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10/2002 - 01/2003


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U.N., R.I.P.
Iraq is going to chair the session of the United Nations' single most important disarmament negotiating forum...
01/31/2003


The Jews and President Bush
01/31/2003


Politicians With Guts
Unparalleled political and moral courage of Blair, Aznar and the other six European leaders...
01/31/2003


A few good lessons for Europe
This sort of mooching is annoying, but at least Europeans used to say 'thank you'...
01/31/2003


Man pays wife salary to keep quiet
01/31/2003


Amazing grace and amazing faith
Mr. Bush rightly called drug addiction & another cause of hopelessness..."
01/31/2003


Why Britain will fight in Iraq
01/31/2003


Ties that bind
The government now has sufficient intelligence to link Saddam to the international assassins of innocent people...
01/31/2003


Bush not shy about Christ's role in his life
Boy, he's lucky he didn't let a "Sweet Jesus" or "My Lord and Savior" slip out...
01/31/2003


Post-Cold War Allies
Dated alliances...
01/31/2003


Marxist Madness
According to Mr. Mandela, "the United States is behaving so arrogantly..."
01/31/2003


Tom Daschle’s "Leave No Bureaucracy Behind" Stimulus Plan
Embracing big government...
01/31/2003


America Among the Nations
We will do our duty...
01/31/2003


The state of the economy
All-out depression' ahead?
01/31/2003


The Right Man
More and more this presidency is feeling like a gift....
01/30/2003


United We Stand
Eight European leaders are as one with President Bush...
01/30/2003


The state of President Bush is good
A hide stronger than an armadillo and a vision that what he is doing a is completely right...
01/30/2003


Dim Dems Playing Body-Bag Politics
Some who voted for attack last fall now busy second-guessing president at 11th hour...
01/30/2003


War-torn Democrats
Rush to war? We've been talking about this war for a year...
01/30/2003


Parliament member caught playing computer games during debate
01/30/2003


With linkage forthcoming
Mounting evidence that Saddam has been helping al Qaeda...
01/30/2003


Leftist bias in college – the denial continues
Do college professors teach their politics without providing alternative points of view?
01/30/2003


Doing It Right
How that new African AIDS money should be spent...
01/30/2003


Struggle in the shadows
Regarding concrete evidence of Iraq's evasion of disarmament obligations, critics promptly pronounced the address less than nourishing...
01/30/2003


Even by Clinton standards, it’s sheer chutzpah
Comments smack of killing parents, then pleading for clemency on the ground of orphanhood...
01/29/2003


In search of the right metaphor
Bush is a cowboy, in the best sense of the label...
01/29/2003


Police can't find stolen elephant
01/29/2003


Springer candidacy points to what's wrong
'Toothless hookers of the world unite!'
01/29/2003


He's turned into a great orator
01/29/2003


Faith in the justice of his cause and America's ability to see it through
Everything else is minor compared to this. Everything.
01/29/2003


A determined President
"This is not a declaration of war..."
01/29/2003


1-2-3, What Are We Waiting For?
The inspectors found conclusive evidence of noncompliance...
01/29/2003


Daschle's lowest blow
Tom Daschle's attack on President Bush's Iraq policy was shocking and without precedent...
01/29/2003


Dying gasps at the U.N.
If anyone of the permanent members other than the U.S. and Britain, vetoes military action against Iraq, it will effectively end the almost 60-year reign of the U.N...
01/29/2003


Vital tax reform losing an ally
Bush deserves great credit for making elimination of double taxation a priority...
01/29/2003


Take back the U.N.
Just as the United Nations is preparing to face two important tests of its relevance one of its key bodies just voted itself into irrelevancy...
01/29/2003


Why Did Israel’s Left Lose?
Mideast futures...
01/29/2003


Is George W. Bush an imperialist?
01/29/2003


Saddam Caught Red-Handed
01/29/2003


War and Peace
In his SOTU, Bush makes the case for a necessary, just, and winnable war...
01/29/2003


Riding on America's shoulders
Canada in a 'policy limbo'...
01/28/2003


Jab at Heston mean & unfair
George Clooney's mocking of Charlton Heston's fatal disease has largely been ignored by the press...
01/28/2003


More time for what?
The inspectors might locate a weapons-of-mass-destruction needle in a disinformation haystack...
01/28/2003


You can't ignore the evidence
There is simply no evidence that Iraq intends to comply with the resolutions and plenty to the contrary...
01/28/2003


Anti-Europeanism in America
The current stereotype of Europeans is easily summarized. Europeans are wimps.
01/28/2003


Uday TV
What Iraqis see of the world...
01/28/2003


Bush's hour to shine
Bush has been getting a lot of free advice lately about what he should say in his State of the Union address...
01/28/2003


Death wish: Is Malvo a terrorist?
01/28/2003


Don’t Give Hussein the War He Wants
A case for "more time..."
01/28/2003


Payback for the rich?
All we hear about President Bush's economic proposal is how disproportionately beneficial it is to the top 1 percent of all taxpayers...
01/28/2003


The "Peace" Movement's Korean Connection
The Stalinist WWP has organized all the major rallies demanding "peace" on tyrants’ terms...
01/28/2003


Man left 'short' by botched operation
01/28/2003


Is the global economy about to crash?
Once the world's greatest creditor, we are now the world's greatest debtor nation...
01/27/2003


Bush has to fight the doubters
Preemptive strikes seem to be the order of the day...
01/27/2003


Just the Facts
Nothing personal, Mr. President: How to make the case against Saddam...
01/27/2003


The axis of irrelevance
"axis of evil" seems to be an understatement...
01/27/2003


Time for public schools to throw in the towel?
01/27/2003


The Jewish lobby?
There's a former U.S. congressman running around the world blaming America for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
01/27/2003


Time and circumstance at the U.N.
Oil prices soared when Powell said it would be clear by the end of January that Iraq was flouting the U.N. resolution...
01/27/2003


Our War
The Sam Spade State of the Union...
01/27/2003


Colombia’s "Revolutionaries" and Their Helpers
01/27/2003


Diversity of thought? Whatever.
01/27/2003


Le Chutzpah
Don’t call the French principled...
01/24/2003


No Turning Back Now
The window of legitimacy is now officially closed...
01/24/2003


The clock ticks down on our brave 'allies'
French and Germans never seem happier than when collaborating against the good guys...
01/24/2003


The Rage of Oriana Fallaci
'If we stay inert, then we become collaborationists...'
01/24/2003


Connecting the Dots
Sanctity of life threatened on many fronts...
01/24/2003


Those antiwar protests
Not one speaker, not one sign, not one slogan, not one banner denounced or criticized Saddam...
01/24/2003


New reality show to be based on a British hit called Wife Swap
But it's not what you think...
01/24/2003


The thin green line
In our country illegal aliens have more rights than the agents themselves...
01/24/2003


Weighing the risks of Social Security reform
Is the stock market too risky for retirement savings?
01/24/2003


Vice Squad
The enemy looks to exploit human frailties...
01/24/2003


Take My Knife...Please
Don't you just love how professional the 44,000 new airport security personnel are becoming?
01/24/2003


'Slow war' time-lines
The war with Iraq began Aug. 2, 1990, the day Saddam's Republican Guard invaded Kuwait...
01/24/2003


Florida Man Arrested On Overdue Library Book Charges
01/24/2003


Horror in Venezuela
Jesus Soriano and the price of dissent in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela...
01/23/2003


France motivated by its own oil argument
They don't believe in containment, and they shame themselves when they say they do....
01/23/2003


Rape in Islam: Blaming the Victim
French woman, lucky to be charged in a 'moderate' Islamic state, only faces 18 months in jail...


