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September 30, 2010
GOP House Contenders Flying under the Radar
Richard Baehr
November 2 could see some big unpleasant surprises for incumbent Democrats in the House of Representatives. More

September 30, 2010
Ready to Govern
J.R. Dunn
We've been hearing quite a bit lately about candidates being "not ready to govern." Here's what that really means. More

September 30, 2010
Nightmare on Green Street
Mike Razar
The left has ignored an important barrier to their environmental utopia. Americans don't like economic suffering, and they vote accordingly. More

September 30, 2010
Confidence in Obama Lower Even than in Nixon
Bruce Walker
Even during Watergate, the Energy Crisis of 1973, and the recession of the same period, Americans had more confidence in Richard Nixon to handle domestic affairs. More

September 30, 2010
CNN, Democrats, and November 2nd
John Fricke
Failure to act boldly might well doom CNN to be hammered here at home by FNC for the next decade. The Democrats face an even worse situation. More

September 30, 2010
President to Parents: "Do As I Say..."
Ken Blackwell
Parents of the 216 schools in Washington, D.C. who have seen Mr. Obama's congressional cohorts gut the Opportunity Scholarship program must have found cold comfort from the president's soothing words on NBC. More

September 30, 2010
Ireland's Doleful Lesson for The U.S.
Steve McCann
Greece's financial woes have gotten the publicity, but Ireland's looming debt crisis has more to teach us. More

September 30, 2010
Trying Terrorists
Elise Cooper
Recently, the Obama Administration has put all terrorist detainee trials on hold. Are they choosing to follow the Bush Administration and hold the Guantanamo detainees as enemy combatants? More

September 29, 2010
Why There's No There There for Obama and Pelosi
Robin of Berkeley
As long as they talk the talk, they don't have to walk the walk. More

September 29, 2010
Obama: Not Moses, Merely Elmer Gantry
Monty Pelerin
Obama seems to still believe he is Moses, and therein lies the danger. More

September 29, 2010
McMahon and O'Donnell Madden Media Mudslingers
Stuart Schwartz
It's enough to make grown journalists cry. More

September 29, 2010
Quantitative Short Squeezing
Victor Del Prete
Is this what we have become? The government is a wild card in the stock market? More

September 29, 2010
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Record Is Not So 'Hot'
Fred J. Eckert
Who would ever have thought that New York might be the state that tips the U.S. Senate into Republican control? Start thinking it. More

September 29, 2010
The Pigford Pig-Out and the Election
Rosslyn Smith
Is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s settlement of the Pigford class action suit about to become a 2010 election issue? More

September 29, 2010
The Sword Hanging over Washington, D.C.
Jack Curtis
Damocles, discovering too late the threatening sword hanging above his borrowed throne, prefigures Obama, presiding under the suspended impact of unrelenting unemployment. More

September 28, 2010
Will The American Spirit Survive Obama?
Lloyd Marcus
Some say the American Dream is dead. Nobody wants to work hard to achieve a goal only to have the fruits of success "spread around" by Obama. More

September 28, 2010
Energy Independence: Are You Serious?
Jeffrey Folks
The sad fact is that nearly every major nation except the U.S. has in place a plan for energy independence. More

September 28, 2010
About that River in Egypt
Christopher Chantrill
Our liberal friends are wondering where it all went wrong. More

September 28, 2010
Money Is Still Money, Isn't It?
Jon N. Hall
The emphasis on America's national debt doesn't tell the entire story. More

September 28, 2010
The Media and the Mosqueteers: Take Our Kids -- Please
Stella Paul
People who live in the posh suburb of Wellesley, Massachusetts should take great pride in their local newspaper: not only does it report the news, but it can also channel children's souls. More

September 28, 2010
Why Territorial Solutions Won't Solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Moshe Dann
President Obama's latest effort to promote a "two-state" plan, his September 23 speech at the U.N., avoids the real problem. More

September 28, 2010
Palestinian Peacemakers?
Gabriel Latner
With Israeli-Palestinian peace talks set to resume, the Palestinian delegation is center-stage. But who are these men who hold the fate of Middle-Eastern peace in their hands? More

September 28, 2010
'Zaytuna College' and Its Continuing Media Circus
Stephen Schwartz
With its few students and skimpy faculty, as well as its lack of all the usual features of a university -- such as a campus -- why should "Islamic University" Zaytuna have been so favored by American media attention? More

September 27, 2010
The Government Tapeworm
Randall Hoven
A successful parasite must keep its host alive, finding the point where it can maximize its intake without killing off source of sustenance. So, too, with governments taxing their citizenry. More

September 27, 2010
Sneak Preview: The Hijacking of the 2010 Election
Jack Cashill
A combination of massive, Somali-driven voter fraud, stunning Election Board incompetence, and willful media blindness successfully stole an election in Kansas City. More

September 27, 2010
How to Lose an Election
Paul Shlichta
I always admired Thomas E. Dewey for publicly admitting that he had managed to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" in the 1948 election. Let us hope that we don't have to make the same confession this November. More

September 27, 2010
Take the Fight to the Democratic Party
Bruce Walker
The Tea Party rejects the establishment of both the big political parties. There is no reason why it cannot storm and occupy positions in the Democratic Party. More

September 27, 2010
Getting Hosed at the Pump
Jerry Shenk
In the new year, we may notice that more than our taxes have increased. More

September 27, 2010
Make Way for the Milk Monitors
Jeannie DeAngelis
Liberals are so confused that destroying a child's innocence is considered a virtuous accomplishment, but allowing M&M's in the cafeteria is an abomination. More

