History abounds with cases of bright people who have been zealously committed to wrong ideas they were expert in putting into action. More

It seems to have gotten to the point that exonerating Islam is the primary concern of U.S. foreign and defense policy with regard to terrorist activity from ISIS to Fort Hood to Boko Haram. More

Shocking extremist rhetoric from professors at some of the nation's most prestigious campuses. More

It is not surprising that a youngster like Elliot Rodger lost his mind; it is surprising that young people in general are able to carry on so bravely in a world gone mad. More

The “international community” has failed to protect the Syrian population and has done little to prevent the alarming number of atrocities committed by Arab parties. More

America is in a generational struggle against the sick, pathological and extreme ideology of Islam, and America must show no mercy for the merciless Islamic State More

Parallels between the United States and ancient Rome reveal the perilous state of our nation's masculine virtues. More

The lesson that The Nun’s Story is this: it compels us to address the human dilemma of knowing ourselves, and how we must all balance on the razor’s edge of self-affirmation and duty. More

ISIS looks like a movement backed by unknown but radical sources, somehow able to command the capability of a regular army, the logistics, planning, recon, real-time command and control, and adanced weapons. More

The postmodern refusal to define Islam according to objective criteria does not withstand analysis. More

The ISIS are not the only group that practices beheading. More

To a rogue “government” of terrorists that ruthlessly uses its people as human shields, death and destruction is water off a duck’s back. More

Voters are going to attach the word "Nixonian" to Obama's administration more and more the closer 2016 gets.  One particular scandal makes this certain. More

How long will the NSA fiasco continue to ripple across business sectors? More

Just as Nancy Pelosi said about ObamaCare, we had to pass the Common Core standards to find out what was in them. More

The record is clear that U.S. foreign policy collapsed on Clinton’s watch and the world is a far more dangerous and far less free place as a result. More

The messages that the Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Czechs, Poles, and the rest of Russia's neighbors are sending to their self-appointed Big Brother are clear More

Within the past few days, two events neatly capture the bloodthirsty Russian bear in action.  More

Rove and the GOP elite need to put down their pizzas and get out of the focus-group lab and into the real world a little bit. More

The United States used to have a commodity-backed currency. It could again, this time backed by oil. More

Duke University is building a circle of academics whose suspect scholarship and lack of objectivity make them apologists for Islam’s unsavory aspects. More

"Sometimes you actually have to make an arrangement with some nasty people in order to get rid of some even nastier ones". More

President Obama’s wishful, wistful foreign policy has been based on a blurred and blinkered vision of foreign policy from the start. More

The idea is magic, in that it’s transformative and incredibly illustrative – and fanciful in that it’s never going to happen. More

Some of the biggest, most prominent Israel supporters who are also Jewish have remained silent – specifically Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Barbra Streisand. More

The triumph of abstinence education should be encouraging to pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-family activists, scholars, and legislators. More

Islamic terrorism won't be defeated only by the inherently superior ideas of democracy and liberty. More

The intellectual playbook about race relations in America, the theory intellectuals embrace, is and has been for a long time the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. More

Even countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar seem to be catching on to the fact that ISIS is a global threat. More

Making excuses for Islam seems to have become a norm after the Muslim/Arab attack against New York City in 2001. More

The bullet flying over any Black boy's head is more likely to be fired from a firearm brandished by another Black person than by a cop. More

This is not a matter of ending Bush's war, though that's how Barack Obama sees it.  Rather, it is a golden opportunity. More

If we are to counter the Left's poisons, we must first win the battle of hearts and minds by showing that ours is the better road to achieving temporal happiness. More

Trusting the mainstream media on the complex and regrettably fashionable subject of homosexual marriage and its corollary, adoption, is not a good idea. More

Presuming that Islam‘s faithful warriors and shamans will give up their supremacist mindset by stroking their egos and stifling all criticism of their holy book is a dangerous delusion. More

