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June 30, 2012
A Surgeon Cuts to the Heart of the ObamaCare Nightmare
Stella Paul
The day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of ObamaCare, a friend called me. He's an extremely dedicated, much-loved surgeon, and he was frustrated and livid in equal measure. More

June 30, 2012
Still a BFD, Obama Loses
William L. Gensert
The Supreme Court decision on the American Care Act is a loss for Barack Obama, despite how the president and his minions in the mainstream media will attempt to portray it. More

June 30, 2012
Will American Liberals Ever Wake Up?
W.A. Beatty
How many times must liberals be shown that policies they implement have never worked? More

June 30, 2012
The Dictator in the Black Iron Man Suit
Lloyd Marcus
Blacks who support Obama to a fault are functioning on the misconception that Obama is black like them. More

June 30, 2012
Turning ObamaCare's Lemons into Federalist Lemonade
Howard Slugh
Defenders of the health care law are going to continue to spike the football as if the Supreme Court vindicated their ideas and repudiated conservative ones. But that is not what happened. More

June 30, 2012
Moral Relativism and the Plight of a Pedophile
Jeannie DeAngelis
A San Francisco gay icon has been arrested for possession of child pornography. More

June 30, 2012
The Value of American Citizenship
Kyle Becker
Having lost the intellectual argument supporting their positions, the Democratic Party has resorted to recruiting illegal immigrants. More

June 30, 2012
Review: The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
Matthew May
Jonah Goldberg shows how the left employs clichés in order to cloak its ruthless, ruinous ideological aims in the language of easy-listening rhetoric. More

June 29, 2012
Obamacare: 'Things are now up for Grabs'
Clarice Feldman
Did you really ever think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barack Obama could outsmart and outplay Justice Roberts? More

June 29, 2012
The Chief Justice Done Good
Dov Fischer
Chief Justice John Roberts has handed a remarkable victory to American conservatives by threading the judicial needle with perfect precision. This is going to be OK, even fun. Just wait and see. More

June 29, 2012
SCOTUS Exposes the ObamaCare Tax Lie
Perry Fisher
This interpretation shows the Court remonstrating Democrats, saying, "You passed a tax, by God -- now you call it a tax." More

June 29, 2012
Justice Roberts Pleads: 'Lie to Me'
C. Edmund Wright
Our Harvard-educated chief justice just made it the law of the land that as long as a president and House speaker and Senate leader lie long enough and in a bald-faced enough way, whatever they pass is just fine and dandy if we can eventually admit that it's a tax. More

June 29, 2012
America Fades, the World Gets Darker
Daren Jonescu
Don't let this light flicker its last. There is, at present, no other. More

June 29, 2012
Holder's Contempt: Who Owns the Government?
Mike Razar
President Obama has raised the stakes. This not just a political dust-up; not merely a healthy test of strength between two co-equal branches of government. The rule of law is being challenged More

June 29, 2012
History in the Making: The Decline of America
Lauri B. Regan
How do the GOP and Mitt Romney reach an electorate who does not see the potentially irreversible damage to the nation of another four years of Obama? More

June 29, 2012
Only 43.7 Percent of Gulf 'Oil Spill' Was Actually Oil
Bruce Thompson
The man who stands between the Obama administration and billions of dollars in a slush fund. More

June 28, 2012
War!
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
America is now at war. It is a civil war, but no shots will be fired. It's a war over the Constitution, yet it will be through the Constitution that the winner will be determined. More

June 28, 2012
Powered by Hate: Racist Content from Dreams from My Father
William A. Levinson
It is important to circulate the truth about Barack Obama and his magnum opus as widely as possible. More

June 28, 2012
The White House Fast Food Soap Opera
Rosslyn Smith
An odd tale of marital tension may be playing itself out before the nation's eyes, as Michelle Obama devotes herself to healthier food while her husband eagerly stuffs his face out on the hustings with the junkiest of junk food. More

June 28, 2012
How Much More?
Russell Goldstein
Obama's vision of fairness saddles the poor with economic pain. More

June 28, 2012
'They'
Robert Burke
Understanding just who has eroded our freedoms all these years...and how we're complicit in the act. More

June 28, 2012
The Specious Logic of the Left
Eileen F. Toplansky
All disagreement is racist. Always. More

June 27, 2012
Did Justice Roberts Trade Votes with Justice Kennedy?
Jason Kissner
Did Justice Roberts trade votes with Justice Kennedy in the Arizona decision handed down Monday? I certainly hope so. More

June 27, 2012
Time to Start the Real Health Care Debate
Daren Jonescu
Supreme Court subtleties notwithstanding, conservatives must find a way to refocus the health care debate on two questions that constitute the true rock-bottom essence of the issue. More

June 27, 2012
Will Oprah Give Our President the James Frey Treatment?
Mendy Finkel
A tale of two frauds, and the mega-star who enabled both of them. More

June 27, 2012
America Needs More Adelson and Less McCain
C. Edmund Wright
America would be a country with a smaller government and fewer restrictions on liberty and speech if we had more Sheldon Adelsons and fewer John McCains. Which is to say a better America in fact. More

June 27, 2012
Sex Slavery and Juvenile Justice
Janice Shaw Crouse & Brenda Zurita
When children become prostitutes, how can the law best protect them? More

June 27, 2012
Honoring Our Veterans Who Suffer from PTS
Elise Cooper
June 27 is set aside as the national awareness day for post-traumatic stress disorder. This is a good time to think about what our brave men and women in uniform have suffered. More

June 27, 2012
ACLU Loses Challenge to Indiana's Sex Offender Social Media Law
Robert Knight
A victory over odd men in raincoats. More

June 26, 2012
Time and Again, Maraniss Conceals Obama's Socialist Roots
Jack Cashill
In his account of each phase of Obama's early life, Maraniss repeatedly conceals the evidence of Obama's socialist roots to make him appear more of a centrist than he actually was or is. More

