The current punitive campaign against Hamas in Gaza has so many military and political levels that it seems like Tolstoy's War and Peace. But the one thing it will not do is wipe out radical Islamist control of Gaza. More

Sneering at those who disagree with you rarely is persuasive. More

It's not terribly complicated. More

Be careful what you wish for, even if you are living a fairy tale. More

The myth of the unfunded mandate is critical to the success of the teachers unions. It will be invoked no matter how many federal education dollars are sent to states. More

The AIG post-bailout junket was irresistible fodder for both outrage and mockery. But most of what you know about it is wrong. More

Many conservatives are still reeling from the sense that America has finally been suckered into a catastrophic swing to the Left. Has our luck finally run out? More

It was not our military that failed; it was our diplomacy. Not to put too fine a point on it, that means we should be blaming the State Department and Colin Powell rather than Defense and Donald Rumsfeld. More

As January 20th approaches so too does the possibility of the biggest federal power grab in the history of the United States. More

I admire President Bush. I think he is a good man and I have said so before. But as Bush leaves office he is looking more and more like a deer in headlights. More

What went wrong in Iraq? Why? Who was to blame? Comfortably ensconced in my armchair on Monday morning, let me tell you what happened. More

There is a distinctly Homeric aspect to Barack Obama's first autobiography. This literary model tells us more than the author may have intended. More

Barack Obama's choice to hold a memorial service December 23 for his late grandmother Madelyn "Toot" Dunham at Honolulu's First Unitarian Church underlines one part of the story of Barack Obama's leftist religious upbringing. More

You all know what an elevator story is. It's the answer you give to someone when they ask what you do. More

The Left has edited the political dictionary in a way that determines how we are able to think about politics and ideology. More

The Bush hatred we are seeing in the media today belongs in the long catalogue of human psychopathology -- not rational behavior. More

President-elect Obama has made a series of economic appointments. While appointees are diverse in age, background and geography, most share a common thread: extensive foreign policy experience. More

The fresh face on the national scene Jimmy Carter also said he stood for "change." It didn't work out too well then. More

Jesus Christ is not only pivotal to our own civilization, but he is also by far the most influential figure in history More

The spellbinding truth which Christmas proclaims is not the birth of one who came to teach us a new philosophy, or a new set of moral principles, but one who claimed to be God. More

When Cuban refugees by the thousands landed amidst "gun and religion-clinging people" with ingrained "antipathy to people who aren't like them," the potential for trouble was enormous. More

As a tumultuous year limps to an end, state governors are planning to deliver more hits to our already battered pocketbooks. More

Our 40th president knew and explicitly displayed through his words and actions that America is gift from God, and if we stray from His guidance the very purpose with we have been ordained will gradually erode. More

As we ponder, each in our own way, this most special of holidays, I have a suggestion: read (or reread) the greatest book ever written -- the Gospel of John. More

Only willful blindness prevents the New York Times from seeing the comparison. More

Those great evils have this in common: always, the evil hates and persecutes Jews and Christians; always, the evil despises Israel and America. More

For our young people, it appears that all things bad - and by bad, I mean evil -- are being made into good things -- and by good, I mean admirable or desirable. More

The bailout was supposed to solve problems. Wasn't it? More

There isn't too much money in politics after all. The problem is too damned much politics in money. More

This auto bailout has reached far beyond economics and politics. More

What could possibly make one question the President-elect's word? More

I have nothing against being nice. Who does? But is that enough? More

If the conservative movement tried to draw-up a "vision statement," what would it look like? More

I confess I do not and never really will understand the workings of large bureaucracies. More

It is a potent human disposition to blame others for our failings. Without scapegoats to blame, we are forced to look at ourselves for our problems. More

Contrary to reports issued by various wind energy advocates, "wind farms" provide few energy, environmental, or economic benefits and create very few jobs - far fewer than could be achieved if the money were used for other investments. More

Is taxpayer money the only source for bailout funds? Here's a market-based alternative: The Super Roth. More

Suppose you're Bashir Assad or Putin, and you watch the Blago Blowup, a month before the next president even takes office. More

Al Gore is right! Sort of. The current debate over climate change is over. At least, it is over in terms of a logical and unbiased inquiry. More

