What's going on today in our country isn't normal politics. It is more like a domestic Cold War. More

Not everyone -- apparently not even Obama himself -- knows that to be president takes a little more than just wanting to be one or pretending to be one. More

A long wave of credit stimulation has been allowed to obscure the underlying problem of capital accumulation in the United States. We are paying a price, but not solving the problem. More

Brett McCrea's new book comparing the IRA, al Qaida and Hezb'allah is fascinating, and raises significant implications for our conduct of the War on Terror. More

This last week conservatives spent a lot of time in the vomitorium. Everything that Candidate Barack Obama has done has seemed like an invitation to upchuck. More

It's obvious that the media are in the bag for Obama for one big reason, and one reason only: his race. More

Idling behind a Lexus this morning I saw the latest bit of agitprop from the Obama campaign - a "Got Hope?" bumper sticker. The first question that popped into my mind was, "How bad can it be if you're driving an ES 350?" More

Barack Obama wanted the world to know that he can pray like a Christian. Thus, he penned a 'note to God' on stationery from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and he generously gave a copy to the international media More

Is it 297 or 643 times we've heard Barack Obama toot: "I turned down more lucrative jobs and went to work for a group of churches"? More

Who are these folks? With such nice, friendly, down-home sounding names, I expect they are really wonderful people. As a native Texan, I automatically like people who answer to two first names. More

There is something to be learned from the frenzied love-fest given in Beirut in mid-July to the most notorious of the Lebanese prisoners released by Israel. More

He has a seat on his campaign aircraft marked "president". He has taken a shot at creating his own presidential seal, complete with Latin motto. He has laid claim to personal control over the world's oceans and seas. Barack Obama embodies hubris in chemically pure form. More

Many in the West were impressed by the issuing of a fatwa (Islamic theological edict) condemning Terrorism by one of the leading religious centers in the Muslim world. Not so fast. More

Deconstruction, I'm told, is still all the rage on college campuses throughout the Land. More

U.S Marines expelled an embedded photojournalist in the latest case of military-media tensions in the Iraq war. Why has the mainstream media largely ignored the fascinating case of Zoriah Miller vs. the U.S. Marines? More

Barack Obama has earned his place in history as the first postmodern candidate for president. His "texts" have no fixed meaning. More

Radio talk show host Michael Savage has made some people mad. More

one of the bills making its way through the California legislature will add frustration-and expense-to the striggle of families to provide for their health care. More

The Islamic Republic terror machine once again has taken off at the speed of light in Iran and exemplifies a depraved, clerical system of government More

One Druze is from Lebanon, his name is Samir Kuntar. He is a notorious terrorist, he is a child killer. More

Having begun softly during the primary season, an incessant drumbeat has steadily gained strength and will soon reach its deafening crescendo as we march toward November: More

Many people are noticing the high regard Obama has for himself as a defining hallmark of the candidate and his campaign. He has proven unable to stop the flow of telling signs. More

Obama's hot. Ask anyone in the media. They even say he has 'sizzle'. More

Military planners contemplating an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities have three serious challenges. More

Every political campaign has its weak spot. Every human being has his own blind spots. In politics and war, it's those blind spots that eventually make for victory or defeat. More

Obama's Berlin speech was the platform for his transfiguration into the presumptive victorious candidate for global leadership. More

Stealthily, with minimal legislative deliberation (much less media attention), a vast new claim on the United States Treasury is being enacted into law by Congressional Democrats. More

More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear: More

Barack Obama is riding within the biggest fantasy bubble this side of Oz. You know what happens to bubbles. More

Barack Obama's continuing explanations of his AIPAC speech, in which he said Jerusalem "must remain undivided," raise more questions than they answer. Obama added yet another explanation yesterday in Sderot. More

Is there any place other than in the psychopathology of the Arab world that a Kuntar--freed by Israel last week in exchange for mutilated corpses of two abducted soldiers -- could be acclaimed a "hero"? More

The "surge" in Iraq sure appears to have worked. But before we give all the credit to the "more boots on the ground" stompers and all the blame to Rumsfeld and the neo-cons, let's take a second look More

Obama's Premature Inauguration Syndrome is still giving him trouble, witness the mass Obama rally scheduled for Berlin's SiegessSaeule or Victory Column More

Once again villainous speculators have emerged as a scapegoat. There's a lot of history to this practice. More

To prove bias in the media, just use an old journalistic canon -- although one rarely used for this purpose. Follow the money. More

