Conventional wisdom is hardening around the proposition that Fred Dalton Thompson is too lazy, ill-prepared, tired, old, lackluster, inexperienced, inconsistent and bald to make a successful run for President. More

Frankly, there is nothing in this world that would make me happier than to cast my Republican Primary vote early next year for Fred Thompson. More

I've decided to throw my hat in the ring and make a run for the White House. More

Then-Secretary of State Collin Powell made the case in 2003 in front of the United Nations that Saddam was providing al Qaeda safe haven in Iraq. For those who want to chastise the invasion of Iraq as misdirected, it became important to establish that Secretary of State Powell and the Bush Administration were "lying" More

In human society, there are many elements of behavior and philosophy that contrast with one another. In this essay, the subject is an element I refer to as "faith in the future". More

Archaeology and the Bible have an uneasy relationship. Many textual scholars have little use for archaeology. Discoveries happen often, whereas the written text is stable by comparison. More

There are signs that the global Islamic jihad movement is splitting apart, in what would be a tremendous achievement for American strategy. More

Language is anything but static, something for which we must be grateful. There's the word "liberal." It comes from the Latin "liber," meaning free, so the word "liberal" originally referred to one committed to freedom More

Judging by the answers given by Democratic presidential candidates on Wednesday night, it seems certain that the mission will continue in one form or another Bush or no Bush. More

Having dug itself into a hole with inept handling of the MoveOn.org ad, the New York Times may soon find itself unable to put down its shovel. Few ironies approach the richness of the mess the firm may face with the regulatory requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sarbox). More

New York Times Company's reported financial results, outlook, and stock price keep getting hammered by poor business performance. More

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., known all but universally as "Pinch" may well be the last member of the Sulzberger/Ochs family to run the world-famous newspaper company. More

One of the benefits of Petraeus-Crocker hearings is the way they've cleared up the miasma of defeatism and futility that settled over the topic of Iraq since the beginning of this year. More

"Washbasins" (read: Muslim footbaths) are back in the news. These refer in particular to washing stations installed in public restrooms to accommodate the five-times-daily ablutions More

Huck Finn must be spinning in his literary grave. Just recently a Colorado Springs, Co., elementary school banned tag during recess, joining other schools that have prohibited this childhood pastime. More

Israel's hopes for Gaza when it withdrew have turned to literal ashes. Hamas, a terrorist group whose charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel, won legislative elections More

Al Qaeda's blatant threat to exterminate 2 million American kids remains unheeded. And it will likely continue to be, notwithstanding mounting evidence More

The enormous social, economic and spiritual toll that war takes upon humanity should give sufficient pause for anybody -- despite personal ideological inclinations -- to see war as a most undesirable state of affairs. More

To understand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's mindset and behavior require close scrutiny of the elaborate and intricate theology of Hujetieh Shiism, perhaps the most fundamentalist of the numerous Shiite sects. More

"Bow down or burn in the fury of nations." is one of the little slogans coming from this week's creepy little visitor from Iran. More

At last, eight months after the surge began and three months after it went into high gear, we have the first Jihadi response: a bombing. More

The longing for communities holding fast to old-fashioned values may actually be wishful, anachronistic fantasies of nostalgic Americans. More

Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA), a former US Navy Admiral, recently revealed that he is indifferent about the well-being of US veterans of the Iraq war, that he is either careless or clueless about domestic security concerns, and that he would be grateful if voters dumped him from office. More

Unlike pro wrestling in the United States and many other countries (including Japan), the ancient Japanese sport of sumo is steeped in dignity and restraint. More

Underneath all conquests and expansions, underneath all the frivolous wars over religious differences, underneath all the oppression and tyranny, underneath all the wars over injustices, lies one single drive: the will to dominate. More

It was precisely at his triumphant moment when George W. Bush lost Iraq, along with America's momentum in the war on terror More

