The GOP presidential bench is too good and needs to be whittled down for us to make the best choice. It’s truly an embarrassment of riches. More

How and why did the Left (and sometimes members of the Right who join them) went mad. More

Why is free will so important that God would allow profound evil in its name? More

Hillary just doesn’t fit the stereotype of the Hollywood villainess, and for too many people, Hollywood is reality.  More

Muslim demands for non-Muslim “infidels” to pay jizya on pain of death are growing.  And apologist academics want Americans to believe that this is not a big deal. More

The soccer world has now been disgraced and dishonored in two ways, by the inherent corruption among FIFA officials, and by the effort of Palestinians to politicize the organization.  More

A cultural clash for the hearts and minds of people and at stake is the future of the planet.     More

Obama never admits to making a mistake, but his refusal to even say the words “Muslim massacres” convicts him as an enabler of systematic genocide. More

The polls prove it: things are only going to get worse for Mrs. Clinton. More

Now it is men's fault that some women are more attractive than others. More

Politically cultivated victimhood is merely a justification for power. Not every affirmative-action minority is a disadvantaged victim... above all, Asians. More

There is a new hydra loose in the world; one far more deadly than its mythical forbearer, for unlike the original, its reach is global.  More

The debate, set in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, was lively and informative but also distressing.  The winner was a surprise. More

Pope Francis's "Angel of Peace" has his work cut out for him in this case. More

If the Republicans in the House and Senate won’t honor their promises on principle, maybe they will do so under pressure.  More

Brazil is actually two countries: The very white European south, and the very African north. The dichotomy could not be clearer. More

California's current predicament is a textbook example of how government creates crises. More

In a recently published info-graphic, entitled “Climate Change By The Numbers”, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream serves up a seamy confection of poor analysis, misleading truths, and downright falsehoods.  More

Hillary Clinton will be watching this case closely. More

Despite mistakes in its prosecution, the Iraq War did much good, and the chaos on the ground now is mostly due to existing factors that would be exacerbated without the war. More

Nothing good has come of the Bergdahl trade. More

Today’s advocates of same-sex marriage need to be aware of the quite insidious deeper historical-ideological forces they are unwittingly serving.  More

China is on the rise and on the march and is preparing to call our “Pacific pivot” bluff.  More

What’s wrong with shacking up?  America became a de facto shack up society years ago.  Marriage, we were told, was passé.  More

The story of when Vladimir Putin stole the Patriots' owner's Super Bowl ring, and what the Bush administration did about it. More

It's what the climate modelers would have us think.  But there's a little more to it than that.   More

Debt and hopelessness are increasingly driving our nation's college students to desperation.  Maybe it's time the university system did something. More

A nuclear deterrent will be a perfect complement for the Iranian regime’s ideology of terrorism and extremism.  More

The ‘green movement’ is coming under attack from a most unexpected source – the ‘green movement’.  More

An Illinois special congressional election provides an opportunity to rebuke both a passive GOP and an overreaching left.  More

Here is how Republicans should answer the "if you knew then what you know now" question. More

The defining American middle class is devolving toward poverty. There seems little doubt that the economic pattern results from government intervention. More

There will be no closure for the Benghazi tragedy until Hillary Clinton reveals the truth about the e-mail messages she received on her "private" server.   More

Whether the church, para-church organizations, the government, schools, corporations, small businesses, and even blood banks, the plague of liberalism seems to know no bounds.  More

Like most anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli groups, Artists for Palestine and fellow believers adopt their negative attitude to cultural performers and events only when Israelis are involved.  More

But the Mad Men main character's end is more credible than Obama's will be. More

Charles Murray offers a blueprint for an effort to turn back the regulatory state.  More

Body cameras come with limitations and drawbacks, and as more officers begin wearing these cameras, the public needs to know what to realistically expect. More

For decades the Democratic Party leadership has been the greatest dispensers of evil in America, hating morality while trashing all things wholesome and good. More

Of course there's a double standard here.  And as usual, the media concocted it. More

Regulatory aficionados (such as Obama, Bloomberg and Johnathan Gruber) believe we’re all too stupid to make everyday decisions on our own.   More

We live in a world that is foaming at the mouth to catch good people making mistakes and then slander them, destroy their lives and the lives of their own children.   More

The passage of time continues to work to Obama's advantage More

For the left, Josh Duggar’s greatest offense wasn’t molestation; it was showing remorse after the fact. More

