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January 31, 2013
The Path to Saving the Republic: Just Say 'No'
Michael Finch
The first salvos have already been fired in the battle to save America. And no, they weren't fired from anywhere in Washington D.C., from members of Congress or from Republican Party headquarters More

January 31, 2013
Trusting Your Own Government (or Not)
John Harvey
Are there are no circumstances whatsoever in which some future American government would ever turn feral? Are we willing to stake the lives of our children and grandchildren on that assertion? More

January 31, 2013
The Fall of Journalism
Theodore Dawes
A few notes on journalistic ethics (don't laugh!) More

January 31, 2013
Obama's 'Evil Empire' Speech
Cindy Simpson
If President Obama is truly the "Reagan of the Left," then it's only fair to ask: What does Obama consider "evil" and an "evil empire?" More

January 31, 2013
Chuck Hagel, Anti-Semitism, and American Jewish Apathy
Lauri B. Regan
Whatever the outcome of the Hagel hearings, liberal American Jews sat back and did nothing. More

January 31, 2013
The End of Neo-colonialism
Michael Curtis
Mali, Algeria, and the rest of the world are now aware that the fundamental threat to existing societies, is not the intervention of "colonial" powers but the advance of Islamist extremists. More

January 31, 2013
Benghazi Footnote
Elise Cooper
The American people should be outraged and demand answers after the secretary of state's testimony. Instead, it appears that but for a few, no one cares anymore and have shrugged away the issue. More

January 30, 2013
Popping Obama's Balloon
James G. Wiles
Two obvious trial balloons floated in recent days by Washington-based columnists announcing -- sort of -- that the Obama Administration intends to de-couple the United States from Israel and adopt a more independent attitude towards the Middle East More

January 30, 2013
Whatever Happened to Private Sex?
Sally Zelikovsky
Today's pop culture and university system are working hard turning sex into an open and public endeavor. More

January 30, 2013
The President's Wars and Women in Combat
Shoshana Bryen
It is unsurprising that a president who sees war primarily as "whack-a-mole" with drones would believe that women belong in all phases of combat. More

January 30, 2013
Is Winning the Argument Enough?
Peter Wilson
This is what we're facing: brilliant and creepy data analysis, a Chicago-machine GOTV ground game, a president unabashed in his demagoguery and a corrupt, biased media. More

January 30, 2013
Hagel and a Nuclear Iran -- Perfect Together
Edward Olshaker
Hagel has argued that any government (even an openly genocidal jihadist regime) possessing nuclear weapons would naturally respond to their new responsibility with common sense, prudence, and sanity. More

January 30, 2013
The Lupine Socialist Dream
Glenn Fairman
As republics inexorably begin their death swoons into full democracies, that great magnetic pull towards equality in all of its forms becomes culturally irresistible. More

January 30, 2013
The Importance of Mali
Georgy Gounev
The dramatic events that shook part of the African continent that not many people care about could have extremely important consequences in the not-so-distant future. More

January 29, 2013
Never Let a Dead Child Go to Waste
William A. Levinson
The instant people wake up to the fact that you are lying to them and manipulating them, they will turn on you with no less enthusiasm than that with which they once followed you. More

January 29, 2013
The Hippocritic Oaths
Mike Razar
Do the oaths sworn by the president and member of Congress really mean anything? More

January 29, 2013
Dial 911 and Die
Michael Geer
From American Police Beat website: the average of seven same-sized city police response to a High-Priority 911 call is a staggering 11 minutes, 11 seconds. More

January 29, 2013
The Political Gospel of Pain
Glenn Fairman
Focus and tenacity are levers to move the world. In contradistinction, hysteria and emotionality are the provenance of the Progressive caste. More

January 29, 2013
Drunk and Defenseless
Ronald Kimmons
My right to own a gun helps to protect me from others with guns, while my right to buy whiskey does not protect me at all from drunk drivers and snookered hooligans. More

January 29, 2013
Conservatism is More Than Growth and Opportunity
Christopher Chantrill
Most men vote on principle and most women vote for their children. So how does the GOP persuade women that voting for more free stuff is bad for their children? More

January 29, 2013
A Shameless Media
Jim O'Sullivan
The media's lack of interest in the failings of Obama's first term leads to two obvious questions; first, why? ...and second, will this pattern of behavior change in his second term? More

January 28, 2013
Hillary's First Big Lie
Jack Cashill
Just when was it that public integrity ceased to matter? After some research, I came to an unexpectedly specific answer -- January 26, 1992. More

January 28, 2013
Hillary Gives Away the Game
Daren Jonescu
During her Benghazi testimony last week, all at once, before the whole world, one of the highest ranking progressive authoritarians on the planet spilled the beans -- all of them -- about the left's modus operandi. More

January 28, 2013
Why Romney Lost
Dr. Charles T. Kenny
An objective analysis based on an understanding of the universal rules of marketing and communication that are rooted in the laws of branding and positioning More

January 28, 2013
Gang Violence and Gun Control
Michael Geer
Guns and gangs. Haven't read anything from the Left about that. Certainly nothing from Congress. More

January 28, 2013
Obama and the Restoration
J. Robert Smith
Obama is doing his single-minded level best to upend Reagan's accomplishments (both philosophically and practically) and earn a mantle beside or surpassing FDR in the left's pantheon. More

January 28, 2013
Encounter with a Low-Info Voter
Howard J. Warner
A clear demonstration of the severe problem facing our country resulting from the poor educational system we have underwritten for generations. More

January 28, 2013
TV's NCIS on those Sinister Israelis
Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel
The leaders of the State of Israel, according to NCIS, are into breeding decoy Palestinians rather than engaging in negotiation, and into motivating their own children to become ruthless killing machines dedicated to thwarting any peace efforts More

January 27, 2013
The Administration 's New Fronts in the War on Women
Clarice Feldman
This week, the administration that rode to a second term decrying a fictitious war on women by the opposition, opened real fronts on the war on women, perpetuating feminism's worst inconsistencies More

January 27, 2013
The Oncoming Human Rights Crisis...Caused by the LGBT Movement
Robert Oscar Lopez
It started, as so many human rights disasters do, in the name of love. What it's become is the new Middle Passage. More

