I wondered what Conservatism (incarnated as a principle or an ideal) would want to say to the members of CPAC. More

Did you notice that when Gov. Sarah Palin was campaigning for vice-president she talked about "reform?" Candidate Obama campaigned on a different theme, "Change We Can Believe In." More

I attended a "teach-in" about Israeli-Palestinian relations at Duke University the other night. Part of my job is to attend college lectures and report on them, in order to provide the public with some idea of who is being invited on to the American campus and what ideas they present. As... More

Apparent expressions of great wisdom can prove lacking. More

The political reality at the moment is that whatever will be proposed by the Obama administration or Congress in the next two years, it will pass. More

A look into the process by which supposedly scientific conclusions were drawn about carbon dioxide as a pollutant. It's not pretty. More

When do deficits go below 3% of GDP in President Obama's projections? Basically, never. More

It's been four weeks since I've been home from Israel and the fighting in Gaza. Three weeks since I turned in my helmet, body amour and M-16 More

Something beautiful, sad, unexpected, and miraculous happened yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). More

Like the spear-carrying soldiers of Ethiopia, overwhelmed by Mussolini's tanks and poison gas in 1936, the Republicans simply don't know what hit them in last year's election. More

What if America played the war on terror to win? More

the ever-conniving mullahs are gradually transforming Iran's universities, cradles of knowledge about life, to mausoleums More

When the New York Post went ape in a cartoon, the enemies of freedom and equality showed their colors. More

Citizens of all colors are about to witness on a national scale what has been quietly fermenting for decades within the Ivory Tower. More

Unfortunately, the change Obama promised is not the change he is focused on implementing. More

Has it been but a single B.O. Presidential moon? More

The Global War Against Freedom of Speech More

Attempts to resolve conflicts based on false assumptions, inadequate information, and denial are doomed to failure. More

Thirty days into the Obamiate, we have seen that the man cannot put together a working cabinet. And yet some conservatives are ready to surrender. More

What is and isn't hate speech will astound you. More

And what Republicans can do about it. More

In just over thirty days, our children have learned some very valuable lessons. More

And socialism is the worst. More

You wanna talk racism, Mr. Holder? Okay. It's time we talked. In fact, we should have had this talk thirty years ago. It's time someone like me talked to someone like you about race. More

While visiting China recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton groveled for more money at the Panda's door, and got it. More

Much has been made of the possibility of a revival in one form or another of the Fairness Doctrine, an obvious ploy to diminish the considerable impact of conservative radio hosts, notably Rush Limbaugh. More

Eco-warriors and media hype aside, the fact is, as we head into 2009, that the world's ice mass has been expanding not contracting. More

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted by her friend's roommate Wednesday. Doctors listed Charla Nash's condition as critical. More

Dr. King's dream of a colorblind society based on character content, while vaguely celebrated, would be, if achieved, the diversity industry's worst nightmare. More

President Obama's multi-billion dollar nationwide scheme to circumvent campaign spending laws comes neatly disguised as a Hawaii-only deal for "reconciliation" and "justice". More

Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders will be in the United States this week, arriving direct from Italy where he received the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award. More

Let's get some clarity here. Banking is a government program, the means by which the government control the credit system. Bankers are the government's toadies. More

Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it's always blowing on some people somewhere. More

This is Black History Month, perhaps an appropriate time to call attention to an aspect of black history that has been papered over and all but forgotten in the official accounts and in what is taught in schools More

President Obama is auditioning American Idle contestants. These non-producers of our society stole the show at his town meeting in Ft. Meyers More

The February 17th, 2009, episode of Jeopardy served up a heapin' helpin' dose of reality More

The westward-bound Conestoga wagons of the 19th century are an emblem of America's expansion. They also offer a useful analogy for our current situation. More

Of course, Eric Holder is correct. The cowardice of Americans was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today. More

America, our economy is in the intensive care unit and look out -- here come the interns, well educated but inexperienced. More

The candidate who at one time promised no preconditions to negotiating with Iran may very well be on the verge of applying a precondition on America that Iran would welcome: a shift on our sanctions policy toward that nation. More

Israel's Security Cabinet met Wednesday, February 18, 2009 to debate on an imminent deal with Hamas which includes the freeing of Israeli P.O.W. Corporal Gilad Shalit. More

How can any Republican complain of Obama's spending habits or complain about his stimulus, given the way Republicans spent "the last eight years"? Well, I'm going to tell you exactly how. More

In the past few weeks a number of influential Democrats have expressed an interest in legal prosecution of members of the Bush administration. More

Two decades ago, another US Airways flight departed LaGuardia for Charlotte and landed in the water after takeoff, with fatalities. A lot of useful learning took place in the interim. More

