The global warming cult, in one sense, is the left's last stand; it's a lashing out at the human race for all its perceived deficiencies, avarice, narrowness, and failings. More

From war to foreign policy to the economy Obama is constantly setting up his "false choices," in order to soundly "reject" the false choice at hand. More

The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity's new appointees. More

A story of life as we knew it around the Beltway of Washington. More

Drunk driving can be murder. More

The Safe Schools Czar, and what he and his allies are protecting children from. More

The young president and Democrat Congress have at least one proud but unintended accomplishment for which they'll never claim credit. More

Yemen has been designated "the international jihadi's destination of choice." More

Highly developed observation equipment offers one avenue to prevent another Flight 253. More

When we look back at the decade 2000-2009, we may well define it by three crises. More

Did you ever imagine what it might be like to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel? How about going over the Obama Falls? More

"The Europe as you know it from visiting, from your parents, or friends is on the verge of collapsing." More

The stories too big for a responsible media to miss in the last decade. More

Besides the fact itself, a bright spot can be found in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's arrest. More

Obama has let down our guard, and al-Qaida's got his number. More

After a decade of Progressive chickens coming home to roost. More

When a president blusters, the public needs to ask why. More

The people have started to wise up. More

I am usually skeptical about conspiracy theories, but American education's sorrowful state has increasingly pushed me in that direction. More

The Supreme Court is to decide whether to hear a case of egregious eminent domain abuse. More

Green believers give no indication of slowing their quest for carbon dioxide control. More

Some things are priceless. But for everything else, there's money...as long as it's worth something. More

Why did Chinese premier Wen Jiabao choose to publicly humiliate Barack Obama at Copenhagen? More

Seniors now find themselves as the official go-to group for a president intent on taking both life and property and giving to those who are younger, to people who are more diverse, to illegal immigrants, and to Democratic Party allies. More

Most conspiracies exist only in somebody's overactive imagination. Stalinism was one of those rare cases of a genuine, centralized, worldwide power conspiracy. More

A stunning speech written more than fifty years ago that is still relevant today, maybe even more so. More

Conservatives need to insist that the GOP press its opposition to big-government health care right through the 2010 elections. More

A prominent Frenchman denies that there is a problem. More

We should be grateful that capitalists are at work in America to help increase our carbon footprint. More

Now it's up to the court-martial, as it should be. More

While the U.S. EPA allege that they know that current anthropogenic emissions are too great, they are unable to define what the appropriate or safe amount of carbon dioxide might be. More

Climategate bears some amusing yet somewhat disturbing similarities to the popular Sci-Fi movie The Matrix. More

The death of Iran's Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri at age 87 on December 20, 2009 has been followed by decidedly hagiographic post-mortems. This is a look at his Shi'a beliefs. More

Bubbles follow a pattern, yet humans never learn. There is a reason. More

Don't assume that Russia and America will be adversaries forever. More

Christianity can survive long periods of oppression, but in the meantime, individual lives can be terribly harmed. More

No other story offers such a powerful and sublime mixture of wonder, pain, hope, and love. More

Many years ago, in a country and a city destroyed by the brutality of World War II, there lived on the streets a young, nameless boy. More

Until I was 12, I thought that no one would mess with Christmas. More

I force myself to take a step back every holiday season and thank God for the blessings bestowed upon me. More

Life in Israel today. More

A classic message for today. More

Santa Claus was a real person -- well, sort of, at least in the sense that the legendary character was inspired by a real person. More

A Muslim who converted to Christianity may face court-ordered sessions with a Muslim counselor. More

Ah, Christmastime. Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude...and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire. More

Avatar features hard-left, anti-imperialist propaganda that is the product of the very society that Cameron trashes in the movie. More

If you like the efficiency of the License Bureau at the Department of Motor Vehicles, you'll love ObamaCare. More

This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil. More

Whenever hope for deliverance is the catalyst behind a nation's political and social movements, it is tempting to fête elected servants as messianic figures More

