Articles
April 30, 2012
Obama's Nakba
James Lewis
President Obama's Middle East nightmare. More
April 30, 2012
Work 'til You Drop: Is that such a bad idea?
Ellen Meade
Maybe it's time for politicians to stop pandering when it comes to shoring up Social Security and instead rethink the retirement entitlement altogether. More
April 30, 2012
Was BP's Kurt Mix a Criminal or a Hero?
Bruce Thompson
The FBI has arrested a former BP drilling and completions project engineer, Kurt Mix. More
April 30, 2012
From Russia with Love (of Oil and Gas)
Jeffrey Folks
Imagine a president who gets behind drilling, welcomes the cutting-edge technology of companies such as ExxonMobil, and offers generous 15-year tax breaks to ensure that new drilling projects move forward. Meet Vladimir Putin. More
April 30, 2012
How Romney can Supercharge Conservatives
Bruce Walker
The scornful treatment of Ann Romney by the media may have touched a deep nerve in the otherwise profoundly sedate Romney. The campaign may reveal this Romney more. More
April 30, 2012
Obama's Epic Green Fail
Warren Beatty
The sorry track record of Obama's green energy initiatives. More
April 30, 2012
Lessons from the Fall of Saigon
Shoshana Bryen
The 37th anniversary of the fall of Saigon today is a good time to review the utility of American security promises -- including those purchased with American blood -- to countries fighting ideologically based insurgencies. More
April 29, 2012
Acme Sharpened Pikes Report to Stockholders
Clarice Feldman
This Report highlights for our stockholders some of the events taking place in Washington DC and the consequences of those developments on our profit picture this year.
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April 29, 2012
Arizona v. United States: Reading the Tea Leaves of Oral Argument
Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson
The Constitution recognizes that there is such a thing as State borders, and the States can police their borders, even to the point of inspecting incoming shipments to exclude diseased material. More
April 29, 2012
Conservative Third-Party Dreams and Realities
Daren Jonescu
Third-party advocates among the right should take a long, hard look at how things worked out in this vein in Canada. More
April 29, 2012
Trayvon: 46 Days; Fast and Furious: 527 Days and Counting
M. Catharine Evans
The Attorney General of the State of Arizona should charge the Attorney General of the United States with negligent homicide in the deaths of Agents Terry, Zapata and Mexican nationals.
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April 29, 2012
Barack Obama: Tearing Catholics to Pieces
Keith Riler
...Not literally, of course, but when it comes to matters of faith, he's close enough. More
April 29, 2012
The ADA and Regulatory Overreach
Lee A. Heilig
We have to decide where to draw the line between accommodating the disabled and crippling businesses to the detriment of everyone. More
April 29, 2012
Does global warming cause extreme weather?
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
In short, there are two competing theories. The solar/cosmic ray theory successfully predicts weather and climate. The man-made global warming theory correctly predicts opinion polls. More
April 29, 2012
Sex, Lies, and School Bus Rides
Edward H. Stewart, Jr.
Why did conservatives seem shocked that a progressive administration would perpetrate an outrage against Catholics? More
April 29, 2012
The Death of Nation-States and the Rise of Empire
Fay Voshell
The European Union has set the entire continent on the fast track to a materialistic hell, and the United States is not far behind. More
April 29, 2012
Entitlement Addiction
Trevor Thomas
Never has there been a clearer manifestation of the addictiveness of our entitlement culture than what occurred recently in the state of Michigan -- not once, but twice.
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April 29, 2012
Raining Cats, Dogs, and Hypocrisy
Cindy Simpson
So many dog stories making headlines these days -- might cats be feeling a bit jealous?
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April 29, 2012
Single Payer Is Not the Answer
Deane Waldman
We may want, even pray for, a quick, simple, painless answer to big, hard problems. But the single-payer solution to our health care woes is not as simple or painless as its cheerleaders make it out to be. More
April 29, 2012
Disregard The Markets: Obama Knows What's Best For Us
Warren Beatty
Exactly the kind of market manipulation, favoritism, and pay-to-play politics that Obama promised would be over when he was elected. More
April 29, 2012
Eurabia Versus Wilders Agonistes
Andrew G. Bostom
A chronicling of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders' heroic campaign against the encroaching Islamization of Europe. More
April 29, 2012
Tennis And Politics
David Lawrence
"Keep it quiet," I tell Ben. "I love them but they're commies." It's funny saying they're commies to the son of the founder of the American Communist party.
