Alan Caruba's Past Articles

279 articles

The New American Elite

published: January 30, 2012

The only constant in the life of individuals and nations is change. Since the beginning of the last century, the process or rate of change has accelerated with the invention and availability of a m...

Does Obama Want to Lose? Yes!

published: January 26, 2012

It seems like a bizarre notion, but does Barack Obama want to lose the election in November? I think he does! One is struck by the way Obama has visibly aged in the job. He may well have grown we...

Destroying America by Denying Access to Energy

published: January 23, 2012

It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world’s greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency...

The U.S. is on a Suicide Watch

published: January 20, 2012

In 1991, the Soviet Union, arguably the greatest experiment in Communism, collapsed. After Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors moved to shift its Communist economy to one that embraced Capitali...

Obama Weakens the Military

published: January 16, 2012

“Si vis pacem, para bellum.” If you want peace, plan for war. The adage is attributed to the 4th or 5th century Latin author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s tract De Re Militar...

Barack Machiavelli

published: January 08, 2012

The Founding Fathers, authors of the Constitution, were obsessed with any form of government that could become too powerful, too willing to use force to oppress citizens. They had cause. They had f...

EPA’s Killer MACT

published: January 08, 2012

To understand how the Environmental Protection Agency operates, one must first understand that it lies all the time. Its “estimates” are bogus. Its claims of lives saved are bogus. It ...

How Not to Go Crazy in 2012

published: January 01, 2012

Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed this in order to keep readers reading and viewers viewing. The history of Am...

The 2012 Check List for America's Survival

published: December 25, 2011

Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the Republic should be tallied. 1. President Obama must be defeated in 2012 a...

Christianity's Triumph

published: December 19, 2011

“By far the most important event in the entire rise of Christianity was the meeting in Jerusalem in around the year 50, when Paul was granted the authority to convert Gentiles without them al...

America's Communist President

published: December 12, 2011

In his extraordinary book, “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”, the historian, Dr. Paul Kengor, stated in his introduction that “W...

Looking to the Dollar, Gold, and "Mutti" to Save the World

published: December 08, 2011

The most formidable couple in the world during the 1980s was Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher, a conservative and a woman of iron will, must be looking across th...

Spending More has Never Worked!

published: December 04, 2011

Ask any financial advisor what to do when you are drowning in debt and they will tell you to spend less and pay down your debt. This is just common sense. However, if you ask politicians what to do...

Paper Money, Real Debt, and Spendthrift Nations

published: December 01, 2011

As the citizens of the United States and the seventeen member-nations of the European Union look on, a great drama regarding the future of the EU and its currency, the Euro, is occurring. The esse...

The Threat of a Global Financial Collapse

published: November 27, 2011

At present, the amount of the annual Gross Domestic Product, $14 trillion—the value of all the goods and services that generate income—is exceeded by the nation’s debts. America ...

System Failure on a Global Scale

published: November 21, 2011

We are living in times when the structures involving the global financial system, national security, and self-governance are under attack, decaying, or just self-destructing due to all the ills to ...

Super Committee Suicide

published: November 20, 2011

By the weekend, news reports indicated that the congressional Super Committee was closing in on an agreement. The deficit-cutting panel is mandated to trim at least $1.2 trillion in federal spendin...

If Not Romney, Who?

published: November 13, 2011

Generally overlooked in the midst of the many debates and the usual competition between Republican candidates for the Party’s nomination is the fact that a rather impressive number have throw...

What We Have Here is a Failure to Negotiate

published: November 10, 2011

In the movie, “Cool Hand Luke” the warden of a prison camp utters the now famous line, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” The decision of the Democratic member...

Time to Rid the Streets of the "Occupy" Movement

published: November 08, 2011

Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement tends toward violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities—some seventy at last count&...

Killing Energy, Killing Jobs, Killing America

published: October 30, 2011

America has been under attack since Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20, 2009. The primary target has been the nation’s ability to generate energy for electricity and transport...

Global Warming: An Obituary

published: October 26, 2011

I used to write obituaries when I was a young journalist and I daresay they are one of the best read sections of any newspaper. We have arrived at a time when the obituaries for global warming (now...

Muammar, Dead at Last

published: October 24, 2011

There were at last count at least 643 ways to spell Muammar Gaddafi and I for one am very happy he is dead for that reason alone. The fact that he was the dictator of Libya for over forty years, fu...

Kiss the European Union Goodbye

published: October 20, 2011

In Paris on October 15th, a group of finance ministers and central bankers known as the G20, representing major nations, gave the European Union until October 23red to find an answer to the financi...

Immigration, Migration, Politics and Policies

published: October 17, 2011

When early humans got the hang of walking upright, the first thing many did was to walk out of Africa and, eventually, to all parts of the Earth from Asia to Europe, to North and South America, pro...