January 27, 2013
The Great Gun Debate: Selwyn Duke vs. Brett Joshpe
Selwyn Duke
A few weeks ago, author and Manhattan-based lawyer Brett Joshpe penned a pro-gun-control piece for AT whose thrust was that conservatives need to be sensible with respect to firearms legislation. More

January 27, 2013
Did God Exalt Obama to the Presidency?
James Arlandson
If you're a believer who takes the Bible seriously, you have asked yourself this question many times. More

January 27, 2013
Sex, Human Nature, and Women in Combat
Dan Nagasaki and Glenn Doi
Sex changes everything. More

January 27, 2013
Madison's Constitution
Timothy Gordon
When James Madison shaped and defended throughout 1787 the document which became our Constitution, he did not follow Montesquieu's most important admonitions, but rather presumed to "correct Montesquieu" in three cardinal ways. More

January 27, 2013
Malpractice by Decree
Deane Waldman
Now that Obama has won re-election, he and ACA supporters have stopped pretending that ACA is anything less than takeover of US healthcare by the Washington bureaucracy. More

January 27, 2013
The Moral Force of Fatherhood
Glenn Fairman
Although conceived in compassion, programs such as AFDC had the perverse consequence of driving the male from the home and causing the role of provider to fall upon Uncle Sam. More

January 27, 2013
The Virtue of the Fake Clinic
Keith Riler
If we reject the truth of words, we preclude the possibility of virtue. And if the possibility of virtue is foreclosed, the city of man disintegrates. More

January 27, 2013
A King among Christians
Amy De Rosa
Martin Luther King, Jr did not become great because he was born with black skin and advocated nonviolence. He did something to become who he was. More

January 26, 2013
Dangerous Times: Gimme a General Who Won't Fight!
James Lewis
Obama is now firing our most successful fighting general -- for telling the truth More

January 26, 2013
An Honest and Horrifying Admission
Peter Heck
If that being in the womb is human, any justification offered for when or why it is acceptable to kill the child is ethically and constitutionally a case for legalizing murder. More

January 26, 2013
Gun Control: A Failed American Experiment
Timothy Birdnow
The United States has had gun control from its founding. And the results have been dreadful. More

January 26, 2013
Killing the American Dream
Jeffrey Folks
President Obama won re-election on the premise that he is defending the middle class. But the middle class does not need defending -- and especially not by government. More

January 26, 2013
No Mere Existence for Israel
Andrew E. Harrod
The Saturday, January 19, 2013 "No Blank Check for Israel" rally demanded that U.S. aid to Israel be "conditioned" on human rights -- as defined by the American left. More

January 26, 2013
The Bizzaro World of Liberal 'Science'
Tom Trinko
Science is science because of experiments. If you can't define a repeatable experiment that can either prove or falsify a theory all you have is a theory; and theories are just smart men thinking. More

January 26, 2013
The Educational Tech Scam
Jenni White
Why in the world, when our country is trillionsof dollars in debt, would we want to burden ourselves with increased debt in order to promote an educational philosophy that is at best controversial and at worst downright harmful? More

January 25, 2013
It's the Message, Morons
William L. Gensert
Barack Obama must be opposed, vocally and vociferously on all fronts -- confronted and ridiculed, just as he does to his opposition. More

January 25, 2013
The Logic of the Progressive Healthcare Death Cult
Daren Jonescu
Beginning from an inhuman premise -- namely that no individual has a right to self-preservation, they follow a train of reasoning that leads to a conclusion that is entirely logical, if you accept their initial premise. More

January 25, 2013
Why We Have Guns
Anthony J.Ciani
Why would politicians attempt to take away arms and surround themselves with bodyguards? To protect themselves against the crazy people, or against the sane people, who hope to keep their liberty and their lives? More

January 25, 2013
The Worst Five Years
Steve McCann
As of the end of 2012, the United States has experienced the worst five year period -- which includes, as the final four years, Obama's first full term -- since 1928-1932 and the start of the Great Depression. More

January 25, 2013
The Facts on Food Stamps
Warren Beatty
At best, ineffective, according to new studies. And, food stamp recipients have increased by an average of 11,133 per day under Obama. More

January 25, 2013
Vocabulary for the Struggle
Greg Richards
The government promises to love you. It can't. The code of a bureaucracy is not to become personally involved. So the promise of love from the government is a lie it uses to seduce the public. More

January 24, 2013
All My Babies' Mamas Reveals Liberals' Opinion of Blacks
Lloyd Marcus
Surely only fuddy-duddy Uncle Tom black conservatives would have a problem with this show...right? More

January 24, 2013
Digging the Benghazi Memory Hole
Jack Cashill
The Benghazi coverup is not Hillary's first memory hole, nor even her biggest. More

January 24, 2013
The President Declares War on the Founding
Jason Stevens
Obama expects his second term to "give real meaning" to the Declaration of Independence, supposedly because it's been lacking until now. More

January 24, 2013
Gun Violence and the FBI
Elise Cooper
With his 23 executive actions on gun conrtol, President Obama is narrowing it down to one issue, guns, while ignoring critical factors such as mental illness, drugs, and violent entertainment. More

January 24, 2013
The Liberal War on Children
Tom Trinko
Liberals like to say "it's for the children" when it comes to...well, everything. But their actions speak far louder than their words. More

January 24, 2013
Deconstructing Roe v. Wade
William Sullivan
Scientific progress supports the notion that a fetus within a womb represents a life. Therefore, the argument that the decision to end that life is simply matter of "choice" is ever more rejected by the public. More

January 24, 2013
Too Fast, too Furious
John Griffing
Throughout history, tyrants have used manufactured crises to rationalize the confiscation of citizens' lawful firearms. Obama is just the latest in a long line. More

January 24, 2013
Jesus is coming...for your guns!
Jeremy Egerer
What would a system of government specifically tailored to Christ's sermons actually look like? More

January 23, 2013
The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 3: Demonizing Human Nature
Oleg Atbashian
The Marxist notion of human progress is a spiral that would return humanity to stateless, moneyless, classless, and selfless collectivism. For that purpose they must, so to speak, put the genie of individualism back into the bottle. More