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April 29, 2012
Civil Disobedience Is a Civic Responsibility
Frank Ryan
With the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers effectively signed their own death warrant. They would cringe at how comfortable we've become with giving up our liberty since then. More
April 28, 2012
Sexing the Dead
Marion DS Dreyfus
As with fish, fresh is best. After the wife has lain on the floor or divan for 7, 8, 10 hours, she is just not so appealing a sex object as she was when she was newly stricken, stroked, decapitated, or cardiac-arrested. More
April 28, 2012
Barack Obama 'Making History' Again
Jeannie DeAngelis
America has had 43 presidents, but only a handful of them are considered truly great. If you ask Michelle Obama, her husband Barack belongs in that handful. More
April 28, 2012
The Search for the 100-MPG Car
Dexter Wright
In the midst of ridiculous government regulations to regulate car engines, there may be a solution to our modern automobile's inefficiencies. More
April 28, 2012
Time for Univision and Telemundo to Man Up
Silvio Canto Jr
The two most widely consumed news media among Hispanics are shirking their enormous responsibility to keep America's Latino population informed. More
April 28, 2012
Frank Gaffney's Warning -- and Video Lessons -- for America
Jack Kemp
The president of the Center for Security Policy has issued a pointed warning and challenge to patriotic Americans when it comes to the stealth jihad occurring in our country. More
April 28, 2012
Wilders Agonistes
Andrew G. Bostom
A review-essay on Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me by Geert Wilders. More
April 28, 2012
A New Declaration of Independence
Eileen F. Toplansky
The Declaration applied to our own times, with Barack H. Obama II as the modern George III. More
April 28, 2012
Israel at 64
C. Hart
A little older, maybe, but a lot wiser. More
April 28, 2012
Tea Party Battles GOP Establishment in Texas Senate Race
Tom Thurlow
Ted Cruz's approach to the Senate is just the kind we need -- sort of a Matthew 24, not-one-stone-left-upon-another way of doing things. More
April 28, 2012
Fairness, Taxes, GPA, and Redistribution
W.A. Beatty
All this talk of "fairness" is just a smokescreen for the wide-scale implementation of socialism in America. Three recent articles demonstrate how. More
April 28, 2012
The Tim Tebow of the Army
Stephen D. Bryen
A memorial salute to Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate. More
April 27, 2012
Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft Machine
Jerome J. Schmitt
With the Solyndra, First Solar, Sunpower, Fisker, and related Obama administration Department of Energy scandals, President Obama is following a trail blazed by Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s. More
April 27, 2012
Sixty-Million Dollar Union Assault on Wisconsin Governor Walker
Gary Larson
No, it's no sneak attack. Nationwide unions spearheaded by the public employee unions, teachers' unions in the vanguard, have Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in their cross hairs. More
April 27, 2012
The Pentagon's New Defense Clandestine Service
Kerry Patton
Just as useless as all the other newly invented intelligence agencies. More
April 27, 2012
The ADL Must Be Stopped
Charles Jacobs & Ilya Feoktistov
The Jewish community's largest "defense" organization has adopted a policy not to speak up much about the global tsunami of Muslim anti-Semitism, but instead to campaign against "Islamophobia." More
April 27, 2012
Blue Dog Blues
Jerry Shenk
Blue Dogs are a dying breed in Congress. Good riddance to them. The Endangered Species Act should not be invoked to preserve them. More
April 27, 2012
It's Time for the New York Times to Face Reality
Neil Snyder
There are not enough buyers who are willing to pay the price for the Times' inferior content to support the company's cost structure. More
April 27, 2012
Three Murderous Ideologies: Nazism, Communism, and Militant Islam
William A. Levinson
Militant Islam has far more in common with Nazism and Communism than it does with any genuine religious faith. More
April 27, 2012
California Caves to Illegals
Elise Cooper
It appears that in California, those who are here illegally get the privileges. Rules and laws that legal residents had to abide by have been changed to accommodate those here illegally. More
April 26, 2012
Greenwich Village Republicans: They Do Exist!
Drew Belsky
Shockingly, you might like certain Greenwich Village Democrats better. More
April 26, 2012
Obama the Tragedy
William L. Gensert
A second term for Barack Obama will be a tragedy. His farcical first term barely hinted at the disaster awaiting America in Barack II. More
April 26, 2012
Mitt Needs to Weaponize Transparency
Carol A. Taber
If there's one area where President Obama is wholly vulnerable, it's his utter lack of transparency -- yet the presumptive Republican nominee is somehow losing this issue to the president. More
April 26, 2012
Obama's Dangerous, Futile Anti-Bullying Crusade
Robert Weissberg
When the federal government sticks its nose in tens of thousands of schools to stop bullying, everyone (except the federal government) loses. More
April 26, 2012
Resolving the Obama Birth Certificate Controversy
Arnold Cusmariu
What better way to resolve the BC issue than with science? A citizen-sleuth seeks answers from the most respected authorities. More
April 26, 2012
The Matricula Consular: The Only Card an Illegal Immigrant Will Ever Need
Michael Bargo Jr.
In 2005 the state of Illinois passed a law that stated that the matricula consular card functions as a valid ID. This means it can be used for voting. More
April 26, 2012
What's Iran Up To? 'We Know,' Says Netanyahu
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Media/State Department fixations are a perfect replay of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's feckless leadership during the "Phony War" with Hitler in 1939-40. More
April 25, 2012
You Are Left or You Are Left Behind: Lessons in Multicultural Cruelty
John Kenneth Press
Take a look at one of the most painful letters I have ever received. More
April 25, 2012
Remind Me Again, Which Party is Skeptical of the President's Religion?
Mendy Finkel
Liberals have informed us how incredibly insulting and borderline insane it is to even raise any doubts about the president's religious convictions, yet when one issue is involved, that is exactly what they do. More
April 25, 2012
Obama Wins Close or Loses Big
J. Robert Smith
Presidential election history gives us indications that Mr. Obama either squeaks back into the White House or gets an undignified boot in the back of his designer trousers. More
April 25, 2012
The Death Panel's Loving Embrace
Daren Jonescu
Here is an object lesson in how death panels -- also known more kindly as "palliative care" -- work in countries with socialized medicine. More
April 25, 2012
Why Israel Should, and Probably Will, Attack Iran
Norman Rogers
The Israelis can't afford to buy into the rosily pacifistic intentions nations around the world are projecting onto the Iranians. More
April 25, 2012
A Recovery That Never Comes
Jeffrey Folks
Just as the President was prepared to declare "mission accomplished," the economy is slipping back into the ditch, only it's no longer George Bush's ditch. This ditch is entirely of Obama's making. More
April 25, 2012
Clean Cities Cash Flow
Peter Wilson
Steven Chu's billion-dollar-a-month boondoggle -- two Solyndras a month! -- comes to Cambridge, Massachusetts. More
April 24, 2012
2012: The Art of Intimidation
Christopher Chantrill
Republicans this election year need to get with the program: if your people aren't out intimidating the opposition, then the opposition's people are intimidating you. More
April 24, 2012
Meet The Tarnished Bureaucrat Who Is Running Our Negotiations With Iran
Joel J. Sprayregen
The mind-boggling background of the person representing the interests of the civilized world in dealing with the nuclear ambitions of the mullahs? The most important person in the world you never heard of. More
April 24, 2012
Narrative Wars: How the GOP Can Win
Cindy Simpson
Will the GOP stop playing Charlie Brown to the media's Lucy? More
April 24, 2012
Big Brother's Next Target: Your Car
Brian Sussman
Many are quite concerned about Senate Bill 1813, a massive piece of legislation supposedly devoted to transportation issues but possibly representing the next step toward eco-tyranny. More
April 24, 2012
Where Are the Rolling Heads from NOAA?
