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July 31, 2012
The Amazing Presidential Power-Grab
Kyle Stone
What began as a trickle of presidential power-grabs in 2009 has turned into a cascade of executive roguery. More

July 31, 2012
The Climategate and Jerry Sandusky Scandals: A Common Thread
T.S. Weidler
America, it's time to meet your newest top-secret government employee: a professional cover-up artist with a radical agenda. More

July 31, 2012
GOP Edge in Swing States
Bruce Walker
Almost wholly overlooked in this year's election punditry is a quite possibly decisive advantage which Mitt Romney will have in thirteen extremely important swing states. More

July 31, 2012
Save American Medicine and Save Your Own Life
Zane F Pollard, MD
The trials and tribulations for doctors treating Medicaid patients are not getting any better -- not for the doctors, and not for the patients, either. More

July 31, 2012
Obama's 1.5 Percent Problem
Christopher Chantrill
So should anyone be surprised that the economy is only growing at 1.5 percent? More

July 31, 2012
Milton Friedman, Father of School Choice
Joy Pullmann
On the hundredth anniversary of Friedman's birth, it's worth examining the untold good he's done for poor and minority students across the nation. More

July 31, 2012
Supporting Israel is in America's Best Interest; Can Obama Do It?
Jonathan F. Keiler
Should Obama win a second term, will he overcome his pro-Palestinian views and act in America's best interests, which will be to support Israel at the expense of the Palestinians? More

July 30, 2012
Maraniss Gets Testy as New Obama Bio Tanks
Jack Cashill
Maraniss spent the last four years on his career book, released it in the heart of a heated re-election season, got the kind of exposure a Kardashian would envy, and now finds the book heading for the remainder racks weeks after its release. More

July 30, 2012
How to Fight Democrat Intimidation
Sally Zelikovsky
The intolerance, invective, and hate from leftists is at an all-time high. But we're not going to take it anymore. More

July 30, 2012
What Role Will White Guilt Play in the 2012 Election?
Lee Cary
The unintended consequence of the white guilt vote for Obama in '08 is in the impact it's had on those most hurt by the president's economic policies: poor urban blacks. More

July 30, 2012
Votes for Sale
Cindy Simpson
Vote-buying is "where the money's at." Those were words recently spoken in my home state of Kentucky, by some who admitted knowing that the practice is illegal but as "everyday" as jaywalking. More

July 30, 2012
All the Dependency Pieces Are Falling into Place
W.A. Beatty
How does Obama plan to win in November? By consolidating all the Americans economically dependent on him. More

July 30, 2012
Dancing Nurses and Dead Brits
Jeannie DeAngelis
In the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies, a bizarre tribute to the Brits' failing socialized National Health Service was offered to worldwide audiences. More

July 30, 2012
The Under-Appreciated Casualties of Aurora, Colorado
Stephen Mauzy
The truth is the most prominent of these casualties. More

July 29, 2012
Wile E. Coyote Joins Obama Campaign Team
Clarice Feldman
Obama campaign creating jobs for Acme Products, as exploding cigar sales... explode. More

July 29, 2012
Pro-Murderer Mindset of The New York Times
Lester Jackson
A stunning 7,900-word New York Times article paints a murderer as a sympathetic victim, with little concern for his victims and their loved ones. The pro-murderer movement hits the big time. More

July 29, 2012
The 14^th Victim at Fort Hood
Ken Blackwell
More proof of Obama's "covert zeal" for abortion. More

July 29, 2012
Raul Castro and the Mending of Fences
John F. Di Leo
Can we, should we, forgive Cuba and welcome them into the new world of peace and international trade? More

July 29, 2012
Wouldn't Touch It with a Ten-Foot Poll
Dov Fischer
Whether or not Mitt Romney is ready to be president, the poll numbers that matter will unfold in the final weeks or days, the way they always do. More

July 29, 2012
Picking the Wrong Opponent
Jim Yardley
What worse decision can a politician make than to choose a battle with the Catholic Church -- or any church, for that matter? More

July 29, 2012
Palestinian Financial Crisis Looms
Shoshana Bryen
The Palestinians are at war with Israel and wars have consequences. More

July 29, 2012
CAIR's Information Momentum Warfare
Cynthia E. Ayers
It is succeeding. More

July 29, 2012
The United States, Russia, and The Syrian Crisis
Georgy Gounev
A closer look at the main arguments of the powerful group of observers and experts who tend to blame Moscow for the endless bloodbath in Syria. More

July 29, 2012
The Man Who Quit Money: Of Parasites and Men
Marjorie Haun
Living without an income is not the same as "quitting money." But the Obama-loving anti-capitalists who applaud Daniel Suelo's New-Age parasitism would have you equate the two -- and lose your wallet in the process. More

July 29, 2012
Aiding and Abetting Islamic Vigilantism in Germany
Andrew E. Harrod
German lawyer Michael C. Schneider's troubles -- not only with Muslim extremists, but also with the German bar -- have dangerous implications for free societies everywhere. More

July 29, 2012
Iran a Partner for Peace?!
Sam Cramer & Sam Kahan
Absolutely, if Kofi Annan is to be believed -- sundry and barbaric human rights violations notwithstanding. More

July 28, 2012
It's the Bureaucrats, Stupid
C. Edmund Wright
Vote Obama in 2012, and you have cast your ballot for more rules and more paperwork and more bureaucrats to answer to should you dare to try to carve out your little piece of the pie without government help. More

July 28, 2012
The Dumbest Word in the English Language
Trevor Thomas
Recently liberal mouthpiece Frank Rich was on the Rachael Maddow show, and the subject was Mitt Romney and his tax returns. More

July 28, 2012
Recognizing Tragedy as Olympic History
Sanford D. Horn
Some, like our president, find it all too easy to forget what happened at the Olympic Games forty years ago in Munich. More

July 28, 2012
It's a Tax/It's Not a Tax: ObamaCare Explained
Cameron Reddy
The fact is, Chief Justice John Roberts had good reason for his ACA ruling. More

July 28, 2012
The Obamacare Mandate Is Not a Tax
Paul Jacobson
It is now well known that ObamaCare is littered with a plethora of taxes, unambiguously labeled as such -- but not ObamaCare's "Mandate." More

