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March 31, 2013
We're Doomed, Send Money Fast!
Clarice Feldman
Count President Obama as one of the masters of the art of diverting attention from facts, crying doom and grabbing yet more money from our pockets to enrich his buddies, increase his power and further impoverish us. More

March 31, 2013
When Men Forsake God, Tyranny Always Follows
Chris Banescu
Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp. More

March 31, 2013
The Fourth Devil
Paul Shlichta
They use Word in Hell, too. Bet on it. More

March 31, 2013
The Easter Mythology of Modern Progressivism
Mark Musser
If the progs only knew... More

March 31, 2013
The Left's End-of-the-World Obsession
J. Robert Smith
The left in the West is in the process of suicide. The tragedy is that the left wants a murder-suicide. More

March 31, 2013
The Leveling Spirit of Equality
Glenn Fairman
As Artistotle and Tocqueville agreed across millennia, equality is the Achilles heel of democracy, subverting rights, destroying values, and in the end leading only to tyranny. More

March 31, 2013
The PLO Rewrites History
Warren Beatty
There is not, nor ever has there been, a Palestinian people, state, language, culture, or history. The present-day "Palestinians" are Arabs, with Arabic culture, history, and language. More

March 31, 2013
Liberal Certainties and Uncertainties about God, Man, and Marriage
Andrew E. Harrod
Logically, the pro-same-sex marriage position is a mess. Defenders of marriage will have to expose this if they hope to save the institution. More

March 31, 2013
Should Roger Waters of Pink Floyd Appear at the 92nd Street Y?
Eileen F. Toplansky
Will the audience even be familiar with the BDS agenda or have they merely purchased the tickets priced from $73, to recall the music of their youth? More

March 30, 2013
Dangerous Times: America will Survive Obama
James Lewis
Obama thinks he can tame the United States and remake it iaccording to some nightmare image residing somewhere in the back regions of his cerebellum. But history says otherwise. More

March 30, 2013
Michael Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns Caught Lying to the Public
William A. Levinson
This scandal can turn the enemy's $12-million ethical lapse into a far more costly public relations catastrophe, but only if it circulates widely via the internet and other media. More

March 30, 2013
A Komodo Dragon in Thailand and some Badgers in Singapore
Clarice Feldman
At the moment the Bangkok metropolitan area is home to fourteen million people. It's a major force finance and business in this part of the world yet remains as exotic and lively as ever. More

March 30, 2013
The Patriot's Dilemma
Glenn Fairman
While not the last refuge of scoundrels, patriotism is a tool much like any other, one that can be used for either good or evil. More

March 30, 2013
Ted Olson's Faulty Polygamy Argument
J. Robert Smith
Ted Olsen gets so slick that he slides right over the edge. More

March 30, 2013
Brutal Realism About the Middle East
Mike Konrad
Israel may deserve criticism -- as does every nation and ethnic group -- but most of that attacks occurring now are anti-Semitism masquerading as criticism. More

March 30, 2013
Senate Prospects for 2014
Bruce Walker
Can the Republicans turn things around in next year's midterms? More

March 30, 2013
Who Should Decide Who Our Heroes Are?
Jack Kemp
One journalist would have us do away with military funerals for service members who are not "heroic" enough. More

March 30, 2013
Justice and the Islamist Terrorist: The Burlesque in Britain
Michael Curtis
Thanks to the European Union, a nefarious terrorist is all but guaranteed never to face justice. More

March 29, 2013
Legislating from the Bench on Gay Marriage
Jonathon Moseley
Only a lawyer willing to 'tell' on his profession can reveal how disturbing was the High Court's oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry. More

March 29, 2013
The Dog Ate My Exit Strategy
Bruce Johnson
Any plausible "exit strategy" for the Fed grows more and more remote. What does this mean for the economy? More

March 29, 2013
Bill O'Reilly vs. the Bible Thumpers
Selwyn Duke
Bill O'Reilly lamented how traditionalists don't have a "compelling argument" on the faux-marriage issue and that all we can do is "thump the Bible." More

March 29, 2013
A Criminologist Questions the Bin Laden Episode
Jason Kissner
Now that seriously conflicting accounts of Osama bin Laden's end have come out, what do we really know about his death? Less than you might think. More

March 29, 2013
Sasha and Malia Obama 'Learn What They Live'
Jeannie DeAngelis
The First Daughters are learning how to be highbrow aristocrats whose extravagances are enjoyed without embarrassment, in full view and at the expense of the suffering. More

March 29, 2013
Peacemaker or Trojan Horse?
Jerrold L. Sobel
Obama really made a big impression in Israel. But that's what he's good at. Results? Not so much. More

March 29, 2013
Bread and Circuses: The Last Days of the American Empire
Jack Curtis
Today's Roman Empire, using military and economic force to govern others while increasingly unable to govern itself. More

March 28, 2013
The GOP Outreach that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Robert Weissberg
An ethnic group that is now taboo More

March 28, 2013
Colorado Democrats to Rape Victims: Lie Back and Enjoy It
William A. Levinson
What Barack Obama called a "national conversation" about guns has turned into an all-out war on the Second Amendment. More

March 28, 2013
Gay Marriage and Legal Surrealism
Mark W. Hendrickson
There is something slightly absurd about a small panel of jurists sitting in judgment on thousands of years of history, experience, and (for those who believe) divine revelation. More

March 28, 2013
Candidate Promises Statue of Free Cheese in Norman, OK
Oleg Atbashian
Paid for out of the generous public funding of the Norman Arts Council who are currently spending taxpayers' money anyway, but on much less meaningful projects. More

March 28, 2013
The Supreme Court and Faux-marriage Fallacies
Selwyn Duke
The Supreme Court is behaving as a reluctant agent of social engineering and not an ardent guardian of constitutional integrity in its approach to the last two days of oral argument on marriage. More