Christianity has always been the religion of the Book, the Bible. There is no pleasant way to put this: In the past decade the Gospels have been assaulted by the Religious Left or liberal scholars and by other critics. More

I just woke up from one of the worst nightmares I've ever had. You're not going to believe this but I dreamed that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York City and decided to take a side trip to Ground Zero. More

The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion of Islam. More

A lot of the loss of political sanity we see today reflects the death fears of the Boomer Left. More

I was astonished to see the assurance with which climatologists writing about global warming report Global Mean Temperature over Land & Ocean as far back as 1880. More

Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate the problem of uninsured Californians needing better health care. There is one problem his proposal fails to address, however: More

When one reviews the history of Saudi-American relations, one sees a relationship based not on friendship but on oil for protection and money. More

It's a long time since we all joked about President Bush's "strategery." Things have gotten a lot more serious since those days in the early 2000s. More

During the last few weeks there has been a visceral discussion about the US's prospects in Iraq. Much of it has centered on assertions that President's surge plan and Iraq policies are a failure More

The on-going Holy Land Foundation trial has established important facts about the resident domestic Islamic jihad threat inside the United States. Evidence brought forward in documents and testimony has explosive implications for US Homeland Security More

What's in a name? When it comes to identifying what we are fighting against in the war for our civilization, quite a lot. More

Many leftist partisans are licking their chops over the revelation that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig solicited sex from a male undercover detective More

Shielded by a two class system of shareholding allowing his family to elect a majority of the board of directors, New York Times Company CEO Pinch Sulzberger's hold on his job hasn't depended on keeping ordinary shareholders happy. More

One of the clichéd questions of the Left is "Why did Bush invade Iraq? We were attacked by Saudi Arabians on 9/11 !" Or so goes the customary narrative. More

Famed film director Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables) has completed and publicly screened a new film, Redacted, detailing allegations of a rape by US soldiers in Iraq. More

As religious prescriptions for living lately have come to be infused into daily life in novel and provocative ways, the question is often posed: Has the presence of Islam changed the face of social relations in the West? More

The idolatry of evolution, or the transformation of a scientific theory into a quasi-religious cult, has contributed to the erosion of intellectual life in the West. In the thinking of many Darwinists, evolution has a quasi-mystical quality. More

Judeo-Christian Values have a foundational role in America, beginning with the Declaration of Independence More

All politics are local. But sometimes, local politics are a national bellwether. More

We have wound up with a society, not of useful idiots, but of useless ones More

We all want progress. We may disagree whether gay marriage or drug legalization constitutes progress or not. But we all want better things for the world More

To Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, Ted Olson is an unrepentant Republican, uniquely unqualified to succeed outgoing Alberto Gonzalez as U.S Attorney General. More

Reporting any news of G.I.s killed in Iraq is a proven way for the media to stir up the American public's feelings of exasperation with the war. More

We attacked Iraq when it invaded Kuwait and the world applauded: we defend Iraq from foreigners invading it and the world, Senate and House leaders included, spits in our face. More

Listen to the ladies in Iowa. Stephen Spruiell did, and what he heard isn't good news for Republicans. More

The Left thinks Iraq is a killing field for Americans. Actually, it is a killing field for our enemies More

Word came yesterday that a rocket fired from Gaza injured 69 Israeli soldiers at their Negev base located but one kilometer north of the Gaza border, where the soldiers were in basic training. More

Tall, telegenic, affable Tony Snow first took the podium in the James S. Brady briefing room on May 16, 2006. More

In September, 2001, I was working for a company two blocks off Wall Street, just a five-minute walk from the World Trade Center. More

In the endless Summer of Love there is no 9/11. And to tens of millions of dreamy folk on the Left, the Summer of Love never stopped. More

In that late summer of 2001, there was no shadow moving across the land, no premonition of danger, not a clue the America we had gotten so familiar with -- omnipotent, invincible, striding confidently toward a fat, happy future -- would be brought so low. More

