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- 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,...
- America Has a Naive President - April 6, 2009
- There is nothing moral, let alone realistic, about this goal. Here is an analogy. Imagine that the mayor of a large American city announced that it was his...
- New Broadway Play About Hero Who Is ... Religious! - March 30, 2009
- Just as studies of goodness are deemed less interesting than studies of evil, portrayals of goodness are deemed less interesting than portrayals of evil....
- Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism? - March 23, 2009
- There are Mao Restaurants in major cities in the Western world. Can one imagine Hitler Restaurants? Che Guevara T-shirts are ubiquitous, yet there are no...
- Brilliance is Overrated - March 16, 2009
- This preoccupation with brains and intellectual attainment extends into adulthood. Most Americans upon hearing that someone has attended Harvard University...
- Some Silver Linings in Our Dark Economy - March 9, 2009
- As regards the second definition of optimism (please see an extended discussion of this in my book "Happiness Is a Serious Problem"), count me in. It is imperative to...
- Is There Really Only One Human Race? - March 2, 2009
- But in its latter meaning -- that there is one human race, one humanity, to which we all belong, I am increasingly of the opinion that this is not so. ...
- From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More than It Bu - February 23, 2009
- It takes some doing. And the left has done it. California's Democratic legislature has been more or less able to do whatever it wants with...
- The Madoff Bill - February 16, 2009
- It is, as Robert Rector, identified by the Times of London as "one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill," "a welfare spendathon that would amount...
- When a Priest Denies the Holocaust - February 9, 2009
- One of those four was Richard Williamson, who announced in an interview aired on Swedish television in November 2008 and on January 21, 2009 that "two hundred (thousand)...
- From Africa with Love - February 2, 2009
- We had all heard that in Kenya, the native country of Barack Obama's father, the president's Inauguration Day was a national holiday. But that, apparently,...
- Obama's Inaugural Address Short on Inspiration - January 21, 2009
- As a politically moderate friend of mine said to me, the speech was joyless. And when it wasn't joyless, it was often either incoherent or...