Imperial Overstretch

Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world—the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and ...

Muhammad and the Sexy Nun

Of all the contentious issues on the cultural and political scene today, the "€œdraw Muhammad"€ controversy seems to bring out the most unsavory types, on all sides. It's ...

Is ISIS Coming to Damascus?

Who rises if Assad falls? That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly ...

Ten Thousand Haven Monahans

"€œThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."€ "€“ Karl Marx The latest liberal hoax exposed is a happy ...

The Media’s Race-Baiting Snipers

We see it every day. Pick a news story, any news story, and it's guaranteed that some journalist will spin it to scream "€œracism."€ Look at the past few weeks. David ...

Evolution or Equality? (Pick One)

It is impossible to simultaneously understand the theory of evolution and to believe in blank-slate cognitive equality among human groups of different continental origins. Both ...

Ann Coulter

¡Adios, Ann Coulter!

Ann Coulter is a withered old hag who uses shock value to sell books. Look at her face. What is she, 40? And her hair? Come on. Are we supposed to take this "€œwoman"€ ...

Secularists vs. Suicide Bombers

“What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. ... We can give them training, we can give them equipment; we obviously can’t give ...

Reverend Curtis Everette Gatewood

The NAACP’s Monster Under the Bed

The NAACP's sole weapon is fear. The organization gets its way because many businesses and public figures live in fear of being slapped with the label "€œracist."€ But what, ...

What the Fall of Ramadi Means

The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning ...

Idle Hands Do Time

Abolish prison and give everyone a gun. The end. Good night. Oh wait, that's not enough for a column? Okay, how about legalize drugs too? I"€™m not kidding. I know it sounds ...

First They Came for the Bakers

All countries are traditions based on religion and genetics, though in irreligious countries they don’t know it. And all European countries these days seem to be in very big ...

Palmyra, Syria

Our Next Mideast War—Syria

Jeb Bush has spent the week debating with himself over whether he would have started the war his brother launched on Iraq. When he figures it out, hopefully, our would-be ...

David Cameron

The Cynosure of Rightwing Hopes

Just after 10pm last Thursday, the BBC was allowed to broadcast the results of the exit poll it had been conducting outside voting stations during election day. Its conclusion ...

Ann Coulter

The Hunt for the Right Wing Snipe

"€œI was never a true believer, but the money was good."€ When I started writing about politics and hanging around with conservatives, I started hearing leftists say the ...

The End of the Affair

Today, after a campaign many of us had begun to feel would never end, British voters elect the MPs who will rule or misrule them for the next five years. Polls going back two ...


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