Obama policies have driven up food prices, triggering riots. More

The Arab revolt underway in Egypt may be unique. More

The media treated Ronald Reagan disgracefully when he was alive. To use him now that he is dead to bolster Barack Obama compounds the insult. More

In a word, race promises to play at least as large a role in the next election as it played in the last presidential race. More

Which candidate was best qualified to handle a 3 AM moment? America now has a partial answer: not President Obama. More

The new tone of civility the liberals are pursuing apparently includes wishing violent death on Sarah Palin. More

Again and again, leftists prove that their goal is no longer liberation, but victimization. More

Frances Fox Piven: still advocating violent social upheaval. More

When government policies become lethal to the citizenry, free men and women must take care of themselves. More

The secret to instant wealth is to spot a mass delusion and bet against it. More

From Tunis: the inside story of social injustice, ongoing political mass rebellion, and Tunisian Islamism. More

The EPA is messing with Texas in ways that threaten to disrupt the biggest jobs-producer in the United States. More

People instinctively think about achieving new levels of safety but seldom worry about losing old levels of freedom. More

Foes of defense spending often invoke President Eisenhower's warning against a military-industrial complex. But they overlook his real meaning. More

Examining the past sixty years of Egyptian rule to understand the stages of its decline, we see how a once-highly civilized nation was thrown to the wolves and how barely a shred of decency and humanity remains. More

When the worst happens. More

The Tiger Mother controversy sets up a false alternative between "Western" and "Eastern" parenting. More

What does this have to do with the church in America? More

The vast abundance of digital information showcases its terrifyingly evanescent nature. More

Why did President Obama announce in advance to al-Qaeda that high-speed trains will have a lower level of security than airlines? More

One branch of American politics shares the view that the money you earn -- the material manifestation of your mental and physical labor -- is not yours. More

The King's Speech represents the victory of truth over popular sentiment. More

American life has become a refresher course in the folly of despotism -- an education so expensive it would make an Ivy League chancellor wince. More

We cannot afford to take the faker at his word. More

An unceasing adventure of writing, wonder, discovery, physical courage, and the fortitude to overcome loss after devastating loss. More

Marxist agitator Frances Fox Piven in her old age has been caught talking up violence to her callow trainees, and the left has sprung to her defense. More

According to the government's Global Change Research Program, the oceans will rise three to four feet by the year 2100. Ice-covered Greenland is the top candidate to supply the water. More

Contain China? More

The Illinois pension fiasco continues to plague the state with embarrassment and near-fatal fiscal consequences. Now the SEC is investigating. More

The leftist attacks on Governor Palin are in no way new, not even in their viciousness. But Palin has the means to prevail unavailable to previous demonized conservatives. More

If enough carefully written state eligibility law is passed in time, I believe either that Obama will be stopped or that we will find out what he's been hiding. More

The first intellectual insider to suggest publicly that President Barack Obama is not the writer the literati have anointed him to be has made his case among the MSM. More

Overseas political and business leaders have Obama's number, and they are worried. More

...No matter how many times the delusional fools in the American media try to convince you otherwise. More

ObamaCare now looms threateningly over us with disturbing reminders of the Soviet bloc's Sputnik-era health care system. More

While some may find genocide morally repugnant, environmentalists have a different concern. More

The capacity for humiliating, destructive behavior from Abe Foxman (and those Jews who fund the Anti-Defamation League) continues to astound and repel proud Jews across the world. More

Regardless of his rebound in the polls, Barack Obama is no shoo-in for reelection. Here's how the GOP can win. More

Sarah Palin is a last-chance test of our cultural health. More

Life would be so much more enjoyable. More

The trials of two "honor killers" are under way in America this week. More

Avoiding the useful, embracing the outright dangerous. More

In the game of chicken that is national politics, it was sure that the left would pounce upon excessive defense spending as a way of reducing the deficit. More

What we saw Tuesday night was not a new Obama. More

President Barack Obama does not dip below 40-percent approval. Period. That is very bad news for conservatives who want him to be a one-term president. More

There have always been people like Obama, and the greats of literature have satirized them. More

Rather than lay the groundwork for Obama's defeat in 2012, the Arizona senator is fast becoming a foundational promoter for the president's bid for reelection. More

Even those conservatives who will not vote for Herman Cain to win the Republican nomination should hope that he does run. More

The federal government has turned the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill into an ongoing economic calamity. More

