Europe leans right. The U.S. leans left. Afghanistan hangs in the balance. And Obama goes to Copenhagen. What's up with that? More

Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own More

Tt would be foolish to replace the swift judgment of millions of consumers with the dictates of a handful of slow-footed, uninformed, unaccountable bureaucrats. More

The internet, Russia's last source of information free of state control is now under threat. Seizing control of internet freedom could be the next step in the re-imposition of totalitarianism in Russia. More

Let's get real here: if a President can go on vacation for a few weeks, he can spare a day for this trip. More

Our peace-loving President believes beating swords into javelins and spears into tennis rackets could potentially usher in world peace. More

In the midst of one of the greatest existential threats of our times, President Obama is pursuing severe reductions in US military strength.  His recent statements at the United Nations have merely added fuel to the fire. When combined with his pledge to reduce US nuclear weapons stockpiles by... More

Given our current national energy crisis, we have never been more in need of grown-ups in charge of energy policy. More

Without more troops, the war in Afghanistan is lost. More

Another mask worn by Obama has been removed. He is a literary pretender. He lied about Ayers and the authorship of his books. Can the media embargo this story much longer? More

[Caution: contains explicit reference to sexual acts which may disturb some readers] More

The question now isn't will the United States pay a terrible price for the President's policies, but when. More

The last three Democratic presidents are similar. They are policy presidents: they all believe in the rational, systemic approach to governance. More

As taxes increase, and inflation brings bracket creep, expect tax avoidance and outright tax cheating to soar in America. More

Delay did not disappoint in week one. Like all the best contestants, Delay is gracious with his partner and seems to be having a great time. There is, however, a caveat. More

Barack and Michelle Obama find themselves in an odd psychological trap with Bill Ayers. More

A member of the last group society openly insults (as "trash") is becoming a celebrity explaining poverty and what to do about it. More

A political strategy being closely emulated. More

The reluctant warrior of old might have had advice most opportune for Obama and the nation in the current quandary of Afghanistan. More

Reality isn't negotiable. More

I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the rules against their opponent. More

The major media will not likely tackle the emerging evidence of Obama's stunning literary fraud, but the days of Obama's boasting about his writing skills are just as likely over. More

As President Obama fumbled badly at the UN and G-8 last week, Sarah Palin began re-defining herself as presidential timber. More

Yesterday's election in German means that Merkel finally can form a right of center government in Germany More

Barack Hussein Obama was finally talking tough last week. More

Here we have a 3-term senator planning to vacate her position before the end of the year and try to unseat the governor of a state with an economy that has done exceedingly well More

The medical field should be the most capitalistic industry of all. More

The press is all agog over the President leading the UN security council which came out with extremely artfully worded resolution that endorses the eventual goal of "a world without nuclear weapons". More

"Ever since Mein Kampf, you have to take these guys seriously." More

Enter the twilight zone that is Washington State. More

Considering how much time Mr. Obama is still spending campaigning, it is appropriate for the American people to question who is actually governing our nation? More

Religion used to be a skeptic of, and counter-balance to, government. In the hands of the religious left, however it has become government's leading advocate. More

President Obama has begun speaking in a foreign tongue. At least some of the claims he made last Sunday during his unprecedented five-show media blitz certainly seemed foreign. More

Two Jews stand like bookends, with nearly a hundred years and six million murdered relatives in between. More

The Obama Administration has brought the Ugly American back to life. More

It worked like a charm for FDR. More

Work done on several fronts over recent years casts serious doubt upon the IPCC work and, in fact, may make a case for claiming scientific fraud. More

The Healthcare Reform Bill proposed by Senator Baucus is an incomparably cynical piece of legislation More

Will Wyden-Bennett be trotted out as another "grand compromise" piece of legislation? More

It is strange that Meryl Streep seems so ungrateful to Julia Child, whom she portrayed in a movie, and whose legions of fans flocked to the theatres to see Julie & Julia More

