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December 31, 2012
Professor Calls for Death Penalty for Climate Change 'Deniers'
Timothy Birdnow
It is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; the Left, when thwarted in their quest for power, suggests the use of lethal force to compel those who disagree. More

December 31, 2012
Piers Morgan Takes Aim at the Bible
Selwyn Duke
Says the book is "inherently flawed" -- and needs to be amended. More

December 31, 2012
Our World Is Full of Cliffs
Bruce Walker
And it's not the fiscal one we should worry about. More

December 31, 2012
There is No Escape
Susan D. Harris
From Trek to Floyd to century-old popular novels, you just can't escape from the dilemmas of the 21st century. More

December 31, 2012
A Currency as Good as Gold
Jon N. Hall
Gold doesn't tarnish; it's immutable, permanent. In an ever-changing world where everything is fading, gold's permanence is attractive. But we wouldn't prize it if it were plentiful. America once based her currency on gold precisely because it is rare. More

December 31, 2012
The Dark Side of the Cliff
Scott Mayer
If no deal is struck and we go over this so-called "fiscal cliff" we'll wake up fully intact on 1/1/2013 but aware that paychecks will be smaller and life will get much tougher once the economy worsens. More

December 30, 2012
How Chicago and Obama Globalized Voter Fraud
Michael Bargo Jr.
Enabling foreign nationals to vote in Illinois allowed the Democrats to manipulate not just local and state elections, but the presidential election as well. More

December 30, 2012
The Allure and Danger of Scientism
Trevor Thomas
Scientism is not science. It is an ideology that is often confused with science. It is, rather, an abuse of the scientific method and scientific authority. More

December 30, 2012
Hobby Lobby and the Loss of America's Soul
Jeannie DeAngelis
As for religious liberty, liberals like Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, rather than uphold religious liberty, facilitate Barack Obama's effort to redefine the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. More

December 30, 2012
Benjamin Franklin and Judaism
Shai Afsai
Along with allhis other contributions, it comes as litrtle surprise to learn that Benjamin Franklin, journalist, entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, and Founder, played a significant role in the Jewish Enlightenment. More

December 30, 2012
Latin America, the Mideast, and the Pope
Mike Konrad
If the supposed "Vicar of Christ," cannot make some declarations against Islamic lies; and give some support to Israel, then Roman Catholicism deserves to lose Latin America to the Evangelicals. More

December 30, 2012
End of year: Amplifying the Anthem of One
Marion DS Dreyfus
Of the great new possible holiday ideas, has anyone yet proposed a Singles week, or month, for those who give wedding presents to everyone, and never get anything back until or unless he/she ever manages to find a mate? More

December 30, 2012
MidEast Christians: an Endangered Species
Noah Beck
With much of the Middle East in the hands of Islamists, the future of Middle Eastern Christians is a grim one. More

December 29, 2012
Sam Colt and the Law of Self-Preservation
Glenn Fairman
Of all laws that are deemed to have their origin in nature, the Law of Self-Preservation is indeed the most fundamental. The use of a firearm has irrevocably changed the dynamic relationship between both predator and victim. More

December 29, 2012
We Can't Wait Until 2016
Jim Yardley
Presidential candidate slobbering among the media notwithstanding, there is much work for conservatives to do between now and 2014. That's right -- it's time to concentrate on the midterms. More

December 29, 2012
'Carnage in Schedule Two'
Shoshana Bryen
Is Israel a "schedule one" country and Syria a "schedule two"? Looking at a prescient piece in The Guardian from 1982. More

December 29, 2012
Syria's Top Commander Switches His Loyalty to Join Rebels
Sudhanshu Tripathi
Joining a host of other defectors, most of whom cite the Assad government's atrocities against its own people as the reason for their flight. More

December 29, 2012
Fiscal Cliff: Yeah, It's Coming
Warren Beatty
So now the House of Representatives has adjourned for its Christmas recess until after the New Year. I guess that Boehner (and Obama) thought the Christmas adjournment was more important than the country. More

December 29, 2012
Debt and Future Generations
Michael Kelbaugh
Putting aside the issue of whether our foreign creditors will get antsy and interest rates will climb, if the entirety of our debt were held by fellow Americans, it would still reduce the net wealth of future generations. More

December 29, 2012
The Moscow Club and Armand Hammer
Elise Cooper
The best thrillers are the ones based on facts. Finder seemed to have a crystal ball, predicting how the hardliner regime would eventually resume power at a time when many people thought the "bad-guys" were defeated. More

December 28, 2012
Three in the Head
William L. Gensert
I carried a gun in New York City for more than a decade -- back when there were thousands of murders a year and the Bronx led the nation in killings. On at least 4 occasions, that gun saved my life, and in a couple of instances, the lives of people who were with me. More

December 28, 2012
Best Dog Whistles of 2012
G. Murphy Donovan
A dog whistle makes a sound or sends a command that only a canine can hear. A rhetorical dog whistle is a coded message for select listeners, usually the politically correct. More

December 28, 2012
The End of 'Reset': Russian Orphans Get the Shaft
Kim Zigfeld
This Christmas, Santa Claus delivered what is likely the biggest lump of foreign policy coal that any U.S. president has ever received in his stocking: Barack Obama's "reset" policy with Russia collapsed almost as spectacularly as did the USSR. More

December 28, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff Diversion
Jim O'Sullivan
The MSM's focus on the cliff gives Obama, their hero, economic cover, since the cliff story is the economic story and not the terrible economic results occurring weekly and monthly. More

December 28, 2012
Sensible Arms Policy
Brett Joshpe
As a conservative, I have been disappointed that so many within my ranks continue to advocate for a continuation of the status quo, rather than sensible alternatives. More

December 28, 2012
John Kerry at State: A Disaster for Israel
Moshe Phillips
Jews across America are raising a hue and cry over Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense -- but they are ignoring the malign influence John Kerry will have at State. More

December 28, 2012
The Sharia Threat to America
Fred Grandy
Unlike other forms of religious law, such as canon law and Jewish law, sharia is the only form of religious law extant that is also meant to apply to people of other faiths, i.e. non-Muslims. More

December 27, 2012
Murder by Numbers
Randall Hoven
Today's murder rate is essentially at a low point of the past century. The murder rate in 2011 was lower than it was in 1911. More