Everyone -- politicians, community organizers, educators, the MSM and many others -- wants to have a conversation about race, police brutality against blacks, white privilege, and anything and everything else you can name.  More

It's not just the economy, stupid. More

One of the lowest levels of hell was the Western Front in World War I.  More

Military dog handlers and their four-legged partners: always on the front lines, saving American lives. More

The dissimilarity between the warrior King David and President Obama, the warrior politician, comes to mind this Memorial Day. More

Where are the men?  Where are the Christians?  Where are the Jews?  Where are the sane non-homicidal Muslims about whom we hear?   More

If the churches, of whatever denomination, continue to ignore this, let them die out.  More

Huge swaths of the Republican electorate, apparently.  And it's got to stop. More

Yes, there is the hyperbole for which Trump is known.  There is, however, no reason to assume that his admittedly gigantic self-confidence is misplaced or otherwise spurious.  More

The landmark television series had a surprising amount to say on religion. More

In many ways, the most important strategic front left for Islamo-fascists to conquer is the United States. More

Two issues arise concerning the actions and words of Pope Francis More

If we were ever to have that honest conversation about race, it would need to start with culture, and how that form of black culture which imprisons its subscribers condemns them to failure.   More

Trying to prevent the hijacking of America, Pamela Geller violates the Conditions of Umar More

What do we have to show for 50 years and $22 trillion? More

It can hardly be possible.  There's just too much history here. More

I don’t hate blacks, gays, or Muslims, but I do hate it when people use the smoke and mirrors of illogic and linguistic trickery to hide the fact that they have no idea what they are  More

Merchants of Doubt does indeed succeed at telling a tale in an attention-keeping way. People who accept its assertions without question say they have all the information they need to justify animosity against cimate skeptics. More

Right now, Israel, the Palestinians, and the FIFA, the World Soccer Authority, are engaged in a struggle of the absurd. More

And he might even have succeeded had his media buddies not already decided their job was to elect Barack Obama. More

For those able to read the plain writing on the wall, the end game of Obama and IS was always easy to discern.   More

Arab countries are coming apart at the seams in large part because their populations don’t share a collective national identity. To the extent there is an authentic Arab national movement, it is a pan-Arab one, opening the door for ISIS. More

 No better formula has ever been devised for war than to convince our enemies that we will tolerate anything rather than use force More

Layers of fraud. More

Some bold suggestions, which are quite serious, and not to be taken as farce. More

It's not as hard as some would have you believe. More

This is how our doubts about homosexuality are expressed in a world where homophobia is a cardinal sin. More

The racial grievance industry to the contrary, the Waco police did not act delicately toward the white bikers because they were white.  More

More states are a good idea. Reconfigured states with less divergent polities better serve citizens.  Make the rallying cry: “More states, more localism, more freedom.”  More

Although the "Framework" nuclear deal appears heavily weighted toward Iranian  interests, the mullahs appear convinced they need a back as well as a front door. More

All talk, no action. More

It isn’t just “Mad Men”’s flawless music, fashions, and settings but the mores. Most striking is that history was never redacted on “Mad Men.”  More

Former Michelle Obama intern decries newspaper op-ed calling her a racial profiler. But who profiled whom? More

During elections, there is arguably nothing more impactful on public opinion than presidential debates. The stakes of these events make the reform of presidential debating imperative.   More

Did Muhammad really exist, or was he a myth? The only way to deal with with the question properly is to turn to Monty Python. More

A way to bring state legislatures back into prominence, and to make elections fairer and cheaper. More

Ramadi is a defeat, the result of the precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by President Obama against the advice of military minds who know better about these things than the former community organizer from Illinois. More

Can a GOP president win in 2016?  Absolutely, and here's why. More

Marxism is psychopathic, necessarily meaning that it is dishonest, manipulative, and controlling, and these are among Marxism's more attractive characteristics.  More

Why are the Catholic Church and Mainline Protestantism in such a state of collapse?  More

Not once in almost five decades of my association with the military have I heard any serving member or veteran agree that he would take up arms against fellow Americans to impose the political will of a sitting president. More

In addition to great biceps, Michelle ‘Black Girls Rock’ Obama also has thin skin.  More

The Progressive Agenda tells us that progressives really don't care about low-wage people, for their agenda is a mess of thug politics that won't really help anyone.  More

A long-standing pattern of a political operative pretending to be a journalist finally reaches the light of day More

Forget about the clashing historical narratives of the Israelis and the Palestinians. All that matters is Otto Von Bismarck's emphasis on the pragmatic realities of the situation. More