July 28, 2012
The Reagan Remedy for Medicaid
Susan A. Carleson
A solution to our health care woes has been staring us in the face for years -- about forty years, in fact. And it all started with Ronald Reagan. More

July 28, 2012
Ilana Mercer's Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jack Kerwick
Where South Africa has been, and where the United States may well be going. More

July 28, 2012
Refuting Obama: The Story of Henry Ford
Isaac Martin
Henry Ford, for his part, definitely "built that." More

July 28, 2012
Small Business Success without Government Help
Jim Gammon
I worked my way to success, and it was a long time coming. Success is not easy or fast for most of us. More

July 28, 2012
The Fallen Angel: Fiction Based on Israel's Very Real Plight
Elise Cooper
Daniel Silva ties biblical history and a long legacy of persecution against the Jewish people to weave another fascinating read. More

July 28, 2012
Only Teachers, Firemen, and Cops?
Jim Yardley
How many public employees in white-collar jobs provide us anything of value? More

July 28, 2012
Cojones Required to Defeat Racist Democrats and Media
Lloyd Marcus
Will Mitt Romney boldly exploit the first black president's failed presidency? Or will he wimp out? More

July 27, 2012
How the Left Sabotages the Literary Right
Jack Cashill
All justice, all sympathy, all honesty be damned. More

July 27, 2012
Pawns in the Obama Re-Election Campaign?
Steve McCann
The Obama campaign is making a concerted effort to discourage turnout for Romney. Conservatives who surrender to the idea that Romney is not conservative enough and that it is too late to save America, are victims of several fallacies. More

July 27, 2012
Selling Out Sarah Palin
Steve Flesher
Even though Palin is no longer a presidential threat, the good old boys continue to tear her down. More

July 27, 2012
Boot Iran from the UN
Ken Blackwell
We should inform the UN that America's contribution to the world body's budget will be reduced so long as it harbors terrorists. More

July 27, 2012
Meet Your New M.D.
Deane Waldman
What good is having health insurance if you cannot get the health care you need, when you need it? More

July 27, 2012
Should We Ban Farm Tools?
Carol A. Taber
As has become customary in this country, the discussion of Aurora quickly turned to "who is to blame?" If the left wants to have that discussion, conservatives should welcome it. More

July 27, 2012
Is Dick Durbin Stupid, Ignorant, or Just Lying to His Constituents?
Jim Yardley
In light of his recent comments on internet sales taxes, it could be all three. More

July 26, 2012
You Didn't Build It...because I Didn't Earn It
Abraham H. Miller
It isn't socialism that explains Obama's dismissive "you didn't build it" remark toward people of talent and individual initiative; it's the culture of affirmative action. More

July 26, 2012
Have Your Way with the Local Newspaper
Theodore Dawes
As a newspaper reporter, I often find myself interacting with people who often interact with newspaper reporters. I'm often surprised at how bad they are at it. Especially the Republicans. More

July 26, 2012
The Modern Machiavelli
Donald L. Gilmore and David Reif
In the modern republic, the prince is often a composite. More

July 26, 2012
Back to the U.S.-Israel Future
Shoshana Bryen
A few basic principles will serve Mitt Romney well in his upcoming visit to Israel. More

July 26, 2012
Conservative Tax Hikes
Bruce Walker
Might liberals learn a lesson about vice taxes if conservatives started proposing some of their own? More

July 26, 2012
What Everyone Forgets When Debating Gun Control
Selwyn Duke
As for debating the Second Amendment, there's nothing wrong with using facts to refute the notion that more guns equal more deaths. But this should be only part of the debate, not the debate itself. More

July 26, 2012
Romney in Israel
Harold Goldmeier
Barack Obama is making Americans in Israel very, very nervous. How will Mitt Romney take advantage of this opening? More

July 25, 2012
Obama Keeps on Conning America
Lloyd Marcus
A snake can swim underwater a very long time, just like a fish. But eventually, it must come up for air. Why? Because it is not a fish -- it is a snake. Sound familiar? More

July 25, 2012
The Commie's Commie
Herbert E. Meyer
Paul Kengor utterly destroys the reputations of those liberal journalists and fawning Obama biographers who do claim to be investigative journalists, and who twisted themselves into pretzels to avoid noticing that Obama's mentor was a Communist. More

July 25, 2012
The Romney Legacy: A Rambler American
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Practical, economical, honest, perhaps a little lacking in pizazz, but perfect when searching for value. More

July 25, 2012
Romney Rising
William L. Gensert
This could be the easiest campaign of your life, Mitt -- there is so much to use against our worst president. You cannot play by some nonexistent set of rules. More

July 25, 2012
Obama in His Own Words: 2004 Oprah Interview Revisited
M. Catharine Evans
The story's the thing. More

July 25, 2012
Tragic Dramatics and the Obama Presidency
Anthony W. Hager
Playwrights benefit from weaving suspense into their scenes. Tyrants benefit from weaving dependence into the law. More

July 25, 2012
Birthers and Bainers and Returners, Oh My!
Cindy Simpson
In today's political Oz, we're warned to beware of crazy conspiracy theorists, described by creative names ending in "er." More

July 24, 2012
What the Media Won't Say about Frank Marshall Davis
Jack Cashill
Pushback begins on the Frank Marshall Davis issue. More

July 24, 2012
Sanitizing Obama's Radical Past
John Drew
Even when a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian erases the youthful Marxism of our president, the truth will out. More

July 24, 2012
End the Ethanol Madness
Jeffrey Folks
Obama's environmental policies have put the country's food supply at risk. More

July 24, 2012
The Theater Shooter Is Caught, but the Real Joker Keeps Laughing
Oleg Atbashian
Mental illness does terrible things to the mind regardless of ideology, turning the individual into a loose cannon. Throw a radical cause into the mix, and it quickly removes the safety lock and points the weapon in a certain direction. More

July 24, 2012
Liberalism Drives Men to Madness
Kevin Jackson
It should come as no surprise that the rise in mass killing sprees in America is in direct proportion to the rise in liberalism in American politics. More

July 24, 2012
Obama, the Great Educator
Christopher Chantrill
President Obama is the great educator of our age. Whoever you are, whatever your politics, you have to admit that the last three and a half years have really turned out to be an education. More

July 24, 2012
The Left Tars and Feathers Chick-fil-A
Casey Mattox
A good man running a good business is castigated by leftist groupthinkers. More