There should be no cause for apprehension, before openly appraising the performance of our elected public officials More

People look at me like I'm crazy when I suggest that the government should cut taxes. More

A tale of horror. More

Terrorism as a career, a culture and a way of life More

If universal healthcare proves to be the president's Waterloo, as suggested by John Boehner (R-OH), the mushrooming ACORN scandal may yet be his Watergate. More

Sometimes in the history of a nation what appears to be an action that could lead to long term disaster may, in fact, be its long term salvation. More

A new generation of conservative activists has come forth, and many of the newcomers have never experienced the kind of nastiness to which liberals are inclined More

President Obama's diversity Czar at the Federal Communications Commission proposes adding a vast public broadcasting system to the growing list of Obama's parallel institutions. More

When Obama disparages the promotion of democracy he effectively eliminates the only legitimate means for the 'people' to determine their own destiny. More

Decades of communist strategy, on the record. More

Somewhere along the line, what began to identify racism seems to have changed, from the behavior itself, to whether someone took offense. More

A modest proposal. More

Ahmadinejad and Gadhafi got many New York doors slammed in their face this week. Fidel Castro could offer them some advice on getting the attention of Manhattan's movers and shakers. More

There is no proof, but there certainly is reason to suspect that Soros also has been working in cahoots with David Axelrod, Obama's former campaign strategist and now his numero uno domestic policy adviser. More

It's not comforting to have a president in charge who has absolutely no concept of history; who has in fact flipped it all upside-down. More

Following U.S. President Barack Obama, Qaddafi stole the show. The question is: will anyone understand the import of his speech? More

Some Muslims are organizing a Capitol Hill Prayer Meeting for this Friday. Their theme is "Our Time Has Come." They quote President Obama's victory statement from last fall. More

"It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to." More

Now if what we want is competition, is there a better, or cheaper, way to get it? More

Will we get meaningful regulatory reform that will help the market function more efficiently? It's highly doubtful. More

For more than 20 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, anti-Zionism was a regional phenomenon - a conflict between Arab and Jewish national movements More

In his speech to Congress two weeks ago, President Obama made a strong sell to small business owners that his health care reform plan would be a blessing. According to polling data, they are going to need a lot of convincing. More

Despite years of warning signs that ACORN was violating the law, many state attorneys general have not investigated the organization or brought enforcement actions. More

Until the 1970s "white racism" never arose as explanations of racial inequality. Since then, the term has become the glib reason for imperfect racial progress, an irresistible tool for the left. More

This is a good news/bad news story More

California has chosen to indulge its poor with what President Obama might call the "Cadillac version" of Medicaid, with all the optional equipment, and no pesky documentation requirements. As a result, financial chaos looms. More

A recently released economics book will not likely be featured by the legacy media as a selection for the Obama Book of the Month Club. More

That the president portrays those who question him as liars (he's going to "call them out") is at best fantastic, at worst farcical, and at baseline hypocritical. More

"We Suck Less." This is the catchphrase used by New York Times publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. to describe his operating and journalism philosophy. It is his "pet" expression More

Team Obama and the media continue to flail away at an auto insurance analogy in an attempt to sell Obama Care. It is almost funny how they seem not to understand even the most basic concept of insurance. More

Sometimes, We the People discover that we have made a serious mistake, and we don't want to wait for the next election to correct it. More

When rhetoric led to mob violence in San Francisco, did Nancy Pelosi speak up? More

Poorly hidden intentions have been a hallmark of the current health care debate. More

The American university is the anti-Disneyland... the saddest place on Earth. More

Kristol did as much as anyone to make Ronald Reagan happen. Today, in another century, we live at another inflection point. More

Hillary history repeating itself. More

A virulent moral blindness has seized hold of a substantial slice of America's educated elite. More

Welcome, Mr. Obama, to your First Spectacular Foreign Policy Failure More

There's plenty already, so why pay for more? More

Dissent can be effectively stifled by keeping people too ignorant to form opinions More