Mike Johnson
The prostitute-patronizing Secret Service and the gluttonous GSA have received their comeuppance. But what about the money-burners at NOAA? More
April 24, 2012
But What about Justice for Zimmerman?
Lloyd Marcus
Folks, there is a downright scary connection between ObamaCare and the Trayvon Martin case. More
April 24, 2012
Romney Needs Jefferson
Jan LaRue
"Nice guys" get second chances. Obama must not. Making the case against a tyrannical king or the most radical president in U.S. history cannot be entrusted to faint-hearted moderates.
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April 23, 2012
Obama's Springtime of Discontent
Steve McCann
This has not been a spring of promise and renewal for the Obama administration; rather, it has been one of threadbare political tactics and demagoguery dying on the vine. More
April 23, 2012
Trayvon, Dee-Dee, and D.J.
Jeff Lipkes
The death of Trayvon Martin and the media games.
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April 23, 2012
Mike Wallace, Entertainment, and Journalism
G. Murphy Donovan
If air time and salary are measures of merit, Wallace was a television star and an unqualified success. Unfortunately, Mike Wallace's career echoes some of the more predatory traditions of broadcast journalism. More
April 23, 2012
The Generic Ballot Bomb
Bruce Walker
Presidential match-ups in the polls don't necessarily tell you much this far before an election, but another type of poll question does yield some very important results for Republicans to consider. More
April 23, 2012
Inventing Muhammad?
Robert Spencer
The numerous indications that the standard account of Muhammad's life is more legend than fact actually have considerable implications for the contemporary political scene. More
April 23, 2012
Iran: Obama Should Avoid Carter's Outcome
Reza Kahlili
The mullahs claim to have President Obama over a barrel as their press taunts him with Jimmy Carter. More
April 23, 2012
An Easy Way for President Obama to Pay His Fair Share
Marc Hopin
Here's a great way for Obama (and every other tax-me-more liberal) to alleviate his tax-guilt. More
April 22, 2012
This Week's Exploding Cigar: Obama, the Dog Eater
Clarice Feldman
Obama's crack campaign staff has -- with the aid of their media lapdogs -- set up a series of diversions, each of which is exploding in Obama's face like Wile E. Coyote's Acme exploding cigars.
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April 22, 2012
The Green Nazi Tycoon Alfred Toepfer
Mark Musser
A profile of yet another notorious Nazi to embrace environmentalism. More
April 22, 2012
Northeastern University Attacks Holocaust Survivors
Stella Paul
"Why would anyone want to give money to Northeastern University?" asks Holocaust survivor Helga Lustig. That's a question that many donors and parents may be asking More
April 22, 2012
Most Easter Lamb This Year Was Halal
Karen Lugo
Americans have a long history of rejecting coerced religion -- but widespread halal certification of American meat products has largely escaped notice. More
April 22, 2012
Help GAIA Save the Planet
Anthony J. Sadar and Susan T. Cammarata
Earth Day has been celebrated with reverence and fervency since 1970. And as the saying goes, "We started out to 'do good' and ended up 'doing well.'" More
April 22, 2012
Obama Suckering America into Loving Russia
Kim Zigfeld
The lies told by the Obama administration about Russia for the past four years have had devastating consequences...but top Republicans like John Boehner and Mitt Romney should take their share of the blame, too. More
April 22, 2012
Politics and Property Rights in Israel
Jerold S. Auerbach
What explains the persistent collaboration of Israeli politicians across party lines to deny the property rights of Jews where they have every historical and legal right to live? More
April 22, 2012
Is It Time to Occupy Credit Scores?
Odysseas Papadimitriou
Here's why we must listen to Occupy Wall Street's Alternative Banking Group when it calls for credit reform...while at the same time ignoring most of the group's specific recommendations. More
April 21, 2012
Deconstructing the 99%ers
Marion DS Dreyfus
A bleachers-eye view of nonviolent tactic training of the 99%. More
April 21, 2012
In the Age of Obama, the Eagle Has Fallen
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
With the ceremonial interment of the shuttle Discovery still fresh, it's clear that if a Democrat in the White House is inevitable, it's better to have a John F. Kennedy than a Barack Obama. More
April 21, 2012
Taxing Thoughts from Justice Sotomayor
Jon N. Hall
By replacing ObamaCare's current funding mechanism with an actual tax (where revenue goes into the coffers of the U.S. Treasury), Sotomayor would be exposing millions of Americans to the largest tax hike of their lives. More
April 21, 2012
A Very Simple Job Description
Jim Yardley
President Obama complains constantly that his job is made harder because of the negative slant of the Constitution. That's quite a claim when the Constitution devotes only 322 words to the president's job. More
April 21, 2012
Allan Bloom: Remembering the Teacher
Daren Jonescu
This spring marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Bloom's best-selling philosophical polemic, The Closing of the American Mind. The time is ripe to asess the impact of the man and his work. More
April 21, 2012
Proclaiming Emancipation: Following Reagan on Abortion
Frank Cannon & Chuck Donovan
When it comes to abortion, Ronald Reagan took the same tack as Abraham Lincoln. It's up to Congress to finish the job. More
April 21, 2012
Is It Too Late to Save the Constitutional Republic?
Kerem Oner
It appears that the more the American public finds out about the Tea Party, the more they dislike it. The possible reasons for this are not encouraging. More
April 21, 2012
Merchants of Despair: Robert Zubrin vs. Malthus, Darwin, and Others
Brian London
"Anti-humanism" and environmentalist insanity are on the chopping block in Robert Zubrin's latest book. More
April 21, 2012
Today's liberals are much like England's 18th century leaders
Neil Snyder
England's ruling elite governed for us because they thought that we were incapable of governing ourselves More
April 20, 2012
The Battle the Democrats Cannot Afford to Win
Michael Bargo Jr.