Boaz’s primer on libertarianism is all about the individual and stays micro-focused on choices and associations that make each person happy.  More

He may get no credit at home for the vast transformation he is accomplishing, but sooner or later the Islamic world will bestow the title on him.   More

Many college students' assorted troubles are related to the fact that they are bereft of wholesome father figures. More

The more the Clinton campaign flounders, the stronger a conservative Democrat challenger would become. More

Psychologists are saying that one percent of all people are psychopathic and therefore lack a conscience to restrain their wilder impulses.  More

Many people, perhaps including President Obama, don’t realize that there actually are two energy markets in this country.  More

Obama is only a part of the problem. But he is an important part of the rising anti-Semitic tide.  More

In And The Good News Is Dana Perino gives readers a glimpse of President George W. Bush’s character and personal side,  More

I had a weird dream in which I was a fly on the wall of the Commission on Presidential Debates as they tried to figure out who could moderate the next presidential debates More

Of course Muslims have sincere grievances against those they find inferior exercising basic human rights.  But are those grievances legitimate? More

Political correctness dictates that all religions are of equal worth; that there are “Three Great Abrahamic Religions,” and “The Arabs are Semites too, so they can’t be anti-Semites.”  All these clichés need to be buried. More

The fact that there is a laziness gene in the human genome shouldn’t be a surprise because there are genes for other things such as violence.  More

Liberal Jewish values are virtually interchangeable with liberal Democrat policies because they are two heads of the same hydra.  More

“How do I feel now? Who am I and what do I want? What is my sex and gender identity today?” Same-sex marriage is the terminus of the chaos wrought by that psychology. More

Pope Francis must not undermine the Catholic tradition of belief in the market in favor or collectivist delusions.  More

Bruce Jenner, the Kardashians, and clitoris envy. More

It took a George Orwell to point out that higher learning and stupidity make a regular couple. “There are notions so foolish that only an intellectual will believe them,” wrote Orwell. More

The attack on the lecture is a symptom of a broader attack on knowledge. More

In the Middle East, the administration is confused about whom to support, what to do, where to engage, how much to commit. More

The 2016 election is important, but it is nothing compared to this. More

'Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.' More

A new book casts a shadow over Winston Churchill and the British in their efforts to divide India in the World War II era. More

Hillary Clinton, the J. Edgar Hoover of platitudes. More

Most discussions of the estate tax, better known as the death tax, ignore the green monster in the room.  More

The local economy is a certified disaster, a gift to the people of this remote village from the U.S. government. More

While union leaders and agitators repeatedly push the narrative that Ronald Reagan hated unions, and that union members hated Reagan, reality tells a far different story. More

The Vatican needs to worry about Christians in the region and can't talk to ISIS or Syria or Iran, so it chose the “State of Palestine” to take a stand for the “essential life of the Church.”  More

Critics obsessed with the Palestinian issue need reminding that Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East. More

Oil transport by rail is a disaster waiting to happen, a disaster as dangerous and life-threatening as any Amtrak train derailment, yet President Obama and many Democrats stand in the way of pipelines like Keyatone XL. More

Why is the once viciously “homophobic” Cuba suddenly embracing the gay agenda? More

“In the private sector the SEC would quickly bring fraud charges against a corporate issuer and its officers for playing such numbers games." More

The double standards regarding media treatment of Tom Brady versus Hillary Clinton are many and troubling. More

When the world is on fire, voters turn to masculine, assertive, conservative leaders.  Look at how recent elections have gone around the world. More

In order to pump up her sagging public appeal -- and especially to energize the Left-wing base of her own party -- Madam Secretary is prepared to do anything.  More

It is time for America’s obsession with “firsts” – in color or ancestry or gender – to give way to something more substantial. More

Higher education has become a status symbol rather than a public good.  Something must be done. More

My relative asked me, "You don't think Obama has done anything to deserve credit?"  Here's what I told him. More

An in-depth look at the incompetence, corruption, and failures of the man running the police force combatting the riots in Baltimore. More

We don’t know what triggers a "Little Ice Age" but suspect a strong correlation with a quiet Sun and prolonged absence of sunspots. Experts in this field believe that the next LIA is imminent. More

According to some, I am a highly privileged person. More

A transmission from rural New York on how Washington-imposed "education reform" is working out. More

The issue of drunkenness and consent brings up some uncomfortable questions. More

If Fast Track passes, Obama will be empowered to create the equivalent of an international EPA, enable currency manipulation, and slow U.S. economic growth.  More