What can John McCain do to get conservatives to vote for him, enthusiastically and in numbers, while maybe even gaining votes from independents and sane liberals? I think I have a way. More

Whole generations have come of age without education, indoctrinated in an ideology of Islamic fanaticism and blind hatred, kept destitute and embittered, the most efficient way to breed terrorists. More

California's Democrats have long opposed efforts to tap that state's (and other states') vast offshore oil reserves. This spells opportunity for Republicans. More

The Associated Press just announced an important change in a high-profile news beat that's overseen by its national desk -- a beat called "race and ethnicity." More

"How do I love thee, Barack Obama?" his media maids and man-servants coo: "Let me count the ways." More

Can we take a moment to consider that President Bush is making this move toward talks with Iran for a good reason? More

Barack Obama's recent words to promote his image as Community Organizer in Chief were not about forming a paramilitary force of volunteer brown shirts. They were about turning America into one, giant, community organizer's sandbox More

The annihilationist threat to Israel posed by a Shi'ite Iranian regime gripped with an apocalyptic, Jew-hating fervor did not spring from a vacuum. More

Back to Page OneThe Khomeini "Revolution"-Back to the FutureThe so-called "Khomeini revolution", which deposed Mohammad Reza Shah, was in reality a mere return to oppressive Shi'ite theocratic rule, the predominant form of Persian/Iranian governance since 1502. Conditions for... More

Today is the anniversary of the plot to kill Hitler. It almost succeeded, but for the tiniest of factors. More

It is time to reassess the now infamous "mission accomplished" landing and speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln. More

We are entering the next step of personalized news. But Congressional Democrats are suspicious of the ability of their colleagues to bypass media gatekeepers. More

This week in Los Angeles, two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives. More

Barack Obama is just another politician. That is the increasingly obvious fact of the presidential campaign. More

In politics the game always goes to the politician who can stick the blame on the other guy. Sometimes, like New York Senator Charles Schumer, you can even nudge a bank into receivership. More

"Victim" is not a natural state of being -- that self-preception must be impressed upon a person. Traditionally, this has been done through the infliction of some real violence, but schools can now serve as recruiting centers. More

Jesse Jackson's infamous "hot mic" remarks have raised to the surface tensions seen earlier within the black community. More

Barack Obama is quite fond of disparaging what he has derisively labeled, "the politics of fear." More

Why won't the New York Times accept responsibility for repeatedly publishing a falsehood which caused many deaths? More

The signature initiative of an Obama campaign for a second term would be nationalizing public education, kindergarten through grade 12. If it happens, say goodbye to the Independent School District (I.S.D.) as we've known it. More

The political success of the effort by the Party of Defeat was tied to creating a story, repeated constantly by members of Congress, former political figures, and cooperative journalists, that the Iraq war was a mistake. More

Senator Barack Obama who told a crowd at the Chicago History Museum last March that he would "listen to the generals" where President Bush had not. So how would he carry out his plan to withdraw from Iraq promptly if they recommend staying? More

It's difficult to avoid exasperation over the left's absolute refusal to acknowledge the new realities of the Iraq war, as if one the most impressive turnabouts in modern military annals never took place. More

Fifty years ago today, an American president successfully stood up against the Moslem tide in the Middle East and won a victory. Too bad the event and its lessons have been forgotten. More

Barack the messiah has fallen from grace. The liberal media are down on him today -- but of course they're counting on the Braindead Vote to forget all about that in November More

It's worthwhile for us to imagine what Iraq would look like today had Barack Obama been in control way back in 2007 More

Behold Barack doing yet another Obama, this one vintage 2006 More

There is no better example of how out of touch Washington is with reality than the idea that our energy crisis can be addressed with a reduction of the national speed limit to 55 miles per hour. More

Ah yes, dear readers, this title has nailed me. I'm an unconventional thinker, a woman who is wont to go madly against the grain, in nearly all matters. More

Governments and armies must forever be concerned to avoid the element of surprise, yet history is replete with their failures to do so. More

Ancient Greek Philosophers, those who gave us the Pythagorean theorem, Euclidian Geometry and the basics of Number Theory did not ever consider zero as a number. More

Many commentators have wondered aloud what GE is thinking with regard to its NBC Universal division (NBCU). More

Apparently Andrew Sullivan wants to stigmatize scrutiny of part of Barack Obama's life story. More

Why would anyone be a global warming denier? James Hansen of NASA wants oil company CEOs tried for "high crimes against humanity." More

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

Public approval of Congress is so low that a few Republican optimists dream of overcoming the structural factors favoring the Democrats, holding steady or even gaining seats. More

