama on Energy: An Exercise in Nuance
W.A. Beatty
Once upon a time, Al Gore invented the internet. Now, it seems, Barack Obama is the one who invented hydraulic fracking. More

February 3, 2012
How Israel Keeps Us Safe
Karin McQuillan
Obama's indifference to Israel's safety is a moral problem, but it is more than that. It poses a grave threat to our national security. More

February 3, 2012
Communists in Space
Ricardo Galván Estrada
Newt Gingrich's moon colony proposal may have been ridiculed by the media and his fellow Republican contenders, but it's big ideas like this that keep the American ethos going. More

February 3, 2012
How Many Are Thy Tents, O Jacob?

Lori Lowenthal Marcus
The entire community of Jewish organizations almost came to a consensus against anti-Israel propaganda this week...but one notable dissenter broke the chain. More

February 3, 2012
The government wants you to win a free house!
D.L. Hammack
Be very careful what you wish for. More

February 2, 2012
Underestimating Mitt and Newt
Jack Cashill
The man responsible for sharpening this year's field is Newt Gingrich, but Mitt Romney was plenty sharp from the beginning. More

February 2, 2012
Newt Struck Gold, Promptly Abandoned Mine
C. Edmund Wright
In South Carolina, Newt Gingrich correctly attributed his success to the fact that he had simply "articulated the deepest felt values of the American people." Those values are still ready and eager to be tapped. More

February 2, 2012
Why There is 'Too Much' Money in Elections
Robert Weissberg
All this hand-wringing about evil money sidesteps the reasons for the increase in the expensiveness of campaigns year to year. More

February 2, 2012
Head Start: Can a Failed Program Ever Be Killed?
Charles N.W. Keckler and Ryan L. Cole
It is finally dawning on liberals that Head Start, America's 50-year experiment with early childhood education, is a failure. More

February 2, 2012
Digital Piracy Madness
Anthony J.Ciani
Most people would think, "Stealing intellectual property should be illegal." They are correct, but neither SOPA nor PIPA makes stealing intellectual property any more illegal than it already is. More

February 2, 2012
Fiscal Skills: Romney vs. Obama
Chad Stafko
Let's put the financial and management skills of President Barack Obama up against his potential opponent in the presidential election, Mitt Romney. More

February 2, 2012
Too Beautiful for You
Arnold Cusmariu
From Picasso back to Mohammed, a brief history of kallphobia -- the fear and hatred of beauty. More

February 1, 2012
Are Big Media Covering Up Fast and Furious?
M. Catharine Evans
Not since Lenin gathered his fellow Bolsheviks together in 1912 at the Prague conference to plan the publication of Pravda has there been such an all-out effort to quash facts that out in the open might bring down a regime More

February 1, 2012
Another Black History Month: The Left's Favorite Time of the Year
Lloyd Marcus
Alas, another Black History Month...or as the left likes to view it, their annual "Opportunity To Exploit Race Month." More

February 1, 2012
Mitt's Scorched Earth Win
C. Edmund Wright
While Mitt Romney may have taken a step closer to the nomination Tuesday in Florida, the scorched earth he leaves behind tells me he took a few steps further away from the White House More

February 1, 2012
Hey GOP! Do You Hear Your Fed Up, Fired Up Base?
Janice Shaw Crouse
The GOP grassroots voters are not just angry at the radical left; they are angry at the go-along-to-get-along, country-club Republicans who are hung up on the power that big government confers and the spoils that go with it. More

February 1, 2012
Is Michelle Obama America's Agent Provocateur?
Jeannie DeAngelis
Michelle Obama pays absolutely no mind to public indignation over things like wearing a $2,000 sundress to church. Now we find out that the first lady may have filled a van with $600 corsets at a high-end Madison Avenue girdle shop. More

February 1, 2012
The State Ruling the Church
Fay Voshell
The real issue is not birth control or the provision of it by Catholic organization. The central issue is government intimidation of and control over religious institutions. More

February 1, 2012
Project Obama: A Puppetmaster or a Puppet?
Victor Volsky
With not a single trait of a true leader in evidence, Barack Obama is not the engine of the radical-left juggernaut, but merely its hood ornament. More

February 1, 2012
The New Egypt: Bankrupt and Sinking Fast
Rob Miller
Egypt is heading for some very uneasy times. More