The WikiLeaks document dump shows something many have always known -- that most so-called leaders and politicians are liars, schemers, crooks, egomaniacs, and incompetents. More

In contemporary San Francisco, a heterosexual military male can no more expect justice than a black man could in Jim Crow Alabama. More

The Obama administration has great admiration for international law and believes that subjecting the U.S. to other countries' opinions will make us moral and accountable. More

Where are the self-righteous "artists" who claim to be activists as Iran cracks down on hip-hop musicians, or when Cuba does? More

We're looking once again at world economic weakness and fear, with another newly strengthened and militarized country resentful of the generations of subservience imposed upon it. More

Sophisticated liberals have found humor in Oklahoma's recent ban on Sharia law. More

After raising it earlier. More

Obama's failure to master English grammar has a great deal to do with the kind of person and president he is. More

A two-week extravaganza of sand, surf, and tequila-sours as 20,000 mostly taxpayer-funded "experts" seek something -- anything -- to claim as a victory over "climate change." More

Republicans-who-too-often-behave-like-Democrats now are realizing the folly of the light bulb ban and scrambling to avoid the consequences of supporting it. More

Which industry pays loan officers up to $5 million a year? Here's a hint: these bonuses are paid through companies that have lost several hundred billion dollars, necessitating a taxpayer bailout. More

As the constitutional constraints on government power have been removed, the Mr. Hyde aspect of government has emerged. More

S.510, the Senate bill set to vastly expand federal power over agriculture, potentially choking off small local growers and hobby farmers, is set for a vote today. More

Unwittingly, ex-President Carter has provided us a useful guide to foreign policy. More

Community organizers, like most Democrat candidates, gain power by dividing people. More

Our surrender has been parceled out in loss of freedom, accommodation and submission to Islamic supremacist demands, and in foreign policy that is supine before Iran and cozying up to the Taliban. More

Adversary intellectuals and their trump card. More

President Obama has no comprehension of the phrase "not personal." More

The Left's obsession with focusing on dangerous things, rather than dangerous people, is the fatal flaw in airport security. More

President Obama's much-pursued Muslim outreach merely makes public what has been a covert reality for American policy for a hundred years. More

How does one know which church to choose given the great variety that exists among them? More

The left, it appears, will believe anything. More

Blinded by sentimental myths from our past, Americans continue to tolerate an immigration policy dangerous to our national survival. More

Power is so intoxicating that those who have a shred prefer to keep it. More

America is becoming a nation of squeaky wheels. More

Is it possible that TSA got something right? And if so, what can be learned from it? More

We're being sold a false sense of safety from a federal government that can't muster the courage to identify our genuine enemies. More

Charges that the GOP is becoming the White Party. More

It is time for Republicans to stand on principle about taxation. More

Liberals have made up a new insult for conservatives based on a shallow misunderstanding of constitutional principles. More

Once again, the Pew Foundation has come out with a poll that has given liberals a sound bite moment. You've probably heard that 39% of Americans said that marriage is becoming obsolete. More

George W. Bush's claim in Decision Points that British lives were saved by the use of waterboarding terrorist suspects is shaking up the British left. More

The Republican Party cannot afford to spend the next two years without addressing the serious economic problems facing America. More

The ruling class has become more dependent on the wealthy and yet holds them in contempt. More

Australia suffered an offshore oil blowout similar to the Gulf's Deepwater Horizon. The official response, however, was quite different. More

The aggressive and tyrannical North Korean regime has had some prominent friends on the American left, including people close to President Obama. More

Before the 2012 presidential campaign hits full stride, let's acknowledge the obvious: presidential debates are a joke. More

Sarah Palin recently said that she will consider running for president if there is no one willing to do the job and take on the problems facing America. More

I haven't seen anything in Sarah Palin that suggests strength, gravity, and that edgy ability to craft strategies to dispatch opponents. Dare I say she's too nice? More

Republicans want a candidate in 2012 who is a solid conservative, who can win the election, and who can express conservative values in many ways. More

A media role-reversal. More

Those promoting or considering Bobby Jindal as presidential material need to take a much closer look at his record as Louisiana governor. More

As a patriotic American holiday, Thanksgiving should rank a close second to Independence Day. More

During this Thanksgiving 2010, we should look back to recall those moments that brought sunshine in our lives. More

My oldest son is an adult. He lives with our family at home, and he probably will for the rest of his life. More

The little-known rabbi and his sermon on the first Thanksgiving. More

It is from making these kinds of connections that children learn to think logically. More

Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta is the latest in the line of Medal of Honor heroes. More

After two years, the whole Democratic critique of Bush's foreign policy lies in ruins. Thanks Obama -- we needed that. More

In the TSA he has found his perfect instrument of symbolic revenge. More

To my suspicious eyes, the TSA's policy looks like either the decision of the utterly clueless or the machinations of the truly devious. More

What's with this youth-culture tendency to refer to male genitalia as "junk"? More

Meet Omar Khadr, who could spend as little as three more years in jail for the murder of an Army medic and the blinding of a Special Forces soldier. More

The media, the Pope, and morality. More

Being right is no excuse when the media have an axe to grind. More

Hoping the printing of false money will attract the gods of prosperity. More

Expanding and formalizing the role of volunteer counter-terrorist civilians can have more a practical benefit for air travel security than does groping septuagenarian nuns or toddlers. More

The senseless notion of treating every nun, priest, and toddler as a terrorist-in-waiting is precisely to blur the lines between good people and bad people. More

American foreign policy is in a state of total disarray. More

There are still some to whom it seems alarmist to assert that the execrable Transportation Security Administration is in a purposeful confrontation with the American people. More

GM's profit and alleged success serve as a horrible payback to the holders of over $100 billion in debt forgiven and shareholder value lost over the recent decade. More

From the beginning, too many "respectable" conservatives have thought of Barack Obama as a political Michael Jordan, the best and brightest the system had to offer. More

Obama & Company have been called the Keystone cops too many times to count. But they are far, far worse than mere incompetents. More

It is difficult to grasp the truth that America has elected a President whose mind operates at such an unsophisticated level, but this seems to be the case. More

When it comes to violating the separation of powers and seizing executive power, no president has done more since FDR than Obama. More

Global leftist protest is beginning to coalesce around a single theme of a coming civil war. More

Frankly, the "dude" president would have nothing to lose. There is a good chance that ObamaCare will be shot down anyway More

In an age of high-velocity information, creative monetary "policy" can only do mischief. More

I suppose that heading is a bit startling coming from me this fall Sunday, but I mean it. More

If the GOP has the wit and will to pursue a serious immigration reform program, the country and the party both will benefit. More

After a few decades of unfashionability, the theory that black culture explains the academic achievement gap is back. More

A dedicated cadre of counterrevolutionaries struggle to subvert the legacy of our Revolution and return us to our former status as subjects of a foreign political philosophy controlled by alien (European) elites. More

The ladies of "The View" may wish to think a little deeper about their views on bullying. More

How do you bring two opponents to the peace table when their worldviews are separated by millennia? More

Every chance the president gets, he climbs on a soapbox to address issues of callousness toward the Muslim faith. What about the Christians, Hindus, and Jews persecuted by Muslims? More

It claims to be the fastest-growing sport in the world and has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon in the seventeen years since its first match in Denver. More

Political free speech suffered a blow in the Golden State this past election season. More

"The old 'just the facts' history is no longer with us, thankfully." More

The religion of rage. More

Your tax dollars at work. More

Money and wealth are not the same thing. More

How do elitists of the Left view themselves after being shellacked in the past election? Unfortunately, much as they did before the election. More

George W. Bush is no Ulysses S. Grant, but his new presidential memoir is deserving of the success it is meeting. More

They're back -- and craving respectability. More

We need dimwit numskulls to remind Americans just why they loathe bureaucrats. More

I'd like to put certain people in the Hollywood community on trial for crimes against truth. More

A federal judge tells Oklahoma its constitution may not ban consideration of Sharia law by its judiciary. This is an abuse of power. More

When private businesses encounter unintended consequences of a negative nature, they take ameliorative steps as quickly as possible. Not so with government. More

True reform comes not by socializing industry, but by spurring competition and empowering a natural market. More

The effort to discredit global warming skeptics is warming up globally. More

The TSA is no more about airline security than ObamaCare was about affordable health care. More

With all due respect to the general, he doesn't know what he's talking about. More

The economist Milton Friedman thought the Fed could be replaced with a computer. But the Fed already resembles a computer: HAL in the sci-fi flick 2001: A Space Odyssey. More

Ireland, a country to which nearly 40 million Americans can trace their ancestry, is on the brink of insolvency and a loss of sovereignty. More

The implications of the end of home ownership as the "American Dream." More

As long as America's children continue to be educated (and fed) by government employees, conservatives will make precious little headway in preventing America's steady march towards statism. More

