...by hiring the legal equivalent of General Custer.

Desperate to cap the Koch Brothers' impact, Moveon.org puts on hundreds of Citizens United Orwellian group-hates.

When did the United States run out of Americans in need of assistance?

Mahmoud Abbas recently stood before the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and condemned the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers.

The same conservatives who rightly question global warming dogma seem to have a blind spot on this other science-related subject.

Here is what conservatives can do to combat another despicable Thad Cochran-style candidacy.

The president’s petulance, disrespect for the coequal branches of government, and boundless view of his powers adds to the kinds of uncertainty and stasis that is so harmful to our economic and political life.

Wrong theology sanctioning anti-Semitism matters, as the premises reach into secularized politics, which merely extracts the "God words" and puts the anti-Semitic ideas into practice.

In the Recess Appointments Clause, as in most other constitutional provisions, formalism is what the Founders intended we should have..

People do not fund terrorist killings simply because they believe in the cause; they only do so when they themselves will also be getting something.

Today, Republican isolationists like Rand Paul can join leftist reactionaries in denouncing all manner of intervention.

Fouad Ajami, a brilliant analyst of Middle Eastern politics, societies, and personalities, expounding his sometimes controversial views with great courage, eloquence, gentle wit, and impeccable scholarship.

As if the animosity (to put it mildly) of the Arabs for the Jews, was, itself not sufficient reason to junk the concept of a two-state solution, there are other reasons

There is only one International law concerning Israeli settlement that is binding and has never been superseded.

The ATF attempts a backdoor method of creating a national firearms database.

The president has no time to worry about missing IRS emails, or if ISIS is conquering Iraq, or if the broadest measure of economic growth, the GDP, contracted by 3%.

We have “progressed” to a level of government coercion that makes King George III look like a benevolent grandfather by comparison.

Friendly ties with Albania are reaffirmed.

Jewish Republicans owe Eric Cantor both thanks and praise, but not blind support.

The differences between Left and Right are hardly trivial, but the fundamental political tension in the West for nearly seven decades has not been whether a market economy can be jiggered to spread prosperity, but how best to go about it.

Opinion polls show that over a quarter of the French harbor anti-Semitic sentiments. Yet, recent political and cultural developments in France challenge the view that France is an anti-Semitic country.

Some get fans, some get pans.

Have you ever worked for someone who you seriously thought might be crazy?

Barack Obama's administration is scrambling to gild some terrible economic numbers as best as it can.

Is the tepid response to Hillary’s book and media blitz simply Clinton fatigue or could her actions and record have something to do with it?

The U.S. must smash ISIS by the use of air power and troops, returning to Iraq even though we failed there for 20-plus years.  Sending 300 advisors is merely announcing our impotence.

America’s astonishing 100-hour victory in the Persian Gulf War in 1991 was based on Col. Warden’s revolutionary concepts. 

The world is laughing at the Obama administration, and laughing at the Americans who elected it.

In our system, it is very difficult to change elected officials, and that can be a bad thing.

What's the worst thing to have changed in Obama's America?

Take a deep breath everyone; Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran and most of their Establishment buddies are bringing home the electoral bacon.

The transparent legal and logical absurdity of the memo is the only form of transparency we are likely to obtain from the Administration.

We have another couple of decades of cheap energy production ahead of us – but it won't come from oil.

Reagan at Reykjavik reveals what a truly strong president looks like.

Carbon capture costs money, and a lot of it. And by costing money, carbon capture drives up energy prices.

Johnson and his Democratic Party saw two great flaws in the migrant worker program:  guest workers could not vote or repopulate the cities.

Will the media ever report that the Democrats are the party that refuses to compromise?

I had the honor of delivering a speech at a Stanford University conference on “communicating family values.”  I showed up with a surprise companion – a progressive musician I would have never thought could be an ally.

When Rand Paul talks about “immigration reform,” this is nothing but a cosmopolitan euphemism for amnesty.

The search for truth in Barack Obama's sketchy 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father continues with a look into the many discrepancies and oddities in Barack's birth narrative.

The dilemma for the U.S. and the Western world is how to prevent or control that expansion of terrorist activity, and the growth of commitment to those extreme values.

There are no legal deterrents to terrorism in Israel today.

Gays are not in peril because of a handful of Christian leaders preaching the evils of homosexuality. They are in danger because they live in a part of the world where the basic idea of human freedom is alien.