July 23, 2012
Obama's Passport Breach: Unanswered Questions, and an Unsolved Murder
Pamela Geller
A man is dead, and there is abundant evidence of improper conduct by Obama and his cronies, and the media lets the story lie dormant for four years. More

July 23, 2012
Where There Are Sheep, Wolves Will Always Thrive
Michael Filozof
The great danger of the "Batman" shooting is that the still-deluded folks among us will believe that more government power and more gun control will solve the problem. More

July 23, 2012
Obama Administration Draws Closer to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
C. Hart
It is time for Americans to wake up and see the handwriting on the wall. For the first time, the U.S. has publicly linked the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. More

July 23, 2012
'Gentlemen's Club' Gangs Up on Bachmann
Daren Jonescu
Courage to raise issues of national security that today's climate of political correctness, reaching from the State Department to the U.S. military, has rendered taboo. More

July 23, 2012
Saleha Abedin and the Muslim Sisterhood
Andrew G. Bostom
The extent of Dr. Abedin's influence on her daughter Huma Abedin's views and efforts -- the latter still a close aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- should long ago have been investigated, clarified, and discussed in the public domain. More

July 23, 2012
Obama's Goddess Cult
Grace Harley
This past week, I was invited to a conference at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. celebrating the inspirational accomplishments of high-profile women. More

July 23, 2012
Now 'It Takes One'?
Jeannie DeAngelis
The slogan "It Takes One" is perfect for a first lady like Michelle Obama, who has a fervent belief in the power of one. More

July 22, 2012
'You Didn't Build That.' Boston Globing for Obama
Clarice Feldman
The President in his ill-considered Elizabeth Warren-like claptrap revealed he is utterly divorced from the majority of Americans. More

July 22, 2012
Tea Party Targeted by 'All the Bolsheviks' Children' (ABC)
Selwyn Duke
There can be only two reasons why ABC would mention a possible Holmes/Tea Party association: either its people want to demonize conservatives every chance they get, or they think traditionalist thought constitutes a pathology. More

July 22, 2012
The Dream Is Dying
Kenneth L. Hanson
Is the "American dream" still alive and well? Ask a Russian doctor-turned-American citizen who can't do what she loves here. More

July 22, 2012
Washington's Message to Americans: 'We Own You'
Fay Voshell
Obama's Roanoke speech, combined with other red light indicators of a radically leftist political philosophy which includes wealth redistribution, is the message of the almighty and sovereign State. More

July 22, 2012
Obama vs. God on Work and Welfare
Jan LaRue
Obama tries to justify his progressive agenda with Scripture, such as when he misapplied "my brother's keeper" to support wealth redistribution. He doesn't have a prayer aligning his welfare-without-work order with the Apostle Paul or Ecclesiastes. More

July 22, 2012
The Lamps Are Going Out All Over the Islamic World.
Bill Schanefelt
As we watch, a large chunk of humanity is slipping backward, toward something very ominous for them, and for us, too. More

July 22, 2012
The Intellectual and Moral Poverty of Egalitarianism
Jack Kerwick
Inequality is a hard, unalterable, empirical fact. Yet egalitarianism isn't just false; it is invidious. More

July 22, 2012
Palestinian Perfidy
Yonatan Silverman
Who could possibly believe that the Palestinian Authority is acting in good faith with Israel? More

July 22, 2012
Inevitably Controversial: Melinda Gates and Contraception for the Poor
Peter West
No matter what Mrs. Gates says, the idea that there is "No Controversy" to eliminating the poor rather than feeding them is absurd. More

July 22, 2012
How Immigrants Viewed American Citizenship circa 1939
Eileen F. Toplansky
A commendation about citizenship? What a novel idea! More

July 22, 2012
Vietnam's Two-Front War on Religion
Michael Benge
Vietnam's official religion is communism -- to the exclusion of all others, and no matter what anyone at the U.S. State Department says. More

July 22, 2012
Israeli Police Mimic Stupidity of TSA
Camie Davis
The Israeli police have recently rushed into action to protect the public from criminals -- namely, Jews who had the audacity to pray on the Temple Mount. More

July 21, 2012
Obama of Roanoke: We Saw You Coming
C. Edmund Wright
Obama let slip in a momentous way what many of us knew all along about him. More

July 21, 2012
The Vagabond at the Intersection: The Consequences of Pooled Burden
Charles Adam Floyd
Like the vagabond at the intersection who scrubs your windshield for change even after you've waved him off, our government has collected a trophy case of carefully planned gratuities force fed to us one at a time More

July 21, 2012
EPA: Thou Shalt Purchase Fuel That Doesn't Exist
W.A. Beatty
Forcing American energy-producers to live up to impossible standards. More

July 21, 2012
If Darwin Was Right, Don't Sweat Global Warming
Timothy C. Daughtry
How do liberals' two favorite "science" issues -- global warming and Darwinism -- compare to each other? More

July 21, 2012
The Perfect President for Today's America?
Simon de Hundehutte
Chris Matthews really could be onto something by calling Barack Obama "the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American." More

July 21, 2012
The Deception of Perfection
Kyle Becker
The American republic since its inception has been a shining exemplar of success. Why, then, the steady decline? More

July 21, 2012
Here Come the Closet Black Conservatives
Pat Austin
A growing number of black closet conservatives are speaking out against big government, which is what they perceive to be "the new plantation." More

July 21, 2012
Arizona versus the United States?
Elise Cooper
Who will win in the battle between Jan Brewer and Barack Obama? More

July 21, 2012
How Obama Has Failed the Black Community
Chad Stafko
During his nearly four years as president of the United States, Barack Obama could have used the bully pulpit of the presidency to make a real impact on the black community. More

July 20, 2012
The Roanoke Shuffle: Obama and the Racial Gratitude Racket
Robert Oscar Lopez
President Obama's Roanoke speech was not really an insult to businessmen. No, in fact, it was far worse: it was a threat. Worse still, it was a threat rooted in a long and ugly racial history in the United States. More

July 20, 2012
Yesterday's Heroes and Today's Commander-in-Chief
Jeffrey Folks
Comparing the daring and self-sacrificing men of the Alamo the man currently occupying the White House. More

