A good friend of mine apologized to me today.  You see, he voted for Barack Hussein Obama in the 2008 election and he lives in a so-called swing state. More

George Will and Hugh Hewitt, despite the mounting evidence that almost no Democrat will enforce existing immigration laws, are still plugging amnesty for the latest wave of illegal aliens. More

I have been somewhat confused by the conservative ire rising as a result of leading conservative figures going to the border to assist church groups in delivering relief.  More

They look at pictures of Palestinians, who truly are suffering in this war, which Hamas and its terrorist army have perpetrated against Israel and our civilian population, and they "feel their pain" More

Trust stands alone in the glass menagerie of fragile personal and national virtues. Without trust, individual, commercial, and civic relationships are impossible.  More

The behavior of Le Chambon deserves to be remembered for its remarkable implementation of Christian ethical principles. More

Under proper accounting standards, the Export-Import Bank costs U.S. taxpayers an average of $200 million a year in losses. More

No president has ever dodged responsibility for his own failings as has Obama. The Lightworker has become the Blamethrower. More

The plan is simple: kick out hard working Asians, many of whom are below the poverty line, from the city's academically elite high schools, and replace them with blacks and Hispanics More

Mr. Obama’s appalling joke-telling immediately after comments on deeply-serious events has disconcerted almost everyone on the right and growing numbers in the liberal media and the left.  More

There's another Senate race in Tennessee that deserves some scrutiny. More

The lestist attack on Israeli "war crimes" is in large part smoke and mirrors. More

Conservatives should look back not with pining, grieving nostalgia but with gratitude and a quest for guidance. More

A new study on renewable energy by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment reeks of hypocrisy. More

It's time for Republicans to do what Democrats did forty years ago this month to Richard Nixon. More

For the first time in history, the U.S. is getting poorer. More

Serious nations need clear-thinking, mature, down-to-earth leaders. Somehow America and Russia have blundered into extremely risky leaders who can’t think straight. More

How do you begin to persuade a rank-and-file American that business is their friend and government is their enemy? More

I’ve been in the Israel Defense Forces for forty years, and I’ve never seen morale so high, and never seen the country so united More

The Daily Kos stumbles over its own two feet regarding climate change. More

In the big game of musical chairs that the world is playing in terms of population growth and food production, not everyone is going to get a seat when the music stops. More

Hamas may finally have provoked a biblical (that is, Old-Testament) response from Israel. More

Ten commandments are not enough for Elizabeth Warren. More

This nation’s charitable impulses have already been exploited to the limit, and the ultimate effect of Beck’s actions will be to encourage the growth of a multicultural secular welfare state. More

Put the Speaker's domestic actions aside for a moment, and you'll find a thrilling, rousing and prescient speech on neo-Soviet Russia. More

If there ever was a time for the U.S. to recognize an officially independent Kurdistan, it is now. More

No matter what one thinks of the Halbig decision, the critics’ overheated rhetoric is inappropriate and unjustifiable. More

The mainstream media's skewed reporting encourages the terrorist group while giving it a veneer of political legitimacy. More

The murder of three young men set in motion something that may have saved Israel unthinkable disaster. More

Contrary to Nancy Pelosi’s creative biblical exegesis, Moses was not a refugee, nor was he saved by a band of compassionate liberals More

Here is a story about an extinct breed of canine I like to call the American dog. More

It was decisions made in Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London between July 24 and July 31 that made a world war inevitable.  More

While atheists are still in the minority, they’ve been able to join with other people who harbor doubts about faith and build up a critical mass that appears larger than it actuality might be. More

Evidence of Hamas’s crimes in the Gaza Strip has been visible for a decade to anyone not blinded by an obsessive commitment to an anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic outlook. More

As Israel is defending its sovereignty with Operation Protective Edge, many in the media, in the Obama administration, and throughout the world are once again criticizing the Jewish State. More