As regards illegal immigration, the American Catholic Church has forgotten what fate awaits those who think they can dance with the devil and walk away unscathed.

When a totalitarian and an authoritarian marry, it's a recipe for disaster.  Even worse when the pair runs our country.

Today, ordinary liberals in politics and culture believe the liberal lies that the professors have taught them, from sexism to climate change, as young people have always done.

Hillary Clinton may be playing coy, but we've already seen her presidential run play out – not in 2008, but in 1920.

An analysis of the polling results of American confidence in different institutions paints a picture even Gallup would rather you didn't see.

It is time to quash a few of the Bergdahl myths beings circulated by the Obama administration and several liberal and mainstream media outlets.

The Financial Times takes on the controversial topic of vaccinations.

The present fear in Washington among both establishment Republicans and Democrats today is well-grounded.

Hillary giggles about the high point of her legal career: putting a man who raped a twelve-year-old girl back on the street.

Try to guess whom conservatives should most hope for to receive the presidential nomination for 2016.

The exercise in political correctness is not about aggrieved Native Americans.  It’s about the power to redistribute wealth and to eliminate private property.

Americans are being told we must adjust to a radical change in all we have been, in all we have believed about the family and the institutions that protect it.

The facts on the ground in today’s Russia prove that the warnings about Putin should have been heeded.

In the Adams/Goodman "opera", the myth of moral equivalence is an excuse to deflect criticism of brutal deeds by Palestinian terrorists and to present them in a somewhat sympathetic fashion.

'If they want us to work at uncovering political corruption, then they should damned well just elect Republicans. That’s when we really get to work!'

We’re constantly told by leftist egalitarians that the Sexual Revolution has moved us forward to a better, more just society. The reality is very different.

Political correctness aside, that’s the bottom line that even the left in Israel is grudgingly beginning to acknowledge.

Barack Obama’s illusions about flipping Iran to our side seem logical only after consuming a boatload of cannabis.

For the Christian, the scriptures make plain the biblical imperative: only what is true – only what is holy is worthy to stand before the Great King.

The University and College Union hopes to write a new report on Israel.  We can be pretty sure of what it's going to say.

The use of American military forces against ISIS is no longer avoidable. Without American military support, Iraq and the entire region will face a long period of violence and instability.

A conversation with Brett Baier.

We the American citizenry seem to expect our political leaders to lie to us.  Barack Obama has come through in spades.

Capitalism is still  the best system that the temporal world has to offer man as he is thus constituted.

No wonder their foreign policy is collapsing.

On the twentieth anniversary of O.J. SImpson's apprehension, it's past time to take a look at the failings that truly lost the case.

John Ford understood something that the liberal elite never will.

Abortion and illegal immigration make for a strange dilemma for liberals.

Violence is still happening not because of Blair, or Obama, or Bush, or the Balfour Declaration, or the Danish cartoons, etc. It's mainly -- though not exclusively -- to do with Islam.

“You can't force your ideology on the cat.” This advice was given after a kitten nearly died when its owners fed it a strict vegan diet.

We are talking arrogance with a capital A coming out of the Obama administration.

The Big Lie: It’s the idea that all people are basically the same.

It is not the Chamber of Commerce or even RINOs that threaten to undermine the Tea Party’s courageous stance on immigration.  That danger lies closer to home, in national libertarian groups

Harry Reid says it's a "moral issue". That's all you need to know.

If you think the Education Establishment's favorite reading tool for kids is a good idea, try it your self.  You can try it right now.

Senator Rand Paul says that “immigrants are drawn to” American capitalism, but polling shows that Hispanics have a “negative reaction” to the word “capitalism.”  An immigrant coming to America for higher wages is not the same thing as an immigrant coming to America because he believes in capitalism.

Islamist rhetoric in the UK amounts to little more than hate crimes.

Hillary now vigorously maintains she was wrong on Iraq and wrong on gay marriage. And this is a qualification?

Is humanity sleepwalking into the climatic and agricultural disruption that is coming?

To what end?

Dinesh D'Souza's new movie is a must-see.

The ultimate question about Iraq is not what we have done or not done, who is to blame for where we are, where the Iraqis are, or how we got to this miserable place, but what is morally right – at this time.

The nation state is in danger of becoming an historic anomaly because of global empire building that threatens to envelop individual nations.

Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine today are unambiguous announcements to the world that Russia is fully committed to creating a powerful Eurasian counterbalance to the E.U. and U.S.

