An AT classic, republished by popular demand in the wake of Obama's press conference More

Nature abhors a vacuum, and Obama has this special Vacuum Grenade he keeps throwing at teetering regimes around the world. More

Sanity on the budget, backed up by facts. More

For the Chicago Tribune, the political correctness blinders are working overtime. More

Obama and his followers do indeed want to make America into a socialist paradise...they just have no idea how to go about it. More

A recent Gallup Poll indicated 22% of Americans would not be willing to for vote for a Mormon for president. More

The three recent fires in Southern Arizona once again bring the issue of border security to the forefront. More

A brief look at progressive airy predictions of the past. More

I believe Obama is already planning his next promotion. That's a rational political calculation, as well as fitting his personal grandiosity. More

Something is wrong with Barack Obama. We all know it. We all see it. When he speaks about America, Americans cringe. More

Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW. More

Acclaimed American writer Alice Walker is setting sail to break the Israeli Naval blockade of weapons bound for Hamas-controlled Gaza. More

Robert Gates plans to step down as SECDEF tomorrow -- and not a moment too soon. More

Even the most biased judge can be deemed impartial when his friends have his back. More

In Obama's world, success and failure are moral rather than economic outcomes. Success is a marker for evil. Failure is due to someone else's success. More

Given the well-established Disney empire of theme parks, it might be forgotten why the term "Mickey Mouse" first entered the public mind as a dysphemism. More

There is a fatal flaw that occurred early on during the financial meltdown that helps explain why the economy remains in a stall. More

Proud KGB spy Putin is just doing what he learned to do in Soviet times. What's surprising is that the President of the United States is helping him get away with it. More

The whole point of the liberal value system these days is to celebrate diversity. With one notable exception. More

This is in no way, shape, or form science; it is advocacy in costume. It's a play with sets, props, actors pretending to be a work of science. More

Not with a bang, but a whimper More

A new president, to have any chance at all, will need more than a narrow personal victory. Obama's failures place reigning orthodoxies and their champions in unprecedented peril. More

Once we accept these racist Sharia-compliant regulations, it is a slippery slope. More

Release of oil reserves to moderate prices was not only misguided, but fraught with potential problems for the future. More

Pavlov's dogs drooled at the sound of a bell. Humans also experience conditioned reflexes. That's what the Democrats are counting on. More

Seventy years ago, Hell fought Hell. On June 22, 1941, Hitler abandoned his close alliance with Stalin, and began total war against his erstwhile friend. More

Voltaire observed "It's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others." More

A report from the 2011 International Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan. More

The definition, or at least the current usage, of the word "discrimination" has become so blurred that it no longer resembles its original definition at all. More

There's a powerful way to fix the economy...and we've used it before. More

Enormous savings and quality improvements can be achieved with application of the ISO 9001-compliant QMS. More

When physicians lose moral agency, everything becomes possible. More

Freud said that no one person is ever truly capable of imagining his own death. Thus with Israel. More

The more honest translation of "soak the rich." More

Meet the intactivists. More

Mr. Fed, Ben Bernanke, told reporters this week that he's clueless as to why America's economy is in this "soft patch." More

Critics know they are supposed to like Terrence Malick, the reclusive auteur who has made just five films over the course of his 40-year career. More

Libya was the excuse, but Obama's multi-front economic failures and sagging popularity were the real reasons behind the recent SPR-draining policy announcement. More

If Palin doesn't run it will be a disaster for the Republican Party and quite possibly the country. More

Words matter. But all too often the left and the right have different concepts underlying the same words. More

The best thing for the Republican Party -- and the country -- is for there to be a sharp distinction between the two parties' nominees. More

"Soulless technology" not withstanding, art will be just fine. Here's why. More

A wealthy politician from Massachusetts saddled with accusations of unprincipled flip-flops runs for the Presidency. John Kerry, meet Mitt Romney. More