March 28, 2013
The GOP's $10M Could Fund Long-Suffering Under-Funded Black Conservative Outreaches
Lloyd Marcus
If the GOP's going to spend millions on "minority outreach," why not actually do it right? More

March 28, 2013
Europe acquiesces while Jews are threatened, and killed. Again
Adam Turner
The Jews of Europe need to wake up to reality. There is no future for Jewish life in that dark continent. More

March 27, 2013
Freaking the Straights on Gay Marriage
J.R. Dunn
An attempt by the smallest of tails to wag the largest of dogs. The gay movement demands not tolerance, not the friction-filled tumult of American life that everyone else is subject to, but full acceptance of themselves and their lifestyle More

March 27, 2013
Is the Republican Party America's Achilles Heel?
Steve McCann
The inability of the Republican Establishment to understand that the American Left, who are now in control of the Democratic Party, are the implacable enemy in a battle for the heart and soul of America. More

March 27, 2013
Baby Sea Lion Murder at Laguna Beach
Jeannie DeAngelis
Does the dog come with a pistol grip? More

March 27, 2013
The Threat of Islamic Betrayal
Raymond Ibrahim
Recent incidents in Turkey -- certainly the most "moderate" of Islamic states -- underlines the untrustworthy nature of Islamic supremacist ideology. More

March 27, 2013
If I Were a Governor....
Selwyn Duke
The path toward reform will not be easy -- but nothing worthwhile is ever easy. More

March 27, 2013
Refining Our 'Theory' of Taxation
Jon N. Hall
We Americans are taxed at just about every juncture in life that involves money. Is that the way the Founders wanted it? More

March 27, 2013
The Manufactured Authority of the Nanny State
William Sullivan
Leftist social engineers have never been so brazen as they have recently in suggesting that we are helpless without government. More

March 26, 2013
John Brennan's Spooky Swearing-In
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
The reasons behind John Brennan's constituional swearing-in stunt remain mysterious. More

March 26, 2013
State of Illinois, meet Reality
Michael Bargo Jr.
How Obama learned that insane government spending was the road to utopia -- the short course. More

March 26, 2013
We Can Do Better Than This
Christopher Chantrill
If conservatives want political power we are going to have to find a new enemy for the American people to fight. Why not the liberal ruling class? More

March 26, 2013
Ich bin ein Israeli
Eileen F. Toplansky
It behooves every freedom-loving individual to remember the legacy of master terrorist Yasser Arafat -- and why Barack Obama should not have had a single word to say under Arafat's picture. More

March 26, 2013
What Science Really Says about Religion
Thomas P. Sheahen
Science itself emphatically does not disprove religion; the notion that they're in conflict belongs to professors in the humanities who passed only a minimum science requirement decades ago. More

March 26, 2013
LGBTs Can Thrive By Building Courageous Bridges
Donna Underwood
In 2013, there is no ban on homosexual civil rights. What is at issue is whether the government will recognize polygamy/polyamory relationships and varied households as marriage and then force every citizen and business to do so as well. More

March 26, 2013
The European Union Must Act on Hezb'allah
Michael Curtis
The idea that the EU doesn't have sufficient evidence to designate Hezb'allah a terrorist nation is ridiculous -- yet that's exactly what the EU Council is saying. More

March 25, 2013
The Dream of a World Without Oil
Peter Wilson
3,800,000 wind turbines? This one sounds more like a nightmare. More

March 25, 2013
Obama's Tyranny: Petty or Something More Sinister?
Matt Holzmann
the Administration is holding a gun to the head of almost every single American in its quest to inflict the maximum pain possible on each of us to achieve its political objectives. When has this occurred in our country's history? More

March 25, 2013
In Defense of Racial Humor
Selwyn Duke
If laughter really is the best medicine, it's no wonder race relations are in a state of ill health. More

March 25, 2013
Barack Obama's Excellent Israeli Adventure
Jeannie DeAngelis
With a kippah on his head and a truckful of platitudes in tow. More

March 25, 2013
The Pool of Narcissus
Glenn Fairman
While society renders lip service to altruism and the affectation of selflessness, the prevailing culture in America today marinates in the worship of Self. More

March 25, 2013
Is It Time to Legalize Heterosexual Marriage?
Gayle Kesselman
There's a piece missing from the "gay marriage" puzzle. More

March 25, 2013
The Left's Moral Relativism
Dr. Tom Barron
The chaos that would arise without moral standards would appear to be self-evident. But don't expect the left to understand that. More

March 24, 2013
The Wine, Women and Song Foundation
Clarice Feldman
I have watched over the years how publicly unaccountable foundations have amassed billions of dollars, tax free, and spend it on dangerous, leftwing, often anti-American and anti-Israeli outfits, conferences and promoters. More

March 24, 2013
Does Progressivism Exist?
Daren Jonescu
Is there really such a thing as progressivism? Or is it no more than a mirage -- a mirage leading into a deadly bog of social and political quicksand? More

March 24, 2013
Blurred Image: How Even Free Speech's Defenders Must Defer to Islam
Andrew E. Harrod
An otherwise well-documented and stirring defense of intellectual freedom recently shocked its audience with one cinematic bow to Islamic sensitivities. More

March 24, 2013
Apple's Disappearing Cursor and Corporate Arrogance
Norman Rogers
Here's one example of how the market corrects errors. More

March 24, 2013
When It Comes to Russia, We Told You So
Kim Zigfeld
Thanks to the world's ignorance and indifference, Vladimir Putin has had years of precious time to consolidate a new Soviet Union. More

March 24, 2013
MURPH: The Protector: Hollywood Gets One Right
Elise Cooper
This is the sort of movie that should be coming regularly out of Tinseltown. More