December 27, 2012
EEOC Protected Classes
Eileen F. Toplansky
It is a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" predicament for employers -- who themselves should be considered a "protected class" given the battering they receive from the federal government. More

December 27, 2012
Climate Science vs Politics: The Road Ahead
S. Fred Singer
The good news is that science evidence has made it quite clear that the human contribution to a possible global warming is minor; in fact it cannot even be identified in the data record. The bad news is that the media and politicians pay no attention whatsoever to the science More

December 27, 2012
Wayne LaPierre: Close but Not Quite
Paul Jacobson
The NRA president's solution to school massacres won't work, but for a reason that will make gun control advocates apoplectic -- namely, it doesn't go far enough. More

December 27, 2012
In Defense of John Boehner
Timothy C. Daughtry
It might be worth considering the possibility that Boehner has been crazy like the proverbial fox in his dealings with Obama. More

December 27, 2012
Does Debt Actually Hurt Future Generations?
Michael Kelbaugh
The short answer is yes. The "why" requires cutting through a lot of political smoke and mirrors. More

December 27, 2012
The GOP's Budget Problem
Greg Richards
For reasons that most of us in the American Thinker community and observers such as Thomas Sowell find inexplicable, the Republicans simply will not make the budget case in public. More

December 26, 2012
The Case Against Public Education
Daren Jonescu
If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail. It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all. More

December 26, 2012
Conservatives Must Not Seek All Low-Info Voters
Lloyd Marcus
There are some principles we will just never have in common with them...and shouldn't. More

December 26, 2012
The Truth about Costs in Health Care
Keith R. Jackson
Now that the Affordable Health Care Act is set to go into its actual, real-world administration, we are about to learn the true meaning of cost. More

December 26, 2012
Taking Away the Element of Surprise
J.L. North
Unarmed parent patrols can be the answer to stopping school shootings. By making a place, such as a school, much less of a soft target, potential attackers will have more factors to consider in carrying out their plans. More

December 26, 2012
You're in the Army Now ...or Should Be
Ebben Raves
The reason the Second Amendment was included in the founding documents was to ensure that the people could meet the threat of a standing army. Its writers knew from history that a standing army serves only the government, not the people. More

December 26, 2012
Keeping Sight of the Cliff
Anthony J.Ciani
The "fiscal cliff" is more like a mountainous landscape, with slopes, falls, rapids, and precipices. The United States has found itself lost in the mountains, surrounded by dangers, and it needs to navigate a path back to safety. More

December 26, 2012
The Cost of Living in a Free Society
Johnny Alamo
Perhaps we should recognize that we cannot ensure a perfect utopia void of all risk in a free society. We can, however, help mitigate a lot of the risks by protecting freedom. More

December 25, 2012
In Praise of the Carpenter's Son, a Teacher
Daren Jonescu
"Teacher." That word, in any language, has a kind of magic, as captured so perfectly by St. John. May we rediscover that magic in the coming year. More

December 25, 2012
My Stingray Christmas
Glenn Fairman
Heroes do not come in capes and cowls. Often they wear broken shoes and threadbare pants as they arise before dawn to return home at dusk; and they are as mundane to those who are ill-equipped to really see their heroics as birds upon a wire. More

December 25, 2012
Belgium's Compassionate Nihilism
J. Robert Smith
Belgium's progressive thinkers wish to extend euthanasia to minors and Alzheimer's sufferers, thereby tightening the noose - so to speak - in the thriving Industry of Death that's taken hold in Europe and North America. More

December 25, 2012
Hunting Bin Laden: Zero Dark Thirty
Marion DS Dreyfus
Is it worth a come-see? Assuredly. By the fanatic long lines even late at night, this is the pic to see. And probably 90% went out satisfied. But is it all that? More

December 25, 2012
Liberals: Scrooge or Santa?
Tom Trinko
Christmas is a time of giving -- a time when even those folks who aren't really well-off make an effort to help others. The question is, who in our society is really charitable? More

December 25, 2012
Growing Up American: Christmas 1941
Susan D. Harris
It's December 6th, 1941. War wages in Europe and America is struggling through a Depression, but there is still innocence and hope in American hearts. Life is going on as usual, and neighbors are helping neighbors. More

December 25, 2012
Saved By Christmas
Steve McCann
An updated version of an AT Classic More

December 25, 2012
Understanding What It Means to Be an American Hero
Elise Cooper
Two new books demonstrate what is wrong in Afghanistan...and what is right with America. More

December 24, 2012
Yes, gay is a choice. Get over it.
Robert Oscar Lopez
It's time for the "gay movement" to get back to reality and accept an unavoidable fact: nobody lacks the power to refrain from having gay sex. More

December 24, 2012
Confronting Christmas
Trevor Thomas
Christmas has always been rife with controversy -- perhaps because those in opposition refuse to grasp the meaning of the holiday. More

December 24, 2012
The Madness of Keynesian Economics
Jonathon Moseley
"Keynesian Economics" is the insane belief that the economy can be stimulated by government spending. It provides the excuse to depart from common sense that allows politicians to ignore the alarm bells. It is ludicrous. More

December 24, 2012
Racial Favoritism and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
John Bennett
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is now using student choral groups as racial props to garnish their stage with students who are more diverse than the members of the orchestra will ever be. This is cynical racial tokenism. More

December 24, 2012
GOP Strategy and the Fiscal Cliff
Michael Bargo Jr.
The GOP should give up on trying to negotiate with the President. He shows no interest in doing anything but portraying them as the party of the rich. The GOP should instead turn their attention on post-cliff strategy. More

December 24, 2012
Please Pass the Kool-aid
Deane Waldman
What "costs" more than all the doctors, the drugs, hospital admissions, and wheelchairs combined? Answer: the regulatory healthcare bureaucracy, mostly Federal government but the States as well and more so for those who set up healthcare exchanges. More

December 24, 2012
Call out the Militia
Mark Pixler
As the debate rages, budding "Adam Lanza copycats" simmer. People with sick minds feed on each other -- and on the media coverage their actions generate! The longer we wait to act, the more likely they will act. More

