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J-School Propaganda Most professors and almost all of the embryonic reporters they are educating see journalism as a means to an end. At school, and in the pages of publications such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, they are fed the idea that journalism is a tool to reshape the world as they, the journalists, the few enlightened among us, see it. Reporting is not about looking at a set of circumstances objectively, but rather interpreting them in a fashion that serves the ideological goals of the reporter and his organization. Ryan L. Cole -- Recent journalism school graduate December 4, 2007
Our Gold Star World The education elite have redefined what it means to be 'educated.' If a child is ignorant of facts, dates and figures, no problem. The emphasis now is on self-esteem and 'just being you.' That's much easier than learning. Jonah Goldberg -- National Review Online December 4, 2007
CNN Didn't Ask, Gay Activists Didn't Tell CNN should have informed the Presidential debate audience that Kerr has been an honorary board member and lobbyist for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a gay activist group, since 2003. An easy search of the SLDN website reveals 33 references to his name. Elaine Donnelly -- President, Center for Military Readiness November 30, 2007
Clinton News Network Republicans should have declined CNN's invitation, just like Democrats declined Fox News, though it's doubtful Fox would have orchestrated or permitted a similar ambush of Democratic candidates. David Limbaugh -- Author and columnist November 30, 2007
Celling Vindication: the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate is Over Rarely has a president -- so vilified for a moral stance -- been so thoroughly vindicated. Charles Krauthammer -- Nationally syndicated columnist November 30, 2007
Wars of Religion? 'The Economist' gets it wrong -- all religions are not alike. Chuck Colson -- Breakpoint November 29, 2007
The (Un)Fairness Doctrine Many politicians don't like talk radio and its televised equivalent. After all, Americans who listen to pundits with strong opinions tend to become, gee, informed about the issues of the day. Instead of minding their own business, they learn things. Then they call and write their representatives in Washington, demanding action. We can't have that! Rebecca Hagelin -- The Heritage Foundation November 29, 2007
Gloom-and-Doomers Wrong on U.S. 'Moral Collapse' In her supremely valuable book "The De-Moralization of Society," historian Gertrude Himmelfarb focuses on the British model to show that reformers can exert a profound impact on a nation's manners and morals, virtues and values. The Victorian Era, popularly identified with stuffy, restrictive and judgmental codes of behavior, actually represented a conscious reaction to the excesses and debauchery of the 1700's. The raising of social standards (readily apparent in statistics on illegitimacy, drunkenness, crime, abandonment of children and more) resulted from conscious efforts by mobilized moralists. Michael Medved -- Author, talk show host, and member of the Culture and Media Institute's Board of Advisors November 28, 2007
Debunking the Galileo Myth Galileo Was A Victim of Torture and Abuse: This is perhaps the most recurring motif, and yet it is entirely untrue. Galileo was treated by the church as a celebrity. When summoned by the Inquisition, he was housed in the grand Medici Villa in Rome. He attended receptions with the Pope and leading cardinals. Dinesh D'Souza -- Hoover Institution November 28, 2007
Merry Tossmas What should we do with catalogues that say "Holiday," not "Christmas?" Stuart Shepard -- Citizenlink November 27, 2007
Anti-Religious Bigotry on Display in the Mainstream Media Whether or not you are a fan of Mike Huckabee and his candidacy for the presidency, it's helpful to take a sober look at the transparent bigotry on display among some members of the mainstream media reacting to an evangelical who is unashamed of his faith and who has an integrated worldview. Justin Taylor -- Blogger, theologica.com November 27, 2007
Gun Rights and Presidential Politics The American people have the right to know how a presidential candidate would interpret the Constitution's most basic tenet -- the rights of individuals over government. Ken Blackwell -- Senior Fellow, Family Research Council November 26, 2007
Media Reports on Hate Crimes Fuel Misconceptions of Bias A tremendous increase? In Denver, a city of nearly 567,000 residents and a total metropolitan population of more than 2.4 million, law enforcement agencies reported just one religious-based hate crime. This was a fact neglected by the media. Jessica Peck Corry -- Independence Institute November 26, 2007
'Redacted' is Repulsive Brian DePalma's "Redacted" did something that is not easy to do: It left me briefly at a loss for words. But given that words are what a movie review is made of, I shall select a few: Repugnant, repulsive, anti-American propaganda. Ross Kaminsky -- Blogger and critic November 26, 2007
An Army of Angels Give thanks for those who give themselves - in service to our nation, in civic duty and in answer to His call - all year 'round. Michelle Malkin -- National Review Online November 21, 2007
Thankful to Whom? A "religion debate" has arisen over Thanksgiving just as it has over Christmas. Ken Connor -- Center for a Just Society November 21, 2007
American Treasure Americans should be thankful they have one of the last functioning nation states. Mark Steyn -- National Review Online November 20, 2007
Do You Hear What I Hear? I remember how shocked I was in 2004 when I saw blacks, whites, and Hispanics sitting together, developing specific strategies to protect marriage. Harry R. Jackson, Jr. -- High Impact Leadership Council November 20, 2007
Devolving Standards of Decency Recently, a young woman came by my office to discuss my opposition to abortion. She was motivated to visit me by a discussion in her Women's Studies class. Mike S. Adams -- Townhall.com November 19, 2007
Mi Casa, Sue Casa Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English John Fund -- OpinionJournal.com November 19, 2007
On Setting an Example Being a "beacon to the world" is more challenging than it sounds. Peggy Noonan -- The Wall Street Journal November 16, 2007
Dying to Date Too often what follows the hook-up is emotional pain and physical disease, the combination of which has created a mental health crisis on American campuses. Kathleen Parker -- Nationally syndicated columnist November 16, 2007
Waving the White Flag Could it be that Pelosi and Reid can't see the progress because they don't want to see it? Or, even worse, are they committed to doing what they can to stop their country from winning the war in Iraq? Michael Reagan -- Author and radio talk show host November 16, 2007
Hefner's Bunny on a Trojan Horse Our nation is well past "the tipping point" of sexual pathology. Until our universities have the courage to face our past mistakes and teach the truth about the Trojan horse-and-bunny history of the sexual revolution, our predatory population will continue to expand, recruit and breed ever greater numbers. Dr. Judith Reisman -- Author, "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences" November 14, 2007
Propaganda, and Perspective, on "American Empire" Those who insist on slandering the United States seek ugly closeups of twisted trees but won't step back to consider the forest. They lack perspective, and ignore context. They prefer to dwell on the harsh impact of specific American initiatives or policies, without acknowledging the Republic's undeniably benevolent and beneficial impact on the world at large during every era in our history. Michael Medved -- Author, columnist and talk show host November 14, 2007
Unholster the 2nd Amendment The Supreme Court, in weighing D.C.'s handgun ban, has a chance to reaffirm the right to own guns. Robert A. Levy -- Senior fellow in constitutional studies, Cato Institute November 14, 2007