It cost Carter reelection. It may cost Obama, too. More

Dismissing labels may be a convenient way to avoid commitment to a party that may fail. More

This latest Matthews/Abercrombie fiasco is not about the birthers. It is about reelecting Obama in 2012. More

The name of the game is winning elections. More

Right now, Americans are forcing transformation on Barack -- not the other way around. More

In recent years, the State of the Union has become nothing more than a laundry list of utopian plans for the future framed in political terms. More

The country will be treated to yet another orgasmic reaction by the once-mainstream media upon the conclusion of President Obama's State of the Union speech. More

A long list. More

It matters not what President Obama will say in his speech tonight. Despite the exit of some old staffers and the entrance of some new ones, he is not changing. More

The first head-fake of Obama 2.0. More

The 900-pound gorilla in the interrogation room remains unquestioned and unchallenged. More

Sarah Palin may be the reigning Republican "idiot," but she shares in a proud legacy that dates back to at least Dwight David Eisenhower, if not earlier. More

All the propaganda that's fit for the gullible. More

The fresh and effective ideas of American justice were once the envy of the world. It is time that the right embraces reform of the justice system based on our principles. More

How much authority to lock up people do we want to give to those in the soft science of psychology? More

Look who's wising up about regulation. More

Sarah Palin and the media puppeteers. More

In 1960, when I was in the fourth grade, I learned the word "Holocaust." More

From Minamata to CFL lightbulbs, the arrogance and indifference of politicians and the bullheadedness of special interests expose innocents to the dangers of mercury. More

A terrible disease of potentially epidemic proportion has descended upon our country, striking mostly liberals. More

Criminal psychology has been well-studied -- except in the case of illegal aliens. More

Americans love romance. Do Islamists? More

The debt ceiling and a way out of our debt crisis. More

Femininity is all but extinct, a casualty of an insane frenzy to convince women they are equal to men. More

There are endless warnings that unless the Jewish state relinquishes control over the West Bank, Muslims soon will outnumber Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. More

Obama told the American people that there has been "evolution" in human rights in China, yet 35,000 forced and coerced abortions take place there daily. More

Near my town some leftie has put up a big lawn display of white wooden crosses, one for every American soldier who died in Iraq. More

The other morning, as I was writing articles in my computer room, I heard a woman scream. More

Time is running out on the Transitional Federal Government. More

Tyranny never begins with the big things. More

Roe is so bad it makes other controversial decisions -- like Plessy v. Ferguson or Dred Scott -- look like models of Solomonic wisdom by comparison. More

Will China act militarily to secure its place as a great power more quickly, given the demographic crisis it faces in just twenty years? More

Discourse is a great and peculiar bedfellow, particularly in politics and friendships. More

One of the most dangerous strategies of the totalitarians in our midst is the deliberate confusion they create around the notion of totalitarianism. More

Government is not and never will be a business -- although we would certainly benefit from having it run like one. More

I can still vividly remember walking through run-down Neapolitan suburbs as a seventeen-year old, firmly within the grasp of an LSD trip. More

A controversy currently taking place in the literary world reflects longstanding problems with the writing -- and teaching -- of history. More

"Liberal" and "unfunny" are perhaps the two best words to describe most political cartoons. But a rare conservative series is helping to change this. More

Now, more than any time in a generation, Republicans can actually implement their agenda, limited only by their political courage. More

Bloated public education budgets in our large cities may be immune from serious cuts for an unpalatable reason: the threat of urban violence. More

Former DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's education reform program sounds conservative, but what lies behind it? More

Tunisia's revolt is a bold example of the vulnerability of Arab regimes to popular revolt. But there is a long journey ahead, and many pitfalls. More

Oil major BP has announced another foray into the Russian market despite being burned many times in the past by Russia's fundamental corruption. More

All this talk about resolving our "climate of hate" is nonsense; those who are most guilty of perpetuating it believe the rules of civility don't apply to them More

Numbers don't lie. More

Rep. Peter King appears to be squandering an opportunity in his forthcoming hearings on radicalization among American Muslims. More

Those widely heralded compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) turn out to be a bit of dud in the real world. More

A fascinating window into the fun-house mirror world of race theorists, racial "scholars," and a good part of the anthropology profession. More

How to make big profits with no capital of your own and a product that can't compete in the marketplace. More

I recall when the New York Times was a bona fide prestigious and noble member of the Fourth Estate. More