September 27, 2010
Countering Islamic Indoctrination in Public Schools
Andrew G. Bostom
The fight against Islamic indoctrination in the schools won a victory in Texas last week. But the fight to portray Islam realistically to our children faces a long road yet. More

September 26, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: Make Way for Hillary?
Clarice Feldman
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid shoved the hated ObamaCare legislation through the world's greatest deliberative body, and we are seeing the results. More

September 26, 2010
The Quietus of Reason
Larrey Anderson
We live in a linguistic Wonderland. If we don't use words properly, or (as in a famous Monty Python skit) at least get "them in the right order," our statements become meaningless. More

September 26, 2010
OIC and the Modern Caliphate
Bat Ye'or
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has a unique structure among nations and human societies, and goals that should frighten lovers of liberty. More

September 26, 2010
Going (More Than) Rogue: Sarah Palin and the Pink Elephant in the Room
Jan Whitt
Going Rogue is dedicated primarily to a different kind of underrepresented community. More

September 26, 2010
Strange Coziness with neo-Soviet Russia
Kim Zigfeld
Last week, Obama signed a pact with Putin outlining America's military relationship with Russia. Be afraid. More

September 26, 2010
Will We Ever Be at War with Islam?
Monte Kuligowski
An indistinct war on terror can never be won. More

September 26, 2010
The Complacency and Complicity of America's Jews
Lauri B. Regan
American Jews have become so integrated into American society that they care little for the survival of their Jewish homeland. More

September 26, 2010
The Buffett Mystery
Peter Raymond
A supporter of Obama's economic plan and a Keynesian disciple, Warren Buffett seems unable to decide if we are still in a recession. More

September 26, 2010
Are We in the Ninth Year of a Ten-Year Hudna?
Marylou Barry
A 'hudna' is a temporary peace entered into by an Islamic force when it is weaker than its enemy. Its purpose is to buy the Islamic side time to rearm and regroup. More

September 26, 2010
Discovering the Networks of the Christian Left
Robert Huff
Direct connections often exist between self-described peaceful activist groups and those that condone, support, or participate in various forms of terrorist violence. More

September 26, 2010
Anne Rice Loses Her Religion
Miguel A. Guanipa
In a Tweeter feed read around the world of pubescent vampire novel bookworms, author Anne Rice -- who claims to have become a Christian a few years ago -- resolved once and for all to forswear the faith. More

September 26, 2010
The Arabs Are Still Stuck on Rejection
Ted Belman
Netanyahu has made recognition of Israel's Jewish character a central demand, suggesting that the Palestinians' failure to do so means they have not come to terms with Israel's existence. More

September 25, 2010
Our Boy-President
Pedro Primavera
Sigmund Freud might be proud to see what Obama has done to America. More

September 25, 2010
Off with O'Donnell's Head: Left Targets Conservative Women
Lloyd Marcus
The Left, so-called champions of women's causes, have launched yet another campaign to destroy another conservative woman. More

September 25, 2010
NOAA's Law Enforcement Behaving Badly
Mike Johnson
The people we count on to protect our industry, preserve our environment, and manage our fisheries cannot even manage themselves. More

September 25, 2010
The Destructive Fair Trade Movement
Adam Shaw
The fashionable and anti-capitalist "Fair Trade" movement is well intentioned, but by misdiagnosing the problem, it only hurts those whom it seeks to protect. More

September 25, 2010
Power and Hypocrisy
Joel F. Wade
How to defeat the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality of so many of our government officials. More

September 25, 2010
Tom Friedman's Totalitarian Temptation
Peter Wilson
The Times scribe suffers from a bad case of authoritarianism envy. More

September 25, 2010
Turkey's Future
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Turkey's approval of a constitutional referendum on 12 September raises serious questions about the viability of a secular state. More

September 25, 2010
A Nation in the Grip of Faulty Economics
John McLaughlin
Liberals cling to Keynsianism despite the evidence. More

September 24, 2010
The Organizational Secret of the Tea Parties
J.R. Dunn
American politics has never seen anything quite like the Tea Parties, though few appreciate the revolutionary organizational principle powering the movement. More

September 24, 2010
The Pincer Movement against Christine O'Donnell
Lee Cary
Delaware GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is under attack from two directions by otherwise competing interests that, against her, share a common goal -- to damage the Tea Party movement. More

September 24, 2010
How to Win the Trade War with the Democrats
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
There are two trade wars going on at the moment. One is between the mercantilist countries and the United States; the other is between the Democrats and the Republicans. More

September 24, 2010
The New Third Party?
Greg Holloway
For much of the last two years, those of us in the Tea Party have been denying the presumption that we are planning to form a new third party. More

September 24, 2010
Whatever Happened to the Counterculture?
Carol Peracchio
What a long, strange trip it's been. More

September 24, 2010
It's the Federalism, Stupid
Carl Paulus
Worriers about the Big Tent and social issues in the GOP should relax. The answer is federalism. More

September 24, 2010
Sorry, But We Deserve Our Schools
Jack Curtis
Education is a low priority because teaching folks to think produces independent individuals. More

September 24, 2010
'DREAM Act' Threat Remains
Elise Cooper
Harry Reid's sneak attack, attaching the "DREAM Act" to a Defense Authorization Bill, may have failed, but expect it to be reintroduced. More

September 23, 2010
Jimmy Carter vs. Ted Kennedy: Forget Health Care -- What about the Kremlin?
Paul Kengor
How the "Lion of the Senate" sought to undercut Carter's appeasement policy with even greater appeasement of the Soviets. More