Quiet Victory Our progress in Iraq is obscured by a news blackout. Rich Lowry -- Editor, National Review November 13, 2007
To Understand the Left, Read this Issue of Rolling Stone But even if no foul language were used by so many of those interviewed in Rolling Stone, the absence of serious thought would be enough to fear leftist influence on the country. Dennis Prager -- November 13, 2007
This Veterans Day As we honor our vets let's not forget that when they served they took the hearts of their families with them. I know. While my son was at war I was hollowed out. Frank Schaeffer -- Author and father of a Marine November 12, 2007
How Hollywood Undermines the Family Today, Hollywood tells us that, at best, families are irrelevant, and, at worst, oppressive, suffocating and an obstacle to self-fulfillment and happiness....Hollywood says putting anything ahead of your own happiness -- including family obligations -- is idiotic, if not neurotic. Don Feder -- Commentator and consultant November 12, 2007
The Culture War Heats Up in Hollywood Not only has there been an increase in the number of explicitly left-wing, anti-American, anti-Christian documentaries in the last two years (such as "The Road to Guantanamo," "Jesus Camp," "Jimmy Carter Man from Plains," and "For the Bible Tells Me So"), but there has also been an increasing number of anti-American and anti-Christian mainstream movies such as "The Da Vinci Code," "Brokeback Mountain," and the recent box office bombs "In the Valley of Elah" and "Rendition." Ted Baehr -- Movieguide November 9, 2007
Why the Berlin Wall Fell Reagan's military buildup and his missile defense program threatened the Soviets with an arms race they could ill afford. The Reagan doctrine of aid to anticommunist guerrillas halted Soviet advances in the Third World: between 1980 and 1985 not an inch of real estate fell into Moscow's hands...It was Reagan, in other words, who was responsible for thwarting Soviet gains and introducing a loss of nerve that contributed to the elevation of Gorbachev to power. Dinesh D'Souza -- Hoover Institution November 9, 2007
A Tale of Two Coups In Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf pulled a coup against himself and U.S. diplomats were apparently stunned. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez pulled a coup against his countrymen and U.S. diplomats were once again, well ... stunned. The difference in political attention and media coverage accorded these two affairs has been -- for lack of a better word -- stunning. Oliver North -- Author, columnist and television host November 9, 2007
'America Can Count On France' Here, both the humblest and most illustrious citizens alike know that nothing is owed to them and that everything has to be earned. That's what constitutes the moral value of America. America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it. And she fought for this freedom whenever she felt it to be threatened somewhere in the world. It was by watching America grow that men and women understood that freedom was possible. Nicolas Sarkozy -- President of France November 8, 2007
Staged on ABC It's a short leap from hoax crimes to hoax news. Marshak could get expelled, but there may yet be an opening for her at the stage production unit of ABC News, NBC News, or CBS News. Michelle Malkin -- Columnist and blogger November 7, 2007
Universal Neglect The officials who run Great Britain's National Health Service apparently don't believe patients need the benefits of medical innovations. Advanced medicine costs too much, so they can just go without. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily November 7, 2007
Dear Senator Dodd: Education Is Not the Answer to Every Problem The higher educated in Western society have been more likely to have awful moral values and more likely to support massive cruelty than the less well educated. Dennis Prager -- Author, commentator and talk show host November 6, 2007
'Anti-' Doesn't Sell Though the war in Iraq is unpopular, Hollywood is finding out that Americans aren't clamoring for anti-war diatribes. Jonah Goldberg -- National Review Online November 6, 2007
Britain's Anti-Semitic Turn According to the police, Jews are four times more likely to be attacked because of their religion than are Muslims. Every synagogue service and Jewish communal event now requires guards on the lookout for violence from both neo-Nazis and Muslim extremists. Melanie Phillips -- City Journal November 5, 2007
How Firm a Foundation? The marital unit is the foundation of the family, but any honest observer must acknowledge that the institution of marriage is in trouble in America. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society November 5, 2007
Does MoveOn.org Own the New York Times? The New York Times brand has been damaged enormously under the direction of Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr. Its stock price -- probably the most objective measure of the value of the brand -- has fallen under Sulzberger from a high of about $52 in 2002 to close last Friday at $18.87, a 64% drop. Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events November 5, 2007
'This Will Make Voter Fraud Easier' Why does Mrs. Clinton want driver's licenses for illegal aliens? 8 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote. John Fund -- Wall Street Journal November 2, 2007
Even Harvard Finds The Media Biased The debate is over. A consensus has been reached. On global warming? No, on how Democrats are favored on television, radio and in the newspapers. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily November 2, 2007
How to End Sex Slavery Sex trafficking -- modern day slavery -- is one of the foremost women's issues of our time. Yet this $10 billion industry, the second largest international crime, affecting approximately 800,000 people, is hardly noticed by the public. Janice Shaw Crouse -- Concerned Women for America November 2, 2007
Not the News: The Elite Media's Coverage of Iraq Is a Fiasco The average news consumer probably has no clue that Gen. David Petraeus's new strategy has crippled al Qaeda in Iraq, that Americans and Iraqis are now fighting side-by-side against both Sunni and Shia extremists, and that the elimination of terrorist safe havens and weapons caches has improved security for average Iraqis in parts of the country that a few months ago were snake pits. Clifford D. May -- Former New York Times foreign correspondent, and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. November 1, 2007
ENDA, Obama and the Cultural War We've got legislation moving through Congress, pushed by gay activists, that would make it illegal for an employer to not hire, or to fire, someone because of their sexual orientation. But the head of the nation's largest gay-activist organization asks Mr. Obama to fire a man because he is a Christian, an ex-gay, and an advocate of traditional values? Freedom? Justice? Fairness? America? Star Parker -- Author and president, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education November 1, 2007
A Lesson in Personal Responsibility Who is Stanley O'Neal? Born in segregated Alabama in 1951, O'Neal spent his early childhood delivering newspapers, picking corn and cotton on the family farm, and being educated in a one-room school built by his grandfather. He landed a job on General Motors' assembly line, and won a place studying engineering and industrial administration at the General Motors Institute. O'Neal later secured a Harvard scholarship, where he earned an MBA. Larry Elder -- Talk show host and author. November 1, 2007
Brave Newark World The University of Delaware has just become one of the most Orwellian campuses in America. Students in its residence halls are now being subjected to a re-education program that is actually dubbed - in the university's own taxpayer funded materials - as "treatment" for students who have incorrect attitudes and beliefs. Mike S. Adams -- Columnist, author and professor of criminology. October 31, 2007
