It isn't exactly David slaying Goliath, but an equally unexpected victory has stunned the California wine industry. More

Some time ago, I had the honor of meeting a newly commissioned Marine Corps officer who was about to ship out to Afghanistan to take command of a unit there. More

Beware! Watching Michael Moore's new documentary, SiCKO, could make you a little queasy. More

The difficult part of commenting on the Israeli Palestinian conflict has never been in assigning blame for what has gone wrong. Rather, it has been in trying to come up with rational and creative policy suggestions and alternatives to the many failed approaches of the past More

Tony Blair may have a new job as special envoy for the Quartet (US, Russian, EU and UN), but he remains committed to the flawed concept of a two-state solution. More

In the opening chapter of The Assault on Reason, its seldom reasonable author accuses the Bush administration of exploiting people's fears More

Here in Iraq, the war is without a doubt being won. Along with the set-backs and fatalities, we are winning important moral and military victories, and both of those kinds of wins are equally important. More

On Monday the Supreme court handed down three free speech rulings that find favor with conservatives. I beg to differ. More

Since conservatism seems to be in a rebuilding year, as they diplomatically call it in baseball, maybe it's time to fire the coach. Maybe it's even time to skip a generation and go with a bunch of untried rookies. More

Tony Blair is leaving office by surrendering British sovereignty to the EU, and then openly lying about it. Alas, poor Tony. And alas, poor Britain. More

This is a tale of the danger of government sponsored art. Arguably, it is even worse than that. More

You cannot be an effective leader of the free world while compromising and chumming with the enemies of freedom, both foreign and especially domestic. More

With a series of decisions made over the past few weeks, the American legal establishment - both civil and military -- has met and surpassed the lowest expectations of its critics. More

Jimmy Carter was in London last week, receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University, which will offer a course later this year entitled "The Middle Ease and the West: From Confrontation to Coexistence." More

It must be a painful adjustment to delude yourself into believing that you have your finger on the pulse of the national community and then become frustrated when you discover that you don't have a clue More

This past weekend, Barack Obama passed up two key opportunities to stand up and be counted when it comes to making good on his campaign themes. More

Hezbollah is alive, thriving, and steadily advancing in its quest to conquer the sovereign nation of Lebanon. Among those surprised would apparently be General Claudio Graziano, the Italian officer who since February has been commanding the United Nations "peacekeeping" forces in Lebanon More

President Bush and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stubbornly and foolishly continue to push for the creation of an independent Palestinian State between Israel and Jordan More

Two weeks since that last episode of the Sopranos, and you're still bitching. Not just disagreeing with David Chase's artistic judgment, but feeling utterly betrayed. More

On virtually all fronts, Western civilization has arrived at its most dismal cultural and intellectual output. One need only compare the accomplishments of a mere century ago with our latter-day creations to see the enormity of the change. More

Time is indeed a very mysterious thing. Only we tend not to think of it as "mysterious" because somehow we have deluded ourselves into believing that since we have found a way to measure it (or at least we think we have), we are the ones who master it More

The Washington Post delivered the jihadist propaganda goods with the bizarre ranting of Ahmed Yousef earlier this week More

Tashbih Sayyed called himself a Muslim Zionist. He fearlessly directed his great intellect and powerful voice to combat Jew-hatred and anti-Zionism, often at great personal cost. More

AT contributor and blogger Stefania Lapennaa interviewed Tunisian liberal academic and human rights activist, Abu Khawla recently. More

Like some robber baron capitalist of yore, the New York Times is telling the remaining full price readers of its print product that they will pay more and get less, the same message it has been sending advertisers for years. More

From start to end, SiCKO, the latest "documentary" from notorious writer and filmmaker Michael Moore, is a stunning example of the Big Lie. More

It is always a challenge to describe legal proceedings for a general audience and accurately capture clearly the gist of the arguments without oversimplifying them or making them utterly boring and incomprehensible to non-lawyers More

Unless something unexpected happens, Iran and the West are on a collision course. The key to the coming confrontation is a basic diplomatic fact. More

The decisive rout of Fatah in Gaza last week has led to a series of calls for new strategies designed to seize the opportunity created by the sudden turn of events. More