Not even simple arithmetic is safe from progressive stupidity. More

Politics is a relay race, not a sprint. More

"Racial profiling" is much like "assault weapon": It's an emotionally charged term designed to manipulate the public. More

On his recent trip to India, President Obama claimed to have been inspired by Gandhi. If so, he must have been a singularly inattentive student. More

In the environmental movement as it exists today, the left has found the perfect vehicle for its assault on American power. More

The Obama administration is coming apart at the seams, with only the most recklessly dishonest of its partisans, among them New York Times reporters, left to defend it. More

The "tax cuts for the rich" debate needs a new focus. More

After electing a guy who showed up out of nowhere dragging his trusty teleprompter, Democrats are awakening from their dreamlike state of pure political intoxication. More

The coming year promises to uncover the extent of the greatest scientific fraud in history. More

Senate Bill 510 could do for the food supply what ObamaCare will do for health care. More

Political parties are not immortal. More

A worldwide economic crisis is brewing as disturbing news multiplies in Europe, Asia, and, of course, Obama's America, which has defaulted on its traditional leadership role. More

Republicans should seize the opportunity to drive a wedge between Pelosi and nervous Democrats who fear another drubbing in 2012: force a vote on spending cuts for abortion. More

It is painfully apparent that ObamaCare is not good for Americans. More

Is infectious disease an analytically useful economic metaphor? More

Soros has already begun focusing on states as his next political playground -- where he wants to be the biggest bully on the block. More

After the biggest midterm electoral defeat in eighty years, Obama packed up Air Force One and headed out for a political shellacking abroad. More

That seems to be the consensus of the grandees inhabiting Washington and New York and pockets of glitter beyond. More

When California and New York come to Congress for bailouts, as they surely will, the House Republicans will benefit from turning them down flat. More

Barack Obama will soon discover that printing money to stimulate the economy won't work for him as well it did for Richard Nixon. More

By any definition, background, or proximity, John O. Brennan is the most influential professional intelligence officer in the Obama administration. More

Unlike Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Peter Schiff's grasp of economic reality led him to warn us of the coming crash. More

Should the "philanthropist" Soros' activities during the Holocaust be off-limits for discussion? More

The Democrats face their last grasp of legislative power in the lame duck session ahead. More

It is time (as it has been for decades now) to rethink the role of the Federal Reserve Bank. More

A newsflash: not all blacks in America are descendants of slaves. More

Last month, just weeks before the elections, the very capable Rasmussen Report revealed that most Democrat voters think the Tea Party movement is racist. More

Either over half of the traditional Republican voters in gubernatorial elections were no-shows on November 2 or the Constitution State's most populous city...lost its constitution. More

Madison County, NC: Mayberry It's Not More

The man we were told by his supporters would restore American stature abroad has diminished our standing and his in one stroke. More

If you think our economy is in bad shape now, just wait. More

In Virginia, a court battle is underway to release data that could reveal the truth of the Climategate scandal. More

The life of an Iranian mullah and his village. More

The boundaries of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have shifted to include protracted and arduous online campaigns. More

Since the fall of the Soviet Union twenty years ago, the Left has managed to trivialize all the mass political murders of the 20th century. More

Enlightening in a deeply disturbing way. More

There is a strong case to be made that gridlock is the only acceptable solution to (what many consider is) the abuse of Congress' constitutional authority. More

China has now assumed, in the mind of many Americans, the role of the unstoppable leviathan. But significant challenges face the regime. More

A tale of family and politics. More

They call this interfaith dialogue? More

The U.N. body escalates its war on Israel's ties to its cultural heritage. More

Desperation meets buffoonery. More

The president makes a show of caring about private enterprise, about people. But he is in love with big government, with ideas. More

The midterm election victory and the Battle of Midway. More

Why the Palestinians are supported by Obama and many others, despite their terror. More

Before the 112th Congress is sworn in, let's review some of the lesser-known activities of the departing 111th. More

Forcing Americans to buy a product they don't want and can't afford. More

Selective democracy is the result of an overabundance of a feeling of entitlement, frequently among the losing candidates. More

Those pushing this Climate Change argument ask us to accept some of the most complex science that very few understand, and to accept that science on faith. More

If a nation continues to amass debt in the present in exchange for economic devastation in the future, the result with be the effective destruction of the free-market system. More

A rapier rather than a broadsword. More

Post-colonial feminist scholars sacrificing most real feminist values and curriculum for a hard-left agenda which masquerades as "feminism." More