If the police are facing criminal gangs or self-styled revolutionaries, they may well be facing adversaries with weapons more powerful as what they are carrying. More

The greatest dilemma of the age of Obama is whether to describe our government as dumb and inefficient or evil. More

Ultimately, Obama fears the unpopular course of action because he lacks the courage to confront the world as it is. More

Blacks must finally disband the millennial movement that got them to the Promised Land. More

“Sustainability” is a universal  societal solvent, infinitely elastic and open-ended in its ability to justify most any action taken in the name of social and environmental justice. More

Never in our history has a president enunciated such a nonsensical foreign policy. More

Black Liberal narratives support the ongoing meme that all of black America’s problems stem from white America. More

Hamas and ISIS are similar entities, Islamist extremist groups springing from the guidance of the Muslim Brotherhood. More

We are living in days of infamy. More

If this state of affairs is allowed to continue, we may well be the ones defeated. More

The Council on American-Islamic Relations' actions self-identify it as an enemy of the Constitution's Bill of Rights, and a friend of Islamist terrorism. More

The news media, entertainment, academic, and government nerves centers of the nation pulse with deception designed to nudge the public into agreement with self-evident falsehoods More

How many more times must Republicans lose to a leftist Democrat thanks to a third-party spoiler? More

In the name of “free trade,” we have lost millions of middle-class manufacturing jobs.  Our economy is dying, and for many of us, our standard of living is in free-fall. More

ObamaCare is just the latest in a troubling trend among the American people of greed, laziness, and ignorance. More

The Foley execution may turn out to be just as convoluted, perplexing, and damaging as Benghazi. More

The reason Israel is losing the propaganda war – except in America, Canada, and Australia – is because the world does not deal with the root of the problem, and Israel answers with legal arguments that are weak responses to valid observations. More

Those who argue against the U.S relationship with Israel only calculate the costs in terms of foreign aid, but don’t count the benefits. More

From the Big Bang to a fictive future set on another planet in A.D. 2094. More

Seventy years ago tomorrow, on August 25 (D-Day+80), Paris was liberated by the American 4th Infantry Division. More

Assurances that Ebola can be transmitted only through direct contact with bodily fluids need to be closely scrutinized in the wake of the West Africa outbreak. More

As a result of the videotaped brutal beheading of the American journalist James Foley by the terrorist group ISIS or ISIL, the political leaders of the Western world are beginning to see the light through the glass, if darkly. More

The Left-Islamist axis must be defeated, and the best way to do that is to tell the truth – with images of reality to break through the walls of mental denial. More

One long train of deceptions, crooked dealings, and manipulation in order to achieve Obama's political transformative goal of hurting America. More

Matt Lewis attempts to play the moral superiority card as regards illegal immigration. More

Missouri governor Jay Nixon ignominiously fumbles his response to the Ferguson riots. More

Baseball gives a more honest picture of race in America than media. More

Radio and TV interviewers keep asking me this question. More

When conservatives and libertarians start sounding like the race hustlers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd while commenting on incidents like the Ferguson shooting, America is in trouble.  More

Clinton, Inc. is a fascinating insight into how they were able to come back from the scandal ridden last years of the White House to becoming the political darlings of America. More

It’s meant to be a lesson for Ferguson and America, make no mistake.  Just not the one you might think.  More

American communists have a long history of exploiting racial incidents. We can expect the same at Ferguson. More

Instead of asking what causes crime, the better question is what is the root cause of poverty? More

The VHA scandal shines a light on what by now we should have fully realized -- government is almost never the solution; it is the problem. More

The brutal execution of American journalist James Wright Foley spurs Obama to go golfing. More

Religion cannot simply be about the next world. It has to care about living life in this world as well. More

The federal government is being forced to move forward in revealing a scandal that Americans readily understand, involving an agency Americans fear and despise. More

Led by their media, liberals once again rushed in where wise men fear to tread. More