December 23, 2012
Two Christmas Gifts: Hope and Love
Clarice Feldman
The power of hope and love is stronger than all the tragedy we've been handed this Christmas season. More

December 23, 2012
Young, Old, Forever
Robert Oscar Lopez
With Christmas upon us, I want to get away from the "kids these days" cliché and defend today's young people. More

December 23, 2012
The Martyrdom of Avigdor Lieberman
Steven Plaut
The Left has always had a problem with Foreign Minister Lieberman, and it is not just political ideology. He started a political career from nothing and turned his party into the second strongest in Israel. More

December 23, 2012
Coping with Evil Unbound
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Perhaps evil is the dominant overwhelming force; the good a rare blossom, a fleeting petal fall. Is evil so powerful, so pervasive that even God struggles with its subjugation? More

December 23, 2012
Halting the Tide of Pseudo-Idealism
Damon Isherwood
What is the core source of the dysfunction in human nature resulting in children being psychologically hurt and needing to embrace this deluded state as adults? Is it genetic, is it environmental, or is it something else again? More

December 23, 2012
Self-Righteous Atheists Are Misguided Killjoys
Robert Small
It's that time of year again. 'T'is the season to be jolly -- or, if you're an atheist activist, to throw a wet blanket over the holidays. More

December 23, 2012
Recognizing the Wolf at the Door
Fay Voshell
Even a child can learn the great virtues do not exist unless Evil is acknowledged and confronted. Without the battle, where would be courage? Without suffering where would be compassion? More

December 23, 2012
Against Nothingness
Anne Lieberman
The depth of this Jewish heritage, handed down from generation to generation, holds the combined wisdom and teachings of all those Jews who came before us and on whose shoulders we are now blessed to stand. More

December 23, 2012
What does Newsweek Know About Jesus?
R.B. Parrish
We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. (2 Peter 1.16) More

December 22, 2012
Question John Kerry Long and Hard!
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Sen. John Kerry has a long and dubious record in foreign policy. Has he learned anything? We need to know More

December 22, 2012
Psychiatric Community Not Stepping Up
Bernie Reeves
Instead of being confined where they can be monitored and treated, advanced state paranoid schizophrenics roam freely, listening to voices that eventually order them to kill. More

December 22, 2012
Why Gay Marriage Is Not a Right
Carlton Austin
Surprisingly, when it comes to the culture war over homosexual marriage, you'll never hear the ever-popular "it's for the children" mentioned in the various arguments advanced by proponents. More

December 22, 2012
Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue
Michael Kelbaugh
That's what it's going to take to make any progress whatsoever on this fiscal cliff situation. More

December 22, 2012
Transcending this Suffering
Glenn Fairman
We hear this same plaintive cry following every monstrous evil. Where was God in the massacre? In truth, He has been where he has always been: at the Doors of Men's hearts knocking to gain entrance. More

December 22, 2012
Jack Reacher
Marion DS Dreyfus
A holiday surprise devoid of scatology. Tthere is nothing you couldn't show to your maiden church-going aunt. A compelling new thriller. More

December 22, 2012
Stickin' It to The Man
Cindy Simpson
Sixty-four million Obama fans have yet to realize that when they "stuck it to The Man" by voting for Obama, they were, in reality, sticking it to themselves. More

December 22, 2012
Environmental Protection Lessons from Ronald Reagan: 'Trust but Verify'
S. Fred Singer
In the world of cost-benefit analysis for environmental regulation, President Reagan learned a hard lesson. More

December 22, 2012
The Unintended Consequences of Gun Control
Cameron Reddy
Liberals might think twice before really trying to get what they wish for. More

December 21, 2012
Am I a Threat?
A Marine Officer
After nearly two decades of service to our great nation, service in which I have been repeatedly placed in positions of significant public trust, exposed myself to injury (or death), and withstood numerous intrusive background investigations, why am I a threat? More

December 21, 2012
The Piltdown Warning
Bruce Walker
Sometimes "settled science" has a way of turning out to be a complete fraud. And no, this is not about global warming -- at least not primarily. More

December 21, 2012
Extra! Extra! American Newspapers Don't Care about Reading
Bruce Deitrick Price
You'd think an industry that depends on reading would clamor for literacy among its customer base. But the American newspaperman has bigger fish to fry...at last as long as he can afford to fry anything. More

December 21, 2012
In Key West, the 'Hemingway Home' battles the Feds over cats
David Paulin
A nearly 10-year-long legal battle against the feds - all to keep them from regulating a museum's resident cats More

December 21, 2012
Democrats Never Stray Far From Their Roots
Kimberly Bloom Jackson
Unfortunately, violent tactics have a long, historic connection to both Democrats and unions. Though if you grew up going to a unionized public school, there's a good chance that you've never heard of this. More

December 21, 2012
Muhammad at the Movies: The Sequel
Andrew E. Harrod
Varying official European responses to the release of The Innocent Prophet once again demonstrate the increasingly notable differences in sensitivity accorded to Islam and other faiths such as Christianity. More

December 21, 2012
Whittling Away our Freedoms
Jeannie DeAngelis
As Obama manipulates tragedy to advance Second Amendment restrictions in the U.S., guns walked across the border with his approval are still taking lives. More

December 20, 2012
ObamaCare: Game On for Physicians
Keith R. Jackson
Do the "we know best" government bureaucrats who birthed ObamaCare think doctors will simply stay still in the wake of this beast? More

December 20, 2012
Newtown the Latest Example of Media Overkill
Pam Meister
I have been a resident of Newtown for over 30 years, save for a few years in the 1990s. On behalf of all us, I beg the media: Please go away. The healing will begin, but not until the news trucks and reporters shoving microphones in our faces go away. More

December 20, 2012
In Newtown Tragedy, Life Imitates Art
Jack Cashill
The impulse to exploit a school shooting remains an irresistible temptation for our friends on the left. More

December 20, 2012
A Proper Response to the Massacre of Innocents
Jerold Levoritz
When an event such as the Newtown Massacre occurs, we are told how to speak with our children to prevent traumatizing them. But it is we, the adults, who are drinking of the soporific of constant review, reformulation, and rehash to sooth our troubled souls. More

