Despite the impression created by the dominant media, global jihad is showing signs of serious trouble. More

Recently in the news several retired US generals, came out in favor of using defense resources for fighting the effects of global warming. More

I'll say this much for the Democratic candidates for President: At least they're trying to address the health care issue. More

Like the shape-shifting T-1000 cyborg of Terminator 2, Patrick Fitzgerald's claim that Valerie Plame was a covert agent, and that therefore Scooter Libby deserves a harsh sentence for supposedly outing her, not only won't die a proper death due to lack of proof, it keeps mutating into new forms. More

When Thomas Jefferson said that "people get the government they deserve," it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight but a timeless truth, More

What's ailing contemporary Middle East studies? A symposium earlier this month at Stanford University provided a clue. More

We have one last chance of pressuring the martyrdom cult that controls Iran's 70 million people: That would be drastic economic arm-twisting. More

The immigration bill currently before the United States Senate is the usual farrago of band-aids and special interest goodies, trying to patch up the failure of 1986. More

In the age of broadband Internet, YouTube, and Wikipedia, voters' first encounter with a candidate may not be hearing the stump speech or any of the campaign's message for that matter. More

During the all-too-brief time that I was fortunate enough to spend embedded with the 1-4 Cavalry in Baghdad, I met a number of truly great men. One of these was Robert Dixon, a 27-year-old Private First Class from Minneapolis More

I remember Chuck Meerholz and the day I was supposed to drive. After four months with B Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor; four months of on-the-job-training for a guy trained as an infantrymen, I was being taught to drive our tank. More

Re-emerging publicly on Friday May 25, 2007 for the first time since he went underground 4-months ago, Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr journeyed in a long motorcade from Najaf to the adjacent city of Kufa where he delivered a fiery sermon before 6,000 worshippers. More

Sderot, Israel and the nearby communities have been under missile fire for about a decade; a barrage that has only intensified this month, with hundreds of crude but deadly rockets More

Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, today's liberal is fond of claiming there is not only zero lefty bias in today's mainstream media, but often a conservative bias. More

The dictionary defines the word "savage" as beast-like, primitive and lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings. Usually, in these days of multicultural political correctness, the term is applied to the 4-legged beasts More

South Africa is the newest home for worldwide terror groups. More

I AM THE Jimmy Carter. My initials are "J.C." And because thou art blessed to be reading my press - you know what to fashion of ME. More

What if the Church is targeted for persecution by the government or by large groups of extremists, but the government does not come to the aid of Christians? More

The children's book Alice In Wonderland, tells a charming story of a girl trying to make sense of a senseless imaginary world. Our national defense seems to be caught in an oddly similar story, which is, unfortunately, not a harmless imagined child's story, and not at all charming. More

At times it seems that there are more sites honoring Rachel Carson than Josef Stalin at his peak. More

Jimmy Carter calling anyone else the worst president is like John Wayne Gacy calling a shoplifter a danger to society. More

Hamas, the Islamofascist party that now controls half the Palestinian population, is giving the world an important object lesson on civilization; or rather, on the crucial difference between civilization and barbarism. More

One frailty of man is that he is very adept at finding excuses to justify laziness and irresponsibility. More

The dictionary defines "Democide" as "The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder." More

Do we need 12 million illegal immigrants to pick our crops? How many people actually do pick our crops? More

It's known as HR 1592 or the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, and it is bad news for the concept of equal protection under the law. More

The worried eyes of the western world are turned toward Lebanon as the under-trained and under-equipped Lebanese army does battle with the Palestinian terrorist group known as Fatah al-Islam More

Although not apparent at first glance, there is a close connection between our inattention to the principles of federalism and the problems with the new immigration bill More

The much-discussed "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation, set to come before the Senate for debate, is an example of what is currently wrong with the Washington establishment More

Jerry Falwell's funeral is today, and now that he is being laid to rest, it is appropriate to dissect the vicious treatment he has received at the hands of his enemies since his unexpected demise. More

Somewhere in the course of the evolution of the American Left and its party, the Democrats, the offering of formal apologies became an important political ritual. More

If the United States is a divided nation then it was probably Jerry Falwell who divided it. More

Today's immigrants are not assimilating into our culture. Ted Kennedy's Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia More

When is a failure to respect the deep religious beliefs of a group a hate crime? In the state of Maine, we have an answer, one that ought to provoke outrage. More

