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U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe Mullah

Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American ...

10 Unbelievable Things I Was Taught in College

It used to be a big deal to have a college education. Back in 1960, about 8% of the population had one, and this chosen few deserved their popularity in the job market. The baby ...

Dwight Eisenhower

Why Are We Still in Korea?

This writer was 11 years old when the shocking news came on June 25, 1950, that North Korean armies had crossed the DMZ. Within days, Seoul had fallen. Routed U.S. and Republic ...

Standing Up to the Oligarchs

Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "€œquants"€ for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"€™m ...

Bailing Out Ireland

Otto von Bismarck is said to have proposed the following solution to the Irish Question: Move all the Irish to Holland and all the Dutch to Ireland. With their industriousness, ...

Who Fed the Tiger?

Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy five of the six major U.S. air bases in the Far East. So states a new report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review ...

Is a Left-Right Antiwar Coalition Possible?

In The American Conservative's September issue, spirited libertarian journalist and antiwar.com editor Justin Raimondo offers his opinions about how Obama lost the left. Raimondo ...

Don”€™t Tread on My Junk

Two months after the second WTC tower collapsed, George W. Bush started the Transportation Security Administration. A month later, some British douchebag who called himself ...

Ray LaHood: Obama’s Power-Mad Cell Phone Czar

America is in debt past its eyeballs. Unemployment remains stuck near double digits. Small and large businesses, unions and insurers are clamoring for Obamacare waivers in droves. ...

Nick Boles: England’s Arch-Modernizer

Boles, Nick. Which Way's Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get There. London, Biteback, 2010, 133 pages, £8.99. Nick Boles not only belongs to the new generation ...

Tea Party’s Winning Hand

Other than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party ...

Election Eve 2008: A Bad Night to be White in Harlem

Two years ago, I was invited to an Election Eve party in Harlem. I found New York was vibrating with premature praise for our Savior. Centuries of cruel white hegemony would ...

From Baby Boom to Bust

Barack Obama's election was an anomaly, a lurch backward. It defied the apparently inevitable and stood athwart history crying, "€œStop!"€ It has been clear for at least ten ...

The Fed Trashes the Dollar

If it is the first responsibility of the Federal Reserve to protect the dollars that Americans earn and save, is it not dereliction of duty for the Fed to pursue a policy to bleed ...

The Drifting Capital of Terror

The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets have turned Sana"€™a, Yemen, into the new world terror capital. Terror, which the United States ...

Diagnosing “€œPassover Syndrome”€ Among White Liberals

There's something to be said for the almost universal leftist tendency to ignore unpleasant facts in favor of smearing their opponents as mentally ill. Not only is it far easier ...


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