More Scared of History Than Destined To Repeat It

Traumas suffered by a society generations ago can still have a negative effect centuries later. This is something Americans of a certain age should have no difficulty understanding. Half a century ago, we had to grapple with a dysfunctional and unjustifiable system of legally imposed racial segregation. It was a legacy of the Civil War […]

 

Environmental Views: What Really Triggers a Resource Crisis

Churchville, VA–During a symposium held recently at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yale historian, Tim Snyder told the attendees: “Climate change acts as a “multiplier of other resource crises leading to “the ecological panic that I’m afraid will lead to mass killings in the decades come.” In his attempt to predict the future, he is relying […]

 

The 50 Best Quotes From Ann Coulter’s 2011 Columns

All of these are from Ann Coulter’s 2011 columns. Enjoy! Just as Americans ought to be able to learn the perils of a welfare state by looking at Greece, we ought to be able to learn the perils of illegal immigration by looking at California. Employers like hiring non-Americans because they can pay illegal aliens […]

 

The Obama Administration Encouraged Law Enforcement To Let The Occupy Movement Break The Law

What do you think the chances are the Obama Administration would have: done this for Tea Partiers? On Nov. 6, 2011, DHS/National Protection and Programs Directorate Chief of Staff Caitlin Durkovich and GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner Robert Peck, who has since been fired, communicated via email and specifically discussed Occupy Portland protests that were occurring […]

 

Meet the Real Workers Obama Screwed Over

Chutzpah overload in full effect: President Obama’s sleazy super-PAC, run by his former White House spokesman Bill Burton, just released an ad accusing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney of causing the cancer death of a steelworker’s wife. It’s not just a slanderous and false attack. It’s a foolish attempt to camouflage the administration’s massive jobs […]

 

Liberals, Progressives and Socialists

In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people. Here’s my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned […]

 



How nations can use the Olympic athlete’s mentality to win

Watching the Olympic Games, I find one phenomenon particularly striking. After an event, athletes who literally seconds before had been attempting to trounce one another in competition suddenly start hugging each other. An outsider might wonder about this coexistence of competition and affection. As a former elite-level swimmer, I can tell you: While it’s every […]

 



Even The Army Can Use Digital Media

The Israel Defense Forces has been releasing some great videos on YouTube — which do a wonderful job of humanizing the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).: : Today a video was released of the IDF’s only co-ed combat unit — and a well spoken young woman detailing the final exercise after months of hard training.: : This […]

 


September: When The Rubber Starts To Meet The Road In Election 2012

You hear liberal pundits beating their chests about how Obama is going to beat Romney, conservative pundits proclaiming that Mitt is on pace to win, the polls are all over the place – when do we start to get a better idea of what’s going on? It should be September. For example, if you look […]

 

A Government-Created Problem For Which There Is Absolutely, Positively No Solution: A Plague Of Endangered Egrets

It seems bizarre that there could be: so many of an “endangered” species in one area that they could torment a whole neighborhood, but that’s exactly what’s happening in a Fort Worth, Texas neighborhood. Tree branches and bushes are stripped almost bare of their summer foliage, and big piles of bird droppings have turned parts of […]

 

The UK Is Helping To Destroy The WMDs in Iraq The Left Says Doesn’t Exist!

The truth is that there was a lot more grey area when it comes to Iraq’s WMDs than people like to admit. As a matter of fact,: that grey area is still being cleaned up today. Britain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what’s left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons, still stored […]

 



The Ticking Time Bomb of Iran and Obama

Last Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted on his website his most recent anti-Semitic tirade, saying global forces should join together to annihilate Israel. Meanwhile, in Orlando, Fla., President Barack Obama had a takeout plate of pulled pork and rice. The Jerusalem Post reported Ahmadinejad as saying, “Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive […]

 

Hundreds of Millions in Taxpayer Losses Are Just ‘Minor Blips’

President Obama’s disgracefully corrupt policies on green energy alone should be enough to ensure his defeat in November — even apart from his war on reliable energy sources, which is unspeakably outrageous. Recently revealed emails show the extent of the abject corruption and reckless waste surrounding Obama’s Solyndra project. The Heritage Foundation has compiled a […]

 

Mitt Romney, Chick-fil-A, and Ben & Jerry’s

The Democratic mayors of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. gave Mitt Romney and the Republican Party the greatest gift possible. They provided the American people with as clear an example of the unbridgeable differences between left and right, between Democrat and Republican, as could be hoped for. And it was largely wasted. The […]

 





You’re Probably Losing Money On Social Security Right Now And It’s Only Going To Get Worse

Most informed people realize that our current Social Security system is unsustainable with the level of debt that we’re racking up. However, did you know that even Americans who are retiring today are: ALREADY receiving less money than they paid into the program? People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have […]

 

Understanding How Harry Reid Is Fine With Telling Bald Faced Lies About Romney’s Taxes: It’s Not About What’s True; It’s About Who’s On Offense

“One of the things you’ll learn in dealing with the professional Left is that they have absolutely no ethics whatsoever when it comes to dealing with conservatives. They’re perfectly content to smear us, lie about us, or silence us in any way that they can get away with. It’s very much an “end justifies the […]

 

Pressure Grows On Twitter To Curb Abusive “Trolls” That Have Already Fairly Effectively Been Dealt With

As people have become progressively more wimpy and feminized, we’re hearing more and more calls for legislative and corporate action designed to prevent people from being mean to each other. Yes, really. That’s what has happened with bullying despite the fact that: hitting bullies in the mouth is an effective way of dealing with the problem: that […]