Articles

April 20, 2007
Packaging Science
Jonah Avriel Cohen
"When your opponent uses a merely superficial argument and you see through it, you can, it is true, refute it by setting forth its captious character," wrote Schopenhauer, in his devilish little book The Art of Always Being Right. More

April 19, 2007
The Fight To Bar Arms
Janet Ellen Levy
With the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech in which 32 people were slain on campus by a lone gunman who turned his weapon on himself, no doubt the clamor to ban personal ownership of guns will be raised again. More

April 19, 2007
Where Was God On Tuesday at VTU?
Don Crawford
How could a loving god allow one crazed maniac to kill in such horrible fashion so many innocent people at Virginia Tech University last Tuesday? More

April 19, 2007
In Defense of Defending Ourselves
R. E. Smith Jr.
They called it a "massacre." Students and faculty at Virginia Tech were gunned down by a madman. They were taken by surprise with little means to protect themselves, except to run and hide. More

April 18, 2007
Galileo Denied Consensus
Jerome J. Schmitt
In 1632 Galileo Galilei was accused of heresy for questioning the Aristotelian "consensus model" of the universe which held that the sun and all other heavenly bodies revolve around the earth. He was threatened by the Inquisition with torture for holding these views More

April 18, 2007
Pelosi has a Sheehan of Her Own
Ray Robison
It was in the summer of 2005 that the Bush Administration began to lose the support of the American public for the war in Iraq. A principal catalyst of this momentous transformation was the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. More

April 18, 2007
Nifong, Fitzgerald, and Justice Defiled
Chrisopher G. Adamo
So the State of North Carolina is finally officially recognizing what has been blatantly obvious to every honest and objective observer of the Duke lacrosse Team debacle since it first made national news. More

April 17, 2007
The Wolfowitz Set-up: Just Say "No"
Clarice Feldman
When it comes to media reports of bad conduct by Administration officials and appointees, it is a good idea to Just Say No to the first accounts you read. More

April 17, 2007
Hypocrisy has a Human Price on the Streets of Baghdad
Rocco DiPippo
I have observed first-hand the effects of the Bush Administration's new Iraq security plan since it began two months ago. More

April 17, 2007
The New Lynching: Why I Must Defend Don Imus
Selwyn Duke
So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. More

April 16, 2007
Levin out the facts
Ray Robison
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) challenges the assertions of the Vice President of the United States Richard Cheney regarding the cooperation of the Saddam regime and al Qaeda. The Senator relies on "intelligence reports" that are in fact political documents created by the Senate, not intelligence products More

April 16, 2007
Another Crisis in Command
Douglas Hanson
We are running a war from the banks of the Potomac much as we did in Vietnam. The Bush administration has been fighting a regional war without any semblance of unity of effort. More

April 16, 2007
Whatever Happened to "Duty, Honor, Country"?
Gerd Schroeder
General Douglas MacArthur in his final address given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962 spoke these words that every officer in the military knows by heart More

April 15, 2007
When Women Cry Wolf About Rape
Kyle-Anne Shiver
It is time for us - especially us women -- to come down hard on the woman who cried "Wolf" and those who enabled her. They caused a whole lot more damage than the little boy in the fairytale. More

April 15, 2007
The Defective "War Czar" Narrative
Christopher J. Alleva
On Wednesday, Peter Baker and Tom Ricks wrote a front page story in the Washington Post that reported that the White House allegedly is trying to recruit a "War Czar." More

April 15, 2007
God, Golf and Gratitude
Selwyn Duke
Major issues can rise from minor things, and so it is with last weekend's Masters golf tournament. More

April 14, 2007
Thoroughly modern mutilation
Bob Weir
Have you noticed how many young people are wearing jewelry these days? I don't mean wristwatches, bracelets, and finger rings. I'm talking about nose rings, lip rings, tongue studs,and much, much more. More

April 14, 2007
Deconstruction: a primer
James Arlandson
It seems that everyone in the media uses the terms "deconstruction" or "deconstruct." More

April 14, 2007
The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: A Review
Robert Cheeks
Among my first experiences in the metaxy, the place that philosopher Eric Voegelin defined as "the middle ground of human existence between the divine and material realms," occurred in 1958, when as a twelve year old, I attended a celebration of the Mass at St. Aloysius Catholic Church. More