Our family experienced the effects of terrorism firsthand when in 1983 our children became the target of terrorists. More

Every society commits some form of religious persecution because there are always weak-minded people who see their neighbor's pile and become jealous or fearful. More

If this administration really wants to help small business, it needs to take a look in the mirror and recognize that its own policies are making a bad situation worse. More

Call us names like "astroturfer," "teabagger," and "angry mob" if you will. Here's why we are so angry. More

As a conservative and reluctant Republican, I have some issues... More

After a career as a self-proclaimed pro-life Democrat, it appears the Senator wore his ideals very lightly More

The proposal to charge a ¼% tax on financial transactions doesn't sound like much. But in reality, this little quarter-percent tax would devastate America's financial markets. More

Some people think that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is insulting Christians with his plan to make the United States Senate work right up to Christmas Eve on his health reform bill. More

A Reagan lesson for Obama from Christmas 1981. More

A normative democratic society cannot allow a president to continue to speak disingenuously about transparency while withholding basic information. More

Isn't it odd that a fascination with death has become fashionable in our politics and culture to the extent of informing policy? More

Contrary to what you are hearing in the media, the worst economic news may still lie ahead: A deflationary depression is descending upon us. Could it help the conservative movement? More

On December 24, 1968, three young Americans broadcast a Christmas message to the world from the loneliest location man has yet to visit. More

Serious environmental issues have been festering in spite of billions spent on murky models. More

The season of giving in a remote part of America. More

A vast reservoir of clean-burning natural gas could be available at reasonable cost in the coming years, freeing us from some of our dependence on imported energy. Some see this as a threat. More

Well, the name says it all. More

Liberals (black and white) have been stifling black American individuality and greatness for years through a deceptive shroud of compassion. More

The U.N. Climate Control Conference in Copenhagen ended in failure. More

Why don't Jews support those who support them? More

I was smug; I admit it. Despite the crush of humanity dumping their old-fashioned cell phones in favor of multitasking "smart phones," I refused to succumb to the latest trend in all things cellular. More

I am Barry Gullible and I am King of the most powerful nation in the world: the United States of America. Although I appear to be the same size as my Lilliputian American countrymen, I am not. More

The CRU e-mails have revealed how the normal conventions of the peer review process appear to have been compromised by a team of global warming scientists, with the willing cooperation of the editor of the International Journal of Climatology. More

Here's what's going to happen to us under Harry's bill, according to the CBO. More

Our infantile left is in deep mourning for the Angel Obama, Barack Hussein Lightworker, Last Year's Hope of Change. More

Airtran Flight 297 saw behavior many thought was a test run for a terror attack. It could be part of a pattern seen on other carriers. More

It's ironic that the more we describe our Constitution as a "living document," the more we turn it into a dead letter. More

The liberal newspapers are hailing the passage of a counterfeit marriage bill by the District of Columbia City Council as a breakthrough. More

At some point in our lives, we come to understand the concept of death, and then it happens to our family members or friends. More

While I won't fault journalists and politicians for their stupendous ignorance when discussing most scientific subjects, I will condemn their utter lack of coherence concerning basic scientific definitions, processes, and principles. More

I don't want the United States to become Norway -- that is, I don't want the United States to turn into a quaint, small, powerless, and socialist country. Yet I suspect the Obama administration is trying to bring about precisely that. More

We've all seen it happen: a young couple steps onto the fast track, and the treadmill of life begins to take its toll. More

I have a fear about John Derbyshire's new book, We Are Doomed -- that the over-the-top cheekiness of its title and the wit and snap of its prose will distract from its deadly serious thesis. More

Islamic law forbids representational art. It forbids music. With its laws allowing polygamy and wife-beating, it forbids love. More

You probably recall that my formal education ended when I was fourteen. After that, I bought and read every worthwhile book I could find. More

Skeptics, your weapons are useless. The climate alarmists always have something else that trumps whatever evidence you have against climate alarmism. They don't even need evidence at all. More

There's good news for conservatives in the latest Battleground Poll. The political implications are profound...if the already-energized conservative base takes even more initiative. More