With the ongoing collapse of Iraq, the endgame for the worst foreign policy in American history has begun.

The surge of Central Americans across our border is a huge development with long-term consequences.  It clarifies a lot.

• An early taste of what a Hillary presidency would be like.

Why do so many members of religious groups, and the secular boycotters of Israel, lose all credibility and any commitment to truth by adhering to a double standards regarding Jews and other people?

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has transformed a few small terror cells into the most brutal and lethal terror group on earth.

The problem is not in the nature of sexual education, but the agenda behind it.

Wherever Joe is sequestered these days, he’s likely safer than the rest of us in today’s world.

President Obama took to the teleprompter recently to announce that climate change deniers are a “fairly serious threat to everybody’s future.”

The shocking thing about liberalism at present is the Bourbon aspect. Not Kentucky, but French, as in: liberals seem to have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.

Like Osama Bin-Laden, Barack Obama lives in a symbolic universe, thinking he is its center.

As the failures of our current president and the Democratic Party continues to pile up every day, rather than admit that their chosen party’s policies are ineffective , black American’s favorite counter is Why should we vote for Republicans?  Here's why.

Teddy Roosevelt understood the need for Americans to support American ideals and values.

Modern industry can create far more wealth than a country is likely to gain through violence, but most of the Islamic world has yet to realize this.

On May 18, 2014 the Israeli basketball team, Maccabi Electra TV, won the Euroleague Basketball Championship.

If our administration intervenes in any way, it would be foolish.  This time it is so easy.

We’re being diversified into a country definitely not Western via demographic warfare.

Hillary's non-campaign is nothing more than vintage Clinton.

Unlike Sarah Palin, somehow Hillary Clinton doesn't get the same "idiot" designation from the mainstream media after her interviews.  Even when she deserves it.

It is one thing to have a little down time; it is another thing to skip important national security briefings because you were too busy watching the latest episode of Game of Thrones.

It is very easy for talk show hosts and columnists to be “ideologically pure.” It doesn’t cost them anything, and it’s also good for ratings. Congress, however, is different.

Somewhere in South Asia, Mullah Omar is celebrating victory. When Kabul again falls to his Taliban, we will know how the end began.

There's always one if you look closely enough. Maybe two.

Rape culture orthodoxy on college campuses is the latest issue that the left has deemed off-limits for discussion.

Israel is trying to convince not only the U.S. but the international community that because Hamas calls for the destruction of the Jewish State, world leaders should have nothing to do with this new government.

Every attempt to establish the City of Man: from Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar to Rousseau and Marx, has been doomed to the ash heap of history.

Who will get the caliphate first – al-Qaeda in Iraq, or the Palestinians?

If “love” is interpreted as meaning a delight in the fact that someone exists, then wanting to have children is a natural consequence of falling in love.

Overlooked in the midst of all the celebrations in Egypt concerning the presidential election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was a strange comment about the place of the nation’s Christian minority, the Copts.

...is nothing more than large-scale, highly organized criminal child abuse.

What is the Tea Party? Like the six blind men who all touch an elephant and see it differently, that depends on your perspective. 

It is likely that many people will die young because Bowe Bergdahl chose to act out a childish, grandiose fantasy.

The boycotters have little if any regard for the welfare of Palestinians or any real interest in peace in the Middle East, but simply persist in their biased condemnations of Israel.

The last 11 years have produced the 10 highest national corn yields over this 148-year history -- so much for galloping drought conditions.

Lebanon, the dream of Mideast Christians is over.  It has ceased to exist as a functional nation state.  Islam destroyed it

Trouble is brewing in a former Soviet satellite, and it is not Ukraine. 

Writers and producers have shied from exploring the Trayvon Martin case in depth because the facts all lead in the direction that the media rejected from the beginning, that of Zimmerman’s innocence.

The president has already shown he no longer cares about his party nor about the effectiveness of his decisions.

How Donald Sterling became "the eternal Jew."

It's interesting how quickly the anti-Common Core forces, once vilified as "conspiracy theorists", "fearmongers" and "liars" have become vindicated.

The tree in this case is the Obama administration and its immigration policy.  It is deformed and diseased – thus the fruit.

In the past forty years, for the first time in U.S. history, Federal naturalization power has been gradually usurped by big city mayors.

Maybe not legitimate redistribution.  But what is "legitimate"?