UN appears to be a magnet for deviants
01/23/2003


A peace movement that's going nowhere
01/23/2003


Raising the stakes for tax cuts
Administration officials fear the economy is slowing further in this quarter...
01/23/2003


Revisiting the Six-Day War
If you listen to Arabs, the cause of the conflict with Israel is occupation...
01/23/2003


Misplaced trust
This round of weapons inspections in Iraq was never about looking for a smoking gun but giving Saddam Hussein one last chance to come clean...
01/23/2003


U.S. departing the First World?
Illegal aliens count higher with the American government than native-born, taxpaying, loyal U.S. citizens...
01/23/2003


Democrats don't have the constitution for racial equality
01/23/2003


Extricating Saddam not without risks
Turkish and Russian initiatives are under way for Saddam to leave peacefully and avoid a war...
01/23/2003


GOP guvs mimic Dems
Many Republican governors are proposing tax increases...
01/23/2003


Highbrow leftist peace rallies
America has been, for more than a year, walking slowly...
01/23/2003


Reds Still
The story no one wants to hear about the antiwar movement...
01/23/2003


Kamikaze McCain
Is the War Party setting up President Bush for a charge of having carried off an Asian Munich?
01/22/2003


Marching With Stalinists
The left in America has for a long time now resembled not so much a political movement as a contest...
01/22/2003


Liberty postponed
Sometimes a little history helps us understand the present...
01/22/2003


Dems expose impotence on national security
01/22/2003


Message from the estate tax graveyard
I had the opportunity to debate the estate tax with Bill Gates Sr...
01/22/2003


Government-sponsored obesity
The federal government each year churns out billions of dollars to feed the poor...
01/22/2003


The Inspectors
A Socratic dialogue...
01/22/2003


Biden His Time
Is there room for one more Democratic senator?
01/22/2003


Hitchens: Chew On This My Leftist Comrades
Ever since that morning, the United States has been at war with the forces of reaction...
01/22/2003


The 'Peace' Movement Isn't About Peace
01/21/2003


Why a coup won't do
There is a grave danger that the only change that will occur would be to replace Saddam Hussein with some other ruthless thug...
01/21/2003


Bush hits a double on quotas
The Michigan case is so egregious, few liberals take pains to defend it...
01/21/2003


History shows '03 could be OK
If history is a guide, there may be reason for optimism...
01/21/2003


Korea Follies
The Bush position on North Korea is in total collapse...
01/21/2003


Eminem is pushing poverty
The general acceptance of Eminem may seem trivial on the surface, but it is not...
01/21/2003


Tony Blair's finest hour
Tony Blair is no Margaret Thatcher, but he sounded like her clone when he took to the floor of the House of Commons...
01/21/2003


Ryan's cruel disregard of democratic values
01/21/2003


The Return of the Ayatollah
Washington could afford a little more attention on Iran...
01/21/2003


U.S. Social Security For Mexicans?
Social Security, the so-called "third rail" of American politics, has just become more incendiary...
01/21/2003


Pearl Harbor vs. 9-11: The key difference
01/21/2003


Those meaningless polls
Polling has become a type of meat thermometer...
01/16/2003


Politics Above Intel?
Incoming committee chairman warns Dems against playing politics with intelligence...
01/16/2003


Today: That Little Bistro with the Cute Waiters on Meldemannstrasse Near The Danube
Tomorrow: The World!
01/16/2003


American literature of regret
"About Schmidt..."
01/16/2003


Ticking time bomb
Discussions of North Korea stress the "weirdness" of the regime...
01/16/2003


Put Government on a Diet
Pass the Bush tax cut...
01/16/2003


Putting nuke genie back in bottle
The world's nuclear club is expanding...
01/16/2003


Global climate has always fluctuated
What the average person doesn't realize is how sharply global temperatures have varied even within historical times...
01/16/2003


Arbitrary abuse of political power?
01/16/2003


Stop blaming Canada
Security progress north of the border...
01/16/2003


Canadian man may have broken record for body piercing
He managed to stick 702 surgical needles into his legs and body in eight hours...
01/16/2003


Moral corruption in Illinois
01/15/2003


Baby toy: 'I hate you'
Family finds Christmas gift uttering 'subliminal' message...
01/15/2003


On Track on Iraq
On Iraq, are things going wobbly?
01/15/2003


Down with the Peace Movement
The trouble with the antiwar warriors...
01/15/2003


Tax the Kids
Go ahead, pay for it tomorrow...
01/15/2003


Not So Innocent
The death penalty: an argument continued...
01/15/2003


Bush vs. Democratic tax cuts
The Democratic reaction has been shrill and misleading...
01/15/2003


Deja vu with North Korea
We seem to have entered a time warp...
01/15/2003


Miscarriage of justice
Depriving people of liberty who have deprived others of their right to live is not equal justice under the law...
01/15/2003


Semper Fidelis, Marine
One of the great blessings of my life is to have spent much of it hanging around with heroes...
01/15/2003


The new sharecroppers
How far we have come...
01/15/2003


The death penalty: Mend it, don't end it
That a few of the inmates were wrongly convicted is not a sufficient reason to abolish the death penalty...
01/14/2003


Missing Link
Marriage and cloning...
01/14/2003


The Axis of Oil
The good and bad in the oil club...
01/14/2003


A staggering abuse of power
Gov. George Ryan committed an extraordinary and monumental injustice, betraying most of the principles he claimed to be vindicating...
01/14/2003


United States of America – a timid giant?
At the end of World War II, the United States stood on the pinnacle of world power...
01/14/2003


North Korea scorecard
It's time to take a deep breath and consider what we have learned so far in this "crisis..."
01/14/2003


Class warfare: The evil rich, the glorious poor
Democrat strategists know that if Bush's economic stimulus plan does actually work then Democrats can kiss off any chance at legislative gains...
01/14/2003


Essentials of war reporting
Once upon a time citizenship and loyalty mattered...
01/14/2003


Dividend revolution
President Bush has emerged as a shareholder-emancipating leader...
01/14/2003


Key Isle
Cyprus, Iraq, and the war on terrorism...
01/14/2003


Saddam's Idiots
We call them 'human shields'...
01/13/2003


The Starry Environmentalist?
The cases of Björn Lomborg and Galileo...
01/13/2003


The Gambler
Bush's tax surprise...
01/13/2003


Muslim Disinformation Campaign
Islam has an image problem, and American Muslim organizations know it...
01/13/2003


CAIR’s Axis of Evil
Libels are no reply to serious criticism...
01/13/2003


Pols must act to plug our porous borders
The federal government has long been aware that the Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service are overwhelmed...
01/13/2003


Here come the judge – again!
Let the liberals try to kill Pickering's nomination....
01/13/2003


Self-disciplined Democrat seeks nomination
Graham's astringent criticism places him, alone among Democratic presidential aspirants, well to Bush's right...
01/13/2003


Cowardice Masquerading as Courage
Outrage in Illinois...
01/13/2003


Powell and Bush at Cross-Purposes?
The single most remarkable passage in Bob Woodward's "Bush at War" has gone unremarked...
01/13/2003


Changing of the Guard
The Senate Intel Committee warms to the CIA’s Tenet...
01/13/2003


Checking Kim
The awful question of what to do...
01/13/2003


Giving tax-cut credit where due
People are coming out of the woodwork to take credit for the idea...
01/13/2003


Korea Is Not Quite Iraq
Hypocrisy in service to victory is no vice...
01/10/2003


Oriana Fallaci: A Sermon for the West
01/10/2003


A good week for conservatives
Bush is not going to squander the mandate...
01/10/2003


The other terrorist manhunts
01/10/2003


In the Heart of the Red States
Welcome to Cresco, Iowa...
01/10/2003


All out war
Many Americans have yet to acknowledge the ugly fact...
01/10/2003


Blix sees no evil
01/10/2003


A wise fiscal plan becomes class war
01/10/2003


Payback in Judges
You have to hand it to President Bush and his judge-pickers...
01/10/2003


Pickering's Cross Burning Case: What Really Happened
01/09/2003


Axis of stupidity
When Bush included North Korea in the axis of evil, experts concluded that he was a moron...
01/09/2003


