June 30, 2009 is the seventy-fifth anniversary of a ghastly reminder about the nature of evil in the modern world. More

The theory and practice of fighting tyranny and protecting liberty in Honduras. More

While it took days for Obama to pass judgment on events following Iran's presidential election, he swiftly expressed "deepest concern" over Zelaya's ouster at the hand of the Honduran government. More

Two recent Supreme Court decision show a Court presently willing to curb executive power not found in express statutory terminology. More

Obama is dissing every freedom-loving man, woman and child living under repressive regimes. More

When did we become a nation of habitual voyeurs, panting with anticipation awaiting the next social or cultural train wreck? The King of Pop is dead - so what? More

The ultimate question is what a regime change, or even modification of the regime with a Mousavi as president, would mean to Iran's nuclear program. More

The key is to watch how far the Iranian rulers will go in following what the PLA did in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. It will get very ugly, I think. More

Mr. Obama apparently believes his main role is that of the advertiser-in-chief where he can employ his undeniable personal qualifications and attributes to get a target audience to "buy" his "new and improved" American product. More

Barack Obama's rather suspicious early response to the exciting and poignant cry for freedom in Iran should have finally ripped the blinders off of Obama's swooning supporters in the human rights establishment. More

Excessive Government involvement is what's wrong with our current healthcare system. More

"Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller." - President Obama (healthcare town hall meeting, June 24, 2009) More

Has literary detective Jack Cashill closed his case that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's first book? Take a look and see what you think. More

Is the bubble even over? More

Socialism has been failing for centuries in America. More

Does stoning really have "nothing to do with Islam"? More

In recent years Iranians have turned the New Year's celebrations, soccer matches, or even petty grumble against bad university cafeteria food into widespread anti regime demonstrations. More

Should not our sons be accorded the same legal protections as our daughters if they are raped or fighting off an attempted rape? More

North Korea has been busy, busy, busy since the election of our weak President. More

If the President of the United States does not stand for freedom, who will? More

Nowhere in our founding documents does the provision for government-funded healthcare appear -- mainly because one individual's health cannot be taken away by another. More

Brits of every age and class are having a collective meltdown over the shocking publication of the expenses claimed by their Members of Parliament. More

"There exists a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy to keep gay and lesbian politicians as closeted as possible." So begins the recently released film "Outrage" More

Nonie Darwish is an Egypt-born American writer. Her father was the chief of the Egyptian Military Intelligence in Gaza and was killed by the Israeli army in 1956. More

I've been trying to grasp for a truth that is so obvious that all of us know it. But it's not a polite truth, so we don't talk about it. More

Two years ago, Haaretz 's chief editor David Landau advised US Sec of State Condoleezza Rice to "rape Israel," to force it into making concessions. Now, that policy seems to be led by President Obama himself. More

There are, in fact, two Irans, and the lesser known one to most Americans is undergoing a renaissance that the ruling Iranian mullahs fear the most More

The feminist elites meets their worst nightmare in Sarah Palin. More

Sarah Palin's Letterman incident, especially the conservative world's reaction to it, proves that feminism has won. More

A strong, gutsy, bold, stand-on-principles hero, Sarah Palin, is in her own modern day version of High Noon. More

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial. More

Shhh. Don't let this get around, but Warren Buffet just let the cat out of the bag -- no economic recovery in sight. More

Competition could work to improve quality and lower costs in health care, if the right mix of policies were part of health care reform. More

Follow the logic of government involvement. More

Lack of emotion, unless ridiculing political opposition, is the hallmark of Leftist intellectual prowess. More

Since we are about to embark on another fruitless peace effort in the Middle East, it probably makes sense to take another look at the UN Resolution we will be hearing a lot about over the next few months More

The White House is now occupied by a little president who just isn't there when he is called upon to take a clear, moral stand. More

How much personal information are you comfortable revealing to your government? More

There is very little evidence that the label of "democratic reform," attached to Mousavi and many of his followers, is anything but a masquerade More

The EPA is now considering designating CO2 a dangerous pollutant. The regulation of essential elements of life by our government scares me. It should scare us all. More

The president claims to save or create millions of jobs. Presently Obama can not simultaneously do the saving and creating; only God can. But just give Obama enough time. More

The house of cards that is the science behind "climate change" is collapsing at exactly the same time it is being imposed by the Obama administration and Congress as an ideological "truth." More

Your name, our beloved Neda, the martyr daughter of Iran, literally means More

There has been much talk recently that the US is becoming more like Europe. To be more technically accurate, we should say that the US is becoming more like what Europe used to be. More

