It is increasingly difficult to predict the outcome of this year’s primaries. It seems to be an anything can happen year. More

When Donald Trump suggested a cessation to Muslim immigration he didn't go far enough. We need a Constitutional Amendment to exclude Islam from the protections of the First Amendment. More

When a cop killer is executed in Texas, he does not leave quietly. More

You cannot “restore” America unless you first restore the Constitution to its rightful place in American politics. More

Analysts and journalists are having a hard time understanding Donald Trump’s appeal to America’s evangelicals.  This is not surprising, considering the media’s widespread ignorance about and (often) repugnance toward evangelicals and religion in general. More

Donald Trump is winning the GOP Presidential primary race for one simple reason: he can think strategically and his opponents cannot.  More

Few United States citizens may realize that Pope Francis grew up in Argentina, a country saturated with socialism since the days of Juan and Eva Peron.  More

Even the most fervent believers in the usefulness of the UN to help bring peace in the area can recognize the double standard towards Israel. More

The debate served to draw a significant and sharp contrast on today’s top issue, immigration. More

Beware Canadians bearing gifts. More

Ethanol from corn in the first state where votes are actually cast in a presidential election has led to endless political pandering. More

If Republicans were doing what they promised, offering principled opposition to the Democrat agenda, there wouldn’t be a need for a Donald Trump. Or a Ted Cruz. More

13 Hours answers many questions as to what actually went on during the terrorist assault in Benghazi. More

In the film realm, black activists now demand that the rest of us prostitute the very dignity of our praises.  More

When language no longer expresses truth, it loses its beauty and poetry.  More

There are two potential “Trump-Killers” out there, hiding in the weeds, waiting to jump up and transform this already chaotic election just one more time. More

Only one candidate has the credentials and character necessary to deal with the elites’ hostility to conservative principles. More

What explains such devotion?  Why are so many GOP voters, at least for now, flocking to Trump?  The answer is simple. More

For Trump, drawing drama and attention to himself is as natural as breathing.  More

Climate change has been going on for millions of years -- long before humans existed on this planet. There is no reason to think that these natural causes have suddenly stopped.  More

The art of magic is akin to that of politics in that people may suspend disbelief as they listen to or read the utterances of political leaders or candidates.  More

I have finally had enough of Donald Trump.  Fortunately, there are alternatives. More

If Hillary does it, it's right. More

An American Imam rebels: Fighting islamophobia has seemingly become a religion of its own, and an industry unto itself. It targets not only those who may be bigoted for no good reason, but those who have serious and legitimate concerns More

The current House speaker is doing more good for Trump than any super-PAC could hope to.   More

 If Trump is not part of the establishment, then it follows that he must be part of the anti-establishment. More

Burr, in spite of his repulsive character, was not the end of the Republican Party.  Neither will Donald Trump be. More

Global affairs are getting bad enough that something drastic may be necessary. More

As the United States pulls economic, and military resources out of the Americas, Putin sees the chance to once again take advantage of American weakness abroad. More

We all perceive the barbarity of Islamic law instinctively, but it's good to put down why in plain language. More

Is this an election being held solely to vent anger and seek revenge? More

Trump’s not so much America’s next Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater, but her first Marine Le Pen.   More

Some specifics from the Republican frontrunner would be nice. More

A huge contractor warfighting capability has enabled US executive action to fight our wars divorced from both a sound national strategy and a connection to the American people. So far, Trump may be the only candidate to address this problem. More

What used to be called “investigative journalism” has been criminalized through the actions of the Harris County grand jury. More

The Iran deal is yet another example of the triumph of “hope” in Obama’s foreign policy over “realism”.  More

The law of the jungle only protects the strong. And as Hillary grows weaker politically, her vulnerability to the laws of the United States grows considerably.  More

Everywhere we look, things are a mess. But this is good. The only way to get “change” is for the ruling class to be screwing up so badly that even the man in the street gets it. More

If you’re supporting Trump because he’s standing up to the Demican establishment, you need to ponder for a moment who Trump is trying to win for -- you or himself? More

Two of the three branches of our government are abusing their authority. Can we afford a president who is already promising to abuse his power when elected?  More

The ongoing interpretations concerning natural-born citizenship may eventually become a moot point. More

