The selection of Sarah Palin works, on many levels and in many ways. McCain knew what he was doing when he picked her More

The Obama campaign asserts with a straight face that Joe Biden's experience, nearly 40 years of Amtrak round trip ticket punching from Union Station to Wilmington, Delaware is of vice presidential grade More

Three events in the first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as epic turning points in world geopolitics: 9/11, the Iraq War and the Russian invasion of Georgia in August, 2008. More

Be careful what you wish for. More

Do you ever wonfer what demographic group is being referred to when the media insouciantly bandies about the phrase "The Religion Vote"? More

There are two military concepts here that explain the (absolutely spectacular) choice of Governor Sarah Palin. Both of them are important to the training of a fighter pilot. More

Backing down on Iran may have opened the way for the Georgia crisis More

It's not very often that a punk rocker becomes a leading dissident in a totalitarian regime, but it's happening now in Cuba. More

It's important to prepare for the attacks on Sarah Palin that will be launched, starting this afternoon, by the Democrats and the media. More

Appearances are at the center of Barack Obama's career. Those who believe he has never accomplished anything overlook his chosen career as a political impresario, a master of creating illusions that dazzle the public More

His name is Clinton, and the rules don't apply to him. Learn it; accept it; live it. More

Remember the good ol' days back when hurricanes were weather events and not political happenings? More

Will Obama deliver his acceptance speech with his own voice, or return to the oratorical style that permeated his primary victory speeches when he used the voice of Martin Luther King? More

Given Russia's new aggressive foreign policy as seen by its invasion of Georgia, few can doubt that it will exploit the power of European gas dependency. The question is, how does the West blunt that power? More

The dream of recreating Chicago 1968 may live among radicals and journalists, but not the professionals of the Denver Police Department. More

The presumptive Democratic nominee from Chicago brings with him knowledge of the dark arts of politics. More

The current narrative of the Bush Presidency is that it is a failure. I have another narrative. More

In entertainment news, it has been confirmed that the surviving members of Monty Python will reunite to film a remake of their classic religious satire, Life of Brian. More

We have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of outlaw behavior. We know what works and what does not. More

As America has gotten to know Barack Obama many have noted his apparent disconnection from many fundamental elements of his own life. More

What will "Obamanomics" look like? How would he know? More

It's been hiding in plain sight for years now. Keep it in mind as you watch the Democrats this week. More

Barack Obama's big shiny campaign bus rolled into Denver with more money in the bank than air in the tires. So, where'd his Mo go? More

The Democratic National Convention is a great time to reflect on the Conundrum of The Century: Why are our liberal buddies so amazingly gullible? More

Do not believe that post-invasion intelligence invalidates our justification for using military force against Saddam's Iraq. The truth is the exact opposite. More

Has Bob Dole been secretly advising the Obama? More

Well, I must admit that over the course of the past 8 months, Barack Obama has given me quite a few What-in-the-world-is-he-thinking-? moments... More

The truth is that, sans teleprompter and prepared speech and contrary to myth, Obama is at best a mediocre speaker. More

Rick Warren asked the presumptive presidential candidates to define rich in America during the Saddleback forum. More

Let's take a quick look at the public perception as put forth by the MSM of Republican vs. Democratic presidents elected since WWII More

Here is a game you can play between (or during) the speeches at the conventions. Read the following quotes and guess who said them. More

Can Europe ever learn to avoid repeating its own suicidal history? More

What does one call a lawmaker who would condemn to death the child survivor of a botched abortion by permitting doctors to refuse that child, once born alive, potentially life-saving medical treatment and nutrition? More

A straight-talking anthropologist from Montreal has written a persuasive and revealing book analyzing Arab societies and Islam, including jihad. Andrew Bostom explains its insights. More

William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. The two men built a bond far more robust than either wants to admit to the public. More

Let's compare the moral seriousness and intellectual heft of three black heroes: Barack Obama, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Lt. Col. Allen West. More

Take heart. Hope. Think for a moment about why the good guys will win the war against dishonesty, brutality, and power-mongering. The big picture is often hard to see. More

The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama's most important administrative leadership experience: helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed. More

It came to pass in the eighth year of the third millennium that a long race decided who became Leader of the Realm of the Fifty-seven States. A position many called The Potus. More