Everyone is talking about education reform when they're not talking about immigration. Jonah Goldberg wonders why we bother to have public education, given how screwed up it is. More

The clamor for harvesting stem cells from embryos, as in the current bill passed by Congress, seems at first glance puzzling. More

It is the time for Airbus to shine in the spotlight of the Paris Air Show, the pre-eminent aerospace gathering of the year More

Statecraft apparently consists of taking content-less nouns (diplomacy, game plan, negotiation, engagement) and surrounding them with high-sounding adjectives (hands-on, intensive, active, serious). More

It is the conventional wisdom in many quarters that the soon-to-be-revived immigration bill is a good thing, because it is the result of a grand bipartisan compromise. More

Why do so many in the media and culture place a positive spin on the triumph of tyrants? Hugo Chavez is just the latest in a long line of left wing thugs to capture the hearts of elite journalists. More

Jack and Bobby Kennedy had far more in common with today's neo-cons than any Democrat alive today, with the possible exception of Joe Lieberman. More

International affairs is a zero sum game. When power is withdrawn by one state, another state or group will fill that power vacuum. More

The Christian friends of Israel regard the entire Bible as inspired and inerrant. But the New Testament is supposedly anti-Semitic. So why would they support Israel and the Jewish community? More

Fred Thompson is a small town guy who made it from the agricultural communes of south-central Tennessee to Capitol Hill and our TV sets. More

It was but all a dream to ever believe Russia would be benign and peaceful under Putin. More

Isn't Britain the country with the longest tradition of tolerance in the world? The answer is Yes, it used to be, and No, it isn't any more. More

A new study by the US Institute for Peace (USIP) of polling data from fourteen different Muslim countries finds that support for a role for Islam in politics strongly correlates with more likely support for terrorism. More

In the interest of impartiality, the authors of the Constitution did not define what constitutes a religion. More

So you have the bad luck to be born into an Arab family in Gaza. As a toddler you get to watch the Mickey Martyr Club on Hamas TV, to begin a lifelong process of indoctrination More

According to a statement released on June 12, 2007 by the Antioch College Board of Trustees, the College in Yellow Springs, Ohio will suspend operations on July 1, 2008. More

Let us be careful of the "should have known" approach to political analysis. More

America must reckon with the reality of a long term project to create a Euro-Arab alliance based on far-reaching cultural integration measures. More

For a single day, George W. Bush knew what it felt like to be Bill Clinton. In Albania on Sunday, Bush got the Clinton treatment-being adored, cheered, hugged, reached for, applauded More

Once again, the unelected, illegitimate clown puppet of the thugs of the Iranian Islamic regime, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "The Monkey" to Iranians, has spewed some outrageous statements against the "State of Israel". More

President Bush is threatening to revive the failed comprehensive immigration bill in "improved" form. He is wasting his and our time. No amount of improving can make the comprehensive approach the best path for America to solve its immigration woes. More

The Democrats and their media poodles have proudly and publicly sabotaged the Iraq War effort since the beginning. This is not just a guess, but a clear and visible fact, openly celebrated by the Left. More

President George W. Bush was greeted by thousands of American-flag waving Albanians and a 21-gun salute during his short visit to Albania on Sunday. Predictably, some will believe that this marks the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. More

The commandant asks that stories tell themselves. He is overruled by those who rule over stories. More

There is a fundamental difference between privately own companies and state owned ones, between market and state capitalism. Profits motivate businesses, geopolitical strategy motivates governments and, ultimately, the businesses they control. More

"The very rich are different from you and me," said, F. Scott Fitzgerald, long before Paris Hilton was born. More

Islam says that a Muslim man is allowed to marry a Christian woman, but a Christian man is not permitted to marry a Muslim woman. What does the Quran say on the matter? What does the New Testament teach on interfaith marriages? More

Well, it looks like an aroused citizenry is shooting down a terrifyingly bad piece of legislation in the Senate. The country may be dodging a bullet. More

In a bygone era, a child sent to study the humanities was expected to drink deeply from the collected wisdom of the finest writers and artists, emerging with a heightened sense of mankind's potential for greatness as well the flaws inherent in human nature. More

