Michelle Malkin notes, I believe with some error, The politically correct are handmaidens of terror. But handmaiden may be a too—mild appellation For the worms at the core of the threat to our nation, Who are far more concerned with our socialist purity, Than commonsense measures for our... More

In a July 18 article, columnist John Leo describes how David Koepp, screenplay writer for Stephen Spielberg's recently released War of the Worlds, revealed his intent to draw a parallel between the U.S. military in Iraq, and the movie's villains, an army of hideous space aliens. Based on a late... More

Telling a biographical story of leadership which is both instructive and entertaining is no easy task.  The recent film, now on DVD,  In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed, does this well.  The film captures the essence of Ronald Reagan, the context of his actions, the... More

The day before yesterday, we are told, the Church of the Disciples of Christ demanded that Israel tear down its security fence, which has saved countless of Jewish women and children from being blown to smithereens. Twisting the words of Ronald Reagan, Minister William McDermet III of Panama, N.Y.,... More

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) claims for its journal Science 'the largest paid circulation of any peer—reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million.' Thus when it publishes a politically correct history of... More

Now that John Roberts has been nominated to the Supreme Court by President Bush, attention will focus once again on how this change in the Court's makeup might influence the politically crucial subject of abortion. It's time for honesty here. Despite all the talk about their concerns about a... More

There's sweet irony; there's delicious irony; and then there's irony that a spoonful of which would just make medicine go down. As you may know, slavery reparations shakedown thugs have been beating their drum for quite some time now, but have thus far failed to achieve their ends through Congress... More

The Department of Defense  and the US Army have announced the largest realignment and stationing changes for active forces since WW II.  The anticipated unit moves and re—flagging of the new Units of Action (UA) coincide with the installation changes recommended by Base... More

Admiral Bobby Inman is known as one of the most brilliant men who ever worked in the intelligence game. His service as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence under William Casey, as well as his stint as Director of the National Security Administration, were both legendary for the breadth of... More

The Democratic Party just took a body blow this week, deepening the crisis of the American Left. The historic split  of organized labor which took place Monday will slash the Democrats' cash flow and remove thousands of 'volunteer' union workers for the nuts and bolts work of organizing... More

In the ideological civil war in America, the Left can only play the role of cynical spoiler, while conservatives continue to bungle and cannot even pose key questions to expose the hypocrisy and weaknesses of leftist positions. It seems that the political Left in America senses an enhanced... More

I know a college professor who keeps a picture of Che Guevara in his briefcase, so that he can look at it adoringly whenever he pops open the lid. This bright and friendly fellow has a lifelong admiration for Fidel's Cuban prison state, no matter how much its people are deprived, while being forced... More

Leave it to Senator John McCain to get it exactly wrong once again. Since the announcement of Roberts nomination, the merits and demerits of his conservative credentials have been given wide discussion in Republican circles.  The likes of David Souter and Anthony Kennedy certainly give... More

'Success has a thousand fathers while failure is an orphan' applies to just about every human endeavor with the exception of war. War usually has one father while making orphans galore. In our current situation, the father of this war is international Islamism and its adherents who seek to... More

[Editor's note: this article is based on a recent address to meeting of the 42nd Ward GOP in Chicago, July 20th] This topic is an unusual one. An argument that Israel is a stabilizing force suggests that many people hold a different view. It is worth directly confronting that view of Israel as a... More

Who can fail to be shocked by last week's story of London police pursuing a terror suspect into a subway train and shooting him dead?  Eyewitness  Mark Whitby was sitting in the train: 'I heard people shouting `get down, get down.' An Asian guy ran on to the train and I looked at his... More

If I had the opportunity to ask John Roberts a few questions before his Supreme Court confirmation, sure I'd want to know all that important stuff about his 'judicial philosophy,' and the reach of the Commerce Clauses, but at this point I'm more interested in the answers to the following... More

True Islam, the one taught by Muhammad, revives the law of retaliation or lex talionis. The Biblical "eye for an eye." Traditional Muslims who understand the Quran and the hadith (reports of Muhammad's words and actions outside of the Quran) believe that Islamic law or sharia expresses the highest... More

Was your graduation from the sixth grade shown on national television and presided over by the country's president? No? Well, buddy, it's too bad for you that you weren't a friend of Fidel Castro and a citizen of the greatest nation on Earth. From the Associated Press, July 22: Cuban President... More