September 23, 2010
November's Coming: Give 'Em Fritz
Ken Blackwell
Fritz Mondale has weighed in. Jimmy Carter's vice president surely has not helped President Obama. More

September 23, 2010
Is the Left Rejecting Its Pagan Base?
Jan LaRue
Once again, the Left's tolerance and diversity mantra rings hollow, pillorying Christine O'Donnell as a "witch." More

September 23, 2010
Shouting 'Fire' in a Crowded Globe
John T. Bennett
If Islam were a religion of peace, then a Supreme Court justice would not have compared burning a Koran to shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. More

September 23, 2010
Are Conservatives Flubbing Their Lines?
J.R. Dunn
Conservatives often have a tendency to misread cues drawn from popular culture. More

September 23, 2010
ObamaCare: Will Someone Please Kill It Before It Kills Us?
Deane Waldman
Will a Republican-controlled Congress repeal HR 3590 before it destroys U.S. health care and depresses the U.S. economy even further? More

September 23, 2010
Liberals Going Blind?
C. Edmund Wright
Liberal elites are so blind to what really matters to us that they think they can derail the fervor to return to a constitutional republic with crude ridicule. More

September 23, 2010
Power or Principle?
Christopher Chantrill
Do we want just political power and 51 seats in the U.S. Senate? Or do we want to build a movement? More

September 22, 2010
Typhoid Barry
Robin of Berkeley
Unlike Mary, Obama is a carrier not of typhoid, but of something much worse -- the sickness of hatred. More

September 22, 2010
The Obama Agenda and the New Global Elite
L.E. Ikenga
By wearing a familiar mask of convention, Barack Obama will continue to dupe the majority of Americans into believing that he is -- at worst -- a run-of-the-mill, far-left liberal. More

September 22, 2010
Obama the Supply-Sider?
Andrew Foy, MD
President Obama is showing signs that he, along with most of the rest of the country, is losing faith in liberal economic theory. More

September 22, 2010
The Federal Takeover of Education
Bill Costello
As the current administration pushes for national education standards, federal control over education is about to expand considerably at the expense of state and local control. More

September 22, 2010
It's about Greed, All Right -- Government Greed
Michael Zebulon
Why does the Left love jobs -- but hate employers? More

September 22, 2010
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Proceed with Caution
Peter Wilson
Average citizens cannot be trusted with economic decisions that require balancing immediate costs and long-term benefits, according to environmentalists. More

September 22, 2010
Obama and Netanyahu Run Out the Atomic Clock
Dan Friedman
While Obama fiddles... More

September 21, 2010
Obama's Empathy Deficit
Ed Lasky
Envy, not empathy, drives Barack Obama. More

September 21, 2010
Time for the GOP to Unite
Richard Baehr
The primary season is over, and it is time to move on and throw out the bums who are left -- and that means the party in power, the Democrats. More

September 21, 2010
How Bad Is Lisa Murkowski?
Bruce Walker
Alaskan voters knew what they were doing when they rejected this incumbent senator. More

September 21, 2010
The Recession Ends, Sort Of
Randall Hoven
If you think it is good news, take a look at this. More

September 21, 2010
Job Losses and Obama
C. Edmund Wright
How many lost jobs is Obama really responsible for? More

September 21, 2010
Help for the Tea Party Unwashed Masses
Stuart Schwartz
The elites have spoken: You're dumb. And not just ordinary dumb -- you're Tea Party dumb. But relax: help is on the way. More

September 21, 2010
A Depression May Be Our Best Hope
Monty Pelerin
Government has become Leviathan, and Leviathan has misbehaved and failed miserably. Not since the Civil War has the political future been so tenuous. More

September 21, 2010
Michelle Obama's Futile Fat Food Fatwa
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Food independence is just too widespread and embedded in the American psyche to succumb to food tyranny. More

September 20, 2010
The Counter-Revolution Has Begun
J.R. Dunn
The Tea Parties are a political phenomenon the like of which we have not seen in our lifetimes, one that occurs once every century or so. It is exhilarating to witness. More

September 20, 2010
The Curious Logic of Our Governing Elites
Randall Hoven
As George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." More

September 20, 2010
The Mike Pence I Know
Ed Lasky
Indiana Congressman Mike Pence topped the presidential straw poll at the Values Voters Summit in Washington. Don't really know him? Ed Lasky does, and you should, too. More

September 20, 2010
O'Donnell vs. Coons: Analyzing Extremism
Selwyn Duke
So who's the wacky extremist running for the Senate in Delaware? More

September 20, 2010
The Death of Medical Privacy
Arie Friedman, MD
Thanks to ObamaCare, medical privacy will soon become a historical memory. More

September 20, 2010
For Whom Bell, California Tolls
Claude Sandroff
It tolls, of course, for public employees and for Democrats, the party almost exclusively linked to big labor, big government, and big labor in big government. More

September 20, 2010
Motivating Students, or Why Big Bird Must Die
Robert Weissberg
Regardless of ideological pedigree, today's educational reforms all share a common theme: students themselves are not responsible for their dreadful academic performance. More

September 20, 2010
A Political Prisoner in Illinois?
Lee Cary
A voice from inside Chicago's Cook County Jail claims that the Save A Life Foundation (SALF) story implicates both Democrat and Republican pols in Illinois. More

September 19, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: I Told You So
Clarice Feldman
Democrats are watching the guillotines being rolled up to the polling places... More

September 19, 2010
The Biggest Target is Liberalism
J.R. Dunn
The 2010 election is not simply a campaign against Obama. It needs to be a campaign against liberalism as a whole. More