A clear, irrefragable global context for any rational, objective consideration of the ongoing plight of apostates from Islam, such as 17 year-old Rifqa Bary More

The recent exploitation of racism by former President Jimmy Carter reminds me of something I detected long ago in a lot of Americans from his generation More

We are powerless over racism More

From Poland: It's impossible to remain so positive towards the U.S. now - people are reacting emotionally. More

It looks like Lyndon Baines Obama is about to repeat the mistakes of his Democrat predecessor. More

Although terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers claims not to have met Barack Obama until the mid-1990s, there is reason to believe that he not only knew Obama much earlier, but that he helped get him into Harvard Law School. More

Rod Blagojevich has a message to his former political cronies: "If I'm going down, I'm taking all of you with me." More

When a majority of voters elected the first African-American to the highest office in the land, one would have thought it was a positive sign that racism had been dealt a serious blow. More

Guilt tripping white middle class people is the road to power for the Left. It is the key to all their thuggery, More

Not only do they lose elections... More

Outsourcing decisions to government seemed a reasonable price to pay for more free time and a free ride on self-indulgence More

Where did the Democratic Congress, the Obama administration, and the main stream media learn to act so rudely, obnoxiously, and disingenuously? More

The President has once again achieved a trifecta of policy outcomes favoring his agenda: a victory for the United Steelworkers union, a boost for ObamaCare and another blow in his war on prosperity to boot. More

The self-centered logic. More

The savings which could be made in reduced use of paper, document storage, and transcription costs are trivial More

Despite steady progress in achieving their ambition, lefties have acquired neither clue nor interest in how things actually work. More

What do you call a man who marries the state to management of the fundamentals of the economy in times of global economic turmoil? More

Obsessive reporting on the Israeli-Arab conflict, in which Israel is invariably faulted can't be so easily explained away. More

President Obama has chosen this day -- the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland -- to announce the abandonment of U.S.-backed missile defense for Eastern Europe. More

President Obama has the rightful honor of being just as publicly scorned, ridiculed, disliked and embattled as every single white-male president who has preceded him. More

How do you create millions of white racists? I have a theory. More

In one of life's delicious ironies, the President, who campaigned as the Great Uniter, is worsening the split between the right and left and losing support in the process. More

What goes around, comes around. More

The Goldstone Commission, appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to investigate... More

The Ku Klux Klan may start marketing a line of baby bigot wear if they fall for Newsweek's Sept. 14, cover story, "See Baby Discriminate." More

The shocking ACORN videos produced and distributed by James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Brietbart reflect the founding purpose of ACORN: creating chaos to overwhelm the system. More

Angry. Bitter. Desperately trying to avoid irrelevance. Clinging to past glories. Welcome to the world of Maureen Dowd. More

The Silent Majority forty years ago was cowed, afraid, and ashamed. My, how times have changed. More

Look familiar? More

A left-leaning media is no mere opinion or perception. More

A new set of government-enforced obligations for American citizens of every age, health and employment status. More

Staff Sergeant Jared C. Monti receives a posthumous Medal of Honor today in a White House ceremony, as critics debate whether enough heroes of the War on Teror have been recognized with the nation's highest honor. More

An updating of the beloved classic children's book. More

More useful than the Leatherman Tool, if you're a liberal. More

Welcome to the post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, in which it has suddenly become a racial issue when American citizens dare to criticize the president. More

Today, in spite of decades of immense black progress since Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights laws, the media and Demagogues love to read "racism!" into the minds of ordinary, decent Americans. More

Suppose you were Osama Bin Laden or his successor, and you're pitted against Barack Bin Obama. More

Finally, that which Obama had utterly dismissed and ignored, the passion of the people, found expression through the brave lips of Wilson. More

The racial hate expressed against me all came from the left, people who support President Obama's radial socialist agenda More

It's time we question the popular assumption that the power of the Presidency should "bring relief and prosperity" to the American people More