There is one project that liberals never complete -- a task that is talked about all the time, especially during campaigns, but for some reason just can't get done. More
April 20, 2012
Soak the Famous
Jeff Lipkes
The case for a surtax on celebrities. More
April 20, 2012
Obama: The Lying King
Lloyd Marcus
I confess to being amongst those who have said that Obama voters are stupid, but I'm starting to rethink my position. More
April 20, 2012
The Generic Ballot Bomb
Bruce Walker
If the generic congressional ballot trend continues, we could be looking at a conservative ascendancy the likes of which we've never seen before. More
April 20, 2012
Scapegoating Our Soldiers in Iraq
Elise Cooper
The prosecution of Lt. Michael Behenna, who killed an al-Qaeda operative in Iraq, casts a dismal light on how our service-members are treated in court. More
April 20, 2012
Dehumanization and the Ultimate Combat Photo
Kerry Patton
Hunting an animal has similarities to hunting America's enemies. More
April 20, 2012
The Deepwater Horizon Two Years Later
Bruce Thompson
Things have settled down since the BP oil spill in 2010, but now the Obama administration has some potentially embarrassing work to do. More
April 19, 2012
Why Do They Want to Pick on Ann Romney?
Karin McQuillan
For Obama, the politics of envy is more than a campaign strategy. When you compare Ann Romney and Ann Dunham, it is easy to understand Obama's gnawing envy. Now Obama is trying to teach envy to the whole country. More
April 19, 2012
Why Obama Lies
Ed Lasky
A leader who has no respect for the people "below" him becomes emboldened to make all sorts of claims, confident that the dullards will not fathom they have been had. More
April 19, 2012
The EPA's Faulty Science Can Be Stopped
John Dale Dunn & Steve Milloy
It's time to rein in the EPA and stop all the unreliable, irresponsible, and outrageous claims coming from that organization. More
April 19, 2012
The Sea Change: Obama's Confirmed Forgeries Are Not Going Away
Monte Kuligowski
The era of fear is happily winding down. It's about time. More
April 19, 2012
Apple, Sweatshops, and the Media's Latest Attempt to Demonize Productivity
James E. Miller
Despite one of the great myths espoused in public schools, government has ever served only as a detriment to the working class by dictating proper workplace conditions. In fact, opponents of so-called sweatshops are opponents of mankind. More
April 19, 2012
Watching the Watchers
Lee A. Heilig
Somehow, we knew this day would come. Congress and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are partnering with legislation and execution of the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles for use by law enforcement agencies across the country. More
April 19, 2012
The Politics of the BP Settlement Terms
Bruce Thompson
The President's Oil Spill Committee co-chairmen and House Democrats are trying to preemptively spin events in the executive branch's favor in the Gulf oil spill settlelement process. More
April 18, 2012
Obama's Coalition of the Enraged
Fay Voshell
The president and his allies are wooing various groups of angry and disaffected minorities. These, along with unhappy entitlement dependents, are to constitute most of the voters Obama seeks. More
April 18, 2012
Jugger-Not
Mark Walker
The Obama machine has been portrayed as a campaign juggernaut, but the ill-conceived War on Women has given the lie to that image. More
April 18, 2012
Balance the budget by 2039? Wanna bet?
Michael Applebaum, MD
A recent budget proposal of Paul Ryan's purports to balance the budget by around 2039 -- possibly a decade or so earlier based on an alternative scenario. More
April 18, 2012
Shredding the Constitution
Janet Levy
The U.S. Constitution, which has guided American society for over two centuries, inspiring nations worldwide and serving as a model for governance, is under serious threat today from the very individuals charged with protecting it. More
April 18, 2012
The Handbasket Express
Daniel Reilly
Often one hears the refrain that today's generation is significantly worse than the previous generation -- but the fact that each generation receives a similar criticism does not mean that the criticism is incorrect. More
April 18, 2012
The Answer Really Isn't Blowing in the Wind
William Sullivan
In no other floundering green energy sub-sector is that failure so strikingly apparent as in wind energy. More
April 18, 2012
Can the President Lower Gas Prices?
Jim Yardley
President Obama has claimed that there is no "silver bullet" to reduce gasoline prices. I beg to differ. More
April 17, 2012
Obama's Smart Diplomacy Disaster
Victor Volsky
Reality has proven a little different from Obama's irenic fantasies through 2008. Let's go through some of this administration's "achievements" in foreign policy. More
April 17, 2012
Mr. President, It's All of the Above
Christopher Chantrill
How many issues can you get wrong in four years, Mr. President? More
April 17, 2012
Keynesian Economics is a Beach!
Robert Small
Only people who spend their days gazing down from ivory tower windows believe that the way to improve a beachscape is to keep adding sand while leveling the beach with a bulldozer. More
April 17, 2012
Global Warming's Reckless Rhetoric
Brian Sussman
Green scare-mongering is a common practice amongst those in the environmental movement; and such comments have the potential to incite societal panic. More
April 17, 2012
Mystery Ship to Syria Raises Questions
Shoshana Bryen
The weekend report of a German-owned, Ukrainian-chartered ship carrying weapons to Syria should raise questions and alarm bells. More
April 17, 2012
Via RomneyCare: Do States Have Unlimited Powers?
Daniel Smyth
Contrary to popular belief, the answer is an emphatic no. More
April 17, 2012
Obama and the Arpège Gambit
Jessica Rubin
One of the most iconic and most successful pitches for a perfume by Lanvin came in the form of Arpège: Promise her anything, but give her Arpège. Well, here is the Obama version. More
April 16, 2012
The Democrats' Biggest Lie
Larrey Anderson
There are ordinary lies. There are big lies. And then there are lies that are so huge that it is difficult for a rational person to believe that such a lie has been attempted. More
April 16, 2012
Calming the Storm of Martin/Zimmerman-Related Racial Violence
Lloyd Marcus
As a black conservative Tea Party patriot, I have been struggling with what I should do, if anything, in response to the rash of incidents of racial violence resulting from the Martin/Zimmerman case. More
April 16, 2012
War on Women? Count Me for the Defense!