Public schooling in too much of America has run down to mediocrity and worse. It's almost inevitable, and worse in some places than others. More

Barack Obama has a history of making career choices that are impossible to either understand or explain. More

Barack Obama is still an enigma because a lot of his life has been carefully hidden. More

Forty years ago, in the third week of August 1968, something horrible happened to the American Left and to its host, the Democratic Party. More

With accusations of flip-flopping coming from all sides this summer, we should make sure that we are using the word correctly. More

There has been a lot of commentary already on the forum at Saddleback Church, but one Obama answer bears some further fact-checking. More

Condoleezza Rice -- supposedly an expert on Russia -- rushed to Tbilisi last week, persuading reluctant Georgian President Saakahsvili to sign a cease-fire containing enough loopholes for a Russian tank battalion to drive through. More

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the contest for President has become a real horse race, close to a tossup More

Nuclear energy doesn't get the same amount of press as offshore drilling, solar, wind, and other sources. But it is a vital part of any energy program for America. More

Were you around for the steelworkers strike in the early 1980s? The steel industry in the US expired by the end of the decade. More

If there is one issue, upon which Barack Obama has been willing to take a front-and-center political stand, it is on abortion and, yes, even infanticide. More

The perfect code breaker to decipher the nonsense that is the left, the Democrats and especially Obama, is flourishing on the internet. Meet Oleg Atbashian, a former agitprop artist from the Soviet Union. More

Would a Democrat or someone from the mainstream media (as if there is a difference) help me understand something? Why are all of you picking on poor John Edwards? By your standards, what exactly has he done wrong? More

One of the major criticisms of the Republicans in this Congress has been their inability to take advantage of issues that fall into their laps. More

Last month, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse released a 200-page report detailing the potential effects of an Electromagnetic Pulse, (EMP), attack on the continental US. More

An adage has it that one can never be too thin or too rich, and this adage is now being tested. More

Contrary to their politically correct aims, the advertising industry in this country has created a voting bloc that I am positively sure they never intended. I refer to all us Clueless White Guys More

Conservatives have a problem with artists, just as most artists have a problem with conservatives. More

The United Kingdom is on taking a first step toward a parallel legal system for Muslims, and garnering applause for it. More

Why are Egypt's Coptic Christians so apathetic about their persecution? More

Barack Obama faces a formidable challenge in his attempt to win pro-life voters in key states without alienating the Democratic Party's abortion faction. More

Leaders were once named after their most (in)famous acts. More

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War almost without firing a shot. Today, China is a brash, tough power, Russia invading a neighbor, and Moslems believe overwhelmingly that America, the liberator of tens of millions of Moslems from godless Communism, is the "Great Satan." What happened? More

Winning a national Presidential election is not at all the same thing as organizing a group of citizens to agitate for more government interventions and taxpayer money. More

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident. More

The confrontations taking place today in the Caucasus were triggered strategically in the Balkans few months before. We were warned. More

A figure appears from nowhere, a secular messiah from the heartland -- unique, appealing, promising solutions that are effective, fast, and easy. He stirs up an immediate and vastly excited following across the country. It's happened before. More

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, said the sly old Greeks. The madness they were thinking of was hubris, of course More

The news spinners of the mainstream media have tried to portray the Edwards Affair as a sex scandal. It is not. It is a truth scandal. More

Barack Obama promises to accomplish quite a lot if he becomes our next President. Has he fulfilled his promise as a legal scholar? That's one of his most important claims to achievement. More

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In a replay of classic Soviet interventions from the cold war, using the flimsiest of contrived pretexts, Russia came to the rescue of a supposedly beleaguered minority in South Ossetia, a sparsely populated mountainous region and unimportant to... More

It makes complete sense that a gang of five Republican United States Senators would form a cabal with five Democratic senators to betray the Republican base on energy. More

My son-in-law is an Obot. I'm sorry, that's the kindest thing I can say. A specimen of his thinking is this: He likes Barack Obama because Hillary is just too white. More

It's one of the ironies of modern "progressivism" that it looks to the past for so many of its policies. More

Alexander Solzehnitsyn played a significant role in the American effort to place a stake in the heart of militant, atheistic Soviet communism More