Anti-Semitism is the oldest disease known to mankind and while it always starts with the Jew, the hatred eventually spreads its tentacles to others. More

Israeli leaders hope that recent victories will lead to a change in the Gaza government, a demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, and a restoration of lives and homes to Gaza residences. More

For a party that professes to hate war, Democrats consistently use it as metaphor in framing their issues. More

Which famous general will Rick Perry imitate here – hard-charging Patton or dithering McClellan? More

It seems a shame to waste more money on peacemakers who cannot seem to make any peace. More

How far do we bend before we break; and when we defend our hearth and home, how long can we proceed down that avenue of justice and retribution before we are deemed monsters? More

Complexity is why ObamaCare, the Federal Register, and the federal income tax code are all so damned ugly. More

Without rewards, fewer students develop the drive or grit needed to achieve high levels of skill.  But this is not the stuff of "self-esteem"; it's more concrete than that. More

Two English authors indulge in the postmodern mania of reinventing everything when all that is really needed is a return to roots. More

Conservatives ought not to be overwhelmed by what happens today in our world.  Others have fought these fights before we started – and we should take heart in that. More

Collecting solar energy will never play more than a minor and very expensive role in supplying grid power.  Here's why. More

An encyclopedia would be required to list all the examples of executive and governmental agency overreach. More

When it comes to vital matters of literal life and death, the ongoing progressive evolution is proving not just frightening but deadly. More

The situation in the Mideast is not at all what most commentators take it to be -- but it is generally encouraging for Israel. More

As regards the climate change debate, the right is placing itself in an inferior intellectual position to those on the left. More

How many millennials realize they are the lost generation, Barack Obama’s political cannon fodder, used-up in the battle to fundamentally change America? More

Frank Gehry’s proposed memorial is unbecoming of Eisenhower’s legacy. More

Imagine if Afghanistan weren’t in Afghanistan. Imagine if it was on your front porch. More

The term "refugee" has a specific definition.  It does not apply to the sometimes 24-year-old, sometimes accompanied "unaccompanied minors" at our southern border. More

No compunction about expelling a child back to horrible conditions in the case of Elian Gonzales. More

Is there hope for intelligent diversity in the climate-change debate? More

Are American businesses supposed to lie down and play dead while the Obama administration strips them of their profits, places them at a disadvantage to foreign competitors, and drives them into bankruptcy? More

Fifty years ago this month, the battle between leftism and conservatism changed forever. More

Following two contradictory court decisions, is it possible to save ObamaCare? More

Obama has been President for 5½ years. He might just be responsible for something by now. More

What would Fluke see in a Rorschach test? More

Which of the three branches of our federal government started the wholesale corruption of our Constitution? More

Our current education system is like taking novice skiers up on the black-diamond slopes...which would make perfect sense if you were trying to kill kids. More

Traditional America is being diluted, deliberately, in two ways More

This year’s conference of Christians United for Israel brought thousands to the nation’s capital. More

In 2006, facing off against Hizb’allah, Israel blinked and let Hizb’allah off the hook. Is the same thing happening in Gaza? More

Some truths CNN reveals only accidentally. More

When Obama finally goes on permanent golfing vacation we Americans know we'll have to endure a period of wrenching change to get the economy moving again and the society back together again. More

8,000 waving, singing, chanting, patriotic masses rally for Israel. More

Like Woodrow Wilson concerning Mexico, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being skewered for invading Gaza to quell the unrelenting terror his citizens have faced. More

A porous border is a threat to the residents of Arizona and America’s national security. More

Why are conservatives making the speaker's job so much harder when he needs us most? More

The Progressive mantra of “diversity über alles” is one of the most honored shibboleths of the left.  But what does it really mean? More

The Obama administration, in essence, has become a party to the deliberate trafficking of children for profit and shows no sign of ending the practice More

High-profile conservatives think they will keep raking in the votes and money while playing both sides. More

Everyone, absolutely everyone, understands that the only way that Netanyahu can fulfill his promise to silence Hamas is by reconquering Gaza. More