Will the first black president be replaced by the first woman president? More

Though many conservatives took some schadenfreude in seeing the Socialist fat-cat Dominique Strauss-Kahn being perp-walked several weeks ago in New York City, I see what happened to Mr. Strauss-Kahn differently. More

What is going on in Iran, and what are the prospects for the future? An informed Iranian-American journalist speaks. More

Scorn directed at Tea Party groups for their interest in our Founders is out of step with respected philosophy and science. More

An aristocracy of incompetence exists and has flourished, in which a self-crowned ruling class plays by different rules, rules that reflect their dim view of voters. More

Michele Bachmann is confidently articulating in public what most other conservatives are too timid to whisper in passing conversation. More

Within living American memory, there's a precedent for how to do this. It can, if executed with sufficient nerve, mean something which looks a great deal like victory. More

Emptying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for political purposes is a dreadfully irresponsible act on the part of this or any president. More

Let's just call Democrats what they are when it comes to voter ID fraud: McLovin. More

A curious interpretation of "Islamophobia." More

The Obama administration's failure to understand this reality is devastating the economy. More

A ruling last week written by Justice Anthony Kennedy (the Court's "swing vote") offers encouragement to ObamaCare foes. More

America has gotten a steady whiff of B.O. emanating from the White House and its environs for two and a half years now, and are turning away. More

American counterintelligence misunderstands the Chinese intelligence mindset, leading to disaster after disaster in recent decades. More

Capital is relocating to regions where it is treated more favorably. The increasingly adverse climate at the federal level motivates moving outside the country More

Overwhelming peace and prosperity, over the past many decades, has sown the seeds that will lead to rapid erosion in the American way of life. More

Inflation hit 3.6% in May, even though gasoline prices actually fell that month. Inflation has been rising since November, exactly as Sarah Palin predicted More

The current state of economic affairs reminds me of the Saturday morning cartoon where the Roadrunner is chased by Wiley Coyote. More

Collectivist rhetoric makes good talking points, but always takes a back seat when it comes to winning reelection. More

A case in Australia shows why the ban must be implemented. More

We don't need to ask the wizards of the Ivy League why Obamanomics is not working. Everything we need to know can be explained with lemonade and cookies. More

In order to understand liberalism, all one needs to do is take note of what the left applauds versus what they attack. More

The leftist view of how people behave under compulsion has been tested and vetted for nearly a century and has proven to be an utter failure. More

Environmentalists strike again. More

The publicity front of a new, anti-Western crusade, hoping to knock the West over quickly, and then have it out against each other. More

In Wisconsin, Democrats are testing out a new political weapon: the use of recall elections against Republicans, as the GOP establishment slumbers. More

When he first entered the national political arena, I thought Barack Obama was a sincere man, mistaken in some of his political beliefs, but an honest advocate of them. Not anymore. More

President Barack Obama just got caught opinion-shopping for a government lawyer. How far will the scandal reach? More

A devastating exposé of teacher union power reveals the seeds of destruction already planted. More

Obama's being hassled because he's dropping bombs and bullets on Libyan targets without Congressional permission. More

With billions at stake in scientific scare-mongering, opponents of the panic merchants are subject to smear campaigns. More

In his waspish review of The Secret Knowledge by newly conservatized playwright David Mamet, Christopher Hitchens proves that "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on." More

The Republican House is flinching on passing the simplest and most symbolic piece of legislation this term: repeal of the incandescent light bulb phase out. More

Americans must to decide if, in the name of homeland security, they are willing to allow TSA operatives to storm public places in their communities with no warning, pat them down, and search their bags. More

If you're not both angry and scared at the world's current situation, you're not paying attention. More

A simple index that tells us volumes on the fate of nations. More

Are you having continual computer problems? Do you go through faulty cellphones like beer nuts? More

Scratch up more deaths to the Greens. More

Why are our elected leaders abandoning the ones who have stood by them for years? More