Black thug culture, murder under the Golden Arches, and a $27 million negligence verdict More

I was once a military police officer.  It's amazing how the definition of "unarmed" changes when perps are very interested in not being detained. More

It’s by no means clear that the nation's chief law enforcement officer has always articulated his views in ways that are lawful. More

It should be easy for the Obama administration to organize a concerted effort to block Russian aggression in Ukraine, yet once again the American president has shown himself unable to carry out his basic duties. More

An ironic twist of fate.  More

If anything approaches “taxation without representation” in contemporary American government, it is property taxation. More

Obama’s childhood set the stage More

As we have seen time and time again, muddy but lofty sounding words like "Justice" and "Peace" are quickly and easily hijacked. More

Events in Ferguson puts on display a fundamental divide on the very meaning of “justice” that is unlikely to vanish.      More

ISIS is not only in Northern Iraq and the Middle East. It is a living, breathing monster, lurking in our Western cities, watching and waiting. More

From a British ambassador to the New York Times, too many in high places are meeting the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist actors with acquiescence instead of defiance. More

It’s going to take time for the old order of strongmen and the sword to give way to a new order of political pluralism and economic freedom. More

Requiring physicians to obtain admitting privileges for outpatient surgery such as abortion is a non-onerous practice that can save lives. More

I'm amazed at how openly racist black Liberals have become, and how few non-blacks are willing to call them out on it. More

that it is all rooted in lies, political correctness and a racist low expectation of black Americans. More

I admit to being a bit cranky.  More

Barack Obama is neither an indiscriminate tear-shedder nor is he an equal-opportunity funeral-attender. More

What will come after the nation state? Perhaps the liberals will fold it into their supranational utopia, or perhaps it will collapse in a war of the identities. More

The cold hard truth is that kids who are not involved in crime or counterproductive behavior rarely ever end up shot by juvenile delinquents, police officers, or average citizens. More

There is a time in a nation’s history when a decision of immense and fundamental importance must be made.  That decision now confronts embattled Israel. More

Neglect of the Article V convention procedure has caused incalculable damage to the constitutional system. More

Caution should be taken when politicians endeavor to transform America by legislating to the lowest common denominator. More

As in the 40s and 50s with communism, and the 60s and 70s with the New Left, liberals are rushing to excuse Jihadi terrorists. More

If Erickson thinks he is going to effect a change in law enforcement tactics by conjuring generalized empathy, he’s mistaken. More

Peaceful protest against and rational criticism of anti-Israel behavior and of anti-Semitism, subtle or more open, does have an impact. More

What could be a better tale upon which to hang a story painting Israel as a nation of murdering racists than the one told on Friday’s New York Times? More

The current state of the subcontinental nations would both astonish and dismay their founders. More

In the Middle East, Hamas and ISIS share much with the rioters in Missouri. More

Even if they are precipitated by the decisions of individuals, great events do have great causes, More

What we need are communities full of faithful families led by fathers and mothers who want to work hard, raise children, attend church, and pass on their biblical values to the next generation, and the next, and so on. More

Every Podunk community having units that make the original Los Angeles SWAT teams look like cub scouts is not about protect and serve. It’s about raw government power. More

A local New England business is showing how the axiom "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" works out in practice. More

Israel has to once and for all crush Hamas. It may cost hundreds of Jewish lives now, but will save tens of thousands later on. More

To call the ideas explored here superficial is to award it a prize of depth. It is approaching not absolute zero, but absolute tosh. More

It is a pity that when Obama arrived on Martha’s Vineyard the water temperature wasn’t to his liking. More

Obama's Mideast isn’t just right. It’s mostly wrong. More

The College Board will be directing the teachers of America to instruct your children and mine that the USA is the land of the imperialist and the home of the racist. More

Has anyone on the national scene proposed a coherent and detailed policy on what exactly the U.S. should or should not do when terrorists such as ISIS are acting with such unparalleled savagery? More