June 26, 2012
32 Grieving Parents with Absolute Moral Authority over Obama
Stella Paul
When Cindy Sheehan theatrically pursued President George Bush for months after her son Casey was killed in Iraq, she was proclaimed to have "absolute moral authority" by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. More

June 26, 2012
Prediction: Global Warming Will Cause Everything
Daren Jonescu
Global warming strategy in a nutshell: cross your fingers that the propaganda has taken hold so that most people will not ask you to prove anything, and then carry on making dire predictions. More

June 26, 2012
All Right, Have It Your Way - It's a Living Constitution
James V. DeLong
Should conservatives really be so against the conceit of a "living Constitution"? More

June 26, 2012
'When Barry Met Shelley'
Jeannie DeAngelis
Romance, Obama-style, becomes a fundraising vehicle for the re-election campaign. If you find a profanity-laden Spike Lee film romantic, you will be charmed. More

June 26, 2012
Doing the Math on Solar Water Heaters
Peter Wilson
An $8,000 investment with savings of $55 on a $100 annual gas bill would take 145 years to recoup. More

June 26, 2012
The Ghosts of Liberal Pieties
Christopher Chantrill
Imagine what I learned from the tour guide when I went on a cemetery walking tour recently. More

June 25, 2012
The Fairness Card
Cindy Simpson
While the Race Card and the Bush Card tend to be the most oft-used defensive tactics, the most effective offensive card in the Obama campaign's hand is the Fairness Card. More

June 25, 2012
Euro Crisis and the Twilight of Sovereignty
Steve McCann
The global economy and capital markets are rapidly approaching the point where they will be beyond the control of national governments, leaving the people and the nations of the world powerless to control what happens within their borders. More

June 25, 2012
SCOTUS Derails the Democrats' SEIU Gravy Train
Edward H. Stewart, Jr.
Last Thursday was a day of reckoning for the Service Employees International Union and the Democratic politicians they use our tax dollars to buy and pay for. Some days, things just work out right. More

June 25, 2012
Obama Campaign's Hole Card: Romney's Church
Lee Cary
Don't doubt for a minute that it's coming. More

June 25, 2012
Romney Is Mr. Normal
Jeffrey Folks
The desire for normalcy is understandable following one of the most unhinged periods in American history. More

June 25, 2012
Another Devaluation of Paul Krugman's credibility
James Eaves
Krugman's credibility is face-down in the mud, yet he continues to scream at it and whip it to help the left justify growing government even further. More

June 25, 2012
The Valley of the Shadow of Death Panels
Timothy Birdnow
I suffered heart failure back in September. I think I may have been death-panelized, more or less. More

June 24, 2012
Obama and the Kingdom of the Concrete Skull
Clarice Feldman
Imagine being so down and out that you have to deter people from talking about the economy with the news that you are an accessory to murder. More

June 24, 2012
Staying Out of Syria
Shoshana Bryen
Here are the questions on Syria: what is the American obligation? What is the American interest? What is the American capability? More

June 24, 2012
Reinvigorated Islam
Amil Imani
Islam of today is composed of a dozen major sects and hundreds of sub-sects and schools. Just two examples should demonstrate the fact that Muhammad's Islam has decomposed. More

June 24, 2012
Wake Up, Religious Conservatives: A Summons to Outrage
Fay Voshell
Why are so many people of faith allowing their guaranteed constitutional freedom to exercise their faith in the public square to be jeopardized? More

June 24, 2012
A Long Hot Summer on Israel's Southern Border
C. Hart
The political upheaval in Egypt is making Israel very nervous, and with good reason. More

June 24, 2012
Shariaphobia
Richard Butrick
Is the initiative to block sharia law from influencing American courts a waste of time? More

June 24, 2012
Why Stay in the EU?
Warren Beatty
If the euro is so unpopular among even Europeans, why keep it around? Could the reason be bailouts? More

June 24, 2012
An Iron Curtain Descends on Islamistan
James Lewis
Today an invisible but very harsh Iron Curtain is dropping over a billion people of Islamistan -- the nation-states ruled by Islamic law, Shari'ah, to one degree or another. More

June 24, 2012
Really, Mr. Gaffemeister? Love, with Sinus Snuffles
Marion DS Dreyfus
An in-depth (albeit somewhat tongue-in-cheek) analysis of our illustrious vice president's latest impromptu comedic remark. More

June 23, 2012
Did Maraniss Commit Fraud to Protect Obama?
Jack Cashill
Correcting Obama's grammar when quoting his writing. More

June 23, 2012
Is Hillary 'Mentally 'illary'?
Jeannie DeAngelis
Quite frankly, Hillary Clinton appears to be losing it. She is letting her hair down, literally and otherwise. More

June 23, 2012
Assessing the Heartland Institute
Rael Jean Isaac
When it comes to global warming, is Heartland nothing more than a futile voice crying in the wilderness? History books will have the final say. More

June 23, 2012
The Worst Story Ever Told
Randy Fardal
Citizen Kane, Obama's story ain't. More

June 23, 2012
Let the Left Eat Their Own Dog Food
Jay Hendon
The remedy for those who so readily, so thoughtlessly, and so often condemn capitalist greed without regard for the greater evil that would so readily replace it must simply eat their own dog food. More

June 23, 2012
Long-Term Budgeting by a Short-Term Congress
Jon N. Hall
The only budgets a Congress has control over are those that fall within its two-year term. Everything else is congressional malpractice. More

June 23, 2012
Pro-Israel Activists Voice Objections at CBS Shareholders Meeting
Larry Domnitch
It does not take sixty minutes, but a mere few moments to level a smear against an entire nation. More