September 19, 2010
Pyrrhic Victory? Right Diagnosis, Wrong Patient
Randall Hoven
Was Christine O'Donnell's primary victory Pyrrhic? Compared to what? More

September 19, 2010
Seize the Opportunity
Jonathan D. Strong
If the debate continues to be "I'm more conservative than you are" in every primary, the GOP will be handing the Democrats a victory. More

September 19, 2010
It's a Long Way Back to the Constitution
Monte Kuligowski
Back when Candidate Obama announced that he was only five days away from "fundamentally transforming the United States," most people didn't know what that meant any more than they knew who Obama was. More

September 19, 2010
When Jewish Boys Bow to Allah
Stella Paul
Hear, O Rabbis of the Lunatic Left: the jig is up. More

September 19, 2010
The Muslim Next Door
Carol Peracchio
Fifteen months ago, a moving van pulled in next door. More

September 19, 2010
Barack Obama: The Man Who Would be God?
Selwyn Duke
"I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it." More

September 19, 2010
Climatism: Redoubling Misguided Efforts
Steve Goreham
Undaunted by Climategate disclosures and the failure to pursue climate legislation in the Senate, the climate movement is stepping up the attack. More

September 19, 2010
The Disappearing Middle Class
Jeremy Meister
There is a reason the middle class is disappearing in modern America. More

September 19, 2010
Solving the Unemployment Crisis
Jim Prevor
Solutions to the unemployment crisis must begin with removing the perverse obstacles to employment that have been erected. More

September 19, 2010
The Selfishness of the Intentionally Childless
Tom Trinko
While liberals are constantly talking about government "investments" they neglect and even denigrate the single biggest investment of the American people: our children. More

September 19, 2010
Us and Them: The Liberal Concept of Belonging
Jeremy Egerer
Just don't ask them to accept conservatives. More

September 18, 2010
Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party Era
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Christine O'Donnell is a game-changer in the first regularly scheduled federal elections of the Tea Party era in more ways than one. More

September 18, 2010
The Krauthammer-Rove Axis of Disdain
Lee Cary
Now, sadly, Charles Krauthammer has joined Rove in essentially calling the Republican voters of Delaware stupid. More

September 18, 2010
Take Back America: What Does It Mean?
Lloyd Marcus
"Take Back America" is the battle cry of the Tea Party Movement. More

September 18, 2010
The World's Greenest Milk Cow: Family Farmed and not Organic
Chad Dechow
We have been misled on two fronts when it comes to the dairy products we consume. More

September 18, 2010
This Is Your Brain in a Crock-Pot
Chuck Rogér
Liberals are conceptually disabled critters who struggle to link cause to effect and place exclusive value on perception over reality. More

September 18, 2010
Back to the Future
Robert T. Smith
Thank God that B. Hussein Obama was elected to shake us from our complacency and apathy! More

September 18, 2010
The Wage Gap Myth
Anthony Kang
Sometimes you just have to feel sorry for President Obama. Having recently appointed Austan Goolsbee to his economic team, feminists are outraged that Obama chose a man to replace Christina Romer. More

September 18, 2010
'We Will Get Fooled Again (by Castro),' Chants the MSM
Humberto Fontova
You'd really, really think half a century of Castro pronouncements might make the MSM a tad skeptical about them. More

September 18, 2010
Rules for Republicans
Paul Jacobson
It might be helpful to take a cue from the most notorious radical of all -- Saul Alinsky. More

September 18, 2010
The Problem of Honor Killings
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
The number of victims of honor killings may be four times higher than the U.N.'s "latest world figure of around 5000 deaths a year." More

September 18, 2010
Pursuit of Happiness!
Frank Ryan
There is no greater feeling of reward than working diligently and seeing the results of our efforts and the efforts of those who helped us in our journey. Success instills a desire to work even harder. More

September 17, 2010
Obama, Dhimmi President
Carol A. Taber
Obama speaks like a dhimmi, acts like a dhimmi, and spends like a dhimmi. More

September 17, 2010
Conservative America Ready to Take Control
Bruce Walker
The day after Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party won the Republican nomination for Joe Biden's old Senate seat, Battleground released its September 2010 poll. The timing is perfect. More

September 17, 2010
Do the (Thirty-Year) Math: The Consultants Are Wrong
C. Edmund Wright
History is clear -- and so is the math. Conservatism works, every time it's tried. More

September 17, 2010
Five Saturdays
Jed Skillman
The difference between winning big on November 2 and winning really big could be decided by five Saturdays in October. More

September 17, 2010
Death for Libricide, Sweets for Genocide
Janet Levy
The truth is that Islam does not value human life. More

September 17, 2010
Medicare and ObamaCare
Marcia Sielaff
"The most damning fiscal indictment to date of the Affordable Care Act." More

September 17, 2010
The U.S. Constitution: An Agreement by States
Mark Roth
On Constitution Day, we should remember what the Constitution is and why it was created by the states. More

September 16, 2010
W.H. Science Czar: 'Global Warming' Is 'Dangerous Misnomer'
James Lewis
Dangerous for whom? More

September 16, 2010
The Architect Has No Clothes
C. Edmund Wright
Frightening as the image might be to ponder, "the architect" Karl Rove was stripped bare for all to see on Fox News' Hannity show Tuesday night. More

September 16, 2010
Crawling Out from under the Rauf
Pamela Geller
It is plain as day that this hustler, the renowned "moderate" Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Park 51 Ground Zero mega-mosque initiative, is a lowlife. More

