The enormity of the slaughters of the "religion of peace" are so beyond comprehension that even honest historians overlook the scale. Islam is the greatest killing machine in the history of mankind bar none.

At West Point Obama claimed that anyone who says, “America is in decline... are either misreading history or engaged in partisan politics.”  He seriously believes he has been successful. The man is deluded.

There is nothing more sickening than a bunch of rich people who think they are experts on what poor people should eat.  

In response to complaints about her precious school lunch program, Mrs. Obama is riled up. 

The Koran doesn't give Muslims a moral system beyond that which was appropriate in 7th-century Arabia. That means that many Muslims are either in the dark in modern Western society or they feel that they can effectively do what they want

A new-millennial "Blazing Saddles" -- except for all the cussin'.

John XXIII was an extraordinary figure both to Catholics and Jews.

“General mayhem,” said one police Captain in Cincinnati. One of the first victims was the son of the local district attorney. Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Memphis, Baltimore, Myrtle Beach, Clearwater and Ft. Lauderdale. and other cities also hosted riots.

Obama’s Common Core and Bismarck’s Schulaufsichtsgesetz have a lot in common.

You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to see that one of the best ways to attract a disturbed obsessive violent individual to an object is to glorify it.

Testing the waters, formulating ideas that would plunge the world into confusion and chaos for decades.

Feckless elected Republicans consistently fail to recognize the repeated God-given opportunities they’ve been given to shed light on the truth the left distorts for political gain.

If the Native Americans had only kept control of the Americas, the environment would be in much better shape.  Right?

And the hits (to your wallet) keep coming.

A key to understanding Barack Obama and his presidency may be found in a simple-minded character from a twenty-five year old movie

While you can’t choose your leaders, you can choose whether or not to trust them. Anyone who undermines your faith in yourself is not trustworthy.

Corrupt government is host to many ironies, but three are paramount: success is a liability, failure is an asset, and as long as the intentions are pure in the public mind, better funding follows failure, not success.

Plus a reminder of who benefits most (and best) from the spoils system currently in place.

According to a new fatwa, if a Muslim husband ever finds it expedient to abandon his wife to rapists in order to save his own life, he is permitted to do so.

There are a couple of possible reasons why Bernanke rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars per private dinner party.  Not one of them is good.

Revolutionary socialism is not quite as hip and omnipresent as it once was,but Marxism itself -- or at least Marxist theories, commitments and causes -- is far from dead.

If she runs for president, Hillary Clinton will open a door.

The modern big city is, regardless of the work ethic of its productive residents, an economic parasite.

It is an unavoidable conclusion that Barack Obama is symbolic of America’s attitude about truth in this country. 

I like and respect the senator from Kentucky a lot, folks, but this needs to be said.

A collapsing Europe bodes ill for the Jews.

Out comes the executive order pen, allegedly to boost the economy.

Can Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, sentenced to death in Sudan for being Christian, expect any help from the U.S.?  How about for her U.S. citizen children?

A criminologist questions Obama era mass public shootings

Today, Africans in Nigeria are being victimized by the identical culture of slavery that supplied the Atlantic slave trade for four centuries.

The only way to the future, for progressives, is through more subtraction, taking more money out of the economy in taxes.

To try successfully to separate religion and politics in the Middle East is an illusion. You can’t have one without the other.

No, that is not a mistake. FFIA is the unofficial, but real operative world of bureaucracy, which has its own interpretation of the official Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The results of this particular litmus test may surprise (and dismay) liberals.

How has the Iranian people's movement for a legitimate state government changed since 2009?

Rodger was sane enough to tell the world what ailed him, and this he did in a lucid, well written, 140-page memoir/ manifesto titled “My Twisted World.”

For years now, our very own First Lady has appeared on shows like Oprah and Nightline and broadcast her undying dedication to getting military families the multifaceted support they need

Democrats in the Senate have crushed the bill which would hold those at fault in the VA scandal accountable. 

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic cover piece last week, “The Case for Reparations,” is an attempt to bring back a soggy and discarded set of ideas, dressed up to look like new.  

Warfare pulls people away in an unjust time and makes you analyze death differently.

As Memorial Day passes, pause with me to celebrate what We Americans have in common. 

A veteran and artist of talent and soul memorializes this country's heroes.

Every revelation of the shortcomings at the VA only reinforces the impossibility of extending the federal government further into every aspect of American life.

The mild-mannered George Soros must be amazed at the explosion of rhetoric directed against him by the Palestinian and boycotters of Israel caused by the revelation that the Soros' firm bought Israel-based shares.