Luba Sindler
In all my years growing up in the good old Soviet Union, I never met a non-working woman. More
April 16, 2012
The Decline of Greenism
Bruce Walker
Americans are waking up to the green con game pushed by prissy and nasty radicals More
April 16, 2012
BrightSource and the Fracking Task Force
Jeffrey Folks
In the face of a Friday the 13th green energy fail, Obama launched an unprecedented power-grab at the expense of the nation's states, which have always enjoyed the prerogative of regulating drilling within their borders. More
April 16, 2012
If I Were Black
Eileen F. Toplansky
If I were black, I would be cringing in shame at the latest photo of Attorney General Eric Holder praising the likes of Al Sharpton, a man on record for very odious words and vile actions. More
April 16, 2012
The President and His Secretary: A Study in Tax Demagoguery
George Harbison
Guess who suffers if the Buffett Rule goes into effect? More
April 15, 2012
'A Struggle Ensued': Lynch Mob Justice In Florida
Clarice Feldman
An innocent man has been railroaded by the press and the race baiters, aided by an unethical, irresponsible special prosecutor and a racialist President and Attorney General More
April 15, 2012
Global Warming Dogma and the New Iron Triangle
Norman Rogers
The typical doomsday cult believes that an apocalyptic disaster is imminent. The global warming cult is just a little better-funded. More
April 15, 2012
Anatomy of a Victory: The Importance of MJ Rosenberg's Ousting from Media Matters
Jared Arluck
The anti-Israel echo chamber has always existed. For a while, this hateful ideology resonated in the blogosphere louder than it should have. Not anymore. More
April 15, 2012
Between War and a Warm Embrace
Shoshana Bryen
A lick of historicism would serve the Obama administration well in its much-too-friendly relationship with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and other manifestations of the Arab uprising. More
April 15, 2012
Hartford Seminary's Shameful Ties to Syria's Dictator
Stephen Schwartz
From Palestinian Islamic Jihad to the regime of Bashar Assad, the Hartford Seminary boasts a long list of ties to radical Islam. More
April 15, 2012
Toulouse La Rose in the Shadow of Death
Nidra Poller
Understanding the disgraceful response of the French press to jihadist murderer Mohamed Merah. More
April 15, 2012
Church, Sex, and Society
Jim Mahoney
For nearly 2,000 years, being a Catholic was an all-or-nothing proposition that demanded the believer's assent to all the Church taught. Everything changed in 1965. More
April 15, 2012
The Religion of Global Warming
W.A. Beatty
It is no coincidence that man-made global warming, or climate change, or whatever it's called this week, got very popular as an issue just as the Soviet Union fell. More
April 15, 2012
Is Health Care 'Commerce'?
Deane Waldman
Or is it a right, as liberals claim? More
April 14, 2012
Obama Circle 'Shaking with Laughter' Over Hilary Rosen Distraction
Ann Kane
Republicans wonder why Obama's buddies keep getting to set the narrative. The answer's obvious -- the Republicans keep taking the bait. More
April 14, 2012
Problems with the Zimmerman Affidavit
John Work
I spent twenty years working Colorado law enforcement. I'm pretty certain that I would have been laughed out of any judge's chambers in Colorado, had I brought in a piece of evidentiary matter so poorly written. More
April 14, 2012
What if They Threw a War on Women and Nobody Came?
Robert E. Ford
The war on women is one that nobody wants to fight with the possible exception of a few politicians and feminists.
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April 14, 2012
In Defense of Stay-at-Home Moms
Sally Zelikovsky
That's it. I've had it. I'm coming out swinging for the so-called (and sorely misnamed) "stay-at-home" moms, of whom I am one. More
April 14, 2012
Fracking Vindicated
Gary Jason
The enviros have run a massive and effective propaganda campaign against fracking, but the forces of Enlightenment are fighting back. More
April 14, 2012
The Tribal Hypocrisy of the Left
Jon Bishop
The left seems to be in love with preserving every culture in the world but our own. More
April 14, 2012
Education: Speaking in Forked Tongues
Bruce Deitrick Price
There are two big mistakes now enthroned as dogma: children are taught as little as possible, and instead of being taught the right way to do things, they are taught bad habits such as guessing, invented spelling, close is good enough, and fuzziness of all kinds. More
April 14, 2012
The Democratic Party Is Rotten Through and Through
Neil Snyder
Democratic Party stalwarts smell victory in the air, but it's not their victory that they smell. More
April 14, 2012
Government Isn't the Creator of Rights
Anthony W. Hager
To assume that human liberties, defined as rights, are products of government is illogical. More
April 13, 2012
Race-Baiting in the Era of Obama
Lauri B. Regan
Alas, racial tension in this country is not new. What is new is having a president who, for political gain and selfish ideological reasons, is instigating a racial divide that has not been seen for decades. More
April 13, 2012
Arizona Ups the Ante on Border Security
Elise Cooper
While President Obama fires inflated quips, the legislators in Arizona are getting down to brass tacks in tackling their very real problems on the border. More
April 13, 2012
The Bad Faith President
Mike Johnson
Say what you might about Jimmy Carter and the inept presidency, but at least Jimmy was acting in good faith. More
April 13, 2012
The Ironic War on Women
W.A. Beatty
Isn't it rather ironic that President Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats say that Republicans are waging a war on women, while at the same time he, his administration, and Democrats embrace/support Islamic law? More
April 13, 2012
Multiculturalism in the Workplace
John Kenneth Press
Recently, I participated in a "diversity and inclusion" program at my place of work. Fear of retaliation for going against the philosophy of diversity keeps me from specifying where I work. More
April 13, 2012
'Buffett Rule' Millionaire Pays Thirty Times His Secretary's Taxes (and Not Such a Different Rate)
William Tate
Despite all of Barack Obama's bluster about the rich not paying their fair share, one millionaire at a White House event this week let slip some intriguing information. More
April 13, 2012
Happy Birthday, Mr. Davis!
Garland Tucker
April 13 is the 139th anniversary of the birth of John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic nominee for president of the United States. Even conservatives could learn a lot from this statesman. More
April 12, 2012
Medildos: The Media and the Zimmerman-Martin Case
Jeff Lipkes
The two default strategies of advocacy journalism are the Drumbeat and the Spike. You can see both in full flower in the Zimmerman-Martin case. More
April 12, 2012
What? The Magic Words Aren't Working!
