Ideology vs. the National Interest

When a nation fights for its life, ideology goes by the board. Gen. Washington danced a jig when he heard King Louis XVI had become a fighting ally in our Revolutionary War ...

Muslim Brotherhood: Bummers of the Revolution

It seemed like only a few days ago that Egypt's humble peasant masses set hearts ablaze worldwide with their spirited defense of universal rights and basic human dignity. The ...

I Wish I Were in Cairo

It is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. Not so long ago, the sound of gunfire almost anywhere on Earth called me off with the rest of the ...

Hosni Mubarak

The American Way of Abandonment

Hosni Mubarak, it appears, is not going to go quietly, or quickly. He is not going to play the role assigned him in the White House script that has him resigning and fleeing ...

We Gotta Get Out of That Place

With Egypt's melodramatic implosion, many Americans are asking, "€œWhat has this got to do with us?"€ The short answer: everything. We propped up Mubarak because he's good ...

More Black History, Please

On January 30, the New York Post took a dig at Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who was accused of "€œrewriting history"€ by uttering the following statement about ...

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A Christian Business in the Left’s Crosshairs

Here’s a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don’t comport with yours. ...

The Futility of Dissidence

A few weeks ago in this space I did a Q&A with Jared Taylor of the race-realist American Renaissance website and monthly newsletter. At the time, Jared was preparing for his ...

Churchill: More Myth Than Legend

Last week a country-club Republican friend in Palm Beach gave me a copy of The Weekly Standard and urged me to read “A World in Crisis: What the thirties tell us about ...

Sputnik Moment—or GM Moment?

What America was to the world in 1950, General Motors was to the nation. It was the largest and most successful company with the largest number of employees. It paid the highest ...

Andy Gray and Richard Keys

Sexism On and Off the Field

On January 22, Sky Sports announcers Andy Gray and Richard Keys were overheard joking about female assistant referee Sian Massey. Keys said: "€œSomebody better get down there ...

Egypt Surprises the West Again

My old political philosophy teacher Professor Yusuf Ibish outlined the conditions he thought would lead inevitably to revolution. They included the population's impoverishment, ...

Obama Makes an Exception for American Exceptionalism

Obama's State of the Union speech was a smashing rhetorical success, as the New York Post conceded in its editorial the next morning, because it expressed the ...

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The Multicultural Cringe

This week’s storm in a teacup was when Chinese pianist Lang Lang played the Chinese song “My Motherland” at a US state dinner for visiting Chinese functionaries. ...

And the Debt Bomb Ticks On

With his approval rating moving up to 50 percent and higher in some polls, the pundits are all agreed. President Obama has turned the corner. He is now the winter-book favorite in ...

Mr. Assange’s Digital McCarthyism

Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar ...


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