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- Dumbo Univeristy - November 19, 2009
- As George W. Bush famously asked, "Is our children learning?" Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by...
- Are We at War -- or Not? - November 16, 2009
- Are we at war -- or not? For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled...
- Polk: Forgotten Great - November 12, 2009
- As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls...
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - November 5, 2009
- For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night. Virginia Republicans led by Robert McDonnell crushed the most conservative Democrat nominee in decades, rolling...
- The American Way of Abandonment - November 2, 2009
- When America is about to throw an ally to the wolves, we follow an established ritual. We discover that the man we supported was never really morally fit to be a friend...
- The Fruits of Intervention - October 29, 2009
- If we had it to do over, would we send an army into Afghanistan to build a nation? Would we invade Iraq? While these two wars have cost 5,200 dead, a trillion dollars...
- Newt, Sarah and a New GOP - October 27, 2009
- "Sometimes party loyalty asks too much," said JFK. For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed...
- Nixon and Obama -- Soul Brothers? - October 22, 2009
- Four decades ago, Lamar Alexander worked in Richard Nixon's White House. Sen. Alexander today says Barack Obama's White House reminds him of that place, that time, that...
- Alienated & Radicalized - October 19, 2009
- In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Writes...
- The Second Battle of Copenhagen - October 15, 2009
- Before President Obama even landed at Andrews Air Force Base, returning from his mission to Copenhagen to win the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago had been voted off the...
- The Affirmative Action Nobel - October 12, 2009
- All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: "O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous. And God granted it." In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack...
- Hire Americans First! - October 8, 2009
- September's unemployment figures were not only disappointing -- they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work -- 5...
- The Generals' War - October 5, 2009
- The Pentagon's pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington...
- Bitter Fruits of Mideast Wars - October 1, 2009
- Impending today are two of the most critical decisions Barack Obama will ever make, which may determine the fate of his presidency, as well as the future of the United...
- Is Iran Nearing a Bomb? - September 28, 2009
- That Iran is building a secret underground facility near the holy city of Qom, under custody of the Revolutionary Guard -- too small to be a production center for...
- To Lose a War - September 24, 2009
- While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, "death panels," the "public option" and racism's role in the plunging polls of Barack, what...
- Black Sea Wars - September 21, 2009
- In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia's former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by...
- Globalism vs. Americanism - September 14, 2009
- Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south...
- Is America Coming Apart? - September 10, 2009
- Flying home from London, where the subject of formal debate on the 70th anniversary of World War II had been whether Winston Churchill was a liability or asset to the...
- Obama at the Rubicon - September 8, 2009
- If the aphorism holds -- the guerrilla wins if he does not lose -- the Taliban are winning and America is losing the war in Afghanistan. Well into the eighth year of...
- Distortions -- or Truths? - September 3, 2009
- We should have "an honest debate" on health care, said Barack Obama in his Aug. 22 radio address, "not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright...
- The 'Rough Men' at the CIA - August 27, 2009
- "Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell's truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric...
- Fatal Flaw of Democracies - August 24, 2009
- "We just can't afford it!" Not long ago, every America child heard that, at one time or another, in the home in which he or she was raised. "We just can't afford it!" It...
- Sarah and the Death Panels - August 20, 2009
- "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can...
- Populist Right Rising - August 17, 2009
- What happened to the Age of Obama? Glancing over the New York Times Book Review Sunday, one finds three of the top four non-fiction best-sellers were written by...
- Unwinnable War? - August 13, 2009
- "Taliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties." Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal. The lead...
- Angry White Men - August 10, 2009
- To hear the Obamaites, those raucous crowds pouring into town hall meetings are "mobs" of "thugs" whose rage has been "manufactured" by K Street lobbyists and right-wing...
- A GOP That Can Say No - August 6, 2009
- Reports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature. Not since Sen. Bob Griffin derailed LBJ's scheme to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren with...
- Time To Go, Grampa - August 3, 2009
- With "controlling costs" a primary goal of Obamacare, and half of all medical costs coming in the last six months of life, "rationed care" takes on a new meaning for us...
- Tell Israel: Cool the Jets - July 30, 2009
- Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will...
- Sgt. Crowley, a Cop in Full - July 27, 2009
- Sunday, professor Louis Henry Gates retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Friday, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops "acted...
- Has Obama's Luck Run Out? - July 23, 2009
- "The sound alone was worth the $24 billion!" So said fellow Nixon speechwriter Ray Price as the mighty Saturn V rocket lifted Apollo 11 and Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins...
- Why No Evangelical Justice? - July 20, 2009
- When Republicans were warned not to give Sonia Sotomayor the drubbing Democrats gave Robert Bork and Sam Alito -- lest they be perceived as sexist and racist by women...
- Socialist America Sinking - July 16, 2009
- After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published "The People's Pottage." A year later, in 1954, he died. "The...
- How to Handle Sonia - July 13, 2009
- Republicans have been given fair warning. Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito,...
- It Can't Happen Here - July 9, 2009
- So grave was the crisis in western China that President Hu Jintao canceled a meeting with President Obama, broke off from the G8 summit and flew home. By official count,...
- Dumbing-Down the U.S. Navy - July 6, 2009
- "Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity," ran the headline in The Washington Post. The impression left was that some sorehead was griping because black and...
- Whose Side is Obama on in Latin America? - Pittsburgh T-R - July 2, 2009
- Obama, The Anti-Reagan - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - June 8, 2009
- Despite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief in his own righteousness and moral...
- Cheney Shows the Way - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - May 26, 2009
- Dick Cheney is giving the Republican Party a demonstration of how to fight a popular president. Stake out defensible high ground, do not surrender an inch, then go onto...