January 23, 2013
The Antigun Movement's Bridge Too Far
William A. Levinson
The enemies of the Bill of Rights have assumed they could exploit the blood of the murder victims to revive an agenda that had been put down hard in 2000. More

January 23, 2013
Bang, Bang! You're Dead.
Fay Voshell
The moral champions of our educational system represent inculcation of bubble head standards that bear little or no resemblance to reality and common sense, inculcation that is comparable to brainwashing. More

January 23, 2013
When can we Kill our Neighbor?
Tom Trinko
Conservatives believe that we can kill our neighbors only when our neighbors are trying to kill us, while liberals believe that they can kill their neighbors whenever those neighbors become a burden to them. More

January 23, 2013
The Tea Party: Still Coming into Its Own
Sally Zelikovsky
Reports of the Tea Party's death have been greatly exaggerated -- and they're pretty nasty, too. More

January 23, 2013
Book review: The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism
Russell Cook
For President Obama and others promoting the idea of man-caused global warming, any kind of plausible opposition to this issue imperils it, so they label crtiics as "deniers". Case closed. More

January 23, 2013
Thin Skin, Strong Stomach
Timothy Gordon
Only this seemingly odd combination of attributes can explain an American people willing to swallow progressives' sanctimonious destruction of society. More

January 22, 2013
The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 2: Demonizing the Opposition
Oleg Atbashian
As much as the statists want you to love them, they want you to hate their opponents even more. More

January 22, 2013
Killing Conservative Talk Radio, One Market at a Time
Daren Jonescu
If you want to view the concrete reality of today's political and media scene more clearly, just look at the case of a little radio show on a little radio station in a little town in the heart of Minnesota. More

January 22, 2013
Red Lines and Boiling Frogs
Glenn Fairman
In these latter days of the republic, a conservative is surely the equivalent of a bristling prophet sounding in the wilderness, calling the people to awaken and repent. More

January 22, 2013
What Hath Roe Wrought?
Janice Shaw Crouse
By their recent abandonment of the "pro-choice" rhetoric, it is obvious that abortion supporters recognize that pro-life forces are prevailing with the American public. More

January 22, 2013
Obama: Fox, Lion, or Emperor?
Cindy Simpson
It's not difficult to envision a grown-up Obama as caesar, reclining in a royal box overlooking an arena, giving an executive-order thumb up or down as the crowd roars in approval. More

January 22, 2013
Obama's No-Show at the OK Corral
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Despite the huffing and puffing, the strutting and strumming, the histrionics and hyperventilating, the 2nd Amendment isn't going anywhere. More

January 22, 2013
Ending the Filibuster: Be Careful What You Ask For
Bruce Walker
Senator Reid may remove a principal means of stopping revolutionary change. He might not like the consequences. More

January 21, 2013
The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 1: Demonizing the Non-Compliant
Oleg Atbashian
In a society shaped by the government's mind games of manipulative illusions, a dissenter sticks out like a sore thumb. Once the resistance has been demonized, its members will be quickly identified and denounced by the compliant citizenry More

January 21, 2013
Debunking the Sandy Hook Debunkers
Jack Cashill
Sandy Hook is particularly disturbing because the truth is, or at least should have been, so accessible. This tragedy should never have spawned anything like a conspiracy theory, but it obviously has More

January 21, 2013
The Left's Inability To Be Civil
Steve McCann
The lifeblood of a Democracy is civil discourse. It is painfully obvious that the left, the mainstream media, and the Democratic Party have no interest in any other point of view or even the future of the country. More

January 21, 2013
Governor Cuomo: Dishonesty is not Enough
William A. Levinson
When abusing state power in order to harass law-abiding gun owners and manufacturers, you need incompetence as well. More

January 21, 2013
Shredding the Constitution: The Port Arthur Phenomenon
Edward Paltzik
Those who think "it can't happen here" with regard to the gun control should take a close look at Australia. More

January 21, 2013
The Children's Hour
Jeannie DeAngelis
Barack Obama should pay less attention to attacking the Constitution and more time admitting that federally-funded public education is an abysmal failure. More

January 21, 2013
The New Moral McCarthyism
Andrew E. Harrod
In free societies, pornography largely remains an often frowned upon matter of private adult autonomy while the global homosexual movement is increasingly gaining acceptance of its agenda as a civil rights issue demanding public approval. More

January 20, 2013
The Democracy Initiative: a Coup in Plain Sight
Clarice Feldman
The left is preparing its next step in the grand transformation of the United States into their dream collectivist utopia. And what are conservatives doing in response? Nada. More

January 20, 2013
Educators Hit by ObamaCare
Eileen F. Toplansky
Far too many teachers are uniformly uninquisitive. Now their vote for Obama is coming back to bite them...and us. More

January 20, 2013
A (Not So) Brief History of the Gun
Trevor Thomas
Americans would be wise to remember all that the gun has meant to this nation and hope and pray that guns remain in the hands of its citizens. More

January 20, 2013
Guns, Gays, and Eighteenth-Century Rights
Robert Oscar Lopez
People in both America and France are undergoing a renewed interest in the 18^th century -- because they're reliving the 18^th century's dilemmas. More

January 20, 2013
Toward a `conservative' foreign policy
Diana West
What should a conservative foreign policy that is neither neoconservative nor libertarian look like? More

January 20, 2013
Of Babes and Bio-Ethics
Glenn Fairman
Theologians and philosophers have derived an enlightened morality positing the primacy of human worth. It is through this that the West's view of man's place in the cosmos has transcended that of other civilizations. More

January 20, 2013
The 'Diversity' Movement: Defeating Itself, Destroying Society
Jay Haug
The purveyors of the diversity movement ask us to embrace the concept as a worthy goal and an important part of America's future. Should we join them? More

January 20, 2013
Will the real Moderate Palestinians Please Stand Up?
Michael Curtis
Are there indeed Palestinian leaders whose position is more moderate than that of the acknowledged extremists? More

January 20, 2013
Harris Zafar's Islamic Intellectual Incoherence
Andrew E. Harrod
Completely absent in Zafar's discussion is the historic understanding of free speech as a trial and error method of distinguishing truth from falsehood. More

