October 24, 2020

The Enduring Relevance of Whittaker Chambers’ Witness

First published nearly 70 years ago, Whittaker Chambers’ Witness provides relevant, instructive, and inspiring encouragement for those currently engaged in the fight against today’s ascendant Left.  Although there is a wealth of usef...

August 2, 2019

The Real Equivalent of World War II

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been mocked for calling climate change "our World War II."  But America in 2019 does face a serious challenge to freedom and self-rule: radical progressivism.  The...

October 12, 2018

How to beat the mob and win the midterms

Faced with the growing and increasingly violent mob tactics employed and justified by the Democrats and their supporters, how best are Republicans – and all non-insane concerned citizens – to respond?  In a word, vigorously, but...

June 14, 2018

To Trump's critics: Where's the beef?

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and particularly since Donald Trump's electoral victory and subsequent inauguration, NeverTrumps across the political spectrum have been hysterically decrying the existential threat the president poses to...

September 2, 2015

Gun Lives Matter

The predictable calls to pass more stringent laws “to stop gun violence” have revved up again in the wake of the depraved murder of a Virginia reporter and cameraman. It’s easy to understand why progressive elites are once again exp...

June 14, 2015

Disconnect: Kirsten Powers' <em>The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech</em>

Kirsten Powers’ new book,The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech provides a thorough account of the hypocrisy, intolerance, and just plain nastiness of what she terms the “illiberal left.” It is indeed refreshing to read ...

March 23, 2012

President Obama and Statistical Imbalances

Assume for the moment that President Obama's now oft-cited, but deeply disingenuous claim that "We've got 2 percent of the world oil reserves. We use 20 percent, is accurate." Assume as well that his expressed incredulity at this disparity is real....

March 16, 2012

Social Justice: Catholic Virtue or Trap?

Recently in these spaces, Father Peter J. West published an apologia of the Catholic Church's promotion of social justice, arguing that conservative distaste for that pervasive meme is misplaced and is essentially a product of co-optation of the term...

February 14, 2010

Is Iran trying to provoke Israel to attack it?

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January 26, 2010

War as Political Correctness By Other Means

First we had Army Chief of Staff General George Casey, as 13 soldiers lay dead by the hand of Islamic radical Major Nidal Hasan, warning that a worse tragedy would be if the Army lost its focus on diversity as a result of the carnage. Then there was ...

January 19, 2010

A One-Step Program for Better Airline Security

President Obama's recent (if only implicit) acknowledgment of the need to at least talk about terrorism in a less abstruse, more immediate manner is a small but welcome development in what one hopes is an evolving odyssey towards serious understandin...

April 3, 2009

A Kinder, Gentler War on Terror?

Debate over the term, "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) has been going on in defense circles ever since the Bush Administration coined it in the wake of 9/11.  Heretofore, disagreement has focused largely on whether the GWOT moniker and...