The left and ruling-class media are in kamikaze mode. More

The Founding Fathers considered states' rights absolutely indispensable to the purposes of our nation. We can restore that vision. More

Exploiting victims and massaging responsibility to achieve retribution. More

Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, after signs of life, has been returned to his cellophane wrapping. More

Even for an unapologetic Francophile like me, President Obama's latest diplomatic gaffe was too much to swallow. More

Tunisia, until a few days ago, gave every appearance of being among the most advanced and benign Arab regimes. More

We have known for years that liberalism is corrupt, wasteful, and futile. Now we know that it is even worse. Liberalism is lethal. More

We are about to watch the extreme makeover of Barack Obama in real time. More

There is more to fear than fear itself. More

When an astonished mainstream press ask you if you really, really are willing to risk a federal government default, ask them this simple but profound question: Why do we have a debt ceiling? More

Bad government decisions more harmful than the leaked oil. More

Is the attempted killing of a member of Congress for the first time in thirty years a reflection on the violence of our political rhetoric or a reminder of the remarkable peacefulness of modern life? More

The telling clue nobody seems to have noticed. More

Might Obama be just another political hack who has conned not only Middle America, but also the few who really believe in Marx? More

Failed green schemes run by cronies face an examiner with subpoena power. More

Imam Rauf had to go because he had become a liability to the taqiyya project of the Ground Zero mosque, but his replacement is no better. More

Is America ready to end a dysfunctional program which was always touted to be temporary? More

Republicans are being suckered by the proposal to sit mixed with the Democrats during the State of the Union address. More

King would still have a dream today. He wouldn't want black people dependent on the government. More

Religious freedom and civil rights -- together they constitute what James Madison called "the lustre of our country." More

U.S. President Barack Obama should stop pursuing closer ties with the Muslim world and start firming up his already established ties with his natural allies. More

Advice to the presidential couple from the master of propaganda. More

The issue of sexual abuse by Catholic priests is so commonplace that it is the subject of late-night "humor." More

In the leftist pile-on blaming the Tucson shootings on the right, the collective voice of Hollywood was muted. Here's why. More

It was George W. Bush's fault, the NYT just confessed, that the Stuxnet computer worm ended up destroying 984 Iranian uranium centrifuges over the last year or so. More

The financial irresponsibility of our elected officials has provided a determined enemy a powerful weapon to use against us in an economic attack. More

Did "protectionism" really exacerbate the Depression? More

A case study of the war on Chinese tires. More

Kitsch deprives feeling of its cost, and therefore of its reality. More

Talking only with those we like is the behavior pattern of a teenager; when our State Department personnel act this way, its time to call for a reform of the Foreign Service. More

The story of a towering player in the American Revolution denied his due by history. More

An event that closely resembled a tent revival run by a hypster whose pious pontificating was more about furthering a political agenda than consoling the aggrieved. More

The Democrats and the left have once again succeeded in their most well-worn, time-tested, and effective tactic: diversion. More

Argument requires analytical rigor, expertise in the issue upon which the argument centers, facility with language (i.e., articulation), and combativeness. Matters are otherwise with conversation. More

Savings produces growth, but when government penalizes savings through taxes and inflation, why bother saving? More

A portion of your local tax dollars will be diverted away from such endeavors as education, firefighting, or policing in order to transform your local street signs into an ugly, D.C.-dictated uniformity. More

Is Russia a potential ally for the United States? More

The language muzzle rears its ugly head again. More

Is Monty Python writing scripts for the administration, Congress, and the media? More

One of the left's most venerated tactics is the perversion of language. More

In Tucson, on Wednesday evening, we saw President Barack Obama in his full Chauncey Gardiner mode. More

The new rules of civility, as prescribed by our friends on the left. More

Unfortunately, since the election of America's first black president, black leftists and race profiteers have gorged themselves in a feeding frenzy of race exploitation. More

Unlike China, which is pursuing a well-coordinated policy of securing resource rights, America is hobbled by an administration that is ideologically hostile to the exploitation of natural resources. More

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, an elected leader entrusted with preserving the rights of the innocent regardless of party affiliation, has made it clear he is unable to carry out his duties in an unbiased manner. More

I didn't actually pull the trigger, but I'm as guilty as the psychopath who did. Here are just a few of the charges against me. More

Only morally and emotionally deformed individuals could embark on a political smear campaign just moments after such a tragedy without possessing any facts whatsoever. More