Gary Horne
The awful truth is beginning to dawn on the left. The magic words on which they have relied to make government grow may not work anymore. More
April 12, 2012
Race, IQ, and Derbyshire's Kids
Daren Jonescu
Morality and politics, not innate intelligence, are at the heart of the problems Derbyshire cites. More
April 12, 2012
Do-It-Yourself Proof of the Obama Birth Certificate Fraud
Giuseppe Gori
So simple even a liberal media person could do it. More
April 12, 2012
Obama's Constitutional Trap for Conservatives
Edward H. Stewart, Jr.
President Obama set a trap by framing the ObamaCare argument in terms of judicial activism. If conservatives take the bait, they'll find themselves playing defense. More
April 12, 2012
Poisoning the Kids
Robert T. Smith
Environmental activists would have us deal with subjectively applied environmental standards. More
April 12, 2012
Lessons from Rome about Liberal Unity
Jeremy Egerer
"Shared danger," writes Livius, "is the strongest of bonds." So it was with Rome, and so it is with modern liberals. More
April 11, 2012
Obama as Farce
William L. Gensert
Karl Marx said history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce." Barack Obama has reversed that. His first term was certainly farce; his second will be tragedy. More
April 11, 2012
Obama's America: Why Black Grievance Will Never End
Selwyn Duke
Hatred is like darkness: the more there is, the less you can see. More
April 11, 2012
Cheap Natural Gas Heralds an Energy Revolution
S. Fred Singer
All bets are off for the future of energy in the United States and, indeed, the world. More
April 11, 2012
How I Learned to Love Savannah Guthrie
Nick Chase
If you think the Obama birth certificate is a fraud, you should be able to know how to demonstrate why. More
April 11, 2012
A Strategy to Stop EPA Science Abuse
John Dale Dunn & Steve Milloy
There is a way to stop the EPA's abuse of science and prevent their continued aggressive regulatory activity. More
April 11, 2012
Palin's Privilege
Tom Thurlow
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was on the Today show last week, and she did very well. But don't mention that in mixed company (liberals and conservatives), or anywhere online. More
April 11, 2012
Arab Riots, Then and Now
Yonatan Silverman
The IDF and Israeli police force today are adept at controlling Arab violence when it breaks out, but Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the early to mid-twentieth century were constantly plagued by a fear of Arab violence and crime. More
April 10, 2012
Oblivious to the Obvious
Nick Chase
Is Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate a forgery? Definitely yes, for those of us who have spent a lifetime writing and producing technical documents. More
April 10, 2012
Race, Republicans, and Democrats
Bruce Walker
With November 2012 around the corner, it is worth recounting how utterly racist the Democrat Party has been and how hostile to racism the Republican Party has been. More
April 10, 2012
Obama's Re-Election: A Stake in the Heart of the American Spirit
Lloyd Marcus
I pray and believe that Obama's where's-my-free-lunch Americans have not yet become a majority in our remarkable, exceptional country. More
April 10, 2012
Is the EPA Just Sloppy, or Cooking the Books?
Jeffrey Folks
After issuing a hastily compiled report last year claiming a direct link between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing at Pavillion, Wyoming, the EPA now admits that it may be wrong. More
April 10, 2012
Chutzpah in the Grass
Jonathan F. Keiler
Nobel laureate in literature Gunther Grass wants to break taboos. Which taboos? Why the taboo against accusing the Jews of being genocidal maniacs. More
April 10, 2012
The Political War of Wordgames
Cindy Simpson
Obama's words mean whatever he chooses -- even when "[h]e didn't say what he meant...and having said that, in order to avoid misleading anyone, he had to clarify it."
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April 10, 2012
Helping Women Get What They Want
Christopher Chantrill
Women may all want safety and protection, and men may all want freedom from tyranny, but we disagree about how to get there, about the social norms needed to create the just and protective society. More
April 9, 2012
Editgate, Spittlegate, and the Left's 'Race-Gating' Tradition
Jack Cashill
A corrupt mess of deception and obfuscation inflaming racial anger is nothing new for our left wing media. It all started around 1925 More
April 9, 2012
The Story Unravels: New Questions about Trayvon Martin's Final Hour
Jeff Lipkes
With new evidence, the idea that Trayvon Martin was simply returning from a selfless errand when he caught Zimmerman's eye appears less and less likely. More
April 9, 2012
Time to Stop Being Intimidated by the Left
Steve McCann
Over the past twenty years, the American left has been largely successful in intimidating much of the conservative movement and creating the false impression that leftists are much smarter and thus able to stay one step ahead. More
April 9, 2012
Textbooks Behaving Badly
Ed Kaitz
Are academic textbooks important in deciding the fate of nations? If so, America is in big trouble. More
April 9, 2012
Obama Will Say and Do Anything
W.A. Beatty
Lying. Dissembling. Peddling half-truths. Redefining words. Those words/phrases describe what President Barack Hussein Obama has said or done and is now saying or doing. More
April 9, 2012
Unelected EPA Bureaucrats Approve E15 Ethanol
Peter Wilson
Believe it or not, Obama administration energy policy got even worse last week. More
April 9, 2012
U.N. Report: Happiness Is...World Socialism
Daren Jonescu
According to the United Nations' new "World Happiness Report," European socialism is the road to well-being, and it ought to be imposed on all mankind. More
April 8, 2012
Izzy, Esther, and Me: Memories of I.F. and Esther Stone
Clarice Feldman
I can say that, Soviet spy or not, I.F. Stone and his lovely wife Esther were my neighbors from 1976 to their deaths, and they were lively, interesting, and very nice neighbors. More
April 8, 2012
Two Cheers for the Hoodie
Ed Kaitz
Since the White House, members of Congress, civil rights leaders, and others are now promoting the "hoodie," it's worth taking some time to consider its advantages in these rather uncertain, tribal, and thoroughly pedestrian times. More
April 8, 2012
Bigotry's Permanent Appeal
Theodore Dawes
When I was a kid in the '50s and '60s, the vilest racial epithets were casually tossed about. But racism wasn't always, or even mostly, manifested in the way you've seen it depicted in popular literature and in the movies. More
April 8, 2012
Authenticity: Politics' Little Black Dress
Russell Paul La Valle
In the race for president, authenticity can be the political Holy Grail -- the clarifying quest for that mystical union with the voters which can spell victory. More
April 8, 2012
Life Lessons from Chávez's Cancer
Jeannie DeAngelis
On many levels, thanks to Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, Americans are in the midst of a teachable moment. If Barack Obama pays attention, maybe he can learn a thing or two. More
April 8, 2012
The Resurrection
Trevor Thomas
Of all the religions of the world, only Christianity claims an empty tomb for its founder. The physical resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone of Christianity. More
April 8, 2012
War in the Middle East May Be Inevitable
Neil Snyder
Palestinians are following Yasser Arafat's playbook to the letter: "We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more." More
April 8, 2012
Free Men
Marion DS Dreyfus
A new French movie you probably never heard of is one of the year's best, already in April. It deals powerfully with subject matter that counts. More
April 8, 2012
Government-Caused Depression?