Ironies abound in the Baghdad shoe-throwing incident. More

When I lived in Chicago, I joined a neighborhood association with the intent of meeting neighbors, and ended up meeting political sleaze. More

It will take more than right-thinking judicial appontments to stem activism from the bench. More

What are businesses afraid of? Quite a lot, it turns out, and with good reason. More

Approximately one year ago, the UK government began giving Sharia court judgments the backing of British civil law enforcement. More

Ted Turner cannot possibly believe what he said about Cuba on the O'Reilly Factor. More

Despite earlier public statements in support, the Illinois Democrats are not going to let the voters have a say in their next senator. More

The Democrats' election triumph demonstrates the error of Republicans trying to win elections without focusing on crime, punishment and the restoration of law and order. More

We seem to have forgotten that not allowing people to suffer consequences has consequences. More

Americans have lost our concept of survival. We only know acceptable standards of living. More

Apparently, showing the sole of your shoe to someone in the Arab world is a sign of extreme disrespect, and throwing your shoes is even worse. More

The currently proposed car maker loan / bailout program could actually cripple the very same businesses government is trying to help More

I rise today in defense of my home state, my beloved Illinois, where top soil is so rich you can make soup from its deep, black loam. More

It's likely that 2008 will go down as the coldest year since in the United States since 1997. More

Deepak Chopra's callous comments in the wake of Mumbai and his earlier libel against Israel are unworthy of a great teacher. More

It is easier to categorize the duck-billed platypus than Illinois politics. Dostoyevsky would feel at home here. It's just so human. More

The clearest distinction of national policies can sometimes be found under one roof. More

American Jews in the "peace camp" (one piece of Israel given away at a time), are feeling their oats after Obama's big victory More

I frequently bemoan the fact that my children are extraordinarily selfish, in a way that my peers and I weren't when we were their age. More

Try to imagine health care in the world of Obama. Both Barack and Michelle have left clues as to what awaits. More

Everyone is religious. People will have their religion. The particular religion does not, necessarily, have to include worship of a god -- but it must include a dogma and rituals. More

All-permeating "white-guilt" did not appear out of thin air. It has taken a sustained propaganda effort, a wide-ranging mobilization of education and culture, to inculcate and sustain self-loathing among American Caucasians. More

The Muslim nations have an big oppotunity now to implement the so-called "war within Islam" narrative promoted by policymaking, academic, and media elites across the political spectrum More

Since the only way to assure that the government takes this case to trial quickly is if Gov. Blagojevich remains in office, it is in the national interest that Gov. Blagojevich remain in office and force the government promptly to reveal all that it knows about the Illinois political cesspool. More

Obama sees "abortion rights" in several ways, but, principally, he perceives abortion as a matter of economic fairness. More

"Che" film gets thumbs up in Cuba," ran the headline from CNN's Havana Bureau on Dec. 8. Hollywood's useful idiots have disgraced themselves again. More

The resolution of Margaret Thatcher in the Falklands War -- a grittiness which the generals of Argentina did not think soft European democrats could muster -- produced a revolution in Argentine government. More

Canada's CBC has run three seasons of a show about Muslim preence there. An American version may be on its way. More

Mr. Obama, our President-Can't-Be-Waiting, will soon pronounce a Message to the Muslims. More

Israel seriously contemplates the consequences of a threatened nuclear attack from Iran, and reviews the case for and against acting preemptively. More

I am at peace about Barack Obama and his natural born US citizenship. Still not cheerful about being called deranged and told to shut up, but on the issue itself -- peace. More

Minding your language and minding your behavior both require self-discipline and a respect for an established order in society. More

I suspect that no Governor has ever before conducted a crime spree, with the possible exception of Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards. More

The job destruction process has started at my company. We are about 20% of the way through our ramp down process and on schedule to complete the shut down by spring 2009. I see the Obama handwriting on the wall. More

Here are a few questions from a typical man on the street (me) to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and the answers I believe he would give, based on his public positions to date. More

Human rights redefined to take into account the "cultural and religious context of Islamic countries". Islamic countries want it. More

The Blagojevich True Crime Drama is not criminality as usual in Illinois politics. What we found out yesterday is only the beginning. More

The Blagojevich scandal offers a chance for the GOP to redefine itself in voters' minds, but the opportunity comes at the cost of a thorough house-cleaning. More

