Today's Boston Globe editorial, "Ending the Darfur Silence," focused on the genocide in the Darfur section of Sudan. While forceful in its argument that this is an international humanitarian disaster, it is hypocritical and almost weasily in the way it skirts the main solution to the problem. The... More

Thirty—one years ago this weekend the United States departed, some say fled, South Vietnam. A people we had promised to keep free and protect were soon swallowed by the Communist North of the once—divided country. Whether or not we should have been there in the first place is one... More

In a WaPo opinion piece this Sunday, Avner Cohen and William Burr present a critique of US policy on Israel's nuclear weapons capacity. As usual in the liberal media, they take their facts completely out of context: This is Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. They fail to mention, for example,... More

Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky are often called philosophical or theological novels. Their subject is neither philosophy nor theology, but human beings, whom Dostoevsky correctly portrays as motivated by philosophical and theological ideas, however... More

There is a moment in the film United 93 where director Paul Greengrass takes a small step backward from the unrelenting intimate universe into which he has boldly thrust the audience and allows a glimmer of the larger truth of September 11 to be revealed. Having committed themselves to their heroic... More

Judge Reggie B. Walton yesterday rejected the defense Motion to Dismiss filed by Lewis Libby. His opinion is deeply flawed, and I think the arguments made by Libby's counsel are compelling, so I hope a special interlocutory appeal is allowed before the end of the trial. Criminal cases generally are... More

The United States is being 'Mexicanized' as we watch. I am not talking about race or demographics at all.  I mean that our system of governance is being undermined, and that if we let matters continue, we will end up with a political economy like Mexico's  — unable to provide good... More

There once was a time when movies celebrated peculiarly American traits, circumstances and settings. Small town America, as it appeared in the films until the Sixities generation seized the arts, was close to heaven on earth. Small Town Girl, a 1953 MGM musical, is a classic of the genre. It is not... More

In contrast to recent revelations of national security leaks occurring within the CIA, consider the absurdly trivial and wholly unsubstantiated charges that ultimately drove House Majority Leader Tom Delay from office. After presenting a vapid case before numerous grand juries who could find... More

CIA officer Mary McCarthy was fired for leaking a possibly trumped—up story about a secret network of CIA—run prisons in Europe. Ms. McCarthy's pattern of political donations, her Clinton administration White House service, and her extensive network of ties to other important... More

Monday's reiteration by Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he'll consider withdrawing from the Nuclear Non—proliferation Treaty (NNPT) if the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 'tries to prevent his country from enriching uranium' is tantamount to a recalcitrant child... More

Gears are shifting at the White House. We are moving into election mode. Expect the national conversation to change. The White House has a new spokesman, Tony Snow, whose appointment is being confirmed by his former employer, Fox News. He will be doing a very different task than his predecessor.... More

A critical element of the 'General's Revolt' that has not received enough attention is the involvement of the Center for Defense Information (CDI).  The CDI is a Washington—based advocacy group that, like the Institute of Policy Studies or the National Resources Defense Council, is... More

The "one—time" amnesty of 1986 legalized two million aliens.  However, it inspired six times that number to enter the United States illegally and emboldened them remain until their numbers reached a critical mass big enough to demand a logically absurd "second one—time"... More

Iran once again directly challenges the United States today as a nuclear power in the making, and panic attacks are breaking out in the expected quarters. Hardly a day goes by without another round of bloodcurdling threats from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or other representatives of the Islamic Republic... More

Suppose the United States followed the ideas of the Left and took the French approach to Iranian nukes: Ignore the threat and just try to buy into Iran's oil and gas fields. As for Israel, it is only "un petit pays pissant," in the famous words of the French diplomat in London: It's only... More

Pope Benedict XVI began his second year in the Chair of Peter yesterday, and what a difference a year makes. Part of the press tarred him as the 'Hitler Youth' Pope, Cardinal 'Panzer' Ratzinger, John Paul II's 'orthodox enforcer,' feared by liberals and championed by reactionaries. Today he... More

Like a bad penny, we just can't seem to rid ourselves of the irksome presence of John Kerry. Ostensibly still a Senator (although you'd be hard pressed to come up with anything noteworthy the former Presidential candidate has ever done in that august body), Kerry pops up like a... More

Some observers think that President Bush's dismal job approval rating is not about the mess in Iraq.  It is not about the shocking corruption of the Republican Congress.  It is not even about President Bush's failure to prevent Hurricane Katrina.  It reflects Americans' rage at $3.00... More