It is inconceivable that people who claim to care about the Tucson victims and their families are exploiting death and suffering for petty political advantage. More

Judge the elitists by their results, and the "ignorant" start looking pretty good. More

A close reading of Sherriff Clarence Dupnik's recent statements suggests that he and Jared Lee Loughner may suffer from similar degrees of delusion. More

Congressman Peter King can't control lunatics. So he'll try to control us. More

Why is Paris known as the City of Light? Is it because the U.S. Congress banned Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulbs, so he had to take his invention offshore? More

Last Saturday, journalism died. The media openly declared war on free speech and the 1st Amendment it was sworn to protect. More

The left-wing radicals are at it again, folks. More

Speech of all types -- political or otherwise -- is protected because it forms the fundamental platform for sustaining the marketplace of ideas without which a democratic republic cannot survive. More

Americans who live for politics will find that the solutions to public mass murders lack the panache of a presidential signing ceremony. More

Class, character, and national crisis. More

Blindness to physical reality, denial of human nature, and a consuming desire to use government force to impose fantasies on fellow human beings. Welcome to the mind of today's American "progressive." More

Strange doings at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. More

Mass killers are almost always schizophrenics who should be institutionalized to protect them -- and us -- from random and murderous violence. More

Correlation without causation. More

We conservatives are being backed into a media-developed trap. More

The mainstream media reached a new low with their coverage of the Tucson shooting spree by a deranged "left-wing pothead" (as one classmate described him). More

The best we can hope for is continued stagnation, and the worst is almost unthinkable. More

Jane is more focused on condemning uninvolved conservatives than she is on the maniacal murderer who slaughtered half a dozen people in cold blood in a parking lot. More

Left-wing policies do not just spend money on unions, but they also hand them power -- power that unions will use with devastating consequences. More

Today, we seem to be seeing politics, and politics of a very strident and hateful variety, beginning to supersede the private rituals of grief. More

The left's protracted association with political violence. More

The coordinator of the San Francisco Tea Party, and the media which pursued her for comment on the Tucson massacre. More

With Reagan, words were deeds. With Obama, words are words. More

When murderers are held in less contempt than others whom liberals wish to blame for the murder, we see major steps towards the steady dismantling of personal responsibility in American society. More

Microsoft and other companies such as EMC and CA Technologies are touting "The Cloud" as a breakthrough that will change our lives forever (whether we like it or not). More

Critics of the reading of the Constitution in the House of Representatives overlook the incredible power of ritualized readings. More

David Suzuki said, "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." His observation is proven right every single day. More

A Washington Post front page news article claims that the original Constitution "condones" slavery. Wrong, wrong, wrong. More

To hear the media buzz in the aftermath of the reading of the Constitution in the House, it is clear that some on the left simply don't get it. More

Just what America needs at this point in its fragile economic recovery: a furtive leader who won't own up. More

There is no real basis for the concept of "social evolution" in any period that might be relevant to the liberal agenda. More

America's two critical deficits -- budget and trade -- are easier to balance simultaneously than to balance separately. More

A sobering reminder about the public reading of founding documents. More

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just the business end of a larger struggle between the enlightened West and Islamofascism. More

In all the blather about redistribution of wealth, fairness, and social justice, there lurks an underlying assumption about justice. More

Hugo Chávez nominates a contingent of potential ambassadors made up of Marxist actors, pudgy liberal comedians, communist apologist/directors, libertarian socialist linguists, and an impeached ex-president. More

Truth is, abortion is in no way safe for the injured party, and while legal, it doesn't appear to be rare in New York City. More

My nephew, Lance Corporal Lee Morgan, will be deploying to Afghanistan next Friday, fighting a war described by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) as "an epic failure, a national embarrassment, and a moral blight." More

If we travel back and see the battle of ideas fought seven decades ago, it is clear that the left is immune to truth. More

The problems that the FDIC and bank directors and officers face is having laws written by people who have no concept of what it takes to run an economy. More

Is the whole heap of judicial machinery -- the compendiums of laws, the storied court buildings -- all just intended as a façade? More

A proper Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ObamaCare would set huge precedents having far-reaching ramifications. More

A conservative presidential candidate should follow Obama's example in 2012 and beyond and get things done, no matter the cost. More

At the heart of our "fiscal issues" is a moral problem. More

Rediscovering 20th-century writer Zora Neale Hurston's conservative philosophy. More