January 20, 2013
Pew Distorts Americans' Views on Abortion
Tom Trinko
The often unreliable polling agency is caught spinning again. More

January 19, 2013
Dangerous Times: John Brennan's Black Ops
James Lewis
John Brennan is the pro-jihadi black ops manipulator who helped to set back the Muslim world to desert Islam. In a few weeks from now John Brennan could be head of the CIA More

January 19, 2013
The Lesson in the Betrayal of Sarah Palin
Lloyd Marcus
What will happen to the next great conservative voice in America? More

January 19, 2013
In the Energy Debate between Palin and Obama...Obama Lost
Ben Voth
Our president shows his ignorance on energy, over and over again. More

January 19, 2013
The Algerian Hostage Situation
Abraham H. Miller
We need to grapple with the reality that a new breed of terrorist does not want to live but wants to die for Jihad. The old models for hostage situations do not work. More

January 19, 2013
Now Is the Time to Ban...
Sally Zelikovsky
...hot dogs. Also regular dogs. After all, if even a single child's life is saved... More

January 19, 2013
A Tale of Three Cabinet Nominees
Elise Cooper
Experts in various fields react to the possibility of an Obama administration including Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, and John Brennan. More

January 19, 2013
Does a Film Mirror America's Future? A Review of Barbara
Eileen F. Toplansky
The horrors of living in communist East Germany in the 1980s may have more relevance today than Americans would like to admit. More

January 19, 2013
You Might Be a Hyper-Conservative If...
James Arlandson
Hyper-conservatives have forgotten what conservatism is. So, here it is in a nutshell: fiscal discipline, free enterprise, constitutionally limited government, and low taxes; moral standards,and peace through strength. More

January 19, 2013
Women: Israel vs. the Arab World
Michael Curtis
The Arab countries lag behind, not only Israel, but other regions in the world regarding economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health, and political empowerment of women. More

January 19, 2013
Children Deserve to Be Defended
Kimberly Bloom Jackson
Even the most patriotic and courageous schools are having a hard time accepting the facts when it comes to crazed killers coming after our kids. More

January 19, 2013
The Liberal war on Responsibility
Tom Trinko
Liberals, like anyone who does something wrong because the near term "rewards" overcome concerns about long term consequences, work desperately to avoid the consequences of their actions More

January 19, 2013
Should the Second Amendment Have Been the First?
Russ Vaughn
Without the implied protection of force of arms, every other article in the Bill of Rights amounts to so much wishful thinking -- mere ink upon paper. More

January 18, 2013
Obama Playing Chicken with American Men
Daren Jonescu
The left may have determined that, for all the tough talk, American gun owners will not, in the end, have the nerve to stand firm against federal orders involving firearms. More

January 18, 2013
New York Declares War on the Second Amendment
William A. Levinson
New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has just shown why supporters of the Bill of Rights must use legal, nonviolent, and socially acceptable methods to destroy gun grabber organizations like the Million Mom March in 2000 and break political careers. More

January 18, 2013
The Missouri 'Rat Your Kid Out or Rat Yourself Out' Act
Timothy Birdnow
The purpose of this is to intimidate parents and guardians into refusing any gun ownership to children. More

January 18, 2013
Hijacking Rights
Craig Schwartz
The philosophy of Barack Obama is a version of altruism called "egalitarianism." It is a philosophy not of political equality but a claim to equality in reality. It is a belief that we need to equalize the unfairness in nature. More

January 18, 2013
Farm Bureau Turns Against Small Farmers on Boneta Bill
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Farm Bureau is the insurance company that is the equivalent of AARP for farmers. It believes that it is the gatekeeper of all legislation affecting farmers. Protecting freedom and property rights evidently take a back seat. More

January 18, 2013
Obama Defiles Reagan Stagecraft
Jeannie DeAngelis
The difference between Reagan and Obama is that instead of doing what the Gipper did, which was to impart a measure of his own patriotic optimism to the country, Obama openly exposes his resentment. More

January 18, 2013
Spot the Greedy Ones
Frank Ryan
In defining the plight of America as the "greedy" wealthy, the president has failed to effectively solve any of our problems at all. And what about the greedy unions? More

January 18, 2013
Small Sacrifices
Mary Garmon
The legitimization of infanticide constitutes a grave threat to the principle of human equality at the heart of civil rights ideals. More

January 17, 2013
They're Coming to Take Our Guns Away, Ha-Haaa!
Chad Stafko
A coordinated effort to paint American gun owners as crazed, government-hating lunatics, whose guns, used for sport, recreation, and defense are somehow a great danger to our society. More

January 17, 2013
The Obama Hat Trick: Three Hockey Sticks
Greg Richards
Some charts to make your hair curl...and what we can do about them. More

January 17, 2013
Breaking: Muhammad Is Just like...George Washington?!
Andrew E. Harrod
Achieving the seemingly impossible, "interfaith activist" and Trinity College (Dublin) Ph.D. candidate Craig Considine has reached new heights in modern Islamophile naïveté. More

January 17, 2013
The Debt Ceiling has Teeth
Jonathon Moseley
By loudly proclaiming the threat of an ugly scenario, Democrats may hope to win everything they want without actually going through the fight. More

January 17, 2013
We're Leaving Now; The Wars Remain
Shoshana Bryen
President Obama wants his legacy to be "winding down" America's wars in and bringing American troops home. He is doing that, but at the same time leavinbg unresolved conflicts that will enable al Qaeda to thrive and grow. More

January 17, 2013
How big a Gun does Anyone Need?
Gary Henderson
The fact that the founders did not know about AK-47s is irrelevant. In the context of the Second Amendment, "whatever it takes" is the correct answer to the "how much" question. More

January 17, 2013
The Real Problem with Healthcare
Chris Mondie
Inappropriate use and misuse of the ER is a social problem that needs to be dealt with and is not addressed by legislation. More

January 16, 2013
How Congressional Republicans Can Win the First Battle in the Spending War
Steve McCann
What does one do when confronted with the mandatory task of negotiating a deal with someone who is demonstrably dishonest, driven solely by ego and only interested in embarrassing you? You don't negotiate with them. More

