When Ellen Goodman likened climate skeptics to holocaust deniers last February, she raised more than a few eyebrows. Yet, hers was not the first reprehensible use of that fetid analogy More

It was bad enough that CNN handed the microphone over to an official, Gen. Kerr of a Hillary Clinton campaign committee. Mark Strauss of Iowa also left plenty of clues, but hasn't received as much note yet. More

So said then-New York Jets coach Herman Edwards in a press conference a few years ago. Yet William Rusher, one of conservatism's grey eminences, concludes that it would be better to elect Hillary than nominate a social liberal like Rudy Giuliani. More

When MoveOn.org ran its full-page ad defaming General Petraeus, our Commander in Iraq, in the New York Times last September, my American blood reached the boiling point. More

While the Bush Administration clearly asserts that a nuclear armed Iran is not in the national security interests of the United States, the fractious political environment in Washington is blunting the effectiveness of that message. More

Author Frank Miniter confronts the myths about hunting and reveals how hunters are unheralded, misunderstood environmentalists. More

In politics as in personal life, hatred is a dangerous tool. More

The Supreme Court of the United States is preparing to hear the case of the District of Columbia v. Heller, the first time since 1939 that the SCOTUS ruled on the Second Amendment. More

ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) is the technical name given to the most prominent source of inter-annual variability in weather and climate around the world. Its ocean temperature signatures are the more widely-known La Niña and El Niño. More

If you need a good idea of what government-run healthcare would mean to you and your family, look no further than Medicare, or the wrangling taking place in Washington surrounding Medicare funding. More

Maybe this is how political correctness ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper More

Has the Clinton Campaign cloned another Ms. Chung Seto of NYC Chinatown bundling fame, or a Boss Parr from a long-past Texas Senatorial race? More

A strong case can be made that the mere fact of Annapolis Middle East Peace summit between the Arab countries, the Palestinians and Israel is the biggest breakthrough in Israel-Arab relations since the 1979 Peace Treaty with Egypt. More

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has made clear that the upcoming Annapolis summit will be a step on the road to a two state solution to the conflict in the Middle East. The absurdity of this becomes clear when one considers that there are already four de-facto Palestinian States. More

While I was a teenager and still enthralled with my own generation, the Boomers, I truly believed that we were heralding a new and better human nature. More

Global warming has recently emerged as a critical societal issue, although it has been periodically recurring for many hundreds of thousands of years. More

The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe. More

Here and there, the mainstream media is noticing the disturbingly enthusiastic support coming Ron Paul's way from distateful quarters. More

A recent AP news report has concluded, after compiling the results of numerous studies over the years, that there is a strong and disturbing link between severe child abuse and non-traditional family environments. More

It amazes me that American Jews continue to hope for peace and reconciliation between their Israeli brethren and Arabs More

The newspaper industry got a cold dose of impending reality from former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw More

The effort to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians is today premised on the belief that if Israel withdrew from the West Bank, there would soon be a basis for achieving a stable two state solution. This is nonsense. More

It would appear that the 2008 presidential elections will most likely hinge not on the stances candidates have assured their voters they have publicly taken on any given issue, but on the stances voters hope their candidates are already sworn to in secret. More

Conservatives tend to talk about liberals as if they were all the same. This is wrong. Liberals are not all alike. More

What is it about money that causes some people to grow horns and carry a pitchfork? Have you ever known anyone like that? More

From the Pilgrims' William Bradford to George Washington to George W. Bush, I am thankful that this nation is led by those who recognize the hand of God that both guides and provides More

Thanksgiving is just one day a year. The rest of the time we have a National Gratitude Deficit --- or at least our noisiest public voices do. More

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the IPCC has delivered another warning of impending doom. This time, it has to do with the world's oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide. More

Fawaz Damra, the former Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, was touted as a promoter of interfaith dialogue even after evidence of his participation in fundraising events for the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was produced More

How a man who risked his life in Iraq was abandoned by the United States. More

I've been subscribing to a few of Media Matters' daily, vital, emergency, right-wing-conspiracy alerts. So for several months now, a half-dozen Media Matters email screeds have landed in my inbox every day. More

There are those who ask if a woman can be elected president. The real question is, can a man running against a woman be elected president? More

In the political equivalent of a bank shot, Ron Paul's fringe support helps bleach embarrassing stains from the Democrats. More