 Much like a victim of spousal abuse,The Left always seems to have an excuseFor barbarous behavior by terrorist thugs,Their violence dismissed with self—blaming shrugs.Oh, they just can't help it, they just get so mad,When we get them upset by behaving so bad.It's not really their fault... More

Tectonic plates are moving in our Total Army force structure. Strategies and units are being realigned from the default Cold War stasis of decades past.  World—wide operations in the War on Terror have shown that in many cases the National Guard is unable to satisfy the required troop... More

Jihad is the 'evil ideology' that is driving terrorism. Muslims should take the lead in rooting out this barbarism. Early reports indicate  that there were no fatalities from four coordinated explosions that again targeted Londons' transit system yesterday, July 21, 2005, exactly two weeks... More

General William Childs Westmoreland died July 19 in South Carolina at age 91.  He will be interred at West Point Cemetery at 11 o'clock on July 23. Born in Saxon,  South Carolina March 26, 1914, he spent a year at his father's alma mater, the Citadel, before entering West Point, where he... More

On numerous occasions in the past, China's authoritarian regime has publicly stated that the U.S. is its ideological enemy. Comments made by Chinese defector Chen Yonglin to Australian authorities in June support the theory that China's leaders view the U.S. as their main adversary. 'The U.S. is... More

In 1933, Dr. Francis Townsend, a then 66 year old retired assistant city health director in Long Beach, California, introduced a national pension plan called 'the Townsend Plan.' The idea for his plan struck him as result of his witnessing elderly women scavenging for food in garbage cans. Within... More

Weir thinking about it There has been much controversy over the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo. Democrats and the liberal media establishment have assailed the Bush Administration for 'condoning abuse' and providing 'an ongoing source of anti—American propaganda.' However, most of the... More

With the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific coming in  a couple of weeks, diplomatic tensions between Japan and its Asian neighbors are bound to flare up again.  Under increasing pressure from voters to improve relations with China and South Korea, two... More

We interrupt this scandal to ask a question that, due to it's 'explosive' nature was never asked when the story broke almost exactly a year ago... What were 500 tons of yellow cake uranium still doing at the nuclear research center of Al—Tuwaitha in Iraq when American tanks rolled into... More

I can't think of any two papers more different in their approach to news as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Likewise, I can't think of any two reporters more different in their views of the North Korean situation as Nicholas Kristof and Kang Chol—hwan. Both newspapers... More

President Bush and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will continue their meeting today, after beginning important summit talks yesterday. Although the American media were more interested in hectoring the President over a domestic political issue than in exploring the talks during... More

It's safe to assume that the number one question asked at cocktail parties and on golf courses this weekend was who do you think 'outed' CIA agent Valerie Plame.  Likely, the answer depended on the recipient's news source of choice. For example, some media outlets affirm that it was Karl Rove,... More

[Satire] The body of Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin's wife, Loretta, was found lying motionless in the couple's bed over the weekend, touching off a firestorm of speculation as to whether the Illinois lawmaker may have killed her. Although the details are still sketchy at this time, it appears that... More

Hold on to your hat. The plot is about to thicken.   Behind the scenes, the single most important reason for the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson farce is that CIA Director Porter Goss has finally started to clean house at Langley. Goss's long—overdue shake—up is clearly backed by the... More

Amazing, isn't it? The Democrats are so arrogant that they cannot refrain from publicly boasting to fellow New York Times—reading elites how they manipulate the yahoos out there (that is, you and me). One example of yahoo—deception in this New York Times Sunday Magazine... More

J.K. Rowling is history's richest—ever author, enjoying an incomparable global readership. With eager consumers lined up at midnight to buy her book on the date of release, she stands as the literary phenomenon of our times. Rowling resembles no one in popularity so much as Charles Dickens,... More

The newspaper industry is very, very slowly coming to grips with the rise of a new technology which delivers news cheaper, faster, interactively, using lower cost (in fact, usually free) labor. A reading of the history of industrial structure suggests that any survivors of this transformation will... More

An authoritarian ruler must maintain his grip continuously. The first policy any tyrant imposes on his people shuts down free speech that expresses dissent and criticism. Insulting the head of state merits especially severe treatment. Muhammad laid down severe restrictions on such free speech,... More