 Building on a foundation of the economy and border security alone is like building on sand.  More

Lower fuel prices are a blessing to the consumer, but can never be the stimulus the Keynesians expect them to be.  More

Charles Krauthammer is bewildered, saying that “for some reason” Trump “is immune to the laws of contradiction” and some find his appeal among evangelicals “inexplicable.” Of course, it’s all quite explainable. More

My experience in working with the Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate during the early 2000s and what it taught me about him. More

The tightly knit conservative elite feel the need to rush in and correct the thought processes of the masses.  It won't work – and they have only themselves to blame. More

The Fates are being particularly vicious to Hillary. But there’s no sign yet that Hillary is prepared to buckle. More

At last: a manifesto liberals can get behind, and thousands of pages shorter than their favorite laws. More

Hillary and her supporters don’t seem to care about the American lives that may have been lost due to Hillary’s lawbreaking or negligence. More

An impromptu meeting with an embattled constituency shows a sympathetic side of Ohio's governor. More

As the first primaries bear down on us, the GOP and conservatives are collapsing into a state of civil war.  More

Obama isn’t the only elite messiah who favors national suicide for past sins, though he is certainly the blindest, most self-righteous and willfully destructive one in American history. Then there is Frau Angela Merkel. More

I served President Reagan in the White House Office of Policy Development, and I have studied his speeches and writings for years. Cruz embraces the same three dimensional political and policy framework as Reagan More

The narcissist's god is quite small but very appealing, if only to the narcissist himself.   More

It makes sense: if you’re a Jew-hater, then you hate all Jews. Except that it simply isn’t true. More

It’s time for us all to grow up.  It’s time for us to take risks, for when we do, we fail; and when we fail, we learn.  More

On balance, the deal stinks for the United States, the Iranian people, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and all who worry about Iranian ambitions in the Middle East and beyond. More

Human survival is about recognizing patterns.  Leftists seem eager to forget this crucial fact. More

Twenty-five years ago, America had it all.  Here is how we can get it back. More

How can someone who through the same “gross negligence” that cost American lives at Benghazi has placed all our lives at risk be a candidate for president and not for incarceration? More

Battles over voting results go back a lot farther than Bush v Gore, and aren't going to end anytime soon.  More

The immigrants who came to America knew they had to work hard to survive. Immigrants today know the U.S. is a fail-safe environment. More

The perfect comeback. More

The unlikeliest free speech advocate in history. More

The recent publication of a close-up of Lena Dunham's naked bottom as season's greeting from America's new sweetheart prompts a moment of psychoanalysis. More

In 2016 the underlying theme of the presidential election is the anger and disgust directed toward the political establishment -- of both parties.  More

The entire controversy boils down to whether “citizen at birth” and “natural born citizen” mean two different things. More

Ironically, the late Jobs's personal history is being used to boost Obama’s plan to bring Syrian refugees to the U.S. More

The EU is engaging in economic discrimination and promoting acts of BDS against Israel. More

Simply put, an educated person knows the Bible. Ignoring or denying that reality isn’t a recipe for tolerance or equality, but for cultural confusion and decay. More

Anthropologists, like all sensible people, should confront the evils of anti-Semitism and the evil deeds of Islamist terrorists. More

The reality is that many conservatives will follow anyone promising “real” change in Washington.  More

This time, in his attacks on Ted Cruz, Trump is doubling down from the left, and from the establishment position. More

Donald Trump is no longer making a generic accusation against Cruz's demeanor or reputation.  He is slapping him on behalf of the Republican he has supported most generously, Mitch McConnell.  More

If Ted Cruz edges out Donald Trump in the primaries, then the revolution is over. More

Stranger things have happened. More

A single fatal shibboleth stalks political elites on the Right. More

What would happen if the self-indulgent, sexually ambiguous thumb-suckers that inhabit university safe-spaces today find their way into positions of real authority?  More

It can't come soon enough. More

We should not be surprised to see all the stories of "refugee" rape epidemics in Cologne, Germany and elsewhere.   More

When it comes to ignoring the separation of powers and the Constitution’s limits on executive power, gun control isn’t the only playing field the Obama administration has tried to redraw. More

When it comes to the federal individual income tax, forget about the 99 percent sentimentalized by the Occupy Wall Street crew.  More