With a collapsing housing sector and falling exports, China now faces a brutal credit crunch. More

The ministers of the EU have once again reiterated their readiness to continue sitting on the fence. More

"Watergate" is so synonymous with political malfeasance that variations like Monica-gate and Weiner-gate are among dozens of others permeating our modern American cultural landscape. More

Very few individuals who were not politicians or generals have had a major impact on American political history.  Phyllis Schlafly is one of the exceptions.  More

From one report to the next, IPCC keeps changing the evidence it relies on to support its claims of AGW. More

Some Americans are moving in the direction of legalized same-sex marriage. It so happens that they are all known by a single word -- judges. More

There are better ways to fight the law, if you really think you have to.  Ways that won't get someone killed. More

That's what two Princeton researches say when it comes to the economy. More

It is easy to understand the past and present unwillingness of American leaders to be drawn into military activity not directly related to self-defense of American territory. More

The real power to determine U.S. interest rates -- and the economic fate of much of the world -- may be in the hands of China. More

The salvation and protection of innocents is once again being seen as just cause for armed conflict. More

Sometimes, in foreign policy, it is possible to simultaneously do the right thing and the smart thing.  Helping bring Kurdistan into this world does both. More

Why is there at least as much controversy and outright anger today as there was prior to March 23, 2010? More

Many Westerners, in particular Americans, appear to have difficulty understanding and internalizing the differences between Western society and others. More

There is no moral equivalence between the objective of the terrorist group Hamas to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible and the response of Israel to stop the flow of thousands of rockets directed against it. More

New England's Market Basket conflict is a perfect example of the family business model gone wrong. More

Well, it’s certainly not surprising to anyone who has followed her career. More

The more Obama meddles, the less influence we end up with. No sane regime trusts the United States anymore, simply because we have betrayed them. More

Politically active liberal Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is now blocking Republican candidates from his social media website Facebook in the GOP’s bid to retake control of the U.S. Senate in November.  More

Israel has thrown itself again into the breach, a solitary beacon of courage beset by a nest of vipers. More

The legacy media overlooks blatant anti-Semitism at a Chicago anti-Israel rally. More

The final outcome of the Bergdahl case will not please those who  think Bergdahl is a hero, or many veterans and other Americans, who see Bergdahl as a deserter and traitor. More

The president and his minions need a quick course in the modern history of the Middle East. More

Barack Obama is a pyromaniac. Other Democrats are arsonists. It is time to build a firewall and shut them down. More

All I want in 2016 is a Republican presidential nominee with the courage and the moxie to say “I will defend ordinary Americans against the moral bullies.” And then do it. Again and again. More

IRS continues to stonewall; Americans cannot get straight answers from their government leaders, but, to be sure, illegals and terrorists are riding high in Barack Hussein Obama's America.  More

Assault and Flattery exposes the real war on women. More

Children today are much more comfortable using information technology than are those of previous generations.  This has huge implications for education – if the teachers' unions will get out of the way. More

Before we get heavily involved in a losing battle in the Middle East, the U.S. should consider its options wisely.  We should not let emotional pleas overrule reason. More

It's easy to demonize insurance in our day and age.  But what most people demonize (ObamaCare, Social Security, etc.) is not actually insurance. More

Severe warning: this article contains extremely graphic and disturbing images.  They tell the story, but they are not for children or those who are upset easily by violence. More

See if you can solve this puzzle.  And then ask yourself if our president could. More

Although he accuses others of being maximalist saboteurs, there is no one who holds more “extreme views,” or is less “prepared to compromise” than Barack Obama. More

The dream of replacing coal with renewables is little more than a wish-fulfillment fantasy. More

The escalating anti-Semitic attacks throughout Europe could be typified by a particularly bizarre development at a theater in London. More

John Kerry doesn’t actually need to do anything famous or great. He’s already mastered the perfect pose. More