December 20, 2012
Bobby Jindal Weighs In on...Birth Control
J. Robert Smith
Trying to persuade establishment Republicans that he's serious about what they're serious about: playing the Democrats' game, somewhat, by addressing as important an issue that is a straw man's straw man. More

December 20, 2012
What if Vicki Soto Had Been Armed?
Gene Schwimmer
Those seeking the "root causes" of the massacre at Sandy Hook need to look deeper than simple calls for gun control will allow. More

December 20, 2012
A Teacher's Oath
Jeanne Donovan
Which is the greatest priority in public education, teaching our children, or fulfilling a teacher's selfish interests? More

December 19, 2012
Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain
Selwyn Duke
The reality is that there is no culture war. What is occurring now is a pacification effort. Some conservatives sense this, but the reality is often too frightening to contemplate. More

December 19, 2012
Lindisfarne To Sandy Hook: The Tragedy of Wishful Thinking
Richard F. Miniter
The bullet ridden bodies of those little angels and angelic teachers in Newtown should show us that wishful thinking won't work, has never worked and will never work. If it did, we'd only have to wish those children back. More

December 19, 2012
Why Are Some People Prone to Obey?
Eileen F. Toplansky
For a nation of Obama zombies, disobedience is starting to fall out of fashion. More

December 19, 2012
No Fracking in the Promised Land
Jeffrey Folks
The concentrated campaign against fracking is coming from so many different places now that one can't help but suspect ulterior motives among the players. More

December 19, 2012
A Game-Changer in Syria
Rob Miller
Whom does the Obama administration support now...and whom will it support tomorrow? More

December 19, 2012
Chuck Hagel and the 3D-Test of Anti-Semitism
Ari Lieberman
For the Senate to approve Barack Obama's all-but-certain pick for secretary of defense would be a disaster for U.S.-Israel relations. More

December 19, 2012
American Peasantry
Tom Trinko
While America was founded by the antithesis of peasants, liberals have been working to reestablish the peasant class because liberals view themselves as the modern nobility; wiser, kinder, more knowing than the folk in flyover country. More

December 18, 2012
The Strategic Concentration of Modern Children
Christopher Chantrill
There is probably no more mindless concentration today than the concentration of children in government schools. And as any general could tell you, strategic concentration can easily lead to disaster. More

December 18, 2012
The Only Way to Stop School Shootings
William A. Levinson
The enemies of the Second Amendment have to lie because the truth is simply not on their side, but this still leaves us with an unanswered question. What would have stopped Adam Lanza from murdering 26 innocent people? More

December 18, 2012
Can Islam reform?
James Lewis
It is possible that Islam can reform itself. But liberal collusion with Islamist warlords will not make it so. Surrender will not help. Phony pacifism will be laughed at by war cults every single time. More

December 18, 2012
Can ObamaCare Be Stopped?
J.T. Hatter
The presidential election of 2012 has guaranteed that ObamaCare will not be repealed anytime soon. What are our options going forward? More

December 18, 2012
Redistribution as Slavery
Dean Kalahar
A modern form of slavery has been embedded within the welfare state. And no matter how you slice it, property theft to promote a false ideology of "fairness" or advance a twisted form of "compassion" to gain power is abhorrent. More

December 18, 2012
Hobbits,Orcs, and the Human Condition
Glenn Fairman
The universes of Tolkien and Lewis touch a spot in our hearts, not because of a one-dimensional black and white depiction of Good and Evil, but because they ring true in excavating the subtlety of what drives evil. More

December 18, 2012
A Call for Full Disclosure in the Gun Control Debate
Tom Thurlow
Any politician who hopes to speak on the gun control issue should be obligated to answer a few basic questions. More

December 17, 2012
Hillary in Hiding
Daren Jonescu
Excused from the most important day of her tenure as Secretary of State, in effect by means of a note from President O-Mama saying "Hillary isn't feeling well today, and she won't be feeling well next week either." More

December 17, 2012
Obama's Stealth Redistribution Strategy
Karl Ushanka
You may be hearing about the automatic tax increases in the fiscal cliff, plus additional tax increases President Obama may force, but you won't hear much about liberalism's most powerful, and silent, redistribution tool: inflation. More

December 17, 2012
Can the Republican Party Remain Relevant?
Steve McCann
If the Republican members of the House take their oath to preserve and protect the Constitution and the future of America seriously, they will replace the current speaker with someone who can and will forcefully take on Obama More

December 17, 2012
U.S. Ambassador Tells Georgia to Vote for a 'Palestinian' State
Pamela Geller
From the former Soviet Republic of Georgia comes news of an extraordinary betrayal by the Obama Administration. More

December 17, 2012
More Students Thinking Outside the College Box
Gary Jason
The inevitable is happening: even young people are starting to recognize the dubious benefits of a seven-year post-secondary education regimen. More

December 17, 2012
Blackness Gestapo Attack on RGIII Typical
Lloyd Marcus
The superstar quarterback of the Washington Redskins is starting to discover how tough things can be for blacks who are not "authentic." More

December 17, 2012
Atheist Bah-humbug in Times Square
Rev Michael Bresciani
What disturbs the atheists has nothing to do with the veracity of the holiday, it is the attention that is directed to what is, and will always be, the most significant birth and subsequent history changing event in our world. More

December 16, 2012
Newtown: Just Leave Us to Grieve in Peace
Clarice Feldman
Let's have a decent silence to contemplate the eternal nature of evil and the tragic loss we all feel. More

December 16, 2012
Even in Medical School, Affirmative Action Rules
Chris Mondie
Documents made public by the AAMC make it clear that race plays a disturbingly large role in the medical student application process. More

December 16, 2012
The Prodigal and The Political
Glenn Fairman
Public welfare, which addresses the material and discounts the spiritual, will never address the ethical factors. More

December 16, 2012
A Tale of Two Crèches
Mary Durbin
A need for a new exterior for my family's Nativity scene made me realize that two men in my life, my father and my husband, both non-religious types, have been responsible for creating the most religious representation of Christmas there is. More

December 16, 2012
Fairness and Freedom
Cynthia V. Ward
Obama's "fairness" argument upends the core presumption of a free economy -- that people are entitled to the wealth they earn by their labor -- in favor of a presumption that wealth, however earned, is a collective resource. More