Deflation warning
In the wake of lackluster economic performance during the fourth quarter domestic and global deflationary pressures have almost certainly intensified...
01/09/2003


Big bang
Bush has surprised nearly everyone with his decision to propose a big-bang economic growth package...
01/09/2003


Terror on Wheels
Do SUVs fund terror?
01/09/2003


Axis of stupidity
We were assured that the North Koreans had been peaceful little lambs...
01/09/2003


Rerunning the class warfare horror show
Democrats are reprising their familiar class warfare drama in opposition to the Bush administration's tax-cutting proposals...
01/09/2003


Terrorist Sanctuary
Pakistan provides cover...
01/09/2003


Can America be serious?
What’s up with North Korea?
01/09/2003


Multiple Miranda
Judge's strange 'split' decision means extra warnings for other personalities...
01/09/2003


Liberals in Denial About Talk Radio and TV
Conservatives might want to encourage Democrats to waste time and money on this quixotic dream...
01/08/2003


We don't want your stinking money
Women caught trying to deposit cash that smelled of marijuana...
01/08/2003


Calculating tax-cut dividends
Not too many years ago it was Democrats who were in favor of this policy and Republicans who were against it...
01/08/2003


The coming U.S. retreat from Asia
The challenge Bush threw down a year ago has now been taken up...
01/08/2003


Are terrorists behind rise in identity theft?
Computer-based crime wave sweeping U.S. could be major revenue source of enemy...
01/08/2003


Kick the (Korea) Can
Conventional wisdom tends by its nature to get things wrong, but seldom this wrong and seldom this dangerously wrong...
01/08/2003


Our 'friends' in Pakistan
Why would Pakistani troops come to the aid of the terrorists?...
01/08/2003


Rotting Apple
The future of New York City...
01/08/2003


Transforming the Muslim World
One girl at a time...
01/08/2003


A French Church of Islam?
Not a good idea...
01/08/2003


North Korea or Iraq?
There´s no question who is public enemy No 1...
01/08/2003


Chatting With Little Green Men
I have just cloned a baby...
01/08/2003


Movies and Metaphors
Movie critics need to imagine themselves as Right-wing morons in order to criticize films...
01/07/2003


To end the Palestinian violence
Realization among Palestinians that adopting violence has been a monstrous mistake...
01/07/2003


A terrible thing to waste
More than a third of the country has watched their personal savings and retirement nest eggs depreciate significantly...
01/07/2003


Democrat idea bankruptcy
It is almost pathetic to see the emerging lineup of Democratic presidential hopefuls slobbering all over themselves in search of a defining issue...
01/07/2003


Nuclear meltdown
01/07/2003


A healthy debate
It's time the average taxpayer got a little relief...
01/07/2003


America's fake identity crisis
It's hard not to feel sorry for Mohammed Asghar who woke up the other morning to find his picture in the paper...
01/07/2003


Why libs are in denial about talk radio and TV
Some Democrats believe they lost the last election because of conservative dominance on talk radio...
01/07/2003


The Hispanic vote
Until recently, Republican strategists were inclined to write off the Hispanic vote...
01/07/2003


Federal 'nannies' on a binge
"Binge drinking on the rise in U.S." was the message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on New Year's Eve...
01/07/2003


Appeasement fails, again, in Korea
How many times do we need to learn the lessons of history?
01/07/2003


Dr. Frist to the rescue
Emergency rescue is not a new role for Mr. Frist...
01/07/2003


ACLU – America's Taliban
We have our own powerful Taliban force systematically seeking out and destroying any religious symbol in the public square...
01/06/2003


Good old Bill is a '10'
The news omits what he did (and didn't do) and, just as with everything legally marginal he did while president, he skates...
01/06/2003


Ashcroft balks, a villain walks
01/06/2003


Political correctness at Little Round Top
Almost all who visit Gettysburg find it a deeply moving experience...
01/06/2003


Human, but Not to a Fault
Why do people like President Bush? It isn't complicated...
01/06/2003


The Empire, 2003
Here’s a plan for Europe...
01/06/2003


North Korea Can’t Wait
Track it with Iraq...
01/06/2003


The Shape of Things to Come
The terror masters are now waiting for us...
01/06/2003


Cloning dollars for Clonaid?
Rudolph Jaenisch asserts it would be nearly impossible to clone a healthy child...
01/06/2003


Our weakest link
About 60 percent of all U.S. air cargo flies on passenger planes, but only about five percent is required to undergo screening for dangerous items...
01/06/2003


Juries are for justice, not entertainment
01/06/2003


Man ordered to stop staging fake funerals
01/06/2003


Appeasing North Korea: the Clinton Legacy
01/03/2003


Lessons from Reagan
How did Reagan manage to be so much more successful than most of his predecessors or followers?
01/03/2003


New year, new fears
The most dangerous epoch in history may have been in the 14th century...
01/03/2003


Christian persecution by Arafat
What's worse than being bullied, harassed, intimidated and persecuted for your faith?
01/03/2003


Human cloning: It's the soul, stupid!
Our society should use this disturbing report constructively by hastening our ethical evaluation of human cloning...
01/03/2003


Different treatment needed for Iraq, North Korea
The last thing we owe them is consistency...
01/03/2003


Journalism: Where even the men are women
01/03/2003


The Japan Card
North Korea may already have passed the threshold to invulnerability...
01/03/2003


Who's watching the White House?
Who's been working on President George W. Bush's front lawn?
01/03/2003


Celebrating multiculturalism and diversity
Indisputable positive relationship between liberty and standards of living...
01/03/2003


Hillary for President?
Repackaging herself as the moral conscience of the Democrat Party...
01/03/2003


Exposing Lies of The American Left
01/02/2003


The Professionals
Best of 2002: Press bias is as alive as ever....
01/02/2003


Just a Regular Guy
Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina makes it official...
01/02/2003


'Evil'
Scoff if you must, but you can't avoid it...
01/02/2003


Cloning around
If the Raelian experiment is not a hoax, it is frightening...
01/02/2003


Threat hype nuked
News reports that North Korea has reopened a plutonium reactor teetered on the brink of hysteria during Christmas week...
01/02/2003


2003 Predictions
First , the good news: A year from now civilization will still be intact...
01/02/2003


GOP seeks absolution from Rev. Al
If Republicans thought that tossing Trent Lott off the sleigh would slow the pursuing wolves, they were mistaken...
01/02/2003


Why they hate us
Our hyper-materialism; our cultural decadence...
01/02/2003


2003, Through the Looking Glass
Tomorrow's Headlines Today...
01/02/2003


Why not cloning?
Cloning is the unnatural fruit- there will be many more...
01/02/2003


A good year - for the villains
There was no shortage of villains in this year of terror and recession...
01/02/2003


Left Clones
The Raelians are just liberal nuts...
01/02/2003


"Axis of Evil"
Indicted Hamas leader linked to al Qaeda activist in Midwest...
01/02/2003


If you believe that people are basically good
Perhaps the major reason for political and other disagreements...
12/31/2002


Jack Ass sues Viacom over 'Jackass' TV show
12/31/2002


Bankrupt and starving
The tiny, batty, hermetic enclave of North Korea...
12/31/2002


A New Year's spending resolution
12/31/2002


Stronger marriages, stronger society
This year, I'm particularly thinking a lot about welfare reform...
12/31/2002


Rededication to 'The Proposition'
What kind of America will we bequeath to our children?
12/31/2002


Prepare our cities for war with Iraq
Saddam Hussein may be poised to bring the battle to American cities via terrorism...
12/31/2002


Options for the Democrats
12/31/2002


Why Not a Traditional World Trade Center?
12/31/2002


Nuclear saber-rattling and reacting
There very well may be another Korean war...
12/31/2002


New Year's Message
It is sobering (and saddening) to consider how many Americans are ready to betray their country...
12/31/2002