The mullahs are vulnerable to the charge of abusing Islam. More

How to spend much more without improving health outcomes. More

I believe I now understand my uneasiness and perhaps the root problem of the entire conservative movement: America's preoccupation with television and the human desire to be liked. More

Some wags might say, "Good riddance." But the loss of our daily newspapers plainly sucks. More

Are the Ayatollahs learning that hell hath no fury like 34 million women scorned, forced out of the workplace, harassed and humiliated by religious police for three decades? More

President Obama is floundering for the right tactics when what he needs is the right strategy. More

No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. More

I was a young U.S. diplomat in Poland in 1980, and what I learned is that people's entire frame of reference is transformed if they can say something in public that previously could only be said in private. More

In less than ten days, between June 5th and 13th of this year, three high-ranking local officials in Russia's Caucasus region were assassinated. More

Estimates for the cost of Obama Care show it will be no bargain. More

In a Freudian slip, "Cash for Clunkers" is the latest Washington brainstorm to goose car sales while striking a fashion pose of being green. "Pimp my ride" would be more accurate. More

Is the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder? More

Before my parents had children, they decided to raise their kids in a secular home. More

Fathers matter. Often, fathers make all the difference in the lives of children. Fathers, of course, become expendable in this dreary dystopian reality. More

It's not easy being a right winger these days; or as most liberals prefer to call us: extremists. More

How does a court arrive at a 30 day sentence for someone who was driving drunk and killed a pedestrian? More

The huge historical opportunity before President Obama's eyes is going to naught. The lesson of history is clear. More

So what exactly is wrong with Mr. Obama's plan? The short answer is that he is attempting to stimulate demand, rather than stimulating supply. More

It's time to take a hard look at the stimulus bill's effects. More

Following the Communists' grab of power, Che Guevara became a guerilla fighter in the same sense the cowboys of the Old West were indian fighters. More

New York Times diplomatic correspondent Helene Cooper is peddling a history-distorting canard More

It is critical that freedom-loving people, governments and media, rally behind the Iranian people and end the tyrannical mullahcracy that is a scourge on Iran as well as the world. More

One might think that Barack Obama's obsession with Jewish settlements in the West Bank would wane a bit, given the events in Iran. More

The Iranian regime has been using foreign paramilitaries from Hamas and Hezb'allah to attack pro-democracy demonstrators in the streets of Tehran. More

Proponents of socialized medicine learned an important lesson from the 1993 failure of Clinton Care. More

Why do liberals keep supporting programs that will bring negative consequences? More

I have been on a quest for the perfect metaphor to best illustrate the type of man I believe Ahmadinejad to be, and what will happen next on the world stage regarding Iran More

Things are not going as planned for the Obama administration. But I think I see a possibility the president needs to explore. More

A failed presidency for Barack Obama could turn into liberalism's worst nightmare. More

If Senate Republicans fail to understand what's at stake, not only might the next election be the last for many of them, history will point a mercilessly unforgiving finger at them. More

Progress to a Progressive, like President Obama, has come to mean something entirely different these days. It's now about bulldozing blighted areas of cities More

People are wondering what to do about the Sotomayor nomination. Should conservatives robustly oppose this Affirmative Action baby to the utmost? More

When the global warming alarmist house of cards finally collapses, among the first led out into the public square for ritual humiliation ought to be BBC 'science' and 'environment' correspondents. More

The left is using Dr. Tiller's murder as evidence that those who take strong moral stances on public issues are a public threat. More

Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor claim that her Second Amendment rulings are examples of "judicial restraint." The problem is that she's restraining the Second Amendment. More

Guess who's going to be much better off thanks President Obama's health care scheme? More

President Obama was booed this week at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago More

What if we ran the airlines the way we run health care? More

Obama was "deeply troubled by the violence" in Iran. In contrast, he was "shocked and outraged" when late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered. More

The vote was so obviously rigged that violence has resulted. The police and official security apparatus are less and less willing to exercise brute force to suppress the people. In short, Iran is in a state of serious upheaval. More

The best those with private coverage can hope for is the status quo More

It is no more practical to have "health insurance" to pay for prescription drugs and routine doctor visits than it is to expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil changes and tire rotations. More

Is Barack Obama about to face his own version of Viet Nam? More

President Obama's target in dealing with Iran's nuclear program is not what it seems to be. More

Without a trace -- not even one pixel -- of irony, the editor of the New York Times Monday accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a "shrewd and ruthless front man" for a political elite. More

The left is telling us something many feel, many find as a hunch, that Sarah Palin is the most dangerous threat to the Obama administration with no close second. More