January 16, 2013
Why Does the Anti-Gun Camp Need to Lie?
William A. Levinson
The rampant dishonesty among opponents of the Second Amendment is striking. It must be exposed, again and again. More

January 16, 2013
What's in a Name?
Sally Zelikovsky
We don't take our marching orders from the left. Just because the left brands us as racist, doesn't mean we dismantle our organizations and start another. More

January 16, 2013
Über-Stealth Jihad in America
Janet Levy
Islamist subversives have laid roots in many American institutions, including the ACLU and even the Tea Party. What can be done? More

January 16, 2013
Endangered Religious Freedom Day?
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Today, we find religious freedom in grave jeopardy. Obviously, the HHS Mandate that forces Christians to subsidize abortion-producing drugs is the clearest example. But there is an avalanche of others. More

January 16, 2013
Memo to Beijing: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Smog
Peter Wilson
Last weekend's air pollution in Beijing was 5 to 7 times the worst reading in the United States. More

January 16, 2013
A War still Rages within Them
Michael Curran
Suicide is not just a prevalent problem with active-duty and Reserve personnel - it places its cold hand of death upon our veterans in alarming numbers. More

January 15, 2013
New York Times Declares Victory in Feminism's War on Love and Romance
Pamela Geller
Men-hating parasites have ruined the glorious exaltation of women in 20th-century America. More

January 15, 2013
Global Warming? Yeah, Right!
W.A. Beatty
It seems that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) crowd do some picking and choosing of data in order to try to support their position(s). Why don't we set the record straight? More

January 15, 2013
Dueling Documentaries: FrackNation gives the counter-argument to the anti-fracking Gasland
Jack Kemp
It's time to put a lid on all the baseless hysteria surrounding hydraulic fracturing. Phelim McAleer has taken a big step in the right direction. More

January 15, 2013
Liberals: The Necessary Delusion
Christopher Chantrill
There are only five things wrong with liberal thought and politics: its cruelty, its corruption, its injustice, its waste, and its delusion. More

January 15, 2013
Lincoln Divided
Jason Stevens
Republicans may be "blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh" of Lincoln's party, but that alone does not provide "the electric cord" to the man. Party and place mean nothing compared to policy and principle. More

January 15, 2013
Genghis Khan, Secretary of State
William A. Levinson
Genghis John Kerry is therefore on record as saying that he knowingly and willfully committed actions that are contrary to the laws of warfare, including the Geneva Convention. More

January 15, 2013
How Many Bullets Are Enough?
William Sullivan
"The right to keep and bear arms" is not limited to the purpose of fighting government tyranny, but necessary for the broader preservation of liberty. More

January 14, 2013
The Best Conservative Movies of 2012
Jack Cashill
Although it may not seem obvious, 2012 was a better year than most. More

January 14, 2013
Parsing Piers
Randall Hoven
Piers Morgan is one of many people who seem to think the word "murder" must always be preceded by the word "gun," even though "gun" is not defined as an adjective in my dictionary More

January 14, 2013
We Await our Caesar
Tom Hoffman
With the inevitable continuation of the current rate of corruption and decay it is only a matter of time before the groundwork is complete and our Caesar takes center stage More

January 14, 2013
'Gun Violence in America Is Off the Chart'
Henry Percy
Fareed Zakaria's "blindingly obvious causal connection" and liberal blindness. More

January 14, 2013
David Coleman, Education Hero
Bernie Reeves
Finally, someone with clout is committed to undoing the damage done to the American educational system by radical scholars. More

January 14, 2013
No Wonder Our Horse Won't Run
Deane Waldman
How could the horse of state be expected to perform when it's weighed down by a thousand-pound ObamaCare jockey? More

January 14, 2013
Whether by Gun or Abortion, Murder Is Murder - Period
W.A. Beatty
Where are all the calls for "abortion control" legislation? More

January 13, 2013
America: The Kardashian Years
Clarice Feldman
Facts -- they just don't matter like they used to. Neither does the Constitution, if you listen to Joe Biden, Governor Cuomo, and other politicians grabbing the microphones to take advantage of the low information voters' short attention span. More

January 13, 2013
Government: America's New God
Lloyd Marcus
With Barack Obama as the Golden Calf. More

January 13, 2013
Changing the Culture One Film at a Time: Baseball, Dennis and the French
Fay Voshell
Making inroads in the decadent culture forced on us by the left these past several decades. More

January 13, 2013
The 'Closed Circle' of the Arab
Glenn Fairman
A sickness that is never cured and a lesson that is forever unlearned. More

January 13, 2013
The Palestinian Buyout Plan Gains Steam
Mike Konrad
Isn't it a good idea to think outside the box when people inside the box keep dying? More

January 13, 2013
Jean Valjean and the Forgiving Heart
Glenn Fairman
In this tale of two men, one finds in microcosm the dilemma we face in a world of pain and transgression. In a sense more real than we at times can fathom, we are both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. More

January 13, 2013
The Spoiled-Brat Syndrome
Charles Battig
Thanks to the modern educatonal system, the child has been conditioned to expect continual parenting, either from natural parents or from the ersatz parent-State. And children do grow up.... More

January 13, 2013
RG II, Not Bill Clinton for Father of the Year!
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Sometimes, committees simply lose their minds. This is clearly the case with the National Father's Day Council. The council has, unbelievably, voted to make Bill Clinton Father of the Year. More

January 13, 2013
Expunging Truth from the 57^th Inauguration
Jeannie DeAngelis
It's easy for a preacher to get kicked out of Barack Obama's inauguration. All he has to do is proclaim the Word of God. More

January 13, 2013
It's the Waste, Stupid!
Jonathon Moseley
Conservatives need to return to what built the conservative movement. We must now explain all over again to today's generation of voters how their tax dollars are being thrown away. More

January 13, 2013
Ten Non-Religious Reasons to Keep Marriage Traditional
James Arlandson
Will radical, iconoclastic leftists get their way again, as they seek to destroy another beautiful, stable, and honored tradition? More

January 13, 2013
'Put Not Your Trust in Aryans': A Movie Review
Jon N. Hall
Just as with methods, ideas can be dangerous, too. More