The Pilgrims set sail for the New World on September 16, 1620. It behooves us to appreciate the tremendous risks of their solo voyage, and the resulting great rewards Americans enjoy to this day More

A vivid personal account of the 9/12 demonsation in DC. More

One of the more puzzling aspects of the public reaction to the ascension of Barack Obama is the abject fear, bordering on sheer terror that he arouses in certain conservative circles. More

Why these times are no ordinary times. More

Dare we say that the planners of the 9-11 attacks understand more about the greatness of America than our current President and some in Congress? More

A case study in unintended consequences More

Follow the money. More

Philosophers and career-thinkers from academia have a place. But thinkers are mostly just that -- thinkers, not doers. There is a huge gap of scrutiny and trial and error before an idea should be implemented as policy More

A short history of the word "Palestine." More

You can never get enough of being something you're not. More

The most important words involving any piece of modern legislation come after that legislation has been signed into law More

We are witnessing a very rare phenomenon, the genuine, broad based spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders. More

Saving the planet has grabbed the imagination of the naïve in the same grip as the old worker's paradise promised by the Bolsheviks. More

It is finally sinking in: Fundamental structural change is what Barack Obama and his merry band of Czars have in mind for America. But what particular label to put on that change remains controversial. More

The Democrats and their bedfellows, the mainstream media, are with Obama all the way. Their aim is to make sure this President is treated like royalty, never held accountable for what he says and does More

It's all about Obama, all the time. More

America spoke September 12th in Washington, DC. Real America. Not black America, not white America, not Hispanic or Asian America, not even conservative or liberal America. Real America. More

A conversation with Ambassador Alon Pinkas More

The Media elite told viewers that The Obama Show would be forever and smartly heroic. Instead, with falling ratings, it is jumping the shark. More

The Candian-born pundit wishes American conservatives could be more like Canadians. More

Afghanistan will join Vietnam as a war lost in the political arena, not on the battlefield, and the consequences could be catastrophic. More

In view of the president's ambivalence, it is small wonder that there is confusion, consternation, and disagreement over America's policy in Afghanistan. More

When I started becoming critical of Barack Obama, You would think I had donned a white robe and hood based on the reactions of my black friends. More

Witness the outrageous treatment that Newsweek gave to her story in its September 9 issue, and especially to Jamal Jivanjee, Rifqa's friend and confidante. More

At the risk of offending a grief stricken media, intent on canonizing the recently departed Senator Edward M. Kennedy... More

A month before his death Senator Kennedy wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, which was delivered to him by President Obama. More

I select for my identity the title of American. More

Elect this and what else do you expect? More

We need to fight the very real enemies, not imaginary ones. More

Health care reform is merely the spark that has touched off a prairie fire of grassroots rebellion More

After 8 years of blistering attacks on President Bush by the top echelon of the Democrat Party, suddenly they've become prudish about references to the country's Chief Executive. More

A major federal government role in building and maintaining significant national assets that make the country competitive is entirely consistent with conservative philosophy. More

Ultimately, virtue is the result of recognizing evil and ensuring that it does not prevail over good. It's a simple formulation, but who in politics is audacious enough to speak in such stark terms? More

Many of America's heroes gave their lives defending freedom; the least we can contribute is our voice. More

Clearly, something is weird when everybody's talking about it and nobody's doing it. More

Add another Obama insult to injury on 9-11. More

Gradually, 9-11 symbolism may be on its way to a museum, or perhaps to cold storage. More

Historical moments, frozen and encapsulated in each individual's memory, sometimes define whole generations. More

All who oppose full-blown entitlement healthcare ought to be happy that President Obama decided to show his hand so early into his presidency More

I remember the tower burning; the second tower struck.  I remember the horrific vision, surreal, of men and women leaping and falling to their deaths from the burning towers.  The only choice left to them, how to die.  I remember the scream of sirens, and the screams of onlookers.... More