We no longer have a civil public life. It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism and fantasy causes. What has happened to Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean has happened to our whole social fabric. More

Obama's health care plan isn't goign to look like a larger scale Medicare or national health scheme in Canada or the UK. It's just as likely Obama's inspiration is the failed public school model. More

If Latinos were to believe the fantasy that is Sonia Sotomayor, we could all celebrate her implausible catapult from the slums of the Bronx to the United States Supreme Court. More

American Jews can no longer afford the luxury of wishful thinking. More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his long-awaited foreign policy address, laid down clear markers to President Obama, Palestinians, the Arab world, the mullahs in Tehran, and to Israelis at home More

Saul Alinsky taught two generations of American leftists to use ridicule as a potent political weapon. When the left infiltrated America's entertainment outlets, the practice achieved industrial scale. More

It didn't start with Trinity United Church of Christ. "As the twig is bent...." More

I still remember the knot in my stomach upon seeing the sea of white faces from the window of our school bus. It was the first day of school 1961. More

His inane and nasty canards against the Palins must be partly forgiven because it's the only thing he knows how to do. More

A free market alternative that would save trillions. More

A caveat of absolute inerrancy entails that Obama can be absolved a priori of any responsibility, being such a likeable guy and all. More

In April, California adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The policy will, at best, be much more expensive and less effective than a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, and, at worst, increase global CO2 emissions. More

I never thought I would say this, but in when I heard the coverage of the most recent interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, I thought that the virulently anti-Semitic pastor got some things right. More

Last week, I gave my own provocative speech in a Muslim country. More

A satirist's eye on the death of his larger than life parents. More

Steele appears to be a nice enough guy, but leading the Republican Party isn't necessarily about being nice. More

David Letterman's jabs, and the continuous stream of invective and ridicule aimed at Palin, speaks volumes about what the left thinks about America's Joes and Janes. More

President Obama's recent speech in Cairo was a great example of a missed opportunity to change the course of history. More

When addressing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Cairo, President Obama failed to mention a key word that could have made this historic speech a truly transformative speech More

The "violent extremists" aren't the only problem. More

There are a lot of fusion experiments going on in the world that don't get much publicity More

After Congress passes a national health care plan, nationalizing public education will be next. More

For the very first time, non-Muslims have begun to take note of the victims of Islamic honor killing, and to serve notice to their killers that the victims will not be forgotten More

The mainstream media has shown a vivid disinterest in getting to the bottom of the housing crash. Nevermind, Dr. Thomas Sowell explains it very well. More

When the North Koreans abrogated the 1953 armistice, it elicited little more than yawns. That could be a huge mistake. More

In President Barack Obama's moral and constitutional universe, unfettering abortion and coddling terrorists trump innocent life. More

President Obama has spoken recently of "creating or saving" 600,000 jobs at a mere expense of $787 billion. Sixty thousand of these, he claims, have already been created or saved. Just last month, of course, it was a million jobs that were to be created or saved. The month before, I... More

Why is Barack Obama spending so much time focusing on Israeli settlements in the West Bank? More

The unprecedented action by the current administration in manipulating the bankruptcies of Chrysler and GM, and in effect nationalizing the companies, is egregiously unethical by every one of the major ethical perspectives. More

I received your urgent letter today from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. You said that you needed to hear from "our Party's most trusted supporters..." More

Fresh from grabbing much of the U.S. auto and banking industries, the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are moving briskly toward nationalized health care. More

Left wing bullies try to force the American Idol runner-up to say, "I'm gay." More

Have the rich really gotten richer? And can they pay for all of Obama's spending? More

Is it still called debate when only one side controls the conversation? That's the question the 62 million Americans who didn't vote for Obama are asking themselves. More

In the first five months of his presidency, Obama has traveled the world apologizing for the transgressions of America committed by the 43 previous administrations. More

On Monday, the Supreme Court made a ruling that should have been an absolute no-brainer for anyone with common sense. More

American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that conservatism is dead, but the collapse of the Left proceeds apace elsewhere in the world. More

President Obama is committed to fixing health care. He wants to make health care affordable for all Americans. In much the same way, Barney Frank and company wanted to make houses affordable for all Americans More

Last week a Department of State retiree and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Cuba for thirty years. In this article I will sort out what we know, don't know and need to explore about this matter. More

As Kendall Myers joins the pantheon of civil servant traitors who spy for totalitarian Communist regimes, Americans are left wondering, "who else is out there?" More

It wasn't supposed to happen like this. While no formal polling is allowed close to the election, many analysts still gave a slight edge to the Hezb'allah backed Development and Resistance bloc More