September 16, 2010
Can Democrats Save Their Party?
George Scaggs
Democrat voters who are not down with the whole radical Socialist thing need to take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves if their party of choice still truly represents them. More

September 16, 2010
Identifying Palestinian Anti-Semitism Is Itself Racist?
Richard L. Cravatts
The assertion that academic freedom and free speech are cardinal principles in Palestinian culture is a novel, if not delusional, way of assessing the situation. More

September 16, 2010
Keen Graphs of the Obvious
Randall Hoven
Today, we have had 365 consecutive Graphs of the Day published in American Thinker. Here is what we have learned. More

September 16, 2010
The Shariah Threat to America
David Yerushalmi
An exercise in competitive analysis reveals the seriousness of the threat we face. More

September 16, 2010
New Hampshire's 'French-looking' Winner
Robert Morrison
There's only one ethnic group many conservatives feel free to insult. More

September 15, 2010
Delaware Crosses the Washington
C. Edmund Wright
Tiny Delaware's voters ignored their party apparatus, actually held a true Republican primary, and chose the person who most closely represents what the Republican base voter believes in. More

September 15, 2010
The Gospel of Obama
Robin of Berkeley
When a culture banishes God as the ultimate arbiter, a guilt-ridden populace is the inevitable outcome. More

September 15, 2010
Islam and the American Public
J.R. Dunn
A common premise of the American elites is that Americans are filled with hair-trigger anti-Muslim feelings that can be controlled only by wise and constant intervention from their betters. More

September 15, 2010
What D'Souza Doesn't Get Quite Right
Jack Cashill
Yes, Obama does seem to espouse a certain inchoate anticolonialism, but the "dreams" do not come so much from his father as from his mother, and they have been given voice by Obama's muse, terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers. More

September 15, 2010
Obama, the Academic Zombie
John Kelly
It is the groupthink of academia to which Obama is fully assimilated and loyally patriotic, not America. More

September 15, 2010
Genuine Institutionalized Racism
Malcolm Hunter
The mother lode of racism appears to be in the leadership circles of the Democratic Party. More

September 15, 2010
What's the Matter with Islam?
Matt Patterson
The media and political elites are upset at the wrong aspect of the Terry Jones Koran-burning affair. More

September 15, 2010
Warmist Slander of Scientific Skeptics
Russell Cook
Warmist true believers bitterly cling their mantra that only the corrupting influence of big oil and big coal could possibly explain skepticism toward the theory they embrace as gospel truth. More

September 14, 2010
Media's Self-Defeating Attacks on Palin
J.R. Dunn
What we're seeing is the latest example of the left's habit of creating its own nightmares. More

September 14, 2010
Pax Americana (1949-2010)
James Lewis
It is the fools of history, and not just the knaves, who bring catastrophe in their wake. Obama sure looks like another one of them. More

September 14, 2010
Retirement Fund Trillions Lure Government Grabbers
Peter Raymond
Is the government making plans to confiscate your retirement money? The Obama administration is certainly exploring the idea. More

September 14, 2010
Reaping the Whirlwind
Lance Fairchok
There is a sense of foreboding rising in this country. More

September 14, 2010
November Is Just the Beginning
Christopher Chantrill
Democrats must be looking at each other in utter perplexity. This was supposed to be 1933 and FDR all over again. More

September 14, 2010
General Petraeus' Mistake
Michael Zebulon
An imprudent remark on burning the Qu'ran. More

September 14, 2010
Citizen, Unleashed
Judy Gruen
On a recent sunny morning, when I should have been at my desk doing income-producing work, I was aging prematurely in the Superior Court House in Hollywood. More

September 13, 2010
Obama Flunks the Leadership Test
Michael Fraley
The U.S. Marine Corps' 14 Leadership Traits serve as a standard against which to compare President Obama's actions in his nineteen months in office. More

September 13, 2010
We Are the Ones Who'll Show You the Door
Lee Cary
Obama's presidency and our national affairs are in a mess of historic proportions. And his once-celebrated rhetorical flourishes have turned strangely bland and flat, having gone from soar to bore in two years. More

September 13, 2010
Beck: The Pudgy Palin Strikes Back
Stuart Schwartz
Who is this Glenn Beck, this FOX News creation, this pudgy male Sarah Palin who talks about patriotism as if he believes Americans are exceptional, about God as if atheism were not a fact? More

September 13, 2010
ObamaCare's Fatal Flaw?
Louis Case
Oops! Turns out that missing boilerplate could end ObamaCare. More

September 13, 2010
Economic Lunacy
Larrey Anderson
The horror, the horror. More

September 13, 2010
Tax Me More: A Modest Proposal
Bruce Walker
It's time for wealthy liberals to lead by example in making sure that the rich pay their "fair share." More

September 13, 2010
Sharia Degradation of Women
Eileen F. Toplansky
The unremitting degradation of women in most of the Mideast, Africa, and other parts of Asia where Islamic law plays a huge role is horrifying and appalling. More

September 13, 2010
Wasting Clean, Cheap Power
Nancy J. Thorner
Thanks to the Alice in Wonderland world of "green" energy policy, Illinois electricity customers are going to be paying more, while a reliable and inexpensive source of clean power will be destroyed. More

September 12, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: Democratic Party Death Panels
Clarice Feldman
The past week began (for me) on a bright note and only got better. The New York Times announced that the Democrats have instituted internal death panels. More

September 12, 2010
The Flight to Serfdom
Randall Hoven
Flight USA is on its way to the Land of the Lost. Lost decades. Lost growth. Lost freedom. Why? Because we already lost our minds. More