June 23, 2012
Service: A Touching Testament to Our Heroes in Uniform
Elise Cooper
Marcus Luttrell, rescued in the knuckle-whitening Operation Redwing, relates the harrowing and sometimes heartwarming aspects of life in the armed forces. More

June 22, 2012
Maraniss Bio Deepens Obama Birth Mystery
Jack Cashill
Birthers have known for years that there was no Obama family, that the couple never lived together, that Obama campaigned on a lie, and that the major media covered for him every step of the way. More

June 22, 2012
The Unknown Ayers and Obama Convergence
Daren Jonescu
Leftists, whether of the "blue jeans" or the "well-tailored suit" sort, seem to have a fatal flaw -- namely, a practical intelligence that is inversely proportional to their desire for power. More

June 22, 2012
Is This Republic Worth Saving?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
We've got the means to save ourselves. But if we don't have the will, the means will surely come to naught. Means never used never succeed. More

June 22, 2012
Obama: Candidate of the 1 Percent
William A. Levinson
Anyone with even a modicum of curiosity can figure out where Obama's loyalties really lie. And it's time to use that against him. More

June 22, 2012
Obama's Amnesty and Affirmative Action
Jason Kissner
President Mr. Obama's justification for his unconstitutional policy edict presents conservatives with an opportunity to begin unwinding a grotesque policy that has, for many decades, been enormously destructive of individual liberty. More

June 22, 2012
Checking the APA's Findings on Homosexual Parenting
Janice Shaw Crouse
A new fact-check on gay parenting proves yet again the old adage: "If something seems too good to be true, it generally is." More

June 22, 2012
The Science of Ignorance
G. Murphy Donovan
Phrenology, graphology, and astrology were all, at one time, considered sciences. And reason or precedent is often used to promote falsehoods. More

June 21, 2012
Fast and Furious Falling Apart
Russ Vaughn
Now that the official rationale has been revealed to be nonsense, the gravity of the corruption at the root of Fast and Furious is becoming clear even to skeptics. More

June 21, 2012
Fear the 'Mandate Only' Ruling
C. Edmund Wright
Conservatives beware: ObamaCare's individual mandate is far from the most malignant part of the bill. More

June 21, 2012
Might We See a Landslide?
Bruce Walker
Landslides often sneak up on pundits -- and we may be about to see the first presidential one in 28 years. More

June 21, 2012
U.S. Civil Service: How Progressives Prostituted Their Own Child
Jack Curtis
Possibly the one good idea Progressives ever had, and look what they've done with it. More

June 21, 2012
Elena Kagan: The ObamaCare Recusal That Wasn't
Tom Thurlow
When the U.S. Supreme Court releases its decision on the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Justice Elena Kagan will cast a vote that should not have been counted. More

June 21, 2012
Freedom's Lady Eclipses the Jubilee Queen and the Prince
Karen Lugo
As an accidental tourist in London during the Queen's Jubilee, I was amazed by the party but so disappointed by the missed opportunity. More

June 21, 2012
The Law of the Sea Treaty: A View from Below
Jim Johnston
Will the U.S. benefit at all from this latest spat of international "negotiations"? More

June 20, 2012
Prince of Handouts
J.R. Dunn
It becomes apparent what Obama's electoral strategy is going to be. He will hand out goodies to one after another interest group over the next five months -- favors intended to cement customary support or swing the undecided. More

June 20, 2012
Obama's Patriotism
Lauri B. Regan
Obama truly typifies the lack of patriotism on the left. More

June 20, 2012
Obama: Against the Law
Jeffrey Folks
You'd think that, having taught law at least part-time, President Obama would have more respect for the subject. More

June 20, 2012
Undercover Community Organizer
Scott Mayer
Watching President Obama lead this nation is like watching a reverse episode of Undercover Boss. More

June 20, 2012
Voting with My Feet in Massachusetts
T.S. Weidler
Massachusetts isn't limited to nationally known moonbats. It also hosts a wide range of locally known moonbats. More

June 20, 2012
The New York Times' Broccoli Obsession
Lester Jackson
Because, in a sense, the broccoli example is a reductio ad absurdum ridiculing ObamaCare's overreach, the Times disingenuously attempts to ridicule this legitimate ridicule. More

June 20, 2012
Why Liberals Are Selfish
Kyle Becker
It is a constant refrain on the left that conservatives are "selfish." Enough of that rubbish. More

June 19, 2012
What Maraniss Obviously Missed
Jack Cashill
It's being called "the first sustained challenge to Obama's control over his own story," but David Maraniss's much discussed new book, Barack Obama, the Story is missing the boat on the biggest story of all. More

June 19, 2012
America's First Anarchist President
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Ungrounded in sound constitutional justification, under-enforcement of the law leads to, or can be, anarchy. More

June 19, 2012
Obama, Messiah No More
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Every day brings another report of demoralized Obama acolytes discovering the allure of agnosticism. More

June 19, 2012
Mitt Romney's in It to Win It
Ebben Raves
Mitt Romney is going to win, and has some lessons for the Tea Party movement. More

June 19, 2012
Universal Health Care Conservative Style
Thomas Davidson
Repeal and Replace ObamaCare with a plan like this, emphasizing conservative principles. More

June 19, 2012
How to Handle the Taliban
Elise Cooper
Several U.S. intelligence officials suggest that President Obama's timetable withdrawal is far from an ideal solution. More

June 19, 2012
Obama's Togetherness
Christopher Chantrill
In his learned excursus on American history in Cleveland last week, President Obama made a big deal about the things we Americans have done "together:" railroads and highways, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. More

June 18, 2012
Civility and the Legacy of George W. Bush
Steve McCann
Many in the American patrician class refuse to acknowledge who Barack Obama is, what damage he has wrought, and the dire future the nation faces if he is re-elected. In their minds, excessive criticism or "incivility" is uncalled for. More

