Nobody had to pay the anti-war demonstrations of the Vietnam era. Times have changed. More

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday said that "a huge power vacuum" was imminent in Iraq and promised that Iran would be ready to fill it. More

Do you ever get the feeling that customer service is as much a part of the past as drive-in movies and typewriters? More

The technology of war may change, but the nature of war is immutable. More

Deborah Haynes, the UK Times' correspondent in Baghdad, has recently put her finger on perhaps the greatest difficulty we face in Iraq today: The reluctance of many pro-American Iraqis to help us, because they fear we may cut and run. More

Much of the history of the 20th century is the history of the inexplicable propensity of civilized people to deny the existence of evil which time and again threatens to destroy them. More

At least twice Al Qaeda leaders massed in Afghanistan but weren't taken out, loss of innocent lives the concern. Now Iraq: Al Qaeda elites ganged with Iraqi terrorists, but Congress says, Halt. More

On this, my latest trip to Iraq, I have been embedded with the US military on the front lines for the last month More

The world's most notorious state exponent of anti-Semitism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is on a path to uproot and slaughter large numbers of the greatest threat to its existence, the Iranian people More

One of the ugliest aspects of contemporary "progressive" thought is a thoroughly patronizing attitude toward African-Americans. The latest insult comes from America's most stridently left wing big city government, San Francisco. More

Hillary Clinton is now pitching her multi-billion dollar bailout plan for the "victims" of "unscrupulous" mortgage brokers who act "dishonestly and try to take advantage of people". More

In left-coast Washington State half the kids entering community college can't do seventh-grade math. More

We can no longer whitewash the obvious: Russia is now conducting a low-intensity conflict in the Caucasus in its bid to turn back NATO expansion and to maintain connections to terror-supporting states. More

James Hansen, NASA's True Believer in the global warming credo, has not just jumped the shark, he's achieved escape velocity. More

Do the rich really escape paying their "fair share of taxes? According to a prominent New York Times writer, they do. More

If Democrats really do support the troops, they will use their control of Congress to launch one more investigation -- into a series of statements and reported leaks by officials that have severely harmed our troops More

In accord with the pleasant US-Iran relations then-existing, President Carter spent New Year's Eve in 1977 with the Shah and toasted Iran as "an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world". More

A combination of official diplomatic correspondence, and private memoirs provides lucid, often repellently detailed historical accounting of what the U.S. government knew regarding the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian genocide More

The gods and goddesses of the earth, of nature, the old rulers of the ancient world are back. More

Beginning August 28, America will witness the new thrust of Anti-Iraq War Protests. More

When I served as a Navy psychiatrist during the Vietnam War, one of my weekly duties was interviewing and assessing potential draftees who were seeking to avoid service by claiming mental illness. More

Libs believe the darndest things. They're not as cute as the things kids come out with, but having millions of adults who are stuck in false beliefs puts our society at a lot greater risk. More

Why humanize someone with murder in her heart? Why take a child who helps inspire untold numbers of kids to kill innocent other kids and try to make her seem like the girl next door? More

In a variant of the Golden Rule, Kevin Leffler has recently done to Michael Moore what Michael Moore has done to so many others. More

Europeans love to mock the salience of religion in American society, but they won't be laughing for very long. More

The current political squabbles in America between the liberal, socialist left and the moral capitalist conservative right are merely a skirmish line on the edge of two colliding civilizations. More

Bored by playing God, Congress now plays admiral and general. More

What is the source of power that positions the Mullahs to be such a large threat? More

Contemporary Western society is tumbling further and further into the abyss of undifferentiated mediocrity. Much of the blame is due to the ideology of Diversity More

The term "moral hazard" is being bandied about in commentary about the sub-prime mortgage woes currently roiling our financial markets. More

When Karl Rove resigned from his White House job last week, some scribblers were particularly offended that he said, "I'm not going to stay or leave based on whether it pleases the mob." More

The people who run political campaigns are a special breed. It is a measure of their importance that they become political lightning rods. More

Without too much extra effort, it was fairly easy to add 21 more names to the Media Hall of Shame list, bringing the total to 83. More

Ward Churchill could tell NASA's James Hansen what it is like when your work goes under a microscope. More

A year from now China will be on its benevolent best conduct, two years from now that could all change. More

Posterity was once a central concept of American Civilization. We sacrificed our welfare, even our lives, for the sake of future generations, especially for our descendants More

I had been working radio motor patrol in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area for about a year and had come across what I thought was every conceivable challenge a cop could imagine. More

Instead of providing moral clarity in a time of war, too many academics busy themselves inventing strategies to get along peaceably with genocidal terrorist groups and the governments that aid and abet them. More

Islamists are in a global war. They would like to impose their religion on the world. In Afghanistan, they are at war with non-Muslims, and they include Koreans among those with whom they struggle. More

Newt Gingrich is a possible late entrant into the 2008 presidential race. More

Last week's disclosure of a critical temperature data revision by NASA climate experts under cover-of-darkness poses as many questions as it answers. More

The more time that is allowed to pass before NASA makes a formal acknowledgement of error commensurate with the attention focused on the original announcement, the more it will be vulnerable to genuine charges of purposeful misconduct, as opposed to inadvertent error. More

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero deserves a special award for transatlantic chutzpah. More

The apparent fraud perpetrated by Scott Beauchamp has resulted in plenty of finger-pointing. However, there is another largely unnoticed direction in which to look as well, in assessing blame for the disgrace. More

