When it comes to grabbing power and holding it, the left and Democrats never play beanbag. Neither should the GOP. More

That's a pretty amazing photograph of Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the cover of the May/June issue of Capitol File magazine. There's an agenda at work. More

The left in America is demoralized. This slide will continue, for several reasons. More

So now that the sleeping conservative giant is fully awake, what does the inside-the-beltway punditry (both the left and right) think of these new activists? Not much. More

In a disturbing case of politically motivated retaliation, prominent Beverly Hills attorney Dr. Richard Fine has been incarcerated in coercive solitary confinement for close to fourteen months. More

Adolf Hitler was much more than a despicable maniac who slaughtered innocents and went back on his word. More

Ultimately, every variation of the Democrats' message is premised upon removing personal responsibility from the equation and shifting blame elsewhere. More

As the Obama administration enters its second year, I -- and undoubtedly millions of others -- have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease. More

Buried deep within the official British government report on Climategate is a damning document. More

If you liked Obama's takeover of health care, then you'll love the even more convoluted and poorly-understood so-called financial "reform" bill. More

Reading "Healthy, Happy and Hot," a Planned Parenthood affiliate's guide to the "rights" of young HIV-carriers, sends traditionalists looking for a hot shower and strong soap. More

Apart from cases where incitement can be shown, using the word "sedition" against political enemies is out of place in a free country. More

In addition to having more empathy for violent terrorists than for the Tea Party, the left also fears the Tea Party more than it does terrorists. More

A narrative that reflects Obama's policy on Islamic jihad. More

President Obama often may be called smart and well-educated, but never is he called wise. More

Maybe there is some hope for civilization after all. More

Listening to the national uproar, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Arizona has marched into the civil rights apocalypse with its new state law cracking down on illegal immigrants. More

Incredibly, in 2008, leading up to the worst economic banking crisis in history, the Fed was deflating the money supply More

There is no misunderstanding; we are witnessing a deliberate misclassification. More

An eye-opening illustration of what taxes are ultimately about: Americans helping themselves to the property of other Americans. More

Why are white liberals, Jewish liberals among them, so indifferent to the plight of students trapped in failing schools? More

Stone and Parker have picked up a gauntlet that political leaders and pundits fear to carry. More

Obama seems intent on reversing the Cold War and letting nuclear proliferation explode. More

One if by land, Jew if by sea. Welcome to the world of Chris Matthews. Oy. More

Hispanics fear that racial profiling will be the result of Arizona Governor Jen Brewer's immigration reform bill. In the meantime, Sheriff Arpaio readies additional tents. More

Liberals claiming Tea Party protests are dangerous need to review what liberal icon Justice Stevens wrote on the subject. More

Brother Steele, how about the GOP showing a little respect for the American people by standing up for conservative values and principles? More

Maybe less really is more. More

As justified as we were then, Israel would be even more justified in using tactical nuclear weapons now to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat to the world. More

Apparently Pastor Phelps isn't very interested in the salvation of gay sinners. More

"Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali indicated that the Obama administration would not pursue cases of harassment against Jewish students." More

Individual rights must be the rallying point for reclaiming liberty. More

The U.S. regularly reiterates its support of Israel's security, but it says nothing about Israel's legal rights. These legal rights originated at the now-forgotten San Remo Conference ninety years ago today. More

The catalyst for federal dominance. More

In "killing" God, the left was merely taking out the competition, Tony Soprano-style -- and now they've upped the ante. More

Who pays, and who doesn't, when it comes to maintaining wildlife habitat. More

Taxes and spending and debts and deficits are just symptoms of the problem. The real problem is the philosophy and culture of our governing class. More

The GOP can save itself from certain extinction in California only if it stands proudly. More

The incredible expansion of government since the 1960s, especially since the election of Barack Obama, has created unprecedented opportunities for fraud and abuse. More

The suppression of the true story of the Oklahoma City bombing continues. Time to reopen the case. More

Advertising on taxpayer-funded transit has become the latest free speech battleground. More

What do Simon Cowell and Barack Obama have in common? More

The steady advance of unionization in the public sector under Obama -- and the use of federal power to increase organized labor in the private sector -- is leading the U.S. to the edge of syndicalism. More

Once Iran has nuclear arms, the world as we know it will change. Yet the White House offers nothing but empty threats. More

The zoo is the new model for human society. We need only open our bourgeois eyes to see. More

The perfect tool to control citizens. More

Facts are rarely useful in debates with ideologues and religious zealots. Yet we cannot allow partisans to make unchallenged, generalized claims about the free-market system. More

