What Must We Defend?

“We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people” about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense ...

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democratic Dawn—or Darkness?

“Right now, socially, we are disintegrating.” So says Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and potential candidate for president of ...

China’s Never-Ending Party

You think the 2012 Republican field is lackluster? Check out these party animals. The “party” in that last sentence is the Chinese Communist Party. The gents standing ...

China’s Never-Ending Party

You think the 2012 Republican field is lackluster? Check out these party animals. The “party” in that last sentence is the Chinese Communist Party. The gents standing ...

Barack Obama

‘Bibi’ Votes Republican

Not since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers’ U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing ...

Vladimir Putin

Putin: KGB Gang$ta for Life

When I was a youngster in Brezhnev's Russia, I was taught that wealth was relative. Though most people in the West were comfortable, they were poor by comparison to the rich, a ...

Pre ‘67 Borders or Bust

Israel "€“ Palestine "€“ President Obama finally articulated last night what we"€™ve been waiting for since his election in 2008: Israel has to retreat to its 1967 borders. ...

Yemen, Ye Gods

Do you know anything about Yemen? No, me neither. Hang on, let me do a little checking at the CIA World Factbook. Here we go. Size: a tad bigger than Spain. Mostly desert, only ...

Nancy Pelosi

Waive Me

Hear that? It’s the escalating cry of American employers and workers trying to hold on to their health care benefits in the age of stifling Obama health insurance mandates: ...

Duc d

Politicians: Branded Men

One of modernity's toxic effects is that words now mean whatever we want them to mean. They cease being a means of communication and become an instrument of power. Lewis Carroll ...

Dominique Strauss Kahn

The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order. New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of ...

Right, But Doomed

Jim Goad, in his comments about the "€œFear of an Erudite White,"€ says just about everything I could have said about Jared Taylor and his new book, which I"€™m still ...

Operation Enduring Operation

Most versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian slew the dragon, he went home. Task accomplished, deed done, dragon's blood dry on his lance, and ...

Osama Bin Laden

Bin Laden Wins!

"€œBin Laden Wins!"€ should be the cover headline on TIME magazine this week, rather than the hackneyed, he's-as-bad-as-Hitler cover with the red “X” through his ...

King George III

Temper Tantrums of the Parvenus

Although I"€™ve spent considerable time and energy analyzing the tics of the American conservative movement's neoconservative master class, I have failed to call attention to ...

Osama’s Dead—But Are His Ideas?

When President Obama announced that U.S. special forces had helicoptered into Pakistan, broken into a secret compound an hour from the capital and killed Osama bin Laden, ...


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