Desperate people say stupid things. Democrats are increasingly desperate, and in increasing numbers have moved from uttering the merely ridiculous to shouting self—destructive rhetoric from their media rooftops. Karl Rove occupies a unique role in the demonology of fundamentalist Democrats.... More

British investigations of the recent London bombings have been precise, methodical and effective.  In a very short period of time they have identified four young men all of whom evidence suggests were the terrorists responsible for last week's carnage against innocent British civilians. ... More

We now think we know who exploded the bombs that smashed fifty people to raw hamburger meat last week in London. The accused are four young British—born dupes of Islamist indoctrination, "friends from Leeds," who were recorded by security cameras walking to a tube station, "laughing" and... More

Well, well, well...the Department of Veterans Affairs has a fiscal 2005 budget deficit due to exploding health care costs.  Imagine that.  A U.S. government agency spent more money than Congress and the president budgeted for it.  Oh the humanity! And whom would you suppose the left... More

Magic is in the air again.  In two days, a new Harry Potter book; in four months, a new Harry Potter movie. And while the bookstores and theaters are being mobbed, some of us will wonder what the fuss is all about. A few years ago, tired of being the only person in the country who hadn't... More

Maps and globes can be fascinating. Interesting to study while engaging one's imagination to form images of persons and places. To visit where one has never been, to venture where one might not dare go, or to encounter those one will never meet — all this can be yours with little risk to life... More

Democrats have been delighted at the controversy ignited among conservatives at the so far entirely hypothetical prospect of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales being appointed to the Supreme Court. News of the retirement of Justice O'Connor hit the headlines and almost immediately dire warnings were... More

Academic freedom can be defined many ways, but it critically includes the freedom to criticize, based on facts and informed opinion, without fear of official retaliation. It also means that scholars who experience retaliation — not in the form of criticism in return but in tangible terms such... More

The long—awaited moment has come.  After years of speculation about Supreme Court retirements, it was announced recently that Sandra Day O'Connor will be stepping down from the bench.  Now the speculation has ended and the consternation begins: who will replace her? ... More

That stench emanating from the Democratic cloakroom in the Senate is all too familiar to close observers of the national political scene: Charles Schumer of New York has opened his mouth again. Actually, this time, Sen. Schumer penned an op—ed piece  for the New York Daily News entitled... More

Last Thursday's London massacre of almost three score innocent people whowere  simply smashed to bleeding fragments on their way to work, has throwna harsh light on the British Left. Normal people learned something fromthe horror — the shocking inhumanity of the attackers, perhaps. Not... More

I serve with the memory and pride of those who have gone before me for they loved to fight, fought to win and would rather die than quit. (From the Creed of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment—Airborne: 'The Night Stalkers') It's been called the worst day in the history of the Navy... More

Reality can sometimes be stranger than fiction.  In perhaps one of the most ironic turns in history, many of the countries from the former Soviet Union have enacted polices that Ronald Reagan would have enthusiastically supported.  Several former Communist countries are leading the... More

With his June 28 speech discussing Iraq and the war on terror, President George W. Bush initiated what many of his supporters believe to be an overdue effort to rally home front support; to reverse the overwhelmingly negative, explosive 24/7 news cycle images.  While acknowledging that... More

It was at an event at Columbia University in late 2001 that I ran into an editor at Forbes magazine. He discussed the new war on terror, not from a standpoint of domestic civil liberties as most journalists do, but from a strategic perspective, as if we were two generals in the war itself. Just... More

As early as 1978, Saudi Arabia sentenced nine Britons to flogging for drinking alcohol. The webpage has a photo of how the police carry out the sentence. In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging not only for illicit sex (see Quran 24:2 and this article analyzing the... More

"Red Ken" Livingstone was playing Winston Churchill the day of the bloody London bombings.  He sounded just the right mix of sadness and defiance to the terrorists "... even after your cowardly attack, you will see that...people from around the world will arrive in London...to be free, they... More

What is the greatest evil foisted upon the world in the past forty years? Well, if not the world, then at least upon America? What creation of shadowy geniuses lurks, unsuspected but determined to undermine Western Civilization, weaken its foundations and collapse the edifice of the modern world?... More

