No amount of energy efficiency will ever do the trick -- the only way to save the planet is to surrender your car altogether. That's the conclusion reached by a group of Australian energy experts More

Providing for the common defense and securing the blessings of liberty aren't little governmental after-thoughts, nor do they come cheap. More

As conservatives bemoan the apparent descent of conservatism into a swamp, we would do well to remember the two men who most personify conservatism in America. More

Of late Obama has sung a decidedly noninterventionist tune. But it wasn't always so, and some of his thinking on who should do the dangerous work is shocking. More

What happens if trends concerning (1) public school growth driven by illegal immigration, (2) the dropout rate for Hispanic students and (3) the projected U.S. demand for unskilled labor all converge? More

The Jewish State of Israel may not be perfect, it is however a flowering garden of civility, democracy and human rights in a desert filled with Arab-Muslim oppressive dictatorships. But For the United Methodist Church (UMC), Israel is deserving of criticism and punishment. More

Walter Cronkite's remarks at the end of his February 27, 1968 evening news broadcast, four decades ago today, were a watershed in the history of the MSM's credibility. More

What does a very aged multi-billionaire do after he spends $25 million dollars to force a presidential election his way, and still falls flat on his face? More

The problem with the real-estate market is that it forces ordinary people to use far too much leverage. For many Americans the only way that they can afford a home is by accepting a very risky proposition, borrowing 80 percent or more of the purchase price of their home. More

Doubts about Senator Obama's commitment to the America-Israel relationship have only increased in the wake of comments the Senator made this past Sunday to Jewish leaders in Cleveland. More

There's mounting evidence that at least some of Obama's faithful intend to see a black American president sworn in next year -- no matter what it takes. More

So Sunday's OscarTM broadcast was, underwhelmingly, a television ratings bomb. Perhaps it's the holier-than-thou attitude of the celebrities themselves that has really gotten on our nerves More

Grown men weep in his presence, women faint, and thousands scream his name like a rock star. The liberal press prints glowing tributes to their new progressive prophet, calling him "the triumph of word over flesh" More

Initially feared and prohibitively favored, the campaign of Hillary Clinton in its death spiral has devolved into Pink Panther-like absurdity. More

Almost two weeks ago (2/12/08), "three men with a Muslim background" were arrested by Danish police on anti-terrorism charges, suspected of having plotted to murder Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist for Jyllands-Posten More

Activists and some UN Security Council members argue that Israel's restrictions on fuel deliveries to Gaza constitutes collective punishment in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The argument is nonsense More

There are better films this year than Rambo, but there is no better movie More

Herbert Hoover, who had the misfortune to be in office when the stock market crashed in 1929, has taken far too much blame for the Depression, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt managed to prolong over a decade More

As we "conservatives" thrash about trying to find who is a real conservative, we should also seek to find what we mean by conservative. More

Materialist faith, or scientific materialism, has virtually displaced America's founding Judeo-Christian worldview. More

Since the 2006 Congressional victory by Democrats, The New York Times has ignored a highly questionable situation involving Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. More

I'm not buying the Obama campaign spin on Michelle Obama's patriotic faux pas this week, any more than I'm inclined to believe that Barack Obama's refusal to wear our flag pin in his lapel is a meaningless gesture. More

The influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone appears in the political philosophy of Barack Obama as well as in the recent controversial statement about national pride made by Michelle Obama. More

Leaving the comforts of my daily routine as a partner in a money management firm in Manhattan, I took off for Iraq in December to visit the war zone as a freelance journalist. More

I've watched the "Yes We Can" video at least five times - it's mesmerizing - and it has perhaps tainted my normally acute political judgment. I am this close to announcing my support for Scarlett Johannsen for president. More

When Churchill was dropped from the UK school curriculum last July, one had to wonder if patriotism itself was next. Now it's official. More

This is one of those stories I hope is not true. There are an awful lot of Democrats suddenly chorusing kumbaya with the people who spend their lives chanting "Death to America!" More

Operation Gratitude, which has sent 300,000 care packages to our troops serving in harm's way, started because one American mom decided that she could not sit idly by in her safe, comfortable home doing nothing while our young men and women willingly left safety and comfort behind to fight for the rest of us. More