The Jena Defendants: Is Thuggery a New Right? Apparently, a six-on-one assault, euphemistically known as "a fight," wasn't the injustice; prosecuting the assailants while declining to prosecute the noose-hangers was. Carl F. Horowitz -- National Legal and Policy Center October 31, 2007
Honoring the Witnesses The real meaning of Halloween and All Saints Day. Chuck Colson -- Breakpoint October 31, 2007
Honoring the Witnesses The real meaning of Halloween and All Saints Day. Chuck Colson -- Break October 31, 2007
Brave Newark World The University of Delaware has just become one of the most Orwellian campuses in America. Students in its residence halls are now being subjected to a re-education program that is actually dubbed - in the university’s own tax-payer funded materials - as "treatment" for students who have incorrect attitudes and beliefs. Mike S. Adams -- Columnist, author and professor of criminology October 31, 2007
The Jena Defendants: Is Thuggery a New Right? Apparently, a six-on-one assault, euphemistically known as "a fight," wasn't the injustice; prosecuting the assailants while declining to prosecute the noose-hangers was. Carl F. Horowitz -- National Legal and Policy Center October 31, 2007
About That 'Horde of Easily Terrified, Mindless Fundamentalist Evangelical Christian Lemmings' Speaking directly to Mr. Morford's focus on education, religious teens are less likely to be truant, and demonstrate higher achievement in school, especially if those teens live in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Dr. Warren Throckmorton -- Columnist and professor of psychology and public policy, Grove City College October 30, 2007
LOST Runs Silent, Runs Deep The seemingly deliberate suppression of bad news concerning an accord favored by the elite is being compounded by a similar lack of transparency on the part of the Senate itself. Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. -- Center for Security Policy October 30, 2007
Keep Your Condoms Off My Kids I don't know about you, but I would wring the neck of any so-called health care professional that gave my middle-schooler birth control without my knowledge or consent. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society October 29, 2007
Sexuality Primer At the same time, our kids have to understand -- we have to tell them -- that they are in a culture that pushes them, particularly our girls, to be hyper-sexualized -- and it's all part of the same, empty continuum. A dangerous continuum that will never recognize that sensuality outside of marriage is just not, well, good enough for them. Betsy Hart -- Talk show host and columnist October 29, 2007
Liberals vs. the First Amendment "Fairness" is foul. John Fund -- Wall Street Journal October 29, 2007
This Weekend, Read a Book: D'Souza Debunks Atheists Dinesh D'Souza's 'What's So Great About Christianity' is more than the traditional, theological apologetic. It also contains a robust defense of Christianity's positive influence in history and debunks the revisionist disinformation condemning the religion. David Limbaugh -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author October 26, 2007
Apocalypse No The New Republic's editors seem to have mistaken Vietnam movies for real life. Peggy Noonan -- Wall Street Journal October 26, 2007
The Penalty for Being a Boy Scout We can reverse the sting of political correctness by supporting the Boy Scouts in our own communities. Hans Zeiger -- Scouting Legal Defense Fund October 26, 2007
Have You Hugged an Islamo-Fascist Today? College liberals are in a fit of pique because various speakers are coming to their campuses this week as part of David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week -- not to be confused with Islamo-Fascism Appreciation Week, which I believe is in April. Ann Coulter -- Author and columnist October 25, 2007
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week: Naming the Enemy David Horowitz says his larger agenda is to create a national movement to stand up to the coalition between Islamo-fascists and American liberals at home who are running interference for the terrorists. Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online October 25, 2007
'Profile' Foreign Donors? Of Course! The only ones guilty of irresponsible behavior here are the political apologists for Hillary and the media organizations that would rather kowtow to political correctness than follow in the journalistic footsteps of the New York Post and Los Angeles Times. The Clinton campaign is counting on left-wing editors to capitulate under heat from Asian-American groups who want to deflect attention away from suspicious foreign donations. Michelle Malkin -- Author, columnist and blogger October 25, 2007
Time to End ENDA Last Friday, I hosted a press conference in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, aimed at opposing HR 3685 - The Employment Non-Discrimination Act also known as ENDA. We represented a multicultural, multi-racial group of Christians who believe that our legislators have started down a dangerous direction with this law and the Hate Crimes legislation which was recently passed by the Senate (S1105). Harry R. Jackson, Jr. -- Author, pastor and political activist October 24, 2007
AIDS Prevention: What Works? Virtually everywhere in Africa where HIV rates have fallen, these declines were preceded by steep declines in multiple partnerships. As Helen Epstein explores in her recent book on AIDS in Africa, such profound shifts in behavior have usually been accompanied by broad transformations in sexual and societal norms, such as the homegrown "Zero Grazing" campaign that took root in Uganda in the late 1980s. Daniel Halperin -- Harvard School of Public Health October 24, 2007
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Perpetually Juvenile If groups such as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence spent half as much time criticizing Islam for its abuses against gay rights as they do Catholicism, then perhaps their attempts at activism might be seen as truly groundbreaking. As it is, their juvenile behavior is redolent of a son desperately rebelling against his father, a teenage girl telling her mother she hates her because she can't stay out as late as she'd like, and other similarly adolescent expressions of fury. Cinnamon Stillwell -- San Francisco columnist and blogger October 24, 2007
The Atheist Indoctrination Project Philosopher Richard Rorty argued that secular professors in the universities ought "to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own." Dinesh D'Souza -- Fellow, Hoover Institution October 22, 2007
On Tomorrow's Dime The real war on children -- more government entitlements they'll have to pay for. Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist October 22, 2007
Why Islamic Fascists Get Away With Hate Speech And this leads to an understanding of the apparent hypocrisy of gays and feminists who a) cry "hate speech" against conservatives who do not wish to kill gays and feminists, and b) tolerate "hate speech" by Islamic fascists who really do wish to kill gays and feminists. Mike S. Adams -- Professor, author and columnist October 22, 2007
The U.S. Is a Great Place to Be Anti-American The truth is that America not only harbours the most eloquent and noisy anti-Americans in its own breast, it provides a safe haven for people to come from all over the world to condemn it. Gerard Baker -- London Times October 19, 2007
The Last March Of The Dinosaurs: The Death Of Network News The nets can't change their DNA, and that DNA isn't meant for the world of new media. They are slow when the new media is fast. They are hyper-liberal in an era where the center-right can shop for news and the radical left won't accept even the hyper-liberal as other than sell-outs. Hugh Hewitt -- Law professor, author, talk show host October 19, 2007