June 18, 2012
Obama the Reactionary
James Lewis
Deep down Obama is a reactionary, in rebellion against western civilization, who really believes in going back to some world of Noble Savages, when all the Andalusian Muslims were devout and civilized. More

June 18, 2012
Are You a Victim of Islamic Intimidation?
Oleg Atbashian and Larissa Scott
Freedom-loving Americans who oppose premeditated destruction of their cultural and political integrity are being silenced with lawsuits and the myth of "Islamophobia." More

June 18, 2012
Global Warming's Killer: Critical Thinking
Russell Cook
Is there any issue more dependent on widespread lapses in critical thinking than the idea of man-caused global warming? More

June 18, 2012
More Taxpayer Millions for Van Jones and His Nest of Vipers
M. Catharine Evans
The social justice fronts continue to haul in taxpayer monies for their far left radical causes while establishment politicians in DC turn a blind eye. More

June 18, 2012
October Surprises, Pollard Edition
Bill Schanefelt
The Pollard case is a difficult one, and few understand it completely since many details are still classified, but the issue is certain to come up before November 6. More

June 18, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Debate: Thelma Wants 95mph, Louise Demands 94
Randy Fardal
The Federal Reserve is warning that the U.S. economy is headed for a "fiscal cliff" because the Bush tax cuts will expire soon. More

June 17, 2012
Holder's Just-Us Department under Fire
Clarice Feldman
Whether he resigns or is removed or spends the rest of this year responding to Congressional inquiries, Attorney general Holder has treated the Department of Justice as a partisan arm of the Obama Administration. More

June 17, 2012
Why Middle East Negotiations Fail
Efraim A. Cohen
Instead of a carrot-and-stick approach, we've adopted a carrot-and-carrot one. More

June 17, 2012
Shrinking Local Governments
Daniel Smyth
A poster boy for the need to trim government can be found in Montgomery County, Maryland. More

June 17, 2012
The Islamic Kingdom
Amil Imani
Exploring a brutal, tribal warrior cult that glorifies jihad and martyrdom. More

June 17, 2012
God Bless the Conservative Father
Betsy M. Galliher
It's humbling to wish real men Happy Father's Day. More

June 17, 2012
Grosvenor Square, Tavistock Square: Odes to Political Correctness
Jeff Lipkes
A statue dedicated to FDR? Perfectly fine. A statue dedicated to Ronald Reagan? Cue disgusted muttering from the British MSM. More

June 17, 2012
Dr. Jasser's Panglossian Koranic Gloss
Andrew G. Bostom
Dr. Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser has just released his first book, A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith. More

June 17, 2012
The Left: Where Greed Meets Envy
David P. McGinley
When stripped of its many pretenses, the political left's objective is control. And the best way to control others is to make them envious. More

June 17, 2012
Who Chooses?
James Stepanek
A question for dedicated leftists: "Do you really think politicians and bureaucrats are smarter than you?" More

June 17, 2012
François Will Bring the Croissants*
Nidra Poller
How to make the austerity-hating European election sweep into a splendid party for everyone involved. More

June 17, 2012
Firefighters and Racism
Eileen F. Toplansky
Are firefighter entrance exams really racist, or are they just testing the sort of skills a good firefighter must possess? More

June 16, 2012
Obama Lurching Toward Tyranny
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
By the scope and consistency of their lawbreaking, the Obama administration is Public Enemy Number 1. More

June 16, 2012
Obama: Going Rogue
Lloyd Marcus
Remarkably, President Obama has gone rogue, running as no other Democrat before him, openly declaring war on America. More

June 16, 2012
This Just In: Brainless Boson Outwits Scientists
Terry L. Mirll
The science headlines as of late have been all a-titter over the looming discovery of the Higgs boson, or, as it is more often referred to (in order to sell more newspapers), "the God Particle." More

June 16, 2012
The Show's Over for 'A New York Night'
Jeannie DeAngelis
Fresh off a disastrous campaign junket to Ohio, the president was warmly greeted with hugs and kisses from the hostess and very much at home among sympathizers who understand how hard a rotten performance can be on a struggling "actor." More

June 16, 2012
Excluding Israel from Counterterrorism Conference
Eileen F. Toplansky
How serious can a "war on terrorism" be if it excludes the number one target? More

June 16, 2012
It's Possible
Don Wilkie
Barack Obama's origin story as a retelling of Some Like It Hot. More

June 16, 2012
Socialism, Obama, and America's Future
W.A. Beatty
How can anyone argue at this point that Barack Obama is anything but a socialist? And what does his socialism portend for the United States? More

June 15, 2012
Perpetual Peace: Accepting the Yoke Without a Struggle
Daren Jonescu
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released its 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI), and Americans can breathe a sigh of relief: America is now the 88^th-most peaceful nation on Earth, just ahead of the 89^th-ranked People's Republic of China. More

June 15, 2012
Doing the 'Fatherhood Buzz' with Barack Obama
Jeannie DeAngelis
As Father's Day approaches, President Obama is turning his attention toward teaching men how to be better fathers. More

June 15, 2012
Secrets Revealed
Nick Chase
Every time the Obama administration budges on Barack Obama's birth certificate, more evidence arises that the document is a forgery. More

June 15, 2012
Political Fallacies
Jim Yardley
It might be a good idea for all of us to immediately question the intellectual endowment and educational credentials of any politician who speaks about empowering us. More

June 15, 2012
National Road Responsibilities
J. Bradley Jansen
This month, politicians patted themselves on the back during the unveiling of the National Road Monument in western Maryland. But what does the National Road really stand for? More

June 15, 2012
Virginia Is Sinking
Charles Battig
Warmists say the sea level is rising due to global warming, but ignore the geological subsidence of Chesapeake Bay, causing the shore to sink relative to the sea level. More