The editor of the influential London daily, Al Quds al Arabi, was recently quoted as saying that "he would dance in Trafalgar Square if Iranian missiles hit Israel." Well, he won't be dancing long before the horizon starts to burn. More

Resistance to Nazis did not come from universities or science or art or literature or radio or newspapers, but only from religiously serious people. More

According to America's biggest news agency, the United States is facing what amounts to a desertion crisis in its military. More

General Pervez Musharraf's November 3, 2007 Proclamation of Emergency and the consequent suspension of Pakistan's Constitution and various "fundamental rights" remind us of America's cherished notion of unalienable human rights and freedom More

Have you ever been a witness to the following scenario? You're walking along a supermarket aisle and come across a mother trying to reason with her spoiled child. More

When the decline of newspaper readership and influence is chronicled, an enterprising author could do little better than to use an editorial published this week in the Los Angeles Times as a lodestone revealing the direction of oblivion. More

One cheer for the State of Ohio for its recent attempt to protect private property rights, battered by the Supreme Court's Kelo Decision. More

Christianity had declined severely in Germany at the time the Nazis came to power, which is why the Nazis were able to come to power. More

As movie-goers, theatre owners and studio shareholders endure yet another wave of anti-American box office duds like Rendition and Lions for Lambs it is worth remembering that left wing propaganda has real roots in Hollywood. More

What do you say about somebody who deliberately provokes a shootout that ends in his own demise? That's exactly what Saddam Hussein did when he threatened the cop on the beat in the Gulf region with WMDs. He pointed that empty gun at the United States More

Before the 9/11 truthers came the JFK truthers. Fantasies about dark machinations surrounding the death of President Kennedy laid the spiritual groundwork for today's claims of bizarre plots behind the events of 9/11. In both cases, the obviously guilty culprits are ignored in favor of more desirable political targets. More

I hold the following truth to be self evident. When solving some intractable political problem, chances are that someone has already solved it. More

In case any doubt remains as to who deserves the title of undisputed Globaloney Champion of the World, Al Gore's Rolling Stone interview should put the question to rest. More

Both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have played their respective cards from the deck of protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- gender and race More

Ron Paul set an internet campaigning record raising more than $4 million in small on-line donations in one day, on November 5th. But there are many questions about Paul's apparent unwillingness to reject extremist groups' public participation in his campaign More

American students continue to fall behind much of the rest of the world in math and science, but one of the hottest issues in American education today is the crusade to cut down on "excessive" homework More

President Nicolas Sarkozy, currently facing down a strike by French transport unions, is a different sort of leader than his recent predecessors. More

In a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maryland State Police (MSP), a plaintiff's attorney named Eliza Leighton said that some training documents contain "startling examples of racial stereotypes about Hispanics." More

The coming Annapolis conference is borne of a deep malaise, endemic to the current Israeli leadership, and Israeli society as a whole. That is namely an utter failure to recognise that Israel is strong and the Palestinians are weak More

"Peace is achieved through concessions. We all know that," said embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, implying that parts of Jerusalem could be offered to the Palestinians in exchange for peace. More

With each passing day, Americans are increasingly behaving as though Al Gore's mantra were true, that "the debate [over man-made global warming] is over". More

When I first heard the Hollywood writers were going on strike, my first thought was a prayer: Please God, let it be true. More

As retirees with limited incomes, my wife and I were feeling the pinch of rising energy prices like everyone else. I decided to heed an age-old truism, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em" More

In my opinion, our American military veterans have really gotten the public shaft for nearly 40 years. So, I'm determined to put in my two cents' worth for anyone who cares to read it. More

Another year has passed, yet despite the continual political posturing, anti-war rhetoric, and deliberate ignoring of increasing successes in Iraq, meaningful Veterans' Day celebrations will be held in cities and towns all across America More

What modern war memorials have in common with each other is nothing. They portray nothingness. They have no people in them, never mind men carrying guns or swords, statues of Winged Victory, or even doves of peace. Just death and names -- grief without glory. More

Higher education, one of the biggest industries in America, has gotten wealthy beyond the dreams of previous generations of academics. A recent event has made public a perfectly normal, yet mildly disturbing practice related to fundraising. More

The recent spate of anti-theistic books presents nothing really new. People have been making arguments against the existence of God for a long, long time. More

Wednesday's endorsement of the GOP front-runner Rudy Giuliani by Pat Roberson has provoked much commentary among our contributors, with varying interpretations of the event. More