NY Times Disses Intelligent Design Author Assigns radical atheist to review book on the limits of Darwinism. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint October 19, 2007
Want Protection From Breast Cancer? Have Some Babies The problem is biology itself is sexist. And that's unlikely to change -- even with threats of legal action from the ACLU or NOW. Dr. Miriam Grossman -- Medical doctor and columnist October 17, 2007
The Clinton Crime Family Bergler steals HRC 2008 credibility. Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online October 16, 2007
Unfit for Command Observing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic House imperil a U.S.-Turkish alliance of 60 years -- by formally charging Turkey with genocide in a 1915 massacre of the Armenians -- the question comes to mind: Does this generation have the maturity to lead America? Patrick J. Buchanan -- Author and columnist October 16, 2007
Condemning Turkey: Pelosi's Most Dangerous Ploy The lack of concern for ongoing mass murder in Darfur and Burma proves the Democrats' only purpose is to enrage the Turkish government and end their cooperation on Iraq. Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events October 15, 2007
Doom if Saint Al Loses Carbs No matter how you raise the stakes ("It might take another 30 Kyotos", says Jerry Mahlman of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research), Saint Al of the Ecopalypse can raise them higher. Climate change, he says, is the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced. Ever. And not just humankind, but alienkind, too. "We are," warns Gore, "altering the balance of energy between our planet and the rest of the universe." Mark Steyn -- Columnist and author October 15, 2007
Progressives Agree: 'God's Chosen People' Are Racist In condemning Coulter's comments, the media's objective isn't to defend Judaism, but to incite phony hysteria and advance Media Matters' agenda to silence conservatives. Lisa De Pasquale -- American Conservative Union October 15, 2007
The Plan To Rein In Free Speech A manufactured flap over Rush Limbaugh has stirred talk of new "fairness doctrine" hearings in Congress. That's just what Media Matters, the flacks behind it, were after. Their agenda is worse than it looks. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily October 12, 2007
Al Gore: A Terrible Choice for the Nobel Prize The selection of Gore essentially means the Peace Prize can no longer be said to be an award for improving the condition of humankind. Looking at Gore's writing, it's far from clear that Gore even believes that humanity is his most important priority. John Berlau -- Competitive Enterprise Institute October 12, 2007
Hillary Talks About 'It' Would she defend Rush Limbaugh's speech rights against the left? Daniel Henninger -- Wall Street Journal October 11, 2007
Why Are the Media So Angry at Clarence Thomas? When they call him "a justice with issues," as a Washington Post website columnist did last week, one might reasonably wonder what their issues are. What are they so angry about? That Justice Thomas won't kowtow to them? That he was confirmed to the Supreme Court despite their best efforts to stop him? Helgi Walker -- Former law clerk for Justice Thomas October 11, 2007
Clarence Thomas It would be hard to think of anyone whose portrayal in the media differs more radically from the reality than that of Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas Sowell -- Senior fellow, Hoover Institution October 10, 2007
Clarence Thomas: Part II Now, with the recent publication of Justice Thomas' memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," Anita Hill has surfaced again in the media to repeat her accusations. The time is long overdue to take a hard look at hard facts, so that we can put those accusations in the garbage can, where they belong. Thomas Sowell -- Senior fellow, Hoover Institution October 10, 2007
Welcome to the Nanny State-- An Interview It's about the difference between coercing someone to do the right thing and convincing them to do the right thing. In the Nanny State, we coerce them -- or the government does, at least. Bill Steigerwald -- Editor and columnist, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review October 10, 2007
Colorado State University Shames Itself Our universities generally are run by fools who are breeding a generation of fools. There are, of course, many exceptions, but these exceptions have little impact on the deconstruction of civilization and the breeding of anti-intellectuals taking place at our universities. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and columnist October 9, 2007
Nietzsche Would Laugh Morality without God. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint October 9, 2007
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times? America's public gloom contradicts people's enduring, if private, confidence. Michael Medved -- Talk show host and columnist October 9, 2007
Clash of Civilizations: Battle of Lepanto Revisited Some maintain that the "war on terror" is the result of the Bush administration's mishandling of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Others have revised their thinking after five years. Jonathan Last, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer Oct. 1 states, "It's the West vs. the Islamic world, a clash that has never abated. ... It predates America itself. It is a clash between Western civilization and the Islamic world." Mary Jo Anderson -- WorldNetDaily October 8, 2007
Two Cheers for the Bush Administration and Religious Freedom The book ban was based in the same type of thinking that leads airport security folks to frisk gray old ladies rather than young Muslim men: fear of discrimination. Prisons have long knocked out new religious books that urge violence, but that policy takes out a disproportionate number of Muslim works, particularly because the extremist Wahhabi sect is strong in prisons and well-represented among Muslim prison chaplains. Marvin Olasky -- Editor in Chief, World Magazine October 8, 2007
Doc, What's Up with Snooping? Great. I send my daughter to the pediatrician to find out if she's fit to play lacrosse, and the doctor spends her time trying to find out if her mom and I are drunk, drug-addicted sex criminals. We're not alone, either. Thanks to guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported by the commonwealth, doctors across Massachusetts are interrogating our kids about mom and dad's "bad" behavior. Michael Graham -- Talk show host and columnist October 8, 2007
If Limbaugh is the Kettle, Democrats Are the Pot Democrats, starting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are lining up to call Rush Limbaugh "unpatriotic" and do whatever they can to discredit him. Jonah Goldberg -- National Review October 5, 2007
SCOTUS Media Furnace Of course, while there is anger in Justice Thomas's book -- justifiable anger, one might argue -- there is also tenderness, vulnerability, brutal honesty and overflowing gratitude. None of the major reactions to the book seem to have noticed those things. Mona Charen -- Nationally syndicated columnist October 5, 2007
The Values Test If the major political parties decide to abandon conservative principles, the cohesion of pro-family advocates will be all too apparent in 2008. Dr. James Dobson -- Author and founder of Focus on the Family Action October 4, 2007
Reiding Rush Wrong Reasonably read, Rush wasn't talking about all our troops: just those such as Scott Thomas Beauchamp who became tools of the liberal media by willingly making up stories of atrocities and failure, and others who never served in Iraq but pretended they had. Ericka Andersen -- Human Events October 3, 2007
'Hate Crimes' Legislation: A License To Kill The First Amendment So, if this legislation is not about stopping "hate crimes" (no law can accomplish that)...