June 15, 2012
How the Supreme Court May Find ObamaCare Constitutional
Pete Morin
Overturning ObamaCare is no slam dunk. More

June 14, 2012
One More Dubious Story in the Obama Family Saga
Jack Cashill
Obama has a hard time keeping his family story straight when it comes to the stories he made up in Dreams From my Father. Caught on tape by CNN, but unnoticed until now. No one really knows where the lies begin and end. More

June 14, 2012
Obama's Father's Day
Timothy Birdnow
One of President Obama's more bizarre quirks consists of referring to his "sons" when speaking in public. More

June 14, 2012
Is There a Woman's Right to Be Born?
TR Clancy
As solutions to human problems go, you'd think any solution entailing homicide deserves the greatest scrutiny, not the least. Not so for abortion. More

June 14, 2012
Escape from a North Korean Prison Camp
Janet Levy
Shin Dong-hyuk is the only born-and-raised occupant of a DPRK prison camp to ever escape. Here is his story. More

June 14, 2012
Saudi Arabia to Lead UN Counter Terrorism Initiative
Brooke Goldstein and Zack Kousnetz
The UN needs to stop playing political games when human lives are thrown into the mix More

June 14, 2012
The Obfuscation Factor
Jonathan David Carson
We hear all day long about "secular society," but there is no secular society. It does not exist. More

June 14, 2012
The Euro's Collapse Is Not Just About the Euro
Gene Schwimmer
It is not just the euro that is failing, but the entire liberal, elitist worldview that underlies it. More

June 13, 2012
Labor Unions are not dead. They are reloading.
T.S. Weidler
After all their expenses, lobbying, and voter intimidation efforts, these organized labor gangsters still have more money than the entire GDP of many countries. None of it is taxed, and 92% of them are in violation of Dept. of Labor audits. More

June 13, 2012
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Left?
Bruce Walker
The left feeds on fear...but why fear it anymore? More

June 13, 2012
Lord of the Skeptics
Cindy Simpson
"Skepticism is contagious in a time of disillusionment." More

June 13, 2012
The Grim Logic of 'Fairness'
Mitch Smith
Be it ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Minoan, or other old cultures, or the states of the 21^st century, we simply don't have any examples that have distributed a society's wealth equally among its citizens. More

June 13, 2012
Austerity - It's Coming whether We Like It or Not
W.A. Beatty
Austerity will surely come, European elections notwithstanding. Economic reality must set in. More

June 13, 2012
Obama's Spending and the Dog That Didn't Bark
Greg Richards
What is it that the Senate dog is familiar with and not barking at? More

June 13, 2012
What 'Every Economist' Says
Jon N. Hall
One favorite debate ploy that progressives employ is this: everyone is already in agreement. Therefore, there is no debate. More

June 12, 2012
A Pre-Revolutionary Situation
Christopher Chantrill
The United States is entering a pre-revolutionary situation, where a significant faction in one of the political parties has said: "We're getting screwed; the deal's off." More

June 12, 2012
Did MoveOn.org and BarackObama.com Promote Hate Speech?
William A. Levinson
The answer to this question depends on how much responsibility a moderated discussion forum has to exclude racist, anti-Semitic, and other forms of hate speech. More

June 12, 2012
Piercing the Cone of Silence
Nick Chase
Is it finally all right to talk about Barack Obama's birth certificate in polite society? More

June 12, 2012
Who Will Provide My Health Care?
Deane Waldman
Whom do you want to operate on your heart: a doctor or a bureaucrat? More

June 12, 2012
New Data on Same-sex Parenting Challenges Gay Orthodoxy
J. Robert Smith
Two new studies indicate that children raised by gay parents might not benefit from the experience like kids raised by married mother-father parents. More

June 12, 2012
President Obama and the Herr Schultz Syndrome
Richard Butrick
Herr Schultz was convinced that Nazi propaganda will not resonate with the German people. Now we hear the same argument from the Obama camp when it comes to Islamism. More

June 11, 2012
The Clintons' Covert War on Obama
Thomas Lifson
Panic is setting in among the people who ran the Democratic Party prior to the miraculous arrival on the scene of Barack Hussein Obama and the perfect storm of events that propelled him into the White House. More

June 11, 2012
Fiscal Cliff, No Leader
Jeffrey Folks
The U.S. economy is slouching toward the most heavily predicted economic crisis in history. Every reputable economic forecaster has issued a warning of the approaching storm. The only person who seems unconcerned is the leader of the free world. More

June 11, 2012
What Color Is Obama's Parachute?
Arnold Cusmariu
Scott Walker's win means that Barack Obama's White House tenure may well be coming to an end. What will the ex-president do once he can no longer blow smoke in the federal facility at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? More

June 11, 2012
The Most Pathogenic Media in History
James Lewis
The media are the nervous system of our society. They are the means of communication and control, including control of your mind and those of your children. And just as the brain can get sick, so the media can, too. More

June 11, 2012
What Did Savannah Guthrie Really See?
Nick Chase
Now that it's been established that Barack Obama's long-form "birth certificate" originated as a digitally created forgery, we are left to ponder: how was the paper certificate of which NBC News reporter Savannah Guthrie took pictures created? More

June 11, 2012
'Cap and Trade' For CO₂ Needs a Stake through the Heart
S. Fred Singer
Global Carbon Market trading (practically all EU) climbed to $176 billion in 2011, which makes it makes it about the same value as total global wheat production -- which supplies about 20% of the calories consumed by the 7 billion people on planet Earth. More

June 11, 2012
'Academic' Scientists Forced to Reveal Private E-Mails in BP Trial
Bruce Thompson
Taxpayer-funded scientists protest purported violation of academic freedom. BP prevails in court. More

June 10, 2012
The Wintour of Our Discontent
Clarice Feldman
The entire week was full of signs of a campaign on the rocks More

