Past Articles

Divided We Stand: A Traditionalist Manifesto

by: Selwyn Duke | published: February 17, 2014

Conservatives are generally very nice people — who never saw a culture war they couldn’t lose. That is to say, we often hear cracks about how Barack Obama and his ilk may “evolve&...

Build the Keystone pipeline, already!

by: Paul Driessen | published: February 17, 2014

President Obama frequently says he wants to turn the economy around, put America back to work, produce more energy, improve public safety, and open new markets to goods stamped “Made in the U...

2014 Road Map To Global Transformation

by: Debra Rae | published: February 17, 2014

In working their New Year’s resolutions, many ponder what 2014 will look like for their families, state, nation, and world. Prognostications are indicators, imperfect ones at that; but eviden...

Americans Are Losing Their Freedom

by: Alan Caruba | published: February 17, 2014

February 1st was National Freedom Day. It commemorates Lincoln’s signing of the House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment. Lincoln signed the Amendment outlawing slaver...

This Is Why Unions Hate Worker Freedom

by: Tim Dunkin | published: February 17, 2014

What do unions want the most, and therefore hate losing the most? If you guessed “money,” then based on that alone, you have good insight into what drives much of American politics. Uni...

The Road to Freedom in Tehran (the Rise of pro-Americanism in Iran)

by: Slater Bakhtavar | published: February 05, 2014

While the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with many Arab regimes espouses a doctrine of anti-Americanism the Iranian people have become profoundly pro-American in recent years. The officials of Ir...

Liberalism is Intellectually Bankrupt

by: Tim Dunkin | published: February 05, 2014

Liberalism is full of conceits, none greater than its pretensions to intellect. Indeed, the very term that they so often apply to themselves - “progressive” - carries with it the intrin...

Why Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Trying to Crush a Small Jewish Organization?

by: Selwyn Duke | published: February 05, 2014

It seems as if certain purported civil-rights activists think homosexuals are like some organized-crime groups: you can join the gang, but the only way you can leave is feet first. A case in point...

Driving Back Government Overreach In Wyoming

by: Chris Adamo | published: February 05, 2014

Hours before Barack Obama gave his monotonously predictable 2014 “State of the Union” charade, an event of potentially enormous consequences occurred in the State of Wyoming, which refl...

I Am Afraid of My Government

by: Alan Caruba | published: February 05, 2014

I came into this world when Franklin D. Roosevelt was President and I have never been afraid of my government until now. I am not alone. A consistent and growing theme of commentaries on the conse...

The Leftist Assault on American Football

by: Douglas V. Gibbs | published: February 02, 2014

I love football. I watched Peyton Manning lead Denver over New England (I was surprised Tom Brady didn't pull it off, to be honest), and enjoyed the NFC Championship Game, where the Seattle Seahaw...

A Very Cold Reality

by: Alan Caruba | published: February 02, 2014

It’s not as if those in the Northeast have not experienced bone-chilling cold or that it is predicted to extend from the Midwest down into our southern States. There may possibly be a snow st...

America in lockdown

by: Paul Driessen | published: February 02, 2014

President Obama insists he is determined to create jobs in America. He recently announced the creation of “promise zones” for five communities around the nation and a “manufacturi...

2014, The Year for Middle East Peace Part 2: Aliyah or A Lie?

by: Debra Rae | published: February 02, 2014

In the words of historian Howard Zinn, "History is always a matter of taking sides."[i] The late Columbia University English professor Edward Said added, "Facts get their importance ...

Federal Agencies Target “Right” Groups Again

by: JB Williams | published: February 02, 2014

From freedom to fascism well describes the events of the last five years under the most anti-American regime to ever hold political power in the United States. One need not look too far to find evi...

TX Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Wendy Davis’ Slip Is Showing

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

Wendy Davis is not the first Democrat to use a fetus pile as a stepping–stone to higher office. She’s only the latest. But Wendy is in such a hurry to run for governor of Texas that she...

Prospects For A Resurgent Tea Party In 2014

by: Chris Adamo | published: February 02, 2014

Liberal Democrats and Establishment Republicans have been foretelling of the death of the Tea Party ever since early 2009, shortly after the movement began. In the immediate aftermath of Barack Oba...

It’s Time for Conservatives to Let the Blue States Burn

by: Tim Dunkin | published: February 02, 2014

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently made the news for giving voice to the sort of fascistic, anti-liberty sentiments that most left-wingers inwardly hold, even if most of them have enough sense...

The Essence of Liberty

by: Douglas V. Gibbs | published: February 02, 2014

The convergence of political philosophies in our modern world has blurred the lines between them. Language has been altered to confuse the terms, and conceal the true nature of authoritarian conce...

Why Are Liberals So Stupid about Guns?

by: Tim Dunkin | published: February 02, 2014

Any normal, reasonably intelligent person who has ever had a conversation with a liberal about guns, gun control, or any related topic has probably asked himself or herself this very question. I re...

The Iditarod on 12,000 calories a day

by: Paul Driessen | published: February 02, 2014

This winter’s record Midwestern freeze made any outdoor activity a real challenge. It also made us appreciate modern housing, heating, transportation and hydrocarbons – and what our fro...

The Stepford Voters: Dems see women as devices

by: Daniel Clark | published: January 31, 2014

While combating the liberals’ dishonest and sophomoric “War on Women” theme, Republican former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said, “if the Democrats want to insult the wom...

Amnesty: The Next GOP Leadership Betrayal

by: Michael R. Shannon | published: January 20, 2014

House Republican leadership is preparing to betray the base. Again. To illustrate the magnitude of the sellout I was going to use a hypothetical analogy with Democrats and their base. Initially I w...

Countering The Ruling Class Amnesty Betrayal

by: Chris Adamo | published: January 20, 2014

It is high time to reassert those quaint notions of “compelling U.S. interests.” From the nature of America’s economic relations with the rest of the world to the definition of it...

2014, Designated Year for Middle East Peace. Part 1: Folly of Global Peacebuilding

by: Debra Rae | published: January 20, 2014

It’s ironic that in a region known for millennia of feuding, ongoing wars and rumors thereof, standard greetings impart the message of peace, both in Hebrew (shalom, שָׁלוֹ) and Arabic (ʿalay...