Scott Beauchamp was the last straw. I realized that I need a scorecard to keep track of all the fallen journalists, journalistic mistakes and major and minor screw-ups in the media. More

Why is the most best European fighting army, the British, losing the battle for Basra in southern Iraq? Because the UK Ministry of Defense supplied its soldiers with the wrong equipment More

The recent claims that newly-confirmed Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito were ignoring precedent, contrary to their confirmation hearings pledges, are partisan chum hurled into the waters where swim the most radical members of the Democratic base. More

Robert Spencer's sobering new book, Religion of Peace? reveals how the prevailing multicultural orthodoxy in the West -- rooted in self-hatred, uncritical, blanket pacifism, and complacency -- negates the profound differences between Judeo-Christian and Islamic civilization More

Current national polls show both Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani with solid leads for their respective party's nominations. More

A good turn of the phrase and an attitude will bring you stardom in punditland. This is important to keep in mind when looking at the gigantic block party the Republicans threw in Ames, Iowa on Saturday More

That Congress spurns the 9/11 Commission should be no surprise: it approves every general sent to them then snubs them, too. More

"Everything must be different!" or "Alles muss anders sein!" was a slogan of the Nazi Party. It is also the heart's desire of every Leftist since Karl Marx. More

Will the Democrats abandon the middle in next year's election? But how can the Democrats abandon what they haven't occupied since, oh, the Kennedy Administration? More

These must be great times for those among the Muslims and Arabs who would like to drive Israel into the sea - in other words, most of those two groups. More

Our liberal friends divide humanity into groups with different levels of moral responsibility for their actions, infantilizing some to one degree or another. More

Popular discontent with the mullahs' rule has created an opportunity for regime change, if we have the wit and the will to exploit it. More

Most especially as a woman, I have become more and more concerned that Hillary Rodham Clinton just might be elected as the first female President of the United States More

Politicians assume that everyone who votes for them is enthusiastically endorsing their policies More

The dynamics of the relationship between the United States and the Iran's mullahs resembles that of an abused wife and a batterer husband. More

The global warming crowd does not take kindly to being contradicted, either by critics or data. Of course, critics can be defamed and data can be skewed. More

A test for the members of Congress. Quick: who wrote the following? More

Peleliu. Until recently, the word was altogether foreign to me. Of late, I encounter it at every turn. More

Not many Muslim nations are able to sustain electoral democracy. That is a matter of history. More

Last month I had the pleasure of briefing a large group of local and state law enforcement officials on the Islamic extremist threat in their area More

Mr. Gore went to Singapore and peddled a phony story, one he appears to have borrowed without attribution. More

For most of our history, despite the Supreme Court's important role, Justices nominated by a President were subject to little scrutiny beyond character and ability. More

The President signed a six-month modification to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Sunday, after the Democrat-controlled Congress agreed to Administration provisions. More

The door was slammed shut on the seemingly un-killable Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair this week, when the US Army completed its investigation More

"One of the things I learned during the war was never to pick up my pen to transmit my own despair." - Albert Camus More

The trend is not favorable for Vladimir Putin, the ex-KGB agent and current President of the Russian Federation. More

The British Propaganda Corporation, formerly known as the BBC, has just launched the latest Abu Ghraib revival More

Led by Senator Charles Schumer, Senate Democrats are trying to bamboozle the American public into believing that Bush appointees to the Supreme Court are dangerous radicals. More

Sometime in the next few days, Barry Bonds will become the all-time home run leader in major league baseball history, surpassing Henry Aaron. More

The US Government is considering a new gigantic arms sale to the Saudi Kingdom. The regime should consider better ways to spend its money on defending its survival. More

No doubt Senator Obama was stung by Hillary Clinton's charge of naïveté and knows that his lack of executive and foreign policy experience could be a drawback to his presidential ambitions More

Not since Socialist/Heroic Realism in the 1930's has a mode of art been so rigidly constrained to a political orthodoxy, as photography has been for the last 40 years. More

When someone has been arrested more than 20 times for burglary one would think the justice system would find a place to incarcerate him for the rest of his life. More

History is a supremely complex discipline. More

In a remarkable turnabout reminiscent of the famous John Kerry flip flop, ""I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.", U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) effected a dramatic reversal last week in his position on illegal immigration. More

I have often wondered how the media are in such lock step on Global Warming. Well, I wonder no more More

The left's anti-war forces sustained heavy casualties earlier this week. And, judging from both strategy shifts and painful screams heard throughout the liberal blogosphere, many of the fallen were high value propaganda targets. More

Many on the left regard Rupert Murdoch, architect of the rise of Fox News Channel, as the anti-Christ. More accurately, Murdoch deserves the title of the anti-Pinch. More

Tony Blair's successor as British prime minister has now signaled very clearly that he intends to follow Blair's dual foreign policy: pursue the alliance with America and surrender more British sovereignty to the European Union More

I breathed a sigh of relief when most of the Republican presidential hopefuls declined to participate in the next YouTube debate. More

As our young men and women spend the next month sweating in the 130 degree heat of a Baghdad summer, the elected representatives of the people of Iraq have decided to beat the heat and take the month off. More

Contrary to received wisdom among so-called progressives and community advocates, gentrification is good for poor people. More

Good intentions and the urge to get something done can lead to disastrous policy. More