The entire system of American education needs to be bulldozed under before it destroys this country irrevocably.

Oklahoma, you’re being hounded by the American Civil Liberties Union, American Atheists, and Satan.  You must be doing something right.

Those who tell you that Common Core will transform America aren't talking about a change for the better.

There is no doubt that the impact of Western modernism has been deeply felt all over the world. But this does not necessarily mean that the world has learned the vital cultural lessons from the West.

All liberal reporting on Pope Francis is distorted by this projection of their own views onto the mirror they’ve made of the Pope.

The Russian people seem resigned to the idea that their lot will never change.

America is not Washington, D.C.. America is not Los Angeles, not New York, not Miami. It is the little hamlets that are the glue that holds this country to its roots.

I just discovered that I'm supposed to have been romancing fat women. 

Benghazi was only one of the victories Obama has handed to the most radical butchers in the Muslim world. If you doubt that, ask any modern Egyptian or a freedom-loving Iranian.

Everyone needs to eat, but how many people actually need to steal in order to eat?

Scientists will exaggerate the importance of their own work. However, there should be a line that is not crossed -- the line that separates self-promotion from corruption.

Empty gestures by the White House and Number 10 Downing Street are worse than futile -- they are dangerous.

The question “Who lost China?” has been asked since 1949.  The answer is obvious.

It is Israel's problem if the Arabs in Judea and Samaria can't go anywhere else.  So what must be done?

The New Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is ready to add their big data to auto-tune your connectivity to media and the digital divide (or something).

My experience with white Democrats during the 2008 Presidential campaign really revealed to me how they viewed black Americans

Is a “gut-level aversion to the government" "almost exclusively a white phenomenon”?

The other big scandal at the VA isn't limited to Miami, and has been known to the VA for years.

When the CEO of any organization is forced to deal with what would be, at a bare minimum, a public relations catastrophe because he hadn’t heard about the rot within his own organization, you might think that someone would lose his/her job

To inflict American judicial-system criteria on Islamic/Pakistani cultural norms sends an unacceptable mixed message, doesn't it?  Even if those norms include beating your wife to death?

Sadly, we have a people who have not taken to heart that 'peace is not the absence of war.  Peace is a positive condition -- the rule of law.'

Perhaps that is a risk that the Jews of Israel would like to take. The alternative is to persevere in the current unsatisfactory and inherently unstable political situation.

One unavoidable truth that must be faced regarding the media and 2014 is this: the American media has the conservatives’ number.  They know exactly where the blind spots are

The tea party was always about promoting issue positions for financial responsibility. The tea party was not primarily about running candidates.

The Obama administration wants to level the playing field between hard-working middle-class parents who nurture their children and low or no-income inner-city caretakers whose children are too troubled to learn.

The formation of the Visegrad Group is a significant indication of an East European desire to strengthen their security.

The oil weapon meets the grain weapon.

Every so often, Amnesty International and others find an Islam-inspired crime "abhorrent."  But they never touch the source.

If you look at college campuses throughout the United States this spring, you see plenty of outrage. 

Islamists are to Islam what cancer is to healthy tissue.

Indoctrination no longer requires the blunt cunning of force or fraud: the 10,000 little subliminal lessons attained from the schoolhouse are enough to ensure that the young human mind is  bound for its lifetime to the hive.

The Transgendered movement has taken the route all angry, irrational liberals take and actively bullies and shouts in outrage over the slightest offense they choose to experience. 

The international left has its own explanation.

There is a leftist lie out there that conservatives keep believing.

A recent piece in the WSJ is a classic illustration of the fact that the legendary political power of the vaunted labor unions is based at this point only on government-sanctioned coercion.

There is no evidence that climate change is increasing the costs of weather-related disasters -- though you wouldn't think so to look at Standard and Poor's recent comments.

He's French, he's hip, he has his own school... and he doesn't know anything about capitalism.

Does America really want racist attitudes to be directed toward another group of color? 

Most Americans think there’s something fundamentally rotten with our tax system. But who’s going to fix it?

Who gives the left their power?  We do.

Everybody wants peace in the Middle East, but realities protrude beyond this desirable goal.  J Street needs to realize this, if indeed it doesn't already.

The House of Representatives voted last week to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for her failure to testify about her actions involving misuse of the taxing authority to harass and delay the application by certain... More

Russia is using Snowden as cover to actually do there what Snowden delusionally imagined might happen in the USA.

Miscalculation might not lead to war because there is nothing miscalculated about what China is doing.  China intends to start a war.  

Liberal ObamaCare cheerleaders like The New York Times need to get a handle on how health insurance works.