McCain can narrow, not eliminate, the speech gap between him and Obama and thereby improve his chances for victory in November. But it won't happen around a teleprompter. More

Three burly men in military uniform forced me to don a mask. I could barely see through the slits in it. But what I could see made me shudder. More

Absent some of the unique structural or environmental advantages that exist for Democrats this year, John McCain should be running away from Barack Obama. So how can McCain realize some of this potential? More

How the Greens killed nuclear power and other stories. And why they are going to see their favorite policies reversed. More

Look who's sending big bucks to the big O. And look how the law is being stretched. More

Barack Obama has questioned, implicitly, the value of English as a primary language. At best this is ignorant; at worst, malicious. More

Is it Obama's to Lose, or Can McCain Win it? More

This fall, watch for David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager, to choreograph at least two post-convention mass events at least slightly reminiscent of the stagecraft of Leni Reifenstahl More

Dear Mr. Obama: I've been reading of your plans for the Invesco Field mass rally in Denver. I've had some experience documenting such things and am delighted to offer my suggestions. More

For years, the media and Democrats have sold the public an understanding that Gerorge W. Bush fabricated a story that Saddam Hussein had a WMD program. More

American voters must make up their minds about what Barack Obama really believes in, if anything. We must look to his past for help in understanding the inner Obama. More

A week or so ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stated she supported the return of the Fairness Doctrine. Now that the Democrats have conservative talk radio in their sights again, new proposals will be more carefully crafted More

Barack Obama served on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993 to 2001. During that time, the tax exempt foundation made some interesting grants, while some of investments are surprising. More

The reigning media narrative is that because this is a heavily Democratic year, Senator McCain is a clear underdog to Senator Obama. The narrative has almost nothing to do with the appeal of the candidates' respective policies More

At a fundamental level, elections hinge upon the most trusted intuitions voters have about their candidate's character. More

The media have been telling us for years that Saddam had no WMD, so "Bush's War": was based on a "lie." And those who believed Saddam did have WMD or WMD programs were delusional or worse. More

What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? More

The "War on Terror" is over, even as combat with terrorists continues. The gulf between public perception and the grim reality couldn't be greater or more important to bridge. More

Our National Dishevelment continues apace. What if anything can be done? More

Victory in Anbar Province, Iraq? If you Google, "Anbar victory," all you will find is a bunch of outdated stuff. Let the elitists live in their bubble of unreality, folks. We'll celebrate on our own. More

Our reporter recounts a visit through Yugoslavia almost forty years ago, in distinguished and insightful company. More

There are no pleasant, constructive or even likeable human beings in this gigantic critically accalimed book, written by an American Leftwing atheistic Yiddishist, living in Berkeley, California. More

Democratic republics never engage in war willingly. Wars are never popular for long. More

A great chasm that separates liberals and conservatives when it comes to defining the word "patriotism." More

Happy Independence Day, dear readers! Now, you might want to take a short break from waving your flag, put your sparklers on hold and grab a hanky. This story is going to put a lump in your throat More

In 1776, as today, the triumph of freedom was by no means assured. More

In at least some ways, British North America was increasingly "independent" from Britain. The Declaration of July Fourth was about much more than independence. More

I have watched, with terrific amusement, Barack Obama's arrogant strutting of his stuff on the campaign stump. He reminds me of a young bull, all pumped up with pride, ready to charge with lightning speed More

Nobody likes to make hard choices. But we have some big ones ahead. More

It looks like Mr. Obama may well be the next resident of the White House. It also looks like my people are going to be betrayed once again. More

Senator Obama's "The America We Love" speech, delivered in Independence, Missouri on June 30, might be more accurately entitled, "My Definition of Patriotism." It was as much about him as America. More

There is something intrinsically ridiculous about Obama's retinue of starstruck devotees. History has seen this sort of thing before, and a couple of famous satirists have made merry at exactly the same phenomenon. More

Last week, Barack Obama and his ideological fellowship mocked John McCain after the Senator stated that opening up domestic oil exploration would have an immediate negative impact on oil prices More

Sweetheart mortgage loans to Senators are much in the news of late, so I took a look at some of the publicly available information on Senator and Mrs. Obama's mortgage. More

It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons -- who are now attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped on. Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side."  Bill, says an MSNBC blogger, is a serial liar.  Well, thanks for performing your... More

Next week John McCain will be visiting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, a brave leader surrounded by leftist regimes who deserves much praise for turning the country around. More