A blueprint for continuing political success has been drawn up. More

Bloomberg is like some madman on a mission to build Mecca on the Hudson. More

Americans don't talk about the Constitution nearly enough. More

When toy guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have toy guns. More

In another political tease, the president has announced that drilling projects approved before the Deepwater Horizon accident may possibly be allowed to resume. More

Spain has become a major battlefield between the forces of tyranny and the forces of freedom. More

Sometimes the best way to find out what a person thinks about you is to find out what he tells others. More

Hey, Jerry Brown. Here's a practical way to to chip away a significant chunk of the multibillion-dollar deficit California faces this year. More

It is time for America to curtail the unions' immense power and demand that the public sector join the realm of fiscal reality. More

Is there a " right to health"? More

A huge challenge awaits our Congress. More

To have any chance of winning in Afghanistan, we must dump Hamid Karzai's corrupt administration. More

Not for the first time, a murderer and thief is to benefit by promising peace to an American administration. More

A glaring, disinfecting light thrown on Obama's duplicitous foreign policy. More

Regrettably, I am not persuaded that he will. More

Trying to asphyxiate the goose that lays the golden eggs. More

In the eyes of the military, Don't Ask, Don't Tell is not a gay issue, a witch hunt, or a civil rights or equality issue. Instead, it's a social issue with far-reaching organizational implications. More

The healthcare system is broken. More

Many people who are informed about what's actually happening in the Middle East constantly wonder why Israel fares so badly in the information wars. More

Our lefty friends have just come off a pretty a good century playing the blame game on conservatives for "violence." That's about to change. More

A good indicator that a movement ostensibly based on so-called scientific facts has run out of steam is when that crusade must openly resort to crass marketing techniques to sell a flawed product. More

The enlightened half of Egyptian society finally is speaking out loud against Islamic reactionary violence. More

Who needs state ownership when the government can micromanage via regulation and tax away most of the economic benefit of an enterprise? More

What makes a matter constitutional or unconstitutional is often not the Constitution itself, but instead the string of cases interpreting the Constitution. More

Obama's vaunted lame duck session successes will, like most of the administration's agenda items, come back to bite him at a later date. More

For reasons clear to no one just yet, Hawaii's new Democrat governor, Neil Abercrombie, has gone public with his desire to silence the so-called "birthers" with proof of Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth. More

Spot the haters. More

If you want to gain approval and successfully use people, then cover your intent with familiar language and ideas that are dear to them, things they believe they know well. More

Since the rise of social networking, public shaming has come back into vogue in a big way. More

It is poetic justice that the political excesses that created the financial crisis will be instrumental in terminating the era of political dominance of economies. More

Can discounts really harm shoppers? More

Among the most deceptive measures passed in the 111th Congress was The Statuary Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, or, in Washington vernacular, Pay/Go. More

Essential information for all who wish to understand Israel's struggle for survival, and the borders which can protect it. More

The University of California at Irvine uses the Olive Tree Initiative to cover its unwillingness to address the anti-Semitism on its campus. More

It is not difficult to deprive the vast majority of independent thought. More

Nuclear proliferation should no longer be treated as an unthinkable nightmare; it is likely to be the future reality. More

Oppression of women, for one, is so systemic in Islam that to this day, women are, at best, second-class citizens under Islamic law. More

Barack Obama, like all of us, is a product of his own experience. More

If you ask a Christian leader why he does not speak out on Islam, you get some version of this: My duty is to tend to my flock. More

Those who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution are stating that they will uphold the Rule of Law. In the next breath, the same people say the Constitution is a living and breathing document. More

Throwing American money away in Lebanon. More

Serious and silly, AT pundits offer their predictions for the year ahead. More

What can be expected with the GOP in charge of the House. More

Populist-sounding rhetoric. Political speech. Euphemisms. Deception. This is how the socialist infection is spreading. More

While it's not unusual for Big Media's undeniable bias to lead them to miss, if not intentionally ignore, certain stories, in terms of volume, 2010 seems to have offered a banner crop. More

It's easy to find examples of semantic engineering -- the use of words or phrases that mask a concept's true meaning -- among the left. More

The Classical era passed in under a millennium and a half; ours has already gone longer, but Reagan's Morning in America has become Obama's Closing Time. More

It is in our most secret moments that we cultivate the real person whom we eventually become in public. More