The latest scandals from the White House have prompted speculation trying to determine why President Obama screws up so much. There is a simple answer.

I have recently gotten into heated debates with other black Americans over the fact that African slave traders enslaved other Africans and then sold them in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Three soldiers who served with Bergdahl agree: Bergdahl is not an honorable soldier. He is a deserter who must be punished.

When it comes to the worst mass murderers in the United States, there are several inconvenient truths for those of the liberal persuasion, and none of them involves guns.

Cantor became the national symbol of a Republican Party unwilling to represent our people in our need to stop a corrupt and dictatorial President and his party. 

Historically, Muslims have been the worst oppressors, colonizers and demonizers on the planet.

The Obama administration's latest climate regulations have sent supporters of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission cuts on the prowl for conclusive evidence that making such emission cuts will not substantially damage the economy.

GOP Establishment: do you hear us now?

Put aside, for a moment, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. What about the health of two other American captives that Obama is leaving behind?

Vilifying Obama could save many Democrats, but make no mistake, the outrage is false.

Little-noted moves beginning the process of checking U.S. power before we ever realize we may need to exercise it

Supporters of traditional faith and morality should fear increasing demands for societal approval of homosexuality and transgenderism in institutions such as marriage.

Medicare, Obamacare, and the VA are all flawed in the same way -- and it can't be fixed.

Once a governmental administration seizes control of a piece of real estate it has virtually unlimited power to exercise its ability to regulate almost all human activity.

With last weekend’s Texas Republican Convention, the Tea Party has effectively taken over the Republican Party from within in Texas.

Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that’s now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all mass killers are white.

The idea of limited government is not pie-in-the-sky utopianism. It is merely practical.

Will hiring a “Systemwide Diversity Coordinator” help reach the goal of reducing “bad experiences” to zero?        

Only in Obama's America

Feminists seem obsessed with every possible detail around perceived male dominance when it comes to gentlemanly manners.  It's a poor way to take care of oneself.

Since we know the news/intellectual/show business establishment is flagrantly lying to us now, why doubt that the same or worse was done in the past?

President Obama has been trying to close Gitmo for years, which means finding a way – any way – to free the terrorists from that prison. 

Most Western nations have political parties that stand up for citizens. America should too.

The man with a pen and a phone has more than threatened to illegally bypass Congress; he has done so before.

Today, the Russian economy is a smoking ruin and Putin’s apologists have nowhere to hide.

A welcome respite from the Bergdahls -- Lt. Col. James N Rowe, American soldier.

The Education Establishment went way too far, and this has presented the country with a unique opportunity for real improvement of the public schools.

Climate change proponents have used a longstanding positive public perception of the scientist to their advantage – and to the detriment of humanity.

Obama thought trading a deserter for five top terrorists would be a PR coup.  What does this tell us about our president as a person?

In the spirit of never surrendering, I am going to go about answering a basic question that has to haunt people who still care about the future of higher education in our homeland.

One can imagine -- if only imagine -- what Articles of Impeachment against the current president might look like, if ever framed. They almost certainly never will be.

Here we'll find the seed of a true and needed electoral revolution.

That juxtaposition of Israeli independence and naqba is not accidental.

Besides the noxious Muslim Brotherhood connections, of course.

Greedy government stands in the way of healthy living.

Happy the man who can find satisfaction in his allotted earthly portion and does not require that hard-won wisdom earned through tears and travail.

The marriage of Hamas and the PA, accepted as a legitimate entity across the world, should be final proof to the Israeli people that pursuing a “two state solution” is folly.

The Hitler salute meant something so cruel and dangerous that Americans still get it today. Heil Hitler! is an unambigous salute to evil.

No government ever has the legal right to free terrorists as a quid pro quo for hostage release. Terrorism is a criminally sanctionable violation of international law, one that is never subject to manipulation by individual countries.

The Harper government's supposed skepticism of anthropogenic climate change is just smoke and mirrors.

Jean Raspail's vision in The Camp of the Saints is an imaginary one of how the secular order in the West may end.

Keeping millions of 'other people' in the dark while living in societies largely powered by fossil fuels is not only hypocritical, it’s cruel.

Sometimes the most valuable information for solving practical problems is right in front of our noses. Minds prone to drifting into the mists of abstraction are likely to miss important, concrete details.

Slowly, progressives are coming out and acknowledging their true agenda.

The forbidden information the media doesn't want you to know.