I hope all you dads are having a great day. But if it's less than perfect, remember it could be worse. You could be Anthony Weiner's dad listening to his resignation speech in which he thanks you and his mom for instilling in him "the values that carried me so far." More

Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner's dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. More

The left is right, there is racism everywhere in America, the problem is that they choose to see it only where they want to see it, while ignoring it where it truly is. More

Even our neighborhood winos respected my dad; partly because he was a true man of God, but I believe mostly because Dad respected them. More

An essential guide to what's really going on in Afghanistan. More

Americans must understand that all this finger-pointing at Israel is just a distraction. More

An avoidable self-inflicted inferno. More

In June 1948, six weeks after declaring independence, Israel confronted internal conflict that raised the specter of civil war. More

The sweet bouquet of the Arab Spring has somehow managed to obscure the outright onslaught now underway by Team Obama. More

What is liberty? Anything outside the simplest definition sets us on a dangerous path. More

Twenty-first-century liberalism uses the tax code to absolve itself of the moral responsibility to truly care for the very citizens they claim to be protecting. More

Most of us expect an intergovernmental agency not to have enviro-advocacy people influencing its reports. More

According to the U.S. Census, one-third of American children are growing up without their biological fathers, while 40% of newborn babies in the U.S. are delivered to unmarried mothers More

The political news is filled with three personal scandal stories -- all liberal Democrats. Not by accident. More

AARP has been allowed to masquerade as a non-profit organization, dodging taxes and hiding its true purpose: to sell insurance. More

How else to explain Debbie Wasserman Schultz? More

A South African conservative looks at President Obama and wonders. More

A ticket of Marco Rubio and Jon Kyl would carry forty states. So why be depressed? More

It is time for Obama to pack his bags and let Perry take over. More

Every day we in Texas hear disbelieving conservative citizens on local talk radio asking "...is the national media serious about Rick Perry as a conservative president?" More

I'm far from 100% sold on Mitt Romney at this point in time. Yet, at the same time, I would be reluctant to write the man off -- and I would certainly discourage any Republicans from doing so. More

The better question is "Why not Newt?" More

It's interesting to reflect on how angry Trump made people. More

A better candidate for prom queen than for president of the United States. More

The Department of Transportation is determined to waste as many millions as possible on passenger rail service, and President Obama could not be more enthusiastic. More

Golfing while our Republic burns. How apropos for the modern era. More

The sorriest aspect of philandering politicians is often their wives, the spouses who stand by their man and play the victim in the service of political viability. More

President Obama wants America's universities to graduate 10,000 more engineers annually than they're now turning out. Just one small problem. More

The case of Anthony Weiner will soon be forgotten, but unless the liberal culture of license is repudiated, scandals like his will become an ever more common occurrence. More

Congressman Anthony Weiner's virtual debauchery is more consequential than just a marital wrinkle between newlyweds. More

UNRWA, the U.N. agency charged with the care of "Palestinain refugees," must have its mandate renewed at the end of this month. Could it be that UNRWA is running scared? More

In a world of reality, not high-flown rhetoric, Obama wants to terminate a viable Jewish State in Israel More

A roadmap to victory in 2012. More

Something subtle and disturbing is happening under parents' radar. Growing numbers of progressive educators are twisting a four-thousand-year-old concept in order to induce schoolchildren to adopt amoral worldviews. More

Justice has been served in Wisconsin, with the rebuke of a judicial activist judge, union dues taking a hit, and Democrats losing a source of coerced donations. More

The American ideal of everyone owning a home is seriously misguided, both for individuals and the overall economy. More

Transforming the medical marketplace into a normal marketplace begins with eliminating Medicare price-fixing. More

"The collective name for a group of peacocks is a party," and in politics former President Bill Clinton and Congressman Anthony Weiner turn out to be two of the best examples of a "party" of peacocks. More

Shocking data showing our path to poverty under Obama. The situation is not yet hopeless, but time is running out. More

John King, moderator of Monday night's GOP debate, just could not help himself. Every question offered by King was framed in liberal terms. More