It is said that "powerlessness frustrates and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely; absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with." Sometimes I wonder why I am so restless, why I cannot cease thinking! It seems like the world we live in reveals to us... More

A review of Norman Podhoretz's World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism More

Has Osama bin Laden turned into Osama bin Trotsky? As I was watching bin Laden reading carefully from his prepared speech, I couldn't help but notice the dramatic drifting in the rhetoric from Salafi Jihadism to a new brand of neo-Wahabism More

A groundbreaking study published late last week finds that repeated assertions of a post-9/11 backlash against Muslims in the workplace are pure fiction. More

The latest newsworthy assault by the Nanny State on freedom and federalism is Senate Bill 771, or The Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2007 More

In a gambit to end-run Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) is calling for a complete withdrawal of American troops from Iraq More

The new Foreign Minister of Britain is either a brilliant liar or a fool. The trouble is, even he may not know which it is. More

In Robert Draper's new book, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, the president admits to crying quite a bit -- mostly in private -- ever aware that the troops, not to mention the enemies of America, are watching him. More

Security personnel tend to look around them for trouble, they look behind, in front of them and to the sides but hardly ever up. And the next terrorist threat could be airborne. More

Lately, I've been reading even more books than usual about a period that's always fascinated me; namely, the late 40s and early 50s, the time of the Hollywood blacklist. More

First the good news: The sightless Bruce Gilmour, denied service "a hundred times, maybe 150 times" by Muslim cab drivers since he acquired his first guide dog in 1984, was awarded $2,500 by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. More

The University of California is basking in the news that its Golden Bears have returned to the ranks of the top ten college football teams this week. But not everyone is pleased More

The surge was not going to work. But the surge has worked. But that doesn't matter anymore. The surge is irrelevant, because there's no "political settlement". More

As every conspiracy theorist knows with certainty, hidden hands manipulate the innocents of the world. Jews have a commanding lead over all other groups as the target of suspicion. But this tradition should not blind us to other dangers. More

What's in it for us if we leave Iraq now? What would we gain? Not peace. Not in the Middle East. How could Iran not be emboldened, Syria not be more disruptive, Saudi Arabia not counter them both, other Arab nations not leap in, Al Qaeda not bait them all More

Al Gore is a victim of media bias and advocates of low taxes are "crackpots." These are two of the counterfactual theses advanced in major magazines this week. More

Both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales were pilloried by liberals in the left-wing press More

Left wing artists love to portray themselves as avatars of compassion. But theirs is a highly selective compassion, often ignoring the victims of the groups they supported. More

One welcome by-product of the surge is the way it has put all the cries for "withdrawal" into perspective. More

"Is this a great country, or what?" was the not terribly original opener with which a politician of my acquaintance regularly began his stump speeches decades ago. More

They are having a problem in the old manufacturing city of Milwaukee these days, writes Patrick McIlheran of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. More

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt distorted a central event in the Middle East "peace process" in their earlier work, and have now expanded upon it in a new book. More

There's much talk about the lessons of Vietnam, and plenty of arguments about the relevance of the comparison. But I was going through some old files the other day, and ran across a true historical gem. More

Labor Day is one of my favorite holidays because it honors work. The history of work is the history of civilization itself. More

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry did one thing right and one thing wrong. First, he toured the state promoting Senate Bill 530, which mandates schools to implement physical activity requirements that include fitness evaluations for all public school students. He made a few stops across the... More

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is supposed to be a mutual defense treaty. That has been conveniently forgotten for the last several decades by Europe More

I must confess that I never liked playwright Arthur Miller's work, even though I never really publicly criticized it. I was supposed to think he was deep. All the right people agreed on that point. More

On August 28, 2007, the same day that Abdullah Gul became Turkey's President, MEMRI published excerpts from a chilling interview given by former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan More

Most people are almost instinctively suspicious of any discipline in the philosophical or scientific realms that bills itself as the purveyor of absolute truth. More