June 10, 2012
The Thankless Task of Defending Christianity
Drew Belsky
The West is replete with innuendos, fabrications, and outright malicious lies about Christianity and Christians. It's time to set the record straight. More

June 10, 2012
Who Will Stand for Hard Work?
Dera Enochson
What does it mean to be a business owner today in America? It means you take all the risk, put in all the effort. In return you get the trophy of supporting all the people able to fill out paperwork giving them entitlements. More

June 10, 2012
Foreign Aid Underwrites Another Chapter in Cambodia's Bloody History
Michael Benge
If we're going to talk about cutting foreign aid to reduce the deficit, let's start with Cambodia. More

June 10, 2012
Facing the Brutal Reality of American Syrian Policy
Shoshana Bryen
The wailing over Syria has reached fever pitch. Sadly for Syrian people, the one thing that does not by itself constitute an American strategic imperative is carnage. More

June 10, 2012
Can Israel Defy the World?
Ted Belman
The fact is that you can count the instances where Israeli prime ministers have defied the U.S. on the fingers of one hand. More

June 10, 2012
The Six-Day War: Israel's Miraculous Victory
Victor Sharpe
And how her leaders have since betrayed her patrimony and heartland. More

June 10, 2012
The Democrats' War on Small Business
David A. Nace
Small business owners apparently make for one of the most misunderstood groups in America. But they're also one of the most loved. More

June 10, 2012
Religious Thought and the HHS Mandate
Howard Slugh
Arguments regarding the role of religious thought in public debates have returned to the spotlight in the controversy surrounding the administration's abortifacient, sterilization, and contraceptive mandate. More

June 9, 2012
Will Mitt be Jack or Arnie?
Arnold Cusmariu
Politics as golf: should Romney run the way Arnold Palmer played golf or the way Jack Nicklaus did? More

June 9, 2012
Which Is More Dangerous: Obama's Head or Obama's Heart?
Ron Lipsman
Obama is clearly from the intellectual class, not a foot soldier. But the heart of an intellectual progressive is every bit as devoted to the progressive cause as is his head. More

June 9, 2012
The Last Gasps of Public-Sector Unionism
William Sullivan
At this point, Democrats shouldn't be able to deny that the American people find public-sector unions repugnant in many ways. But they keep denying anyway. More

June 9, 2012
Justice Stevens Gets a Medal
Edward H. Stewart, Jr.
Whether he deserves it is open to debate. More

June 9, 2012
The Lynching of George Zimmerman
Anthony W. Hager
Here is a man whose trial has transcended justice. It's now about capitalizing on opportunity. More

June 9, 2012
The Obama Nation versus the Reagan Sensation
Dale Bandy
In terms of unemployment, the economy President Reagan faced in the early 1980s was actually worse than today's. So how did Reagan deal with it? More

June 9, 2012
Robert Mugabe...What Happened?
Marion DS Dreyfus
Out of Africa come two remarkable documentaries -- one on a Marxist tyrant who has impoverished the breadbasket of Africa and driven out the whites, and another on Uganda's encounter with gay rights activism. More

June 8, 2012
Citizens United Becomes the Left's All-Purpose Excuse
Richard A. Baehr
Blaming Citizens United for the decisive Walker victory is nothing more than a smokescreen to cover up the fact that most Wisconsin voters were tired of 15 separate, very divisive, and angry recall campaigns. More

June 8, 2012
Did Bill Clinton Deliver a Coded Warning about Obama?
Jason Kissner
A crescendo of jabs from Bill Clinton aimed at Barack Obama's re-election chances have caused much commentary, but the pundits have ignored an anomalous digression in a recent speech, which may be a startling coded warning about Obama. More

June 8, 2012
Payback Is a Hound Dog
Rosslyn Smith
It may simply be that Clinton hates Obama's guts -- and vice-versa. More

June 8, 2012
Do Republicans Really Have Only One Reason to Criticize the President?
Jim Yardley
As the campaign grinds on over the next five months, Team Obama, unable to explain away policy failures, will increasingly rely on the one-word rebuttal to all criticism of the Chosen One. More

June 8, 2012
Why Do We Elect People Who So Clearly Lack Character?
Patricia McCarthy
By now, nearly everyone paying attention knows that Barack Obama has lied countless times over the years in order to further his academic and political career. More

June 8, 2012
Race Troubles?
W.A. Beatty
No, not that kind. The Formula One Grand Prix (GP) Automobile kind. But that got your attention, right? More

June 8, 2012
The Conservative Legacy of Bradbury
Bruce Walker
Ray Bradbury's work touched upon one of the most fundamental aspects of conservatism: the written word. More

June 7, 2012
Grifters on Parade
J. R. Dunn
Obama has failed as a leader, he has failed as a statesman, and he is now failing as a fraud. More

June 7, 2012
What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon
Jack Cashill
Unnerved by an unspoken mix of political bias and racial queasiness, the major media have chosen to know as little about Trayvon Martin as they know about Barack Obama. More

June 7, 2012
America: The Home of the...Compliant?
Daren Jonescu
The priorities of civilizations can be gleaned from a consideration of the virtues they cherish most. More

June 7, 2012
Obama Stonewalling Gulf Oil Spill Disclosure
Bruce Thompson
The Obama administration is desperately trying to avoid coming clean about its role in delaying capping the Gulf Oil Spill. More

June 7, 2012
9/11 Defendants' Lawfare Mocks the American Justice System
Brooke Goldstein and Skylar Curtis
Can an attorney demand that every woman in the courtroom dress in an "appropriate" way? What if "appropriate" means adhering to a conservative version of sharia, or Islamic law? More

June 7, 2012
A Balanced Approach: Tax like Bush, Spend like Clinton
Randall Hoven
The Keynesians who advise Obama are like people who heard that long-distance runners load up on carbohydrates by having a big pasta dinner the night before a marathon. But instead of ever actually running to get in shape, they simply keep eating pasta. More