January 12, 2013
Obama's Zero-Sum Game and the Coming Redistribution Bubble
Michael Bargo Jr.
There's very important part of the zero-sum theory which President Obama has consistently ignored. This is almost certainly by design. More

January 12, 2013
Dangerous Old Men
Ebben Raves
How many Walt Kowalskis will pop up if the government tries to take Grandpa's guns? More

January 12, 2013
Republican Debt Limit Tactics
Mike Razar
With the debt limit due to kick in by the middle of February, there is not much time for Republicans to do what they should have done years ago. But it's not too late. More

January 12, 2013
Shrinking Privacy Means Expanding Government
S. T. Karnick
When "the personal is the political" rules the culture, we can count on continued government expansion forever. More

January 12, 2013
Education Enters the Twilight Zone
Bruce Deitrick Price
Some machines, it's said, are lean, mean, and built for speed. Our public schools, in contrast, seem to be built to stay in second gear. More

January 12, 2013
Feinstein, Mass Killers, and Imagination
Robert Babcock
Gun-grabbing politicians can't help but think that mass killers are stupid and that law-abiding gun owners are sheep. They're wrong on both counts. More

January 12, 2013
Disrespecting Texas Heroes
Joe Gimenez
The slow, incremental dismantling of freedoms of association and freedom to bear arms in Austin and Travis County is a disgrace to the memories of Travis and Austin. More

January 12, 2013
The Payroll Tax Holiday Needed to End
William Sullivan
Social Security is a burdensome inheritance for Americans, born in reckless political ambition and nurtured throughout the years by ignorant Utopian idealism. But nonetheless, it is a reality. More

January 12, 2013
Time for Some Moral Guidelines for the Press
Bob Weir
On the other hand, turnabout is fair play... More

January 11, 2013
Shed No Tears for the Rhode Island Professor
Robert Oscar Lopez
Let me translate: this was a big f-you to conservatives. In English this means: "liberals can act like punks, while conservatives speak up at their own peril." More

January 11, 2013
I'm British and Piers Morgan is Damn Wrong
Adam Shaw
The CNN host is being either intellectually dishonest, or downright ignorant, if he thinks America should imitate the UK on gun control. More

January 11, 2013
Pravda, Guns, and America
Oleg Atbashian
So many things in our history are difficult to understand unless you can don the glasses through which leftists see the world. More

January 11, 2013
The American People React to Zero Dark Thirty
Elise Cooper
Does the explosive new film on the bin Laden raid accurately portray the trials our nation went through to find him? More

January 11, 2013
When Kids and Guns Mix
Selwyn Duke
Criminologist Gary Kleck estimates that 2.5 million Americans each year use guns for self-defense and that 400,000 of them say they would have been killed if they hadn't been armed. That's 400,000 a year. More

January 11, 2013
Snapping Dogs and Liberal Logic
Gary Henderson
Do we already have gun laws on the books? Of course. We just need a few more, and as soon as we further restrict the millions of law-abiding citizens who have not committed crimes, these crimes will stop. More

January 11, 2013
Hagel: Why Him, Why Now?
Jerrold L. Sobel
From every tier on the American political spectrum, voices are cascading down against the Hagel nomination. More

January 10, 2013
The Connecticut Bill to 'Out' Gun Owners Shows Us a Nationalized Issue
Jack Kemp
Some of our "betters" in the halls of government are becoming shockingly brazen in their calls to have us treated like criminals for lawfully procuring the means to defend ourselves. More

January 10, 2013
President Obama and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Christopher Chantrill
The word about negotiations is that Speaker Boehner has vowed not to negotiate one-on-one with President Obama anymore. It's about time. Now, here's how to do it right. More

January 10, 2013
Tearing Down Public Education
Daren Jonescu
The truth is that education is one of the few areas of authoritarian encroachment where you can, for the moment at least, advance liberty and morality through your own action. More

January 10, 2013
Where the Pressure Lies in the Middle East
Shoshana Bryen
As Fatah struggles for relevance, King Abdullah of Jordan tries to play to all sides (including Israel). More

January 10, 2013
How to Destroy Science: Cast Self-Interest as Public Interest
Norman Rogers
Organized science has become another special interest group lobbying for government favors. Nowhere is this clearer than in the climate change debate. More

January 10, 2013
Flexibility Comes Home to Roost
Lauri B. Regan
The man they chose to lead America's decline in the 21st century does not like America, abhors Israel, and resents those who achieve success in a democratic, capitalist society. More

January 10, 2013
On Secession: An Analysis of Texas v. White
Cory Genelin
Texas v. White is often cited as a case which definitively and directly ruled on Texas' right to secede. That is not the case. Texas v. White was a case about government bonds. More

January 9, 2013
Guns Are Designed to Kill
Kenneth Bennight
The ability to kill is itself the social utility of guns. Killing is a legitimate activity in the right circumstances. If we can't make that argument, we won't preserve our freedoms. More

January 9, 2013
Benghazigate: The Cover-Up Continues
Bill Schanefelt
From the start, almost everything that we were originally and "officially" told by the Obama Administration about the Benghazigate "event" was false (i.e., a lie) or misleading or inadequate. More

January 9, 2013
The Left's Greatest Mind-Trick: Politicizing Emotion
Kyle Becker
The rule of law and the scientific method were developed precisely to protect human beings from the hazards of acting on raw emotion and ignorance. Democratic politicians and left-wing activists, on the other hand, thrive on these human vulnerabilities. More

January 9, 2013
The Hagel Pick Telegraphs Weakness
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Former Senator Chuck Hagel is a perfect pick for secretary of defense...if, that is, you belong to our country's insidious Unpreparedness Lobby. More

January 9, 2013
School Shootings Solution: Not Gun Control or Guard Patrol, but Door Control
Selwyn Duke
A security idea both simple and acceptable to virtually all: lockable, bulletproof doors for classrooms and school entrances. More

January 9, 2013
Uproar in Georgia over U.S. Ambassador's Pro-Palestinian Maneuvering
Pamela Geller
The Republic of Georgia seems to have a mole influencing its position on "Palestine" -- and it's an American ambassador, acting in complete opposition to U.S. (but not necessarily Obama) policy. More