July 20, 2012
Obama's Surprising Tax Logic
S. T. Karnick
Like many of his other public pronouncements, President Obama's recent comment about self-made wealthy people -- "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own" -- is a truism that actually proves the opposite of what he suggests. More

July 20, 2012
They're Coming for Our Food, One Food Policy Council at a Time
Peter Wilson
The federal government, through ObamaCare and Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, has been busy extending its tentacles into municipal and state governments, with the goal of imposing restrictions across the country on unhealthy eating. More

July 20, 2012
Corporate Culture/National Culture
Trevor Thomas
Two longstanding and well-known American corporations have reaped very different rewards for their very different positions in the marriage debate. More

July 20, 2012
Of Marx and Men
Bruce A. Riggs
What can we make of Karl Marx, the supposed champion of the proletariat who never set foot in a mill, factory, or mine? More

July 20, 2012
My Fantasy Date with Barry
Christopher Paslay
This fall, the results of perhaps the most important contest in the history of the United States will be decided: who has won "Dinner with Barack." More

July 19, 2012
Surviving Obama
William L. Gensert
Barack Obama is the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime. Yet he lacks the work ethic and intellectual rigor necessary to destroy us -- despite actions, which are purposely malevolent or moronically unintentional. More

July 19, 2012
The Marxist Heart of Darkness
Bruce Walker
Marxism is neither a science nor a system of belief. It is a rationale for seizing power and terrorizing all those who are not its cadres. More

July 19, 2012
The Misgovernment Campaign
James V Capua
However ignorant, destructive or mendacious Obama's campaign speeches are, at least they are only words. Much worse are the cynical policies he is deploying to aid his re-election. More

July 19, 2012
Infantilizing Leftist Morality
Daren Jonescu
Today's ever-expanding "entitlement mentality" is literally shamelessness elevated to the status of a moral code. More

July 19, 2012
Obama Continues to Despise American Energy
Eileen F. Toplansky
This ongoing assault is perfectly in line with the 44^th president's desires. More

July 19, 2012
Public-Sector Unions In Charge
Michael Bargo Jr.
Government of the unions, by the unions, for the unions. More

July 19, 2012
Australia's Green Ideological Disaster
Sam Fielding
Australia is providing a case study in the self-destructive politics of green ideology, when believers of the religion of global warming gain political leverage. More

July 18, 2012
Socialist? Communist? Three Questions for Obama
Paul Kengor
Where's the conversion narrative for Obama, for when he left his Marxism behind? We don't know of one, and the scandalously biased pro-Obama media will not bother to ask. We know why: they're afraid of the answer. More

July 18, 2012
Obama: The Bane of Capital
Dov Fischer
A person who fabricates not machines, but life stories cannot understand how much one risks when he creates a company, builds a small business, and hires workers to produce something useful. More

July 18, 2012
New Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Proof in the Layers
Mara Zebest
Obama's PDF file never originated as a paper document. Rather, it was born in cyberspace -- or to put it another way, it was digitally manufactured. More

July 18, 2012
Obama and the Fantasy of Omniscient Government
Steve McCann
Obama's manner of governance betrays his true motives. More

July 18, 2012
The Outsourcing Dividend for the Poor and Middle Class
Bruce Phillips
Here is how Mitt can respond to the attacks on Bain's alleged outsourcing. More

July 18, 2012
Fed Action. Helping or Hurting?
Bruce Johnson
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This holds true in the current interest rate environment as set by the Federal Reserve. More

July 18, 2012
Time to Clean House at the CFTC
Paul B. Matthews
While most of the American media focused much of the past week on where Mitt Romney invested his money, another major financial scandal has hit the American financial markets with little to no fanfare. More

July 17, 2012
Is Obama Ripping Off the Mask?
James Lewis
In emotional terms Obama is "leaking" his real feelings, while trying to cover them up. Popular narcissists can be devastatingly nice and charming, until they run into opposition. Then their real feelings leak out. More

July 17, 2012
TWA Flight 800: 16 Years and Still No Questions
Jack Cashill
I got involved in one of the two great media scandals of our time -- the Obama ascendancy being the other -- fully by happenstance. More

July 17, 2012
Nobody Else Made It Happen, Mr. President
Rob Miller
The president is obviously clueless about what it takes to start a business from scratch, having never done anything remotely like that. But having done it myself a few times, perhaps I should take a stab at enlightening him. More

July 17, 2012
My White Girlfriend Inspired Obama's Big, Dark Regina in Dreams from My Father
John Drew
I am asking myself why would Obama delete a vivid white girl from his autobiography and replace her with a big, dark composite character from Chicago? More

July 17, 2012
The Folly of Obama's Politics
Christopher Chantrill
What is President Obama's campaign for reelection but straight-out demagoguery? More

July 17, 2012
Why Obama's College Records Matter
Monte Kuligowski
Questions about Obama's records tend to go over like fingernails on a chalkboard among the mainstream media. More

July 17, 2012
Bureaucrats Bully Family Farms in D.C. Exurbs
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
It's come to this: a party of eight 10-year-old girls on a family farm is subject to regulatory purview, and is cause to threaten county citizens with fines up to $5,000. More

July 16, 2012
It's Not Fair!
Ed Lasky
President Obama is right. There is a lot of unfairness in America. And he is the source of much of it. More

July 16, 2012
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
Joseph L. Bast
So when do we get our money back? More

July 16, 2012
Dreams from Governor Abercrombie
Don Wilkie
That Abercrombie lied about Obama's early years is beyond any shadow of a doubt, but unless he's totally addled, he had to know that he was lying. More

July 16, 2012
Israel's Oil Weapon
Gene Schwimmer
Seemingly out of nowhere, geopolitics have been all but turned upside down in the Middle East, thanks to the discovery of massive energy resources in Israeli territory. More

July 16, 2012
Labor Losses Imperil Democrats
Bruce Walker
Republicans ought to push the dinosaur of Big Labor as hard as they can. More

July 16, 2012
Do Obama's Executive Orders Reveal A Pattern? (updated)
Warren Beatty
I'm never comfortable with laws that give the government broad reaching powers in the event of a "national emergency," especially when there is no clear, set, unchangeable definition of what actually constitutes a "national emergency." More

July 16, 2012
Linda Lingle: The GOP's Senate Pick-Up in Hawaii?
Tom Thurlow
Will we be trading Olympia Snowe for a new senator across the ocean? More