March 24, 2013
The Power Motive and the Profit Motive
Kyle Becker
The most common misconception in America's warped political culture is that modern liberals tend to be altruistic and compassionate, while conservatives are self-centered, greedy old misers. More

March 24, 2013
Ryan Budget: Better than the Senate's, but That's About It
Peter Wilson
Ryan's budget is hardly a small-government plan of action. And it was decried in hysterical tones by the left and the media anyway. More

March 24, 2013
Twitter and Antisemitism
Michael Curtis
A new collective phenomenon, the ability to express hate without fear of retribution. More

March 24, 2013
The Brain Eaters Invade Massachusetts Middle School
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Utter capitulation to the self esteem movement More

March 24, 2013
Passover's gift: The Promised and Undivided Land
Victor Sharpe
Such a seminal event in humanity's history became the foundation for freedom and liberty-- created many centuries before democracy was first enunciated by Greeks More

March 24, 2013
Real Bullies: The Homosexuality Is Normal Movement
Lloyd Marcus
The Homosexuality Is Normal Movement is not made up of passive, well-meaning victims simply seeking tolerance and their place in the sun. More

March 23, 2013
Dangerous Times: Crypto-Fascism in Italy, Hungary, Greece, Albania
James Lewis and Justine Aristea
A great sense of alarm is spreading among ordinary Europeans today, especially in the south and east of the continent. People are finally starting to take the signs of foundation-shaking turmoil seriously. More

March 23, 2013
We're All CVS Employees Now
Tara Servatius
Soon, all Americans must disclose their weight, BMI, and smoking habits to the government - and "surprise health inspections" may well be in the works, too. More

March 23, 2013
Ho Chi Minh (Saigon): Where Everyone Knows Bill Clinton's Name
Clarice Feldman
You cannot miss that Saigon, as natives still call this city, is booming. Writer Gemma Price reports the swinging spots -- Blanchey's Tash, Chill's (sky bar and lounge, and restaurant) and Bobby Chinn's whose specialty is seafood ceviche with coconut... More

March 23, 2013
Mental Illness and Guns
Matthew Ernst
Nearly two-thirds of all mass shooting involve individuals suffering from serious mental illness -- but Senator Feinstein is away from her desk. More

March 23, 2013
Apartheid Week: The Modern Blood Libel
Jerrold L. Sobel
Islamists are targeting the American higher educational system. ...and American educators welcome them with open arms. More

March 23, 2013
Deepwater Horizon: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda
Bruce Thompson
Even now, one seems to have any interest in taking responsibility when it comes to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. More

March 23, 2013
Iraq: Two Bad Decisions and a Debilitating Metaphor
Richard Butrick
Could the Iraq endeavor have had a better chance for success? More

March 23, 2013
The Politics of Utopia
Glenn Fairman
Nothing in the world reveals more clearly how the golden road to the utopian future commonly detours to Hell than modern science fiction. More

March 22, 2013
Please Do Not Adjust Your Child
Daren Jonescu
The American public education system is a machine designed to destroy young minds and characters. How can we assure that children prevail over it? More

March 22, 2013
Universal Background Checks: the Liberal Holy Grail
Rick Averill
Was Senator Feinstein's assault rifle ban only a Trojan Horse for universal background checks? More

March 22, 2013
Eleanor Roosevelt talks about her husband and the Holocaust
Edward Bernard Glick
In 1958, Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, told me about her husband and the Holocaust. More

March 22, 2013
The Abolition of Sex
Fay Voshell
Our children are being brainwashed into believing their sexual identity is a completely arbitrary matter -- a leveling so extreme that all distinctions are rendered null and void: the dead end of egalitarianism. More

March 22, 2013
China and U.S. Debt
Alex VanNess
Our financial liabilities regarding China are bad enough as they stand. But what if there is a plan behind it? More

March 22, 2013
San Francisco's Jewish Leadership Embraces Their Personal Jihad
Abraham H. Miller
When buses of the San Francisco Municipal Railway began sporting ads announcing Pamela Geller's retort to CAIR's, this is my jihad as campaign, the local Jewish community leadership practically stampeded over itself to denounce her. More

March 22, 2013
Repeal the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943
Richard Winchester
A sure method of concentrating taxpayers' minds on precisely how much of their income is seized, spent, and wasted by government at all levels. More

March 21, 2013
White and Wrong in Philly
Selwyn Duke
Are white people in Philadelphia allowed to talk about race at all? More

March 21, 2013
Karl Rove and Republican Decline
Steve McCann
His fingerprints are all over the Party Establishment mess, as well as their estrangement from the rest of the country More

March 21, 2013
The Price of Gay Marriage: The Galvanic Corrosion of Language
Geoffrey P. Hunt
The gay marriage movement is nothing more than wholesale narcissism. But, of course, we have become a nation of narcissists, so what did you expect? More

March 21, 2013
Fighting the Immigration Wars
Elise Cooper
Workable plans exist for controlling the border and solving the immigration crisis. But will the Obama administration allow any of them to proceed? More

March 21, 2013
A New Path to a Balanced Budget?
Jim Guirard
It's time for a true "Grand Bargain" to balance the budget. It will not be difficult, provided the GOP can stand strong on some crucial points. More

March 21, 2013
Turkey's Erdoğan and the Zenith of Hypocrisy
Steven Simpson
For Islamist Turkey to accuse Israel of committing war crimes is especially rich - and ironic. More

March 21, 2013
Advice from Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In to Discover It's Your Fault
Janice Shaw Crouse
The billionaire female Facebook executive write a "feminist manifesto." More

March 20, 2013
Ben Carson's Problematic Views on Health Care
M. Catharine Evans
With his inspiring life story and soaring rhetoric, Dr. Ben Carson has favorably impressed America's conservatives. But is he too good to be true? More