The Daughter of an Arab Warrior Tells Her Tale
A culture that does not value life will not value for people to advance their economic and social condition...
12/30/2002


PBS Establishing Religion
12/30/2002


Exit Hussein
Soon it will be clear where we are going in Iraq...
12/30/2002


Contributions are pocket change
The Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of restrictions on political communication...
12/30/2002


The Futility of Dialogue With Islam
12/30/2002


The Pariah Chess Club
12/30/2002


Road map to nowhere
The United States has given the third draft of the road map to the Palestinian Authority...
12/30/2002


Bush supports revival of culture
The 9-11 summons to seriousness ended the nation's 1990s holiday from history...
12/30/2002


Iraqi Aftershocks
Being on the wrong side of history won’t be pretty...
12/30/2002


Drinking and Driving Deaths Plummet
Is it tougher laws or raised consciousness?
12/30/2002


The Neocons and Nixon's southern strategy
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child...
12/30/2002


How to make your vote work again
Many Americans believe their elected representatives are nothing more than a bunch of pickpocketing shysters...
12/30/2002


Do commercials teach teenagers to drink?
"Youth saw more commercials for beer than for juice, gum, chips, sneakers or jeans..."
12/30/2002


Render unto Caesar
Church leaders have been less obviously vocal about the grenade assault on a church in Pakistan...
12/27/2002


War in time of peace
Self-defense calls for the human qualities that are more rooted in the Old Testament than in the New...
12/27/2002


Osama bin Murray and Baghdad Jim
First, Sen. Murray should convert to Islam, as Mr. bin Laden demands...
12/27/2002


Character counts in Bush pardons
To learn something about a president, look at the people he pardons...
12/27/2002


The Really Big Story: Bush's Awesome Power
Most powerful president since Lyndon Johnson...
12/27/2002


Zimbabwe: A true police state
Government is the most vicious at crushing human rights...
12/27/2002


Moral Clarity in a Time of War
The past thirty years have witnessed a great forgetting of the classic just war tradition among religious leaders...
12/23/2002


Lest we forget
We should remember some basic facts about the present war...
12/23/2002


It’s a Wonderful Country
A contemporary Christmas carol...
12/23/2002


A mighty fortress is our God
Reflections on a Christmas in Holland...
12/23/2002


Liberals show schizophrenic approach to religion
Invoking the name of Jesus when it serves the agenda...
12/23/2002


Democrats' woes eclipsed
Sea-change political reformation that is beginning to emerge...
12/23/2002


Republicans and the 'race card'
Sorry, but this is getting sickening...
12/23/2002


A PC Christmas
Child had to sing 'We wish you a happy holiday' instead...
12/23/2002


A teetering Ivory Coast
As of today, hundreds have been killed and some 25,000 people have fled...
12/23/2002


Islam's Other Victims: Wars Against Christians
12/23/2002


Ban on bared bodies hits hard
New policy for female vendors of mild stimulant is intended to reduce demand...
12/23/2002


Federally funded study measures porn arousal
12/23/2002


PBS Shame On You
I am a former Moslem, born and raised in the Middle East. I am very disappointed...
12/23/2002


A+
The GOP passes a test
12/20/2002


A milestone
The death rattle of conservatism's racist fringe, not its reemergence....
12/20/2002


Teen facing jail term for bat-burger prank
12/20/2002


Saudis Behaving Badly
New report to the U.N. details ties that bind the House of Saud and al Qaeda...
12/20/2002


The Shield and the Sword
The Syria-Iraq connection...
12/20/2002


The Arab Role
Getting on board...
12/20/2002


The right call on missile defense
September 11 made clear how vulnerable the homeland is to attacks...
12/20/2002


Vaccines for America
Contingency fee personal-injury lawyers lost their battle, and they are proving to be bad losers...
12/20/2002


Regional smallpox plans
Regional governments have been thinking about smallpox for some time now...
12/20/2002


Now is so then
"Lott not only insulted millions of African-Americans last week, but he also offended women..."
12/20/2002


Rent by Trent
Why we mustn't cast our lot with Lott...
12/20/2002


Lott and the Right
The Lott fiasco has had a clarifying effect on contemporary conservatism...
12/20/2002


Anti-Americanism on the rise
12/20/2002


Bat burger prank leaves a bad taste
12/20/2002


Former Democrats bring a Lott of trouble to GOP
12/19/2002


Bad Lands, Bad Votes
How Sen.-'Elect' Johnson really won in South Dakota...
12/19/2002


Belgium, Islam and the Boomerang of 'Multiculturalism'
Is this coming soon to an American community near you?
12/19/2002


Missile defense safely on track
Bush has made the long-awaited decision to deploy defenses...
12/19/2002


Over-larded Atkins analysis
Not only is gorging on fat the key to becoming thin, it's heart-healthy to boot...
12/19/2002


Panderer-in-chief
"I'm happy to be here from Washington, D.C., where the only politicians with convictions are in prison..."
12/19/2002


The Jewish-Friendly Koran
A whole new context...
12/19/2002


A Prophecy for the New Year
Faster, please!
12/19/2002


Reagan, Lott, and Race Baiting
Reviewing the record...
12/19/2002


We don't have to make a clown out of Father Christmas
Doing away with difference does not create equality; it just makes things bland and meaningless...
12/19/2002


Bad stock market medicine
12/19/2002


NOW and the Cultural Order
Women aren't black and blacks aren't women...
12/18/2002


Racial doublespeak on both sides
Liberals, after all, have their own code words...
12/18/2002


No Apologies
Americans like the environment, but not the environmental movement...
12/18/2002


War on Iraq nothing but a plot by Bush
12/18/2002


Trent Lott: Victim of a hate crime
This time, Caesar knifed Brutus...
12/18/2002


Fast Times on a Baghdad High
Sean Penn offers himself as an Iraqi propaganda tool...
12/18/2002


The richest 1 percent
So much for Republicans being the party of the wealthy...
12/18/2002


Mercury and autism
Is there an explanation for this tragic epidemic?
12/18/2002


Misjudging Gore's departure
This is pretty much the last we will see of Mr. Gore...
12/18/2002


Lott has made himself intolerable
12/18/2002


Saddam's sibling rivalry
Evidence is pretty thin against attack by Iraq...
12/18/2002


Digging In
Lott threatens to give the Senate back to Dems if forced to step aside...
12/18/2002


Mideast folderol
Secretary of State Colin Powell unveiled a bold new initiative, presumably crafted by Tom Thumb...
12/18/2002


Darwin in the Classroom
Ohio allows alternatives...
12/18/2002


Who is European?
Where does Europe end?
12/18/2002


PBS, Recruiting for Islam
Uncritical documentary to air...
12/17/2002


The Republicans and Race
It's time the GOP put Dems on the defensive...
12/17/2002


More bang for the buck
President Bush will soon ask the new Congress to act quickly on a package of tax changes...
12/17/2002


Serious about defenses
Some good may yet come in the wake of the disastrous decision to permit North Korean ballistic missiles to reach Yemen...
12/17/2002


Why did Al Gore really drop out?
The Clinton-Gore team did abandon security planning for the sake of campaign cash...
12/17/2002


Vietnam all over again in Mideast?
12/17/2002


The mouse that chuckled
Seventy-five or so million years ago, men were, well, mice...
12/17/2002


Sen. Nickles' wish comes true
Senate Republicans are scheduled to convene to decide whether to keep Lott as Majority Leader...
12/17/2002


Peace For Oil
We’re not fighting for oil. But the terrorists are...
12/17/2002


America, Russia, & Iraq
The countdown...
12/17/2002


Benchmarks astray
Federal judges are confined to interpreting the Constitution...
12/17/2002


Donald Rumsfeld as Big Brother
12/16/2002


Bye-Bye, Al
Gore sees the light...
12/16/2002


Arms inspections after World War I
Disarmament by weapons inspectors was not going well...
12/16/2002