July 15, 2012
My Problem Is I'm Too Good
Clarice Feldman
Obama reminds me of a dear, now deceased, relative who used to say, "My problem is I'm too good," without realizing the humor of that self-evaluation. More

July 15, 2012
Taking Down the Second Amendment: The Connection between Fast and Furious and the Trayvon Martin Case
Jeff Lipkes
Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and the Obama administration may be working more "under the radar" on gun control than even Obama admitted. More

July 15, 2012
Please, No Rice with That Romney
Selwyn Duke
To paraphrase Mark Twain, she seems like the kind of person who has let her schooling interfere with her education. More

July 15, 2012
Jews and American Conservatism
Dov Fischer
Unlearn the languages of Yiddish and Hebrew. Pray in English. Eat non-kosher. Treat Saturday the way everyone else does. Melt into the melting pot. Dissolve if possible. And change the name. More

July 15, 2012
Centro Tepeyac: Pro-Lifers' First Amendment Martyr?
Daniel Smyth
If Montgomery County, Maryland has its way, then we'll be seeing some bizarre First-Amendment violations. More

July 15, 2012
Hypocrisy and Sexual Predation at the United Nations
T.S. Weidler
In a world in which child rape can be justified with a lollipop, it is easy to see how the U.N. can justify genocide for the opportunity to rape children. More

July 15, 2012
Obama's Unserious National Security Policy
Lauri B. Regan
In Obama World, the fantasyland that has taken over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, our diplomacy has been "smart." Not quite. More

July 15, 2012
The Said Honor Murders: Indict the Mother
Pamela Geller
The honor killing of Amina and Sarah Said on January 1, 2008 is emblematic of the government's and media establishment's indifference to the plight of all too many Muslim women and girls in the United States today. More

July 15, 2012
The Trickle-Down Hoax
Richard Butrick
The trickle-down trope is not the justification for lower taxes. It never has been. More

July 15, 2012
Big Government Foster Care: A Toddler's Case at Children's Court
Joshua Allen
Exposing a world that few reporters, lawyers, or judges dare to talk about. More

July 15, 2012
Memo to Bloomberg: Forget Big-Gulp Bans. How about Encouraging Healthy Relationships Instead?
Judy Gruen
If Mayor Bloomberg really believes what he told Charlie Rose last month, he should start taxing single people and atheists. More

July 15, 2012
Baby in a Box?
Elise Cooper
Pondering the effects of widespread advances in genetic testing for unborn babies. More

July 15, 2012
Rights and Consequences
Jim Yardley
Obama feels that his vision for a transformed America is constrained by a musty, antiquated scrap of parchment that describes his job functions. More

July 14, 2012
NAACP Furthers Mission of KKK
Lloyd Marcus
The mission of the KKK is to stifle black liberation via intimidation, which is exactly what the modern black civil rights coalition continues to do to blacks. More

July 14, 2012
Love Thy Neighbor?
Gil Dominguez
My neighbor seems like a nice guy but suffers from muddled thinking. The other day he came over to see me and said he was overextended financially, had maxed out all his credit cards, and wanted to know if I could lend him some money. More

July 14, 2012
The Obama Way: Selling Failure as Success
Lawrence Wolfe
For Barack Obama and the Democrats, "there's no success like failure." More

July 14, 2012
Fighting Voter Fraud
Bruce Walker
Many conservatives have viewed the very real problem of voter fraud in America as a guarantee that the left will be able to use this nefarious means to steal crucial elections. How do we fight it? More

July 14, 2012
Can Republicans Woo Former Obama Youth?
M. Catharine Evans
Facing an uphill battle, with facts on our side. More

July 14, 2012
Gov. Romney, Please Meet Gov. Coolidge
Garland Tucker
The former governor of Massachusetts could stand to learn from one of his predecessors in that office. More

July 14, 2012
Judge Saves Abortion in Mississippi - for Now
Danny Loe
Apparently, there is a legal case somewhere stating that comments made by legislators who pass a law supersede the text of the law. More

July 14, 2012
Beyond the Ballot Box
George Scaggs
Unseating Obama is just the beginning. More

July 14, 2012
Democratic Window Dressing in the Middle East
Aaron Hirschi
The United States government has backed and continues to back Arab uprisings in the vain hope that these post revolutionary Arab societies adopt democratic institutions. More

July 14, 2012
The Seas Are Rising, the Seas Are Rising!
Bernie Reeves
Supposedly reputable scientists running around screaming about projected catastrophic consequences caused by rises in sea level. More

July 14, 2012
Yes, Virginia, There Is Truth in Media
Betsy M. Galliher
You deserve a media that respects your intelligence, protects your liberty, and speaks truth to power More

July 14, 2012
Liberty-Lovers and Romney
Jack Kerwick
Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee. And libertarians have a decision to make. More

July 13, 2012
Libs Say the Darndest Things
James Lewis
In my never-ending effort to understand the liberal mind, I'm beginning to scribble down nutty sayings from the liberals I happen to run into. More

July 13, 2012
Is Obama's Brother a Conservative Republican?
Paul Kengor
Might George Obama endorse Mitt Romney for president? More

July 13, 2012
Morgan Freeman on Obama
Jack Kerwick
Suddenly, prominent blacks are telling us President Obama isn't really black -- just mixed-race. This tells us something very important. More

July 13, 2012
A Leftist Media for Obama
Jeffrey Folks
As the liberal media see it, the debate is over. America has become a European-style social welfare state, and there is no going back. There is only going forward. More

July 13, 2012
A Man for All Races
Cindy Simpson
Mitt Romney received a standing ovation at the NAACP convention. Really. Even though practically every media outlet failed to mention that important tidbit and instead focused on the boos he provoked. More

July 13, 2012
Refugee or Not Refugee? No Longer a Question
Brooke Goldstein & Benjamin Muller
Why the U.N.'s "refugee" classification for Palestinians is ridiculous. More

July 13, 2012
Far-Reaching Changes Threaten Israel And Western Interests in Mediterranean
Michael Widlanski
There are dramatic changes in the security picture on Israel's southern border, but you would not know it by reading, listening to, or watching most of the American press or listening to press briefings at the White House or the State Department. More

July 12, 2012
Campaign Cash from Jews Is Bad Only if It Goes to Republicans
Richard Baehr
Happy to feed vile anti-Semitic toxins into the campaign. More