March 20, 2013
The Politics of Demographics
Michael Bargo Jr.
Engineering an electorate More

March 20, 2013
Deconstructing America
Glenn Fairman
America as de facto "Jailer of the Emergent Progressive Soul?" The "bloody boot" impressed upon the neck of the poor? Thanks to postmodern deconstruction of truth, all too many believe exaclty that. More

March 20, 2013
Priebus's GOP Autopsy Misses the Point
Jonathon Moseley
The GOP's recently unveiled "reboot" is a start -- but only a start. Republicans are chronically making classic rookie mistakes. More

March 20, 2013
Boehner Says He 'Absolutely' Trusts Obama - We Are in Trouble Now
W.A. Beatty
Almost as unbelievable as any claim Obama makes that isn't in far-left dream-land. More

March 20, 2013
The Annulment of Same-sex Marriage
Dean Kalahar
Attempting to redefine something as basic to biology as gravity is to physics is dangerous and destructive More

March 20, 2013
The Cypriot Domino
Bruce Walker
Cypru smay prove the first domino in a collapse of the Eurozone financial system, whose falling pieces will almost surely affect America. More

March 19, 2013
Sheriff Cruz Meets School Marm Feinstein
Jan LaRue
Feinstein came armed with a scowl and a ruler when she confronted Cruz at the Constitution Corral. More

March 19, 2013
Drones in Wonderland
Cindy Simpson
For now, we're supposed to trust an administration that holds, potentially unrestrained by the right to due process, all the keys -- to detention facilities and the drones. More

March 19, 2013
World Opinion: Getting it Wrong
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
We need to make an effort to show "a decent respect for the opinion of mankind." But not to the point where it cripples us. More

March 19, 2013
Why the NRA is Right about Hollywood
Selwyn Duke
Much fire has been directed at gun advocates in general and the National Rifle Association in particular. In response, the organization has implicated Hollywood and popular culture in general for mainstreaming mindless violence. More

March 19, 2013
Looking Beyond the Budget Duel
Christopher Chantrill
The administration appears to have believed their own lies involving ObamaCare. The upcoming result? The most almighty train wreck you ever saw. More

March 19, 2013
Outsourcing the Poor
Jonathon Moseley
Despite the hopes of liberals that Pope Francis will be one of their own in a surplice, serious divergences between the Church and modern liberalism will remain. More

March 19, 2013
Stopping the Inevitable
Doug Lucas
'A democracy can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.' But why should a parasitic class have the right to vote? More

March 18, 2013
The Other Drone Question: Is Obama Building A Federal Police Force?
Tara Servatius
DHS appears to be planning a vast surveillance network, and it is rapidly developing the technology to create it, usurping many functions that used to be handled by local law enforcement without any help from the federal government. More

March 18, 2013
Feminist Leaders Compared to Religious Right Leaders
Janice Shaw Crouse
How do the feminist icons of old compare to the "barefoot women in the kitchen"? More

March 18, 2013
Boehner to Keep Funding ObamaCare
J. Robert Smith
All these symbolic votes House Republicans cast against ObamaCare mean less than voting for your favorite American Idol contestant. The GOP needs to get real. More

March 18, 2013
Is Pope Francis Liberal or Conservative?
Selwyn Duke
Like all popes, the new one operates according to principles that are neither left nor right nor center... but eternal. More

March 18, 2013
Is It Time To Starve The Beast?
Jeff Greenlee
What happens when Americans are disarmed and helpless before enemies bent on replacing Judeo-Christian values and principles with secular totalitarian rule? More

March 18, 2013
That Dirty, Rotten Racist...Abraham Lincoln
Victor Volsky
Are liberals willing to put Lincoln under the same microscope to which the ceaselessly subject the Founding Fathers? More

March 18, 2013
Writing Our Own Moral Code
Trevor Thomas
Rob Portman -- so opportunistic, even the lefties can see it. More

March 18, 2013
S.E. Cupp, CPAC, and Homosexuals
J. Richard Pearcey
This conservative "proponent of gay rights" has not yet come to terms with the full implications of her positive stance concerning "gay marriage." More

March 17, 2013
'Reactionary Liberalism' Backfires
Clarice Feldman
Wile E. Coyote (and crew) race off the cliff. Gravity kicks in. Audience laughs. More

March 17, 2013
The Historicity of the Resurrection of Christ
Mark Musser
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is the most attested historical fact of the ancient world. More

March 17, 2013
Did Hugo Chávez Pick the New Pope?
Jeannie DeAngelis
As if you could get Jesus in the same room with him. More

March 17, 2013
A Life on the Line
JanSuzanne Krasner
Turning his back on the past, blazing an uncertain trail into the future: Mosab Hassan Yousef, heir of Hamas, onetime Islamist radical... and Christian. More

March 17, 2013
The Prospect for Peace Must Trump Potential Failure
Alon Ben-Meir
Breaking the destructive status quo between Israel and the Palestinians requires serious political maneuvering from Obama. Is he likely to attempt this? More

March 17, 2013
What Went Wrong With Bernard Lewis?
Andrew G. Bostom
Bernard Lewis, the dean of Middle Eastern scholars, may have much to asnwer for in his interpretation of the threat presented by Islamism. More

March 17, 2013
Pope Francis: Papabile in a Fallen World
Timothy Gordon
Even in a world in the process of abandoning all tradition, the oldest institution of leadership extant carries on. More

March 17, 2013
British Politicians and Their Jewish Conspiracy
Michael Curtis
Amazing that an enlightened nation of the Western world is indulging such thinking. More

March 17, 2013
Heritage as a Matter of the Will
Jeremy Egerer
Cursed are children without a heritage -- but cursed still more are the parents of those children. More

March 17, 2013
C.S. Lewis: A Faith Observed
Glenn Fairman
An introduction to a trustworthy guide across the Shadowlands. More