December 16, 2012
Minorities in the Mideast
Michael Zimmerman
We have seen in the so-called "Arab Spring" (perhaps really another "Arab autumn") that whereas there may be elections, one component of democracy, they have not been accompanied by recognition of the rights of minorities. More

December 16, 2012
Goldstone and Gaza War II
Steve Apfel
Too many Palestinians dead and not enough Jews means another 'war crime' for Israel to fend off. More

December 16, 2012
Destructive Shepherds
James Arlandson
Our Founders looked through Greek, Roman, and biblical authors to find general principles to guide them as they set up this nation and instilled in it a genetic code. So should we. More

December 15, 2012
It Gets Even Worse for Newspapers
Thomas Lifson
It's been a hellish decade for members of the once-mighty newspaper industry, but down in Miami, the ink-stained wretches have just endured the deepest insult of all. More

December 15, 2012
How to Get Away with Political Violence
Doug Mainwaring
If this past week's union shenanigans -- and the media reaction to them -- are any indicator, it has a lot to do with what side of the aisle you're on. More

December 15, 2012
The Failures of Democracy (an Ode to Aristides)
Jeremy Egerer
When a people has lost its character, how long can we expect a nation ruled by those same people to prosper? More

December 15, 2012
Boehner and Cantor versus Augustus Barack I
J. Robert Smith
The president wants capitulation from Republicans -- unconditional surrender -- with a public signing of accords on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri (or maybe on Warren Buffet's yacht moored somewhere on the Potomac). More

December 15, 2012
Throwing Labor Under the Bus
Michael Bargo Jr.
The key to understanding why public and private sector labor are combined by the media reports is to realize that there are three major groups of labor, and that the Democrats created all three. More

December 15, 2012
Rep. Capuano (D-MA) vs. the Public
Peter Wilson
Capuano the great compromiser dismisses the Ryan Budget and the "proposal recently offered by Speaker Boehner" out of hand, accusing them of "essentially abolishing Medicare as we know it." More

December 15, 2012
Islamic Fascism: Qutb and Azzam
Gary Aminoff
Not to confront the real ideological roots of Islamic Jihad, especially its well-documented connection to its Nazi anti-Semitic origins, stymies any Western push for political, economic, or cultural modernization of the Muslim world. More

December 15, 2012
Bernanke's Cow Bell in the Night
Bruce Johnson
The Federal Reserve chairman is betting the country on a pet theory that's not working. More

December 14, 2012
Ending Progressive Public Education
Daren Jonescu
Why do parents willingly send their own children -- their own future -- to socialist reeducation camps? "From my cold, dead hands," they proudly say of their guns. Are not their children worthy of at least so strong a grip? More

December 14, 2012
How Socialism Has Doomed France
William Sullivan
France is now presented with a choice, and frankly, it is not so dissimilar to our own. The problem is that both options lead to disaster. More

December 14, 2012
It's the Budget, Stupid
Ross C. Reeves
In the process of continuing resolutions, someone came to the realization that, if the government can live on temporarily without a budget, it can live on forever without one. That's Obama's big enabler. More

December 14, 2012
Educating Ignorance
Janice Shaw Crouse
The best-kept secret in America today is the precipitous drop in the quality of college since the Left seized power in higher education. More

December 14, 2012
The GOP Opportunity in Electoral College Reform
Paul Murphy
A fairer election, disenfranchising fewer people. More

December 14, 2012
Sell a Kidney - Save an Illegal's Life
Jeannie DeAngelis
When we talk of people pushing their way to the front of the line, we're not usually referring to the donor line. More

December 14, 2012
Inaugural Speech by the New Speaker of the House
J.T. Hatter
We have a new beginning today and I want the American people to know that everything is on the table. And I do mean everything. We have an ambitious term planned.... More

December 13, 2012
An Overlooked Constant
Steve McCann
Short of turning America into Stalin's police state and confiscating all the wealth of the "evil" one percent, the predictable behavior of this economic class very much revolves around the tax policies of the government. More

December 13, 2012
Embrace the Suck
William L. Gensert
Obama's politics of bitterness and envy just won an election. Perhaps the failure of his policies based on the same can save a nation. More

December 13, 2012
The Great Progressive Church
Robert A. Hall
Why do Progressives get so angry and vicious when you challenge any of their tenets? You are not disagreeing with them over policy. You are attacking the core of their religion, More

December 13, 2012
Ramping Up Government Control of the Energy Sector
Jeffrey Folks
Continuing to prop up failing green energy firms would be the definition of insanity -- if, that is, prosperity were what the Obama administration wanted. More

December 13, 2012
Middle East Exploding, and Obama Nowhere to Be Found
Elise Cooper
President Obama has cast off his duties as a world leader, leaving the nations of the Middle East in utter, deadly disarray. More

December 13, 2012
Remembering Nanking
Bruce Walker
A good time to reflect on what protects us from succumbing to (or ourselves becoming) monsters. More

December 13, 2012
Getting an Abortion in December
T.S. Weidler
It is ironic that the month in which the world celebrates the most inconvenient and unplanned birth in history is also the month in which the court began its ignominious descent into preventing such births. More

December 12, 2012
How Much Taxation Would Fund Current Spending?
Justin Hohn
You're not going to want to know the answer. More

December 12, 2012
Boehner's Boners
J.T. Hatter
George Wallace used to say, "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats." Of course there's a difference between the Republicans and Democrats -- almost a dime's worth. More

December 12, 2012
Caesarism in the USA
Sam C. Holliday
Our Founders knew that centralization of power was the cause of the decline and decay of both Greece and Rome. Congress has never been able to regain the power the Founders expected it to have. More

December 12, 2012
Free Speech Roundup
Andrew E. Harrod
Unequal favoritisms and infringements of free speech are damaging in multiple ways to a free society. Suppression of debate and discussion of religious beliefs weakens the intellectual scrutiny these topics deserve. More

December 12, 2012
Using States to Supplant Cultural Leftism
Bruce Walker
We'll never have firm footing from which to win elections if we continue to cede the culture to the left. With Republicans controlling the governments of half the states, we can finally take a stand. More

December 12, 2012
Free Speech: Either We Have it, or We Don't
Mike Konrad
Our First Amendment is under assault from all sides -- left and right. It is high time that we realize that free speech is not merely for those with whom we agree; but primarily for those we detest. More