July 12, 2012
Obama Campaign Is in Worse Shape Than It Looks
Adam Yoshida
We can add the grotesque financial mismanagement of the Obama campaign as another factor counting against the president in the election race. More

July 12, 2012
Who's the Real Outsourcer: Romney or Obama?
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
The Obama campaign has been running a series of campaign ads which call Romney an "outsourcer." But the truth is the complete opposite. More

July 12, 2012
Is Mitt Manning Up?
Victor Volsky
Watching the strange lassitude that engulfed the Republican presidential campaign around the Independence Day break, one couldn't help wondering: where was the Mitt Romney of the primaries, Mitt the Terrible? More

July 12, 2012
Safe, Legal, and Rare: Why Not Guns, Too?
Keith Riler
Though he doesn't realize it, President Obama has an idea that can bring the contentious gun control debate to an end, in a manner that should be satisfactory to all sides. His idea is "safe, legal, and rare." More

July 12, 2012
Barack Kardashian?
Marc Hopin
Rush Limbaugh told me (and millions of other people) that his new nickname for our current president is Barack Kardashian. Hard as I try, I can find nothing Kardashian about Obama. More

July 12, 2012
Reagan Is Gone - Is Sarah Palin America's Next 'Great Cheerleader'?
Lloyd Marcus
Am I naïve or old-fashioned, expecting the good guy to win? Has America changed so dramatically that being good -- a person of character -- is considered naïve? More

July 11, 2012
What David Maraniss Left Out of The Story
Don Wilkie
David Maraniss is remarkably detailed about things that have nothing to do with Barack Obama's Story but is inexplicably incurious about many things that are very important to The Story. More

July 11, 2012
Once a Liar...
William L. Gensert
Who but complete deluded idiots can believe anything Barack Obama says anymore? More

July 11, 2012
Obama, the Pierre Trudeau of America
Mark Walker
Four and a half decades ago, Canadians elected a cool, detached, and modern leader, adored by the media and presented as a transformational figure. What followed stands as a warning to Americans. More

July 11, 2012
Hard Days Ahead for ObamaCare
Christopher Chantrill
Don't bet on ObamaCare. It's not going to turn into a political winner like Social Security and Medicare. More

July 11, 2012
The West Bank May Never Be the Same
Ted Belman
A legal tsunami gathering strength in Israel will soon engulf the region. More

July 11, 2012
Restoration and Renewal In 2012: A Theme For Romney
Fred Bauer
An organizing theme addressing the unease many voters have about the direction America has taken. More

July 11, 2012
Personal Space Wars
Cindy Simpson
If the patient doesn't fit into ObamaCare's one-size-fits-all gown, it will probably be the patient that has to be modified, and not the program. More

July 10, 2012
The Real Price of Obama's Prevarications
Jack Cashill
What Obama and his media enablers have wrought. More

July 10, 2012
The Norwegian 'Miracle'
Randall Hoven
I think of Norway as the Bono of countries. It likes to preach to the rest of us how to be good citizens of the world. In the meantime, it makes money hand-over-fist. More

July 10, 2012
The Real Reason John Roberts Upheld ObamaCare?
Selwyn Duke
John Roberts certainly knows this history. More

July 10, 2012
Next on the Progressives' Marriage Agenda: Polygamous Nuptials
Lee Cary
President Obama's acceptance of same-sex marriage logically applies to polygamous relationships. For Progressives, the old Nike ad slogan applies: There is no finish line. More

July 10, 2012
Can Debates Swing the Election?
Bruce Walker
Conventional wisdom is that the presidential debates are not that important, but that is not necessarily true. They may prompt a landslide this year. More

July 10, 2012
Mitt Can Lose, Even If He Wins
Jim Yardley
Deposing Obama will not be enough. More

July 10, 2012
Close Down the TSA!
Pamela Geller
The TSA is a government agency of attrition and harassment. Yet it is operating at a time when Obama is enforcing a sharia ban on government agencies: we cannot address jihad or the teachings that mandate Islamic imperialism. More

July 10, 2012
Obama, Bush, and Women's Health
Jeannie DeAngelis
Spot the phony. More

July 9, 2012
David Maraniss and Obama's Communist Mentor
Paul Kengor
It's interesting that not only does Barack Obama need continued vetting, but so do his biographers. More

July 9, 2012
The Gathering Storm within the GOP
Daren Jonescu
America needs a Republican Party establishment that values the Constitution over cocktail parties. More

July 9, 2012
Obama and Romney: Character Shows
Karin McQuillan
A telling comparison. More

July 9, 2012
Mitt Romney's Time to Choose
Steve McCann
Is Mitt Romney running for president solely as a fulfillment of a personal or family ambition? Or because he sees the bleak future ahead for the nation and is determined to reverse its course? More

July 9, 2012
ObamaCare Is Shovel-Ready for You
Stella Paul
I've been gobbling berries like crazy ever since June 28, when Chief Justice John Roberts gifted us ObamaCare. I figure I'd better fortify my body with antioxidants before they drop all 2,000 pages of Obama's "law" on my head. More

July 9, 2012
Neo-Soviet Russia Is Another Obama Legacy
Kim Zigfeld
Russia is now a fully neo-Soviet state, with a KGB "president for life," and Barack Obama has actively encouraged it all. More

July 9, 2012
Roberts Among the Houyhnhnms
Edward H. Stewart, Jr.
Sometimes in confusing situations, the best way to find out what something is is to find out what it isn't. More

July 8, 2012
It's Slipping Away
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Yes, it is slipping away. The final resting place for this most disagreeable journey will be the fate of all collectivist societies -- poverty and squalor. More

July 8, 2012
Obama vs. Romney: The Kitty Genovese Test
James Lewis
Kitty Genovese is a test of moral seriousness. More

July 8, 2012
The Truth about Fortune Magazine's 'The Truth about the Fast and Furious Scandal'
Jeff Lipkes
Fortune is for people who can't Google. More

July 8, 2012
The Forgotten Solution to the Abortion Debate
Keith Riler
Why do so many people choose abortion over adoption? More

July 8, 2012
Justice Roberts Explains Justice Roberts: Politics, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Change
James W. Lucas
One of the eerie aspects of Chief Justice John Roberts' vote to uphold the ObamaCare individual mandate was its resonance with the vote of an earlier Justice Roberts. More