Within hours of the four reported explosions in London yesterday—three in the subway, and one on a crowded double—decker bus—the so—called 'Secret Organization of al—Qaida in Europe' claimed responsibility for the attacks. This same group previously took... More

Within certain Republican circles, moods run from panic to despondency whenever Hillary and the 2008 presidential election is discussed. Among consummate party pragmatists, so historically prone to abandon principle in pursuit of political gain, the consensus is that the only means of defeating... More

Weir Thinking About It No sooner did Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor declare her retirement, than the leaders of the 2 largest feminist organizations in the country made a beeline for the media. Eleanor Smeal, President of theа Feminist Majority, bellowed that O'Connor's resignation... More

Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters. — al Qaeda website, as reported by the BBC  Waking up to the awful news that terrorists have attacked rush hour commuters in London, my immediate reactions are horror and... More

Belarus, a country contaminated by the disastrous 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, continues to be systematically poisoned by an oppressive government led by strongman Alexander Lukashenka. Visiting Vilnius, Lithuania in April to attend a NATO foreign ministers conference, U.S.... More

With increasing regularity, leaders of the National Democratic Party are seeking support for their economic agenda in, of all places, the Bible. Failed presidential candidate John Kerry, for example, persists in appealing to the New Testament book of James. "Faith without works is dead," he... More

The single greatest breakthrough in the Cold War happened when Nixon and Kissinger succeeded in splitting communist China from the communist USSR.  Our media, in their fathomless ignorance, have failed even to look for similar cracks in radical Islam. Yet in the very bowels of jihadist Islam... More

For many years, the military has been doing research into non—lethal weapons, mostly for crowd control and hostage situations. Liberals have often encouraged this research, as a means of restraining the use of firearms or other deadly force. Two private citizens in the 1990s started a... More

Few Supreme Court rulings have resonated with the average person in as chillingly fundamental a manner as has the recent Kelo v New London eminent domain ruling that awarded unprecedented authority to the Government's right to seize private property for private use. Unlike many of the Court's... More

The Supreme Court bans television cameras from its public sessions on the ground that it does not want its proceedings to become a 'circus.' Whether the august Court likes it or not, the struggle over the replacement to be nominated for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be a circus... More

The media is abuzz and hoping for a great battle. While most Americans are not particularly excited about the choice of a new Associate Justice for the Supreme Court, activists from the left and right, and those who report or comment on politics, are fired up. So it is a worthwhile exercise to... More

Back in the nineteenth century they used to write books about plucky young American lads—often working to support their widowed mothers—and how they showed up rich kids as liars and lowlifes.  In Horatio Alger's Struggling Upward, young Luke Larkin showed up the banker's son... More

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Demonstrations often look alike, and for that reason they are often given short shrift by the media. People gather on an issue, march to a plaza somewhere, and then disperse home. A point is made. Next story. But a large protest held in Caracas, Venezuela this weekend was different.... More

It's now clear there can be no ambivalence About the Liberals' moral equivalence; Where they now have lost all perspective, Or any desire to be truly objective. Their comparisons began to be troubling When 'Fats' Moore got their fuzzy heads bubbling, With his 'terrorists as Minutemen' inanity, That... More

On Tuesday, July 6, the leaders of the eight most powerful nations will meet in Scotland to take stock of the world and debate about what is still to be done on issues such as the fight against mass poverty and terrorism. Simultaneously, hundreds of anti—globalization protesters will march... More

The phenomenon of modern Islamic terrorism has forged an inchoate strategic alliance between the Israeli and Indian governments, while heightening the awareness of a common threat—the institution of jihad—among the civilian populations of these nations. Rarely understood, let alone... More

Airbus Industrie, more specifically, its parent EADS, the chosen instrument aerospace powerhouse keeping the French...err...Europeans in the military aerospace technology game, is getting closer to landing a potential hundred—billion dollar order from the United States Department of Defense.... More

In New York for what has been billed as his last crusade in America, evangelist Billy Graham shared a stage with Bill Clinton this past Sunday.  It was a dichotomous scene, the preacher and the lecher. Although, judging from Graham's praise of the Great Pretender, you'd think they were two... More

A few Senators from both parties went over the top last week in slamming the President and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld over the conduct of the war in Iraq. But Congressional critics are becoming desperate about another military issue as well, one much closer to home. The Secretary of Defense is... More