A victory for Conservatism -- and we better get on the victory train quickly or watch it speed by without us.
 

In a perfect world, the high road is a path all should seek to tread.  Yet, when victory is the only consideration, the low road is a surer course to the finish line.

Let's look at the similarities between Benghazi and the VA scandal.

Whatever happens, Donald Sterling can never be innocent.

The Jewish State is fulfilling its mandate to be a “light to the nations.”

As long as the federal government intrudes ever more substantially into the economic life of this country, corporations have no choice but to get involved and contribute to parties and candidates‘ campaigns.

Barack Obama's people are wearing idealistic blinders that prevent them from seeing what is obvious when it comes to the Russian leader.

“Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” (“Truth for Christ and the Church”) was the original motto of Harvard University

ObamaCare has forced many people to make gutwrenching decisions about their healthcare insurance -- for the first time in their lives, some are faced with the possibility of becoming uninsured.

Many of the teenagers I have worked with do not even know who their fathers are.

When the climate modeling results are "any way you want it" and the science community is generally unwilling to admit the undeniable errors and exaggerations in some of their works, we have a problem.

It is not enough to try to keep our heads above water. We must either stand against the swelling tide that seeks to remake our culture forever, or be swept away into the sex-obsessed sewers occupied by today’s liberals.

There are institutions that distribute wealth much more efficiently and effectively than government programs.

Even with the absence of a Hitler figure in France or a regime which openly espouses such hatred, Jews indeed have reason to drudge up the “old fears.”

Obama’s endorsement of the B1 scenario’s miscellany of anti-capitalism, communitarian ideologies and totalitarian schemes clearly reinforces the contention that green is the new red.

A funny thing happened on the way to Michael Sam just wanting to play football
 

We import poorly educated, low-skilled immigrants who predictably have unequal educational and occupational outcomes.  Then we are made to feel ashamed as a country when different ethnic groups have these unequal outcomes.  This neurotic cycle has to stop.

Nonviolent people don’t need laws and people that kill don’t care about them.

Those who object to the invitations of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Condoleezza Rice, Charles Murray and others to appear at American universities suffer from an acute case of historical dyslexia.

Tis the season of Commencement discontent.
 

 Lynne Cheney examines the thought of Founder James Madison in her new book, James Madison, A Life Reconsidered

One comedy, one shoot 'em up, and one serious drama.

After years of battering and bullying, we have reached a tipping point. A terrible, horrible tipping point.

Common Core.  Call the whole thing subversion, or treachery,  or greed, or psychopathology, but please don’t call it education.

More prowling through the latest National Climate Assessment has uncovered some additional concerns.

To win in 2014, Republicans must go on offense and focus on kitchen table issues and conservative solutions bolstered by a proven track record of success in states with Republican governors.

The Schuette decision is nowhere near as radical as its detractors claim.

Will NATO or the European Union play any significant role regarding Russian activity in Eastern Europe?

Trying to understand and recognize the lies in government budgeting and shutdowns.

Thanks to Barack Obama’s inability to remain out of the sexual-political arena, once again the depths of liberal hypocrisy are revealed for all to see.

One might call the Obama administration's and the leading Muslim clerics' responses to the latest atrocity by Boko Haram interesting...if not comical.

As if this winter weren’t enough, there’s new evidence that the climate is cooling.

There is simply no other objective way to view it: the Democrats’ class warfare rhetoric is completely misplaced and is nothing more than a hoax.

So long as Russians remain in denial of their antecedents they will be a belligerent and dangerous force in the world.

Leftists want their blacks to be 'radical', or members of the Nation of Islam, or rappers, R 'n' B musicians, or even criminals. When they're not, they simply must be Uncle Toms

The failings of the National Climate Assessment continue to be swept under the rug.

Dude, where's my gravitas?

Captain Turbotax pats himself on the back, Part 1.

When you support someone based on the color of his/her skin alone without examining his/her record and character, you cannot help but end up in a dilemma.

The Democratic smear machine is revving up for 2014. What are the GOP's options for defeating it?

Unsettling news for those who believe in "settled science."

Do you see an anthropogenic signature for declining rainfall in southern Australia?  I sure don't.

If a gay football player can receive such high and enthusiastic praise from the President of the United States, how is it that the coming out itself is courageous?

The questions I would like to ask my liberal friends five years into the administration of America's First Black President.

The Left vehemently believes they are at their best 'when everyone plays by the same rules.' This should read, 'Walk the party line.'

Don’t expect the phrase “liberal privilege” to catch on right away, but we can all dream about the day when students feel comfortable telling their peers, “Check your liberal privilege.”