It was one of those hot, muggy, summer nights in Brooklyn, New York, prior to the advent of air—conditioning in police cars. The heat from the day had been absorbed into the concrete streets and brick buildings, storing the radiation until the sun went down, then creating an oven—like... More

Pooh on Earth Day, sort of. Where is People Day? Maybe we have all watched too many Disney Movies.  Personification and ego have run amok.  We are now declaring ourselves protectors of this rock we live on, as though Grandmother Nature is on her death bed. I am from Wisconsin,... More

Arthur Ochs 'Pinch' Sulzberger, Jr., the scion of a family dynasty founded by his great grandfather, is well into the process of destroying the patrimony handed to him on a silver platter. Even worse, the whole world is starting to notice, something which will make other family members distinctly... More

Concerns are rising about the threat of an EMP (ElectroMagnetic Pulse) attack, aimed at destroying our electronic guts. What if our computers and other electronics didn't work? What if electronic records of your bank account were immobilized? What would happen to our technology—dependent... More

A nation advancing in the fields of science and technology usually inspires pride among its citizens. Iranians are no exception. Throughout Iran's history, the traditional culture has been particularly focused on scientific and intellectual achievement, and these pursuits have been rewarded with... More

Free trade and liberal immigration policy are intimately linked in the minds of the more puritanical proponents of free trade.  For them, 'labor' is simply one more variable in a theoretical economic model, equivalent in every way to capital or raw materials or manufactured goods.  Just... More

Have you ever considered the peculiar yet convenient amnesia that regularly strikes members of the drive—by mediaаwhen it fits their political agenda? Given the development of the Internet, the accuracy and ease of search engines, and the ready access of more detailed media devices such as... More

On March 29th, 2006 the drive—by media failed to report the scuttlingаof a new bill in the House of Representatives. H.R. bill 609 would have amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 and required America's colleges and universities to report any donations received from Saudi Arabia as part... More

Several months back, many political pundits were arguing that the Democrats had a real chance of winning control of the Senate in the 2006 elections. There were fewer stories about the battle for control of the House. This is not surprising since it is a lot harder to focus on 435 House races... More

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift has certainly never been accused of being an impartial journalist. Quite the contrary, when compared with other antique media members, Clift has to be considered one of the most consistently biased — unashamedly and unapologetically appearing as though the ideas for... More

Can fetuses feel pain? The question has moved beyond the realm of science into politics, with powerful overtones for the general public's understanding of abortion itself. Regrettably, politics is trumping science in some quarters. There have been at least two prominent medical journal articles... More

Six retired generals have now called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the grounds that... well, just what has the Secretary done, or not done, that justifies his removal from the Pentagon in the middle of a war? Read through all the generals' statements, or listen to them... More

There is a story that in the early days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Moshe Dayan, the Israeli general with the eyepatch, who is regarded as the father of the IDF and who was then Defense Minister, offered his resignation to Golda Meir because he was stricken with a sense of guilt at having put the... More

Speculation is mounting (except, of course, among the 'professional' press), as to the identities of six of the eight individuals included in the Libby subpoena  to The New York Times (see Clarice Feldman's piece here). The Times deemed the identities of only two of the parties worthy of... More

The hardest thing in times of crisis is not to panic ——— to hang on and think very hard about the options. "Don't shoot 'till you see the whites of their eyes" is the old phrase. It signals mental clarity, readiness to act, and also patience and calm. It is not a bad slogan for... More

The sabre—rattling coming from Tehran has more rattle than sabre to it. Iran is making threats on which it cannot deliver. Literally. The Federation of American scientists site features a useful guide to international weaponry, containing detailed descriptions, histories, and... More

'Anchorman' Chris Matthews concluded the April 8, 2006 episode of the NBC show which shares his name with these words [emphasis mine]: "Yes an anchor is not simply a newsreader or even someone who decides the news items to be featured and in what order. The anchor is also the country's anchor... More

Happy Easter from FOB FALCON in southern Baghdad!  We have completed our fourth month here and continue to improve every day.  Our Soldiers are doing very well and I am incredibly proud of each one of them and what they have accomplished.  I am convinced that there is no unit in... More

Welcome to America!  Here in America we invite you to come to clean our toilets, pick our lettuce, and mow our lawns.  Come on in, folks; we need you to do the work we have become to lazy to do ourselves, and too cheap to pay for.  Come to work here at Plantation America! Is that... More

Former CENTCOM commander General Anthony Zinni recently added his two cents worthа to retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton's call for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, over his alleged incompetent leadership in conducting the Iraq War.а Zinni resurrected the old complaints that there... More