March 16, 2013
Dangerous Times: Naomi Wolf Sleeps with the Patriarchs
James Lewis and Justine Aristea
The Rosenbergs would have held out for a nightly talk show. More

March 16, 2013
The Mekong River: Calling into Question the Germ Theory of Disease
Clarice Feldman
Clarice Feldman explores The Mekong Delta, More

March 16, 2013
Coolidge: A Politician Uncannily Deserving of Respect
Matthew May
Would 21^st-century America have the patience for a man like Calvin Coolidge? The times may be changing. More

March 16, 2013
Human Excellence and Dependency: Who Built What?
Glenn Fairman
"You didn't build that" carries with it all the statist arrogance and ideological narcissism that has ruined the Social Democracies of Europe. More

March 16, 2013
Medicaid Expansion: An Unquenchable Thirst
Joe Herring
The Obama administration hopes to back states into a corner on Medicaid funding in ObamaCare. So far, Nebraska's governor, at least, won't bite. More

March 16, 2013
Broadway's Matilda: Pro-life and Pro-family?
J. Robert Smith
Matilda sneaks a surprisingly traditional message under the radar of today's politically-correct Broadway. More

March 16, 2013
The Syrian Yarmouk Brigades: A New Islamic Threat to the West?
Michael Curtis
While almost unknown in the West, "Yarmouk" has a deep meaning in the Islamic world. More

March 15, 2013
Karl Marx and the American Dream
Jeremy Meister
You cannot use Karl Marx's ideas to help the middle class. You can't do it. More

March 15, 2013
The Poor, the Pope, and the Liberals
Tom Trinko
Liberals claiming Pope Francis as one of their own because of his clear love and concern for the poor may well have spoken too soon. More

March 15, 2013
Israel has a Government, Mr. President
Shoshana Bryen
The Jewish state is as complex and intricate a political entity as any on the planet. Is Obama capable of recognizing that fact? More

March 15, 2013
Magical Thinking and Iran
William J. Meisler
"Reality-based" progressivism is much more reliant on primitive ritualism than they'd like the rest of us to know. More

March 15, 2013
Deepwater Horizon: Criminalizing an Accident
Bruce Thompson
A case study in how corporate "political contributions" can undercut the public safety and short-circuit the civil law system. More

March 15, 2013
Time to Abandon the Two-state Solution
Ted Belman
Is the two-state solution the main obstacle to serious progress toward a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians? More

March 14, 2013
Pope Francis: A Disappointment for Catholics Who Don't Like Being Catholic
Drew Belsky
Leftists' problems with the new pontiff reveal some crucial truths about the Church that even many Catholics are loath to confront. More

March 14, 2013
Obama's Obsession with the One Percent
Jon N. Hall
Obama senses that there's still money floating around out there that needs to be put to a higher purpose. And, gentlemen, he means to have that money.. More

March 14, 2013
The Market Economy and Spiritual Qualities
Sam Mikolaski
A country's economy is inextricably tied up with its national character. What does ours say about us? More

March 14, 2013
Ignorant, but not Stupid
Richard Winchester
Common sense is no substitute for knowledge.It can, however, be sufficient to muddle through to a good decision. More

March 14, 2013
Progressivism's Equality Paradox Smothers Freedom
Dr. Tom Barron
No matter whom Progressives claim to benefit with their "fairer" society, the inevitable outcome of their machinations is the erosion of individual rights. More

March 14, 2013
Are military dogs just 'equipment'?
Elise Cooper
Can artillery suffer from PTSD? Certainly not -- but military dogs can. More

March 14, 2013
Kotlikoff versus Krugman: Economic Fallacies Exposed
Randy Fardal
Who reveals himself as more reliable: Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff, or the left's leading Keynesian propagandist? More

March 13, 2013
Cruz, Haley, Jindal, Rubio: Flight 2016 Cleared for Takeoff
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Time to put an end to the "presidential eligibility" kerfuffle. More

March 13, 2013
Obama's Islamist Tilt
Kyle Shideler
We have transformed ourselves, in the span of a decade, from a nation that declares, "You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists," to a nation that is credibly accused of arming terrorists. More

March 13, 2013
Training Syrian Rebels to Conquer Golan Heights and Shoot Down Israeli Aircraft
Shoshana Bryen
No, they don't say it quite like that. But for all intents and purposes, that's what the Obama administration is doing. More

March 13, 2013
What did Rand Paul's Filibuster Mean?
Jonathon Moseley
Guided-missile drones dramatically expand the variety of situations in which we can reach our enemies. Therefore, killer drones now require a little careful thought and some new rules. More

March 13, 2013
The Cuomo Inheritance
Jack Kemp
The latest scheme from the master of the "Vampire State". More

March 13, 2013
Another Hockey Stick?
S. Fred Singer
Green forces, eager to promote their theories of global warming, appear to be practicing intellectual recycling. Is this the return of the notorious hockey stick - which, in 2001, was the central dogma of Anthropogenic Global Warming? More

March 13, 2013
Libertarians and the Tea Party
Ann Kane & M. Catherine Evans
Can the Libertarian Party take credit for the grassroots explosion in 2009 (or was it 2004?) that became the Tea Party? More

March 12, 2013
The Obama Credo
Stella Paul
I believe that government should keep its "Hands off my body," with the one exception of ObamaCare's 160 new government agencies that control my medical care. More

March 12, 2013
Obama to Nominate Sharia Supporter, Illegal Immigrant Advocate as Labor Secretary
Matthew Vadum
President Obama reportedly intends to nominate in-your-face radical leftist lawyer Thomas Perez as his next Secretary of Labor. More

March 12, 2013
If I Were a Lefty Strongman
Christopher Chantrill
Capitalism says: give up the dog-in-a-manger guild mentality and I will cover you with riches. But most people choose to hang on like grim death to their paltry privileges. More