The story of A.B., an IT professional who had sought one of the "safe" jobs in our troubled economy. More

The billionaire trio of Henry Paulson, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer have been bamboozled by global warming profiteers. More

The argument about whether the regime of Vladimir Putin is evil and whether the people of Russia are complicit in that evil ended decisively on July 17, 2014 More

Good people generally find their way from the left to the right. It's almost never the other way around. More

There must be some virus rapidly spreading across the globe that paralyzes brain cells creating a world gone mad. More

ADL camp’s youth coordinators are supporters of a convicted Al Qaeda terrorist More

What makes Man different from the animals is that he has free will. More

Nine months have passed with the position of U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for religious freedom remaining empty.   More

At The American Conservative, Elizabeth Stoker Bruening believes she has an answer for conservatives looking to stop the flow in America of purposeful infant death. More

Unnatural deism is godlessness in which the needs and wants of the body, mediated by the brain, are elevated to pre-eminent, quasi-divine status. More

The Left is again revealed buck-naked anti-Semitic, and Arabs finally admit their Big Lie. More

There is a serious problem with demanding that your congregation tithe...even when members are risking foreclosure. More

A film that gets to the heart of the progressive/communist project for America with images that address the subconscious as well as the conscious mind. Political philosophy has never been handled quite this way. More

We Americans used to understand what duty required of us. In the age of Beau Bergdahl and Barack Obama, is that still the case? More

Lewis has chosen a side in the immigration fight, and it is not the side of underemployed and unemployed black men. More

Nineteen-year-old Colorado girl, Shannon Conley, meets thirty-two year old Tunisian terrorist online. He asks her to marry him. She enthusiastically accepts More

As Americans, we are now living thorough a consequential moment. Like it or not, we are witness to accelerating executive abuse. More

It's too early to get excited about the repeal of one carbon tax down under, as others are likely to replace it.   More

The Arab spirit, though ephemerally possessing a culture brocaded with the relics of an ancient learned heritage, is weighed down by the anchor of a relentless fatalism. More

It is no surprise that the left in America would stoop to using children as pawns in their never-ending quest for political supremacy. More

A charge of anti-Semitism that misses the mark. More

If you were a member of an elitist group trying to get complete control of a logical and stiff-necked people, what would you have to accomplish first? More

A temporary reprieve for Israel and others in the West. More

Apparently, fact-checking stories is no longer a basic requirement for science journalism. More

It is disturbing to see that U.S. history textbooks often distance themselves from open praise and delight at the system of government our country enjoys. More

In spite of the rhetoric and actions of Hamas, many in the “international community” persist in a stance of moral equivalence holding Israel and Hamas equally to blame for the fighting. More

No civilized nation should be expected to endure attempts to murder its civilians, especially on a sustained basis. More

A total of 42 bodies have been found this year alone in desert fields and ranches around Texas. More

No document in modern American political history was kept as completely as the Contract With America.  It's about time we saw another one. More

Sitting in my office almost forty floors above ground last week, I was astounded to hear chants of “Free free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” More

The prime minister of Turkey is undoubtedly a hard core Islamist, and a firm supporter of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. He is also one of Barack Obama's 'best friends'. More

Many of the loudest voices on the left care more about winning political points and demonizing conservative and religious Americans than they do about women’s healthcare. More

Palestinian deaths do the Hamas cause a lot of good in the West. That's one of the reasons why Hamas doesn't provide bomb shelters for its people. More

Serious online overkill involving attacks against a young female hunter. More

Republicans should stop blaming Obama for things such as ObamaCare and immigration, and start blaming the Democratic Party. More

It is easy to see how La Raza is successfully implementing its final goal of "reconquest" of the Western U.S. More

Many people know about John Dewey's disastrous effect on education.  But Dewey was just the face of a systemic animus in his time against kids knowing much of anything. More