'The plan has been through the combatant commanders, it has been through the National Security Council process.а General Myers and General Pace (chairman and vice—chairman, Joint Chiefs) and others, including this individual, have seen it in a variety of iterations. When asked by the... More

Who remembers Sam Dash? If you were transfixed by the Watergate hearings, the bloodsport initiation of today's drive—by media, you may remember him as the "highly respected Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee." Sam Dash's name is now iconic, celebrated as a model of a principled lawyer.... More

The prosecution of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby has drama aplenty, though in its pre—trial phase, the action is visible only to those who carefully dissect the complex and dry language of seemingly—arcane filings with the court. Just before midnight last night Lewis Libby filed a... More

With the Democrat Presidential primaries apparently already completed, and Hillary Clinton still leading the pack, with Al Gore in the (left) wings waiting to stride onstage, it might behoove Republicans to start pondering a workable strategy for the 2008 election cycle. Thus far, it has been the... More

There is an old, dry pun on the query 'When is a door not a door?'—the answer being, 'When it is ajar.' But dry humor is clearly preferable to deluded and dangerous censorship of the lexicon which leads to this question, and requisite answer, 'When is jihad not jihad?'—'When it is... More

In the past couple of weeks as illegal immigration has dominated the front pages and the lead stories of virtually every network's evening news program, you haven't been able to swing a gato muerto without hitting some pundit or broadcaster discussing the 'unwanted jobs' being taken by undocumented... More

The negative DNA tests in the alleged Duke University lacrosse team rape case raise the specter of yet another possible hate crime hoax. The timing of the case just before a local election for district attorney, racial and class polarization in Durham, North Carolina, and the heavy hand... More

The contentious debate over President Truman's use of nuclear weapons against Japan to end World War Two in 1945 is once again roiling academic waters. Nuclear doctrine is a question of concern far beyond the rarified circle of intellectual elites, so the dispute has profound real world... More

Now that the Left, in the shape of the Academic Dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard, has decided that the Nazis were right, and the United States really is controlled by a Jewish cabal, it is useful to remind ourselves of the essential nobility of US foreign policy since Abraham Lincoln and... More

However often Jews and Christians have acquiesced in tyranny or even been guilty of it themselves, Judaism and Christianity are fundamentally religions of freedom. What we call progress is the fitful victory of the freedom at their core over the tyranny of the world into which they came and which... More

The Big Lie as propaganda device has a long and dishonorable history, gulling onto complacency those who prefer to avoid unpleasant worries. The Nazi propagandist Goebbels was its most notable practitioner, but for sheer numbers and historical roots, no other group can match the efforts of jihadist... More

C. Northcote Parkinson has a lot to say about the war on terror, even though he died in 1993. And not simply because he predicted (in East and West, published in 1962) that the great conflict of the third millennium would involve a battle between the West and revived Eastern world. Parkinson was a... More

Did the lead editorial in yesterday's Washington Post that defended the President's authorizing the declassification of a secret NIE report on Iraq WMD misstate the facts surrounding the Administration's handling of pre—war intelligence? The entire left wing of the blogosphere believes so.... More

For nearly a hundred years the cr鐵he sat in front of the Balch Elementary School in South Norwood, Massachusetts.  Then in 2004, Sarah Wunsch, attorney for the Massachusetts branch of the American Civil Liberties Union contended that the display depicting the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem... More

On April 2, 2006, M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor and the president of the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law, wrote an op—ed in the Chicago Tribune on apostasy (leaving a religion), asserting that it is not a capital crime in Islamic... More

The Red State Taliban has been arraigned as a Clear and Present Danger to the nation by Kevin Phillips in his new book American Theocracy. They had been evading detection in the Sun Belt since first surveilled by Mr. Phillips in The Emerging Republican Majority.  The New York Times Book... More

Universities, for those of us who lecture on campuses, are the battleground for the heart and soul of the next generation of leaders. They are the battleground where we must fight to win back the opinions and allegiance of American college students. This is made harder when Islamists in both the... More

During the course of war, the minority party has two choices.  It can acquiesce to the majority party on war strategy for the sake of national unity, and provide opposition on domestic programs.  Or, it can obstruct successful war operations for the purposes of reacquiring power. ... More

Inspired by the Sean Hannity interview with Ward Churchill   We send our kids to college, To get an education; We send them there for knowledge, Not to learn to hate their nation. The billions that we pay, These high priced institutions, Should pay to teach our kids a way, To seek life's best... More

'April is the cruelest month' — T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland It is rejection time for almost all the applicants to elite colleges and universities. America's most prestigious schools, which pride themselves on their ever—lower acceptance rates, are basking in their record rejections of... More