July 8, 2012
Madison Revived
Jeffrey Barrett
There is one power center remaining that can serve as a check on the Supreme Court and the federal government, and that center has one constitutional tool to work with. More

July 8, 2012
RIP: Free Speech about Islam
Adam Turner
The right of Westerners to speak freely regarding Islam-related topics is in jeopardy. More

July 8, 2012
Air France 447 Crash Report Reveals a Flaw in Modern Aviation
Robert Schapiro
Aviation is going in the wrong direction. More

July 8, 2012
Does Morsi Really Intend to Uphold Egypt's Treaty with Israel?
Jonathan F. Keiler
The correct question is not whether Egypt will honor the treaty, but simply when and how Egypt will abrogate it. More

July 8, 2012
Supreme Court Decisions Not Sacred
Sam C. Holliday
Recognizing the differences between Secular Authority and Sacred Authority. More

July 8, 2012
Will Romney Find His Voice on Health Care?
Howard J. Warner
It is not enough for Romney to say he will repeal ObamaCare. He must articulate a positive alternative that provides greater individual freedom. More

July 8, 2012
Abortion, the Economy, and the 2012 Election
Michael O'Halloran
No matter how important the economy is, abortion is a perennially significant issue in any election. More

July 8, 2012
Divided We Stand
G. Murphy Donovan
Religious freedom may be more important to American exceptionalism than meets the eye. More

July 7, 2012
Seizing Mortgages?
Jason Kissner
How to bring in crony investors and use unaccountable public authorities and the courts to seize mortgage bonds at 80 cents on the dollar. More

July 7, 2012
Contempt: The Defining Characteristic of the Obama Presidency
Mark W. Hendrickson
It wasn't until Congress held a certain vote on Eric Holder that I discovered the best word to define Obama's tenure as president. More

July 7, 2012
Were Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Really Married?
Nick Chase
Could what Obama's hiding on his real birth certificate be not damning, but simply embarrassing? More

July 7, 2012
The Tea Party Response to the SCOTUS Decision
Doug Mainwaring
Everyone is asking, "What is the Tea Party going to do?" More

July 7, 2012
To Rule, or Not to Rule, That Is the Question
Cameron Reddy
Just as Joseph Story advised in 1833, Justice Roberts eschewed the widespread American desire to have a definitive ruling on the merits. He avoided a final resolution for good reason. More

July 7, 2012
What Hath Roberts Wrought?
Lester Jackson
In protecting deceit, Roberts smashes to smithereens his grandiloquent bromide disavowing Court vigilance regarding supposed political choices of the people. More

July 7, 2012
Will Mississippi Become an Abortion-Free State?
Danny Loe
Not exactly, pro-choice hyperventilating notwithstanding. More

July 7, 2012
Blue Highways Revisited
Larry Kaufmann
A timeless tribute to the sights, sounds, and personalities of an America that our mass media largely ignores and that some may believe no longer exists. More

July 7, 2012
What Shall It Be? Us versus Them? Or Them versus Us?
Jim Yardley
Maybe it's time for the Republicans to really reframe the players in this season's electoral battle. More

July 7, 2012
Pre-Existing Confusion
Bill Schanefelt
When is insurance not insurance? Liberals seem incapable of figuring this out. More

July 7, 2012
The Other Door Is Wide Open
Gary Horne
The Supreme Court has pointed out the unspoken truth that there is no constitutional limit on the amount of taxation or its use, or even what might rightly be called a tax. More

July 6, 2012
Obama's Problem Obeying the Law
William A. Levinson
There is ample evidence that Barack Obama, and people under his supervision, committed at least one felony -- specifically, illegal gambling across state lines -- to fund his 2008 election campaign. More

July 6, 2012
Take Off the Gloves, Mitt
William L. Gensert
Can we rely on Mitt Romney to be unafraid? He had better be, or Barack Obama will clean his clock. More

July 6, 2012
Forbidden Science: Low Level Radiation and Cancer
Norman Rogers
Some things are hard to believe. What you've been told about low-level radiation by the people who are supposed to be responsible authorities is very wrong. The evidence that the official story is wrong is overwhelming More

July 6, 2012
The Vast Left-Wing Wonk Machine
Randall Hoven
Fact-checkers are at it again. They are calling it a myth that ObamaCare is the biggest tax increase in history. But let's see how these great fact-checkers work. More

July 6, 2012
Armchairism
Mike Razar
Liberals who don't lead by example should just shut up. More

July 6, 2012
Fighting this Depression with the Last Depression's Tactics is a Recipe for Disaster
Frank Ryan
Just as World War I was called the "Great War" prior to World War II, the "Great Depression" will soon be called the First World Depression if government does not act immediately to minimize uncertainty and stop the spiral. More

July 6, 2012
Americans Should Treat the Federal Government Like Family
Jay Haug
Why should your spendthrift government be any different from your spendthrift daughter? More

July 5, 2012
Why Did Barack Obama Let Terry Lakin Go to Jail?
Jack Cashill
The White House, which was aware of Lakin's ordeal, could have spared him imprisonment More

July 5, 2012
How Statists Are Getting Away with It
Randall Hoven
It's a brilliant strategy. More

July 5, 2012
The 2010 Census, Obama-Style?
Ryan Scott Welch
Having seen the promised Obama "transparency" over the last three and a half years for the lie that it was, I decided to look into the 2010 Census figures in my home state of Texas to see if I could detect anything amiss. More

July 5, 2012
If the GOP Cavalry Doesn't Come
Lee Cary
What if that cavalry doesn't come in November to kill ObamaCare? Or what if it arrives poorly armed, on lame horses, with dull leadership? More

July 5, 2012
John Roberts v. ObamaCare: An Apologia
Paul Jacobson
Conservatives complain, often justifiably, that stupid Republicans are all too quick to throw their own under the bus when turmoil arises. But look how many conservatives have been eager to give Chief Justice John Roberts a poke in the eye. More

July 5, 2012
SCOTUS and the Collapse of States' Sovereignty
Fay Voshell
The ongoing collapse of the boundaries between the federal government and the sovereign, individual states has been accelerated by the recent ObamaCare decision. More

