I disagree with nearly all of Obama's positions, but that wouldn't necessarily make me dislike him. One matter, however, is different. More

I'm ready to stand front and center now, dear readers, and admit that I voted for John McCain in the 2000 Republican primary. More

Every now and again our learned scholars in the liberal university come up with a study, financed by taxpayers' money, that concludes what every liberal already knows. Conservatives are rigid and not very intelligent. More

Barack Obama's campaign efforts to "stop the smears" are quickly morphing into an attack on free speech. More

The old broadcast and print media outlets have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and impartiality in this year's general election, further eroding their credibility. More

Conservatives were, rightly, thrilled by the recent Supreme Court decision that affirmed our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Not so fast. More

Author David Klinghoffer discusses why it makes sense for Conservatives to look to the Bible for wisdom on specific practical political issues More

How will we remember men like Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden who died this past Tuesday? Dryden was one of the original members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron and later the 332nd Fighter Group, known to all of us now as the Tuskegee Airmen. More

The New York Times (June 26, 2008) has published a somber account of the recent murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho, and how the Iraqi Christian population has been subjected to the full recrudescence of dhimmitude More

I was talking to a friend the other day who teaches at an elementary school and has a student whom I shall name Shakir. More

The Islamist zealots ruling Iran for the past 30 years have undertaken a systematic campaign of endangering and destroying the cultural sites of pre-Islamic Iran. More

What kind of campaign picks one of its party's greatest disasters for use as a symbol? More

George W. Bush may be winning the war on terror, but he has not won many new voters to the GOP. More

Europe's soccer games have long been the preserve of boisterous fans, drunken brawls and riots. Lately, they have also become the province of anti-Semites and neo-Nazis More

Lovers of freedom, rejoice! Defenders of the Constitution, celebrate! For today, the Supreme Court, that erstwhile judicial body turned dictatorial oligarchy, officially and finally endorsed the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. For posterity, I reprint the text of the... More

Our American troops have given us all they have to give. Today with the From the Frontlines webathon, we have a chance to give something back in a meaningful way. More

In his confrontation with James Dobson, Senator Obama faces a degree of absolutism that pales in belligerent intensity compared to what he could, as President, face from America's most hostile adversaries. More

The awesome responsibilities of the presidency has the potential to bring out the best in a person. How might Barack Obama, currently the frontrunner, react to a defining challenge in office? More

Until a few weeks ago, I wasn't even aware that our Congress had enacted legislation in 2000 to require civilian prosecution for criminal acts committed in war More

Senator Obama's statement at a Jacksonville, Florida fundraiser last Friday is being heralded as a brilliant political move by many in the MSM.  It was, in fact, a shameless and unjustified insult to all Republicans, and all Americans. The man who claims to be a different kind of politician... More

Barack Obama apparently has trouble with diplomatic code words. More

The American left can be divided into three distinct strands, each with its own characteristics, identifiers, and methods of operation: the wimp left, the weird left, and the hard left. More

In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility. And yet he hardly sounded humble More

Monday, James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), addressed Congress and brought a new twist to his tired global warming song and dance routine. More

I am thoroughly disgusted by the Democrat's use of fear in trying to dissuade our government from allowing oil exploration and drilling off our coasts More

According to the popular press, carbon has now joined toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and cadmium on Peck's Bad Boy list. More

We often hear of how we must reduce our carbon footprint. Let's get a little perspective on the matter. More

The Second Amendment is not that hard to understand -- not if the person reading it has a lick of sense. I'll prove it. More

Now that an African-American has achieved the nomination for president by a major political party, are we ready to come to the conclusion that Affirmative Action (AA) has worked? More

Society is promoting an entirely new type of leader: the wimp. More

Hezb'allah, supported by its patron Iran, is poised, once again, to launch a lethal attack against "Jewish targets" far removed from the battlegrounds of the Middle East. More

We all knew it even though Democrat spokespersons denied it. Apparently, the camouflage is no longer needed. The masks are off. They now openly call for the nationalization of private business More

For the Democrats, every crisis is but a segue toward the passage of more and more legislation. There's some history to that tactic. More

Estonia, liberated from communism in part by music, has embraced supply side economics and economic freedom. This small Baltic nation may have some lessons for America. More

America was founded and our democratic society succeeded because its roots were grounded in Judeo-Christian principles. More

While some Democrats push to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine, an example of the harmful effects of doing so has played out in the most unlikely of places--the Aspen airport. More

Although military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine, Islamic war doctrine, which is just as if not more textually grounded, is totally ignored. More

Congress has inflicted a death blow to one of the great incubators of technological small businesses. More

Politics makes strange bedfellows. And when you try to straighten the sheets afterward, stubborn telltale lumps remain. More

Elevator speech: A succinct monologue promoting a business concept or action delivered by an advocate to a decision-maker during the elevator ride up to the executive offices. More

There is a big difference between the issue of the Guantanamo detainees and the problem of energy prices and climate change. It is the difference between war and the moral equivalent of war. More

Next time you hear a liberal politician speaking, check your watch and count the seconds until you hear a call for unity. More

Israeli withdrawal from Gaza has been disastrous -- leading to the creation of a lawless terrorist haven from which come thousands of crude rockets lobbed indiscriminately into southern Israel. More

Barack Obama's gave carefully calculated political speech on Father's Day made one good point, but left out something important. More

Straight talk from someone who saw it happen. More

Conservatism is embedded deep within the American spirit. But it requires constant loving care and outright cheerleading to feel free to express ourselves. More