March 12, 2013
Eugenics and the Closing of the Popular Mind
Timothy Gordon
Yahoo offers a glimpse into the abyss: a peek into the blood-soaked crucible of befuddled popular opinion in the fifth decade of Roe v. Wade. More

March 12, 2013
Gaining Hispanic Voters
Michael Bargo Jr.
Hispanics are suffering in Democratic-run cities, creating an opportunity for GOP strategists to begin a campaign to pull Hispanics away from the Democrats.. More

March 12, 2013
Pretend-gun Fingers and Plop-Tarts
Jeannie DeAngelis
Is this why the Department of Education has bought a hundred million manicure kits? More

March 12, 2013
Beppe Grillo, Just the Wacko We Don't Know
Selwyn Duke
The fact is that the Western world is teetering. And within the context of this distressing reality, should we really worry that Italians may choose a different species of wacko than what's de rigueur? More

March 11, 2013
Why Florida Persists in the Zimmerman Prosecution
Jack Cashill
Obama gave the White House imprimatur to a politically irresistible campaign, one that both stoked the grievances of his racially sensitive base and energized his party's gun control advocates. More

March 11, 2013
Why Is America Facing Economic and Societal Turmoil?
Steve McCann
Until the bulk of the American citizenry understands the why, there is no hope of reversing the nation's headlong plunge into the abyss. More

March 11, 2013
The Chicago Roots of President Obama's Leadership Style
Michael Bargo Jr.
To truly understand President Barack Obama, we need look no farther than Chicago's Mayor Daley I. More

March 11, 2013
The Sequestered Life of Julia
Randy Fardal
Julia, the president's comic book heroine, is not doing so well. More

March 11, 2013
Nurse Ratched and the Therapeutic State
Glenn Fairman
Under color of an exaggerated maternal concern for our temporal wellbeing, the Therapeutic State arises in America with reptilian eyes as she licks her lips and sizes us up. More

March 11, 2013
Winning the Message
Anthony J.Ciani
When people are polled on their beliefs, the Republican Party is in the minority on nothing. So why is it so hard to get the message across? More

March 11, 2013
The Most Open Administration in History
Eileen F. Toplansky
The only thing that Obama has been honest about is his desire to bring change. Had more Americans inquired what kind of change, Obama would never have made it to the White House. More

March 11, 2013
Putin's Russia: Still an Empire, Still Evil
Kim Zigfeld
Conditions in Russia will not stop deteriorating, Barack Obama's fatuous "reset" notwithstanding. More

March 10, 2013
End the Madness at the EEOC
Clarice Feldman
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has put the nation's private employers between the regulatory rock and the legal hard place as regards criminal background checks. More

March 10, 2013
Creating Our Counter-Culture
Bruce Walker
Think of the genuinely new and interesting culture we conservatives can produce. What's stopping us? More

March 10, 2013
The Iran Lobby Buys a Friendly Face for Despotism
Stephen Schwartz
It's crucial that we know where a lot of the funding for "Middle East studies" groups in the U.S. is coming from. More

March 10, 2013
The American Ignoramus
Richard Winchester
When it comes to politics, Americans are about as dumb as they look. More

March 10, 2013
A Violent Kind of Silence
Mary Nicholas
Betty Friedan wrote of the "problem that has no name." Well, in the Muslim world, there are plenty of problems for women that do have names. More

March 10, 2013
How Sharia Kills Free Speech
Andrew G. Bostom
In direct violation of the rights of freedom of speech and religion enshrined in the Constitution, the Islamic concept of blasphemy will be the point of collision between American and Muslim cultures. More

March 10, 2013
In Israel, Obama's Blunders Precede Him
Leo Rennert
Barack Obama has the opportunity to set the record straight for the Jewish State. Will he seize it? More

March 10, 2013
Brussels: European Capital or Islamic Center?
Michael Curtis
Islamist efforts to instill sharia law are finding disturbing success in the hometown of the European Union. More

March 10, 2013
The Truth about Legislating Morality
Trevor Thomas
The fact is, even those who say we shouldn't do it are doing it at the very moment they're speaking. More

March 9, 2013
Dangerous Times: Is Italy teetering?
James Lewis and Justine Aristea
The election of notorious psychopath Beppe Grillo to the Italian Parliament makes for bad tidings around the Mediterranean. More

March 9, 2013
Don't Touch Obama's Stash
Peter Wilson
How can our president grow government so much and at the same time be lauded by liberal journalists as a spending-cutter? The answer is simple. More

March 9, 2013
Tet, the Year of the Snake
Clarice Feldman
Clarice Feldman lands at Danang, Viet Nam just in time for the lunar new year. More

March 9, 2013
Wacko Birds and Birthers
Cindy Simpson
Name-calling of any popular Republican who dares to rock the establishment henhouse is nothing new. More

March 9, 2013
Kerry's Ibrahim Stumble
Stuart J. Moskovitz
John Kerry, continuing his long-term difficulties involving awards. More

March 9, 2013
Lincoln as Bleeding Heart Peacenik?
Steven Plaut
Contrary to current claims, Lincoln's actions show that he was no leftist of any sort. More

March 9, 2013
Remembering Ed Koch
Elise Cooper
A true statesman, showing that there are a few liberals out there with sanity. More

March 9, 2013
Fear and Trembling on the Scimitar's Edge
Glenn Fairman
To the Iranians, the earth must inexorably submit or face destruction and Muslim hellfire. How has the U.S. chosen to respond? With talk. More

March 8, 2013
Rand Paul Shifts Political Orbit
Jonathon Moseley
Rand Paul demonstrated a repeatable formula that all Republicans can copy, a conservative answer to the Left's Saul Alinsky tactics. It is the template that is significant. More