June 7, 2012
What Liberals Really Respect
Selwyn Duke
Hint: It's not virtue. More

June 6, 2012
Big Labor's Big Boo-Boo
C. Edmund Wright
The unions' reward from the citizens of Wisconsin for a year and a half of hell was a resounding "go to hell" of epic proportions. More

June 6, 2012
The Big Lie: Republicans are Racists
Peter Wilson
It goes without saying that Obama supporters do not condone the nastier genocidal bits of National Socialism, but the Big Lie, described by Hitler and perfected by Joseph Goebbels, is a familiar leftist tactic. More

June 6, 2012
First Ladies Shouldn't Tell Girls to Shake Their Booties for the Bucks
M. Catharine Evans
Beyonce, a sexpot and high school dropout, is Michelle's new BFF; and the right kind of role model for her girls. Michelle Obama lives in an opposite universe. More

June 6, 2012
Obama's Syria Dilemma
Jonathan F. Keiler
Obama's clear unwillingness to act militarily against the Assad regime almost certainly runs deeper than his famous preference for leading from behind. There is a reason that nobody has yet articulated. More

June 6, 2012
Melinda Gates Talks Eugenics
Andressen Blom and James Bell
Eugenics has gone incognito, but it is still governments deciding which people shouldn't have children in such large numbers. More

June 6, 2012
Obama Reinvents Sacred Themes for 2012
Janice Shaw Crouse
While his record as president makes it abundantly clear that he does not walk on water, the president is still appropriating to himself many of the religious code words and symbols that ensured his victory in 2008. More

June 6, 2012
Thermodynamics of Global Warming
Jerome J. Schmitt
It's easy to portray a catastrophic global warming scenario when you use the wrong system of measurement. More

June 5, 2012
What Is Obama Hiding?
Ed Lasky
There has been plenty of conjecture regarding Obama's biography. Clearly, he has a penchant for fiction and does not care to fact-check his own life. Nor does he care for others to fact-check or scrutinize what he has been doing as president. More

June 5, 2012
Party Loyalty and the Future of America
Steve McCann
Does loyalty to a political party trump the well-being of a nation? That question now confronts many Democratic Party activists, financial contributors, and elected politicians. More

June 5, 2012
The Morphing Obama Biography and the Skeptics
Cindy Simpson
An odd taboo has been created on noticing that the president of the United States has a biography that can adapt itself to the needs of the moment. Go too far in raising an alarm, and be labeled "birther" and shunned in polite society. More

June 5, 2012
When Eco-Thugs Knock
Brian Sussman
A "life changing experience" experience for a citizen who dared to email the EPA. More

June 5, 2012
The Hillary Gambit: Will She Replace Biden?
Victor Volsky
In a sign of increasing desperation on the left, speculation is rife that Barack Obama will kick Vice President Joe Biden off his team and replace him with that perpetual presidential wannabe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. More

June 5, 2012
Smashing the Tyranny of the Democrats' Clichés
Christopher Chantrill
When Mitt Romney showed up at Solyndra and the Romney HQ troops showed up to heckle David Axelrod last week, conservatives found themselves writing about the thrill up their legs. It really makes a difference when your leaders actually show up to fight. More

June 5, 2012
The Fate of Syria's Christian Minority
Ken Blackwell
If the Western democracies succeed in toppling Assad -- as they seem to intend -- what will be the fate of Syria's Christians? Have any of our State Department policymakers given any thought to this question? More

June 4, 2012
Anti-Jewish attacks in France reach epidemic proportions
Leo Rennert
French Prime Minister puzzled by "unexplained violence" refuses to open his eyes. More

June 4, 2012
Washington Post Tougher on Romney than Hezb'allah Killer of 241 Marines
Edward Olshaker
Prepare for further, increasingly desperate attacks, as Romney continues to receive more negative coverage than mass-murdering terrorists. More

June 4, 2012
Barack Obama's Stolen Valor
William A. Levinson
Only a self-aggrandizing narcissist like Barack Obama steals the valor of genuine heroes and claims it as his own. More

June 4, 2012
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Constitutionally Ignorant and Politically Tone-Deaf
Sara Goodman
When it comes to separating church and state, Debbie Wasserman Schultz likes to have it both ways. More

June 4, 2012
Export Natural Gas to Create Jobs
Jeffrey Folks
Does President Obama care more about jobs for Americans or about his own reelection chances? A decision last week on natural gas exports provides the answer. More

June 4, 2012
How Obama Might Just Break Even on Jobs
C. Edmund Wright
There is one thing he can do to leave office with as many Americans working as on his Innauguration Day, and the good news is that he's likely to do it, even against his own will. More

June 4, 2012
Dept. of Justice Case against Former BP Engineer is Rapidly Crumbling
Bruce Thompson
The motive behind all this governmental misbehavior is clear. They want to inflict maximum pain upon BP, and they will not let a little thing like the rule of law stop them. More

June 4, 2012
Climate-Catastrophe Skeptics - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Shrink 'Em!
Charles Clough
When it comes to global warming, the National Wildlife Federation lately is giving a new meaning to "wildlife." More

June 3, 2012
Seventy-Six Trombones and 8.2% Unemployment
Clarice Feldman
This week the economic news is so grim even the media's usual qualifier "unexpected" is meaningless. More

June 3, 2012
Benchmarking Presidential Readiness
Charles N.W. Keckler
If the main criterion is readiness to be president (as Romney says), we ought to look to presidential history to see what experiences seem to have made a man ready for the office. More

June 3, 2012
Is anti-Catholicism on the rise?
Stephen Kokx
From the media to the entertainment industry, the Catholic Church and those who adhere to it are held to a different standard. More