Before we continue to debate the merits of any Obama health care plan, we need to consider a few important facts. More

President Obama could take action to improve our nation's healthcare system right now, without waiting for congressional approval More

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is up to no good in Honduras, and Obama is smoothing his way. More

The regime that armed al Qaeda before and after 9/11/01, and rejoiced over the attacks, has reason to celebrate yet again. More

President Obama's healthcare address to Congress displayed the oratorical gift he once revealed to Harry Reid. But the gift has stopped giving. More

An African proverb reveals why Obama will fail. More

President Obama inherited a mess of an economy. He inherited it from his fellow Democrats in Congress. More

According to the Left "we" are losing money on keeping sick people alive. "We" have to economize, and where better than at the end of other people's lives? More

The French health care system was ranked first by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is urged as a model for America. For the sake of freedom and prosperity, let's hope not. More

Tom Friedman of the New York Times calls internet news sources an "open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information." He's wrong. They are the new beat reporters and investigative journalists of our time. More

Under the surface and out of the spotlight, green termites are busily chewing away at the foundations of our capitalist economy. More

In the interest of reaching out to President Obama and creating that elusive new tone in Washington, I want to offer my services as the Normal American Czar. More

The real story this summer, the one that the scholars will be pondering for decades to come, concerns the absolute collapse of the American messiah. More

Presenting the American people with the utterly false choice of a my-way reform vs. no reform whatsoever has backfired precisely because it was blatantly dishonest in the first place. More

Having spent much of the past thirty years of my life in the advertising industry, the flaws of President Obama's health care message are apparent and massive. More

Van Jones will not be the only White House czar forced from office. More

It's about a year since Barack Obama has been at the center of US national politics, but it's probably not too early to say that his first year was wasted. More

This article is the second of a point / counterpoint series on Mr. Obama's health care plan. More

On the first day of school the White House strongly encouraged teachers relinquish their traditional role of setting the tone for the year More

The classic 20th-century political spectrum is gravely flawed as a depiction of the range of philosophical opinion. More

For many modern Jews, conversion from liberalism to conservatism is roughly equivalent to what conversion to Christianity was to their ancestors in Eastern Europe. More

American contrition has always been a central tenet of the Obama foreign agenda. More

It seems that a decades-old battle for the soul of the Democratic Party has reemerged in the Obama administration. More

The resignation of Van Jones marks some sort of turning point. And the Democrats know this, consciously or not. More

dear presadint obama, how r u? i hope ur ok. thx 4 speaking 2 us in schl 2day. ms smith sed u wanted 2 no how u enspire us. well its alot! More

So what actually is preventing Democrats from finally realizing their authoritarian dream of controlling the multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry? More

Wouldn't a campus warrior do as much for our kids in the long run as a campus psychotherapist? More

Something at once beautiful, powerful, provocative and meaningful that the media prefers to ignore. More

If the Democrats continue to gobble up sections of the economy like a hungry blob of protoplasm, voters may have to use extinguishers and put them in the deep freeze next year. More

Why should anyone think that politicians would do a better job redesigning our healthcare than the free market? More

In the last decade, we have witnessed the bursting of two bubbles More

Congress is well to the left of China. More

If we abandon our foothold in Afghanistan, we abandon our contacts on the ground. More

Where Obama got the idea of using the schools to push his agenda More

Science Magazine has good news for global warming crowd: The Hockey Stick is back! It was shown to be a fraud before, but now -- Shazam! It's back! More

The philosophical breach between the American people and the intellectuals is the hope of the United States. More

Technically, a patient would not be forced to have an advance care planning consultation, but doctors who didn't provide the end-of-life talk would not be paid for any other services. More

When the President considers the Constitution to be nothing more than an archaic suggestion, no travesty is unthinkable. More

Was she out of her mind when she implied that the Obama health care bill was going to create a "death panel" that would encourage the elderly to check out early? More