After the advent of the September 11th attacks, General Perez Musharraf's militaristic regime metamorphosed into a stalwart ally in the U.S.-led war on terror. Recent events do not bode well for him. More

New light is being shed on the 2001 anthrax attacks in a fascinating open letter to Ayman al Zawahiri of al Qaeda, written by a jihadi living in London. More

The US and its Coalition allies can ill-afford to ignore this week's developments in the small but geo-strategically significant Caucasus nation of Georgia. Major outside players including Vladimir Putin and Rupert Murdoch are involved More

Predictably, the mainstream media focused on the anger in Clarence Thomas's searing new personal memoir. But the media has largely overlooked another crucial aspect of the story: the role of prayer in Thomas's life. More

Google shows more than 2 million hits for the words "Iran conservative," in reference to the mullah regime. That's a slander against conservatives. They are reactionaries. More

The face of European populism is, these days, white and bristly. And it answers to a comic name. Meet "Zottel," the billy goat mascot of the Swiss People's Party (SVP). More

An examination of our historical "inordinate fear" of communism might shed some light on what some consider our new inordinate fear of terrorism. More

A few weeks ago a meeting occurred between Iranian mullahs and assorted international left-wing figures in hopes of generating some sort of "revolutionary solidarity". The guests of honor were the children of Che Guevera, Aleida and Camilo. More

Can Hillary Clinton succeed in evading hard questions by raising the issue of unfairness to women? Aggressive and unprincipled women have never hesitated to use similar gambits. More

I never thought I would see a day when I could agree with anything coming from the pens of Maureen Dowd and Kate Michelman. But on Hillary Rodham Clinton, we all see eye to eye. More

The Democrats want to bring children's health insurance up for another confrontation with the president. Some attention to fundamentals is in order. More

The major media love nothing better than peddling pessimism on the economy, as long as a Republican is president. Given what we read, it's amazing that one doesn't trip over the unemployed selling apples on street corners on a daily basis. Now we have fear mongering within the business... More

"Torture" is one of many current topics of significance that have been abandoned to the left. Leftist commentators have been allowed to set the terms, make the definitions, and generally run the argument without much in the way of serious opposition or debate. More

The attempt by Senate Democrats to target Rush Limbaugh over his "phony soldiers" remark backfired badly on Harry Reid team. But it was an early indicator of the extraordinary willingness of Democratic politicians to use their power to punish the political speech of critics More

A minor war has broken out in the conservative blogosphere, and it smells suspicious. I don't have a smidgen of proof for what I suspect, but here's the story. More

In 2004, hundreds of Mormons crowded into the Provo Tabernacle and listened intently as the speaker, who was not a member of the LDS faith, declared: "We have sinned against you." More

The settlement last month of an old 1999 lawsuit over emissions from coal-fired power plants in the Ohio River Valley is a good example of Michael Barone's thesis on Hard America and Soft America in action. More

Many schools, led by liberal teachers and administrators, refuse to teach military history lest someone actually grow up to want to serve their nation and those who live in it. More

Of the many areas of research conducted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, celebrating its golden anniversary this year, contemporary history -- and especially recent events in the Israeli-Arab conflict -- has been most controversial in the past few years. More

Have you ever asked yourself why you feel some sense of magnetism toward physically attractive people? More

Recently, Raymond Ibrahim edited and translated into English a decade's worth of public releases by al Qaeda's leadership. More

The signs of al Qaeda's downward spiral are accumulating. If the media were as anxious to find signs of victory as signs of failure in our war with al Qaeda, the incipient crumbling of its support in South Asia would already be noted. More

Trofimko Lysenko is not a household name; but it should be, because he was the model for all the Politically Correct "science" in the last hundred years. Lysenko was Stalin's favorite agricultural "scientist," peddling the myth that crops could be just trained into growing bigger and better. More

French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, may have just inadvertently fired another "shot heard around the world," declaring a male revolution against the feminization of politics and media More

What is it about the candidacy of Ron Paul that has attracted the paranoid fringe of American politics? More

As a longstanding fan of Bill Cosby, it pains me to criticize a man whose comedy and politics have been overwhelmingly constructive. But in the matter of AIDS, he needs to be a bit more forthcoming. More

The worldview embraced by the O.J. Simpson jurors has run amuck. A riveting murder trial in Michigan ended last week in a mistrial More