Frank Ryan
In this current economic recession, I am beginning to wonder who the enemy of our recovery really is. More
April 8, 2012
Israel's Survival and American Assistance: It's Been Done Before
Lee A. Heilig
Obama could learn something from Richard Nixon. More
April 8, 2012
Chris Mitchum, Former Blacklisted Conservative Actor, Enters U.S. House Race
Jack Kemp
Veteran film actor-turned-politician speaks about the conservative-averse Hollywood of the '60s and '70s and his plan to fix today's California. More
April 7, 2012
President Scofflaw
James Lewis
The old word "scofflaw" denotes not just a lawbreaker, but somebody who mocks the law. More
April 7, 2012
Time for a Military Approach to the Border
Elise Cooper
We need to stop politicizing this issue and look at the problem from a military point of view. More
April 7, 2012
How Sturdy Is the Obama Narrative that 'Keeps Us Silent'?
Monte Kuligowski
The accepted Obama narrative has been a secure fortress for Obama. The president stays inside its walls unruffled, with lifted chin. The narrative "keeps us silent" even though in reality it's a house of cards. More
April 7, 2012
President Obama, Meet Justice Brandeis
Michael Barry
Justice Brandeis (who, by the way, is a liberal hero) has a message for President Obama. More
April 7, 2012
State Department's Blind Eye to Boko Haram Terrorists
Jessica Rubin
Just because they blow things up to force acceptance of sharia doesn't make them terrorists, says our Department of State. Feel safer now? More
April 7, 2012
Mr. Obama's Own War on Women
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
There's a real war on women, and it's been going on for decades. More
April 7, 2012
American Must Prepare for the Next War
Adam Yoshida
If the United States is to maintain its military supremacy into the 21st century, it is absolutely vital that the federal government ensure that its defense efforts are directed at preparing for the next war, rather than for re-fighting the wars of the past. More
April 7, 2012
'Fakegate': Climate Change Fanatics Wage War on Dissenters
Nancy J. Thorner
Climate change believers will go to any lengths -- including identity theft and fraud -- to silence their opposition. More
April 6, 2012
What Happened to Black Pride?
Kevin Jackson
What happened to black pride? There was a time when black people didn't settle for failures like Obama; they expected more from blacks who were blessed to get the opportunity for greatness. More
April 6, 2012
Mitt Romney, Antihero
Malcolm Unwell
Romney is an antihero. With his patrician mannerisms and puritanical lifestyle, it would seem that Romney is the real rebel, a rebel against rebellion, if you will. Beneath their veneer of scorn, liberals are quaking in their boots. More
April 6, 2012
The Rebirth of Birthers?
William Sullivan
New evidence has reignited conservative interest in Obama's birth certificate...and the "birthers" have a point. More
April 6, 2012
Paul Krugman Proves He Doesn't Understand Scarcity
James E. Miller
Paul Krugman is no beginner when it comes to economic fallacies, but this latest one is a doozy. More
April 6, 2012
Paul Krugman's History Problem
Jon N. Hall
Is it really true that governments don't have to "pay back their debt"? More
April 6, 2012
Partners in Crime
Bill Warner
If you go to the Islamic Society of North America website, you will find a very interesting list called the Partners of ISNA. Here's what those Partners stand for. More
April 6, 2012
Child's Play: Antisemitic Board Games
Eileen F. Toplansky
An online game on the site of Dutch public broadcaster VPRO has been removed after protests over its antisemitic content. It is hardly the first such game to be seen in Europe More
April 5, 2012
The Positivist President?
Robert Harkins
The president's legal theory forms no part of constitutional jurisprudence. Its roots instead seem to lie in positivism. More
April 5, 2012
Savage New Territory: Trickle Down Tyranny
Larrey Anderson
In the "Acknowledgments" at the end of his new book Trickle Down Tyranny, Michael Savage states that this book is his "most seminal work." He probably will be proven right. Savage is breaking fresh ground and planting original seeds. More
April 5, 2012
Obama Misquotes Bible on Wealth Redistribution
W.A. Beatty
Obama is fond of Genesis 4:9 -- "Am I my brother's keeper?" -- but he gets it wrong every time he employs it. More
April 5, 2012
Democrats Responsible for Black Culture of Anger
Lloyd Marcus
Sadly, Democrat efforts to cultivate black anger are bearing much fruit. More
April 5, 2012
Climategate Heads to Court
S. Fred Singer
One way or another, the truth will come out. And when it does, we will witness a major earthquake that will encompass IPCC scientists, politicians in America and Europe, and the U.N. More
April 5, 2012
King Kennedy
Ron Lipsman
Anthony Kennedy holds the fate of the nation in his hands. More
April 5, 2012
Critique of (Im-)Pure Conservative Labels
Paul Jacobson
Stupid Republicans are suckered every day into parroting leftist propaganda words, but we conservatives are smarter than that, right? ...Well, no. We're not. More
April 5, 2012
Why Broccoli Matters
R. E. Bowse
Many supporters of ObamaCare fatuously dismiss what broccoli has done to raise doubt about the wisdom of the individual mandate to purchase health insurance and, more broadly, the limits of the law. More
April 4, 2012
FDR Redux: Obama Challenges SCOTUS
Fay Voshell
Who is this president who darkens counsel with ignorant words concerning the balance of power established by the Constitution of the United States? More
April 4, 2012
Musings of a College Instructor
Eileen F. Toplansky
Some of the swirling conversations I hear as I travel to various colleges where I am an adjunct instructor. More
April 4, 2012
Obama's Endless Energy
William L. Gensert
Anyone who still believes a word out of Barack Obama's mouth, especially on energy, has to be a complete idiot. More
April 4, 2012
Imperial Presidency Redux
Lee A. Heilig
Operating in a manner inconsistent with time-honored constitutional principles is a hallmark of this presidency. Intellectual honesty is never the strong suit of the statist. More
April 4, 2012
Can Liberals Handle Adversity?