When candidate Obama showed up, I realized that I had heard his typical stump speech every single day of my old Soviet life from big and small Communist party bosses -- the same structure, the same cadences, the same bogeymen. More

What was I thinking? Here I am, forty years old and back in the fight again. More

The famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill that, "If you're not liberal at 20, you have no heart...if you're not conservative by 30, you have no brain," may need some tweaking given the recent antics of the American left. More

How to alienate the extremists and court the mainstream. More

Our educational system is self-destructing, taking away opportunities from good students in a misguided effort to help underperforming students. More

The Obama campaign team are providing early signals on the states where they think the 2012 contest will be decided. More

The three demographic groups that provided strongest support for Obama in 2008 have all fared even worse than average Americans during his presidency. More

Community television began, like many bad ideas, in the 1960s, when self-styled "media activist" George Stoney and others began lobbying the FCC to mandate "public access" More

We have seen Anthony Weiner before. But not among the faces in the long line of disgraced, discarded political figures that have preceded him. In the movies. More

Obama is treading the same path as FDR, repeating the same steps that turned a recession into the Great Depression. More

Economics is too hard for liberals and many others. So it is time to dumb economics down. Here is how it works. More

Even with an eventual victory in Libya, NATO has already botched it. NATO's enemies have a predator's keen eye and instincts. More

When your electricity bill goes up 40%, a company financially linked to Barack Obama, David Axelrod, and Rahm Emanuel (and even Bill Ayers) will reap huge gains. More

Palin is turning the tables on the press, and they don't like it. Manipulating people is their job. More

What hath Anthony Weiner wrought? Clarity. More

The line between legal and illegal immigrants is being erased in California with new legislation. More

How 'the most segregated city in America' got to be that way with the help of the Democrat Machine. More

A tool for dealing with the left. More

A native-born Englishman, Hitchens deserved a gong last week and he didn't get it. Shame on the House of Windsor. More

For those of us who think the mainstream media is so ludicrous it deserves to be unemployed, this week was fabulous. More

How a leading UK newspaper got very close to breaking the most consequential literary fraud of our time, but got cold feet at the last minute. More

The Left, grounded in the childish superstitions of Marx, views life as economics. More

As Obama's allies on the Religious Left step forward to promote Obama's agenda and build momentum for his 2012 campaign, we should be prepared to expose them for who they really are. More

The road to peace in the Middle East will not be found at the negotiating table More

The peroxided paramour who helped administer the death blow to Newt Gingrich's political aspirations in the 1990's strikes again. More

Textbook brutality in a well-known communist bastion. More

Our favorite restaurant fell by the wayside and closed. More

Who are the "masters" and who are the "slaves"? Take three guesses. More

This is a childish fantasy, and it's time for the U.S. to stop pursuing it. More

Pro-Hamas activists have organized a new flotilla, scheduled to depart for Gaza later this month. Another confrontation with the Israeli navy is likely More

J Street, the Soros-funded front lobbying group that describes itself as "pro-peace" and "pro-Israel,'' is desperately seeking legitimacy by wangling its way into local Jewish Community Relations Councils, made up of grassroots groups. Unlike typical JCRC members,  J Street comes to American... More

To Rep. Weiner, this is an unfortunate personal matter. The fact that he lied to our faces with an arrogant smile apparently carries no weight. More

The media feeding frenzy over 24,000 emails pertaining to Sarah Palin's governorship in Alaska is already redounding to her benefit, while further eroding the vestiges of credibility once enjoyed by the shrunken giants of American journalism More

How an obscure radical group teamed up with a leftist national church organization, an unprincipled President and a legion of compliant news outlets to create a media firestorm based on lies. More

A candidate who could very quickly and almost bloodlessly win the Republican nomination, and go on to win the presidency. More

The main reason I believe America needs Herman Cain is his character. Wow, why does that sound so corny? More