March 8, 2013
The Bernanke Market
Bruce Johnson
As long as Ben Bernanke decides to keep money loose, the stock market will rise. Restated, as long as one man holds to one mindset, the market will rise. More

March 8, 2013
Our Father, Who art in the White House
William L. Gensert
The best thing the Republicans have done with regard to the sequester, and in fact, during Obama's entire presidency, was to do nothing. More

March 8, 2013
We Might be Muslim Today if....
Selwyn Duke
Muslim aggression is somehting we've seen before. More

March 8, 2013
Nielsen and the Wasteland
G. Murphy Donovan
A Nielsen box in my house might be an "honor" in the same sense that a court-ordered ankle bracelet is an honor. Yet the people who accept that dubious honor are the ones shaping our culture. More

March 8, 2013
The Virtues of Compromise
Noel S. Williams
Compromise encourages wider participation and engenders goodwill. Through compromise, we strike a balance between competing interests and achieve cohesion in an otherwise pluralistic society. More

March 7, 2013
A Government to be Feared
Lauri B. Regan
Obama has yet to explain why a civilian national security force is required to be funded with money the government does not have to face an enemy that is nonexistent. More

March 7, 2013
OFA: The Organizing of America
Cindy Simpson
Is Organizing for Action really the "new lever of government," a lever that may replace the ones voters pull at polling places? More

March 7, 2013
Brennan Signals 'Our Saudi Partners'
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
John Brennan, Barack Obama's pick for CIA director, is good at sending signals. We'd best read them. More

March 7, 2013
The Third-Party Temptation -- Just Say No
Jeffrey Barrett
A working strategy for taking over the GOP at the local level and rebuilding it along constitutional lines. More

March 7, 2013
Will Ashley Judd be Kentucky's Obama?
Jonathon Moseley
Obama won in 2012 thanks in large part to low-information voters across the country. Can Ashley Judd do the same in Kentucky? More

March 7, 2013
Winning on Principle
J. Robert Smith
Of course, conservatives want to win elections. But winning elections are about more than simply winning elections; they're about earning opportunities to govern. More

March 7, 2013
Obama Adulterates Marriage and Federalism
Jan LaRue
"Marriage, it doesn't mean anything." That's what Barack Obama told wife Michelle while they were dating, according to her 2008 interview in The New Yorker. More

March 6, 2013
Make Them Pay
J.T. Hatter
They want a culture war? Let's give 'em one. More

March 6, 2013
Sequestration: A Teaching Moment
Warren Beatty
It's called accountability. More

March 6, 2013
Hangmen and Abortionists
Glenn Fairman
The "contradiction" between defending the innocent and punishing the guilty is not so evident as liberals would like to make it seem. More

March 6, 2013
When Daddy Knows Best
Arnold Cusmariu
Critics warn audiences away, yet a film becomes a hugely profitable hit. More

March 6, 2013
The Future of Private-Practice Medicine in ObamaCare
Keith R. Jackson
The diagnosis is not good. More

March 6, 2013
How Negative Campaigning Works
Dr. Charles T. Kenny
The record is clear: the only safe campaign strategy is to counter negatives proactively. Voters must be able to visualize the candidate in ways that contradict and transcend the negatives. More

March 6, 2013
Requiem for a Despot: the Death of Hugo Chavez
John A. Huettner
A career made out of trashing capitalism and the United States and fomenting unrest and chaos throughout South America More

March 5, 2013
We Have Ted Cruz's List: Harvard Law Really Is Littered with Communists
Matthew Vadum
It turns out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was correct. More

March 5, 2013
ObamaCare and the 'RobertsTax'
Jon N. Hall
Is a tax that can't be collected an actual tax? More

March 5, 2013
The Anatomy of Climate Science Hype
S. Fred Singer
Politics trumps science. More

March 5, 2013
Michael Moore, don't do it!
Reza Kahlili
The wealthy advocate for the oppressed sees no problem in going to Iran and enhancing the legitimacy of a brutal thecracy. More

March 5, 2013
Reprimanding Erdogan
Michael Curtis
Repudiation of Premier Erdogan's noxious and uncalled-for attack on Zionism at the Vienna UNAOC meeting has come from several surprising sources. More

March 5, 2013
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Wants to Dominate
Christopher Chantrill
Whose system will win? Marissa Mayer's high-powered Yahoo, or Joanna Weiss's feminist sisterhood? More

March 5, 2013
Hating Breitbart
Marion DS Dreyfus
You may know a man by his enemies. So goes the adage, which is the guiding principle behind the new documentary "Hating Breitbart." It fits. More

March 4, 2013
Barack Obama: The Man Behind the Mask
Steve McCann
Sixty-three months ago Barack Obama officially declared his candidacy for President. Only now are some among the so-called media and ruling elites in America slowly awakening from their self-induced infatuation and beginning to understand who he is. More

March 4, 2013
The Latest from Massa-choose-sex
Janet Tassel
Man and woman created He them. Oh yeah? Well, here in Massachusetts that biblical stuff is long gone, trashed for representing patriarchal imperialism, binarism, gender apartheid, cissexism, and other detestable things. More

March 4, 2013
Robin From the Hood
Richard Butrick
If one's only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. Obama's skill set is that of the community organizer. He will always construe problems as at root social justice problems. More

March 4, 2013
Philadelphia Legislators Repackage Jim Crow with New Gun Laws
William A. Levinson
When African-American legislators channel Jim Crow and the Klan, and Jewish legislators channel Heinrich Himmler, there is a serious problem that the people who put them into office need to correct. More

March 4, 2013
Progressivism's Revenge
Daren Jonescu
To gain a clear picture of the agenda of modern-day progressives, we need to take a close look at their century-old roots, for one simple reason: at that time their agenda was not so carefully concealed. More