June 3, 2012
EPA's Unethical Air Pollution Experiments
John Dale Dunn MD JD
If it's true that small-particle air pollution is lethal, then why was the EPA exposing people to it in huge amounts for experimentation? More

June 3, 2012
Obama Administration Combats Racist Air
Daren Jonescu
The Obama administration argues, in effect, that freedom has led to an unfair distribution of healthy lungs, and therefore steps must be taken to achieve respiratory justice. More

June 3, 2012
The Commodore and the Commerce Clause
Jerome J. Schmitt
How the commerce clause unleashed free market competition from state-greanted monopolies, only to be hijacked by Obama to enforce a federal monopoly More

June 3, 2012
SCOTUS ObamaCare Decision: Both Monumental and Irrelevant
Deane Waldman
That decision will have profound policy implications regarding the reach and scope of Federal government. At the same time, it will have little impact on our daily lives in terms of health care. More

June 3, 2012
The ICG Rethinking the "Peace Process"
Shoshana Bryen
One could be forgiven for thinking that current strategies to ensure peace between Israel and the Palestinians are not working. More

June 3, 2012
Progressive Education's War On Knowledge
Bruce Deitrick Price
Data and information can be found on Google, so the purported bright minds of the educational establishment want to drop the mundane teaching of facts. More

June 3, 2012
The Paradox of Israeli Politics: Vote Right, Get Left
Adina Kutnicki
Many supporters of Israel are continually bedeviled by a glaring contradiction within Israeli politics. How can it be, regardless of which party wins the election, that leftist policies are invariably implemented? More

June 3, 2012
Muslim Outrage, Intimidation, and Blackmail
Eileen F. Toplansky
Preposterous fabrications demand that our righteous indignation call for the end of Islamic triumphalism. More

June 3, 2012
When Democrats Confuse Statism with Community
Ed Kaitz
When liberals today invoke "community," they most probably have in mind "planning" and "power." More

June 3, 2012
3236: A Number Pregnant with Danger for Israel
Salomon Benzimra
After 16 years, U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism to racism, was revoked in 1991. However, UNGA Resolution 3236, passed in 1974, is an even greater canard and is still standing. More

June 2, 2012
How to Meet the Cyber-Threat against America in the 21^st Century
Elise Cooper
America faces real danger in the cyber age -- but how much more power should government have for the sake of cyber-security? More

June 2, 2012
Britain Should Snub Obama's Re-Election Ploy
Adam Shaw
Maybe sending the bust of Winston Churchill back to Britain wasn't such a smart idea. More

June 2, 2012
Bloomberg's Coked-Out Nanny State
Benjamin Domenech
If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets his way, soon you'll have to buy your Coca-Cola from a guy in an alley. More

June 2, 2012
Marine Aviators at the Battle of Midway
Mike Johnson
A brief overview of the heroes who gave their all to defeat an evil empire in 1942. More

June 2, 2012
Distorting History to Promote Gay Acceptance: The Civil Rights Movement
Melvin D. Whitlock
There comes a time and place where a person who fought for a worthy cause in the past can be susceptible to losing touch with that very same cause in later years. Just so with civil rights heroes now supporting gay marriage. More

June 2, 2012
Pursuit of an iPad
Julie Ferguson
If I want an iPad, why not come up with some reasons for the government to give me one for free? More

June 2, 2012
Under Allah with Sharia for All
Janet Levy
We are being dragged by the hand of our political correctness toward dhimmitude. More

June 2, 2012
A Guy Named Jennifer
Robert Harkins
Here is a man through and through, a biological father of children -- who wants access to women's bathrooms because he says he's a girl. More

June 2, 2012
Who's a Hero?
Lee A. Heilig
Not everyone can be a hero. More

June 2, 2012
Regulators Gone Wild
Gary Jason
How do we explain a government regulatory agency gone wild, turning viciously on its subject and seeking to destroy or impair it, regardless of the harm done to the general public? More

June 2, 2012
Syrian Conflict: The Spillover Effect in Lebanon
Khaled Nasir
The violence and discord in Syria is starting to spill over into neighboring nations. More

June 2, 2012
Good Old College School Daze
Mary Durbin
I used to think my university nurtured every point of view. Now, as I look over the alumnae magazine, I'm starting to wonder. More

June 1, 2012
Sybil Hussein Obama?
Lauri B. Regan
President Obama's Sybil-like multiple personalities are blowing up. More

June 1, 2012
Jealous God Obama Attacks Rival Religions
Stella Paul
If 2008 was the moment when a phony messiah sold nonsense on stilts, this is the moment when religious Americans must definitively decide before whom they kneel. More

June 1, 2012
What the Jan Karski Gaffe Really Means
Bruce Walker
Gerald Ford's "Polish Moment" might have cost him the election. Now, Barack Obama has had his own Polish Moment regarding World War II hero Jan Karski. More

June 1, 2012
Can Warren Buffett Save America's Newspapers?
Richard Davis
Warren Buffett has disclosed that he is buying 26 more dailies to add to the ones he already owns. Community-minded papers have a "good future," he proclaimed. More purchases are expected. More

June 1, 2012
Government Pays for Children to Walk Home from School
Josiah Cantrall
Walking your child home from school should be a simple process, left completely up to the individual parent. So why has the federal government spent nearly $1 billion on this no-brainer since 2005? More

June 1, 2012
Animal Rights Legislation Would Make Eggs a Luxury Food
Mindy Patterson
One day soon, America could wake up to a dozen eggs costing $8 or more. And unless you are involved in some aspect of farming or agriculture, you would never know that egg prices are about to skyrocket or the reason why. More

June 1, 2012
Military Exercises and Political Correctness
Shoshana Bryen
What is the United States doing sharing military skills with Egypt, Pakistan, and Lebanon, those paragons of anti-democratic values and bastions of anti-Americanism? More