In tough times we all must make sacrifices. Barack Obama is on the record about what is demanded of chief executives. More

Instead of playing the blame game it is time for the citizens of India to pause and try to understand why was it that these merchants of terror succeeded so well in their dastardly enterprise. More

Attempts to pretend that the evolution of a chaotic object can be modeled with sufficient precision to determine whether an individual event was caused by "global warming" may find their way to court. More

Candidate Barack Obama promised "change we can believe in," but he never hinted that this change would all but circumvent Congress to impose on America the most dramatic liberal social transformation since the New Deal. More

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), an association of the world's Islamic states, is pushing the United Nations to outlaw "defamation" of religion in general, and of one religion in particular. More

David Horowitz has diagnosed those who claim Obama is not natural born as being afflicted with "Obama Derangement Syndrome." Horowitz told people to "shut up about the birth certificate." More

All Great Men intending to make their mark on history need great monuments. For Barack Obama just a single one won't do. More

In what they deem a natural progression of age-old struggles for social justice, environmentalists gleefully predict that the 21st century will be an era of environmental justice. More

The world is entering a serious recession. Most likely in the developed world the hardships will be anesthetized by unemployment and welfare benefits. But not in India and China. More

Shrinking from the challenge and hoping for the best is not the wisest course of action in the face of an existential threat. More

What happens when elites renounce the ties to nation that provide the bulwark against foreign aggression? India offers a lesson from history. More

In an era of hope and change, it is all the more necessary to be realistic about genuine threats. More

I was rereading Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice a couple of nights ago and I ran upon a phrase that reminded me of Al Gore. More

The nomination of Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State brings back memories of the time when Bosnia represented the primary foreign policy success of her husband's administration. More

You won't find anyone in the media celebrating the emergence of a stable democracy when it would bring credit on a liberal bête noir. More

In recent years, the Russian bear has bared his fangs at Ukraine as the grim season commemorating genocide-by-famine 75 years ago. More

How does a 17 year-old become a hate-filled murderer, willing to plunge a knife into another human being's chest? More

The question of the day is whether in President-elect Barack Obama we have a leader who can rise above the perpetual campaign that has characterized the presidency and plagued the nation in recent decades. More

Saudi King Abdullah has been urging the United Nations to pass a universal law prescribing imprisonment for criticizing Islam. It's already passed a key committee vote. More

Why liberals believe so many strange things. More

U.N. General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto termed the "single greatest failure" of the U.N. is the failure to create a Palestinian state. More

For all of the talk about "bi-partisanship," the Georgia Senate run-off was nothing if not blatantly partisan. It was, simply, ALL about the party, and by extension, was the most intellectually sound and pure election in all of the 2008 cycle. More

Keynsian economics is being used to revive the economy, as if borrowing and spending could solve our economic problems. More

Some people just don't get it, but a learning oportunity exists. More

Passage of California's Proposition 8 is being used as an excuse to vent pent-up anger at the Mormon Church and the traditional lifestyle of Mormons. More

Shouldn't there be both transparency and clear objectivity in officially calling and timing recessions? More

Congress will waste more time this week torturing the auto company CEOs. We almost certainly will hear that tired phrase, "Detroit is building products that nobody wants." Americans actually think it's the lawmakers that produce products that nobody wants. More

Arrested and branded a "terrorist media operative" by military authorities in Iraq, freed in a general amnesty, and now honored by media swells at the Waldorf. More

Just two months after winning more seats, the conservative government headed by Stephen Harper could fall to an unlikely coalition. More

Obama will be an image president because he does not have much choice. Simply put, he cannot provide what he promised during the campaign. More

Having a president the world supposedly likes doesn't provide a holiday from history. More

What few politicians will say publicly is that the terrorists will see these incidents as data points, probes, and simulations for the inevitable next events. More

Conservatism needs a fresh start. It is losing arguments ... and it is losing elections. One person, more than any other (even more than John McCain), has caused this: President George W. Bush. More

Usually, children's books do not scare me. But I just read a children's book entitled "Barack" by Jonah Winter, with illustrations by AG Ford, published on September 30, 2008. This book scared me very much. More

Journalists are inquisitive creatures by nature, constantly asking questions and demanding answers. Here are twenty questions I would like to ask the media: More