...and it's not about creating needed laws (where the laws are needed, they already exist)...
...and it's not about extending the existing laws to protect the broadest possible array of likely victims (Democrats in committee nixed that idea)...
...what is this "hate crimes" law about?
Primarily, it's about punishing people of traditional faith who dare oppose homosexual behavior.
Alan Sears -- President, Alliance Defense Fund October 3, 2007
Cosmo Girl Couric's America Why Katie Couric is uncomfortable with wearing an American flag on her lapel and saying "we" when referring to the United States. Jonah Goldberg -- National Review Online October 3, 2007
Do the Facts Matter When the Subject Is Rush Limbaugh? In the current dust-up about Rush Limbaugh's so-called "phony soldier" comments, there cannot be a dispute about the facts. There is a transcript. Carrie Lukas -- Independent Women's Forum October 2, 2007
Rush's Challenge to Senator Reid Now I, little old private citizen, Rush Limbaugh, am the subject of Senate action, the subject today of House of Representatives action, all based on a purposely told lie, which they know is a lie, and yet they are persisting in this. Rush Limbaugh -- Talk show host and author October 2, 2007
Marriage Gloom-and-Doomers Are 'Divorced From Reality' In fact, the divorce rate has been falling continuously over the past quarter-century, and is now at its lowest level since 1970. Michael Medved -- Talk show host and columnist October 2, 2007
Folsom Street Fair Reminds U.S. of What 'Gay Pride' Means I'd like to thank the organizers of these types of events for reminding Americans what's at stake in our culture war, why politics is important and what it means to be a San Francisco liberal.... not only did they not get arrested, they publicly did "it" -- numerous times and in every way and combination -- under the protection of law enforcement and city leaders. And nothing happened. Frank Pastore -- Columnist and talk show host October 1, 2007
Boss Hoyer Says, 'We Control This House' On August 2, the Democrats' House leadership twice manipulated votes on the House floor to ensure welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. Will the "Blue Dogs" and vulnerable incumbents suffer the anger of voters if they don't stand against the courruption of their leaders? Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events October 1, 2007
Draft General Pace Virginia Republicans should tell this devoted patriot that his service to the nation is not done, and encourage him to take on another mission. Editorial -- National Review Online October 1, 2007
The Values Voter Debate Anyone who saw Monday's Values Voter Presidential Debate in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., witnessed a political exchange unlike any of those sponsored by the Big Media. Joseph Farah -- Nationally syndicated columnist September 28, 2007
Tolerate Polygamy, Purge Theology Two years ago, I spoke with a Princeton political philosopher who supported same-sex marriage but opposed polygamy on grounds of decorum. I kidded him about his being a two-ist: If any combination of two is fine "as long as they love each other," why not be a three-ist or a ten-ist? Marvin Olasky -- Editor in Chief, World magazine September 28, 2007
Sauce for the Times Less than three months after the Times excoriated the court for weakening restrictions on issue ads, the paper made a huge and patently illegal contribution to MoveOn.org's issue advocacy ad. George Will -- Nationally syndicated columnist September 28, 2007
Socialized Medicine's Front Door The Alice in Wonderland quality of legislating in Congress was typified this week. The Democratic Congress quickly passed a national health insurance bill, drafted in secret and protected from amendment, that constitutes the most important legislation of this session. While designed for a presidential veto, it is national health insurance -- through the front, not the back, door. Robert Novak -- Nationally syndicated columnist September 27, 2007
SCHIP-Wrecked As a physician, I can attest to the danger in government-run, bureaucratic health care. A Washington approach endangers quality of care and drives up costs for all Americans. The inefficiency of government-run care is well documented. While the cost per child in private, personal coverage is $2,300, it costs the American taxpayer $4,000 per child in SCHIP. U.S. Rep. Tom Price -- Congressman and orthopedic surgeon September 27, 2007
Get the ACLU Out of Our Bathrooms The conflated logic of the ACLU's bathroom briefs seems to be that someone entering a public restroom intending to use it for traditional purposes has no protection either from the gender sign posted at the door or from the otherwise vaunted right to privacy. Someone entering a public restroom intending to solicit and engage in sex, on the other hand, is protected by both the First Amendment and the right to privacy. Terence Jeffrey -- Editor in Chief, CNSNews.com September 26, 2007
Columbia, Ahmadinejad, and Intolerance in the Name of Tolerance Any conservative who has ever tried, or actually succeeded, in speaking on the campus of predominately liberal academic institutions knows it can resemble to some extent the struggle experienced by African-Americans when they attempted to desegregate lunch counters in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist September 26, 2007
Sinking in the Rising Tide These are hard times for people who invested in the New York Times. Could the problem be liberal bias? Jerry Bowyer -- Author and economic adviser September 26, 2007
'A Petty and Cruel Dictator' Lies at Columbia Many of the students in the audience didn't seem to mind being lied to, indeed seemed to enjoy it. When Ahmadinejad invited them all to Iran -- where perhaps they too can be taken hostage or beaten -- they applauded appreciatively. Overall, he probably got a warmer reception than John McCain at the New School a year ago. Editorial -- National Review Online September 25, 2007
The Jena Dodge Demonstrators and the media avoid the stubborn truths of black social breakdown. Heather Mac Donald -- City Journal September 25, 2007
Does the Left Value Truth? When the left ceaselessly repeats the mantra "Bush lied," it may simply be projecting onto George W. Bush what comes quite naturally to the left -- when it offers false Iraqi death statistics, false homeless data, false rape statistics, false secondhand smoke statistics, false claims about the percentage of gays in the population, and false claims of just about everything else the left cares about. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and author September 25, 2007
Ahmadinejad Is In, ROTC Is Out This absurd double standard of kowtowing even to the enemies of America, while blocking the military and other politically incorrect institutions, has got to stop and stop now. Columbia and other universities should be just as open to ideas from the right as they are to ideas from the left and from the Islamic radicals. Dinesh D'Souza -- Hoover Institution September 24, 2007
(Really) Don't Know Much About History The most expensive and prestigious schools often decreased their students' understanding of basic American civics. Nathanael Blake -- Human Events September 24, 2007