The election results point to several areas needing our attention. More

The belief that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are destroying the Earth's climate. More

We need a policy that promotes the forces of good in the Middle East, that supports democracy -- as we were doing before this administration took office. More

Like all government agencies, the White House operates on the basis of appropriations that originate in the House of Representatives. More

The war on socialism and Marxism is far from over. More

There are jokes, bad jokes, and deficit commissions. More

The actions of a handful of suicidal terrorists, almost exclusively of a certain religious persuasion, have led to a massive government assault on the freedoms of all Americans. More

Progressives harness the power of negative thinking, becoming the agents of a never-never land form of fairness known as social justice. More

The San Francisco Happy Meal regulation offers a teachable moment on the role of our constitutional system. More

A capitalist economy held back by taxes and regulation, and by a president who has no faith in capitalism to begin with, won't do much better than a communist one. More

The presidency under Obama has shriveled up, been rendered virtually irrelevant. More

Is America declining? Not once we get rid of the saboteurs: the Democrats and the lie-a-day media. More

America has woken up to the fact that much of our fiscal crisis at the state and federal level has been caused by the rich salary, benefit, and pension packages of government workers. More

Democrats won't, but Tea Partiers can. More

This scenario was impossible to imagine just four years ago. More

As if war were not enough of a challenge, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has committed to cut $100 billion from the Defense budget within the next five years. More

"Defense on the cheap" is no defense at all. It only invites aggressors to commit actions from which they'd otherwise refrain. More

With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it's a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history. More

Republicans seem to expect black Democrats to "get it," as if there were not years of indoctrination to overcome in the black community. More

George W. Bush may be at peace with his decision not to "sully the presidency" with trivial matters like defending conservatism, but I am not. More

Nine years after 9/11, this is what things have come to. More

A sensible strategy for saving money and serving students better. More

Incompetence or deviousness? More

Thinking outside the box. More

What lies ahead is ugly beyond imagining. More

For Republicans and conservatives, this is the Conservative Moment. More

We are witnessing a transformation of American society in which Islam enjoys a privileged place among the country's religions. More

Decline doesn't have to be inevitable. More

The best of civilized society as prey. More

The 9/11 attacks occurred in part because the intelligence on terrorist dangers was suppressed as a result of a policy known as "the wall." More

Not so much a program as some of the qualities and features that a program to preserve and extend conservative influence should have. More

Time to go for the jugular of the union bosses. More

A single experiment to test two political hypotheses and to solve the Social Security insolvency problem -- all in one fell swoop. More

When reality contradicts belief, some people can't rethink. More

Whether there is a D or an R in front of the party in power, little changes in the overall trend. More

Sweeping movements born of outrage have been part of our national narrative from the embryonic days of our republic. But is anger enough? More

Not since the peregrinations of Jean Duc de Berry have we seen such lavish travels. More

The Giant has awakened. The American voter just threw the bums out of Congress -- not enough of them, but a very good start. Now it's the media's turn. More

Since 2007 the price of food around the world has just about doubled. Bad harvests, inflation, or George Bush didn't cause this price increase. More

A court and counsel in their own virtual world, where castles, dragons, and elves are real but the First Amendment is not. More

The "Peace Process" will never work. If Gov. Palin is elected the next president in 2012, she may end the impasse by introducing a paradigm shift. More

Our victory is the beginning of the forty years' war -- who is with me? More

A cautionary tale. More

In post-Climategate America, people are beginning to appreciate the magnitude of scientific and political trickery that spawned the global warming scare. More

At history's biggest-ever opportunity to win over Chinese tourists, the U.S. presents a muddled, disappointing fiasco hobbled by self-flagellating political correctness. More

As a culture accustomed to sitcom scripts where all problems are neatly solved before the credits, we are uncomfortable with things that go on and on. More

Religious bigotry from a congresswoman. More

Everyone is aware that our public system of education, especially at the secondary level, is failing. Here is a proposal for an entirely different method of delivering an education. More

It appears the New York Times is once again putting its political agenda ahead of businesses in its ever-continuing pursuit of liberal, anti-growth policies. More

The Federal Reserve plans to inject $600 billion of the most caustic debt imaginable into the economy. This is the Agent Orange of monetary policies More

For at least the past hundred years, economists have attempted to forge an alliance with the natural sciences. More