States choosing to expand Medicaid take on additional costs due to more people on their Medicaid rolls.  More

Here is a handy list of dos and don'ts for Republicans as they consider how to get rid of Barack Obama's signature law. More

Even though Sanders is running as a Democratic-Socialist, his entire career, including his support for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and visits to Cuba, reflect a strong Communist attachment.  More

The take-home: Everything that comes out of elite liberal New York goes against the interests of ordinary people -- so vote for Cruz if you want a decent job for yourself and a decent education for your children. More

All of us generalize. And most of us bristle at generalizations we don’t like -- whether true or not. More

Power grabs and lethal consequences. More

Homosexual activists are going to discover what it means to have your cake and eat it, too. More

Seek to deny freedom of speech in Israel to non-leftists. More

There are a number of alternatives.  Outsiders should not perhaps have the temerity to recommend a choice. More

This is the "conversation" about what happened on September 11, 2012 that the leftist snobs who review movies for a living are desperate for America not to have. More

The truth, as told by the three men who survived the firefight at the Benghazi mission and atop the CIA annex waiting for a rescue Hillary helped stop, would doom her candidacy.  More

Iran’s Islamic regime is intent on forcing the Apocalypse on a bewildered and unready world. More

It's now time to get serious about who can win in the general. More

Does Hillary Clinton's biggest Democrat opponent actually want to be president? More

 Though we have a Canadian Obama, we will never have a Canadian Trump, and that’s too bad. More

Human beings, unless trained to be decent, humble, and caring, have in our very DNA the capacity to think and commit evil. More

Amid all the factors behind the tailspin of our and the world’s economies it is obvious that the grand progressive schemes based on ignoring reality play a critical part More

Let's not mince words here about what the Iranians did to our sailors.   More

This may be the year that the F-35 nightmare ends. More

The Supreme Court may deal a serious blow to the power of public employee unions. More

Argentina is a study in national self-destruction, with China, Brazil, Germany, and others emerging as its students. More

Instead of framing the argument against Muslim immigration based on religion, we can explain the problem in terms of people’s cultural beliefs. More

To fear the very real results of Islamist aggression is not Islamophobia, but to live in a state of denial of Islamist actions and plans is a dangerous delusion. More

The phenomenon of “settled” science is a sad reflection of the frenetic intemperance of these times.  More

Here is what lies behind the conflict. More

Barack Obama's final State of the Union address casts an illustrative light on his "all is well" presidency. More

The sad reality is that America is no longer a country run by a government of the people.  More

One could consider the difference in self-confidence between children now and in the “dark ages” and convincingly argue that Teddy Bears have done more for children than every child psychologist, child therapist, children’s support group or parenting “expert” who ever opened a case file. More

Pensare Oltre (Thinking Ahead) is trying to fix a few decades of decay in Western education. More

Duplicity has a highly plausible plot that mixes domestic and global action. More

The liberal elite continues making excuses for black violence... and white deaths. More

What did the forty-two percent who don't self-identify as conservative or liberal see?  How about the selfie voters in the millennial bracket? More

The people who question whether Ted Cruz is eligible to be president under the Natural Born Citizen clause fall into two categories:  the sincere and the opportunists. This essay is for the sincere. More

If we speak about immigration in a way that turns off millions of legal immigrants already here, we will lose the election. It’s that simple.  More

Obama would do well to remember the memorable epigram: “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” More

Liberals would deny women the right to defend their bodies, and their children, with a firearm against the predators who lurk among us.  More

Let's imagine some of the things today's "true conservatives" may bring up about Reagan were he making the rounds in today's primaries. More

Drunk with the success of conning America into twice electing an incompetent, Marxist stooge for President, the American left has awakened Middle America from its fifty year coma, and is totally surprised and coming unhinged. More

Extrapolate Sean Penn’s self-absorbed thinking to left/liberal policymaking in general, and you have a good idea of how selfish and corrupt it is.  More

Modernity has succumbed to the perceptual illusion that candidates' campaigns are like physical objects hurtling through space, subject to laws of momentum and inertia, rather than acts of moral persuasion entirely at the mercy of the reasoned choices and free will of private individuals. More

Celebrities should clean up their own camp first before calling on everyday Americans to give up their 2nd Amendment rights.  More