The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling last week means that terrorism detainees captured overseas have the same rights as U.S. citizens facing shoplifting trials at home. More

2008, we're told, is a "transformational" election, a revolutionary moment in which everything that went before will be overturned, and the nation's entire political sphere utterly changed. Not so fast. More

This started out as an attempt to create a light and humorous, Letterman-esque list. Turns out it is tragic. More

Like Peggy Lee in "Is That All There Is," conservatives keep wondering if they are missing something about the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama. More

If money is the mother's milk of politics, then Senator John McCain seems intent on going on a hunger strike. More

John McCain is clearly the preferable option for conservative voters come November though he is detested, and deservedly so, by many Republicans. More

Irish voters on June 12 said 'No' to the superpower ambitions of European political elites. Here's how that shock to the eurocrats came about. More

Tim Russert, whom I only knew through his work, seemed a good man: hard-working, well-prepared, bursting with energy, and infectiously ebullient. Judging by the farewell he got from his television news colleagues yesterday, he was also a major political figure More

So, you hate "big oil" and the soaring gasoline prices they are forcing on you? You've bought into the rhetoric. More

It is rare when a government official actually blames himself for his mistakes. That More

Just as class struggle forms the nucleus of Marxism, so does it sit at the very core of the Left's climate alarmism. More

Liberals are (still) suckers for the far left; Obama's radical past proves the point More

Barack Obama's June 4 speech to AIPAC received a favorable initial response, but the more one scrutinizes it, the more troubling it becomes. More

It's also time for a little vengeance on the Pentagon by Congressional Democrats. More

The Democrats have rolled out their main talking point against any more domestic drilling. Here's how to disarm it. More

On Tuesday, Barack Obama faced the glare of the cameras and tried to deal with what was rapidly becoming one of those "distractions" he so despises. More

Barack Obama's defense policy plans threaten foreign policy consequences inimical to American interests, and would pose perilous problems for some of our key allies More

Democrat elders and activists, having engineered, or submitted to, their choice of Obama, can now begin attending to the risk they have created. More

Last week Hugo Chavez took his aping of Castro's regime to a frightening new level... and then backed off. More

Barrack Obama has women troubles, and Hillary Clinton is far from alone as being a problem. Danger lurks much closer to home. More

Those who believe Barack Obama would avoid wars after withdrawing from Iraq are not paying attention. He has laid out a coherent strategy for fighting wars. More

When both options available are problematic, create a third one. That's what the McCain campaign can do to find a way for him to communicate without delivering a prepared speech. More

Last week Democrats tried to kill the economy in the name of solving a problem that doesn't exist. Republicans should hang this bill around their necks More

When I read the Black Liberation Theology books of James H. Cone, I saw a subtly disguised, resentful kind of antisemitism which I had never encountered before. More

If you want to look ahead to the United States under Barack Obama and an expanded Congressional majority for the Democrats, consider Canada. More

America is moving on into a new political era. More

How does Iran's president play to the American left? More

Millions of members of the Bahai faith are being persecuted in Iran. The Islamists have their reasons. More

A look forward, and back, at the Democratic Party's strategy to regain power in the midst of a war More

I was among the 7,500 pro-Israel activists who listened to Barack Obama's magnificently designed oration to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on June 4. More

Watching young people compile and try to display knowledge in a college classroom is similar to watching an epistemological famine.  I can say this as an adjunct professor in college and university systems since 2002.Their lack of knowledge is not a reflection on any one college or university... More

Barack Obama's oratorical skills will always exceed John McCain's. But McCain could do much more to close the gap. More

It's in writing, but the media doesn't seem to notice this flip flop on an important promise. More

"105° tomorrow? We'll be sending you out live," the television producer informed me. Like most TV Meteorologists, I loathed the heat wave live-remotes More

From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. But the Black Liberation Theology he discovered at Trinity United differs from conventional Christianity. More

Senator Barack Obama cannot keep bottled up the clashing visions of America he has on offer for his presidency. More

The evidence is by now overwhelming by now that Trinity United is a front for the hard Left, which is trying to turn American blacks into another angry proletariat More

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden is quoted as portraying al Qaeda movement as "essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world." But that judgment depends on what the measure is. More

The terminology we use to describe our enemy in the war on terror matters a lot. A spirited debate More

Pfleger's out. He's been asked by Cardinal George to take a leave of absence. The archdiocese has done the right thing, belatedly. But the stakes for it are higher than many might imagine More

The next stage of Hillary Clinton's battle with Barack Obama is coming into focus. More

Barack Obama's appeal to his legions of enthusiasts rests in no small in their hearts. And where the heart is concerned, myths, images, and archetypes work their wonders on the nonrational faculties of the mind. More

Orthodox Islamic archetypes of Jew hatred are being disseminated by the most respected, mainstream Islamic institutions. More

Last week we witnessed two markedly different exercises of political expediency. More

The recent silence from the mainstream news media on Iraq is speaking volumes. While the war remains unpopular, our success there has been unmistakable. More

Not surprisingly, something went unnoticed in the establishment media's coverage of Barack Obama's latest gaffe. More

During the Civil War, when the issues of right and wrong were clear, one of President Lincoln's appointees, General George McClellan, betrayed him. More

When Barack Obama says he wants to end the divisiveness in politics, I believe him. But I don't like what he means by that. More

A 'wall of separation between church and state' is a good idea, as Jefferson seems to have intended it. More