January 9, 2013
How Much is Too Much?
Jim O'Sullivan
Hidden taxes/costs are increasing and quite meaningful to most American budgets today. These costs are not just largely hidden but are regressive in nature and have a greater impact on low wage earners and the elderly. More

January 8, 2013
I Will Not Be Intimidated
Steve McCann
I own a handgun today because of the experience of coming face to face with the evil that permeates some men's souls. More

January 8, 2013
Good News: You May Be Spared Execution
Daren Jonescu
Those who continue to live on the Russian Roulette principle with regard to progressives and their recent proposals -- "oh come on, surely they don't mean it literally" -- can take heart: your odds of survival are getting better More

January 8, 2013
Dianne Feinstein, Dishonest Fundraising, and Gun Control
William A. Levinson
Our side's goal in repelling the latest Democrat war on guns must be not to defend our constitutional rights, but rather to counterattack decisively. This is something the American people need to take very seriously. More

January 8, 2013
Erasing Israel from the Map
Eileen F. Toplansky
Using textbooks as propaganda is nothing new. Hitler filled the minds of German youth with vile depictions of Jews in textbooks. It continues today with Palestinian militants and their Western allies. More

January 8, 2013
Gun Control and the Paradox of Liberty
Christopher S. Brownwell
Liberals say they want gun control because they want to end the bloodshed. But beware. What is at the heart of support for gun control is not love of men, but hatred for them. More

January 8, 2013
Teaching Students to Feel Guilty about Financial Success
Christopher Paslay
The liberal indoctrination plan to demonize the rich continues apace...this time in the form of college essays. More

January 8, 2013
Good Ideas Grow Leviathan
Whitson G. Waldo, III
One of the biggest threats to liberty is the deluge of laws based on good ideas and the best of intentions. More

January 7, 2013
Obama's Disarming Haste
Daren Jonescu
The only real crisis at play here is a crisis of liberty More

January 7, 2013
Cocooning Is the Wrong Solution for Conservatives
James G. Wiles
Should conservatives and persons of faith simply withdraw from the public square, live our lives, and quietly await the inevitable collapse of what the indispensible Walter Russell Mead calls Blue State America? In fact, we could do nothing worse. More

January 7, 2013
What to Do About a Coup
Shoshana Bryen
As Venezuela hurtles toward a probable constitutional crisis if Hugo Chavez dies, the signs are very ominous about an Obama administration response. More

January 7, 2013
Who (or What) Are They Looking For?
Michael Geer
With the Benghazi official account breaking down like cheap cement with too much sand in the mix, we now know with near certainty that our very own Department of State has been recruiting and arming Al-Qaeda. S who are TSA and DHS looking for? More

January 7, 2013
Who's 'Dangerous'?
Cynthia V. Ward
It is not true that all murderers -- even all mass murderers -- suffer from diagnosable mental illness. More

January 7, 2013
Why Exceptionalism Matters
Jeffrey Folks
America is exceptional, despite what our current president may think. It's not hard -- at least not for non-liberals -- to understand why. More

January 7, 2013
Who Would Dare Veto the Sandy Bill?
Cindy Simpson
Instead of attacking his own party, perhaps Chris Christie should step back and think about the proper role of federal vs. local government. More

January 6, 2013
The Democrats' War on Science Aids Our Enemies
Clarice Feldman
It's an article of faith among Democrats that Republicans are unscientific boobs stupidly opposing such established verities as anthropogenic global warming. Of course, this is nonsense. More

January 6, 2013
'Fiscal Conservatism,' R.I.P.
Fay Voshell
Who has confidence that there will be victory on the debt ceiling after such a humiliating and total defeat in which Republicans gave up their core issues of no taxation without spending cuts? More

January 6, 2013
Congress Hides Behind A Technicality
Warren Beatty
Both Obama and the Congress knew for at least two years that the "fiscal cliff" was coming, yet did absolutely nothing about the situation. More

January 6, 2013
A Contrary View: Fiscal Cliff Deal a Win for Republicans and America
Mike Razar
Speaker Boehner and the rest should be congratulated for the deal they brokered on the budget this past week. Yes, you read that right. More

January 6, 2013
The Hobbit as Metaphor
Malcolm Unwell
We yearn instead for a world in which individuals confront foes directly, without the burdens of diplomacy or compromise. More

January 6, 2013
Conservatives Can Learn from the Flaws in Spielberg's Lincoln
Robert Oscar Lopez
What makes Lincoln such a sacred centerpiece of American memory is also what makes him such a dreadful protagonist in film. Lincoln might have been kinder to its eponymous hero had it libeled him; instead, it made him boring. More

January 6, 2013
Sowing Hatred for Israel and Jews Among Japan's Intelligentsia
Bruce W. Davidson
It is not an overstatement to say that the Japanese intelligentsia has been an accessory to terrorist violence in the Middle East. More

January 6, 2013
A Moral Choice?
Vostra Guida
There's an intruder in my building, and I need to figure out what to do. More

January 5, 2013
Confirmed: Diane Feinstein Doesn't Know Anything
Warren Beatty
The California senator has an oddly selective way of expressing concern over murders in America. More

January 5, 2013
Obama and the Debt Ceiling
Jonathon Moseley
The looming debt ceiling fight could allow Republicans to soundly defeat Obama's overspending. Republicans could use the debt ceiling vote to stymie the president's spending plans. More

January 5, 2013
What You Could Buy with the Average Tax Increase
J. Robert Smith
Let's see what a paltry $1,635 buys annually, shall we, Comrade Equality & Compassion? More

January 5, 2013
The Budget: Where Do We Go from Here?
Greg Richards
There's a simple way to make the conservative case when it comes to the debt ceiling -- but it will require courage. More

January 5, 2013
Lincoln vs. Obama's Born-Again America
Lloyd Marcus
President Lincoln could never imagine voters supporting a president aborting liberty to bear anew America conceived in government. More

January 5, 2013
From Same-Sex Marriage to Polygamy and Polyandry
James M. Arlandson
But if we redefine marriage for one group, there's no logical reason to deny other nonconformist advocates their right to do so, especially if they successfully argue their version of marriage on utilitarian grounds. More