This week, two amazing developments have begun to shift the electoral landscape in two Latin American countries in a conservative direction. We may have Hugo Chavez, the Castro—loving, petro—dollar fuelled president of Venezuela to thank for the just—emerging turn away from... More

Once, a long time ago when I was just getting started in commercial aviation, I was forced to fly with an insufferable Captain.  Though I had more and more varied experience in the military version of our aircraft than did he, the man exerted his authority constantly and in no uncertain... More

Mexico is a proud nation with a rich distinctive history and heritage, unique in not just North America but the entire Western Hemisphere. Living next door to a much larger and wealthier superpower is guaranteed to raise issues of nationalism — as Canada's history and politics also... More

You can tell that the tide is turning in the debate over illegal immigration, because the advocates of open borders and amnesty are no longer arguing about what should be done.  Now their argument has degenerated into a description of what can't be done.  From a dozen mouths this week we... More

In case you think racial discrimination is a pre—21st century nightmare, a relic of a bygone era in which skin pigmentation decided one's destiny and being black was tantamount to committing a felony, think again. A black employee at a company in Conroe, Texas, who had been subjected to... More

[Part One may be found here] A few days ago, something quite unprecedented happened. A former federal prosecutor (Richard Convertino) was indicted for obstructing justice and seeking false  testimony under oath in the nation's first post—9/11 terror trial three years ago. What ... More

With the release of the report that sexual assaults in the Army are up, the usual feminist suspects have showed up to condemn the military and bewail the plight of the women forced to work with such barbarians.а No matter what the incident, feminists are there to gnash their teeth and demand... More

Messy, messy, messy. That's all we can say about the onslaught of uncontrolled, illegal migration of one—eighth of Mexico's population into the United States.  The debate is getting hotter in Washington and on the air waves. It will be a long time before it settles down. Things are about... More

Coming soon to a theater near you — whether you're ready or not — will be the first mass market attempt by Hollywood to insert the tragedy of 9/11 into the American narrative. United 93, a Universal Studios project set to open April 28, tells the story of the ill—fated airliner... More

We westerners have been properly horrified in recent weeks as the Afghan courts have prosecuted the Christian convert Abdul Rahman and imams of the religion of peace have called for the apostate's death. "Philistine hypocrisy," writes Spengler in Asia Times.  It makes complete sense to kill... More

Over the past few weeks, two serious accusations of mass murder by Coalition units have surfaced, both involving current operations — one against the Jihadis, the other against illegal militia. Both were given a wide airing in the international media. At Ishaqi, a village near Samarra, at... More

One of the most striking features of the immigration debate now raging in Washington is that none of the Democratic or Republican proposals seem to hold any appeal for ordinary Americans —— which is why this debate is generating so much frustration among voters that no matter which... More

Immigration has become a great crisis in the United States and Europe, with (much like the old Roman Empire) non—assimilated invaders pouring across the borders unchecked. The situation is grave, with the likelihood of Europe becoming part of the Islamic world and the possibility of the... More

Ronald Reagan used to say, 'There you go again.' The Gipper was known for using that phrase every time someone distorted the truth. He probably never gave a thought to Cynthia McKinney, but he was familiar with her type of behavior. Sadly, we live in convoluted times, an era it which it has become... More

In 2006 in Pakistan, Christians have been arrested for converting from Islam to Christianity. In 2006 in Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman was prosecuted for converting from Islam to Christianity, a 'crime' that carries the death penalty. He has safely arrived in Italy, after his release on account of... More

The late Richard Grenier's book The Marrakesh One—Two was a trenchant fictional account of a doomed effort to film the life of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Grenier (pp.3—4) characterized the filmmakers' basic predicament with biting wit: It's going to be like The Mohammed... More

On Sunday, December 14 2003, my cell phone rang at 4:30 am. It was my boss, WLS Program Director Michael Packer, informing me that Saddam Hussein had been dragged out of his spider hole, and that as a result, I needed to drag my rear end in to work ASAP. WLS would be running special programming.... More

President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad all expressed great relief and happiness on learning that Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was released unharmed near an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party yesterday, after almost three... More

[In the spirit of April Fool's Day satire, it is time to examine some new policy options — editor] The problem with the Mexican border is Mexico itself.  We're just as close to Mexico as Mexico is to us, right?  But you don't see a lot of Americans sneaking into Mexico to find a... More

[Editor's Note: This article is satire in celebration of April Fool's Day.] Nancy Reagan is a loyal American who has endured false accusations in dignified silence and has steadfastly refused to reveal her key role in U.S. foreign policy. I think it's time for the truth about Project... More