The Republican Renaissance has begun. More

The president does not do contrition. More

The long-term political consequences are profound. More

In the 2010-midterm elections, the tea party movement has played the role of the Rebellion. But the Empire is not played by the Democrats. More

Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known as "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" singer Cher, claims to "dislike politics and says she's not a registered Democrat." More

One of the top priorities of the coming "lame duck" session of Congress will be the formal repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," aka U.S. Code Title 10, Section 654. More

Academicians take a whack at the Greatest Generation of Americans. More

Who will control what you and your children eat? More

The Iron Lady and her lessons for today. More

The freedoms we enjoy in our Western civilization are not going to defend themselves. More

Hubris and unparalleled condescension toward his political adversaries. More

Mass delusion in the Golden State. More

Progressivism, root and branch. More

We are hearing that either President Obama is misunderstood or we are unwashed hillbillies who don't get it. More

There is a revolution coming that is likely to burst the green global warming bubble: the temperature trends used by the IPCC is likely to turn out to be fake. More

In case you didn't notice, olive trees in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are under attack. More

Ten million libs who get their news from comedy shows can finally admit they're scared. More

While Congress has long been bipartisan when it comes to support for Israel, the Republican sweep of the House of Representatives on November 2 is expected to help strengthen that support. More

Of all the sweet spots on Tuesday's electoral map, none was sweeter than Pennsylvania. More

The 19th century was the nursery for contemporary politics. Every form of modern political activity -- fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism -- has its roots in that epoch. More

The media narrative is misleading. More

Obama doesn't have just one race card to play. More

Incredibly, many Americans will have a greater portion of their income seized than their Cuban counterparts in comparable income brackets. More

Many may admire nations that have attained greater equality without sacrificing modernity, but everything has a cost. More

With the failed Soviets in the history books and the failing EU in crisis from their statist policies, it's hard to understand the Obamacrats' blind rush into the same programs. More

Obama may, unwittingly, have done for conservatism what a hungry insect accomplished for cotton farmers years ago. More

America's left, and the party it dominates, faced a reckoning yesterday. How could a man once seen as a savior turn out to be a disaster for those who embraced him? More

For those of us who believe in American exceptionalism and individual liberty and freedom, the results of the midterm election have validated our belief in our fellow citizens. More

It was something nobody in the ruling class could have foreseen. More

Somehow, in every monstrous storm, there are a few ratty old buildings that somehow remain standing in the calm afterwards. Such is the case with 2010. More

What a waste! More

Daily Beast founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown recently penned an editorial of post-election advice for President Barack Obama. More

The august French Academy has spoken...and stained its record for years to come. More

NPR has shown itself to be afraid of Muslims -- far more afraid than Juan Williams, and hypocritical in a way that Williams never was. What's worse, NPR has acted on that fear. More

And it's not just the economy. It's the disrespect for the wishes of the electorate, who pay for everything. More

California used to build infrastructure, boast great universities, and educate its children well. Then Jerry Brown became governor and set the state on a different course. More

If Boxer had had her way with SDI, America would have lost its single best bargaining chip in bringing the Soviets to the table, achieving unprecedented missile reductions, and literally ending the Cold War. More

The battle for the future of the Republican Party will fully engage tomorrow morning in the wake of today's election. More

A learning tool to help folks decide whether or not they really do want to vote Democrat in the 2010 midterms. More

A number of well-established, single-focus national organizations with large constituencies made headlines recently after taking positions that compromised their founding principles. More

Everything that the "progressives" thought they had "won" is turning out to be like sandcastles crumbling before an onrushing tide of voter anger. More

It's almost painful to watch a man so out of his depth that he has reduced the Presidency of the United States of America to stand-up, comedic salesmanship. More

Harry Reid tried very hard to cause his own country to lose a war, bending all the powers of his high office to that ignoble end. And it is not an issue that can be raised in his re-election campaign. More

Tomorrow will be a good day for a political party all but written off as dead two years ago. More

This beat-down will be bigger than the pundit class is predicting. More

Two years ago, Obama represented the ascendancy of identity politics. He now represents its abrupt descent. More

For the established Republican elite -- the professional politicians who have shaped the Party's policies, picked its candidates, apportioned its funds, and dispersed the fruits of political power -- the party is over. More

Last week, in a lame stab at an October surprise, the NAACP released a report on the alleged links between "certain Tea Party factions and acknowledged racist hate groups." Look what's talking. More

The evidence is overwhelming. The media interest is zero. More

You can't leave a party if it has already left you. More