Does President Obama want to make new friends or alienate old ones? That is the interesting political problem shaping up for him and other Democrats. More

Your tax dollars at work. More

The terminally ill murderer who was given weeks to live -- four months ago -- has disappeared. More

Predictably, now that the "climate change" rationale has ost a bit of its marketing appeal, the enviro-left have returned to another page in their threadbare playbook More

Once nearly all Americans understood, whatever their politics, that America is the hope of the world. More

The radical left came to power this year eager to take advantage of the rare moment when all the stars were aligned in its favor. More

There is much in the Left's agenda that is unpopular. It cannot survive the democratic process or honest discussion. More

If, as the old saw goes, politics makes strange bedfellows, what kind of bedfellows does the endeavor to restructure our entire society create? More

Your tax dollars at work. More

What's in an oath? More

How does the debate over health care compare to the congressional debate over ending slavery during the nineteenth century? Harry Reid could learn some good lessons from history. More

Meet your new ruling class, who are doing just fine these days, thank you very much. More

Climate scientists need to learn about ethics from finance professors, another group who gather historical data and construct models to make forecasts. More

"Get your facts first, then distort them as much as you please." More

Those GM and Chrysler dealers slated to close in a massive downsizing are not going quietly. More

In another example of the so-called "major media" refusing to print anything negative about President Obama, they have given scant attention to the problems associated with Kevin Jennings. More

Because they know better than you. More

The French called Hitler a revanchiste -- a Kaiser soldier of World War I aching to avenge his old defeat. Well, you can have ideological revanchisme as well. More

Over the years, radical feminism has attempted to demonize any display of testosterone. More

Poor Harry Reid. He's the guy left holding the poisoned chalice of liberal health care fantasy. And he might lose his Senate seat over it. More

Increases to our public debt burden might be the greatest threat to our country. More

I will yield to no man in my support for nuclear power in this country, but recent news makes me think that we've gone a bit too far in government involvement in the nuclear business. More

It is only logical that President Obama will sign any Copenhagen climate change treaty that may result from this week's negotiations. His worldview demands it. More

The good guys may have won. Deep breaths, everyone. We won't know for sure until Friday. More

Barack Obama was the Political Pied Piper of 2008. A year of Obama has come and gone, and so have many of his youthful supporters. More

Our country is in big trouble...huge trouble. It is time for Americans to take a hard look at our values, our conception of justice, and our standards for truth. More

Our current federal deficit is accelerating like an avalanche. There are consequences for this policy. More

Yesterday I received a letter from a Dr. Paul Soloman, who signed himself the National Medical Director of United Healthcare, the insurance company that oversees the AARP Medicare Supplement Insurance plan. More

States, like individuals, can be inert. They remain tied to policies and processes long after they have ceased serving their intended purposes. More

There is no way to win in Afghanistan without a massive commitment of troops, a willingness to stay there nearly indefinitely, and the ability to pursue insurgents across the country's porous borders. More

The television program Law & Order recently had a character who connected psychotic murder with people who listen to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck. The wells of public life have all been poisoned. More

Climategate is the worst blow the left has received in quite some time, and all the worse because it was unexpected. More

People such as George Soros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next Mother Teresa they are not. More

You might hear climate change "deniers" saying recent temperatures show global cooling. But then you hear climate "scientists" say the last ten years are the warmest on record. Who's right? More

Whatever happened to President Obama's urgent campaign appeal to "free America from dependency on foreign oil"? More

Bewildered by what fanatic Muslims do, some conclude that Muslims are brainwashed. The reality is far worse. More

The Democrats' colossal experiment threatens to unleash forces that will ultimately overwhelm the doctor-patient relationship, ration our health care, and stifle innovation and excellence in medicine. More

Israeli "militarism." More

We cannot wait for politicians or activists to do any more damage to our future generation. "Global warming" is not just an objectionable and discredited scientific theory. More

With the outrageous news of deceit, fraud, and suppression of opposing evidence by top climate change "scientists," many conservatives had expected to see the story unfold a little differently. More