September 12, 2010
Evil Democrat Paradigms
Lloyd Marcus
As a black man, I wish to share a few of my life experiences which crush these paradigms. More

September 12, 2010
Silencing the Opposition
John Griffing
The Obama administration has been itching for a way to control the flow of information. More

September 12, 2010
Yes, in Fact, We Are Radical
Joel F. Wade
The truth is, we are indeed radical, because America's founding principles represent the most radical and revolutionary change in human governance in millennia. More

September 12, 2010
Are We Clear Yet?
John Fricke
Without clarity, you are stuck with platitudes and generalizations and, worse, the ability of any elected official to use broad, meaningless nothings to grab power. More

September 12, 2010
Obama's Wascally Wabbit Habit
James Lewis
No matter what happened, Elmer Fudd kept going after Bugs Bunny with his shotgun blazing away. Obama keeps throwing our money down the stimulus rabbit hole. More

September 12, 2010
The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity
Ed Lasky
The wellspring of so much of what is good and noble in the Western world gets little credit and much derision. The historical roots of this elitist attitude explained. More

September 12, 2010
The Judeo-Christian Right
Bruce Walker
The Christian Right is really the Judeo-Christian Right. More

September 12, 2010
Life under Communism
Charlotte Cushman
I am worried because too many people, especially our youth, don't even have a clue as to what living under a totalitarian regime is like. More

September 11, 2010
9/11 Families on the Ground Zero Mosque
Elise Cooper
It's been nine years since that horrific day. More

September 11, 2010
Comparing Christianity and Islam
David Deming
Consider how Jesus and Mohammed handled what was essentially the same problem: a woman who had committed adultery. More

September 11, 2010
What the NY Jets Can Do That the FDNY Cannot
Jack Cashill
In every single American city today, "diversity" trumps safety. More

September 11, 2010
If You Can Blackmail Yale, Why Not Blackmail New York City?
Joel J. Sprayregen
Imam Rauf chose his words carefully, recalling how threats of Muslim violence bullied Yale University into submission. More

September 11, 2010
The Shifting Paradigm of Islam
G. Murphy Donovan
The conventional wisdom about Islam, or more precisely its status as a morally equivalent religious culture, is starting to shift. More

September 11, 2010
Election-Eve Stimulus
Jeffrey Folks
President Obama's recent proposals for $50 billion in new infrastructure spending and $100 billion in business investment write-offs are little more than election-eve theatrics. More

September 11, 2010
A Tale of Two Imams
William Sullivan
The president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Imam Muhammad Musri, has some lessons for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative. More

September 11, 2010
Two Years That Changed the World
Randall Hoven
The fiscal years 2007 and 2009 reveal how federal finances have changed. More

September 11, 2010
Predatory Governance
Vasko Kohlmayer
"A gang of thieves writ large." More

September 11, 2010
The 9/11 Gazwa and the Cordoba Mosque
Ashraf Ramelah
"Gazwa" is an Arab term used to indicate a successful attack upon the enemy or an invasion of enemy territory. More

September 11, 2010
The successful Clinton economy was based on tax cuts. No, really...
Jerry Shenk
Often overlooked in the debate over tax policy is the success of the Clinton-era tax reductions -- reductions that, though fairly recent, are unknown to most Americans. More

September 10, 2010
The Grudge: Barry Soetoro's Indonesian Expatriate Hell
Thomas Lifson
Where did Barack Obama acquire the self-evident disdain he has for major corporations, especially oil companies, and for the striving classes who have made America prosperous and strong? More

September 10, 2010
Hillary Clinton's Campaign for '12 Is Underway
Lee Cary
The signs are clear; the pieces are in place. Hillary is getting ready to make her move. More

September 10, 2010
The 'Rich' Have Another Name: 'Employers'
J.B. Williams
Attacking "the rich" is a direct assault on the people who invest and employ. Hate the rich if you must, but don't force them into poverty or off-shore solutions. More

September 10, 2010
Burning Qurans and Bibles
Wendy Wright
The Obama administration is roundly denouncing plans to burn copies of the Quran. So why the silence when Bibles were burned? More

September 10, 2010
The Student Loan Takeover
Frank Burke
The unilateral seizure of the student loan program by the Obama administration carries extremely serious implications for the future of higher education in America. More

September 10, 2010
What the Burning Quran Issue Says about Us
C. Edmund Wright
Is it just me, or does Islam's repeated threats of violence and mayhem at every provocation -- real or imagined -- strike anybody else as the actions of a spoiled child's tantrums? More

September 10, 2010
When More Math Is Less
Peter Landesman
I expect at least three quarters of the remedial mathematics students that I will teach this fall to flunk. More

September 9, 2010
Time for an Islamaphobia Beer Summit
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The big question of our era is: Can Islam become a religion of peace? More

September 9, 2010
Dim-Bulb Dems Doom Edison's Baby
Ed Lasky
Thomas Edison's most famous legacy is coming to an end, the victim of green special interest politics. More

September 9, 2010
The Good Old Days
Randall Hoven
The good old days were those when fiscal year budgets were written and passed by a majority-Republican House and Senate and signed by Republican President George W. Bush. More

September 9, 2010
Is the United States Master of Its Destiny?
Steve McCann
The survival of a great nation is contingent on its ability to remain master of its destiny. For the United States, that capability is now in question. More

September 9, 2010
The Political Violence of the Bible and the Koran
Bill Warner
It is time for so-called intellectuals to get down to the basics of judging Islam by its actual doctrine, not making lame analogies. More