January 5, 2013
Egypt's Stillborn Democracy
Sarah N. Stern
The Middle East that is descending in an inchoate free fall back down onto the familiar ground of religious fundamentalism, primitive tribal society, and internecine warfare which that region of the world is so accustomed to. More

January 4, 2013
An Appeal for Dictatorship Comes Out of the Closet at the New York Times
Daniel Downes
Who needs a constitution when professors take for granted the wisdom of the elites they have educated? More

January 4, 2013
The Anniversary that Wasn't There
Kevin Jackson and Thomas Lifson
A century and a half ago, something happened that affects us today. So why was the abolition of slavery in the United States (if that isn't a big deal, what is?) worthy of almost no attention when it marked its sesquicentennial on January first, 2013? More

January 4, 2013
Should Your Children Pay for My Rollercoaster?
Jack Cashill
I have the uneasy feeling that taxpayers -- more accurately, their descendants -- will be paying for my rollercoaster, and no one in New Jersey or in the media anywhere seems remotely troubled by it. More

January 4, 2013
We Must Control the Second Amendment Conflict
William A. Levinson
The side that controls the language of an argument controls the argument, and the side that takes and maintains the offensive controls the entire conflict. Time for freedom-lovers to get in the game. More

January 4, 2013
The Falklands: Borrowing Trouble
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
President Obama needs to remember his Peace Prize and put his foot down firmly on the side of self-determination and freedom. More

January 4, 2013
Outing the Gun Owners and the Left's New Savagery
Robert Spencer
The American Left, which thoroughly dominates the mainstream media, no longer believes, if it ever did, in the concept of reasonable and respectable people disagreeing in good faith on core issues. More

January 4, 2013
Throwing the Rich to the Lions
Jeannie DeAngelis
For four years, Barack Obama has worked diligently to disparage success. He has cultivated class envy using the false premise that the wealthy destroyed the nation and are deserving of monetary castigation. More

January 3, 2013
Why Does Anybody Need a 30-Round Magazine?
William A. Levinson
Here's why. More

January 3, 2013
The America of 2013
Steve McCann
The United States in 2012 re-elected a man, Barack Obama, who is self-centered, unprincipled, and arrogant. From the perspective of the rest of the world, this is increasingly the image of the United States in 2013. More

January 3, 2013
The Bogus Safety Net
Tom Trinko
If you've been following the news you're certainly aware of the mass starvation and the huge number of people dying due to exposure to the elements in Texas, Florida, and the other states lacking a state income tax. Or maybe not. More

January 3, 2013
It's the Drugs, Stupid!
Charles Gant and Greg Lewis
That horrific mass murders are occurring more frequently and are escalating in brutality -- if that is possible -- is due to the fact, not that we are legal gun owners, but that we are legal drug users. More

January 3, 2013
A Lesson on Presidential Power
Howard J. Warner
It comes a shock to discover that liberal Hollywood has provided a powerful response to the expanded presidential power sought by Barack Obama and other progressives. More

January 3, 2013
Where Does the Buck Stop in the Benghazi Situation?
Michael Curtis
An important political, if not constitutional, question has arisen over the meaning of the statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 15, 2012 that "I take responsibility" for the actions or non-action of the State Department over the events in Benghazi More

January 3, 2013
The UN Cop for Israel
Steve Apfel
In going about the work of declaring Israel guilty Richard Falk could not possibly be independent of UN Council members -- chiefly the Arab bloc -- that appointed him. More

January 2, 2013
The Real Country-Killer in 2013
Jonathon Moseley
It's not the debt that will bring the U.S. to its knees, but rather the fact that no one cares. More

January 2, 2013
'Saving' the Middle Class
Jeffrey Folks
Obama won re-election by selling the idea that he was the champion of the middle class. Now he is forcing them into poverty and driving them from their homes. More

January 2, 2013
Gore's Other Big Lie
Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
Former Vice President Al Gore is able to explain things in the simple language used by elementary school teachers, so he tends to be believed even when he is conveying misinformation. More

January 2, 2013
The Conservative Response to Outing Legal Gun Owners
Elise Cooper
Firearms holders who have done nothing wrong are taking a stand against a newspaper that decided to showcase their names and addresses. More

January 2, 2013
Senator Feinstein's Constitutional End-run
Alan P. Halbert
Feinstein's tactics are nothing short of a backdoor scheme to render legal weapons illegal by redesignating them as equivalent to automatic weapons. More

January 2, 2013
A 2013 Conservative Call to Arms
Rob Cunningham
Leadership in today's political environment will require an ability to blunt the progressive left's neverending effort to demonize conservatives, distort reality, and distract voters from engaging in honest debate. More

January 2, 2013
The Socialist Mind Game: A Brief Manual
Oleg Atbashian
We are being played; it's time we learned the game. A holiday must-read, held over More

January 1, 2013
President Obama Will Never Have a Plan
Christopher Chantrill
Now I get it. I get the bone-deep mendacity of President Obama's politics. More

January 1, 2013
Sesquicentennial Comparisons: Black Slavery in America and Ottoman Turkey
Andrew G. Bostom
A unique contemporaneous, objective comparison of the plight of black slaves in Turkey and America, during that era. More

January 1, 2013
Atlas Left...with His Cheese!
Gary Jason
Who could have imagined that the most prominent man of the day to "go Galt" would be French? More

January 1, 2013
The Fallacy of Gun Control
Edward Paltzik
Our dialogue concerning gun control begun by Brett Joshpe in his December 28 piece "Sensible Arms Policy" continues with this response from an fellow attorney in Joshpe's own office. More

January 1, 2013
The Ten Top Anti-Semites of 2012
Jerrold L. Sobel
This group is definitely right up there with the worst. More

January 1, 2013
Let's Retire These Tired Straw Men in 2013
Robert Oscar Lopez
Obama's first four years as president were particularly strong for the straw man industry. For 2013, let's let some of these overworked and worn-down figures rest. More

January 1, 2013
We Are All Patriot Pragmatists Now
Doug Mainwaring
Not by choice, but by absolute necessity. More