How a racist white mob killed an angelic black youth. Or so the story went at first. More

Judging from her commencement speech, FLOTUS knows nothing about great American civil rights leader, accomplished scholar, and founder of Tuskegee University, the late Booker T. Washington. More

"Reform" sounds good to most Western peoples because they naturally attribute Western connotations to the word.  But that's not what they'll get with Islam. More

As the GOP establishment works hard to attract new visible minority voters, it is progressively alienating the most important voting constituency in the U.S. More

Doctors and seniors should be prepared for yet more government interference in their relationship, driven by the EHRs the physicians will have to feed instead of treating their patients. More

Our generation is having a battle royal over women's wants.  More

Explaining European anti-Semitism has nothing to do with Catholicism or Protestantism. More

Many savvy political analysts believe the Democrats have a built in advantage in the Electoral College. Here's a strategy for breaking it. More

There’s a far better and more important way to exercise free speech about Islam, to undermine the ideology of radical Islam that plagues the earth More

The University of Illinois-Urbana proposes setting up its own Ministry of Truth. More

 A truncated listing of American absurdity. More

If so, should you care? More

How can we admit a nation to the UN whose revolutionary program is to overthrow all the other members of the UN?  More

One needs only to point to a Middle Eastern country – practically any one – to find an example of Obama's shocking international incompetence. More

For the American left, free speech is absolute -- except when it isn't. More

Persecution of a hated segment of society begins gradually and accelerates stage by stage.  It can happen here.  It already is happening. More

The long-running non-musical Palestinian theater of the absurd about who employed the poison that killed Yasser Arafat and how it was done is nearing its resolution. More

It is not just the Arab-Israeli conflict that fuels anti-Semitism. It works the other way around too: the old-fashioned anti-Semitism is the reason behind a biased narrative of the conflict in the Middle East.  More

Boycott Divest Sanction, (BDS) the growing college campus movement against Israel, and Queer Studies share a leading spokesman. More

Mothers are the role models and inspiration for our success both professionally and in our private lives.  More

Two clunkers, a good sci-fi thriller, and a delightful documentary. More

Just as the blacks have been fed a diet of self-defeating victimization, so the white youth of this country have been served up a dozen years of unrelenting guilt that has withered their souls.  More

The Iranians are negotiating a deal to ensure they can continue their nuclear program; transfer nuclear knowhow to whoever they wish; continue their missile program; continue to arm/train/support terrorist organizations; and receive immediate, total and irreversible sanctions relief. More

By administrative legislation Obama is attempting to give the most precious right of citizenship -- the right to vote -- to illegals who don’t give a damn about the sacrifices of our fallen heroes.  More

Americans do not like being coerced, which is why the resistance to ACA continues unabated. However, we also do not like having something given to us like subsidies, and then have it taken away.  More

We cannot bivouac, educate, medicate, and translate for thousands of noncitizens from afar. We cannot provide incomes for them. We cannot hire them, at the expense of the ailing economy and our 50-plus million unemployed and underemployed citizenry. More

Is it proper for a taxpayer-funded state university to enter into a formal relationship with Palestinian universities dominated by Hamas? More

France is starting to take the lead on Western relations with the Arab Gulf states. More

A seriously questionable bait-and-switch reporting job by the Washington Post threatens the paper's credibility and muddles the narrative on Freddie Gray. More

Here’s a tip: try telling the truth next time. More

The rage of Baltimore's ghetto boys against cops is not due to an epidemic of police killing black men. It is mainly caused by brainwashing black youth to hate the only effective discipline they have had in their lives. More

A racial grievance-fueled hallucination makes the nation's premier source of news. More

Every single time a young man named Mahmoud commits another bloody atrocity, the liberal wailing goes up, asking, Why?  Why?  Why? More

We can pinpoint the precise moment in history where the black family began its “calamitous breakdown” that continues today More

Agenda 21 uses the imaginary threat of unsustainable growth which allegedly threatens to plunder the planet’s finite resources to impose a liberal wish list of restraints on our freedoms to decide how we live our lives. More

The indictment of the welfare state is long overdue, and it’s high time we force its engineers and defenders to take the stand to account for their crimes. More

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed a gift to the Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate campaign More

Fighting politically correct campus speech restrictions calls for civil disobedience on a mass scale, a recapitulation of the Free Speech Movement of 50 years ago that succeeded in changing academia. More