December 12, 2012
Misreporting on Russia
Kim Zigfeld
Russia Beyond the Headlines is funded by the Kremlin and it has a clear mission: create an alternate reality, and focus on trying to convince unwary Westerners that Russia is benign. More

December 11, 2012
You Think the GOP Has Problems?
Christopher Chantrill
Who would want to be a Democrat as we go into 2013? No, seriously. More

December 11, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Poker: Call Obama's Bluff!
Jeffrey L. Scribner
It has become apparent to even the casual observer that absent a drastic measure like capping the debt ceiling, we are going to continue spending beyond our means. More

December 11, 2012
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
Marion DS Dreyfus
Opening Christmas Day: History as rewritten by nihilist jokers with an agenda -- an orgiastic spill of negativity and white self-loathing, a too-easy grab at convulsive payback. More

December 11, 2012
Education Has Been Battered by Bad Faith
Bruce Deitrick Price
Can it really be an accident that there is so much failure in America's education system? More

December 11, 2012
Islamic Fascism: the Nazi Connection
Gary Aminoff
Despite common misconceptions, modern Islamic Fascism was not born during the 1960s, but during the 1930s. Its rise was not inspired by the failure of Nasserism in Egypt, but by the rise of Nazism in Germany. More

December 11, 2012
Justice Sotomayor and Murderer Advocacy
Lester Jackson
When pro-murderer justices seek -- often successfully -- to focus upon criminals rather than crimes, the result is to grant certain perpetrators greater protection against punishment for their brutality than others who commit identical or less serious acts. More

December 10, 2012
Millionaires, Billionaires, and Teachers
Randall Hoven
In short, a lot of retired teachers are in effect millionaires. More

December 10, 2012
Obama and Slavery
Daren Jonescu
The progressive seeks to nationalize the slave industry. This is the literal meaning of his demands for confiscatory tax rates, redistribution of wealth, hyper-regulation of industry, and government control of health care and education. More

December 10, 2012
Why We Lost: The Big Picture
Jay Haug
The big Republican ideas of the last forty years not only do not work for us, they have turned against us and are actually working to defeat us. So what do we do? More

December 10, 2012
Who Goes Obama?
Cindy Simpson
Divisive conversation on "Fairness" and motivational phrases such as "We can't wait," "Vote for revenge," "You didn't build that," and "Punish your enemies" were addressed to those whom the campaign already knew would answer "I do" to the question, "Who goes Obama?" More

December 10, 2012
The American Geophysical Union and Climate Hysteria
Norman Rogers
For the true believers ideology trumps facts. They are agile thinkers and can always figure a way to explain away any negative information that might disconfirm the impending climate catastrophe. More

December 10, 2012
From Al-Masara to the Wall Street Journal: A Case Report of Palestinian Fauxtography
Allon Friedman
A testament to the media's all-encompassing anti-Israel bias...albeit in an unexpected place. More

December 9, 2012
Slouching Toward Damascus
Clarice Feldman
A quick review of the state of matters in the Middle East shows that the Arab Spring has been a gigantic flop, a diplomatic Solyndra in which for ill-considered ideological reasons we poured a lot into a cause that was hopeless from the outset. More

December 9, 2012
Education's Great Divide: My Time in the Trenches
Glenn Fairman
What I learned about the decadence of the American education system, and where we're headed. More

December 9, 2012
Antinomianism: The Soft Heresy
Daniel Ciofani
How could a Christian faith so unified with other denominations all across the country vote so consistently to outlaw its own historical and religious values? More

December 9, 2012
Dear O'Brien: The Free Exercise Clause and Professing Catholicism
Daniel Smyth
Even the successful suits against the HHS mandate against religious liberty are missing a crucial, strengthening point. More

December 9, 2012
The Lie That Broke Israel's Back
Steve Apfel
Throughout all the misdirections and exaggerations leading to the U.N. vote for a "Palestinian state," one gigantic falsehood towers above the rest. More

December 9, 2012
The Inexplicable Picture of Jews Defending Hamas
Jerrold L. Sobel
Two Jewish writers put their pens to the task of exonerating a group that explicitly seeks to annihilate the state of Israel. More

December 9, 2012
Fatal Attraction: US Flirts with International Speech Codes
Nathaniel Sugarman
UN Special Rapporteur Mutama Ruteere has recommended that countries adopt "legislative measures" to cambat "racial hatred", specifically identifying the United States as a country that should consider legislation targeting internet hate speech. More

December 9, 2012
Answering Liberals' 'Gotcha' Questions
Trevor Thomas
Conservative Republican upstarts definitely need some help in this arena. And no, it doesn't mean abandoning social issues. More

December 9, 2012
Truth, Human Nature, and the American Way
Andrew E. Harrod
Americans need not question the principles of their founding document. Nor need Americans doubt the practical strategic effect the growth of free societies has upon peace. More

December 8, 2012
Fiscal Cliff: Negotiation Failure could be the Best Option
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
Both parties in the fiscal cliff negotiations are planning to keep the budget deficits at well over $1 trillion per year. The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio would continue to explode. More

December 8, 2012
An Elegy for Two Once-Divine Female Critics
Robert Oscar Lopez
As recently as five years ago, I counted Ann Coulter and Camille Paglia among my favorite authors. This past year has me rethinking that. More

December 8, 2012
Do 'the people' get the governments they deserve?
Clifton Chadwick
Around the world, sometimes people vote for autocrats, and sometimes they have autocrats inflicted upon them. How did things work out for the people of the United States? More

December 8, 2012
Why Obama's 'Balanced Approach' Doesn't Work
Adam Shaw
President Obama's solution to the fiscal cliff has been tried in other countries since 2008. It has failed every time. More

December 8, 2012
Using States to Transform Higher Learning
Bruce Walker
Education is modernizing to the point where we can change the world -- and Republican-run states have exactly the means to get the ball rolling. More

December 8, 2012
Shoelessness and Subway Violence
Forrest Stump
Until we gather the money and the will to properly deal with the mentally ill among us, we can expect incidents like this past week's subway tragedy to keep popping up. More