How does a president learn and grow, if the press won't criticize him, and instead treats him as a god. More

On June 7, 2009, C-SPAN II a.k.a. Book TV, devoted three hours of live programming to an interview with Bill Ayers. It was a three hour long nightmare in real time More

Can we all agree to add these alternate usages to our government's economic glossary? More

Last Tuesday, politicians, economists and climate scientists gathered on Capitol Hill to remind policymakers that the climate debate is far from over and that a thorough cost-benefit analysis of proposed energy tax legislation must precede any action. Here's what happened. More

How can anyone who believes in personal responsibility work for twenty-five years in highly paid positions and have only $1,000 in net savings to show for it? More

In his letter explaining why he voted against the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Barack Obama gave us a fascinating glimpse into the wonderful world of liberal logic. More

A historic warning from a former presidential nominee. More

The Times has a well-established record of accepting Obama statements at face value. Why not in this instance? More

Where is this heading? More

The official story is falling apart. More

Your tax dollars at work on President Obama's own White House website More

The calculated nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is the latest example of the rejection of the idea of a color-blind society. More

The building blocks of the Obama "Muslim platform" drawn from his speech. More

To refuse to deal with Arafat's legacy and contnuing impact on Palestinian society is to blind oneself to one of the greatest obstacles to the peace process. More

Twenty years after China turned away from democratization, that nation has emerged as a fearsome competitor for world economic dominance. The playing field, however, is not exactly level. More

They gave us 'nothing less than full victory.' More

President Obama fell short of the "honest" dialogue with the Muslim world that he had promised. More

What's in a pecking order? More than you might wish to believe, especially considering President Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday. More

As more of her words from the past begin to surface, it has become apparent that who Sonia Sotomayor really is, and who she portrays herself to be, aren't the same person. More

Don't look now, but the web is rescuing Western Civ. More

In the same sense that Toni Morrison claimed Bill Clinton was our first black president, Barack Obama could be thought of as another kind of groundbreaker: our first female president. More

Carbon be damned! If cutting our atmospheric carbon enthrones China, to hell with it! I'll choke on the smoke, better tighten up my spoke, to keep China from pulling ahead of us. More

It gets worse and worse. More

There is something wonderful and American about striving to be the BEST, competition, winning, losing, character and hard work. More

We may need more than 1,000 Supreme Court justices if we expect justices to decide cases the way President Obama wants -- by drawing on their "empathy" and "heart." More

People naïve enough to believe that kindness may bring about drastic changes to a culture's human nature need to face facts about the Middle East. More

The media -- newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film -- have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial. More

Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts has an irritating habit of adding two and two and getting seven. More

Barack Obama's political magic is based on an ever-growing bag of tricks, relying on illusion, misdirection, and the media's willingness to believe. More

Media bias cuts not just against the Right, but against those on the Left who don't fit their template of the right Left. Cindy Sheehan found this out when she ran for Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat. More

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Obama wanted settlement construction in the West Bank to stop. But that is clearly not what he wants. More

Passage of cap and trade legislation would torpedo economic growth as it raises taxes and the cost of living. More

As Barack Obama prepares to give his long-anticipated major address to the Islamic world from Cairo, as a public service I here offer the speech he should give More

Contemporary liberals, having abandoned the belief in God-given inalienable rights, masochistically crave a worldly master. More

Remember the good old days of the Jimmy Carter presidency when the US saw the combination of high inflation and high unemployment? We are sowing the seeds for a return to those days of national malaise. More

I am sick and tired of hearing that Republicans need to shelve their conservative values if they want to survive. This idea could not be farther from the truth. More

Lefty economists like Joseph Stiglitz and James Galbraith and pop authors like Naomi Klein are conducting a triumphal march over the intellectual grave of Friedman. Not so fast. Reality bats last. More

In praise of oil, one of the greatest organic, composted, recycled products available on earth. More

There is something about D.C. that saps the will and dulls the intellect of conservatives. Prolonged exposure makes them fretful and risk-averse, even timid with controversial issues. More

Tired of the slobbering mainstream media? On Fleet Street they aren't in the Obama trance. More

The GOP's leadership is hopelessly out of touch with not only the base, but the mainstream of America, when it comes to confirmation hearings for Judge Sotomayor.  If the DC denizens default in their responsibility to expose her radical views and make the Democrats play defense, it is they who... More

Republican office holders are the battered spouses of American politics. It is time for an intervention. More

Entirely predictable, the unintended consequences of nationalization will still come as a surprise to Obama partisans and the media. More

Is it fair to call the Oklahoma City pharmacy worker who shot and killed a gun-toting robber a vigilante? More