Where the Blogs Have No Names

Blogging is the new journalism and there is a reason why journalists have fought for years to protect the anonymity of their sources. If it wasn't for the protection provided to "Deep Throat," by Woodward and Bernstein, President Nixon probably would have never been forced to resign. 

Obama’s First 100 Days: A Mixed Record

If a president's policies contribute to peace, prosperity, and liberty, and he doesn't overstep the limited role for the chief executive expected by the nation's founders in the Constitution, he should be considered a good or great president.

Speaking Truth to Power

All modern totalitarian governments have made religion — "the opiate of the people" — their first target.

When the Obama Backlash Comes

Barack Obama is hoping to shift the fundamental structure of our economy away from individual self-reliance toward a type of Euro-socialism.

Web 2.0 — Tool for Republicans

Ralph Benko, a self-described agent of the vast right-wing conspiracy, spent two years researching MoveOn.org's "secret blueprints" and smuggled them out in book form: "The Websters' Dictionary: How to Use the Web to Transform the World." 

Janet Has Always been a Gaffe Machine

Arizona's top blogger Greg Patterson began compiling a list of Janet Napolitano's gaffes long before she became Secretary of DHS.

Christopher Buckley’s family chronicle

In his new book, Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley reveals in a moving way the human side of his famous father and mother, underscoring that even those known for their grace, charm and immense talents face the same challenges and limitations as the rest of us. It is also a moving tribute to his [...]

Randy Barnett and the Destruction of Federalism

Randy Barnett's proposed amendment to the US Constitution to limit federal power is not the best solution to Barack Obama and government on steroids.  

Duly Noted

Hesitant vacillation as a policy principle. Paralyzing preconditions for soluble problems. The failed state and its benefits. Iran, the Anti-Racism Conference and nuclear negotiations. Too neutral? In whose favor? When an enemy is more useful to a dictatorship than a friend.

Phyllis Chesler speaks at Durban II Counter-Conference

The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists sponsored a weeklong conference at Fordham University Law School to counter the UN's Durban II Review Conference.

A Fateful Trip

Welcome to the USA, we're sure you'll want to stay, unless you're on the Right and then: It's Guantanamo Bay!

Miracle Grow: The Cure for Global Warming

Artyom Sidorkin, prior to his surgery, was on his way to living a life without a carbon footprint.

The Forgotten Amendment

When will Barack Obama give a speech on the 10th Amendment?

Obama's Rippling Pecs

Bill Clinton may have been the first black President, but Barack Obama is the first celebrity to occupy the Oval Office.

Why Do Progressives Love Trains?

A substantial contingent of Democrats seems to love passenger-rail subsidies for reasons that have little or nothing to do with pork for their friends.

Israel's Annapolis Nightmare

Changing the emphasis from the bottom-up, performance-based terms of the Roadmap to the top-down Annapolis process brings to the fore the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hell Will Freeze Over Before Banks Lend

The neighborhood bank isn't a bank in the traditional sense any more.

The Obama Administration Can’t Handle Dissent

Take it from David Axelod: any time there are severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that's unhealthy.

The Politics of Science and Religion: Part II

Both science and religion have a place in the classroom and in public life.  But not in every classroom, and not in every aspect of public life.

Duly Noted

A root of troubles: The conflict between pay now and pay perhaps later. Buy into piracy: it is good business. Trying to try pirates. Autocracy as an enhancer of limited means. The US' Iraq woes: the consequence of devastating success? War, terrorism and democratic society.

AZ Right to Life responds to DHS characterization as "right wing radicals"

"Why is the Department of Homeland Security spending our time and resources singling out groups like pro-life supporters instead of focusing on identifying and apprehending the real terrorists – like  al-Qaeda – groups that have vowed to destroy America?"

What The Tea Parties Really Mean

 People are becoming more completely aware of the menace that big government poses, if not for any other reason, then because of the economic effects of chronic overspending, which sucks the life out of the economy.   

Acknowledging the 4th Strike: Rethinking the Right to Inmate Healthcare

Inmate healthcare claims represent the 4th Strike – the final opportunity for the intermittent and permanent persistent offender to pillage the innocent.

Barack Obama: Chairman of the Bored

Despite the fact that Obama shares the Old World's socialist vision, some of Europe's denizens found him to be more more sandman than savior.

Barack Obama: A Blessing For Catholics?

Perhaps Notre Dame and its leadership think that they are being "courageous" in honoring one who has so publicly spit in the eye of Mother Church.







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