Death penalty opponents are correct when they say that botched executions violate the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment -- but that's not the last word.

The Benham brothers represent real Christianity and real devotion to faith. They deserve to be praised and imitated, not shoved into the corner to avoid the disapproving glare of the liberal masses.

The question is whether the new Syrian use of chemical weapons will be another “red line” and whether the Assad regime will suffer any punishment.

It seems quite clear that Russia regrets having to give up their dominion over Eastern Europe and pine to recover it.

'Real Life of Muhammad' filmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was punished with a speed and severity that the Benghazi attackers themselves were spared.

What are the lives of a handful of little people compared to the lofty goal of saving the Obama presidency?

Major gay rights organizations wage endless war against perceived enemies to avoid having to deal with the truthful message: gay culture is screwed up.  Gay leaders screwed up.  Gay people are suffering because of gay people.

My fate is sealed:  I will never get my own TV show and will probably never be hired again in my life

Clayton Lockett was executed last week in Oklahoma for the torture/ murder of a 19-year-old girl after gaming the judicial system at taxpayer expense for the last 15 years.

Israel has every right to build, having not conceded that right, either in general or specifically as a "gesture" to bribe Abbas to sit at the negotiating table.

Once again, we see the National Climate Assessment being employed to generate hysteria.

On America's campuses, all that is not permitted is forbidden.

A jaw-dropping status update on where our society is headed.

Somehow the Church of Climatology got around the U.S. government's separation of church and state.

The UN has all too often served as a platform for human rights abusers to ward off criticism and avoid accountability for their gross violations of human rights.

If Democrats in the House take their ball and go home, it will provide final evidence to anyone watching that they are craven hypocrites rather than persecuted victims of Republican injustice.

A startling contrast presently exists in the world between the extraordinary educational and cultural success of a woman of minority origin in Israel and the denial of education for females by a brutal, fanatical Islamist group in Nigeria.

How do you know you’re being had by a slick politician?

I have lived in Russia for about fifteen years.  Therefore, I have a pretty good understanding of Russian mentality.

In short, because America is allergic to it.

Climate models indicate that anthropogenic climate change should lead to wetter winters in California.  Is that what we observe in the pesky place called reality?  No chance.

There were any number of indicators that Benghazi likely was soon to be a target for Islamic fundamentalists.if anyone was willing to listen, and most importantly, pay attention

Is that last straw fluttering overhead, about to land? Will it inspire citizens to do more than vote, write letters, sign petitions, or stand in protest -- but actually refuse to pay the fine, enroll in the program, follow the rules, or submit the tax? 

The answer to “why are we doing this again” and “what difference does it make” is simple:  Benghazi matters because it is about following through on our promises to the people who serve in the military, Foreign Service, and the intelligence communities.

If America is wondering just how dysfunctional things are or can get, the answer is: very!

Hillary is "inevitable?" Remember, in 2008 every political pundit thought Hillary’s nomination was inevitable, too.

Government expenditures are prioritized.  What bureaucrats consider important is very revealing of their values.

'Londonistan' in the 1980s and 1990s was the seedbed for international Jihadi terroism.

Being on hand to witness your children thriving and marrying well is just one of the rewards of middle age.

Can Belgium overcome its inglorious anti-Semitic past?

Parallel to the political punishments waiting for these folks is a constitutional crisis that goes to the very heart of our system.

Hillary Clinton, under attack for refusing to label Boko Haram as a terrorist organization during her tenure as Secretary of State, resurrected the old-poverty-causes-Jihadism-myth, rebranding it as “social justice.” 

If Charles C.W. Cooke feels strongly about teaching critical thinking, then perhaps he could pen columns about all the classrooms that have shut down debate on global warming and leave the Holocaust out of it.

A dissenter provides at inside look at the recent Dartmouth disturbances.

The president who approves of chopping up 3,000 innocent unborn children a day also has no problem with using wind turbines that chop up hundreds of thousands of birds, including some bald eagles.

International Monetary Fund policies are helping to drive the crisis in Ukraine.

Senator Paul’s worldview of nonintervention is dangerous not just because of its inherent policy naivety, but because it undermines the American foundational ideas as they were meant to be.

If you're a really cool guy like the president or one of his top advisors or the Secretary of State who wants to become president of the U.S., then it is perfectly okay to act cool and go into pretend-and-deny mode.

There are increasing hints that China may have had enough and is preparing for an intervention against its toxic protégé.

Requiring that millions of Americans currently uninterested in “climate disruption” take up arms in a battle in which logic tells us, there is no natural, or even discernable, enemy.

For decades liberals have lobbied against punishment and for rehabilitation.