July 5, 2012
Pandering to the Black Voter
Eileen F. Toplansky
Obama's belief system ignores the advancements of America, imposes a false guilt on whites, and inflicts a continuing disaffected and victimization status on those who adhere to such beliefs. More

July 4, 2012
Ever Wonder Why We Even Bothered?
Jim Yardley
Never forget: the Constitution, as written, is a loud and strong declaration that We the People do not trust the government that we, ourselves, created. More

July 4, 2012
A Miracle in Wyoming
D.L. Hammack
Out of the ashes of a tragedy, we are given a symbol of hope, love, and devotion. More

July 4, 2012
OWS and the One Millionth: Right Feelings, Wrong Target
Tom Trinko
The people the OWS people rage against aren't the people who in fact control our lives or deny our freedoms. More

July 4, 2012
Preserving Our Pledge of Allegiance
Keith Riler
If Barack Obama has his way with this sacred text, what will be left of it? More

July 4, 2012
Honoring the USA on Independence Day
Elise Cooper
It's a great day to be an American. More

July 4, 2012
The Citizenship War
Robert Klein Engler
Breaking free from the British was a two-stage war. More

July 4, 2012
British on the 4^th of July
Noel S. Williams
How a Brit looks at some uniquely American festivities. More

July 3, 2012
Six Weeks That Saved America
Steve McCann
Rarely in such a short period of time have any president and his administration been so damningly exposed. More

July 3, 2012
Why So Many People Think Obama Is a Muslim
Pamela Geller
A new Gallup poll shows that 11% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim, and the leftist media just can't figure out why anyone would get that idea. More

July 3, 2012
And Now On to the Conventions and November
Dov Fischer
The battle lines ahead are clearly drawn. More

July 3, 2012
Government Wins Even ObamaCare Ruling's 'Silver Lining'
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
John Roberts' nonsensical, activist opinion upholding ObamaCare is even worse than it appears. The ObamaCare decision will embolden Barack Obama and left-wing statists. More

July 3, 2012
The Naked Left
Bruce Walker
Simply put, the left has lost the trust of America. More

July 3, 2012
The Movie on Health Care That Obama Doesn't Want You to See
Jeff Lipkes
It's not a documentary, and it's not by a conservative. More

July 3, 2012
When Everything's Been Said
Shoshana Bryen
Official Washington is watching and talking as a problem that affects us militarily, politically, and economically unfolds in a manner both predictable and predicted. More

July 2, 2012
Supreme Court Helps Obama Fulfill Dreams from His Communist Mentor
Paul Kengor
Thanks to the current actions of the Supreme Court, Frank Marshall Davis is no doubt smiling from his grave. More

July 2, 2012
The Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend
Bruce Walker
The relationship between conservatives and the Supreme Court is rather like that between Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt in autumn. This is nothing new. More

July 2, 2012
Arrest Eric Holder
Selwyn Duke
It turns out that the House could encourage immediate cooperation by arresting Holder. Such a move would be based upon something called "inherent contempt," a process well-established by precedent. More

July 2, 2012
Forget Immigration. It's Big Government Hispanic Voters Want.
Tara Servatius
If we are to believe the polls, Hispanic voters love big government. Just adore it. They want more of it. Lots more. And they will vote to make that happen. More

July 2, 2012
Is Obama's Support Weaker Than Poll Numbers Appear?
Chad Stafko
There is a compelling divergence regarding President Obama's reelection chances when we consider what the poll numbers are telling us versus what the boots on the ground are indicating. More

July 2, 2012
Roberts Hands a Poisoned Chalice to the President
Christopher Chantrill
Whatever you think of Roberts' decision, his message was unequivocal. If you don't like ObamaCare then you'd better vote it down in November. In this he gives conservatives real clarity. More

July 2, 2012
Thanks, Cher
Jeffrey Folks
Thank you, Cher, for revealing what Hollywood liberals really think of America. More

July 1, 2012
Still Struggling with the Roberts-as-Hero Theory
Daren Jonescu
I've tried -- I really have tried -- to accept the kindest reading of Chief Justice Roberts' decision and opinion on ObamaCare. But, so far at least, I just can't bring myself to see the positive here More

July 1, 2012
Have We Reached the New Tipping Point?
Jim Yardley
The trigger is always something seemingly insignificant to the elites. More

July 1, 2012
The Logic of Justice Roberts
Arnold Cusmariu
Gratitude is owed to Chief Justice Roberts for creating an opportunity to restore fiscal sanity and limit a power that lies at the very foundation of our republic. More

July 1, 2012
Obama's Healthcare Conquest
Jeannie DeAngelis
He came, he lied, he conquered. More

July 1, 2012
Colorado Springs Burns: Three Questions
Bill Schanefelt
It is reasonable to wonder why some of the best coverage seems to come from abroad, whether or not it is wise to have a presidential visit to such on-going disasters, and if the fires are the result of arson, incompetence, or both. More

July 1, 2012
Can S.E. Cupp Lie with Fools and Not Get Up a Fool?
Betsy M. Galliher
I suspect many conservatives sent up a cheer when they heard smart, feisty conservative commentator, S.E. Cupp, would be co-hosting MSNBC's new show, The Cycle. More

July 1, 2012
The Constitutionality of the ObamaCare Tax
Anthony J.Ciani
The Supreme Court did nothing at all surprising; it upheld our current tax code of social meddling. More

July 1, 2012
ObamaCare, Social Justice, and Administrative Overhead
Richard Butrick
The risk pool concept has severe challenges when dealing with health care -- challenges not faced with fire, theft, liability and other insurance-risk pool strategies. More

July 1, 2012
What Chomsky Got Right
Malcolm Unwell
Back in the 1980s, the Godfather of the academic left came up with some surprisingly helpful analysis for conservatives. More

July 1, 2012
A Californian Sees the Writing on the Wall
John McLaughlin
A conservative resurgence in the wasteland of California? More

July 1, 2012
Obama Not the Only One Playing the Blame Game
W.A. Beatty
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Obama supporters should thank Obama for playing the "blame game" so well that their own blames go relatively unnoticed. More

July 1, 2012
Jewish Tradition and War
Eileen F. Toplansky
Some societies, such as the Quakers, do not approve of war under any circumstances. On the other hand, "ancient Roman religions valorized warriors as heroes." Jewish tradition, for its part, "lies somewhere in between these stances." More