New Jersey Abortion Decision Deprives Women of Their Right to Know According to the court, the abortionist did not have to answer truthfully because "there is no consensus in the medical community" that embryos are living human beings at six weeks to eight weeks of age. Richard Collier -- President, Legal Center for Defense of Life September 24, 2007
Did Democrats Go Too Far Going After Petraeus? You might think those on the left would have learned their lesson and would not want to be seen attacking a decorated general, but they didn't learn. The most recent outrage is an effort to question the medals worn by Petraeus. Lorie Byrd -- Columnist and blogger September 21, 2007
Dan Rather's Conspiracy Theory The former anchorman alleges CBS shut him up to protect George W. Bush. Byron York -- National Review September 21, 2007
Madonna's Fake Judaism Madonna is no ambassador for Judaism. She's an ambassador for Hollywood arrogance, egocentrism and hypocrisy. Ben Shapiro -- Human Events September 20, 2007
Sally Field Does Not Speak For Me Motherhood requires ferocity. Contrary to tongue-tied Sally's incoherent Primetime Emmy Awards diatribe, childbearing and childrearing do not bond all women in universal sorority of non-confrontation. Michelle Malkin -- Syndicated columnist September 20, 2007
Hillarizing Health Care Who needs a private sector when we have a Clinton make our health-care choices? Peter Ferrara -- Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy, Institute for Policy Innovation September 19, 2007
Looking at HillaryCare Tanner notes that Clinton has tried to mask the degree of government control by repeatedly referring to "choice" and declaring that anyone can keep their current plan if they like. This, he says, is simply false. Jennifer Rubin -- Human Events September 19, 2007
ENDA Liberty The Employment Non-Discrimination Act currently being pushed in Congress would give people special rights based on their behavior, and infringe on the rights of people with moral objections to those behaviors. Stuart Shepard -- Managing Editor, CitizenLink September 19, 2007
Why the Left Has Changed Journalism, Education and the Courts Merely teaching is as unimportant to most left-wing teachers and professors as is mere reporting of the news for left-wing journalists or mere rendering of justice to most liberal judges. They regard their professions not as ends but as means -- to higher, leftist ends. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and author September 18, 2007
The Code Pink Hate-America Happy Hour It was so dead-on loony liberal, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't watching a really skillful parody. Mary Katharine Ham -- Managing Editor, Townhall.com September 18, 2007
Islam, the Marxism of Our Time Some troubling signs in Europe. Theodore Dalrymple -- City Journal September 18, 2007
Survival Instinct Slippage According to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, September 11 "was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other." Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author September 17, 2007
When Decency Goes AWOL There is no greater lie than to falsely accuse a person of being a liar. The slander by MoveOn.org, the smearing machine of the Democratic lunatic left, rises to the highest office of the land, falsely accusing the president of lying about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which was not a lie but a mistake based on the intelligence gathered by several nations of the coalition. A mistake is not a lie; an accusation of mistake has no power to destroy a reputation. Suzanne Fields -- Columnist, The Washington Times September 17, 2007
District Matters Tuesday, the Senate will consider legislation that would expand the House of Representatives by two seats, including one that would be permanently reserved for the District. This is an obvious violation of the Constitution, which says that members of the House of Representatives shall come from "the several states." Editorial -- National Review Online September 17, 2007
Victory Is a Values Issue Historically, values organizations have been reluctant to engage in foreign policy. But six years into a struggle that has reshaped understandings of the relationship between war and duty, our unique coalition reaffirms a fundamental insight: Victory is a values issue. We believe defeat at the hands of an ideology that worships death would be immoral. Gary Bauer -- President, American Values September 14, 2007
Iraq: Good Policy is Good Politics Look who won Petraeus week. Kimberley A. Strassel -- Wall Street Journal September 14, 2007
Illegal Immigration Isn't a Crime? The truth is that the former mayor of the biggest sanctuary city on the planet is similar to President Bush in terms of being tone-deaf to the roar of legal citizens who have positively had it with illegal immigrants. Mike Gallagher -- Author and talk show host September 14, 2007
After Petraeus: Where Have the Grown-Ups Gone? It's too early yet to say exactly how much of an impact Gen. Petraeus' impressive testimony will have on U.S. public opinion. What is disturbing is how much depends on his capacity to persuade Americans that all is not yet lost in Iraq. Maggie Gallagher -- Author and columnist September 13, 2007
A Great Adventure in Gratitude Hannity's Freedom Concerts. Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online September 13, 2007
The Fertility Gap: More Christians on the Way Religious people who identify themselves as politically "conservative" or "very conservative" are having, on average, an astonishing 78 percent more kids than secular liberals. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint September 13, 2007
After the Hill Surge Petraeus and Crocker have reset the Washington clock. These good men, by what they have achieved in Iraq and by the force and power of their testimonies, have recast the terms of the debate. They will now have until next summer to build on their successes, which in turn could eventually lead to a decent outcome in Iraq. Peter Wehner -- Ethics and Public Policy Center September 12, 2007
Hollywood's Revealing Censorship of "Path to 9/11" According to Cyrus Nowrasteh, the series lead writer-producer, a top executive at ABC studios explained that the decision to effectively censor "The Path to 9/11" stemmed from a desire to protect the Bill Clinton Presidential legacy and to avoid damage to Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign. Michael Medved -- Talk show host and columnist September 12, 2007
Washington's Civilizational Choice Will this be the moment in history when America gives up -- when al Qaeda breaks our will, when our enemies surge forward, when we turn our backs on our friends and begin a long retreat from our principles and promise as a nation? Joseph Lieberman -- Senator (Independent), Connecticut September 11, 2007
Surgin' General Petraeus's bottom line might be summed up in this way: It's too early to conclude that the United States is winning in Iraq. But it does not go beyond the available evidence to say that the terrorists are losing. Small wonder that some war opponents are outraged. Jacob Laksin -- Senior editor, Front Page Magazine September 11, 2007
MoveOn's McCarthy Moment This is a defining moment for the antiwar faction. They can continue on the path on to which they have veered, repeating some of the worst mistakes in American history. Or they can make a clean break with the past, police their own ranks, and promote a healthy, critical, public debate about the best way forward in Iraq. Peter D. Feaver -- Political science professor, Duke University September 11, 2007