Why Washington distrusts incentives and markets. More

I wish to share with you how the liberal mainstream media have dealt with my participation on the Tea Party Express III tour. More

Ah, spring is in the air. Time for an annual tradition spreading across college campuses. Let's give it up for Israel Apartheid Week! More

Everything I need to know about Barack Obama I learned as a Cub Scout den leader. More

How one congressman can block the sanctions that would hurt Iran. More

The Teheran menace is not simple nuclear proliferation; the entire Levant is slipping its strategic moorings under the fog of a banal debate about micro-tactics. More

You've seen the liberal game face: anger suppressed by enlightened arrogance wrapped in confusion. More

Acolytes of the global warming faith warn us that we appease the wrong gods. Why the intense focus on the dubious and minor problem of man-made global warming? More

The IMF, long a citadel of free-market thinking, conceded in a little-noticed official report in February that controls on the international movement of capital may be appropriate in some circumstances. More

Hidden on page 27 of the "jobs" bill passed in March is a depth charge. More

Alas, I was wrong about Barack Obama. More

America's liberals are consumed with guilt. If not soon purged from our society, their guilt will kill us all. More

Naming a U.S. Navy ship after a departed congressman is a slap in the face of all veterans. This God-awful decision should not be allowed to stand. More

While young and older voters disagree on who should be President, they tend to agree on other issues. More

It seems that Britain is about to make the same mistake America made in 2008. More

This president is the greatest threat to the strategic alliance of the U.S. and Israel since the founding of the modern Jewish state in 1948. His Jewish supporters mostly have been silent. More

The harsh truth is that straight-out repeal of ObamaCare is not going to work. More

The closest one can get to a completely objective report on the sustainability of the government's current fiscal policies. More

Equal outcomes deaden the human spirit. More

Meet the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and its biggest backer, George Soros. More

"Throw the bums out" may sound good, but it's not an effective strategy to fix what's wrong with politics. More

Has any biographer ever actually interviewed a former girlfriend of Barack Obama? More

The war of ideas between jihadists and democracies explained by one of the world's leading experts. More

For decades now, American schools corrupted by cultural Marxism have been eroding the moral fiber and judgment skills of schoolchildren. More

Restructuring our milk supply. More

When Jerusalem is threatened. More

Despite the threats to its survival, Israel is flourishing and remains a symbol of hope and freedom for Jews the world over. More

What the left really thinks of you. More

And the mainstream media ignores what looks like a case of vicious political violence. More

The Khmer Rouge declared revolutionary Year Zero thirty-five years ago today, intent on establishing history's purest form of Communism. The lessons of their experiment have been deliberately obscured. More

The current Republican leadership proposes that America needs a "New Contract." Why? We already have the finest social contract/compact ever devised by mankind. More

When people discuss the Civil War, few recall the battle scene in an equally important place -- the United States Congress. More

The so-called progressives have been able to gradually push their agenda forward because they have controlled the terms of the debate. More

What's at stake in the conflict between theocracy and democracy. More

President Obama is quietly but gleefully sticking it to red states. A strategy is at work. More

Meet your new masters, America. More

The genocide of white South Africans is heating up. More

The great dividing line between liberals and conservatives is: How can we help the unfortunate? More

Apple has a new gadget, as I'm sure you've heard. More

President Obama is neither inconsistent nor a liar when he takes conflicting positions. More

Children who misbehave cannot be dropped off at the pound like puppies refusing to be housebroken. Neither can presidents. More

Where we stand -- the real story that our government and media establishment pretend isn't there More

No one wants to go through another financial crisis like we had in 2008, so our government is busy writing new regulations to fix things. More

How and why the media miss the story. More

When Sen. Chuck Schumer says, "It's just about a certainty that the president will nominate someone in the mainstream," think left bank. More

The White House very quickly got out in front of a story: There is no truth to the rumors that President Obama might name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court. Here's why. More

Contradiction is no stranger to the mainstream media, and it is on full display in their treatment of the Catholic priest sexual abuse story. More

The body language tells us a lot about who calls the shots. More

And here's what he is up to. More

There is now a desperate effort afoot by assorted climate alarmists to explain away the revelations of the incriminating e-mails leaked last year from the University of East Anglia. More

Today's subject is jobs. More

Calling out the New York Times columnist. More

The Blob has spoken. This is a new era -- the era of the Recoveryless Recovery. More

A historically accurate depiction of Che Guevara's military exploits would be impossible to direct and cast without the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. More

Under ObamaCare, there will be a massive expansion of school-based health clinics, with tremendous potential for mischief. More