Romney is the most appealing Republican candidate at this juncture. He exudes competence when he discusses complex issues. More

The Ivy-League man-child doesn't exactly have his finger on America's economic pulse. More

My new son-in-law is an enthusiastic member of ISO, the International Socialist Organization. He is on the verge of a Master's in Political Science More

Surprisingly, President Obama cited Adam Smith in his speech to the British Parliament. If only he really understood what he said More

A funny thing happened on the way to saving Western civilization ... it could all come down to Paul Ryan. More

Whoever they are and wherever they're from, common thieves are all the same. More

Obama's golfing habit is jarringly out of place in this crappy economy. More

The three big lies of ObamaCare. More

Evidently, the liberal woman is capable of the most severe form of psychological denial known to humankind. More

A modest proposal to limit the corruption of Congress. More

The one Oedipal drama I keep seeing in real life is the left. They just keep doing it over and over again, as if they're compulsively playing Oedipus Rex. More

Obama is too cowardly to stand up to his political base even if that base is dragging the country down. More

The capital strike, and, thus, a stagnant economy, will likely continue until Obama's out of office. More

Most of us are in some way dependent upon the central government. It's only ignorance of our dependency that permits many to deny it. More

Whatever Obama's disposition of the War Powers Act concerning Libya, it is trivial stuff compared with Obama's undeclared War on America. More

It was inaccurate for Mitt Romney to imply that Obama is following European policies, for even Europe has realized that such policies lead only to destruction. More

The most striking feature of the campaign for immigration amnesty is the blatant plunge into identity politics by the movement's proponents. More

Right now, the gravest threat Medicare faces is the self-serving politician who champions complacency towards the issue with shameless demagoguery. More

Sex rears its ugly head so often in today's human drama that the citizenry is indifferent. More

It seems only yesterday that we saw our liberal masters, the educated gods, crossing their rainbow bridge into liberal Valhalla. More

How to bankrupt fishermen with shoddy science and guesswork. More

The handwriting is on the wall; will anyone pay attention? More

The Republican campaigns of 2006 and 2008 consisted of long litanies of dropping the ball when it comes to the Democrats' vulnerabilities. We need to make 2012 different. More

Half a year ago, US air strikes and a no-fly zone might have prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb. That window has now slammed shut. More

It is critical that contenders for the Republican nomination not lose sight of one simple fact. More

Many in Big Media now say that the jobless rate will be a key determinant of next year's election outcome. They're wrong. Obama's fate hinges on the price of oil. More

Our military footprint is shrinking because we are broke, and we must make hard choices about what is important to our nation's security. More

Coming in August, this year. More

Lying, like bravery, generosity, and prudence, is acquired by habit, which becomes part of our character, and character determines conduct. More

Lessons from the great inflation of the 1970s. More

Maybe a better question is who stole the Peace Dividend. More

Though hype and rhetoric surround the subject, little real understanding has seeped down into the public at large. Let's try to sort it out. More

It is being speculated in some circles that the undercapitalized Fed will force the broker-dealers into buying chunks of its massive portfolio, effectively taking it off their hands. More

Paul Ryan is the champion of young America. More

Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky. More

Taxes, too little? Too much? Is that even the question? More

Alas, the higher one climbs upon his own high horse, the more ignominious his fall from grace. More

There is no economic case for quantitative easing, nor has there ever been one. Quantitative easing is simply a political gimmick. More

What part of "the Paul Ryan Budget Proposal does not affect the Medicare of seniors 55 and older" do Democrats and the liberal media not understand? More

A problem arises when the first couple exercises a lifestyle that their policy edicts try to deny everyone else. More

I'm having a super cool time with my mom on her "One Nation" bus tour. More

Educated young people are fleeing Louisiana for better opportunities. More

Should the GOP really ignore the longer term in making its case? More

Combining willful blindness with feelings of moral superiority. More

Alarming survey data from a representative national sample of US mosques More

Tyranny does not always initially come like the wolf on the fold, red in tooth and claw. Sometimes it comes tip-toeing on velvet little feet, quietly, one soft step at a time. More