There is a serious requirement for a quantitative rating system to accurately determine the precise amount of anguish and suffering being exacted on American citizens by each action and policy of the Obama administration More

Roman Catholic Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa has published an important discussion of Catholic social teaching and health care in his diocesan newspaper. More

Now Obama and his administration find themselves once again in a race against time More

What those "worthless" old people bring to life is one of the most precious contributions there is-hope. More

A dagger is pointed at the heart of America. Its point is the deliberate misuse of the English language for the purpose of influencing how Americans speak and think. If the dagger is driven home, reason itself will be the principal victim. More

"Extravagant criticism" and "Exaggerated self-criticism" are perhaps the best descriptions for one of the fundamental strategies used by America's radical left to gain and keep power. More

The left implores America to live greener, more eco-friendly lives, while at the same time advocating policies and theories that directly contradict their own agenda. More

The universal health care push illustrates the far left's ignorance of our constitutional system better than anything imaginable. More

Is there something disquieting about a president who only wants to spread love and compassion to all Americans -- or else? More

What kids learn in public schools is hazardous to our survival. More

The Deemocrats are trying, metaphorically speaking, the same trick that the Christians pulled on the Moors 1,000 years ago. More

Even though President Bush has left office, the media don't stop lying about his record. More

Outcast Isarel can draw some important lessons from the treatment afforded outcast Taiwan. More

While most of us have been watching, awestruck, as The Messiah parts the waters and walks upon the unparted portions, a tragedy has been unfolding in America. More

There are people who pretend to be scientists and pretend to have explanations for how certain things work -- things that either don't exist or aren't anything like the phenomena that the pretend scientist claims that the things are. More

President Obama seemingly has no clue about what he is doing, and, increasingly, it shows. More

How is it that growing the revenues and the success of the automobile industry is essential and wonderful, while the success of the healthcare industry is a social evil that must be rectified? More

Once Obama's death panels get to work seniors won't live long enough to see enough of the energy savings they have been promised to break even from buying higher priced CFLs More

Just over one year ago, on August 19, 2008 my friend was murdered. Taliban gunmen assassinated Mohammed Ayoob on his doorstep, in a village along the Kunduz River, in the Kunduz Province of Northern Afghanistan. More

The Castro brothers have a lot to thank the Kennedys for. More

Through the chance of history and some political maneuvering, the fate of ObamaCare could fall upon the decision of a single man who has never been elected to national office. More

The president's health care czar sees the growing resistance to his vision, to his brave new world of government-run "communitarian" health care. He doesn't quite understand how it all came apart on him, but he does know who started the unraveling: Sarah Palin. More

Every age gets the demagogues it deserves. Barack Obama has been a model demagogue so far. More

If Rep. Jan Schakowsky hoped to use Monday night's town hall meeting as a pep rally for the "public option," she failed. It wasn't for lack of trying. More

You can say say this about the Kennedys: they always seemed to know what Democrats wanted. More

Like a big lump of clay, Teddy Kennedy is being worked and reworked into an immortal. More

The Washington Post's behavior lately goes so far beyond mere bias that it looks like a caricature cooked up by a comedian or saboteur. More

You can bet your grandma's iron lung that under ObamaCare neither she nor you nor I will receive the end-of-life care provided to Kennedy. More

Regardless of the outcome of ObamaCare, if past behavior signals the future, the Obama administration's next big push will be to mute its most successful critics. More

President Obama's skill as a liar is critical to his success as a Socialist. More

The Obama administration is going to great pains to deny that abortion is in their health care plan. The President himself says he prefers not to be "distracted" by this question. More

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. More

There are consequences when we forgive the depraved. More

It must have all looked so appealing back in the winter.  Why not publish The Death of Conservatism by New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus on September 1?  The book is, the Economist reviewer says, "an appeal for unilateral disarmament by the right."  It would... More

Predicting a President's legacy in the seventh month of his first (and only?) forty-eight month term may seem a bit premature but the momentum of this President's economic policies seems inexorable. More