Would President Obama attend or send a U.S. delegate to a Klu Klux Klan planning meeting with the hopes of changing its agenda? More

The hatred that never dies was alive and well this last month in the streets of London. More

Why the stimulus is unlikely to work. More

It took less than a month for the default leadership style of President Obama to appear. How long will it take for the forgotten man who believed in him to awaken to the consequences? More

"Mr. President" seems way too stiff and stilted for you, our most populist-appealing president ever. More

It appears that a website fanning the flames of antisemitism is registered to a Venezuelan diplomat posted to the United States. More

Criticize the president and you're admonished for being unfair and partisan. "Give the man a chance!" hiss the critics. More

If you want to know what President Obama's new style of government-led, Democratic Party economic and political policies will bring to the country, you need look no further than Western New York More

If President Obama and the congressional majority are serious about stimulating the economy, they might better consider why businesses use private aircraft before they vilify such expenditures. More

With less than a month in office, the Big O is being compared to not one, but an entire bench of previous A-team presidents. More

Even Al Gore's dream of "capping" carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants won't satisfy NASA's James Hansen. He wants to shut them all down. More

The extravagances that the Obamas have enjoyed in their first few weeks in office are turning into the bitter pill that the rest of the hard working Americans will have to swallow over the next four years. More

The era of Obama-inspired bi-partisan goodwill was very brief. As with all his carefully choreographed pandering, it was in large measure a rhetorical tool. More

My wife has just been deployed to Iraq. In light of the long history of warfare, her mission is a role reversal of sorts that seems odd to me. More

Most of America, for instance, applauds "parental involvement" in their children's education. But a recent New York Times editorial decries it. More

Can a free people willingly choose servitude? Is it possible for democracies to become tyrannies? How? More

I suspect that Obama has in mind a definite ulterior plan, for the sake of which he wants the current stimulus bill to fail to revive the economy. More

In an unprecedented campaign to sell his trillion-dollar taxpayer spending plan, President Obama has gone beyond talking down the economy. More

A regime addicted to crisis. More

How to explain this odd behavior? Was this a calculated move? What could be the thinking behind it? More

It is almost State of the Union time. So what is the real state of our union's finances, specifically our federal budget?  Are we going to hell in a hand basket?  Or do we have nothing to fear but fear itself?  I crunch the numbers so you don't have to.For fair comparisons over... More

Israel's planners have to be thinking that with Obama and his crowd in power, the United States may simply pull out the rug from the democratic and modern state of Israel More

If I were a conspiracy buff, I'd think that the entire movement was engineered by men. More

Modeling himself on a man who sold a myth. More

Can governments, like commodities or companies, be victims of "bubble" collapses. More

As a new American administration takes office promising renewal of the Middle East 'peace process,' and Israel looks to national elections in February 2009, the Palestinians have no real government at all. More

Some of the president's apologists have the gall to tell us that we cannot criticize the administration so early in the game. More

The snake oil is especially obvious in Barack Obama's slick salesmanship as well as his shrewd manipulation of rhetoric. More

There's a law that liberals always shatter. (And no, I'm not talking about tax law.) It's the law of unintended consequences. More

In Israel, across the broad political spectrum, almost no one thinks the Palestinians are a serious negotiating partner. More

Fellow citizens, if you like what ACORN did to the home mortgage industry, then you're going to just plum love what the Democrats have in mind for talk radio. More

At the root of the Stimulus Bill is a vision of citizens as suffering, victimized, helpless children in need of rescue from a cruel world. More

The February 10, 2009 election results in Israel, while complicated and unresolved, are also revealing. More

Obama is gearing up to withdraw medical resources from the eldery. An example helps illustrate what this will mean. More

It may be convenient to blame Gaza's disintegration on Israel, but the world, and especially the Arab world knows better. More

If you ever try to reconstruct the sequence of recent financial events, and our government's reactions to them, you might very well find yourself suffering from Who's-On-First syndrome. More

I won! (I just love saying that.) And as promised throughout my historic campaign, I am now reaching out to you Mahmoud, More

Liberal elites now constitute an American aristocracy well on its way to becoming merely America's ruling oligarchy. More

We'll be hearing a lot about state-business "partnerships" over the months to come. More

Think it's hard for American business to compete in the world economy now? Wait until Obama's planned measures take effect. More

I am not opposed to all spending. I'm opposed to dumb spending. More

Government can't create enough jobs to employ everyone, and it shouldn't even try. More

What happens when everything that can go wrong in a person's character formation does go wrong, and that person continues to be promoted to his level of incompetence? More