You can get a flavor of Senator Obama's conventional, liberal program on his website. That's where he has published his platform, a set of detailed policy prescriptions called The Blueprint for Change. More

Senator Barack Obama, though impressive in his oratorical abilities, may not have the foreign policy experience that many would like to see, or that his opponents possess. More

While shoppers took advantage of longer store hours and bargain prices this Presidents' Day, the Democrats' two candidates were probably doing some shopping of their own. More

Senator Barack Obama's sponsorship of Senate Bill 2433 aligns with the emerging core theme of his general election campaign. The change he promises will bring much-needed relief, not just to America's victims of economic injustice, but to victims worldwide. More

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both have plans to fix Social Security, cloaked in rhetoric and code, but crystal clear upon analysis. It's the oldest Democrat solution in the book. More

Right in the middle of the hottest presidential primary in decades, both Obama and Hillary are sending their foreign policy honchos to Damascus. These advisors are people who have a chance of running US foreign policy in the next administration. More

Presidents Day on Monday now celebrates all presidents, not just our greatest. That being the case, let's "celebrate," or at least recall, the three worst presidents in our country's otherwise proud history. More

Are the hard economic times facing the newspaper industry stressing newsroom denizens beyond the breaking point? More

George Orwell said it best, "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: No ordinary man could be such a fool." More

Another maniac, with guns bristling all over him, has walked into a "gun-free zone" and begun picking off human beings as if they were ducks in a shooting gallery. The creature with the guns was certain he would get no resistance from his helpless targets. More

In one of the great acts of collective rationalization in recorded history, the Baby Boomers -- my generation -- shrug their shoulders about the aftermath of the Vietnam War . Not our problem. More

The Archbishop of Canterbury says that implementing or permitting some parts of Shariah (Islamic law) is unavoidable. It may be true that some parts of Islamic law are only about halal (clean) foods, but other parts -- not so. More

I remember waking up that morning, the full breadth of deep emotions evoked by a dream that had just ended, still aflame in my bosom. More

We are just shy of nine months to the general election, and many in the media, in their excitement over Barack Obama, are ready to declare him the Democratic Party nominee. Not so fast. More

As a Southerner, I have watched the Berkeley vs. U.S. Marines brouhaha with a very keen interest. I'm not all that sure those people in Berkeley know what can happen to people who decide to mess around with the United States government. More

Dr. Tawfik Hamid, 47, joined the Jihadist-Muslim group-Jamaat Islamiyah. He was deeply influenced by an older fellow student named Ayman al-Zawahiri, destined to become al-Qaida's No.2 and Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant More

When the news reported that Imad Mughniyah was assassinated I was stunned. This is equivalent to killing Bin Laden. But more difficult. More

John McCain's recent American Conservative Union ratings are not the 80% plus that we hear about all the time. But what's the alternative? More

While the media has successfully portrayed the Republicans as the party of snake handlers and moonshine, the difference between image and reality is profound. More

Barack Obama strikes nearly everyone as a nice guy. Part of that appeal is a distinct absence of aggression. More

If Barack Obama fulfills the MSM's storyline of Obama the Dragon Slayer, a new theme will surface - Obama the Global Candidate. More

First-rate as it is, our one-man one-vote system can't promise majority contentment in every election. More

H.L. Mencken said, many times and in many different ways, that nothing beats a democracy for sheer entertainment. More

Mandates and the drive to coerce the American people into buying health insurance will be on the agenda if either Democrat is elected president. More

The Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2009 that President Bush sent to Congress last week is quite a piece of work. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) does not think of it exactly as a Valentine. More

Thirty-seven weeks to go, and the presidential campaign already is in uncharted territory. At the moment, each party seems to be trying to defeat itself, discrediting its own future nominee. More

A messianic fever grips a segment of the American populace and media. A great leader seems to them poised to redeem our collective sins and change nearly everything, bringing about a new era in which permanent solutions are found to age-old conditions. More

It was just another city council meeting in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri, population about 28,000. More

The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is said to be a devoutly religious man. But for five centuries the Archbishop has also been a politician More

A form of collective amnesia, powered by media bent on forgetting inconvenient truths, continues to shield the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Despite setbacks and surprising obstacles to the cause of the inevitable one, the Clinton Teflon retained its remarkable durability More

