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- Frank Rich and the State of Liberal Commentary - February 8, 2010
- If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York Times. No...
- What I Said to the Republican Members of Congress - February 1, 2010
- This past weekend, after President Obama addressed the annual retreat of Republican Members of the House, I, along with my Salem Radio colleague Hugh Hewitt, and John...
- An Open Letter to Charles Johnson - January 25, 2010
- On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on Charles Johnson, whose website -- littlegreenfootballs -- had for years been very popular among...
- Is America Still Making Men? - January 18, 2010
- Every society has to answer a few basic questions in order to succeed and even in order to survive. One of them is, "How do we make good men?" The reason for the...
- Reid Punished by Liberal Preoccupation with Private Comments - January 11, 2010
- I think that Harry Reid is a left-wing ideologue who is doing serious harm to a great country. I think that Harry Reid would charge any Republican colleague with racism...
- Controlling When You Relieve Yourself, Not Body Scan, Invades Privacy - January 4, 2010
- If the government prohibits airline passengers from getting out of their seats during the last hour of a flight, I hereby announce that I will get out of my seat either...
- Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth - December 21, 2009
- As the passage of the bill that will start the process of nationalizing health care in America becomes almost inevitable, so, too, the process of undoing America's...
- Have We Stopped Trying to Make Good People? - December 14, 2009
- The most important question any society must answer is: How will we make good people? That is the question Judeo-Christian values have grappled with. There are many and...
- How a New York Times Columnist Hurts Fellow Blacks - December 8, 2009
- If you had hope that the election of a black president might improve black-white relations in America, reading the column by Charles M. Blow in Saturday's New York Times...
- Left Destroys More than It Creates - November 30, 2009
- Watching the left attempting to undo the greatness of American medicine and dismantle the unprecedentedly powerful American economic engine built almost entirely on...
- A Troubled Thanksgiving 2009 - November 26, 2009
- I have always loved Thanksgiving. It is my favorite national holiday. It reminds Americans how fortunate we are to be Americans. And it unites Americans around...
- Enacting California on the National Stage - November 16, 2009
- There may be a major silver lining for conservatives and for America's future thanks to the foreign and domestic policies of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled...
- Intimidated Americans Claim Not To Know Hasan's Motives - November 9, 2009
- One reads and hears with increasing disbelief and anger that we don't know the motive or motives of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who fired over 100 shots at his...
- A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors - November 2, 2009
- Those of us who are not true believers in expanded government are certain of the following: If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American...
- Democrats' Policies Based on Dogma, Hopes, Dreams, not Reality - October 26, 2009
- How is one to rationally explain the Democrats' belief that the government taking over another one-sixth of the American economy is a good thing? The answer is...
- Obama and Dalai Lama: Why Israel Worries about U.S. President - October 19, 2009
- According to the Jerusalem Post, as recently as six weeks ago, just 4 percent of the Jews of Israel regarded President Obama as pro-Israel. Even if exaggerated, it is...
- Why President Obama Was Awarded the Nobel Prize - October 12, 2009
- The Nobel Peace Prize, already devalued, has sunk to a new low. This assessment has nothing to do with one's estimation of this year's recipient, President Barack Obama....
- Child Rape and the Values of People Who Make Films - October 5, 2009
- "In defending the director (Roman Polanski), the entertainment industry faces a risk that it will seem out of touch with the audiences it seeks to connect with at the...
- Reflections on the Death of My Mother - September 28, 2009
- My mother, Hilda Prager, died 10 days ago. Because she has consumed my thoughts since then, I thought I would share some of them with my readers. 1. On the age a parent...
- The Left Is Right -- Taxes Are a Moral Issue - September 14, 2009
- One principle that all those on the left hold is that taxes constitute more than an economic issue; they are, first and foremost, a moral one. Economists on the left may...
- The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen - August 31, 2009
- Those of us who oppose a massive increase in the role the national government plays in health care ("ObamaCare") do so because we fear the immense and unsustainable...
- This Week, It Was Scotland's Turn To Shame the West - August 24, 2009
- Whenever I think that some Western country or institution has reached a low point, shortly thereafter, sometimes the very next week, another Western government or...
- Now Yale Embarrasses the Idea of the Western University - August 17, 2009
- When I was a graduate student at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I came to the then-tentative conclusion that I would probably never encounter a morally weaker,...
- I Thought 'Dissent Is Patriotic' - August 10, 2009
- Living in liberal Los Angeles, I am surrounded by people -- and bumper stickers -- I do not agree with. One of the more popular liberal bumper stickers of the last...
- What the Gates-Crowley "Teachable Moment" Really Teaches - August 3, 2009
- Readers on the left will be shocked, if not incredulous, to learn that neither I nor any conservative I know realized why the president asked Vice President Joseph Biden...
- 10 Questions for Supporters of 'ObamaCare' - July 27, 2009
- 1. President Barack Obama repeatedly tells us that one reason national health care is needed is that we can no longer afford to pay for Medicare and Medicaid. But if...
- Understanding the Politics of the Left - July 21, 2009
- There is only one good thing about the Obama administration's attempts to nationalize most health care and to begin to control Americans' energy consumption through...
- Why I Came to Honduras - July 13, 2009
- "Why have you come to Honduras?" That is the question posed to me by Hondurans, surprised that anyone from the outside world, let alone from the media, cares enough to...
- Obama Is in Russia, but Honduras Is Where the Action Is - July 6, 2009
- The importance of the summit meeting in Moscow between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pales in comparison to the events taking place in...
- See This Film (or Stop Complaining About Hollywood) - June 29, 2009
- With the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood. In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil,...
- Senator Embarrassment, D-Calif - June 22, 2009
- Last week, a brief moment in time captured much that has gone wrong with post-'60s liberalism and feminism. Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers...
- Dear Iranians: Don't Count on America (or Any Country Led by Left) - June 15, 2009
- "The administration has remained as quiet as possible during the Iranian election season and in the days of street protests since Friday's vote." -- Washington Post ,...
- Why the Cairo Speech Was So Sad - June 8, 2009
- It appears that President Barack Obama decided not to incorporate any of the points on American-Muslim relations I included in my last column, a speech I suggested he...
- The Speech President Obama Won't Give in Egypt - June 1, 2009
- This week, President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world. He is likely to reiterate what he has stated previously to Muslim...
- President Has "More Effective" Method to Get Intel from Terrorists - What Is It? - May 26, 2009
- In his latest address - on Guantanamo detainees - President Obama said something of extraordinary importance that seems to have been missed by the media: "I know some...
- Vitality Has Been Sucked Out of European Society - May 13, 2009
- Outside of politics, sports, and popular entertainment, how many living Germans, or French, or Austrians, or even Brits can you name? Even well-informed people who love...
- Question to Left: If You love America, Why 'Transform' It? - May 5, 2009
- If you met a man who said he would like to "transform" or "remake" his wife, would you conclude that he: a) thought very highly of his wife and loved her? Or b) held his...
- 9 Questions the Left Needs to Answer About Torture - April 27, 2009
- Any human being with a functioning conscience or a decent heart loathes torture. Its exercise has been a blight on humanity. With this in mind, those who oppose what the...
- The More Given, the Less Earned - April 20, 2009
- One of the reasons for the ascendance of the English-speaking world has been that the English language is almost alone among major languages in having the word...
- Time for Congressional Black Caucus to Disband? - April 13, 2009
- Last week, seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus – Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Melvin Watt, D-N.C., Michael Honda, D-Calif., Laura Richardson,...