April 13, 2007
Fantasy Manhood from France
Thomas Lifson
Inevitably the question arises: how do the French deal with anxiety about their national manliness, their will to stand and fight? More

April 13, 2007
Learning from George McGovern and Earl Browder
Andrew Walden
Three and a half years after congressional Democrats made that slaughter possible by cutting off all US aid to anti-communist forces with their so-called December, 1974 "Foreign Assistance Act", a genocide began in Cambodia. Will see similar events in Iraq following a funding cut off? More

April 13, 2007
What are they Smoking?
Bruce Hanson
"What are you smoking?" is a familiar question meant to imply mental impairment from the ingestion of controlled substances, usually in a sarcastic vein. But I have to wonder if we shouldn't be paying closer attention to this very question More

April 12, 2007
Shoplifting Secrets
Peter B. Martin
This is not a guide to shoplifting, but about the wholesale theft of U.S. strategic material and its consequences. Increasingly, American classified information and material is being compromised, either through espionage, outright theft or though negligence More

April 12, 2007
The Imus Formula
Duncan Maxwell Anderson
In the post-Easter crucifixion of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show that substituted for news this week, the hypocrisy would make a Pharisee blush. More

April 12, 2007
Why the rise of Islamism?
Daniel Mandel
According to the Hoover Institution's Dinesh D'Souza, the Western radical left has so repelled Muslims with its secularity, impiety and license that it, rather than gruesome Islamist imperial ambition, is a primary cause of Muslim rage and terror against America. More

April 11, 2007
Waxman Peddles Wilson's Lie
Clarice Feldman
Is Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, ignorant, lying or counting on the fact that the press is both? More

April 11, 2007
Who is Mahmoud's Target?
James Lewis
Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad has been hopping around like a male chimp performing a threat display --- pant-hooting, baring his big canine teeth, and tearing off branches to impress the hell out of all the other apes More

April 11, 2007
Terrorist Funding in Real Time
Rachel Ehrenfeld and John Wood
Advanced mobile technology and lack of regulations combine for a swift, cheap and undetectable way to fund terrorists. More

April 10, 2007
The War on Children
J.R. Dunn
It seems at times that not a week goes by without a child disappearing or being found dead under ghastly circumstances. More

April 10, 2007
The Supreme Court Turns the Ratchet
Christopher Chantrill
All the liberal wing and the moderates on the Supreme Court have done, in regulating CO2 as a pollutant, is give the ratchet of compulsion one more turn. More

April 10, 2007
Who's Next to Host ABC's The View -- David Duke?
Steven Zak
Deniers of 9/11 and of the Holocaust are two of a kind. It is a given that television networks put profits above pride, but ABC has reached a new low in its sponsorship of Rosie O'Donnell. More

April 09, 2007
Cheney is Absolutely Correct
Ray Robison
On the Rush Limbaugh radio program, VP Cheney restated his position that Saddam had ties to al Qaeda. The Vice President is completely correct. More

April 09, 2007
Jimmy Carter: The Democrats' Philosopher
Amy D. Goldstein
It was no coincidence that former President Jimmy Carter praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East last week. After all, Pelosi and her fellow congressional Democrats are simply implementing Carter's political philosophies once again. More

April 09, 2007
Europe: Let Uncle Do It
James Lewis
Europe gets forty percent of its oil through the Persian Gulf. But by an accident of history (and civilized policy -- ours, that is) it is the United States that guards the Gulf from madmen like Ahmadinejad. More

April 08, 2007
The Intersection of Judaism and Islam
Ron Kean
I've often wondered why people don't care about the 30 Years War these days. It's relevant today as the West fights militant Islam. More

April 08, 2007
Scandal: the welfare state of "Palestine"
Moshe Dann
According to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) tens of billions of dollars (one-third from US taxpayers, the rest mostly from Canada and European countries) have been spent over the last 50 years providing "Palestinian refugees" and their descendents More

April 08, 2007
The Ancient Persian Empire
Stefania Lapenna
Tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West have been heightening. After years of appeasement in the hope of getting something in exchange, Western leaders now seem to have realized that multilateral talks on the nuclear issue inevitably lead nowhere. More