In defiance of the "climate change" cultists, the Texas drought has substantially improved. More

'Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.' More

During the last two decades liberals have created a secular, politically-correct equivalent of sharia in America. More

Novodvorskaya was three years old when Stalin expired, and she spent her entire life struggling to save her country from the cataclysmic course onto which Stalin had placed it. More

The unintended consequences of liberals’ open border policies will be made deathly clear. More

What happened to that guy who was so concerned about pandemics and preventing the healthcare industry from being unnecessarily overwhelmed with deathly ill people?   More

Dr. Carson discusses his new book, One Nation, and the steps the country needs to take to pull out of its tailspin. More

The shock and stress Germany experienced on learning that some of its information had been divulged to American intelligence agents have a theatrical air. More

The problem is the American people. We want stuff, and if we can't get it from voluntary cooperation we clamor for the government to provide it. More

It is the nature of government at any level to expand its power unless constrained by law, and that’s been the case with zoning and land use officials. More

Central American kids made the journey north, but now it is the American people who are being taken for a ride. More

It's time to name names. More

Wherever that red line of impeachment is drawn, certainly Obama – with his pen, phone, and pencil – must be drawing nearer to it by the day. More

If impeachment fails, then it is quite likely to be incredibly damaging and embarrassing to the Republican Party and the conservative movement. More

The use of human shields is a barbaric win-win for the terrorists sending a constant stream of rockets into Israel. More

Avoiding frankness on racial matters simply guarantees that the underclass will remain mired in poverty and maladaptive behavior. More

Hobby Lobby may appear to be a victory for liberty, but it presents a real risk of the Supreme Court sanctifying ObamaCare. More

If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Obama exceeded his authority, then his directives and regulations are null and void. A court decision would be automatically self-enforcing. More

Though the news of the world seems grim, there are small rays of intelligence starting to beam through the dopiness. More

Bill O’Reilly almost nightly calls for the militarization of our southern border, but he never has any guests to explain how this could be done.  Here's how. More

An unlikely European head of state is claiming solidarity with Israel in the wake of the latest rocket attacks from Gaza. More

Chinese Leaders want to reap the benefits of cyber-spying, but they will end up depressed. More

Once upon a time, religious liberty was a non-negotiable central tenet to this republic. More

Western media and politicians try to play word games with the true nature of Islam, an ideology basedon the premise sabil allah fi-al-seyf -- the path of Allah is by the sword. More

One to see, one to avoid. More

Voter ID laws are a great way to get leftists to unintentionally disparage minorities.  But whom do they wind up praising in the process? More

Happy laughter now seems to be the official White House reaction to domestic and international chaos and human suffering. More

The American government is supporting Shia in Iraq; though it's fighting them in Syria. And it's supporting Sunnis in Syria; while fighting them in Iraq. More

Plus a lesson in how governing like a liberal affects a so-called conservative's approval ratings. More

Much of Israel’s problem in dealing with the Palestinians is that the Palestinians Arabs operate on tribal imperatives, while the Israelis try to address them in terms acceptable to modern Western sensibilities. More

And it's not just some political-science thought experiment. More

What most Americans do not grasp is that soccer is serious life and death to most of the planet. America wages war.  The rest of the world wages soccer. More

Mein Kampf's copyright is set to expire.  Should its republication be opposed? More

The president is completely satisfied with the course of events on the border, because what appears to be anarchy and disaster to some is a hard-won accomplishment for him. More

Until we truly understand that Obama's lawlessness will lead to the complete dismantling of our rights, we will not be able to keep our liberties from being ravaged.   More

One horribly conducted study out of Australia says yes. More

Have we not seen this administration hell bent on supporting radical interests wherever they are found, be they in the Middle East or here at home in America? More

If and when House Speaker John Boehner sues the President, John Roberts and his colleagues on the Supreme Court will confront a challenge that has bedeviled the judiciary for more than 200 years.  More