Out, Out, Out
Al’s News...
12/16/2002


Strange Visit from a Terror Land
Syrian dictator visits Britain...
12/16/2002


back to top

A Western Turkey
Turkey is a rare bird among Muslim nations...
12/16/2002


Collaborating Financiers of Terror
Hamas and al Qaeda...
12/16/2002


That Ten Commandments Case
What constitutes an establishment of religion?
12/16/2002


Germany's costly fallout
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has enjoyed the shortest honeymoon in postwar German political history...
12/16/2002


Globalism, free speech and the Internet
New Jersey-based publisher Dow Jones can be sued for libel under Australian law...
12/16/2002


Second-Guessing China
Looking toward the future...
12/16/2002


Through the haze of reason
The main point of Bloomberg's smoking ban is to make the habit less convenient...
12/16/2002


Amid the ruins of tolerance
JERUSALEM.-- This is no place for an atheist or even a suave agnostic...
12/13/2002


Sending the Senate back to deadlock
The president cut the ground neatly from under the men he expects to move his agenda...
12/13/2002


What stinks about Washington
Pat Buchanan on Dems engaging in politics of personal destruction...
12/13/2002


Counsel for Trent
12/13/2002


Hollywood goes to war
Now we see the downside to the strategy of pre-emptive war...
12/13/2002


Scud Surrender
The "W" factor...
12/13/2002


Pakistan: In flagrante delicto
The Bush administration appears to be astigmatically challenged when scanning the geopolitical landscape beyond Iraq...
12/13/2002


How the Turks See Us
12/13/2002


Caution on the right 'over there'
American observers have taken note of the leftist orientation of many European critics of the American war on terror...
12/13/2002


Birthday-Cake Exegesis
What are Trent Lott’s true thoughts on segregation?
12/13/2002


Children Left Behind
Why we need a national child-care program, now more than ever...
12/13/2002 Develop a smallpox antiviral
The vaccine to the public, even if he does so, it will not be sufficient to defend all Americans...
12/12/2002


The Saudis’ Best Friend
State Department gives House of Saud free pass, again, on child abductions...
12/12/2002


Finger-lickin' dumb
Holding the fast-food industry to blame for individual choices is a silly notion...
12/12/2002


Beware the office party fruitcake
There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip...
12/12/2002


A Clear Choice of Words
It is a pity that a long and distinguished career such as Lott's should come to this...
12/12/2002


The Heart of Darkness
The mullahs make terror possible...
12/12/2002


The Real War
Faster, please!
12/12/2002


Old times there are not forgotten
Lott's comments have given Democrats a sound bite they can effectively use in the next election...
12/12/2002


Increasing black turnout at the polls
Brazile is planning to apply some lessons of the Louisiana success to 2004...
12/12/2002


Liberal whining about the media
Surprisingly, the problem is us...
12/11/2002


Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever
Cornell’s race-based dormitories serve as indoctrination centers...
12/11/2002


Disastrous utopia
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous...
12/11/2002


Tot Gives 'Holiday Gift' Of Pot To Teacher
12/11/2002


Days of infamy
Iraq should be the test case for regime modification...
12/11/2002


Losing the verbal lottery
Lott has inadvertently provided ammunition to those who would perpetuate the blood libel...
12/11/2002


United and its unions
12/11/2002


Much ado about little in parties' economic proposals
12/11/2002


An index of Catholicism's decline
Vatican II appears to have been an unrelieved disaster...
12/11/2002


Vacant Lott
The GOP and the Ghosts of Mississippi...
12/10/2002


We finally find out the truth about Tony Soprano
12/10/2002


Dentist climbs tree to fix molar
12/10/2002


Hollywood’s B List Peaceniks Speak Out
A news parody...
12/10/2002


Saddam Hussein's rope-a-dope strategy
The Bush administration is playing a game reminiscent of President Kennedy's dance of death with the Soviet Union...
12/10/2002


Movement on the Bush economic front
President Bush was focusing as much on politics as he was on economics...
12/10/2002


Lula da Silva, Castro and China
Today President George W. Bush is to meet with President-elect Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil...
12/10/2002


Iraqi Verification
Déjà vu...
12/10/2002


Ending the myth of corporate taxes
Politicians are good at perpetrating frauds...
12/10/2002


Narrow, prudent and impeccable
Wartime strains constitutional customs...
12/10/2002


Frustrated and Dizzy
On Tom Daschle, et. al...
12/10/2002


The Myth of the Man
The disclosure of the illnesses and medications relating to John F. Kennedy set off a great gasp in the press...
12/10/2002


Health Districts Mobilizing For Mass Smallpox Vaccination Campaign
A shot worse than the disease?
12/10/2002


French fries kill?
It is quite remarkable that any of us are alive...
12/10/2002


'Hootie and The Blowhards'
PC on and off the Augusta National links...
12/09/2002


Keeping the holidays festive
Carving up 10 anti-war arguments at holiday gatherings...
12/09/2002


Hypocrophobia
Amnesty has its dress over its head because America isn't doing the right thing for the right reasons...
12/09/2002


Liberals ignoring evidence against Saddam
I officially do not get it...
12/09/2002


Immigration corruption
If Social Security numbers can be purchased, so also can other identification documents...
12/09/2002


Fantasizing and waiting for the U.N.
Each morning, the little white U.N. cars appear on our TV screens tooling around Baghdad...
12/09/2002


Democrats slouch towards tax cuts
One of the most significant, postelection changes is the grudging movement toward tax cuts...
12/09/2002


Horrors of stoning captured on film
The lashing and stoning ordered by Iranian judges of two Iranian men for committing so-called crimes...
12/09/2002


Bankruptcy will clear the air for United
12/09/2002


Terrorists in our midst
How and why Islamists, jihadists, sleeper cells are flocking to U.S....
12/09/2002


We'll All Be Under Surveillance
Computers Will Say What We Are...
12/09/2002


Brave new climate
There's no other environmental issue that generates such emotional heat...
12/09/2002


Downward drift of a dream
The imminent bankruptcy of United Airlines may be the final blow...
12/09/2002


Somewhere Santa is Weeping
We can't really be discussing the meaning of the day because of sensitivity concerns...
12/06/2002


Violence and Islam
Is Islam an inherently violent religion?
12/06/2002


Heightened alert without end
The Israelis keep their fighters in the air and on the lookout for hostile incoming aircraft...
12/06/2002


'Happy holidays'? What's that!?
The stripping away of America's heritage continues...
12/06/2002


Moving toward a nomination
12/06/2002


New York, New York
The GOP should convene in the Big Apple...
12/06/2002


A New Day
On the terror war...
12/06/2002


America Upside Down
Imagine a world in which we were more like them...
12/06/2002


'Vigilante justice' is better than no justice
More than 600 people have volunteered to become members of Civilian Homeland Defense...
12/06/2002


The real Bush plan
12/06/2002


Islam’s Nazi Connections
12/06/2002


Countdown to Trigger Day
Bush, at the Pentagon, set Sunday as trigger day...
12/04/2002


Bush war cabinet close to decision
The administration's heavy hitters discussed the question of how to handle the looming deadline in the weapons inspection...
12/04/2002


Altitude Sickness
If Saddam Hussein has the bomb, plus the ability and desire to use it, what will he do?
12/04/2002


Gore Gets OutFOXed
Gore is arguing that FoxNews is serving as a shill for the Republican party...
12/04/2002


The JFK who would be JFK
When John Kerry put his toe in the presidential waters last weekend, he immediately was hit by riptides...
12/04/2002


Silence of the 'moderates'
"The real nature of Islam is a religion of war and conquest..."
12/04/2002


O'Reilly on James Bond
12/04/2002


'Tis the season to hope for the worst
If you're a Democrat and were hoping for some political cheer this holiday season, you're out of luck...
12/04/2002


No New CAFE
The government goes where it doesn't belong...
12/04/2002


Baby swallows hard and gets behind the wheel to drive Mum home
Her teething baby ate a vital part of the car key...
12/04/2002


