Opinion

Media “Fact-Checkers” and Why We Should Be Skeptical

by Robert Hutchinson September 5, 2012

When I worked in the US Attorney’s Office during college, as a flunkie law librarian, I used to spend tax-payers’ money sitting at a big wooden table and reading a law encyclopedia called Proof of Facts. (Like most federal government…

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Israel’s Strategic Crisis

by George Friedman August 20, 2012

Crises are normally short, sharp and intense affairs. Israel’s predicament has developed on a different time frame, is more diffuse than most crises and has not reached a decisive and intense moment. But it is still a crisis. It is…

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The Gray Lady Learns How to Genuflect?

by Matthew Hanley August 20, 2012

No one would have expected the New York Times to react favorably to Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan, most well-known for advancing a budget proposal, as his Vice Presidential running mate. On that score, the Times and the rest…

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Three Words, Cardinal Dolan: Cancel the Dinner

by Jenn Giroux August 16, 2012

According to the New York Times, “The Archdiocese of New York confirmed that both Mr. Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, had accepted an invitation to speak on Oct. 18 at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner,…

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Remembering VJ Day

by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma August 14, 2012

Consider this fictitious scenario: In the summer of 1950, President Thomas E. Dewey faced a national security crisis of extraordinary proportions—one that his advisors agreed likely would define his presidency. After beating his Democratic opponent in 1948 by a comfortable…

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The Natural Map of the Middle East

by Pat Buchanan August 8, 2012

“Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. … One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind.”
So wrote H.G. Wells…

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Making Noise, Not Arguments

by Jennifer Morse August 2, 2012

In my work as a social conservative, I have been puzzled by some of the rhetorical strategies of my opponents. Sometimes I feel my head spinning, as if I have been going around in circles, with no obvious conclusion in…

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Top 10 Things Government Can Do for Small Business Owners

by Keith Koffler July 31, 2012

I own a small business – the one you are reading – and have worked in many others over the course of my career. So I was, you can imagine, a little surprised to hear from President Obama about the…

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Food Stamps: Provide a Safety Net, Not a Mattress

by Ken Connor July 18, 2012

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” -Acts 20:35 (NIV)

Government…

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Immigration: He Who Is Without Sin

by John B. Londregan July 12, 2012

Just in time for the presidential election, the Obama administration has issued a directive cutting back on enforcement of immigration law. To the extent that this order can survive a challenge in the Supreme Court, it is something Obama could…

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