The people who kill Jews and other westerners for a living would seem to be a bit hard for nice Jewish boy to sit down and chat with about why they do what they do. But that's what Aaron Klein has done, and he puts other journalists to shame with his detailed account. More

The idea that Ledger himself may be culpable for his death eludes the left. It's easier to blame the US healthcare system More

One look at Mr. Kurt Daims and it is not unreasonable to assume that he is a militant devotee of his homeland's progressive jihad. More

I'm an addict of NBC's wide-open comedy The Office, currently in reruns thanks to the Writers Guild strike More

From the beginning of the War on Terror, the mainstream media has been working to bring home the bad news on the war, virtually to the exclusion of any good news. Even if they've had to fabricate it on occasion. More

American and Coalition forces have taken the initiative in Afghanistan, and have the Taliban on the run. Yet major American media outlets, to the extent they cover fighting in Afghanistan, are portraying the Taliban as "resurgent". More

In December, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed another subsidy-bloated farm bill. Farm policy may seem boring, but this important legislation and the genuine reform that is needed deserve attemtion. More

The prospect of John McCain as Republican nominee is inspiring sometimes angry resistance from millions of conservative stalwarts. Can the GOP coalition be saved? More

Conservatives are grieving. If they had to identify what they are grieving over, many would probably say either the death of the Republican Party or the end of conservative influence. Professionals tell us there are five stages of grief More

One unwelcome side effect of Obamamania is the threat of yet another bout of liberalism's youth obsession. This is not a reference to John Kerry's Botox shots or Nancy Pelosi's face lifts, but the liberal tendency to fall on their knees before the nation's youth at the drop of a skateboard. More

It's a truism that a presidential candidate acts as a vessel for the dreams and beliefs of his followers. With Obama it appears at least in part to be a matter of strategy. More

Front-runners have had a rough time, lately. The unbeaten Tom Brady. The shoo-in Rudolph Giuliani. The inevitable Hillary Clinton. More

Leprechauns, unicorns, and the assertion that illegal immigrants take jobs Americans won't do -- they're all myths. More

During his triumphant campaign in South Carolina, Barack Obama distributed a flyer in which he announced the spiritual dimension of his mission, running as a "committed Christian." More

Looks like you are one of 300,000 or so "Barack Obama" supporters on TheFacebook.com. First, congratulations and thank you all for entering the debate. More

Muslims are responsible for fully half (50%) of the documented Antisemitic incidents on the European continent. More

It's one thing when your political adversaries denounce your Party and hold a gleeful funeral procession with your ashes on public display. It's another thing altogether when your own luminaries dance to the opponent's fight song More

The dramatic decline in US casualties in Iraq has been one the great untold story of recent months. A young American male would have been safer in Iraq than in some of America's inner cities. More

We need change in America. That's the message that every politician seems to push. They are all "agents of change". More

The entire body of the Jewish people today -- in Israel, in Europe, in America, in Australia and New Zealand, and throughout the world -- is in grave danger. The threat is both external and intrenal. More

The ignored elephant in the immigration debate is the negative impact of illegal immigration on job opportunities for unskilled, uneducated, native-born U.S. workers More

The day after Super Tuesday, we celebrate the birthday of Ronald Reagan. If we all agree that Reagan was great, perhaps we should reflect on his birthday why he was so great. More

As the troop build-up in Iraq produces positive results, many media outlets have seized upon a new anti-war narrative. It's right out of the Vietnam War-era More

The winner of the Democratic nomination contest will be the one who forces his opponent to play by his game plan. More

Amnesty International (AI) is sponsoring an event in Los Angeles with a panelist who is an activist for the establishment of normal and unconditional relations between the religious dictatorship in Iran and the U.S. More

Here's a survival reason to vote Republican regardless of who wins the nomination, McCain or Romney. It's Mahmoud A'jad -- the martyrdom fanatic who runs the Tehran regime. More

America fought and won a 45 year war with communism, but has never honored those who achieved the victory through their military service.What does that say to those who fight abother long war for us now? More

The energy and electoral impetus to battle resurgent Islam comes largely from evangelical Christians. Should they withdraw from the political realm, the rest would not be able to come together in sufficiently high numbers to exert the political clout necessary to continue the struggle. More