December 8, 2012
The Real Second Amendment
Bart Wilburn
If we want to be honest about it, we must look to the origins of the 2nd Amendment to understand it in the context of framing the U.S. Constitution, and only then can we consider it in our present context. More

December 8, 2012
Another Global Warming Drive-By
Timothy Birdnow
This is a case of garbage in, garbage out. For all of the braggadoccio of the IMBIE scientists they actually do not have anything new and likely not accurate. This is more drive-by consensus science. More

December 8, 2012
What would Thomas Jefferson Think?
Dennis Lund
Looking closer at Jefferson's grievances, which the patriots were willing to die for, we see that we have now fallen into that which Madison feared; Oppression by the majority abetted by a government which is now "but a necessary evil." More

December 8, 2012
Can We Reproduce Washington's Victory at Yorktown?
Elise Cooper
Newt Gingrich's latest novel compares the bravery and boldness of George Washington to the politicians and campaign advisers of today. More

December 7, 2012
There Is No Party of Principle
Steve McCann
Any political party, whose leadership interests extends beyond aggregating power and accumulating personal wealth, would level with the people. More

December 7, 2012
Boehner Orchestrating the GOP's Demise
J. Robert Smith
It's a contest of wills and guess who is winning? President Obama, of course. And that's because the president is up against the GOP's equivalent of Churchill's "Boneless Wonder," Speaker John Boehner. More

December 7, 2012
Saved from Another Great Depression?
Jon N. Hall
The crisis of the moment is not a crisis of liquidity, but of solvency; specifically, the solvency of governmeny. Our 2008 liquidity crisis was dealt with quickly. Solvency issues cannot be dealt with by central banks. More

December 7, 2012
Textbooks, Lies, and Vulnerable Kids
Janet Tassel
Islamist indoctrination continues apace in liberal Massachusetts -- but several groups of concerned parents are starting to do something about it. More

December 7, 2012
Restore America 101
Lloyd Marcus
Now is not the time to be discouraged. We have a lot of work ahead, and we must be ready to do it! More

December 7, 2012
Lincoln and the Welfare State
Mary Nicholas
Lincoln would not only stand against the welfare state, but fight it. Why? Because his piercing gray eyes would instantly recognize it as another form of slavery, one more insidious than the variety he fought, but slavery nevertheless. More

December 7, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Causes Hostage Crisis
Scott Mayer
The so-called "fiscal cliff" that has everyone so paralyzed with fear is really just a politically-constructed illusion designed to scare Americans into handing over more money and power to politicians. More

December 6, 2012
Ireland, Beware the 'Suicide' Exemption
Jack Cashill
Pro-abortion activists attempt to force Ireland, one of the few places in the western world where abortion is illegal, to show its modernity by signing on to the culture of death. More

December 6, 2012
Who elected Obama?
Paul Murphy
The reality of this election is that Romney/Ryan won an overwhelming majority among those who pursue the American dream -- and those people need representation, not compromise. More

December 6, 2012
GOP: Rebirth or Capitulation?
Marguerite Creel
An opportunity for Republicans to challenge the efficacy of national Democratic policies. More

December 6, 2012
'Are You Going to Keep It?': Getting Abortion on the Table
Faith Kuzma & Meredith Kuzma
What kind of society are we living in, where "Are you going to keep it?" is an acceptable question to ask an expectant mother? More

December 6, 2012
The Five Myths That Empower Hamas
Noah Beck
The world must move beyond the media-driven myths above and recognize Hamas for what it really is: an Islamist terrorist organization dangerously allied with Iran in its mission to destroy Israel. More

December 6, 2012
Deepwater Horizon: Who's Lying to Congress?
Bruce Thompson
It makes sense to examine the quality and veracity of the government's own witnesses that we might expect to be called to testify in the Deepwater Horizon case. More

December 6, 2012
Global Warming Meets Economic Reality
Warren Beatty
If global warmists are correct, then the global population will die out until a warming equilibrium is reached. If they are incorrect, then we have nothing about which to worry. Either way, nature wins in the end. More

December 5, 2012
Pentagon Peacocks
G. Murphy Donovan
Combat Petraeus-style doesn't presume to alter military doctrine; it presumes to alter the nature of war. War is a time-tested primal exercise, not a venue for intellectuals, polite politics, or poseurs. More

December 5, 2012
American Politics as a Confidence Game
Marvin Folkertsma
American con artists have gotten away with a lot in recent years -- probably because the system itself has been engineered to suit them. More

December 5, 2012
Republicans Should Use Targeted Marketing Strategies
Zach Krajacic
Businesses understand that no matter how good their product or service, some people will never buy. For this reason they target their marketing and advertising toward people who would likely be persuaded to buy their product. More

December 5, 2012
Jihad for Julia
Eileen F. Toplansky
It's time to call Barack Obama out on his alleged concern for women -- especially those in the Middle East, who are now under physical as well as psychological assault. More

December 5, 2012
Limiting Government
Sylvia Bokor
Today, violations of individual rights are so pervasive that many Americans are ignorant of what individual rights are and of the extent to which their rights are daily violated. More

December 5, 2012
Whatever Happened to Common Sense?
Dennis Lund
Common Sense elaborated on many subjects which became the principles upon which our nation was founded, including individual liberty as well as freedom from a tyrannical government. More

December 4, 2012
Obama Wants a War
Christopher Chantrill
Why would Obama bother caring about his own constituents being devastated by his policies? All wars have casualties. More

December 4, 2012
Apply the BP Standard of Responsibility to Benghazi
Keith Riler
Assuming the charges are valid and that we are a nation of laws, why shouldn't those with ultimate authority over the Benghazi incident face charges of proximate cause in the deaths of four men, all of whom were contractors or employees of the United States? More

December 4, 2012
Mean Gays
Robert Oscar Lopez
Rather than replace subterfuge with real civic power, gays have made subterfuge a permanent weapon. They've taught everyone -- especially Obama's left -- how to wield it. More

December 4, 2012
Basketball Bandits 'Blindside' Hofstra University
Jeannie DeAngelis
A lesson in how much people tend to appreciate things they didn't pay for -- even when it costs $200,000. More

December 4, 2012
The Great Transference
Loran Blood
"The poor" haven't just fallen on hard times. None of them, due to factors and dynamics of lifestyle, attitude, or behavior, bear any responsibility for their poverty. Now, "the poor," are also the oppressed. They are victims. More