September 9, 2010
My Silent Business Partner
D.L. Hammack
Let's call him Sam. More

September 9, 2010
Liberal Economics -- Insular, Misguided, and Obsolete
Frank Burke
A prominent Democrat has unwittingly provided an in-depth view of all that is misguided, incorrect, and vacuous regarding the ultra-liberal perspective on the economy, business, and the global market. More

September 8, 2010
Conservatism's Extreme Makeover
J.R. Dunn
It will come as news to no one that conservatism has long had a PR problem. The political question of 2010 is this: do America's voters finally "get" conservatism? More

September 8, 2010
A Tale of Two Narcissists
Robin of Berkeley
Let me introduce you to two narcissists I know and (don't) love. More

September 8, 2010
The War on Academic Achievement
Robert Weissberg
Judged by all the billions of dollars now flowing into "education reform," it appears that Washington, and especially the Obama administration, is obsessed with improving academic achievement. That's a cruel joke. More

September 8, 2010
Barack's Cunning Plan?
Christopher Chantrill
It's a pretty dismal picture. You could call it the crime of the century. More

September 8, 2010
'Web of Lies' -- A JournoLiar Browser App?
James Lewis
If any of you techies out there want to get rich quick and Save the Republic to boot, here's your chance. This idea is all yours, free. All you have to do is write a tiny program. More

September 8, 2010
Liberal Preachiness Takes a Name: Bloomberg Syndrome
Chuck Rogér
Liberals have staged a gaudy performance over the Ground Zero mosque, but the elitist brand of naïveté of Mayor Michael Bloomberg defines the genre of liberal preachiness. More

September 8, 2010
We Don't Like Either of You
Jim Yardley
The balance of power in Washington is an endless ebb and flow of disgust for both parties, since each seems to react to the delusion that accompanies election to office. More

September 7, 2010
Realism and Revival?
Larrey Anderson
Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in our capital city was an attempt to address both the material and spiritual issues on what is essentially a political level. Can that really work? More

September 7, 2010
The Most Profound Victims of the Obama Hoax
Lee Cary
Statistically, the most zealous believers in hope and change are the most profound victims of the Obama Hoax -- poor, young, unemployed blacks. More

September 7, 2010
Gov. Paterson, do you miss Rush yet?
Jack Kemp
Governor David Patterson famously taunted Rush Limbaugh as Rush sold his New York City apartment and left the state. It is time for second thoughts. More

September 7, 2010
Obama's War on Arizona
Pamela Geller
America is under attack from within at the highest levels of power. More

September 7, 2010
The Answer Is 'No'
John Fricke
There are highly paid minds on the political left who, having to believe in something for the coming election, consider it smart to paint the GOP as "the party of no." Boy, are they wrong! More

September 7, 2010
The Most Disturbing Facet of Yet Another Dreary 'Peace' Conference
Michael Zebulon
Ethnic cleansing? Not in our name! More

September 7, 2010
A Candid Talk with Allen West
James Simpson
The Colonel has a way with words. More

September 6, 2010
Obama's Silver Lining?
Jeffrey Folks
The August employment figures are dismal. Not to worry -- President Obama has detected a "silver lining." More

September 6, 2010
The Left Keeps Losing Everywhere
Bruce Walker
Not only is the left looking at a big defeat in America in two months, but it has been getting slobber-knocked all over the modern industrialized world. More

September 6, 2010
The Schools Scandal
Bill Costello
American spending on public education, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled over the last three decades. What did taxpayers get for their money? Twice the money. Zero progress. More

September 6, 2010
Obama's Belabored Labor Day Speech
Peter Wilson
A tired collection of divisive class warfare attacks. More

September 6, 2010
Our Dying Constitution
David P. McGinley
Our Constitution is almost dead. It is being killed by judges who ignore the actual text of the document but find heretofore unknown devices in its "penumbras and emanations." More

September 6, 2010
The Perpetual Post Office
Jack Curtis
The Postal Service must be immortal; it's a government program that has outlived its usefulness. More

September 6, 2010
Obama Did Create 3 Million Jobs -- in China
Raymond Richman, Howard Richman, and Jesse Richman
President Obama should be saying, "My economic stimulus plan has preserved or created three million jobs -- in China." More

September 6, 2010
The Significance of the Israeli Settlements Freeze
Ted Belman
Why would anyone want to enter into negotiations for a settlement of anything, where he had to beg the other party to participate? More

September 5, 2010
Clarice's Pieces: The Summer of Recovery Ends, Epic Fail Fall Begins
Clarice Feldman
Summer began on such a hopeful note... More

September 5, 2010
What Kind of Academic Signs These Anti-Israel Petitions?
Fred Gottheil
Given a chance to sign a petition on the treatment of gays, lesbians, and women in the Middle East, how many of those condemning Israel were willing to sign on? More

September 5, 2010
Paris Video Shows the Future of Ground Zero
Stella Paul
Let's cut to the chase, shall we? The mysterious Mideast patrons of the Ground Zero Mosque expect to get a lot of bang for their petrobucks -- $100 million's worth, in fact. More

September 5, 2010
America's Odyssey with Islamic Terror: The Failure to Retaliate
Steven Simpson
The Islamic terror attacks of September 11, 2001 did not come as a bolt out of the blue. For close to thirty years, America's record of dealing with the hydra of Islamic terror was at best abysmal. More

September 5, 2010
Enlisted Marine's Candidacy Unique, Important
Kieran Michael Lalor
A major upset in Arizona's 8th Congressional District GOP primary has given Marine Corps sergeant Jesse Kelly, who led a squad of infantry Marines during the initial invasion of Iraq, a real shot at a seat in the House of Representatives. More

