This March marked the 50th anniversary of one of Hollywood's most revered, indeed sacrosanct films, 1957's 12 Angry Men, an icon of liberal judicial reform But go beneath the emotional surface, and one discovers a fraud, a set-up from beginning to end. More

Does postmodernism spring out of the head of Zeus unconceived or misconceived? Or does it carry a heavy debt on its back to earlier movements and trends? More

Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam. These are words we here with some regularity in today's media. The metaphorical lens through which all contemporary military conflicts must be viewed is Vietnam. More

Any Republican interested in a proposal by Unity08 for a bipartisan ticket should consider the disaster that befell the country when the GOP did nominate a bipartisan presidential ticket. More

Barack Obama has come to embody a dream of many, a dream of a black president. We all have our dreams, though. Suppose it came down to two - Barack Obama vs. General Russel Honoré More

This week, House Republicans were able to have language added to the Rail and Public Transportation Act of 2007 (HR 1401) that would protect public transportation travelers who report suspicious activities from being sued. More

No doubt the latest Gallup Poll came as a shock to you, Governor. It must be very disappointing after all your hard work to have a guy like Fred Thompson eating your lunch as soon as he mentions in passing that he might consider giving serious thought to the possibility of studying a run for the White House. More

Just months after 9/11, videotapes were confiscated in Afghanistan showing al-Qaeda terrorists training to takeover a school. Six months later, spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith boldly declared al-Qaeda's "right" to kill 2 million American children. More

Its always instructive to do a little research to discover how various politicians conducted themselves on comparable issues in years gone by. More

A large collection of American writers, and academics and propagandists, a chorus, if you may, are hostile to Israel and its supporters in America. More

A few days ago I had dinner with friends from a boutique actuarial services firm. After some chit chat, we soon turned to health care costs, health insurance and, as one would expect in the small talk lexicon of actuaries, mortality tables. More

Iraq is like an abused woman in therapy. A psychologist friend explained it to me. More

The Left has developed no end of tricks to manipulate debates without the trouble of making a case or putting together an argument. More

Our young liberal friends seem to divide into two camps. There is the camp of enlightened progressives like Jacob Aronson; Then there is the angry left of Markos Moulitsas More

The CIA's former Bin Laden specialist, Michael Scheuer, has written a revealing article about KSM More

Senior Cpl. Mark Nix of the Dallas Police Department went to work last Friday as he had done for the past 6 years. The 33 year-old officer was engaged to be married, but that marriage will never take place. More

Air Force Maj. Eric Egland's is talking about more support for bottom up tactics and intelligence. He's worth listening to. More

Sam Harris, an outspoken atheist and author of "Letter to a Christian Nation" once again presents the case that the moderate believers shield the fundamentalists from public criticism and analysis. More

Famed movie director James Cameron is among those climbing on the bandwagon of publicity over a supposed tomb of Jesus. Ossuaries, repositories of bones, were discovered in a family tomb in Jerusalem in 1980 More

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just cancelled his planned appearance before the UN Security Council meeting, which is expected to vote for sanctions against Iran. More

On Nov. 19, 2005, United States Marines killed 24 civilians in an Iraqi town called Haditha. This past December, four Marines were charged with murder. But was it murder? More

As a scientist, I find the current strategy of the global warming crusade to be fascinating. Particularly because I am a scientist, I also find it insulting More

Al Gore is well schooled at manipulating the levers of power and money to his benefit. More

Senator Barack Obama has become the rarest of politicians: a man who has seemingly come out of nowhere to ascend to the top rank of Democratic Presidential candidates. More

As a nation we are facing a number of significant problems. Instead of tackling them, the newly elected Democratic Congress has decided that we are dopes. More

The Roanoke Times is the latest newspaper to discover that just because something can be done does not mean it should be done. More

Like a new Broadway show testing the waters in New Haven or Boston before hitting the bright lights of New York, an anti-Israel media crusade is going through its warm up numbers in preparation for two big June events. More

It is time to drop from our political vocabulary the once useful word "progressive." When not deceptive, it is meaningless. More

To say only one side is guilty of allowing a particular political agenda to intrude into scientific inquiry is demonstrably false More

The man whose claim to fame consist solely of having made a more-polished-than-average speech at his party's national convention has no claim on linguistic distinction. More

As we kick off history's 1st 2-year-long presidential election season, there's much buzz over the potential White House "firsts" it might bring. More

No Constitutional scholar am I, but I do seem to recall from my seventh-grade civics class that responsibility for relations with foreign governments resides in the Executive Branch More

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York City this coming week, he may see his own theatrical appearance before the infidel UN Security Council as a moment of personal destiny, a confrontation with the Satanic forces of the world More

Last Friday, Barbara Walters embarrassed herself conducting a fawning interview with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Marxist budding dictator. More

As the 2008 season gains momentum, political commentators are starting to address key questions about each serious candidate. More

The next Big Thing is the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market. Don't worry: it's going to be Bush's fault. More

It is already painfully clear that models of anthropogenic global warming are ridiculously inadequate More

Two years ago, an innocent child went to sleep in her bed as she had done every night for the short nine-year span of her life. She had no reason to believe that she was in any danger. More

Postmodernism is leveling multiple challenges at longstanding interpretations of the Bible and at the sacred text itself. More

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico probably doesn't have much of a shot at the Democrats' presidential nomination. If only for the entertainment value, he deserves serious scrutiny. More

When politics takes over from business in the operation of a world scale company, the consequences are often profound and unpredictable in the long run. More

The background of the Scooter Libby affair is the collapse of intelligence over the last 15 years. It is useful to revisit this very briefly in order to put a possible pardon in perspective. More