General Petraeus Reports Will the Democrats listen, or will they turn it these sessions into mud-slinging show trials like the confirmation hearings for Justice Alito? Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events September 10, 2007
MoveOn.org Calls Petraeus a Traitor "No one wants to call [Petraeus] a liar on national TV," noted one Democratic senator, who spoke on the condition on anonymity. "The expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us." Pete Hegseth -- Executive Director, Vets for Freedom September 10, 2007
A Bundle of Trouble You wouldn't want to be in Hsu's of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. John Fund -- Wall Street Journal September 10, 2007
The Measure of Progress In another war, all this progress would be cause for bipartisan rejoicing. Editorial -- Wall Street Journal September 7, 2007
Cruising While Republican Just as liberals were reaching a fever-pitch of pretend shock and dismay at Larry Craig, it was announced that Craig was resigning. And there went MSNBC's fall program schedule. Indignant that Craig had short-circuited their gleeful gay-baiting, liberals quickly switched to a new set of talking points. In the blink of an eye, they went from calling Craig a "deviant" to attacking Republicans for not insisting that Craig stay. Ann Coulter -- Author and colunmist September 6, 2007
Funny Money For The Dems? Say It Ain't So Whenever the stench of dirty money starts wafting from Democrat Party coffers, the clean election lobbyists are nowhere to be found. Michelle Malkin -- Blogger and columnist September 6, 2007
Destruction in Black America Is Self-Inflicted As many as 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock and 60 percent are raised in fatherless households. And as reams of research confirm, children raised without married parents and intact, stable families are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior. Jeff Jacoby -- Columnist, Boston Globe September 6, 2007
Bay State Blues Massachusetts incubates the "viruses" that afflict the Democratic Party. Guy Darst -- Retired deputy editorial page editor, Boston Herald September 5, 2007
The Peace Racket We need to make two points about the peace movement at the outset. First, it's opposed to every value that the West stands for -- liberty, free markets, individualism -- and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. Second, we're talking not about a bunch of naive Quakers but about a movement of savvy, ambitious professionals that is already comfortably ensconced at the United Nations, in the European Union, and in many nongovernmental organizations. Bruce Bawer -- City Journal September 5, 2007
With Last Breath, She Prayed for Her Killers With her final breath, Mabel Lopez offered a prayer for the two men who stood over her. "May the Lord have mercy on your souls," she said. Laurie Roberts -- Columnist, The Arizona Republic September 5, 2007
The Next War? French President Nicolas Sarkozy said either Iran lives up to its international obligations and relinquishes its nuclear ambitions -- or it will be bombed into compliance. Arnaud de Borchgrave -- Editor at large, The Washington Times September 4, 2007
Mother Teresa's Dark Night of the Soul The greatness of Mother Teresa is that even when she was deprived of the spiritual satisfactions of feeling God's presence in her life, she did not waver, she soldiered on. Dinesh D'Souza -- Rishwain Fellow, Hoover Institution September 4, 2007
Code Pink: The Castro and Chavez Fan Club While Code Pink activists condemn President Bush for his "fear-based politics that justify violence," they applaud brutal dictators like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro....Miss Evans' approval of Mr. Chavez was gushing: "He was a doll. Generous, open, passionate, excited, stimulated by the requests and happy to be planning with us. He was realistic but willing to stretch." Sarah Rode -- Assistant Policy Analyst, Concerned Women for America September 4, 2007
The Craig Affair: Rampant Hypocrisy As tempting a target as Craig may be, however, it's interesting how gingerly the overwhelmingly pro-gay media have approached the subject of his alleged homosexuality. Michael Reagan -- Talk show host and columnist August 31, 2007
Top Clinton Aide Deep in Soros Campaign Scandal A longtime Clinton advisor was at the helm of a George Soros-backed Democratic fundraising group when it illegally spent campaign cash during the 2004 presidential election. Amanda Carpenter -- National Political Reporter, Townhall.com August 31, 2007
Anti-War Agenda CNBC and MSNBC have refused to air educational commercials that support the war in Iraq. That's their privilege. And it's our privilege to point out the networks' rank hypocrisy. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily August 31, 2007
A Rueful Return To Chinagate? It's not a Buddhist temple, but the shady fundraising methods look the same. Like Al Gore, who took laundered cash, Sen. Hillary Clinton's got some explaining to do. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily August 30, 2007
Our Fiscal Crisis Too often the only truly bipartisan effort in Washington is the desire to spend taxpayers' money. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas -- Chairman, Republican Study Committee August 30, 2007
Is Larry Craig The Face Of The U.S. Senate? Craig is a symptom of a deeper problem plaguing our politics. Until voters insist on honesty rather than payoffs, corruption will remain endemic to the halls of power. Ben Shapiro -- Author and commentator August 29, 2007
Calvin & Mud False accusations that a Catholic candidate for governor of Louisiana is anti-Protestant. Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online August 29, 2007
Amanpour's Apologia CNN's chief apologist for Islam, Christiane Amanpour, has gone too far this time. Not content to just whitewash jihad, she says Jews and Christians are terrorists, too. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily August 28, 2007
Fear of Theocracy in America: CNN's 'God's Warriors' Amanpour's dismay encapsulates the difference in perspective between people who believe that their faith informs all of life -- including politics and culture -- and those who believe religion should be kept secularly locked with the church, synagogue, or mosque. Amanpour and CNN have a peculiar, though increasingly common, view of liberal democracy: Everyone has a right to be heard -- until they start listening to God. Joe Carter -- Director of Web Communications, Family Research Council August 27, 2007
Freedom of Religion, Christianity Go Together But no amount of reform will help unless we remember and adhere to the principles that started our country and made it great. Those principles - human dignity, justice and liberty - are rooted in Judeo-Christian teaching. Bill Sali -- U.S. Representative, Idaho August 27, 2007
California Travesty As the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the better part of the past decade, Dr. Rogers has waged a long fight against the central California county's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to illegal immigrants -- a policy he says violates federal law and results in the poorest American citizens being denied the care they deserve. Mark Cromer -- Californians for Population Stabilization August 27, 2007