The battle being fought in America today goes beyond politics; right vs left. It is a spiritual battle; good vs. evil. More

Great political metaphors earn a long shelf life. More

Up to this point millennialism was a belief and a hope. No one ever aspired to or had the means of making the anticipated events come about. More

Ruled by a tribe comprising 7% of the population, supported by Iran, and experiencing four years of drought. More

The government of Germany in an astonishing about face has decided to phase out all nuclear energy by 2022, shuttering many plants (up to 17) this year. More

When liberal media, Democrats, and a privileged minority protect a lucrative gambling monopoly, expect to hear cries of "racism." More

Healing is a term that has been co-opted from the psychobabble crowd and misapplied by politicians to serious situations so often that it has lost any semblance of meaning. More

Medina Valley High School, in Castroville, TX, is to lose a long held, traditional graduation prayer. A single student who would be offended ended the tradition More

Shielding the Palestinian side from any critical scrutiny, even if this means butchering real history in the process. More

Our Jewish pain is ultimately incommunicable -- deeply and inextricably rooted in the confining space of each individual body. More

UN General Assembly Resolution 377, introduced by the United States in 1950, is a ticking time bomb More

Rewarding terror-friendly Al Jazeera while punishing American critics More

Middle-class family pets are following the stay-at-home mom to the museum and if you think about it, for similar reasons. More

How could it be otherwise with a President whose only interest in the free market lies in what he can extort from it? More

Kathleen Sebelius and Eric H. Holder say it is. The facts say otherwise. More

Is such a thing possible? More

Michele Bachmann is the only candidate in this race so far who truly contrasts with Obama in every way. More

Paul Ryan, whether he wants to be president or not, needs to declare his candidacy, the sooner, the better. More

A chain of department stores that sell American made products exclusively is planned. Can it succeed? More

President Obama has been touting the role of the federal government in education. Is a national curriculum coming? More

According to the Nobel laureate New York Times columnist, the right time to tackle the deficit apparently is...never. More

Recently, the rap-artist Common, whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, was invited by Michelle Obama to present his "poems" to an audience of students. More

David Mamet, America's foremost dramatist, turns conservative, and tells the world why. More

Futility is all that remains in the left's idea bag. The only thing that is unclear is whether Americans will recognize it. More

Since taking office, President Obama has adorned himself with a crown of czars. It's time for Congress to pry them loose. More

Intervention has become the hallmark of American foreign policy. More

Obama's "Change" agenda threatens our social fabric. Republicans need to demonstrate they've noticed. More

Students march in lockstep alongside freedom's worst enemies. More

Recently, we have been hearing talk about the economy, how it is improving. I wish that were the case. More

What exactly is Charles Krauthammer's beef with Governor Palin? More

Some recent stories instruct us anew on the cardinal tenets of Obamanomics, a.k.a, pay for play the Chicago way. More

Obama has not only failed to deliver in a general sense, but he has also completely betrayed his most loyal constituency -- the black community. More

How the left took over your TV. More

The Arabs' rejection of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is a key part of their stony negotiating stance. To appease them, Mr. Obama goes the extra mile. More

If we're going to have a conversation about race, we should include violent black mobs in the list of conversation topics. More

The media would have us believe President Obama is a genius, with brains to spare. Really? More

The bottom line: if enough people are exposed to the truth, they will ignore the experts and go with their hearts. More

The media is in a frenzy and elite pundits are all atwitter. Why? Because Sarah Palin refuses to let them define her. More

Two words explain all you need to know about our national economic debate. These words have the instant appeal of common sense. More

Major corporations, food retailers and self-insured businesses are slapping whopping deductibles onto their employee medical benefits packages More

Like so many core values of the left, sustainability can be made to mean whatever one wishes it to mean. More

The price for extending the debt limit should be structural More