Defining 'regime change'
Bush has repeatedly declared regime change in Iraq to be the policy of his administration...
12/03/2002


Embracing 'Imperialism'
The Iranian belief is that the United States seeks to control and dominate the political and economic order of other countries...
12/03/2002


Outer limits of class warfare
Recent data reveal some startling facts that in turn raise serious concerns for the nation's future fiscal course...
12/03/2002


The Turkish Problem – and Hope
Turkey has been the only case study of Islam’s potential to become compatible with modernity, democracy, and tolerance...
12/03/2002


Mennonite Midwife Behind Bars
A case of overreach...
12/03/2002


The Loony 'Christian' Left
We seldom hear about the Christian left, whose positions on public issues have little to do with Christian doctrine or values...
12/03/2002


China's growing crisis
Much of China's recent growth has resulted from an overdependence on government spending...
12/03/2002


A federal nursing home?
Why don't most people go to government health clinics for their basic medical care?
12/03/2002


Angry ape goes on the rampage
It remains at large...
12/03/2002


Should immigrants be taxed?
Latino immigrants sent a record $23 billion in remittances home in 2001...
12/02/2002


Is Islam a religion of peace?
12/02/2002


A Taxing Situation
So, how are you fixed for cash this holiday season?
12/02/2002


Put your hands up
You have now assumed the surrender position...
12/02/2002


BCRA supporters have spoken too clearly
12/02/2002


Sue McDonald’s?
I lost 80 pounds with fast food...
12/02/2002


Economy ripe for Bush tax-cut plan
12/02/2002


Is Terrorism the Price of Saudi Oil?
Behind a strange friendship...
12/02/2002


North Korea ripe for change
12/02/2002


Changes in Hill economic hands
The media continue to speculate about changes in President Bush's economic team that do not appear forthcoming...
12/02/2002


Casting NATO line perilously far to east
President Bush affirmed a commitment that may come back to haunt a future president...
12/02/2002


The Campaign Against Israel
Berkeley’s Israel Divestment Campaign...
12/02/2002


Economy ripe for Bush tax-cut plan
12/02/2002


Stop Whining and Start Thanks Giving
There’s a lot to be happy about...
11/27/2002


Pilgrim Parable
Choosing freedom...
11/27/2002


On the Shoulders of Giants
Giving thanks, post-9/11...
11/27/2002


Thanksgiving for not living in a predominantly Muslim country
11/27/2002


'My name is Hugh, and I'm a talk-show host …'
To Daschle's dismay, the old world of journalism is gone...
11/27/2002


Understand Nigeria and you understand the Islamic threat
11/27/2002


Deep, Subtle, Clever — and (Thank Goodness) History
Giving thanks for no more Clinton...
11/27/2002


Defeat Saddam now
Of top priority...
11/27/2002


Bin Laden, Bond and Bush
Regarding the war against terror, last week was action-packed...
11/27/2002


Valued helping hand in terror war
We can't fight the war on terrorism by ourselves...
11/27/2002


Fossil facts get lost in the smog fog
The Bush administration wants to allow aging coal-fired power plants to upgrade their facilities...
11/27/2002


The Sum of Its Parts No Longer Works for the Democratic Party
Defections, internal strife key problems...
11/27/2002


How the divide over Iraq strategies began
The reported split between Cheney and Powell over Iraq had its beginnings more than a decade ago...
11/27/2002


Terrorism in the Classroom
The truth about international-relations textbooks...
11/27/2002


A Green Light to Spy on Americans? Nonsense.
Don’t believe the mainstream press’s account of the latest court decision on intelligence sharing...
11/26/2002


Rush and Daschle
And the great freedom debate...
11/26/2002


School Board President Faces Charge For Manure Stunt
11/26/2002


Charity Sends Insulting Letter To Needy Families
11/26/2002


With friends like the Saudis...
Is Saudi Arabia with us in the war on terror?
11/26/2002


Al and Tipper, Still Not a Bestseller
Their books aren't selling up to expectations...
11/26/2002


The deficit fandango
The real blame for the deficit can be placed on subpar economic growth over the past two years...
11/26/2002


Shrill and shill rhetoric
War broke out last week among four combatants...
11/26/2002


Peace Through Surrender
Twenty-three years ago three Iranian students organized the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran...
11/26/2002


Australia’s Dr. Death
Spreading the assisted-suicide gospel...
11/26/2002


This War We’re In
Taking extremist Islam seriously...
11/26/2002


In Defense of Christian Allies
Why Evangelicals support Israel...
11/26/2002


Liberal democracy's final hour?
When the Soviet Union collapsed neoconservatives proclaimed "the end of history..."
11/26/2002


Islamism's Other Victims: The Tragedy of East Timor
11/25/2002


Targeting terrorism . . . or privacy?
"A supersnoop's dream..."
11/25/2002


Talk is Expensive When It Comes To Bill Moyers
It is considered bad form in the world of broadcast journalism to criticize one's peers...
11/25/2002


Hysterical fusillade from Daschle
It must not be fun being Tom Daschle in the wake of losing the Senate...
11/25/2002


Occasions for magnanimity
In victory, magnanimity...
11/25/2002


If Saddam steps out of line we must go straight to war
There are at least five good reasons for using force to topple this dictator...
11/25/2002


Ivins Defends the Great North…
…against Jonah Goldberg’s vicious attacks
11/25/2002


Bush made Democrats' tune his own
Anyone who still dismisses President Bush as a political lightweight should take a careful look at his efforts to create a Department of Homeland Security...
11/25/2002


The Dukakis Factor
The ex-governor has advice for likely presidential candidate John Kerry...
11/25/2002


The Democrats' Abuse Excuse
Daschle's revealing attack on Rush Limbaugh...
11/25/2002


Muslims vs. Dersh
The Harvard lawyer gets grief for an op-ed...
11/22/2002


Osama Lives
And he needs to be pursued...
11/22/2002


America, Islam and the Iraqi Threat
A war for the soul of the Muslim world...
11/22/2002


What can we expect from Saddam this time?
11/22/2002


The Bold Road To NATO Expansion
How successful a resolute and, when necessary, unilateralist American foreign policy can be...
11/22/2002


For their next pathetic ploy
Democrats have made it clear that their fears about the future of the country are focused not on militant Islamists...
11/22/2002


More power to protect us
In the 'war on terrorism,' the United States and its citizens are playing catch-up...
11/22/2002


Obese Michael Jackson Fans Attack Tom Daschle’s Family!
Our favorite pass-time...
11/22/2002


Bush takes up Islam's pompom
Unmatched, of course, by any consciously Christian, Jewish or even Druid soirees...
11/22/2002


A new turn in the war on terror
What happened in Yemen on November 3 marks an alarming, new turn...
11/22/2002


The Saudis are singled out
In new security bill, a filter for screening out possible al Qaeda operatives...
11/22/2002


Is sniper Muhammad an al-Qaida op?
11/22/2002


Bye Bye Bear
The psychological evidence is in: We’re not going lower...
11/22/2002


Lightning survivor escapes 2nd brush with Grim Reaper
11/22/2002


Shame on you America-hating liberals
I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh...
11/21/2002


Great gray lady in spat with saloon hussy
Reduced to starting a catfight with Fox News Channel...
11/21/2002


World War IV
Who our enemy is, why they’re at war with us and how we have to think about fighting...
11/21/2002


'It Did Work for Me,' Says Former Polygamous Wife
11/21/2002


Marginal Benefits
To assess the benefits of new tax legislation, you need to understand how taxes reduce economic output...
11/21/2002


War and the Battle of Ideas
Islamist totalitarianism cannot win...
11/21/2002


Blood for oil?
Status quo provides better opportunity than war to dominate world energy...
11/21/2002


Especially interesting votes
Mr. McCain has gone to great lengths to cultivate his image as Mr. Clean...
11/21/2002