On September 10th, 1964, the Radio Times, a British magazine, quoted President Woodrow Wilson that, "Right is more precious than peace." The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many years before that, "... we all love peace, but not peace at any price."In actuality,... More

2008 is becoming a year in which we must replace the irreplaceable More

There is an unspoken assumption that "safety net" and "government program" are just about one and the same thing. More

Courage and commitment to democratic values are flowering in Iraq and withering in American publishing. More

Muslims are establishing Mosques all over America, powered by petrobillions. But if your town or neighborhood doesn't have one yet, an Islamobile may fill the void some day, as it already does in Germany. More

The Olympics have long been a joke. But hosting the games in a police state is even worse. More

If Barack Obama presents a target-rich environment in his inflated balloon of media hype over one non-accomplishment after another, John McCain presents the opposite. More

If the Middle East -- and the rest of the world -- survives the aggressive rise of Iranian nukes and missiles, it will be thanks to Ballistic Missile Defense -- a completely new technology that is just being put into place. More

This US presidential election has rekindled emotions outside the US, affecting how the world views America, from presumably allied countries in Europe to the developing world and, especially the Muslim world. More

Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? More

Congressman Eric Cantor may very well be the best possible Republican to run with McCain -- for several different reasons. More

When Barack Obama gave a speech on patriotism, he equated patriotism with the abstract concepts of "sacrifice" and "service to a larger cause." Senator Obama does not understand what patriotism is -- or how it works. More

Barack Obama doesn't just talk about conservation, he practices it. In his thinking and proposals on energy, the Illinois senator has expertly recycled Jimmy Carter. More

What I want to know is, how did Hans Christian Andersen know about Barack Obama more than a century ago? More

Power is known to do some mighty strange things to otherwise quite normal people. More

JaMarcus Russell, at 6-6 and 260, sure looks like a pro quarterback, and Barack Obama sure wows reporters as a "gifted politician." More

Barack OBama's "fired" foreign policy adviser Samantha Power offers a chilling glimpse of how his foreign policy would be handled if he is elected. More

Speaker Pelosi's lights out tactic in the House last Friday is illustrative of a deeper malady; a lust for control that transcends the normal political power wrangling between parties More

Barack Obama is one crafty fellow, appearing to hold both sides of various issues and claiming credit for the work of others. More

Is it a coincidence, I wonder, that our presidential elections are held the same years as the summer Olympics? Or is it the natural affinity of one sporting event for another? More

"I've been hustled," said Obama, after a Euro tabloid fell down and worshipped his big muscles at the gym during the Ego Trip to Germany. He should know. More

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. It is a testament to the banality of our times that most people probably do not know what that means. More

The fact is that much of the new left is unpatriotic. And that is okay. The Founding Fathers knew that not all Americans would be patriots; in fact, they counted on it. More

Not too long ago, July 22 as a matter of fact, a 22-year-old fire-fighter was killed in the line of duty. He was not killed by fire or smoke. He was shot. His name was Ryan Hummert. More

We've seen this before: a young, attractive, and politically inexperienced candidate comes out of nowhere to claim a presidential nomination. Is history repeating itself? More

Persuading Western Muslim leaders to repudiate Shari'a-sanctioned violence against apostates can be a frustrating exercise More

A Dallas area columnist recently wrote that we should all just shut up about patriotism because it's a word that's overused and "kinda uncool." More

New technologies broke a news blackout attempted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. More

So-called enlightened opinion has in recent years been dominated by historicval revisionism on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More

Heinous terrorist, or innocent but flawed man driven to suicide by an FBI investigation? More

The time has come for serious presidential campaigns to settle into a few, clear themes. Senator McCain has not quite done that yet, but he should soon. Here are three that will win him the presidency: More

The War on Terror is also a war of ideas. More

As each day passes, it becomes more obvious that Iran's real intention is to develop nuclear weapons. Why does Iran need nuclear weapons? More

Did I just hear Barack Obama call for "reparations?" I think I did. What would that really involve if we are worried about "fairness"? More

It's one thing to point out what our country could do to become superior to its former self, but quite another to preface such counsel with the implication that it's inferior to every other nation. More

Every day, for the past several months, I've made a habit in my morning prayers of thanking God for the emergence of Barack Obama. Not because my hope is in Obama, but because my hope is always, unequivocally in God. More