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Oh No, Not Again! 'Smart Power' Is Back

President Bush’s foreign policy has often been reduced to unkind terms by his detractors. He was considered a reckless cowboy, a hick, an idiot that lucked his way into office and benefited from his father’s life time in politics. His

Bat Ye'or: 'The Universal Caliphate Stands Before Us'

Bat Ye’or’s 2005 Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis portrayed Western Europe’s recrudescent dhimmitude, chronicled in real time, by our most informed contemporary scholar of the dhimmi condition. Living as an eyewitness in Geneva–a major European center, with its United Nations, NGOs

Warren Buffett's Fiscal Innumeracy

Warren Buffett’s at it again. He has a column in the New York Times complaining that he has been coddled by the tax code and that “rich” people should pay higher taxes. My first instinct is to send Buffett the

Avian-Brained Abe Foxman on the 'Cloacal' Sharia

Avian Cloaca: Bousquet’s Sharia Metaphor Foxman: Avian-Brained on Sharia Abraham Foxman’s latest uninformed rant, “Shout down the Sharia myth makers,” re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven and distressingly stupid organizational Jewish “leader.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Foxman

Cell Phones for the Poor on the Taxpayers' Dime

Nowadays everyone has a cell phone. In fact, most can’t even recall how life happened before cell phones existed. But there is one group of Americans who largely remain contract free and live without the convenience of a smart phone.

Are the Arts Gay Enough?

You know the problem with the arts these days? In case you didn’t know, Philip Kennicott will be happy to tell you. The problem with the arts, he says, is that they’re homophobic. Quit laughing. In a recent Washington Post

Coming Soon To Marines: Groin Armor

Amazing that they didn’t think of this earlier. From the Marine Corps Times: It looks like a camouflage diaper, but it could save your future children. Within a month, the Marine Corps will begin fielding new groin protectors that can

Whittaker Chambers, Communism, And Islam

Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor

Independence Day, 2021

Pete Schweizer has asked me, for Independence Day, to write something upbeat and optimistic. This is not an easy task for me, given that I’m the gloomiest person in the world. The Future But in fact, I AM upbeat and

Divided We Celebrate

It’s “pursuit of happiness”- not “right of happiness” – in the famous Declaration of Independence quote. That’s why to me today’s July 4th celebration takes on significance beyond the obvious. A growing number of Americans now think happiness – or

Nicholas Kristof's Perversion of the U.S. Military Model

I’m often asked by puzzled classmates why–after graduating from Harvard College with an economics degree and working at a distinguished think tank in Washington, D.C.–I now sport the U.S. Navy blue and gold and serve as an enlisted Aviation Structural

Why Sarah Palin Must Run in 2012

One of the prevailing debates in the GOP these days (if not the only one) is whether or not Governor Sarah Palin will, or should, run for president. Not only should she, she must if the GOP has any hope

Campaign Advice for Herman Cain and Other Politicians

Political pundits jumped on Herman Cain for not knowing what the Palestinian right of return was. Yet when I heard Cain’s answer to Chris Wallace on the matter he nonetheless gave a sufficient reply. And that’s the good thing about

First Amendment Trumps Sharia in Dearborn

Robert Muise, Senior Counsel for the Thomas More Law Center: Teaching us how to solve the problem of Sharia A seminal, if ominous report released May 17, 2011 by the Center for Security Policy described fifty appellate court cases from

The Law: The Socialists

From The Law, by Frederic Bastiat: How did politicians ever come to believe this weird idea that the law could be made to produce what it does not contain — the wealth, science, and religion that, in a positive sense,

Obama Explained By Andy McCarthy

Just brilliant, which seems the norm for this guy. He pulls back the curtain on Obama and reveals what makes the man tick. It should be sent to everyone you know. Let’s keep its lesson in front of us as

Has The Media Finally Awakened?

I keep thinking/hoping, eventually journalists are going to wake up. I’ve spent 30 years in the business, always cynical about its mission (the business is supposed to attract cynics,) and waiting and wondering if good sense and logic will finally

Obama And Netanyahu In Sharp Disagreement After Speech

When President George Bush announced his Mideast Roadmap to Peace in 2003, I wrote that the plan could never succeed because the survivors of the genocidal 1936-49 war between Arabs and Jews, including Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon, were disappearing,

President Obama's Remarks On The Middle East

Full text: I want to thank Hillary Clinton, who has traveled so much these last six months that she is approaching a new landmark – one million frequent flyer miles. I count on Hillary every day, and I believe that