There exists no simple formula to define or classify a multiple killer like Cho Seung-hui, the killer at Virginia Tech. More

There's been much made recently about the vaunted Cuban medical system since propagandist Michael Moore traveled to Havana with 9/11 heroes in tow More

When decades-old war movies, now restored and re-released, remind us that we ignore our own southern border and the maelstrom of the African continent at our peril, films so prescient deserve a second look. More

Al Gore has most assuredly secured his place in the pantheon of modern media deities, right along side Paris Hilton and Sean Penn. More

The other day we were once again warned about that dire danger to our existence - cow flatulence More

At the South Carolina Republican Presidential Candidates Debate, moderator Brit Hume posed a hypothetical question. Senator McCain's response was silly, at best. More

By the summer of 1864, after three years of extremely bitter fighting and huge losses of life, the Union armies had lost close to 300,000 men killed in action. More

One of Aldous Huxley's best novels, Grey Eminence, is devoted to Father Joseph, the mystical power-politician who helped set Europe on fire during the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648). More

On the day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his retirement, they retired the "new" in "New Labour." The British Labour Party removed the logo "New Labour, New Britain" from its web site and substituted just plain "Labour." More

I didn't anticipate that when I commented on the plan in California to impose taxpayer-financed universal health coverage that it would prompt a correspondence exchange between Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. More

Shocking in its scope and in the brazenness of its conspirators, the Duke Cunningham bribery caper is a tale not only of individual malfeasance that would make a grifter cry, but also of a culture in Washington, D.C. that threatens the integrity of government itself. More

An al Qaeda document newly released by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) of the United States Military Academy provides an extraordinary new connection to a previously reported order by Saddam Hussein to support al Qaeda attacks upon US forces in Somalia. More

A useful and amuysing way to look at the Democrats' presidential nomination contest is through the lens of the first season of NBC's show, The Apprentice. More

Late yesterday afternoon, without prior notice to Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank's Executive Committee released the Final Report of the Ad Hoc Group on his handling of personnel issues More

As Paul Wolfowitz struggles to retain his post as President of the World Bank in the face of a trumped up faux scandal engineered by his opponents, a grim scenario becomes possible, should he be forced from his position. More

We're headed for an even more serious social schism between the heartland and the coastal metropolises. More

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. may not have been a household name, but he was one of those very rare intellectuals who made a positive difference in the way we understand and cope with the world. More

The US mainstream media are failing to provide the public the context it needs to accurately understand both the successes of our progress in Iraq. More

Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) saw the advent of a practice which revolutionized modern war reporting: the embedding of journalists with frontline combat units in war. More

I don't know Patrick but I read his AT article "Kosovo and Antijihad Bigotry" and I have to say, he is spot on. I deployed to Kosovo with the 101st on Valentine's Day, 2000 as part of the first unit rotation in country after the initial US deployment. More

Many people in America today have gotten their understanding of the birth of modern Israel and the journey of the ship Exodus from the best selling novel and movie of the same name. More

I'm not buying the recent feminist propaganda about a "crisis" in retention and advancement of female lawyers. More

I'm not buying the recent feminist propaganda about a "crisis" in retention and advancement of female lawyers. More

One of the high ironies of the last several months was the brief news flash that the Rev. Al Sharpton is a distant cousin of the late and unlamented Senator Strom Thurmond More

I read the other day that television is missing 2.5 million viewers this spring. I am positively appalled. What on earth could healthy Americans be doing with all that free time if we're not watching television? More

This article is Part Eight, the conclusion to the series on postmodernism and the Bible. I chose the Bible as the focus of the series, since it is a cornerstone of western civilization. More

The 2008 election may see a vast number of new Hispanic voters streaming to the polls and voting Democrat, thanks to behind the scenes maneuvers by the Democrats' biggest sugar daddy of all. More

The singular focus by the Democrats and their media cohorts on money issues concerning Iraq conceals an overarching effort aimed at dismantling the two key strategic maneuvers designed to secure our future for decades to come. More

Yesterday, House Democrats once again showed the electorate why they cannot be entrusted with the nation's national security More

On April 30th, the State Department released a report noting a 25% increase in terrorist attacks around the world in 2006, ostensibly signaling the emergence of a period of unparalleled danger. More

George Soros, like many megalomaniacs, particularly the wealthiest ones, likes to keep his hands in those enterprises in which he invests. More

Five of the six suspects charged by the Federal prosecutors with p[lanning an attack on Ft. Dix were residents of Cherry Hill, NJ, an upper middle class suburb that prides itself on being one of the best places to live in America and on its ethnic diversity. More