Foreign Subject
Pelosi did little to dispel concerns in her debut Sunday-show appearance...
11/21/2002


Garrison may have burned a few bridges with folks in Lake Wobegon
11/21/2002


Supporters defend Keillor's columns on Coleman
11/21/2002


Double Standards
Women who want Augusta National to admit men have some hypocrisy issues...
11/21/2002


The best and worst of 007
After 40 years, the agent still hits the target...
11/21/2002


Whine and Peanuts
What part of the last hundred years did Jimmy Carter miss?
11/21/2002


Red Alert
Al Qaeda is planning. Are we?
11/20/2002


True National Defense
What individual citizens can do to prepare for a role in responding to, and preventing, terrorism...
11/20/2002


It’s Gorewater!
The incredible reinvented Gorebot...
11/20/2002


Woodward's war heroes
As self-reported, what the key players shrewdly saw, brilliantly thought and nobly did...
11/20/2002


Don't ask, don't tell: lose terror war
Army has fired seven Arabic-language specialists...
11/20/2002


Sorry, Jim
Jeffords surely must be the loneliest senator on Capitol Hill...
11/20/2002


Enter Gore, Bold Man On the Left
A new Gore really is emerging...
11/20/2002


Al Gore's suicide
Untimely speech on Sept. 24...
11/20/2002


Fifth Column Vice President
That other (occasionally) bearded madman...
11/20/2002


Goodbye to 2000
2002 is America moving on...
11/20/2002


Bush's narrow vision fails the Lincoln test
11/20/2002


The Good and the Bad in Islam
11/20/2002


The Iraqi infiltration
How many of Saddam Hussein's sleeper terrorists are waiting...
11/20/2002


Islam's Wretched Record on Slavery
11/20/2002


At the Gates, Again
A new barbarism...
11/19/2002


Passers-by can't help but stare at the window undressing
Dummies are definitely getting sexier...
11/19/2002


Hard lessons from dead white men
Jefferson is our Shakespeare...
11/19/2002


Showdown in Louisiana
11/19/2002


Know thy terrorists
Why the readiness to confront Iraq head-on but reluctance to do so when it concerns militant Islam?
11/19/2002


Lurking in the Jayna Davis files
Dark secrets coming to light about McVeigh, Nichols, 'John Doe 2'...
11/19/2002


TWA Flight 800 no longer an accident
11/19/2002


Was it worth it?
Polly Toynbee was one of the most robust liberal supporters of the war on Afghanistan. Does she still think we did the right thing?
11/19/2002


Unholy Alliance
Arab radicalism and militant Islam...
11/19/2002


The Next Stage of Terrorism
What happens if a significant fraction of the world's Moslems are part of 'Militant Islam'?
11/19/2002


Fascism Comes On Little Cat Feet
'Temporary checkpoints have become permanent...'
11/19/2002


From 'Bombingham' to Bush
Few could claim that President Bush's two appointments were the result of affirmative action...
11/19/2002


Mary Berry's failed coup
White House should seize the initiative and send her packing...
11/19/2002


Get Organized Against War
The United States has the military might to occupy any country it likes...
11/19/2002


NPR: National Palestinian Radio
11/19/2002


Man wants to teach you to survive in the woods naked
11/19/2002


Origin Of Liberalism
What we call today 'liberalism' was born in New England...
11/19/2002


The phantom empire
No serious empire-builder would ever cut taxes as recklessly as President Bush has...
11/18/2002


Colin Powell should have been fired yesterday
11/18/2002


Afraid You’ll be Left Behind?
The 'Rapture Trap'...
11/18/2002


What Reagan teaches Bush
The West is again faced with a universalist enemy...
11/18/2002


'W' and the Fox in the Hen House
He doesn't let obstacles stand in his way... 11/18/2002


How Afghanistan Was Won
Time-honored practice of paying off Afghan warlords was well known...
11/18/2002


Tort reform and the new Congress
One of the top issues that needs to be on the agenda...
11/18/2002


Kyoto chills hopes of developing world
Con game environmentalists have been playing for too many years...
11/18/2002


Where’s Osama?
We don’t know — and Democrats want Bush to pay for it....
11/18/2002


Islam’s Other Victims: India
11/18/2002


The answer to everything is...
I've finally crafted a coherent and consistent explanation to the liberal mind...
11/15/2002


A Senate Shutdown Over Judges?
Liberal interest groups pressure Democrats to start a major fight...
11/15/2002


From San Francisco, an answer to prayer
Like the town drunk coming off a bad hangover and trying a little of the hair of the dog that bit him...
11/15/2002


Triumphant good cop, bad cop strategy at U.N.
Accept the velvet glove or face the mailed fist...
11/15/2002


Unplug Moyers, PBS
I think I have finally met a person who is my polar opposite...
11/15/2002


GOP Vs. Lawyers
People who say, 'There's not a dime's worth of difference between the two political parties' are in for a big surprise...
11/15/2002


Slippery Sloping
We haven't rounded up - and have no plans to round up - Muslims during this war on terror...
11/15/2002


The Golden Age of Islam is a Myth
11/15/2002


The Window of Legitimacy
For the war option...
11/15/2002


Our Gordian Knot
The truth is that we are now in the penultimate stages of a war we did not seek and do not welcome...
11/15/2002


A Solid One-Two Punch
Bush and Greenspan are making a great economic team...
11/15/2002


Man Allegedly Slashes Friend In Argument Over Who Had Hairiest Buttocks
11/15/2002


Without Clinton, they'll face a catfight
We may well see one of the bloodiest intraparty fights since the Whigs imploded...
11/15/2002


Al Sharpton, anyone?
Is it too soon to talk 2004?
11/15/2002


Brave – or tone-deaf
Al Gore has endorsed a Canadian-style single-payer health system...
11/15/2002


The Temperature Rises
We should liberate Iran first — now...
11/14/2002


The Roots of Muslim Anti-Americanism
Utter ignorance of how pro-Muslim our country’s foreign policy has been in recent decades....
11/14/2002


The war against Iraq and America’s drive for world domination
Socialists: Mobilize against capitalism, Bush...
11/14/2002


Terror TV
MEMRI bring English-speakers the world of Arab hate...
11/14/2002


If Osama bin Laden is alive, he sure chose a funny way to prove it
11/14/2002


The Democratic Party: The gift that keeps on giving!
Both the party brass and base are coalescing around the idea that the Democrats were not adequately insane...
11/14/2002


Dems Bean Bubba With Boston Pick
Looks like the Bill Clinton era is over...
11/14/2002


Senate makes its final push for a bad State Department nominee
Fighting both the families of 9/11 victims and the parents of kidnapped kids...
11/14/2002


Open Doors for Hezbollah
The INS gives a known terrorist citizenship...
11/14/2002


Whither the GOP?
Blacks are so used to being lied to that frankness would carry more weight than usual...
11/14/2002


Pelosi’s Critics Won’t Laugh Long
Ideology will have little effect on her future success...
11/14/2002


Benchmarks of the election
Biggest consequence may well concern judges...
11/14/2002


Agonies of defeat and denial
No signals that they got the real message...
11/14/2002


Where the NEA pulls strings
Repeatedly declared in documents filed with IRS that not a dime of its members' dues has been used for political activity...
11/14/2002


The Perils of U.N.-ology
Why is the New York Times okay with dealing with tyrants?
11/13/2002


Opposition to hate should cut both ways
Until moderate Muslims castrate these psychopaths as the United States did to the KKK, there is a huge problem for the civilized world...
11/13/2002


Misunderestimated
Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England...
11/13/2002


Good news and bad on terror front
Recent attacks have been strategic blunders of the first order...
11/13/2002


Young people will judge military careers by how we treat veterans
11/13/2002


Fall of the House of Kennedy
11/13/2002


Midwife of Liberty
The forces of freedom have used force of arms as a battering ram against tyranny...
11/13/2002