December 4, 2012
The Demographic Cliff
Jerome Koch
Our federal budget deficits are not only a symptom of a political class that refuses to say no -- they are also a reflection of our inverted demographic status. More

December 4, 2012
Lincoln's Unflinching Words
James G. Wiles
The task confronting us is how to assure that there will be more Republican presidents in the face of a Democratic president and Democratic Party who are hopeful of destroying us over the next couple of election cycles. More

December 3, 2012
I'll See Your Economic Collapse and Raise You National Demise
Selwyn Duke
Considering the unchangeable nature of liberals, there is only one way we're going to get out of this debt crisis. Only one. More

December 3, 2012
How Reality TV Saved the Second Amendment
Ron Resnick
I had always believed that the Second Amendment is the most important amendment. It has actually been the First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of speech and allowing the creation of reality TV shows, that has fostered a renewed appreciation of the Second Amendment More

December 3, 2012
Global Governance Begins on December 14
Daren Jonescu
Just as hyper-regulation within a nation subverts representative government, so international hyper-regulation will have the effect of nullifying any transnational voice of unified dissent. More

December 3, 2012
The Worldwide 'War on Women'
Jeannie DeAngelis
Thank goodness we have a crusader like Sandra Fluke -- because there is no more pressing threat to women worldwide than having to pay for contraception. More

December 3, 2012
Ken Cuccinelli: Conservatives' New 'It' Candidate
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Establishment Republicans can learn from Cuccinelli. He translates life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into policies to govern in the 21st century. More

December 3, 2012
We Are a Nation of Immigrants...Sort Of
Charles Martel
But not in the way liberals and other amnesty-peddlers would have you believe. More

December 3, 2012
Recessions and Tax Hikes
Warren Beatty
Slump, slowdown, recession, or depression? Obama's hired-gun economists say none of the above. But the facts say otherwise. More

December 2, 2012
Cliff Dwellers
Clarice Feldman
We unfortunately are getting used to living at the edge of a steep cliff, going about our everyday business pretending the fatal drop to the abyss doesn't exist. More

December 2, 2012
The Last Voice You Hear
Susan D. Harris
Bible believing Christians and traditional American values have been usurped by half the country and it's time we accepted that the rain of deception and hate won't stop and it's time to pull up the door to the ark. More

December 2, 2012
The Psychopathology of the Liberal Mind
Damon Isherwood
What drives the self-congratulating liberal is the societally destructive concept of pseudo-idealism. More

December 2, 2012
Now Is Not the Time to Give Up on Marriage
Doug Mainwaring
The public deserves so much better than the simplistic, slogan-laden debate forced upon it regarding the issue of same-sex marriage. More

December 2, 2012
Morsi's Totalitarian Mandate Is Sharia
Andrew G. Bostom
The regime taking power in Egypt truly will usher in women (and non-Muslims, and "blasphemers," and...) "dying on the floor." Few seem keen to talk about it. More

December 2, 2012
The Mainstream Elf on the Shelf
Cindy Simpson
Call him Obama Claus or Uncle Santa or whatever you want. The Mainstream Elves will make sure you believe in him. More

December 2, 2012
The Biblical Case for Reparative Therapy
James Arlandson
All of the biblical and historical passages add up to this one main thing: change is possible for anyone. Is it our government's place to deny this, or to forbid it? More

December 2, 2012
Palestinian 'Statehood': The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Leo Rennert
Where did the nations of the world fall on this week's ignominious U.N. decision? More

December 2, 2012
The Asymmetry of Intolerance
Tom Trinko
In reality, atheist extremists are attempting to do what the Constitution expressly forbids: have the Federal government endorse one particular faith above all others. More

December 2, 2012
Ending the Spiraling Out-of-Wedlock Childbirth Rate: A Unique Opportunity for Republicans
Brian Becker
Out-of-wedlock birth rates are not just a toxic "social issue." They are a budget issue as well. More

December 2, 2012
The Temptation of Babel
Fay Voshell
The utopian who is convinced his way is uncontested, absolutely correct and pure is always a conqueror for whom individual lives, independent institutions and freedom mean little or nothing. More

December 2, 2012
A Holiday Meditation on Contingency
Timothy Gordon
Bibamus, moriendum est: the message to carry us through Advent in 2012. More

December 1, 2012
Should Conservative Professors Come Out as Conservative?
Robert Oscar Lopez
"Why don't you just keep your mouth shut?" I receive that question every day. Here's my answer. More

December 1, 2012
Will We Ever Get Our America Back?
David S. Whitley
Who but a robber takes joy in giving away another man's treasure? Who rests comfortably at night with a clear conscience after giving one man the labor of another? Does anyone -- let alone the cold faceless State -- have the ability to "love your neighbor" for you? More

December 1, 2012
Obama and Abbas Are Destructive to the People They Represent
Lauri B. Regan
Two people -- but worse, two peoples -- on opposite ends of the country, in opposite circumstances, doing the best they can do destroy their own respective societies. More

December 1, 2012
California's Road to Perdition
Elise Cooper
The Golden State proves that even gold can rust sometimes. What do Republicans plan to do about it? More

December 1, 2012
What We Should Care About
Bruce Walker
Our battle is not, and must not be, simply a battle for stuff. More

December 1, 2012
Of Space and Men
Jim Mahoney
The decline of NASA says a lot about the decline of our great country. More

December 1, 2012
Dems Say Social Security Doesn't Add to Deficit
W.A. Beatty
Technically true, but (and there is always a but)... More

December 1, 2012
Putin Cracks Down on Russian Internet
Kim Zigfeld
Neither Obama nor his ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, have spoken out in defense of Internet freedom in Russia, and to the contrary they have placed roadblocks in the path of Congress as it sought to do so. More

December 1, 2012
The Twinkie Economist Looks at the 1950s
Jon N. Hall
When Krugman writes about "economic justice," he's talking about high tax rates. But what kind of "economic justice" is it to have a lousy economy? More

December 1, 2012
Acting Intelligent
Glenn Fairman
Poets, cinematographers, screenwriters, and actors have within their fingertips the ability to sway the moral imagination into opaque corners of the human conscience. More