Year: 2013

If there was a moment when the United States could have productively intervened in Syria, it looks like that moment has passed. Shiite militants, including Hezbollah — partly at the behest of their paymasters in Iran — are racing to the defense of Bashar Assad’s regime. According to a witness account in the New York […]

It must be nice to be a leftist. The solution to every problem is more of someone else’s money. That’s the favored solution over on the Democratic Party side of the aisle when it comes to the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profits. In a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano of New York […]

It is not really news that Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book. He has done that before and repeatedly, on a variety of subjects. The subject of his latest book, “The Savior Generals” is given in the subtitle: “How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost– From Ancient Greece to […]

Round-up of some interesting stories from around the Internet over the past few weeks: If you missed it, there was a profile of Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire who does so many great things for America, Israel and many other vital causes.: Read the op-ed here about how a broken clock and The New York Times can […]

One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, the immigration controversies of that era were discussed in the context of innumerable facts about particular immigrant groups. Many of those facts were published in a huge, multi-volume 1911 study by a commission headed […]

On Memorial Day weekend, 2 million people marched in protests against seed giant Monsanto for the purpose of bringing awareness to hazards from genetically modified food, which it and other companies manufacture. Organizer Tami Canal said protests were held in 436 cities in 52 countries. Genetically modified plants are grown from genetically modified, or engineered, […]

Isn’t it rich that the White House is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder’s critics of being “partisans who seem more interested in launching political attacks than cooperating with him to protect the security and constitutional rights of the American people”? Partisan? Launching political attacks? Well, if the White House and Holder were not so partisan […]

Here is a contemporary political truth: Every time you think that the left and its political party have hit moral bottom, they will eventually prove you wrong. The most recent example occurred last week in Louisiana. The head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, stood before her colleagues in […]

Did the IRS scandal begin when the Obama administration aggressively tried to deny tax-exempt status to pro-Israeli groups that funded settlements on the West Bank in defiance of its wishes? The IRS seems to have used tax audits to try to cripple these Jewish groups. When the Citizens United decision came down, did President Obama […]

The power to prosecute is an awesome power that confers the ability to ruin people’s lives, which is why an attorney general should use that power judiciously. There should be, to borrow from language in currency at the Obama Department of Justice these days, “balance.” When authorities uphold federal drug laws, they should target the […]

That’s all, folks. One look at the headlines will tell you the gold bull market is officially over: the stock market is booming, a modest recovery of the US economy is underway, and the dollar is dominating the forex. Time to sell your bullion and get back into US stocks! Does anyone really believe this […]

The annual ritual known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee came and went last week with kids spelling words that, I suspect, many with graduate degrees couldn’t spell. The winner was Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, N.Y. Mahankali is the first boy to win the title since 2008. There is a lesson […]

The subject of Islam is a growing area of concern around the world, and one can also ask about “What is the threat of Islam to all other religions?”: : People can no longer pretend that Muslims live on the other side of the globe, or that what they believe doesn’t affect us.: Inspiration Ministries: is exploring these vital […]