Incompetent Republican rhetoric has enabled the Democrats to rewrite the history of the Iraq War. More

The left, which viewed everything that happened  in Iraq while Bush was president as an unspeakably shocking outrage, has been quite still on the Lord of the Flies atmosphere occasioned by our premature withdrawal from there. More

Some seem to be worried that Latvia is ripe for a Ukrainian-style Russian intervention. More

 Looking back in retrospect, the faithful should be comforted with the mournful bittersweet realization that the murder of three young men might well have short-circuited Armageddon. More

Is "workplace discrimination" a national crisis?  Or is there something more important we should be focusing on? More

The First World War has been called a futile war, one marked by military ineptitude and diplomatic failures in which 10 million lives were sacrificed for no gain. But what if it was no such thing? More

The truth about Hamas sometimes emerges from the hidden tunnels in which the terrorist group has concealed it. More

Amazing superpowers, both in a woman and in the weather. More

Anti-Israel voices are exploiting and in a perverse way celebrating human suffering in Gaza, because publicly bemoaning that suffering gives them the opportunity to play at being humanitarian while not actually doing anything. More

With the new radical APUSH framework, colleges (in addition to hundreds already doing this) might decide that the SAT is no longer a relevant predictor of a student’s college success. More

Demographic warfare: if the people won’t change the government to your liking, you change the people. More

Making an entire group of people into "the enemy" has a sordid pedigree. More

With transgenderism, the incoherent war of the sexes is finally reaching an apogee. More

Conservatives ought to create a clear agenda to capitalize on America's broad and deep popular disgust with Washington politics. More

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Latin Culture is based on the Reconquista; the war against Islam. Why on earth would they support Islamist Hamas? More

It is ironic that someone as so publicity-obsessed as Coulter would have the gall to say what she said about missionaries. More

Israel once again turns its back on a clear victory. More

The Big Lie behind "47 million uninsured Americans." More

The ironies of ObamaCare start to bite. More

When it comes to feminism, petulant and whiny American women could learn a thing or two from feminine yet fierce Israeli soldiers.  More

Liberals increasingly insist that once people of faith are outside sanctuary walls or the privacy of their homes, liberals should dictate how their lives are to be lived. More

A nation’s conduct in war is seldom determined solely by its own moral values; it is also determined by the moral values of its enemies. More

Wouldn’t the political landscape be simple if we could just boil things down to fiscal responsibility? But life is seldom simple. More

In Herman Melville's classic story "Billy Budd," the narrator ponders what could be the matter with the master-at-arms. His insights may be applicable to President Obama. More

Instead of being the leader in seeking truth and standing up for what is right, the U.S. took a spineless approach and joined with the chorus of Israel’s critics. More

To state that the recent military confrontations between Israel and the terrorist groups who occupy territory adjacent to it are proxy wars between Iran and the Jewish State is to underline the obvious. More

Pardon the anticipatory schadenfreude More

Seventy-five years ago this month, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia signed a pact of evil called the “nonaggression pact,” the consequence of which remains misunderstood. More

ObamaCare is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor.  Not exactly a health-promoting strategy. More

Any way you look at it, Obama has been an utter and dismal failure. More

Conservatives can be forgiven if, after having carefully reflected upon a sampling of MSM Ebola narratives, they conclude that something seems a bit askew. More

Bureaucratic reorganization won’t end poverty. More

Aside from liberals in Washington and some at the New York Times, most economists agree that increased regulation strangles economic growth.  Exactly how this works can be demonstrated by a simple experiment. More

Welcome to the new Syracuse. More

Cynicism is Gaza's number one resource, terrorism its main export. More

When a sworn adversary has the obliteration of your country enshrined into its very charter, how does one prudently meet him halfway? More

Liberal sewer politics is tricking people into flushing themselves down the toilet into miserable lives in the sewer of dependence and misery. More

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) poses as the voice of moderate Islam. More