Four candidates, each problematic for different reasons. Israelis had a tough time making their choice. More

What is Plan B for the Stimulus Plan? More

Tactical victories and cosmetic changes are not enough to make the Republican Party the majority party again.. More

Before passing Obama's "new" New Deal, Congress should check out the results of the "old" New Deal. More

As put by the noted political philosopher Clint Eastwood: "A man's got to know his limitations." O now has a vague glimmering as to what his limitations are. His followers, as yet, do not. More

President Obama has had almost three weeks in office, and some patterns are beginning to emerge. More

Under the guise of "access to primary care," the Regents of the University of California have been conducting an experiment on women in Concord, Los Angeles and San Diego. More

In December of 2008, the Taliban mounted an aggressive attack against Swat, Pakistan. Civilians and tribal leaders were massacred, public executions were held, bridges were bombed, schools destroyed and travel virtually blocked into the region. Also in December of 2008, after suffering three years... More

Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act certainly did their part, but I know where the blame really lies for the housing bubble. More

Doing good, or just doing well? More

Socialism is rapaciously greedy -- that's what endless envy warfare comes down to. More

Over the ages of human existence, wage and price controls have ended the reign of Egyptian pharaohs, brought down the Babylonian Empire, and further weakened the Nixon administration. More

Barack Obama is centralizing power in the White House, marginalizing Hillary Clinton and the State Department, while offering ever-clearer signs that Israel's status as a close American ally is imperiled. More

Attempts to resolve conflicts based on false assumptions, inadequate information, and denial are doomed to failure. More

Before President Obama delivers his much anticipated address in a Muslim capital, he should emulate George Washington, and visit America's first synagogue in Newport, R.I. More

The debate over who bears responsibility for the Palestinian deaths caused by Israel's attack on Hamas will continue for the foreseeable future -- probably until the next round of fighting. More

Is Bill Gates entering the Howard Hughes school of eccentric billionaires? More

It is dismaying to see a country I have admired and worked for propelling itself outside the mainstream of western civilization. More

The public spotlight can be a dangerous addiction in a president. More

How does one best deal with pests? More

The Cuban Memorial, in honor of Castro and Che's victims is probably unfamiliar to you. The mainstream media ignore it, preferring to celebrate the murderous miscreants. More

Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. More

If America wants economic stimulus from environmental clean-up, there is a much smarter way to do it than found in the current stimulus proposal. More

We know what works and what doesn't in growing an economy. We just prefer to ignore the truth. More

President Barack Obama chose to grant the Saudi-funded, Dubai-based al Arabiya TV the first media salvo of the new presidency. More

Far from fulfilling its obligations to fight terror of its own accord or by cooperating with Israel, the Palestinian Authority punishes, in the worst way possible, those who do. More

Opportunities ahead. More

With more American adults seeing the cold truth behind warming misinformation, alarmists are stepping up efforts to brainwash our schoolchildren More

No one, with two-cents worth of knowledge about money, thinks that the way to work out of a budgetary nightmare is to max out his credit cards, and then apply for umpteen more of the things More

You'd think the Democrats would do a better job of camouflaging their real agends, given the effort they have put, starting with the 2006 mid-term elections, into wooing the middle class. More

In the end, Tom Daschle had to go, not because of his tax problems, but because he had allowed a glimpse inside the Obama sausage factory.  More

To say that I'm not a fan of George Soros would be an understatement. But when he's right, he's right. More

It is still possible that Obama may turn toward the mainstream. But the early omens look dark. More

Benicio del Toro reveals his intellectual infatuation with Che Guevara. More

Keep a keen eye out for the components of the bill that don't just steal your money, but that may actually do you great physical harm, if not kill you outright. More

The Obama campaign was all about hope and change. Change is happening but not the hope. More

Most clear thinking Americans no longer hate our Congress -- we now fear it. More

The 111th Congress is poised to extend the timeline of America's debt bondage to firmly indeterminate, as we return to our past and become ever more a nation of indentured servants More

The Obama forces are counting on the short memory of the American voter. More

The pork-laden American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 passed by Democrats in the House is a huge pig pen. More

How the high priest of climate alarmism is bringing NASA's reputation into disrepute. More

This year's Super Bowl game generated about $150M for the Tampa Bay area, down $50M from Phoenix's 2008 revenue. What happens if the trend continues and Congress decides a Super Bowl Bailout is necessary? More

Senator, maverick and jokester John McCain is fond of saying, "It is always darkest just before it goes totally black." In that same jocular spirit, I give my predictions for the Obama Administration. More

The four thousand year old association of Jewish life in Gaza is little remembered in today's world. More