When I drove by Eddie Gabor’s old house, I was transported back 20 years — back to the wonderful Fourth of July outings my family once enjoyed there.
Eddie Gabor was my grandmother’s longtime companion. For the last 20 years of…
July 4th, 2009 by Tom Purcell
When I drove by Eddie Gabor’s old house, I was transported back 20 years — back to the wonderful Fourth of July outings my family once enjoyed there.
Eddie Gabor was my grandmother’s longtime companion. For the last 20 years of…
July 2nd, 2009 by Stephen Pohl
No not pro-life, for life; like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Comrade Bob Mugabe, and that Honduran wannabe, Manuel Zelaya.
I am not a proponent of CIA sponsored right wing coups, or dictatorships of any stripe. On the other hand, all branches…
July 2nd, 2009 by Dr. L. John VanTil
Textbooks have pictured President Coolidge (1923-29) as an accidental, dim-witted president who said little, and thus, was dubbed “Silent Cal.” Actually, he was the most popular political figure in America throughout the 1920s. I have concluded that he should be…
June 30th, 2009 by Peg Luksik, Ph.D.
Anyone who has ever played a game with a five-year-old knows that there is only one rule. The five-year-old has to win. Any other rule is just a suggestion if it would result in the five-year-old losing the game.
In the…
June 27th, 2009 by Ken Connor
Last week President Obama signed a presidential memorandum authorizing special benefits for same-sex partners of federal workers. He touted the measure as a means of ensuring “competitiveness” with the private sector for America’s most talented professionals. Mr. Obama should dispense with…
June 26th, 2009 by Daniel Pipes
In a striking coincidence, two very different expressions of Iranian dissent took place exactly simultaneously on two continents on Saturday, June 20. Between them, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an unprecedented challenge.
One protest took place on the streets of…
June 26th, 2009 by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
What on earth are they thinking? The Obama administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are significantly reducing America’s missile defense programs at the very moment when the need for such systems is becoming ever more palpable. It is…
June 25th, 2009 by Peg Luksik, Ph.D.
French King Louis XIV believed that he had the right to do whatever he desired as the ruler of France. When asked to explain how he thought the king should interact with the rest of the government and the people, his…
June 22nd, 2009 by Daniel Pipes
A throwaway line of mine at the Heritage Foundation on June 3 has turned into a minor internet sensation. Here it is, as presented by the left-wing journalist who broke the story:
I’m sometimes asked who I would vote for if I…
June 19th, 2009 by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Paul Krugman’s outrage is selective and aimed, as usual, at conservatives.
I was surprised to see the New York Times columnist take a swipe at me and the paper that has long been my home. Since Frank Rich, another New York Times columnist,…