The Illinois Catholic hierarchy punishes sinners but not the Democratic politicians who encourage them. More

Origination Clause lawsuits are attacking the wrong part of the Affordable Care Act... ObamaCare. More

The evidence is overwhelming from a number of videos, from journalist reports, and from public statements, that Hamas has been guilty of using the civilian population for military purpose. More

There is an intrinsic hunger in the hearts of many for someone who embodies a higher standard – an individual who actually practices what they preach and doesn’t just talk about sacrifice More

The façade of a policy disagreement with Israel’s operations in Gaza has quickly evaporated and revealed the familiar old virus of anti-Semitism. More

Imposing sanctions is the right strategy; what they haven’t got right is the objective of these sanctions. More

War would be “a calamity for civilized nations,” he declared on July 29, 1914, and went on to propose a way to avoid it. More

The Muslim killing campaign rocking the Middle East can't stay contained in that part of the world forever. More

After the news cycle ends and the average American forgets, the veterans still suffer from the scandal. More

At some point, the left’s gamble for buying votes over protecting the nation is sure to fail. More

Vladimir Putin's escalation in eastern Europe can spell nothing but disaster for him and his country. More

The sectarian violence between the Sunnis and Shiites is clearly a situation that requires a political rather than a military solution. More

Where would we be without smart leaders like Kerry, Obama, Pelosi, Hillary et al to guide us through the tortuous, rocky shoals of a contentious world? More

Questions about Kit Carson's relocation of the Navajo people out of the West are questions about our national character. More

Another big lie from Mideast Studies professors. More

Whenever United States administrations have pushed for deadlines in Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, the results have been disastrous. More

Being a fundamentally reasonable people, Israelis have so far shown themselves unwilling to bite the bullet and conduct war in the style of their adversary. More

Answer that question, and you will know who has the moral high ground in the Israel-Hamas conflict. More

We assume – incorrectly – that we are presenting our arguments to people who want to objectively examine the arguments on each side of the conflict, and then come to a rational conclusion to discern right and wrong. More

Lessons for Gaza, Ukraine, and more. More

Young children like to show what they know to those who will listen sympathetically and sincerely.  They may require rewards such as listening and gold stars that can be easily given and readily understood. More

Israel is paradoxically extremely powerful while at the same time suffering extraordinary vulnerability. More

Historically, the most destructive leaders are malignant narcissists with a sociopathic streak, superficially charming and impressive, but manipulative, heartless, and intent on smearing their perceived enemies. More

In a healthy society, Spellbinders are ignored or refuted or laughed out of town. In a hysterical society, Spellbinders may become dictator of Russia, Fuehrer of Germany, or President of the USA. More

If the Commander is self-absorbed on the party deck, who is steering the ship of state? More

How could it be that two plane crashes so similar in nature could be reacted to so utterly differently?  The answer lies in politics. More

We’ve become a nation of sheep, complacently allowing the government to regularly shear us. More

At all costs, Israel should be encouraged to win this war, not fight to a stalemate. More

Like communism, this dangerous ideology has generally escaped condemnation for its crimes. More

South of the border -- that's where all the grayhairs belong. More

Rampant cronyism is one of the most insidious outgrowths of a government gone wild, More

Does America lose by Republicans vowing not to impeach? More

Anti-gun crusaders' video sends the unintended message that gun control laws like those in Mr. Bloomberg's city, and Governor Cuomo's state, facilitate and enable domestic violence More

Automation is becoming a practical, efficient, and economical alternative to employment, especially for low-skilled jobs. More

The Spanish Government and Parliament in an extraordinary move in June 2014 agreed to correct the “historic mistake”of expelling the Jews in 1492. Unfortunately, anti-Semitism is rapidly rising in Spain. More

Maybe it’s just a “fluke,” but it appears things like “free” birth control cost everybody more money. More

 In Vitro Fertilization and the effectuation of the Brave New World More