It's time for Jeb! to drop out. More

The velocity of money and its precipitous decline indicate that the consumer and businesses are not comfortable with the risks that they see in the economy and are not spending.  More

Since 1967, a majority of Arab Israelis have chosen to identify themselves as Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims but never as Israelis. More

A liberal who’s been mugged, it’s said, becomes a conservative.  But what does a conservative become when he’s mugged by a corrupt, politically driven justice system? Dinesh D'Souza knows. More

It is time to strike back, as our fathers struck before us.  More

I applauded when Donald Trump jumped into the Republican presidential nominating fray. But nagging questions have me worried. More

While it is all too easy to be anti-PC in the abstract, the proof of a candidate’s seriousness can only be displayed in the specifics.  More

Practices under a different culture or jurisdiction, such as sharia law, must be recognized as incompatible with the culture and jurisdiction of the national country.  More

The national politicians have usurped power over the past 100 years, but the greatness of America lies in its people and ability to renew its institutions as the need arises. More

Capitalism does not always further the public good; but socialism, in all its guises, is downright antagonistic toward competition and meritocracy.  More

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar is a name Americans need to know. His theory of jihad is guiding those who most threaten us today. More

Never before have leftist "human rights groups" been so dramatically unmasked. More

We are in this mess because our ruling class said to itself, after World War II, that only wise people like them could put the genie of fascism and extreme nationalism back in the bottle.  More

Making a new majority party within the Republican brand is and will continue to be as messy as making sausage (and no prettier).  All the ingredients, though, are there to combine into a governing coalition that could lead the nation for a generation.  More

Americans already know that, as part of his 8-year repertoire, this president never hesitates to employ manipulation to further policy initiatives. More

The president plans to take a "victory tour" after tonight's State of the Union address, starting in Omaha.  Residents are not exactly euphoric. More

Using the courts to break Catholic and other faith-based institutions to the saddle of the progressive agenda. More

With the incidents of the past two months, ranging from San Bernardino to Merced to Rochester, we now know that we are essentially unprotected from terrorist attacks. More

After seven years, at what point do Obama loyalists reinstate their brains? More

Shouldn't this black militant get the credit he deserves for inciting the death of a policeman? More

We have never before seen Clinton levels of corruption in the history of the country. And it is very dangerous, because it brings third-world style corruption into our system of government. More

Sex is the least of Bill and Hillary's problems.  And voters need to know it. More

Immigration officers have the same problems as anyone working in most government agencies,  More

How to take the fun out of a circus: treat it as art at Lincoln Center More

The News Year’s Eve savagery brought home for all to see the absurdity of allowing in hordes of young men from a culture which is antithetical to modern Western civilization. More

The sneakernet gambit and the SecState More

The question has been asked and answered. More

A race-based minority may be empowered to establish a form of government that might require all other Hawaiian residents to follow its laws.  More

Those suffering from cancer and other illnesses should not see a friend in the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee. More

The Two State solution is dead but rather than bury it, the US and the EU want to embalm it, in the off chance that it can be brought to life in a decade or two. More

Scientific progress and intellectual advancement depend on truth. They are hindered by the lies and deceptions perpetrated by Palestinian organizations and supporters.   More

The biggest victim of Obama's gun-controlling executive actions may surprise you. More

My super-liberal Obama-phone-carrying electrician had some surprising words of enthusiasm regarding Donald Trump. More

How grand are the stories of heroes, whether of the individual or of bands of mighty men. Armed heroes of legend are imitated and revered in every age and every culture.   More

And Ted Cruz is no Barry Goldwater.  (Though Hillary does have some things in common with Lyndon Johnson.) More

The Saudis fear a future without an American security umbrella, particularly as Iran rises to fill the American void. More

The intoxicating effects of power on humans have been observed and analysed for centuries, and are all too relevant today. More

Why can't there be good political discussions without resorting to bullying and name-calling? More

In granting the prosecution’s motion in the Freddie Gray trial, Judge Barry Williams in a breathtaking display of judicial activism swept away the rights of an American citizen. More

Trump supporters argue that although he lacks sound constitutionalist principles, his tough character is what America needs right now.  More

