Opinion

Real Men Want Globocops — and Other Imperial Delusions

Some eternal verities have outlived their usefulness. Okay that's a contradiction, which I cheerfully acknowledge. To be more accurate, some things that seem...

Jack Kenny November 11, 2010

Understanding the Election Results beyond Skin Deep

Selwyn Duke November 10, 2010

In just the way some voters believed that Obama’s 2008 ascendancy heralded a new era of hope-and-change leftist hegemony, it’s easy to view...

Book Review: Sapping Americans’ Shrewdness

Beverly K. Eakman November 10, 2010

Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry, by Lenore Skenazy, Jossey-Bass Publishers (a Wiley Imprint): San...

The “Gridlock” Bogeyman

Thomas Sowell November 10, 2010

Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be "gridlock" in...

Khadr’s Coerced Confession

Becky Akers November 10, 2010

Imagine you pull into your drive after work to find the beagle from next door dying on your lawn, victim of a hit-and-run....

How Americans Engineered the Rescue of the Chilean Miners

Sam Blumenfeld November 9, 2010

In all the excitement created by the rescue of the Chilean miners, which has been called a miracle, very little recognition has been...

Political Judges

Thomas Sowell November 9, 2010

Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with "public servants" who act as if they are...

World Bank’s Trial Balloon Pops

Bob Adelmann November 9, 2010

Before the Internet, Robert Zoellick’s brief outline of suggested topics for the G20 meeting this week in Seoul, Korea, might have been considered...

Prometheus for President (Or The Myth of an All-powerful President Lives On)

Jack Kenny November 9, 2010

I am not inclined to rush to the library or bookstore to find and read the latest bestseller or new release, like Deciding...

A Review of Gere’s “Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism”

James Heiser November 8, 2010

Cathy Gere’s new book, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, is of profound significance because it offers the reader an opportunity to examine...

Madison and Jefferson: A New Perspective on the Great Collaboration

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 8, 2010

On your last visit to Washington, D.C., did you stand marvelling at the size and craftsmanship of the Lincoln Memorial? Did you pause...

It’s Not Your Father’s Democratic Party

Jack Kenny November 8, 2010

The first political question I can recall ever asking was the one I put to my father when I was seven years old....

With the Ballot, Who Needs Term Limits?

Gary Benoit November 8, 2010

Anyone who has frequented Tea Party gatherings has undoubtedly seen multiple signs sprinkled throughout the crowd calling on fellow citizens to “Throw the...