The spirit of freedom which built our country is presently in jeopardy. It is being stealthily undermined by the peculiar form of government which the Obama administration is determined to institutionalize. More

The usurpation of traditional higher education by the left has reached its moment of triumph. More

Health care systems in Europe and Cuba More

The question is not whether the GOP will pick seats in 2010, but how many. A detailed review of where the change could happen. More

This may sound shocking to some, but what is wrong with Tiger preferring white women? More

Reid, like most Liberals, is trying to revise the racist history of the Democratic Party. More

The public is owed a full and complete investigation into this curious incident. More

Warmist true believers in the media and their delusions. More

Bureaucrats already call the shots on too many medical issues. And it's going to get worse. More

Certain American presidents are remembered for their shticks. More

Rasmussen reports the Tea Party Movement, which percolated only months ago, is beating the Grand Old Party. That's amazing, and it's good news. More

The bailout is over: Born October 3, 2008; died December 7, 2009. The banks have been rescued. A Great Depression has been averted. Feeling better? More

A post-racial athlete threatens the grievance industry. More

Sarah Palin is not like the ordinary, everyday, go-along-to-get-along professional politicians who control our national political parties. Herein lies a huge opportunity for the GOP. More

By purporting to represent the Iranian-American community, Trita Parti has gained access to the corridors of power in Washington. More

Almost as old as history itself. More

Never mind the incriminating CRU emails; the real chicanery in Climategate is found in the computer programming code. A guide to the fraud for nontechnical people. More

Maybe it's time for Libertarians to shift their strategy and address the realpolitik of early 21st-century America. More

One of the most outrageous criminal prosecutions in American history. More

Obama is playing the Republican establishment like a fiddle. More

Scientists were once the ultimate "free marketers." When Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity, he was a clerk in a Swiss patent office. More

Just to set the record straight on the politics of slavery. More

If I were watching the public's disgust with the newly revealed Tiger Woods from an office in the West Wing, I'd be concerned. More

The progressive camp and the Chosen One. More

The biggest thing to take a pounding in the last two weeks of Climategate is the fantasy PR image that scientists have maintained for so long. More

As a tool for watermelon Marxists -- green on the outside and red on the inside -- climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of communist wealth redistribution More

The 181-page draft of the climate treaty in Copenhagen includes massive "climate reparations" paid by developed countries to developing ones. More

We have now embarked on a national strategy that looks for all the world like a fool's game. In the process, we're ignoring rules even a child could understand. More

Pound for political pound, Russian "prime minister" Vladimir Putin may well be the most powerful human being on this planet. Yet he may still be brought down by the inevitable corruption of power. More

It's not a pretty sight. More

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1960 farewell address contained more than an admonition about the danger of an expanding "military-industrial complex." An uncanny warning. More

The United Nations fits the Cuckoo's Nest paradigm perfectly. It is ostensibly dedicated to some of mankind's loftiest ideals. More

The Democratic Party has declared war on self-employed Americans, family farms, and home businesses. More

Watching reality TV is a guilty pleasure. It can also be a cultural and political learning experience. More

Controlled bedlam is the best way to describe how the nation is dealing with production, distribution, and administration of the swine flu vaccine. More

How a commitment made early in the Obama administration has been forgotten. More

California's Zaytuna College and its founder. More

Seventeen days and thousands of almost exclusively on-line op-eds into this scandal, it still seems very few understand exactly which "decline" was being hidden, what "trick" was used to do so, and why Jones's words have become the slogan for the greatest scientific fraud in history. More

This is what we experienced when terrorists targeted our family. More

It is time we conservative guys start acting like men and defend our women. More

Villains are flocking to climb on the fraudulent global warming bandwagon. More

In recent years, the left (or as they want to be called, "progressives") has launched a campaign to convince the public that Judeo-Christian beliefs are some sort of unsavory extremism, a newly-minted product of "right-wing values." More