September 5, 2010
Dross in Yet Another Islamic 'Golden Age'
Andrew G. Bostom
The myth of a golden age of rational Islam plays a critical role in maintaining the somnolence of America's establishment in grasping the implacability of political jihad. More

September 5, 2010
Trials of the Diaspora
Eugene Veklerov
English antisemitism has had its ups and downs. It even existed for four centuries with no real-life Jews in England. More

September 4, 2010
Smartest President in History Botches Oval Office Rug Quote
Thomas Lifson
A perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency, encapsulating the shallowness of Barack Obama's intellect. More

September 4, 2010
Letting Leftists Limit Language
Bruce Walker
Socialists have the intellectual seriousness of the Flat Earth Society. We treat these enemies as if they believed in something. More

September 4, 2010
Liberals' Sticks and Stones Losing Potency
John Fricke
Obama can take credit. More

September 4, 2010
Obama Succeeds Most When He Does Least
Yossi Gestetner
Obama's biggest success to date has come by not doing anything. More

September 4, 2010
Surrendering to the Executive Branch
Fred N. Sauer
Obama Care will be the largest transfer of legislative power from the Congress to the Executive Branch regulators in our history. More

September 4, 2010
Stark Contrasts Last Saturday
Peter Heck
When the mainstream media dedicated themselves to providing equal coverage to Glenn Beck's and Al Sharpton's rallies last weekend, they did the left no favor. More

September 4, 2010
The Gray Area Between Black and White
Bob Weir
Meaningless phrases used repeatedly by those who have no plan for their implementation make me sick. More

September 4, 2010
Media Bigotry Showing
Aaron Gee
The media has some very deep-seated stereotypes that it just can't seem to excise from its coverage. More

September 3, 2010
Human Rights through the Looking Glass
Jack Cashill
I wish I were making this up, but our official 2010 UPR submission to the United Nation argues that discrimination against minorities in the housing market somehow caused the economic crisis. More

September 3, 2010
The Siren Song of Arab Rejectionism
Victor Sharpe
Another round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians began yesterday at the White House. More

September 3, 2010
GOP Quandary: Is It Better Off if the House Stays Blue?
Kyle Stone
With the prospect of a GOP takeover in the House, many Republicans are quietly asking, is this necessarily a good thing? More

September 3, 2010
Queering Education
Mary Grabar
Expelling Christians who do not adhere to the gay agenda. More

September 3, 2010
A Real Economic Stimulus
Jim Gammon & Admiral Ben Moreell
This is not rocket science. You don't need a Nobel Prize in economics to figure it out. More

September 3, 2010
The Legacy Will Not Be Betrayed
Steve McCann
The American people will rise to the challenge of overcoming what this administration, Congress, and the left-wing establishment have done to this country. More

September 2, 2010
Al Gore's Poison
Brian Sussman
Sadly, yesterday's gunman at the Discovery Channel was not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work. More

September 2, 2010
Obama's Evolving Image
J.R. Dunn
An image, as any PR pro can tell you, has a life of its own. This is as true of presidents as anyone else. More

September 2, 2010
Beck's 'Obsession' with Black Liberation Theology Thoroughly Justified
Kyle-Anne Shiver
LA Times columnist Tim Rutten has dug himself into a pit of theological quicksand with his harsh criticism of Glenn Beck. More

September 2, 2010
The Joe Miller Lesson Applied to the GOP Congressional Leadership
Lee Cary
On the cusp of what is trending toward a significant Republican victory in November, the current GOP congressional leadership has yet to make a compelling case that they're ready to lead a majority party. More

September 2, 2010
Black Civil Rights Mafia Betrays Black America
Lloyd Marcus
Black civil rights dinosaurs and their liberal white guilt-ridden sycophants campaign to "Keep Hate Alive." More

September 2, 2010
Hillary's Choice
Eileen F. Toplansky
Though never a fan, I used to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. More

September 2, 2010
Iraq: The Good War
Ben Voth
After seven years of war, it is important to remember the good accomplished by these efforts. More

September 2, 2010
Mubarak the Peacemaker?
Ashraf Ramelah
Today, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator, will arrive in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of participating in the Middle East Peace Summit. More

September 1, 2010
Remembering America's Iraq War 'Patriotic Opposition'
Paul Kengor
Last night, President Obama cited the "patriots who opposed" the war. Well, given the president's tribute, I thought I'd pause to offer a summary of the loyal opposition. More

September 1, 2010
What American President Would Do That?
Carol A. Taber
Other presidents have been wrong. Other presidents have been misguided. Other presidents have been weak and pusillanimous and pathetic. Only one truly disdains America. More

September 1, 2010
The Unstoppable Left?
Robin of Berkeley
There is an unstoppable force that drives a person if he willingly submits. More

September 1, 2010
Football Is the Model for Education Reform
Robert Weissberg
Consider an education-related endeavor that abhors mediocrity, deception, and lame excuses: football. More

September 1, 2010
O, Palestine!
Moshe Dann
The notion of a Palestinian people and Palestinian identity, although taken for granted today, has neither a long nor a distinguished history. More

September 1, 2010
The European Disunion
Randy Fardal
Pardon my schadenfreude, but I was pleased to read an article in Sunday's Washington Post that questions the long-term viability of the European Union More

September 1, 2010
C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' -- Home of the Anti-Jewish Lunatic Fringe
Eric Rozenman and Myron Kaplan
C-SPAN has given the lunatic fringe an establishment address. More