Immediately following 9-11, an anthrax attack originating from letters containing anthrax spores infected 22 people, killing five. After almost six years, the case has not been solved More

Peter Rodman, one of the architects of our military and political policy in Iraq and William Shawcross, liberal hawk now branded traitor by the left for his support of the Iraq War, have written what I believe to be an extremely important op-ed in the New York Times on why walking away in defeat from Iraq would be an unmitigated disaster: More

Recent trends and events in law and public policy suggest that safeguards offered by informed consent are being eroded. More

Most of the public debate over the immigration bill has taken place in a fantasy world where certain fairly immutable truths are blithely ignored. More

Later this year, China will overtake the United States as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). At that time, some of the pressure to accept egregious UN-based Kyoto-style protocols will shift eastward from Washington to Beijing. More

Historian James M. McPherson's essay on General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous, or infamous, "march through Georgia " sheds light on the success in bringing victory, and peace, to the United States More

Conservatives are angry. Those who have continued to stand by President Bush through thick and thin feel that his support of Ted Kennedy's "comprehensive" immigration reform bill is not only a slap in the face to all Americans, but a slap in the face to the Republican base More

The British college teachers union just voted to boycott Israel's universities and colleges. There is something so grotesque and Kafkaesque about this move that it simply cries out for explanation. More

The term "bleeding-heart liberal" has been bandied about for years, in an effort to illustrate the faux or at least hyperbolic sense of compassion attributed to those on the left. More

One of the most common objections to building a fence along the southern border is that it would be too expensive. That this idea has taken root is nothing short of remarkable More

Conservatives have responded with outrage at Hillary Clinton's denunciation of American society (under Republicans) as one where you are "on-your-own" in a speech last week. And well they might, for she tells a narrative about an America they never heard of. More

In his Autobiography, Mark Twain offers these words of wisdom: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics". When presented anything by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you usually get all three More

If the surge in Iraq is showing signs of success, are so many Americans dying over the last two months? It comes down to the old real estate saying, location, location, location. More

Tomorrow, June 5, after some four years of an unenviable ordeal, I. Lewis Libby, a brilliant man, a dedicated public servant and the father of two young children, will stand in the dock before U.S. District Court judge Reggie Walton to be sentenced More

Today, the slogan of Mexico is "Su casa es mi casa" --- your house is mine. That is a slogan for home invaders. More

One of the chronic with the Bush Administration is that the President is insufficiently vindictive to deal with the enemies of this republic. Rudy Giuliani, however, strikes me as a guy who can be a really mean SOB, a man not to be crossed. More

I have no reason to doubt the justice of conservative criticism of "comprehensive" immigration "reform." I do doubt, however, that the criticism is sufficiently, well, conservative. More

Many millions of Muslims in the Arab world and beyond have a deep hostility towards Jews or "the Jew." It seems to have reached a metaphysical level or descended into a debased, irrational state of mind. The question is: where does the hate come from? More

Jazz is the great cultural achievement of America where blacks took a leading role as creators and practitioners, where blacks and everyone else performed and listened in harmony (literally and figuratively). That era ended yesterday. More

Global warming will be a key feature on the agenda of the up-coming G-8 summit meeting in Germany and hot-headed Greens will be turning up the heat More

Sen. Christopher Dodd and Gov. Bill Richardson are the latest to decline an invitation to attend and participate in a debate among Democrat presidential hopefuls in September at Detroit. More

Recently, nationally syndicated conservative columnist, Linda Chavez, wrote a column in which she began: "Some people just don't like Mexicans - or anyone else from south of the border." More

Dr. Charles Krauthammer has been for many years a glass half empty person on Israel's struggle for normalcy. So it was a bit out of pattern for Krauthammer to lean ever so slightly to the glass half full position in his remarks to an audience of 2000 in Chicago Wednesday. More

The strong and widely celebrated bond between Bill Clinton and our nation's black community has somewhat obscured the growing ties that Hillary has independently forged with the nation's Hispanic community over the years. More

In another instance of what has become a predictable and frequent assault on conservative campus publications, The Committee on Student Life at Tufts has censured the The Primary Source, a student magazine More