Four good men died with it.

Hamas either really believes in the destruction of Israel, or puts out a pretty good facsimile thereof. 

Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave a Rebel yell at the news.

If climate alarmists are determined to engage in hysterics, they should at least be hysterical in the right direction.

How much can Mr. Joe American grocery store owner afford to pay an unskilled worker just entering the work force?

Is the U.S. forgetting its history in diminishing its armed forces in the face of belligerent and aggressive enemies?

Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch has the NSA on the run.

An uprising, as locals resist demographic change and national government fails to enforce the border.

Prescribed in the Koran itself, crucifixions are as old as Islam and, with the global revival of the latter, are returning with increased frequency.

Are the White House, ATF, and the AG the only players in the Fast and Furious scandal?

If an overwhelming majority of Americans condemn whites who make racist statements, when are we going to hold blacks to the same standard?

Unionization of college sports would make the rich richer, and the poor poorer, in the world of college athletics.

Over the last five and a half years, the Obama administration has maximized foreign entanglements by more than doubling defense nation-building spending.

Two courageous black women have been slighted by two major universities both of which portray themselves as supporters of diversity.

Are the capitalists powerful oppressors that need to be curbed or ingenious creators amazing new products and services?

The Panic of 1907 has worthwhile lessons for dealing with 21st-century economic upheavals.

Who, what, where, why, when...

Though most Democrats loathe Darrel Issa (and the entire Republican Party for that matter), the expression “cover-up” is now in play

The horrifying picture my brother cheerfully sent me one afternoon illustrates the story better than any narrative I can tell. 

When the truth hurts...

The Democratic Party is the Party of Crime, Corruption, Incompetence and Embarrassment, and Republicans should at least stop embarrassing them. 

Just as they hitched us to ObamaCare in NFIB, the Court could also unhitch us with their rulings on the cases headed their way.

Putin is losing, and he’s losing badly and quickly.

The legacy media arises as one to defend their messiah.

How exactly does Kerry purport "not to allow" criticism of his putative devotion to Israel?

Maybe someday soon the president will also explain his callous dismissal of the inhumane manner of death suffered by those who are completely innocent.

It is ironic that Progressives identify their cause with the green movement and claim that their goal is a balance with nature

Nothing like a papal quote to validate and finesse the judgmental pontifications of relativists of all shades.

The ADL's and NJDC's foremost loyalty is clearly to the left wing of the Democratic Party, regardless of how dishonest and dishonorable it might be.

Anti-Semitism, embedded in the pages of French history, has taken on new life with the vast immigration of Muslims.

Every disaster – big or small – is supposedly due to, or exacerbated by, or somehow representative of, or a possible indication of the future impacts of the great evil threatening us all...anthropogenic climate change.

It is now clear that since Obama came to power, the U.S. government has overturned all the fundamental values that have characterized American policy from Thomas Jefferson onward.

All we really want from Washington is to leave us alone. 

Dude, where’s my space program?

We need to keep the poor predictivity and unsupported generalizations of climate change out of public health policy making.

The decline in press freedom, as the Freedom House Freedom of the Press report shows, is an increasing problem in a considerable part of the world.

Man in rebellion runs an indiscriminate scalpel across the throat of life, and calls it Utopia.

Two new films dealing with lesser-known aspects of the Second World War

Hawthorne described his seventeenth century ancestors as “being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived,” but these “little Puritans” had nothing on the big ones that would flourish four centuries later.

Why should proportionality go only one way?

There is a part of me that thought I was beyond being shocked by anything the high-living Obamas do. Boy, was I wrong.

Confession: some of my best friends are graduates of Brandeis.  Now they are ashamed.

The dirty little secret is out.  It is the Arab countries, not Israel, that have to be considered apartheid states.

Britian's leading Muslim organization attempts to take over school curriculums in favor of Islamists.

A new book shows that the federal government's mismanagement of subsidies and reliable habit of picking losers is nothing new.

Behold a runaway judiciary that is forcing an unwanted socio-sexual innovation in violation of tradition, religious values, and simple logic on the country at large. Abortion and gay marriage are sisters under the skin.

I’m perfectly willing to demonize “racists,” provided we give other sinners equal time.  I just want equality.

Few Americans are aware of the potentially earth-shaking events currently unfolding in India. A free-market capitalist and unapologetic opponent of radical Islamism poised to become India's Ronald Reagan.

World Bank stumbles over exchange rates.

Turning race into a political weapon for the left

To erase the shame of its century of national humiliation, China will need to have an unequivocal victory over somebody.

What makes capitalism natural to some societies and anathema to others?