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- The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe - February 9, 2010
- They are called the PIGS -- Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults...
- Will Obama Play the War Card? - February 5, 2010
- Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. Should the president declare he has gone the...
- Bring Our Marines Home - February 2, 2010
- A month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America's eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war was joined on the island of...
- Crisis of the Government Party - January 29, 2010
- President Obama is in a dilemma from which there appears to be no easy or early escape. Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them. The...
- Saving Professor Bernanke - January 26, 2010
- "Elections don't matter!" conservatives have long groused. "No matter who you vote for, things never change." Well, we may have an exception here. Scott Brown told...
- The Message Out of Massachusetts - January 19, 2010
- Whether or not Republican Scott Brown captures the Senate seat in Massachusetts today, his surging and successful campaign is a fire bell in the night for the Party of...
- Is a U.S. Default Inevitable? - January 16, 2010
- We were blindsided. We never saw it coming. So said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein of the financial crisis of 2008. He likened its probability to four hurricanes...
- Why Are They at War With Us? - January 12, 2010
- "We are at war. We are at war against al-Qaida, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that...
- Another God That Failed - January 8, 2010
- "America is Losing the Free World," was the arresting headline over the Financial Times column by Gideon Rachman. His thesis: The largest democracies of South America,...
- Nuclear Poker with Iran - January 5, 2010
- On New Year's Day, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki issued an ultimatum to the West: Accept a swap of part of our 2 ton stockpile of low-enriched uranium for...
- The Real War - January 2, 2010
- Had he not proven incompetent to detonate his lap bomb, Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab would have carried off an air massacre to rival Lockerbie. We would all have ended...
- A Decade of Self-Delusion - December 29, 2009
- About the first decade of what was to be the Second American Century, the pessimists have been proven right. According to the International Monetary Fund, the United...
- Of Christmas, War and Peace - December 26, 2009
- "And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. "And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of...
- America's Party - December 22, 2009
- For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a...
- Shakedown in Copenhagen - December 18, 2009
- If you would know what Copenhagen is all about, hearken to this nugget in The Washington Post's report from the Danish capital. "Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenari --...
- Fat City - December 15, 2009
- "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt," the Washington Post editorial began. "The fiscal situation was serious before the...
- Ron Paul's Hour of Power - December 11, 2009
- The decades-long campaign of Ron Paul to have the Government Accountability Office do a full audit of the Federal Reserve now has 313 sponsors in the House. Sometimes...
- Why Import Workers Now? - December 8, 2009
- At last week's Job Summit, there was talk of a second stimulus package, of tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers, of an Infrastructure Bank to select...
- Obama's Exit Strategy - December 4, 2009
- If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush's wars and coming home. For his bottom line Tuesday night was that all U.S....
- Hamlet as War President - December 1, 2009
- Led by a conflicted president of a divided party and nation, America is deepening her involvement in a war in its ninth year with no end in sight. Only one parallel to...
- Is the Church Militant Back? - November 27, 2009
- With the House debate on health care at its hottest, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a stunning ultimatum: Impose an absolute ban on tax funds for abortions, or we call...
- Our Pushover President - November 24, 2009
- "This state visit is ... a terrible mistake," said Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. "He is illegitimate with his own...
- Dumbo Univeristy - November 20, 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 17, 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 13, 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 6, 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 3, 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 30, 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 28, 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 23, 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 20, 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 16, 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 13, 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 9, 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 6, 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 2, 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 29, 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 25, 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 22, 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 15, 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...