We have lost sight of the lodestar of the Founders' vision behind the dirty smoke of bogus and toxic social "causes." More

Homofascism feeds on silence: the less you confront it, the more it hunts you down and strikes at you.  It's past time to speak out. More

To be repeated early and often, for the sake of our country's future. More

If thousands to hundreds of thousands of “Barry-cade”-busting veterans, flag-waving bikers, and anti-abortion marchers fall on our nation’s capital, and the press isn’t there to cover it, do they make a sound? More

The Arabs, the international media, and Western governments speak as one to blame the victim. More

There is only one way for any Palestinian vision of peace to be realized: by sitting down to negotiate in good faith the complex, divisive issues. More

In the United States, the bottom line is that no one knows how many child and adult victims of human trafficking are here. More

Enemies both foreign and domestic are desperate to thwart America's ascension to energy independence. More

After five and a half years of Obama, evil is flourishing as the world’s barbarians recognize an America with no resolve to defeat them. More

A Democratic congresswoman's New York pow-wow yields some odd adjectives for Hillary Clinton, among other things. More

We need a nimbler, more responsive federal government, especially during dangerous times. More

The many calls for intervention in Syria are partly a consequence of the fact that Sunni Muslims in the West are better lobbyists than, say, Sudanese/Nigerian Christians or the Thai Buddhist victims of the jihadists. More

Three reasons are usually given by those who hold otherwise. More

There are Core countries, and there are poor countries, and never the twain shall meet. More

American taxpayers subsidize an overweight demographic and then ultimately pay for the predictable health consequences of obesity.  Free lunch and free health care are package deals sustained by social fictions. More

One can think of few better ways than incessant repetition to brainwash and indoctrinate young and impressionable minds. More

Propaganda, intimidation, and marginalizing rhetoric are the normal progressive steps towards the elimination of an undesirable minority More

Speaker of the House John Boehner has announced that he will bring a resolution up for a vote to authorize a lawsuit by the U.S. House challenging recent presidential actions. More

Can nations afford their Kaiser Bills? Germany certainly couldn't. And today ordinary Americans can't afford Barack Obama. More

The Obama administration seems to think so...and is trying to act on this conviction. More

It’s hard to deny that events that portray unequal rights for LGBT, such as denying gay “spouses” social security benefits, serve a personal interest. More

Extremists in the Pakistani province of Balochistan are saying "no" to education – especially for girls. More

Conventional journalism capitulated to Putin long ago. But the Internet was supposed to be impervious to such attacks. More

An incident that killed 230 people, and no one seems to want to get to the bottom of it. More

But there's something in particular about this "mother" that the mainstream media refuses to report.  Can you guess what it is? More

Anthony Cumia becomes yet another victim of racist double standards. More

No one is likely to confuse Obama with Napoleon Bonaparte. That said, a number of Obama’s statements on the use of unilateral power are cause for concern. More

Kanye West (and Mike Myers, and Eva Longoria, and...), call your office. More

Years of relentless doomsday prognostications by a variety of public voices spanning the political-scientific spectrum have found their mark in a gullible and guilt-prone public.  More

"While the Constitution, the economy and our national security crash and burn all around Obama’s stage -- the teleprompter continues to scroll, the show goes on, and the media complex applauds. More

When votes are in public on the floor of the Congress, Democrats pay lip service to religious freedom, hoping the faceless bureaucrats will achieve their goal of forcing citizens to forego their religious scruples and bend to the will of the state. More

Without a recognition and acceptance of natural order, things become disorienting to the point of meaningless. More

This faith in the power of logic and lack of imagination as regards human motivation is something not uncommon among intellectuals of all stripes. Russell Kirk showed that libertarians are not immune. More

Why the “Take-down” of Diana West by historian Ron Radosh? More

Doomsday rhetoric is now being employed by feminists to describe their sorry lot after the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision. More

Even if Obama-friendly Sunni fighters are indeed moderate, that just means moderate-when-compared-to-the-jihadists. More