Obama’s West Point speech will only encourage Iranian determination to run out the clock on negotiations and achieve their irreversible goal of acquiring a nuclear capability.

Mahmoud Abbas has dropped the sheep’s clothing and revealing his sharp teeth.

Obama's black skin provides perfect political cover, similar to an impenetrable suit of armor.

One defense of the prisoner swap involving Bowe Bergdahl is that Israel has done it, too, so that makes it okay.  This is wrong on several counts.

While we remember the brave men who went ashore that fateful morning, at D-Day plus 70 years, we should also remember the man who made it possible.

The ancient Gnostic idea that one can by an act of will repudiate material realities has been resurrected time and again, resurfacing to be part of the current liberal political ethos.

It is hard to say why it takes days to reach the local media when 50 to 100 black people were rampaging and stealing and beating their way through an entire section of a big city with lots of people seeing them. 

PR is the one thing Obama has generally pulled off well. Now, it seems he's failing even at that.

Obama’s record with American women is abysmal, perhaps the worst in U.S. history.

A cursory glance at the news coming out of Russia these days shows a nation hurtling backwards at breakneck speed.

The Virginia primary could very well be the election that determines whether amnesty passes.

This useful little Latin phrase explains a lot about why liberals get so much wrong.

America has to stop reinforcing the thinking of the Pakistanis that they are so strategically important to the U.S. there will never be much pressure put on them.

The terrorist-for-Bergdahl deal must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Two questions that take the heat out of the global warming controversy.

Gallup is out with its latest “moral acceptability” survey.

While liberals spend their time fabricating new theories to solidify their own social privilege, average men work behind the scenes without any recognition. 

The PLA officers indicted for cyberespionage were not just hacking government or military targets but a wide variety of corporate and commercial sites to steal trade secrets and technology.

A single-payer healthcare system is a government-run monopoly over health services and goods. The government pays what it chooses, when it chooses. The consumer has no say.

Is what does count in Thomas Piketty's new manifesto the same as what should count?

Contrary to Bergdahl’s own account, he was not lagging behind on a patrol and got nabbed by the Taliban.  He went to them.

Why would the White House raise energy costs, and poverty levels, for Americans, knowing that this would have little if any climate impact?  Could it be a scheme to increase dependence on government?

Having watched as every Progressive creed and thought experiment has crashed into flames when tested in the rarified oxygen of reality, the chimera of race is all their True Believers have left to fall back on..

If you believe in government programs you believe in killing veterans. You believe in invasions of privacy. And you believe in force, because government is force.

Healthcare insurance companies will not go bankrupt under ObamaCare -- to the contrary, they will continue to reap record profits.

The primary task of UAF isn't to fight against racism and fascism: it's to fight against the capitalism and parliamentary democracy which causes racism and fascism.

Since I have relocated to the United Kingdom (via my current employer), I have had an opportunity to witness the effects of Socialized Healthcare.

Clearly, in Barack Obama’s “sacred obligation” economy, when it comes to exchanging prisoners, the value of Bowe Bergdahl outweighs the value of two men falsely imprisoned.

What may well be the most draconian and flagrantly unconstitutional bill in the state’s, and maybe even the nation’s, history.

The most potent weapon against Islamism is available to everyone.

Our outlaw president has taken it upon himself to ignore the law and oversee a prisoner trade so one-sided as to once again demonstrate to the world that in the Obama White House, ineptitude is the acceptable standard of performance.

Both Republicans and Democrats use us as their political footballs.  In other words, they need the VA to abuse us so they can look into the cameras and show their serious concern about the vets. 

Alas, 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,... More

Occupy Wall Street ruffians gripe about the top 1 percent. But the bottom 90 percent of the top 1 percent might have a beef with the top 10 percent of the top 1 percent.

New attempts to square the affirmative action circle in education cheat students, parents, and society as a whole.

If one sets out to destroy the core pillars of a society, to incrementally break down the values of a country, and to dishearten its inhabitants, then Barack Hussein Obama has been a sterling success.

Amid a higher education financial crisis, California taxpayers fund terrorist junkets for radical academics.  

The recent European elections gave the establishment parties, right and left, a spanking such as hasn’t been administered for a hundred years. And both ends of the political spectrum are scrambling to downplay it.

Ezekiel Emanuel, bro of Rahm and Ari, tells it like it… isn’t

Information revealed last week indicates that it has.