Keeping Romania Impoverished

Anti-mining campaigns will perpetuate unemployment and environmental degradation.

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Could Iraq become another Vietnam?

An American withdrawal from Iraq can only result in increased slaughter and human suffering, as did the US withdrawal from Vietnam.

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The Carnage in Iraq—Past, Present, and Future

The U.S. adventure in Iraq cannot have a happy ending.

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Dark Night, Blessed Morning

Even though a thousand years is like a day with God, to Mother Teresa, those 50 years without intimacy with him must have been a great cross to bear, a dark night indeed.

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The Two-Party System: A Catastrophic Failure

The Republican and Democratic parties have divided the American people over fundamental moral values, they have failed to rectify longstanding national problems, and their existence chiefly benefits special interest groups, politicians, and mega-corporate executives. As George Washington wrote, the constant alternation of two parties in the federal government would be a “frightful despotism.”

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Advanced Societies: Their Sense of Guilt and External Foes

If the developed world wishes to help the masses stuck in deprivation, it needs to transfer to them its wealth-creating techniques, not money.

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Could Iraq become another Vietnam?

In March of 1975 the anti-war Congress voted to cut off all aid to South Vietnam, thus sealing the fate of our ally.

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Time to Scale Back the Pedestal?

Taken too far, chivalry can weaken the bedrock institutions of free societies and leave supposedly “liberated” women dependent on the neo-paternalism of the Nanny State.

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The Essence of War

The American Civil War offers a better lesson on how to deal with guerrilla insurgencies than most previous wars that the U.S. has waged.

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“God’s Warriors” Disappoints

The CNN special omitted from its six hours many experts in the field, leaving serious viewers more confused than before.

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Hillary On The Hotseat

How exactly did the Paw family manage to donate $45,000 to Hillary since 2005?

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Tony Blair: Elder Statesman, or Political Clown?

Long before George W. Bush came into office, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton had aligned to sweep away the dreaded forces of conservatism, bring about progress and justice, and "set our people free."

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The Same-old same-old: Are we going to get on that same slippery slope again?

If we bomb Iran, we had better embark on this venture with the intent of making the rubble bounce. As the old military adage goes, “More rumble, less trouble.”

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Testing Congress: General Ignorance

That Congress spurns the 9/11 Commission should be no surprise: it approves every general then snubs them, too.

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Meet Carlos X. Carrillo, the Perfect NAU Border Patrol Chief

Meet Carlos X. Carrillo, national disgrace.

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Taking the Civil Rights Initiative

While the courts confuse the issue, ballot measures banning racial preferences are coming soon to a state near you.

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How to Fix a Problem

We need real world policy prescriptions, not high-minded slogans, to deal with the problems this country faces.

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Congressman Kucinich Must Find a Better Role Model than Bob Ney

Dennis Kucinich and Bob Ney's support of Tehran's ayatollahs is quite similar in method and substance.

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Actor Michael Moriarty Endorses Fred Thompson for President

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Michael Moriarty recently endorsed fellow Law & Order star Fred Thompson for President of the United States.

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The Struggle for the Soul of the Democrat Party

Without a compelling reason to vote for a Democrat candidate, voters may decide to stay with the party that — flawed as it may be at this point — still believes in lower taxes, a strong military, and the magic elixir of freedom, opportunity.

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Enough with the obfuscation, already (Part One)

The deafening national silence about black-on-white crime would qualify as an eternal disgrace merely in comparison with the deafening roar that accompanies white-on-black/ brown crime.  Without easily accessible, true data about racial, ethnic and nationality group crime rates, the citizen is deprived of the foundation on which to judge the necessity and fairness of a variety [...]

The Newark Triple Homicides: Why Prop 100 and Bail Reform Matters

The triple murderer in Newark, NJ, who had been released on bail previously for sexually assaulting a minor and an assault in a bar wouldn't have been freed on bail to commit those murders had he lived in Arizona, thanks to a law Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas helped draft and get passed last fall [...]

Is Captain Bush Hunting for Moby Dick?

Is it the purpose of American foreign policy to force democracy on Iraq through long-term occupation?

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CNN: God’s Gift to Religion

Apparently, billions of believers throughout the world need a secular humanist to explain their own monotheism to them and to the world at large.

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Perfect Together

Johnny Reid Edwards is a natural as Hillary Clinton’s running mate. They’re both great investors who’ll suffer anything to gain more riches in order to help the poor.

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