The Left is so insidious, notorious for promoting proposed laws and their intentions as the polar opposite of what they really are. Every small cave by the majority moves their true agenda forward.  More

What do American Jewish voters now think of Obama in the wake of the Iran nuclear agreement?  More

“Our whole way of life is at stake,” pro-family presenters alleged at a recent conference. More

Ruffians, delinquents, hoods, punks, rioters, hooligans, bullies, culprits, scofflaws, hoodlums, lawbreakers, muggers -- use whatever synonym you choose are being given a patina of respect by political charlatans.  More

Hillary Clinton: We knew her as a grim, charmless harridan; a pear-shaped harpy. Now, after reading Peter Schweizer's new book, Clinton Cash, we see the ultimate Hillary, one of the world's truly scary women. More

I'm finally fed up with hearing about the "black experience" and how "white privilege" is keeping blacks down.   More

The sun is engaging in climate change denial.  More

The left’s enemies cannot possibly ever operate in good faith, while the left’s heroic leaders don’t require good faith, because they operate within their own version of quasi-metaphysical righteousness.   More

It appears that the countries calling the United States and Canada xenophobic are among the most xenophobic nations on the planet. More

Government didn’t create many of the pathologies in poor black inner cities, but it most certainly has exacerbated them.      More

Mother Ireland is now a hotbed for anti-Semitic activists. Under the Obama administration, Irish America might not be far behind. More

A case study shows how Barack Obama and his officials use deceit to accomplish their goals. More

It's time to move on to expose two more potential Democrat candidates: Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden.  More

The much-hyped “black killed by whites” stories sold to us over the past several years by the media and Race Industry have been either outright lies or grossly misreported. More

Any politician that doesn't “get” the economy is setting up his party for a trip to the political wilderness.  More

The Rubio-Lee tax plan contains several worthy ideas, but the changes to individual income tax rates and brackets aren’t among them.  More

The Lancet dishonors the medical profession through blatant anti-Semitism. More

During the Holocaust, not a single Jew living in Albania died at the hands of the Nazis.  More

The six cops charged in Baltimore are the latest in a long postmodern leftist assault naming the guilty innocent and the innocent guilty. More

Bill Moyers and Ta-Nehisi Coates have got black violence all figured out -- it's caused by white racism.  More

Alinsky would have been proud of climate scientists operating essentially as social activists. More

In a word – and in a few charts and equations – yes.   More

Barack Obama seems to prefer economic suicide to allowing the energy sector to bring huge prosperity to the United States.   More

You can't send your senior staff to speak at a J Street conference and then claim to stand for Israel. More

Obama is required to obey the U.S. Constitution and already existing statutes, like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.   More

In the United States for the past few years, inner city riots seem to be playing the same role as the Roman arena entertainments. More

Speaking out to family and friends still caught in the cauldron. More

Giving President Obama “Fast Track” negotiating power may go down in economic history as among Republicans’ most self-destructive decision ever. More

It is a great encouragement to know that someone has Israel’s back -- and front -- and not incidentally, America’s too.  More

What has the nation gotten back for decades of "investment" in the inner cities?   More

The "Two-State Solution" is one of those abuses of language that George Orwell warned us about in 1984 when he skewered the abysmal verbal dishonesty of the Soviet Union and its apologists.   More

Half a loaf isn't better than no loaf, when the half loaf is poisonous. More

The Celts -- in all their Irish, Breton, and Galician variants -- may well have been the linchpin of Western civilization.  More

...and here we have the Birth Certificate Reading Room... More

Cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia may eventually reverse their economic decline but their indigenous underclasses are unlikely to participate in that revival  More

Wants body cameras for police.  Still hasn't found those e-mails. More

Russia is clearly seeking to be a dominant, if not the dominant, player in the Arctic. More

Our ally Israel is facing its own illegal immigration problem. More

A new Board of Inquiry report is encouraging, though it fails to go far enough on the serious problems at the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Near East. More

Gangsters have become the de facto government in the city of Baltimore. Rioting has empowered them.  More

All large cities with poor black communities and horrible schools are run by Democrats.   More

It couldn’t have ended any other way, the black community having been subjected to the most intensive campaign to dissolve its culture in history. How did this come about? More

It's not outside the realm of possibility to see thousands of children raised in same-sex households suing the government for stripping them of their heritage, their identities, and half of their parents. More

Is the U.S. looking at another late-1980s boom period? More

To test the veracity of what the Left preaches is to question not what they care about, but how they care. More

Frankie Boyle -- the poor man's Russell Brand. More