Media discussions of the administration's new mileage rules have covered about everything except how many people they will kill. More

We are told that President Obama broke tradition and ditched the presidential press pool over the weekend to watch one of his daughter's soccer games. But the story has several problems. More

The enacting legislation of ObamaCare creates a Disney World for micro-managers and other assorted scolds. But in Title V of the bill, we find the key to the Magic Kingdom. More

Why is there a remarkable stock market rally in the midst of the worst recession (depression) since 1930? More

The irony was truly spectacular, reaching that special level that only matters involving neo-Soviet Russia and U.S. President Barack Obama can attain. More

For those who aspire to tyranny, an uncontrolled, free internet is an intolerable obstacle and threat. More

Conservatism adapts its ideology to contrary evidence; liberalism reinterprets contrary evidence to fit its ideology. More

There is no solution to the final status issues of Jerusalem, borders, and refugees that both sides will agree to. Nevertheless, President Obama is committed to achieving an agreement. More

David Remnick's new biography of Barack Obama has unwittingly reinforced a thesis that he set out to discredit. More

How to waste taxpayers' money and get in the face of Big Labor's biggest target. More

New York Times chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr. is hurt. It is a bite-your-lower-lip-until-your-eyes-tear hurt, a wrists-at-your-hips-well-I-never kind of hurt. More

Lech Kaczynski lived just long enough to see America break faith with Poland and then sign a treaty with a nation that expressed hostility and aggression toward his country. More

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, encountering situations that defied logic and characters who acted in bizarre ways, she was fortunate not to meet Jordan's kinglet, Abdullah II. More

Literacy in math and science was a profound weakness of Justice Stevens. More

There are numerous legal difficulties inherent in DOE "inspections." More

Allegations that embarrass the accusers. More

Reform is greatly needed. But conservatives must focus on effective means. More

Last month, the Texas State Board of Education tentatively approved changes in social studies texts that set off much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the academic and cultural left. More

Katyn Forest in Russia carries its curse on Poland forward again in the new millennium. More

Islam is the only major religion in the world that does not adhere to the Golden Rule to "love they neighbor as thyself" or "do unto others what you would have others do unto you." More

Self-deification and the anxious business of high stakes, self-directed life-styling take their toll. More

I learned the hard way that human nature is the biggest obstacle to cutting health care costs. More

From its beginning, the Catholic Church has been plagued with would-be gravediggers and salvagers. More

The meta-reality of the war against the Jews throughout history is one of the most mysterious, vile, and unfathomable features of mankind's long journey though light and darkness since time began. More

Man proposes and God disposes. More

The former top Democrat can dodge, but he can't hide from the truth. More

An ancient common law principle has been hijacked by radical environmentalists. More

My mother-in-law died last month. She was 89. More

The advocates of "social justice" masquerade as partisans of civil rights, but they are actually practitioners of civil wrongs. More

"Social justice" is an oxymoron -- a contradiction of terms, built on a lie. More

ObamaCare was in part modeled after some states' own health reform measures. What happened there provides striking insight into what the country is in for. More

The left loves to hide. More

Measured just by the number of victims, there is no close second place to government as the biggest lawbreaker. Measured in terms of impact, government lawbreaking is disabling our entire society. More

California is the nation's shameful example of what happens when Democrats influenced by big-government labor rule the statehouse for forty years. More

An argument can be made that the Supreme Court has already decided that the health care bill is unconstitutional. More

There is growing within the left a new respect for capitalism. And as we all know, there is no zealot like the convert. More

A bill put forward by the state of Nebraska, hoping to impose further limits on a woman's right to choose, has the Cornhusker state once again embroiled in debate. More

Great Britain is about twenty-odd years ahead of our country in the race to socialist oblivion. More

The coming British election is a total crock, being a "regional" affair only between shades of socializing liberals within an anti-democratic European Super-State. More

A certain kind of mind believes that human beings exist as objects to be experimented upon as society is perfected by the privileged class -- a utopia engineered by elites. More

The debate over free trade is riddled with myth after myth. More

The master market thinker and distortions of his thinking. More

Last week, I notified the Department of Defense that I would refuse to obey any orders from my commanding officers -- including President Obama -- until the president produces his original birth certificate. More

Letting the Marxist cat out of the liberal bag. More

The goals driving the tea party movement will not be realized without a new generation of party leadership, something the GOP establishment understandably is loath to admit. More

Big Brother lives in the bleeding hearts of the New Elite. More

The government that mismanaged the H1N1 vaccine is stepping up to do an even worse job on ObamaCare. More