Christopher Chantrill
For years, liberals thought they owned the sexual revolution, owned the race question, owned health care, owned the Supreme Court. Suppose they are wrong. More
April 4, 2012
Climate Change, Act Three
Jeffrey Folks
The American people are wising up to the climate change fraud. But climate change is a vast enterprise with trillions of dollars at stake. So what is a global warming alarmist to do? More
April 4, 2012
Silent Scream: The Sudan Ethnically Cleanses Its Christians
Rob Miller
The ethnic cleansing of over half a million Christians in Sudan is only a first step. What's notable about this is the hideous silence. There's little or nothing being reported in the media. And President Obama is utterly silent...not a word. More
April 3, 2012
Zimmerman and Ketman
Jeff Lipkes
The most interesting question at this point in the Trayvon Martin case may be who believes the Party line and why. More
April 3, 2012
The Obama Administration's Dispensable People
James V Capua
Last week, Donald Verilli and George Zimmerman learned officially that they have become dispensable people. More
April 3, 2012
Barack Obama and the End of the Progressive Era
Steve McCann
Obama's and the Democrats' indifference to the rule of law and the future of the country has not only awakened the people but has placed the fate of the American left in jeopardy. More
April 3, 2012
An Untenable Situation
Jerrold L. Sobel
If Israel is to survive and prosper in peace as a sovereign nation, she must be prepared to foreswear reliance on any other country, including the United States. More
April 3, 2012
The many faces of AARP
Theodore Dawes
My wife just turned 50, so she recently experienced that least favorite American rite of passage: the arrival of the dreaded solicitation letter from AARP.
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April 3, 2012
Debt the New Equity - Major Economic Dislocation
Frank Ryan
Our economy will not recover until our government reaffirms the mutual rights and responsibilities of both debtors and creditors and reestablishes a stable, balanced "rule of commerce." More
April 3, 2012
A Patient, a Doctor, and Three Burly Nurses
Deane Waldman
A patient, whose name is M. Healthcare, enters a doctor's office with two chief complaints: 1) overspending -- both individually and nationally -- and 2) "cannot get health care." More
April 2, 2012
The Nature of the Conservative Divide
Charles N. W. Keckler and Ryan L. Cole
There is a division in the GOP, but no consensus over what defines the sides of this split. A new way to understand what divides Republicans today. More
April 2, 2012
Holder's Revenge
John T. Bennett
Reverse discrimination against whites has just begun, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, in the most explicit statement of ethnic favoritism and racial grievance by a high public official in American history. More
April 2, 2012
Is Profiling Racist, or Does Not Profiling Make You Ignorant?
Kevin Jackson
Since when is something we do every day taboo, like profiling? Every American who can think, profiles. More
April 2, 2012
Who Shrank The President?
Monty Pelerin
Mr. Obama's greatest attribute, his unfamiliarity, is now gone. He is no longer an unknown shaped by the wishes, wants and imagination of the public. He is inconvenienced by reality. More
April 2, 2012
Justice for Trayvon, No Justice for Agents Terry and Zapata
M. Catharine Evans
No People magazine covers for the two federal agents murdered with Fast and Furious guns. Their families' grief ignored by media. More
April 2, 2012
William Blaine Richardson III or George Zimmerman: Who is the White Hispanic?
Tom Tancredo
Why is the Democratic governor of New Mexico never referred to as a "white Hispanic"? More
April 2, 2012
ObamaCare and the Supreme Court
Bruce Walker
ObamaCare was passed as a vast, ugly pile of glop, and now this notional "reform" may be struck down by a 5-to-4 Supreme Court opinion. But how much confidence can we have in SCOTUS? More
April 1, 2012
Capitol Follies
Clarice Feldman
Congress has lost any right to be considered a respected, coequal branch of the government. More
April 1, 2012
Christianity or Thoughtcrime?
Cindy Simpson
Labeling Christian ideas as hatred is nothing new, but it's starting to get worse. More
April 1, 2012
The 'Islamic Art' Hoax
Jessica Rubin
Talking about Islamic art is rather like talking about the art of the Khanates; just because different lands and cultures were conquered by Genghis Khan doesn't mean that there is a significance to grouping their art. More
April 1, 2012
Obama's Russia Policy: Hysterical Ambassadors and Leg-Rubbing between Presidents
Kim Zigfeld
This past March started out with President Obama congratulating Vladimir Putin on his election victory, and it ended with Obama literally fondling Dmitri Medvedev in Seoul. More
April 1, 2012
What's on That Ship, and Where Is It Going?
Shoshana Bryen
Why did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waive requirements that would have stopped arms shipment to the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled government of Egypt? More
April 1, 2012
Light of Liberty Less than Flattering to Progressivism
Brien Farley
New documentary film series about conservative talk radio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More
April 1, 2012
'Let Voters Decide': Tax Reform in Missouri
Jon N. Hall
A campaign in the great state of Missouri called Let Voters Decide seeks to abolish the state's income tax and replace the lost revenue by expanding the state's sales tax. But why not do the reverse instead? More
April 1, 2012
Have a Little Faith, Just Trust Me!
Jim Yardley
Environmental extremists on the left treat their belief system as a religion, something that has not been proven and might not even be capable of proof. That's the definition of a religion, isn't it? More
April 1, 2012
Conservative Ennui in an Election Year
Dean Malik
Compromise always benefits the aggressor. More
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