While supremely hypocritical, liberalism is not insane. It is a highly adaptive ego device that enables people to violate commitments, vilify those who are true to their faith, and avoid personal sacrifice. More

I grow weary of the widespread argument that President Obama is an inexperienced, bumbling innocent who is simply naïve of history when it comes to foreign policy. More

It seems our enemies in Afghanistan understand us much better than we understand them. More

Who will stand for Rifqa Bary? More

In the struggle between the two major political parties, the advantage goes to the one that can articulate that for which it stands. Democrats have the advantage. More

A movie that delivers a surprisingly refreshing look at capitalism's role in developing human virtues. More

Lessons for life. More

The federal holiday hypocrisy package needs to have the wrapping paper torn off it. More

If we agree with the premise that burning fuel is harming the environment, then how can we justify using energy for non-essential purposes and still claim to be good stewards of the planet? More

How appropriate that President Obama and others will meet to push global warming fears in Copenhagen, the city where Hans Christian Andersen first published "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 1837. More

Problems in the collection of atmospheric CO2 data parallel other absurdities in the global warming fraud. More

The health care bill is an instrument of selective death. Seniors will be prematurely sacrificed so that millions of poor Americans (many of them illegal immigrants) can get mediocre government care. More

And the people who support him because they like him. More

The Left in the United States, while professing commonality with their European counterparts, have evolved out of peace, economic prosperity, and a determination to impose a rigid social order under the guise of classless society. More

I'm in the first generation in a century that wasn't bound to war. Born as a late boomer, I just missed the final conflict, finishing high school in 1974. More

Unless you set a date, nothing gets done. More

It is easy to confidently predict that Barack Obama's job summit today will not do anything to create jobs. It's so easy that even a climatologist could do it. More

Mike Huckabee should never hold an executive public office again. More

There is no need for any climate treaty at Copenhagen. It is time to disband the U.N.'s self-serving and serially dishonest climate panel. More

It's a pretty dumb thing to tell the enemy that you aim to skedaddle by such and such a date. It makes their strategy easy. More

When government runs health care it isn't pretty. More

The last person responsible for uniting grassroots conservatives to such an energizing degree was the great conservative himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan. More

The discovery process in a lawsuit yields a cache of intriguing e-mails. More

The problem is that both the Bush and Obama administrations have sought nationalized solutions in a country that has little or no national cohesion. More

LBJ is the name that comes to mind after Obama's decision to send an added 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. More

Americans look to their wartime leaders for clarity, not ambivalence. More

We seem to be edging into a new form of aristocracy, with the noble egalitarian liberals leading the way. More

In Washington, D.C., passing a bill on the magnitude of HR 3590 is better than sex for political Lotharios such as Barry, Harry, and Nancy. More

Could British politics teach us something about Sarah Palin's political future? More

Proponents of the health care reform bills coming out of congress claim the bills will decrease medical cost growth over time. Experience shows that quite the opposite will happen. More

Just how much concern for the health care of all human beings does the Obama administration actually have? How much do they really value human life? More

Liberals tend to believe that most conflicts can be resolved by showing the other party that they are reasonable and want only what's best for everyone. More

Many of the same governments who celebrated the collapse of East German Communism two weeks ago lavish Cuba with economic succor. More

By flying to the rescue in Copenhagen Obama is actually joining the exposed fraudsters -- presumably to rescue his good buds in the Chicago Climate Exchange, which depends for survival on the passage of cap-and-trade legislation More

No wonder the liberals hate her. The whole point of public education, of business regulation, or of rampant credentialism is to smother people like her before they have a chance to get anywhere. More

Dick Morris is doing his best work now in his crusade against ObamaCare. He just might help save America from a health care catastrophe. More

There is no legitimate reason for ACORN to continue receiving federal funds. More

When the ACLU loses on a security issue, America wins. More

The motives and methods of science deceivers. More

The Kremlin's own ministry of secret police is openly acknowledging the need for citizens to rise up against police brutality, implying that the government cannot stop it. More

Email chronology. More

A scientific discussion of the DCPS paper More