April 07, 2007
Giuliani's Abortion Folly
Steven M. Warshawsky
It has long been understood that Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice stance on abortion could cost him dearly among conservative voters More

April 07, 2007
America's Broken-Down Media
Ray Robison
According to Mark Thompson, writer for Time magazine, America's army is broken. More

April 07, 2007
Postmodern Truth Soup
James Arlandson
One postmodern theorist states: "Postmodernism swims, even wallows, in the fragmentary and the chaotic currents of change as if that is all there is" More

April 06, 2007
Dealing with Leftists who "Support the Troops"
John Robinson
One of the biggest problems we conservatives have always faced is language. Conservatives all too often allow liberals to bamboozle us into arguing issues on liberal terms. More

April 06, 2007
Does Violence Have to be Taught?
Selwyn Duke
It seems that the more we come to believe that "Violence has to be taught," the more our children learn to be violent. It's a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off More

April 06, 2007
A New Yardstick
Nathan Hale
At a very young age I had the good fortune to learn a life lesson that appears not to have taken hold among the Democrats' elite, nor much of the legacy media and only scarcely among academics. More

April 05, 2007
SCOTUS Emits Scare Pollution
Marc Sheppard
The Supreme Court of the United States has arrogantly ruled that the second most vital gas to sustaining life on Earth is a "pollutant." More

April 05, 2007
Power at Any Price
Pamela Meister
The Democrats claim that the November 2006 election gave them a mandate to end the war in Iraq. That isn't what they were saying late last year. More

April 05, 2007
Rethinking the FBI?
Al Johnson
Would the United States be better off with a new counterterrorism agency? More

April 04, 2007
The Almighty Euro beats the Royal Navy
James Lewis
Today Britain is being raked over the coals by the nasty old Barbary Pirates, in the shape of the Madcap Mullahs of Qom More

April 04, 2007
Pity A Poor Democrat
Christopher Chantrill
Don't think it's easy being a Democratic officeholder. More

April 04, 2007
Beware of Mullahs Bearing Gifts
Amil Imani
Despite the current imbroglio over the British hostages, Iran's mullahs have repeatedly indicated their willingness and ability to help restore order in Iraq, on the condition that the United States packs up and leaves the region. More

April 03, 2007
Ban the Bulb?
Luminus Maximus
In a few weeks the US Congress is likely to vote to phase out the standard incandescent lightbulb within a decade. More

April 03, 2007
The Democrats Go Fishing
J.R. Dunn
Last week, Democratic strategy for the rest of the Bush presidency was rendered transparent: the Dems intend to impeach George W. Bush by whatever means necessary. More

April 03, 2007
Living-Room Warriors
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I get very queasy when I consider the fact that we are urged by our media and the Democrats to fight the Iraq War using newspaper/television opinion polls for decision making. More

April 02, 2007
When the money runs out
Gerd Schroeder
Now that Congress has passed the Iraq Accountability Act, one of the best questions that I have heard is: "when will the lack of funds start hurting the troops?" More

April 02, 2007
As long as you are hated, it's better to be feared
James Lewis
Tehran isn't interested in loving the West, or even in tolerating us. If you doubt it, just listen to the Khomeini gang. More

April 02, 2007
The Muslim Brotherhood's Propaganda Offensive
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is heightening its U.S. propaganda offensive in advance of the 2008 presidential elections, taking advantage of the political uncertainty and opposition to the current Administration's defense policies More

April 01, 2007
Send Me to GITMO!
Janet Ellen Levy
Whenever I hear of rich people like Martha Stewart, Dennis Kozlowski or Leona Helmsley being convicted and sent to prison, I find myself wondering how these jet-setting sybarites withstand incarceration. More

April 01, 2007
Seating Arrangements
Paul Shlichta
In a recent analysis of current gender disparities in communication, Selwin Duke wisely refrained from tackling the toilet-seat-position (TSP) issue. More

April 01, 2007
Home of the Hamburger?
Barry Popik
A veritable war among the states has broken out, with various locales claiming to be the home of our iconic national meal on a bun. More