Past Articles

Get the Government out of Marriage?

by: Tim Dunkin | published: June 22, 2014

As so-called same sex “marriage” continues to make its judicially-imposed march across America, it has become increasingly popular among some on the Right to call for “getting the...

VA scandal: Obama administration seeking identities of whistleblowers

by: Jim Kouri | published: June 22, 2014

A well-respected, non-partisan watchdog group, currently probing the allegations of misconduct and malfeasance at healthcare facilities run by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department, is refusing to c...

Iraq Agonistes

by: Alan Caruba | published: June 22, 2014

I remember how the Vietnam War seemed to drag on for years without resolution, from Lyndon Johnson’s initial expansion in 1964, after he was elected in his own right through his second term, ...

Obama using Border Patrol agents as babysitters for illegal alien teens

by: Jim Kouri | published: June 16, 2014

President Barack Obama allegedly uses members of the U.S. Border Patrol -- who are supposed to be patrolling the border -- as babysitters for the illegal alien teenagers flooding across the Mexico-...

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall

by: Alan Caruba | published: June 16, 2014

On June 12, 1987, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, speaking in Berlin, said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” It fell in 1989 and, in 1991, the Soviet Union colla...

Are Most Mass Murderers Really White?

by: Selwyn Duke | published: June 16, 2014

Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that’s now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all mass killers are white. After ...

Cantor’s Loss is America’s Gain

by: Tim Dunkin | published: June 16, 2014

In what is an historical first in American politics, a sitting Majority Leader in the House of Representatives has been overturned by a primary challenger from within his own Party. It didn’t...

Adam Smith Redeemed

by: Douglas V. Gibbs | published: June 16, 2014

The Founding Fathers of the United States, when crafting the American System during the Federal Convention of 1787, shared the same economic vision as economist Adam Smith. The similarities betwee...

Hollywood’s hydrocarbon hypocrisy

by: Paul Driessen | published: June 16, 2014

Several Hollywood elites were recently caught red-handed on videotape, agreeing to take money from a Middle Eastern oil sheikh for another anti-fracking movie. Their actions were shameful, but they...

No, Obama is Not Above the Law

by: Alan Caruba | published: June 16, 2014

It was hard enough trying to keep up with the revelations of various scandals that have been the product of the Obama administration, but now into the second year of his second term, the news of it...

Not So Swift: Libs use U.S. military as a pejorative

by: Daniel Clark | published: June 16, 2014

swift boat (n): a small American military vessel used to navigate narrow, interior waterways swift-boat (vb): to expose the disloyalty of a soldier, esp. when done by a large number of that soldie...

Obama's views on Muslim terrorism fly in the face of reality: Report

by: Jim Kouri | published: June 09, 2014

Despite President Barack Obama and his minions claiming the strength of the world's radical Islamist network is waning and the threat to the United States minimal, a study released on Wednesday by ...

VA Scandal: Retaliation aimed at whistleblowers a serious problem

by: Jim Kouri | published: June 09, 2014

One of the major complaints leveled at Veterans Administration (VA) officials has been their retaliation against military hospital staff who identify problems within their facilities. But according...

How Covering up Minority Crime Leads to Gun Control

by: Selwyn Duke | published: June 08, 2014

Commenting recently on the Elliot Rodger killings, arch-leftist Michael Moore wrote that while “other countries have more violent pasts…more guns per capita in their homes…and t...

BERGDAHL, HERE WE GO AGAIN

by: JB Williams | published: June 08, 2014

Once again, the American people have been betrayed by the Obama administration and blatantly lied to by administration officials. The anti-American Islam-friendly Obama regime has unilaterally and ...

Creating Democrats One Squirrel at a Time

by: Michael R. Shannon | published: June 08, 2014

A lack of affordable housing forced me to move 24 miles south of the Fort Hunt area in Fairfax County, VA. I couldn’t find an affordable house that had a view of the Potomac River. We had be...

Treasonous Audacity!

by: Armand C. Hale | published: June 08, 2014

Once again, President Obama has flexed his power of the pen, bypassing Congress to orchestrate a swap of prisoners, in clear violation of the law. He did this without anyone really being in the kno...

Bowe Bergdahl Affair: A Typical Obama Era Circus

by: Chris Adamo | published: June 08, 2014

It is time once again for a reality check, which may be difficult to achieve amid the liberal fanfare over the negotiated release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive by the Ta...

The Difference Between the Real World and Obama's

by: Alan Caruba | published: June 08, 2014

I keep wondering what it must have been like to be a young student at West Point listening to their Commander in Chief’s platitudes and ignorance wash over them. West Point is where our natio...

Emerging Universalism Part 2: Ecumenical Reconciliation

by: Debra Rae | published: June 08, 2014

In cadence with the likes of Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man, scores of unwitting folks skip merrily down the yellow brick road in pursuit of “the rainbow over the stream a...

Just assume we have a climate crisis

by: Paul Driessen | published: June 02, 2014

Climate modelers and disaster proponents remind me of the four guys who were marooned on an island, after their plane went down. The engineer began drawing plans for a boat; the lumberjack cut tree...

Veterans Are the Healthcare Canary in a Coal Mine

by: Michael R. Shannon | published: June 02, 2014

Between today and June 6th’s 70th anniversary of the D–Day landing I want you to find a veteran and talk to him. This doesn’t mean cornering some unsuspecting vet and ambushing hi...

The Regulatory Death of Energy in America

by: Alan Caruba | published: June 02, 2014

Before President Obama took office in 2009, the amount of electricity being produced by coal-fired utilities was approximately fifty percent of the total. Today it is approximately forty percent an...

The Worst That Can Happen Is You, Sec. Kerry

by: Daniel Clark | published: May 31, 2014

Rather than try to inspire the graduates at Boston College, Secretary of State John Kerry used the occasion of his commencement address to proselytize on behalf of the “climate change” doomsday cul...

No Time To Revisit Those RINO Retreads

by: Chris Adamo | published: May 28, 2014

The Republican Party stands at the precipice of leading America back from the cultural, economic, legislative, and diplomatic disasters of the Obama years, except that in recent decades it has prov...