The left fails to apply to Obama the analytical model they used to critique Bush and Cheney on Iraq More

The German and French denial of racial and ethnic violence in the face of loads of video evidence to the contrary has a familiar American ring to it More

Had President Bill Clinton passed Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigration, 9/11 would not have occurred. More

We need a political Casey Stengel with a scorecard to sort out the positions of the players in the new Cold War in the Middle East today. More

What factors have enabled the Clintons as adults to flout the rules of American politics and society? More

Islamism, like the secular fascism of the 20th Century, must be defeated, humbled in detail. More

The Obama administration has long tried to use mental health as a means, not to make us safer, but to deny us our gun rights under the Second Amendment. More

Almost everything the Obama administration has done, and is doing, seems calibrated to be exactly the opposite of what is in the best interests of the American people. More

How can self-identified conservatives live so far right and scare away many people, all while being so confident that their brand of conservatism is the only way?  More

We find some interesting ideas about tax reform among the Republican candidates.  More

Few would regard Turkey as a true ally of the United States, whether in Middle Eastern affairs or elsewhere. More

The liberal era may be coming to an end, but there is no guarantee that what will follow will be any better. More

Years of Democratic rule have resulted in division, chaos, violence, and a decline in civilized and societal norms.  More

Based on the seriousness of the spying accusation, if true, Barack Obama should step down or be impeached. More

Much has been made of the precipitous decline and near death of political discourse in the United States.  Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language.  However, this factor is but a symptom. More

When you think about it, loving America is the only sensible policy.  More

Who will be the dominant power in the Middle East: Sunni Saudi Arabia or Shia Iran? More

America has grown half a population with no backbone, no resilience, no interest in truth and the discomfort that often accompanies its discovery.  More

What the old USSR taught us that the American establishment forgot. More

You may be surprised. More

There are a lot of holes in these decades-old, ever changing stories.   More

One thing is different this time around. More

He keeps using that word – it must not mean what he thinks it means. More

A quotation made popular in the World War II era applies to our effete media and political class today.  And Donald Trump is telling them so. More

Conservatives must espouse a higher standard. But cut our candidates some slack as, outnumbered by lions, they battle in the arena on our behalf.  More

Take a look at the difference between Mizzou and Purdue University (run by Mitch Daniels) in 2015. More

Black mob violence and denial are getting easier to find – and harder to believe. More

We are living in a 1984-style world now, where historical facts that rub against politically correct sentiments are sent down the Memory Hole. More

And it seems that Barack Obama couldn't care less about it.   More

This time in California...but Barack Obama is intending to take the injustice national. More

For Big Corn, Ted Cruz is an existential threat, who must be stopped at all costs.  More

It may be too much to say that fracking alone saved the global economy in 2015, but fracking had a lot to do with it. More

Perhaps it wasn’t such a great idea for Hillary to try to reprise the tired, ridiculous War on Women campaign theme. More

You won’t read about it in the mainstream media, but Hillary’s husband managed to create a European safe haven for Salafist terrorists while enforcing ethnic cleansing. More

Now-discredited theory led to all manner of government policy making, regulation and just plain tsuris More

That's the thesis of Washington Post writer E.J. Dionne. More

Since Muslims have a vastly different understanding of the nature of God, as ’revealed’ by Muhammed, they are, in effect, worshiping a different God. More

It is one thing for a Christian clergyman to advocate self-sacrificing pacifism for himself in the face of mortal danger, but quite another to advocate or force pacifism on others. More

The politics of both race and gender are going to need an upgrade in 2016. More

There is no hope for racial reconciliation when nobody is willing to admit the offensiveness of his failures. More

This is not the evil America bitter leftists so often portray. More

Can you say "child exploitation"? More

Do even the Republican presidential candidates understand the true purpose of government? More

All of these trillions of public debt, which benefit only public union employees, were created through what may be characterized as credit theft.  More

Should we now trust a regime that has proven untrustworthy for decades? More

Samuel L. Jackson, Oprah, and other black celebs relentlessly bashing America is a huge disservice to all Americans, particularly black youths.  More

It is entirely appropriate for the proposed Knesset law to target NGOs supported by foreign governments. More

Given Bill’s disgraceful behavior in this area, you would think that sexually assaulting women would be the last subject that Hillary would want to open up. More