For the first time in the nation’s history, America is witnessing a government forcing its policies on the church. More

In this age of the individual-as-the-center-of-all-things, positive self image as the ultimate end of education, Original Sin seems to be a quaint throw back to an earlier and unsophisticated time. More

If Obama is different from other presidents, it’s not for the color of his skin.  No: Obama will be historic for his fanatical leftism, which has no precedent in American history. More

The sole purpose of a doctrine of “political correctness” is to upend reality itself by delegitimizing facts, pragmatism, and science in favor of promoting a constructed morality More

If just a few judges could find the fortitude and intellectual honesty within themselves to stand against the tide by putting aside emotion and fear, we might see this same sex marriage tidal wave dissipate overnight. More

The bitter dispute between Diana West and Ron Radosh at war. More

Getting a first job is very important to an individual’s skill development. The unskilled acquire skills by on-the-job training, observation and experience. More

In yet another epoch of danger to the West, it is well to honor the memory of three brave fighters against the Nazis who sought to impose their ideology on the rest of the world. More

President Barack Obama thinks terror is "senseless," but the terrorists disagree.  More

What is the best way to get those elusive communiqués? More

The remedy preceded the ailment More

Inside the bitterest conservative intellectual dispute of recent memory, splitting the movement into camps supporting Diana West and Ron Radosh More

These rulings curb the government from assuming a role in the lives of people which it should never be allowed to have. That is, the government deciding what is best for the individual. More

The Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region has 500 million Arabs, Persians, North Africans and others living in an area with an agricultural system that can support half that number.  More

A culture of hatred and of deification of death has been going on for a generation, has metastasized like a virulent cancer and has taken root deep within the Palestinian body politic. More

A half a dozen American writers discuss July 4th and the patriotic spirit More

Barack Obama's devotion to death does not end (or even begin) with abortion. More

The more we look into the climate science of Bloomberg and colleagues, the more problems we seem to find. More

A doctor or hospital has the obligation to treat all patients the same, but a government computer hasn’t taken the same oath. More

The situation in Iraq is making for some strange bedfellows. More

In order to satisfy the libidos of liberals and deceive as many as possible, the leftist talking-heads play games with words. More

Who doesn’t believe that some of the unaccompanied alien children flooding across our border are victims of human trafficking? More

The rejection of true religious liberty by the four liberal justices is the latest indication of the tyrannical roots of modern liberalism. More

Life in modern America does not get more cruelly perverse than this More

I'm talking to you, all you liberal women everywhere, in the media, in government, and those just babbling everywhere on social media waging war on women. More

Is same-sex parenting just like grandparents raising their orphaned grandchildren?  The nations of the world say no.  On second thought, try “Hell no.” More

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has committed crimes against humanity, up to and including genocide.  He needs to leave power willingly, or he will be dragged out. More

In the end, the IDF couldn’t find the boys before Hamas decided it had better cut its losses, toss the bodies and abandon the effort.     More

Austria has been slow to act and lacking in generosity in compensating the Jewish former owners of property. More

As with the National Climate Assessment, there appears to be a major disconnect between predictions of extreme heat catastrophe in the Risky Business report and the actual climate trends. More

Here we are, we awful problematical conservatives. It would be all quiet on the Western front if it weren't for us. More

Where Nancy gets tangled up is when it comes to the Democrats’ favorite prop: the children. More

The Obama Administration appears to be turning America into a giant refugee camp. More

Defying the letter of the law is courage when done in a liberal cause but lawlessness when done against them. More

So here is the situation: ever growing Islamic violence around the world; ever growing numbers of British Muslims being radicalised at ever increasingly radical British mosques. More

A track record of success in the arena of measles vaccination programs would involve a reduction in the overall mortality and complications rates when compared to the counter-factual world of not having vaccination programs. More

It is unfortunate that the American foreign policy makers and media analysts have no knowledge of the history and culture of non-Western countries. More