Nicolas Sarkozy's triumph was not the only good news for the resurgant West this past weekend. The Islamists also suffered a setback in Turkey More

This week we found out that six Muslim men were arrested and charged with plotting to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey, with the intent of killing as many soldiers as they possibly could in the name of Islamic jihad. More

The announcement earlier this week by the FBI of the arrest of a terrorist cell near Fort Dix, New Jersey has prompted a number of emails to chastise me. My crime? Having some kind words to say about the Albanian people More

Rule One for conservative candidates in twenty-first century America is: Don't get defined as the mean-spirited candidate. More

Western media and Beltway foreign policy establishments are engaged in a push to rehabilitate the image of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to convince US diplomats to initiate a dialogue with the organization. More

The politicization of archaeology is nothing new. What is new in Facts on the Ground, is the length to which author Nadia Abu El-Haj of the Columbia University Anthology faculty has gone to ignore, distort, revise, imply and assert the inaccuracy of historical fact. More

George W. Bush poses a brain-busting Rubik's Cube to the liberals of the land, and it's only right to try to soothe their upset. Why does W talk that way? Why does he say "Noo-kyoo-lrrr" when every good liberal knows it's "Noo-kle-uhr"? More

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) doesn't want Americans to learn of radical Islam's war against moderate Muslims, such as Danish Member of Parliament Naser Khader, who are trying to reform and transport to the 21st century a faith born (and for a great many, stuck) in the 7th century. More

Democrats in Congress are insisting that funds budgeted for intelligence be diverted to the study of global climate warming. That was the last thing I read before my head hit the pillow and probably explains the nightmare that followed: More

It has become an accepted tenet of conventional wisdom to begin all discussions about science and nature with the understanding that religion has no place in such debates and that, in fact, faith is diametrically opposed to reason and scientific thought. More

Anyone who has traveled by air recently will have experienced the new security directives banning liquids, jells and pastes from being taken onboard an aircraft. More

My fellow Americans; what have the American Fighting men and women done to cause you to abandon them in a foreign land, surrounded by sinister people that are bent on killing them and all Americans? More

All the candidates criticized the Court's partial birth abortion decision in Gonzalez vs. Carhart and several denounced it from the stage during the Democratic presidential debate. More

Postmodernism brings us pessimism about acquiring knowledge and truth and achieving an accurate, sensible interpretation of the Bible. More

The inside the beltway political horse race broadcasters are abuzz about the possible (I think likely) entrance into the GOP Presidential race of former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. More

It wasn't too long ago that the Bush Administration suffered the barbs of Democrat leaders who decried US "unilateralism" in Iraq. More

Secretary of State Condi Rice's meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Waleed Moallem - the first high level contact between Syria and the US in more than 2 years - may be a significant step on the road to better relations between the two countries. More

Two headline-grabbing signals came from Europe this week, one from Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, and the other from Nicolas Sarkozy, the presidential front-runner in France More

Alec Baldwin's 11-year-old daughter may be scarred for life by his much publicized telephone rage. But perhaps Baldwin is the one who will be scarred for life. After all who are more easily scarred: Pampered celebrities or pampered celebrity children? More

Ask nine out of ten people what the purpose of art is, and they will say, "to express yourself." In fact, art has many purposes, and self-expression is one of the least important. No one could mistake "The Star-Spangled Banner" or "Ave Maria" for expressions of self. More

Every member of the press will assure you that freedom of the press is the most fundamental of all liberties. The news media are the sacred guardians of public access to information. More

The US military, the last bastion of creditability in the war, is now the primary target of the media and the enemies of the war. Almost like a plan. More

Three of most widely-covered recent news narratives revolve around the same fundamental issue: the failure of bureaucratic institutions to meet challenges involving their basic missions. More

Gen. David Petraeus recently returned from Iraq to brief the leaders of our government about the war there. Perhaps most notably, he took direct aim at the "Iraq is in a civil war" mantra of the media and Democratic leaders More

In its lead editorial on Sunday, "Still Waiting for Answers," the New York Times expressed the hope that Rep. Henry Waxman will enforce the subpoena of Condoleezza Rice More

Brown University, with a Middle East studies department currently offering no courses and losing one of its few professors in the field, is hosting a workshop titled "The Study of the Middle East and Islam: Challenges After 9-11" on May 3-4. More