Dept. of State's Loophole for Terrorists
Provision is based on a measure snuck through by Sen. Ted Kennedy...
11/13/2002


Pelosi enters stage far-left
Likely to be a long and regrettable two years...
11/13/2002


Wishful in Defeat
The Democratic Party has come to believe its own propaganda...
11/13/2002


Forecasting the next GOP win
Could be an epitaph for Democrats in the 2004 election and beyond...
11/13/2002


A Sonny Morning in Georgia
A Republican revolution...
11/13/2002


Tricked and bamboozled into war
The west's warlords will get their invasion, in spite of global opinion...
11/13/2002


That 80s Show
It’s all here again, from Reaganomics to ReaganFashion...
11/13/2002


Who knew that Iraq had a parliament?
11/12/2002


A little invasion is what Canada needs
To be treated like a whining kid who's got to start acting like a man....
11/12/2002


The Democrats’ Disaster
A new polls shows widespread repudiation of the party's approach to terrorism — and virtually everything else...
11/12/2002


Ed Koch: 'God help the Democratic Party'
11/12/2002


What to Expect in a GOP World
Didn't vote? Didn't think it mattered?
11/12/2002


Man locked out of house gets stuck in chimney
11/12/2002


Is McAuliffe Watching His Back?
11/12/2002


Richard Gephardt — he labored, but he never tired
11/12/2002


Putting Pelosi's cards on the table
No mention yet of her executive position in the Progressive Caucus...
11/12/2002


The uses of political courage
The message of the 2002 election is that ideas -- lack of ideas -- have consequences....
11/12/2002


Why I'm Teed Off
The chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club weighs in...
11/12/2002


Is Baghdad falling?
Sec. Council vote has opened the Bush era in Baghdad...
11/12/2002


Last year's villain
A sign of changing times: how conservatives responded on Friday when the movie '8 Mile' opened...
11/12/2002


Preaching to the Choir
It wouldn't be a Republican victory without a dyspeptic attack from Bill Moyers. Paid for, in part, by you.
11/12/2002


Two Faces, One Terror
Islamic terror like al-Qaeda's and secular terror like Saddam's, make up a single front...
11/12/2002


Killing Christians
The terrorists command great sympathy in the Islamic world because they are attacking infidels...
11/12/2002


Radical Islam on American Campuses
Current focus of anti-Semitism is the nation-wide divest-from-Israel campaign...
11/12/2002


Could Israel die of thirst?
Current combination of forces could threaten its very existence...
11/12/2002


Boy Emperor Wins!
Maybe now they'll take him seriously...
11/12/2002


House Democrats intent on suicide?
Most House members are no longer elected officials but civil-service employees...
11/12/2002


Left-Leaning Losers
It would be folly for the Democratic Party to take the wrong lesson from this election...
11/12/2002


Dems coiling to strike again
When are you Republicans going to learn?
11/12/2002


The stubborn arrogance of liberal Democrats
If 'moderates' ever hope to regain control of the party, they're going to have to find other sources of funding...
11/12/2002


Al and Tipper’s Family Values
New book is a condescending examination of how the American family has evolved since the 1960s...
11/12/2002


Seismic shifts all around
Including the economic landscape...
11/12/2002


A judicial revolution on the way
11/12/2002


America's Wars and the Progressive Left
What does this unbroken record tell you?
11/12/2002


The End of An Era
For the anti-Americanists....
11/11/2002


Don't let the R's take us down with them
This merry Republican crew takes control of the state at an absolute stinker of a time...
11/11/2002


'Soviet Canuckistan'
Such a rare country...
11/11/2002


Dark days begin for the Democrats
11/11/2002


Carpe diem
This election produced a virtual Republican landslide...
11/11/2002


Lost in a Reagan Time Warp
Republicans are notable mainly for clinging to their own version of the Great Society...
11/11/2002


Hard-money blues
McAuliffe 'appeared staggered by the outcome'...
11/11/2002


Do Republicans have the right stuff?
It is indeed party time for the Grand Old Party...
11/08/2002


The Uses of Political Courage
The message of the 2002 election is that the Democrats remain brain-dead...
11/08/2002


International attitude adjustments
The longstanding "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain is undergoing significant evolution...
11/08/2002


Shipwrecked Democrats
The postmortems by the media on the unprecedented midterm loss by the Democratic Party are all wrong...
11/08/2002


GOP's on-year
President Bush was the victor in Tuesday's "off-year" election...
11/08/2002


Quiet giggling in a gloat-free zone
There will be no gloating in this White House about the amazing Republican victories on...
11/08/2002


The Wisdom of Solomon
A rare example of conservatives triumphing over the liberal academy...
11/08/2002


Saddam unimpressed by G.O.P. victory margin
Fell far short of 100%, Iraqi strongman says...
11/07/2002


Civil War
Things are about to get ugly in the Democratic Party...
11/07/2002


Hardly ordinary
First and foremost, congratulations to the citizens of Florida...
11/07/2002


South Dakota Suspicions
The very last precincts to be counted killed the hopes of GOP Senate candidate John Thune...
11/07/2002


Saddam Hussein charges voter intimidation
Even now liberals are sharpening their character assassination techniques...
11/07/2002


Texas voters stick a fork in Ann Richards and her liberal pals
11/07/2002


After slam of Wellstone family, good riddance to Walter
11/07/2002


The Clinton Curse
Democrats have begun to open their eyes to the devil’s bargain they made...
11/07/2002


A political Gettysburg
11/07/2002


You read it here first: the election's real message
Americans no longer willing to accept business as usual....
11/07/2002


James Carville: Just vaguely depressed
11/06/2002


Paul Begala: Tonight, we sheathe our swords
11/06/2002


Jeff Greenfield: Hugely consequential
11/06/2002


Robert Novac: Is liberalism dead?
11/06/2002


Morning in America
I saw Tom Daschle on TV this morning. He had the same expression on his face my dog makes when he sees me scrape meat off my plate into the garbage...
11/06/2002


Dick and Daschle on the Dustbin
Sen. Dodd may make move for minority leader slot...
11/06/2002


Unfair to direct blame at Islam
None of the gatekeepers of Christianity has apologized to the Vietnamese people...
11/06/2002


Demogaggery
Result says a lot about the respective legacies of Clinton and Bob Dole...
11/06/2002


Dead Man Spinning
Terry McAuliffe wants you to know that the Democrats did just fine yesterday...
11/06/2002


The natural
From Britian, a different impression of Bush...
11/06/2002


A defining moment in American history
11/06/2002


This Is Serious
Dominance for Republicans. Vindication for the president. And a good showing from the American people...
11/06/2002


I've had it with this country
11/06/2002


The Dems’ Florida Trap
Their strategy to make the GOP pay for Florida backfired — big time...
11/06/2002


Triumph!
The Election 2002 score - An NRO Symposium
11/06/2002


Winners! (And Losers)--2002 Edition
Around the horn with last night's victors and vanquished...
11/06/2002


Americans Rally to Bush
He didn't win the popular vote in 2000, but he scored an historic and impressive victory two years later...
11/06/2002


Getting past the CNN-spin
Constant, very pro-Democrat, and very wrong...
11/06/2002


Bush's Triumph
I should have trusted my gut...
11/06/2002


The Democrats' Race Conspiracy Theory
Are Republicans really trying to keep African-Americans from voting?
11/06/2002


Pollsters forgot to tally Bush factor in Senate race
11/06/2002


A GOP Senate Will Matter
Don’t let the liberal media convince you otherwise...
11/05/2002


In defense of low turnout
11/05/2002


How to Keep Score
An insider's guide to keeping track of the election results tonight. Hint: Turnout doesn't matter.
11/05/2002


Ten key races for conservatives
Races involving a clear clash in ideology between the candidates and where public policy directions could be altered...
11/05/2002


The deeper currents
Trends among groups of voters in growing segments of the electorate...
11/05/2002