Cap and traitors

Conservative activists are angry at eight Republican members of the House of Representatives for voting in favor of the American ...

Fred L. Smith Jr. and William Yeatman

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Welcome to ObamaCare Theater

The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the ...

Michelle Malkin

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The 'moderate' Taliban

For the past five years, President Hamid Karzai has been trying negotiation and reconciliation with the "moderate Taliban" to resolve ...

Hassina Sherjan

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Wrong-turn Obama

It took the Obama administration less than eight hours to side with Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's ...

Oliver North

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New worries in suburbia

Soon after the end of the Cold War, I met a young Russian who had been a member of the ...

Edward Goldberg

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Why we need better ships

Congressional testimony by the leadership of the U.S. Navy has crystallized key issues facing the seagoing service.

Adm. James Lyons

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Bad news on job front

After nine months of explosive monetary and fiscal stimulus, you would think economic recovery would be upon us. But the ...

Lawrence Kudlow

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GOP finds a hot button

Republican prospects in next year's Senate races are not good, with most analysts forecasting deeper Republican losses, though they could ...

Donald Lambro

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U.S. armed forces stretched thin

Today, U.S. forces are smaller and stretched even further around the world. The U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, for instance, ...

Richard Halloran

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Obama isn't cool -- the globe is

President Obama was supposed to be "cool." But he isn't. He's square. Not just mildly so, but embarrassingly square.

Mark Steyn

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BOOK REVIEW: Damned by 'those in the know'?

Reading CNN producer Suzanne Simons' "Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War," it becomes apparent ...

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Sarah agonistes

Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- ...

Tony Blankley

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Post-election showdown

There is no time to lose. The Islamic Republic is derailed and must get back on track. The recent election ...

Asieh Mir

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Like a collapsed souffle

The soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is like one of those souffles my mother sometimes made. The recipe ...

Cal Thomas

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No easy answers

The Obama administration waited until 5:45 p.m. on a Friday in late June to float the idea that it is ...

David B. Rivkin Jr. and Charles D. Stimson

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BOOK REVIEW: Revering human decency

For even the most assiduous reader of literary fiction, the list of great German 20th-century writers generally begins with Thomas ...

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What's at stake

As he proposes further, dramatic cuts in and otherwise weakens the United States' nuclear arsenal, it's your deterrent that is ...

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

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Responsible for those in custody

The effort to end rape in U.S. prisons and jails has emerged as an unlikely unifier of civil society in ...

Lovisa Stannow

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The expanding Fed role

Why is it that those who specialize in individual athletic events hold almost all the records as contrasted with those ...

Richard W. Rahn

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You can't go home again?

UPDATED: Costa Rican President Oscar Arias reportedly will negotiate a resolution of the impasse between the ousted president of Honduras ...

Diana Villiers Negroponte

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Chaos theory -- and practice

It must be comfortable over there on the wrong side of history, because President Obama seems to have settled in ...

Monica Crowley

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BOOK REVIEW: His Princeton years, with venom

Twenty years ago, I was an editor at the Wilson Quarterly. One day, I spent a half-hour filling in for ...

Martin Morse Wooster

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Bring on the balloons

You took a fine time to leave us, Sarah. Can't you imagine Kenny Rogers singing about it? "We've had some ...

Suzanne Fields

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Could prove a health hazard

Most of us are familiar with the old expressions. Look before you leap. A stitch in time saves nine. If ...

Cal Thomas

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BOOK REVIEW: Private schooling for the poor

It's not hard to understand why the affluent might choose to send their offspring to private school, especially when the ...

Marcus Winters

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Israeli know-how

He speaks like an American, looks like an American, and acts like an American -- because he is American-born. He ...

Arnaud de Borchgrave

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Recession tea leaves 'misread'

The Obama administration's latest lame excuse for its failed stimulus spending plan is that it underestimated the severity of the ...

Donald Lambro

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Paying for use is fair

Most broadband consumers would be astounded that some members of Congress want to block our ability to pay for broadband ...

Deborah Taylor Tate

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Colombia: Stick with term limits

For nearly seven years, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has led a successful fight to reclaim his country from the plague ...

John R. Thomson

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BOOK REVIEW: What Lena Horne endured

"Stormy Weather" is a lengthy biography that relates the dramatic ups and downs in the long and tumultuous life of ...

Sandra McElwaine

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Need for 21st-century upgrades

President Obama's administration has managed to brilliantly frame the budget debate with a mantra that an economic crisis requires huge ...

Ed Timperlake

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Care to save liberty?

A few weeks back, at the dawn of the Obama administration, I was having dinner with a very bright woman ...

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

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Light-bulb liars

What if in 2025 a husband and wife decide they want to use old-fashioned incandescent bulbs in the sanctuary of ...

Terence P. Jeffrey

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Sarah Palin, best quitter

Because so many in the media will never understand it's all about country when it's all about Sarah Palin, I ...

Reg Henry

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A stretch even at 50

When Michael Jackson tragically died two weeks ago, millions were shocked. The wonder, though, is not that the troubled pop-music ...

Victor Davis Hanson

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The war on poppies flops

"The farmers are not our enemy," the State Department's Richard Holbrooke recently declared, referring to Afghans who grow opium poppies.

Jacob Sullum

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Here be dragons

Six centuries ago, cartographers would scrawl in the blank space on their maps: "Here Be Dragons." Primitive navigation charts often ...

Austin Bay

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Mourn real heroes

Flags flew at half-staff this week in California's state Capitol. No, not for Michael Jackson. For Pfc. Justin Casillas.

Michelle Malkin

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A very nuanced summit

Read the front pages of America's most famous newspapers, and you'll come away convinced that the big-picture significance of the ...

Martin Schram

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