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,... 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... 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... 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

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... More

 
Much like a victim of spousal abuse,
The Left always seems to have an excuse
For 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... 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... 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... 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,... 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

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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

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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... 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... 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... More