March 4, 2013
Why does anyone need a high-capacity magazine?
Mark Almonte
For a lot of reasons, actually. More

March 4, 2013
Obama's Mythical Spending Cuts
Peter Wilson
On the one hand the president uses scare tactics to make the point that cutting any government spending will cause pain. On the other hand, he praises himself for his enormous ongoing deficit-cutting efforts. More

March 3, 2013
Who're you going to Trust: The Stock Market or the Media Innumerates?
Clarice Feldman
Obama tried to bluff while holding a pitifully bad hand. ...and now he doesn't want to pay up. More

March 3, 2013
Obama's Transparency: Fade to Black
Jim O'Sullivan
President Obama recently stated assertively, "This is the most transparent administration in history, and I can document how that is the case." Obama made the comment without batting an eye or even causing a lightning strike More

March 3, 2013
Rogue Cop Christopher Dorner and Prescription Psychotropic Medications
Charles Gant, MD
Treated for severe depression since 2008, and the drugs Dorner was prescribed to treat his depression were almost certainly among the causes of his seeking violent revenge against members of the Los Angeles Police Department More

March 3, 2013
Tea Party: Come Together
Lloyd Marcus
Patriots, there will always be issues on which we disagree. Such is human nature. But brothers and sisters, the battle is much, much bigger than us. More

March 3, 2013
How the United Nations Will Establish the State of Hamas
Stuart J. Moskovitz
And why that organization should go straight to the dustbin of history. More

March 3, 2013
Benghazi: The Definitive Report?
John McLaughlin
A new e-book by decorated Special Ops veterans purports to "name names and hold accountable those who acted cowardly and those who erred by seeking to protect their political careers at the expense of human lives." More

March 3, 2013
The Case for Morality and God
Glenn Fairman
Can one be good without God, or does the meaning of goodness in a Postmodern Age ultimately dissolve existentially as a child's tears in a freezing rain? More

March 3, 2013
The Great Gun Debate: New Laws?
Selwyn Duke
It's easy to fall into the trap that ensnares liberals, that of thinking we can legislate ourselves to utopia More

March 3, 2013
Italy Shouts Back
Michael Nyilis
The anti-austerity backlash in Europe has claimed another victim More

March 2, 2013
Dangerous Times: How Euro-socialism Set off a Fascist Bomb
James Lewis and Justine Aristea
This week Europe blew up. The media haven't caught up yet, because they are what they are. But the markets are catching up fast. More

March 2, 2013
On a Not Very Slow Boat to (Indo) China
Clarice Feldman
Hong Kong Harbor to Halong Bay -- Southeast Asia's Waterworld More

March 2, 2013
Fighting the Real Enemy
Bruce Walker
It's not easy, but it beats being a slave. Here's how to get it done. More

March 2, 2013
What a Fine Mess We're In
Bart Wilburn
Our "more perfect union" was a result of a balance between idealism and pragmatism that produced one of the most unique and successful political systems in the historical record. What has gone wrong? More

March 2, 2013
The Logic of Liberalism
G. Donald Allen
For liberals, two common conclusions intertwine within their logic: spending more money, and the government as the centerpiece of all activities. More

March 2, 2013
The Hijacking of America
John Ozanich
The logic and meaning of the Constitution have been degraded by actions of the Supreme Court. Political powers have been quick to take advantage. More

March 2, 2013
Understanding the Threat of Progressivism's Equality
Dr. Tom Barron
There is only one type of equality compatible with freedom: the equality of treatment of all individuals. Radical egalitarianism requires unequal treatment by force and subordination of the rights of some to the dictates of the collective. More

March 2, 2013
Can Anyone be Only a 'Little Bit Pregnant?'
Jim Yardley
Well, according to our liberal-progressive elites, you can in fact be only "a little less free." More

March 2, 2013
Blame Congress, Not Illegal Immigrants
Patrick Osio
In the coming U.S. immigration reform debate, there is a simple solution: immigration policy must be based on what is good for the nation, not the immigrant. More

March 1, 2013
Decriminalization of Prostitution for Minors?
Janice Shaw Crouse & Brenda Zurita
Do senators and representatives even know what they just voted for on Thursday> More

March 1, 2013
Beautiful Sociopath
Glenn Fairman
Upon first gazing upon her, Jodi Arias appears to be a lovely young woman. One would be hardpressed to believe that she is on trial for murdering her ex-lover as brutally as any Taliban warrior ever could. More

March 1, 2013
Unmasking the Grim Reaper's Foot Soldiers
Selwyn Duke
Now that we've descended further down the rabbit hole of atheism and barbarity, the mask is coming off. More

March 1, 2013
Four Tiers of Failure: How the LGBT Lobby Dominates
Robert Oscar Lopez
It is time for a quick postmortem of what went wrong with the traditional marriage movement, so we can do better for the next round of battles, and perhaps win the war in a few decades. More

March 1, 2013
The Mental Illness Conundrum
Harold Wilber
History shows that all the world's people have a segment that just cannot function normally while free.That segment requires institutionalization with treatment for their own protection and the protection of others. More

March 1, 2013
Depardieu Heads East
Kim Zigfeld
To cuddle up to Putin, Mevedev, Karimov, and assorted other thieves, tyrants, and cutthroats. And you thought our film stars were bad? More

March 1, 2013
Israel: Never Mind the Palestinians,Talk to the Saudis
Gene Schwimmer
There is a much better path to a true Middle East peace if the Israelis can set aside the "peace process" with the Palestinians, open their eyes, and see the opportunity standing right in front of them. More

March 1, 2013
Protecting American Rights at the Local Level
Tom Trinko
While Americans can survive with smaller sodas at restaurants and without plastic bags, what is to prevent local and state governments from introducing far more intrusive limitations on the rights of their citizens? More