Far from bowing to rising clamor for his deportation, the controversial Mufti Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali is taking on the political establishment. More

A hearing tomorrow, called by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, will focus on the purported outing of CIA celebrity agent Valerie Plame More

When a towering granite cliff begins to come apart, you may not be see anything but tiny hairline cracks at the beginning. More

The liberal media make it too easy to expose their bias. Thanks to the internet, it is almost child's play to find the same behavior treated very differently More

Dear Fellow Immigrant: As you may know, immigration has become a very serious problem in this country. More

Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press has written another truly frightening little sci-fi piece entitled Warming Report to Warn of Coming Drought. More

The criticisms directed at Walter Reed Hospital have tarnished too many. Those who have called a B-52 strike on the great people of the U.S. Army Medical Corps have missed the bad guys. More

In some places in the US, as well as in the UK, schools are either considering or experimenting with extending school hours. More

Visit almost any American church or college these days, and you will be confronted with pleas to "Save Darfur" More

Satire: "Welcome to the Nevada Democratic Party presidential debate. My Name is Tim Russert and I'll be you moderator tonight-" More

Even as the leadership of the Democrats sets timetables for withdrawal from Iraq, the sands have shifted and leaders of the Global Islamic Jihad Movement are displaying signs that their own alliance has fractured. More

If "one's man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," then all wars are the same, liberation equals conquest, tyranny equals democracy, aggression equals defense, and Churchill equals Hitler. More

It is an inevitable fact of life that the integrity of a particular social movement will sooner or later be compromised - or its absurdity exposed - by the unforeseen display of poor judgment on the part of its staunchest defenders More

The following is a New York Times editorial that will never be written by the editors there More

US Senator John Cornyn took the time to address a group of war protesters were demonstrating outside a luncheon where he was being honored. More

The traditional folk dance of Lebanon is called the Dabke, or literally "stomping of the feet" - a descriptive that refers to the communal nature of the dance and the fact that it is most often performed at joyous occasions More

Reviewing TAKEDOWN: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad, by Jim Lacey More

Bart D. Ehrman has questioned the substantial integrity of the transmission of the New Testament manuscripts. Some orthodox scribes in the early church and later corrupted the New Testament to sustain and fortify their own theology, he says More

The most remarkable aspect of the 2008 Presidential race at the moment is its unpredictability. More

Why would those who enjoy freedom and live so well reject the very group whose protection allows them to do so? More

President Vladimir Putin increasingly has been imitating his Soviet predecessors of the bygone communist era. More

Scooter Libby is a convicted perjurer because the United States Department of Justice grossly abused its power and because politics short-circuited all the safeguards that are supposed to prevent such abuses. More

A neurotic obsession is like a bone stuck in your throat. You can't swallow it and you can't spit it out. That is how the German media are hooked on America. It doesn't look quite sane More

I admit that America is not perfect. Tyrants and populists such as Castro and Chavez in the neighborhood and Iran's Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il on the other side of the world call America the Big Bad Bully. More

I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he has had none in this ridiculous matter. More

Like characters in an ancient Greek tragedy, players in the Airbus drama are betraying their fatal flaws, and moving, almost inevitably, toward a dénouement that will bring serious misfortune to all. More

Among the numerous issues on which Democrats are hypersensitive to criticism -- or as you and I might say, critique -- is patriotism. Do not dare question a Democrat's patriotism More

A certifiable paranoiac would have a high old time tracing out the patterns behind the global warming campaign of the past month. More

Jordan's King Abdullah is at it again, repeating the mantra of the Arab League of which Jordan is a foundational member More

Some little boys seem to have few - or at least different - tools for learning. More

The likely Presidential nominees of both parties will be decided by February 5, 2008, (if not earlier), when more than a dozen states, including the largest five, may hold primaries. More

Locking up as mentally ill those who refuse to obey a tyrannical state was a favorite tactic of Stalin and his successors. The New Europe is learning to love this reinforcement of government power. More

The University of California is preparing to squander tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on a brand new law school for the University of California, Irvine, one that the state's own review found unnecessary and wasteful. More

The original Thirteen Colonies have a legitimate claim to be the cradle of liberty for all Americans. But another part of America has a proud and too often ignored history of proclaiming liberty More

The confident assertion that it will require 5-10 years before Iran has a nuclear bomb is strange, for at least three reasons. More

Not to many weeks ago a book arrived which I immediately opened upon returning home from work. The cover page carried the distinct visage of a bearded, long-haired older gentleman More

Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama gave a long-awaited speech regarding his views on the Middle East to the AIPAC Policy Forum in Chicago. More

For 51 weeks a year I'm a frustrated teeth-gnasher buried under the poltically-correct garbage spewed forth by my former colleagues in the mainstream media. More

It is possible to reach back to the original (autograph) books and letters of the New Testament, though the originals no longer exist. More

In the spirit of the world campaign to save polar bears and buy carbon indulgences to assuage our collective guilt, it is vital to point out that published scientific studies also make a case for driving more, burning more coal, and breeding more flatulent cows. More

Rather than solving the problem, many have foolishly allowed Sharia's gradual unchecked spread in the names of diversity and tolerance. More

More than two decades ago I witnessed a chilling vow. One that appears to have been kept. Therein lies a story. More

Machiavelli could offer President Bush what he needs most at this pivotal juncture: a philosophical blueprint for confronting the Iranian nuclear threat and successfully prosecuting the broader war against radical Islam. More

What would you do if you were stuck in one place, everything is the same, and nothing you did mattered?" More

I remember sitting placidly in my living room watching the TV when I first saw the Volkswagen commercial; little did I know it would become another victim on the long list of untimely casualties of political correctness. More