The internet is safe for the moment from the clutches of federal regulators thanks to a court decision that may be a harbinger for legal challenges to ObamaCare. More

A Palestinian state will not solve America's problems in the area; indeed, it may serve only to compound them. More

The national debt problem has become so apparent that it is recognized even in San Francisco now. Would raising taxes help? More

Obama is leaving America flailing in the hostile wind. Was there ever a more frightful time in American history than the age of Obama? More

Is anyone in the Obama administration paying any attention to Vladimir Putin? More

It's time for conservatives to go Alinsky on education. It's time for a fresh line of attack. More

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stopped by the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon to take some softball questions in front of her hometown fans. More

Obama is a typical example of a particular type of left-winger, produced by the United States alone among all nations. More

When presenting data, the "scientists" include an unexplained adjustment to the measured data. In this case, the adjustments explain the entire evidence for Arctic ice cap shrinkage in winter months. More

What if anti-ObamaCare suits are filed by the states and aggrieved citizens? More

"How well do you feel you understand how the new health care reform law will affect you and your family?" More

Nothing could damage capitalism more severely than a nationalized financial system. More

The problem with Republicans goes deeper than you think. More

The fact is that we as a nation can neither produce nor import enough medical professionals to meet the demands soon to be placed on our medical system. More

I'm afraid we are now in an economic recovery. What's worse, it will become apparent to the general public as we approach the 2010 elections. More

Obama has been shown to be an empty vessel, into which hopeful Americans poured their hopes and dreams in 2008. More

Last week, President Obama learned the wisdom of Ronald Reagan's famous advice on Russia: "Trust, but verify." More

"What is it then that drives some intellectuals in free countries to hate their native land and wish for its annihilation?" More

The U.S. middle class is sinking into government-provided economic quicksand. More

President Obama claims that the Catholic Church's tradition of social justice has had a "profound influence" on him. More

Just when you think you've seen the most vile, disgusting levels of human behavior, you come across something that makes you fear for the survival of the human race. More

Who was this person? More

The Obama administration has filed a brief with the fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case involving the use of racial preferences in the admission of undergraduate students at UT Austin. More

Israel's liberation from this deadly process depends solely on Americans taking back their country. More

When Obama bailed out GM, it was a test run as to whether the "federal government [could] restrain itself from meddling in the company's day-to-day business." More

State governments need to emulate the Hillsdale College model and design an alternative system free from federal dollars and bureaucratic baggage. More

Hopey-changey burnouts are beginning to listen to how wealth redistributionist, anti-business, nanny government approaches destroy society. More

It is sadly fitting that in preparation for Holy Week, our country has passed a bill which funds the persecution of innocent life. More

Call it karma, cosmic irony, or just plain socialism, but many of the very groups most in support of Obama will be hit hardest by ObamaCare. More

A lesson on self-organizing activities and central planning. More

If ObamaCare rights were in a horse race against duties necessary to sustain and pay for them, duties would be losing by several furlongs. More

Obama plays politics like he plays basketball: as a solitary game in which he is concerned only with accomplishing individual policy goals. More

The road to dictatorship is well-traveled, with each discrete journey having one universal common denominator: political inaction. More

A frontal assault on the commerce clause by ObamaCare opponents is a losing proposition. More

Have the beasts of field and forest lost all fear of human beings? Have predators begun developing a taste for petite human females? More

If monetary policy is largely powerless, and fiscal policy is powerless, then what should a government do to "run the economy"? More

A peek at the president's precariously stacked dominoes confirms that sooner than you may suppose, there won't be any private companies selling health insurance in America. More

Based on praise by the liberal media, you'd think that General Baker was the model of fiscal responsibility and restraint on judicial activism. More

The Democrats have really stepped in it. No red-blooded American can be happy about 16,500 new IRS agents. More

Candidate Obama vowed to singlehandedly rid the nation of the spirit of discord. How's that working out? More

More evidence the Obama Democrats are playing by Chicago rules, and rapidly altering the nature of our political regime. Nancy Pelosi's strong arm legislative tactics have metastasized to the state level in Wisconsin. More

The media's tongue bath for President Obama knows no bounds. More

America is headed down an extremely dangerous path to a potential catastrophe that is rarely discussed. It is the termination of the family. More

Whether citizens of a state have the right to recall from office a sitting U.S. senator is no longer an academic question. More

Would Obama have accepted a nuclear Nazi Germany? More

With all the attention focused on sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, why no outcry against the even larger amount of child sexual abuse in the schools? More

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. More

Mysteries and wonders of the day. More