E Pluribus Unum and the Price of Diversity But what happens when we neglect and even deny the importance of the "one" -- that is, cultural unity -- and emphasize the importance of the "many" -- that is, individuals -- which, today, we call "diversity"? As a renowned social scientist learned, nothing good. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint August 23, 2007
The High Price of 'Hate-Crimes' Laws David Ott, a Madison, Wis., ex-gay man, incurred $7,000 in legal fees, was meted one-year probation and 50 hours of community service and was sentenced to "sensitivity training" taught by two lesbians at the University of Wisconsin. Crime: Tried to warn a gay-identified man about the sin and dangers of living homosexually. Stephen Adams -- Associate editor, Citizenlink August 23, 2007
Vick Scandal Should Advance Animal Welfare, Not Animal Rights Since the gruesome images of maimed dogs began surfacing, animal rights groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have worked to parlay public disgust into support for their agenda. But Americans should not be fooled: Concern for animal welfare is not synonymous with acceptance of animal rights. Colleen Carroll Campbell -- Author, television host and Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center August 23, 2007
A Test Case for Abolishing Family An opinion issued July 31 by U.S. District Judge Marvin Katz could -- if sustained by the Supreme Court -- erase the special status marriage and the traditional family enjoy in American law. Terence Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events August 22, 2007
Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO's Health-Care Study The New York Times recently declared "the disturbing truth ... that ... the United States is a laggard not a leader in providing good medical care." As usual, the Times editors get it wrong. John Stossel -- Author and news correspondent August 22, 2007
Popping the Left's Internet Bubble But enough with the metaphysical mumbo jumbo about how the Web and liberalism were made for each other. The real story is much simpler: Liberalism is having a nice moment - largely because the Republican president and the Iraq war are very unpopular. Jonah Goldberg -- Editor-at-large, National Review Online August 22, 2007
Michael Vick's Bogus Plea Millions of kids grow up watching NFL games with their family and friends, and like it or not, they are influenced by the on-the-field AND off-the-field behavior of their football heroes. Mike Straka -- Columnist, Fox News August 21, 2007
Why Colleges Are Becoming Anti-American Celebrating foreign cultures and rejecting America are two sides of the same multicultural coin; it is the way American multiculturalists demonstrate their own multicultural sophistication to each other. From their perspective, the most anti-American Americans are the most educated Americans. Thomas L. Krannawitter -- Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hillsdale College August 21, 2007
Unprotected This box on my desk is not full of condoms. It is full of copies of the book "Unprotected" by Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist who wrote about her experiences working at the student health center at UCLA. The book tells many stories you need to hear -- stories you will never hear from the censorious feminists who run the Women's Resource Center. Mike S. Adams -- Criminology professor, UNC-Wilmington August 21, 2007
Who Do You Trust? Democrats and their allies in the political activist media are working hard to pre-empt the September report on Iraq by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events August 20, 2007
Feminists' Hot Air Falters GreenStone's president and CEO Susan Ness laments the end of its programming as a loss for women, opining that "women need a voice on commercial radio," and "radio needs women's voices." Perhaps Ness should use her time off to tune in to other stations. She'll find there are many prominent women on the airwaves; they're just not saying what she thinks they should. Carrie Lukas -- Vice President, Independent Women's Forum August 20, 2007
Falling into the Gender Gap But what might surprise a lot of Americans is that married women -- by 10 percentage points -- are more likely to say they feel "free" than single women. Suzanne Fields -- Columnist, Washington Times August 20, 2007
SCHIP: A Better Diagnosis Let's put the emotional appeals on hold for a few minutes and look at the facts. Rebecca Hagelin -- Vice President, The Heritage Foundation August 17, 2007
Cardinals' Virtue There's redemption and glory in baseball. Charles Krauthammer -- Nationally syndicated columnist August 17, 2007
Bad Judicial Precedent When a judge substitutes feelings for the law, his or her decision deserves no weight or authority and properly should be discarded. Judge Roy Moore -- President, Foundation for Moral Law August 16, 2007
Petraeus's Progress Getting Harder to Deny The debate over the war in Iraq is shifting, though more slowly than is the war in Iraq, thanks to a well-funded and determined anti-war movement and too many in the media for whom good news is no news. Cliff May -- President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies August 16, 2007
If at First You Don't Succeed, Lie, Lie Again If conservatives are the ones driven by ideological passions, then why are liberals the ones always falling for laughable hoaxes in support of their anti-war ideological agenda? And if liberal beliefs are true, why do they need all the phony stunts to prove them? Ann Coulter -- Author and commentator August 16, 2007
Christianity Sucks and Islam is Awesome? Man, don't cha love how mainstream media and their soft-brain disciples make Christians out to be fish-stickered, bug-eyed equals to incensed Islam? Doug Giles -- Author and talk show host August 15, 2007
Monkeying With Man British government considers permitting researchers to create human/animal hybrids. Terence Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events August 15, 2007
Exposing So-called Ethics Reform Instead of exposing and eradicating secretive pork-barrel spending the bill has created new ways to hide that spending. Paul Weyrich -- Chairman, Free Congress Foundation August 15, 2007
Coming to a Gallery Near You Sammy the dog's trainer, Mary Stadelbacher, taught Sammy to paint -- holding a brush in his teeth -- to raise funds for her dog-training academy. An art lover who spent $350 on a Sammy original told the Associated Press: 'There are people who make a lot of money to make paintings that aren't as intriguing as what [Sammy has] done.' Breakpoint staff -- Prison Fellowship Ministries August 14, 2007
Can I Just Have My Bag of Chips? PC run amok: a woman wearing a pro-Israel T-shirt is denied service by a U. Maryland Food Collective cashier. Frederick M. Hess -- Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute August 14, 2007
Send the Fairness Doctrine to the Ash Heap of Broadcast History The lifting of the Fairness Doctrine opened the public airwaves to a free and vigorous discussion of controversial issues that never existed before its repeal. When Rush Limbaugh began his legendary career, there were 125 talk radio stations in America. Today there are 2,000. Mike Pence -- U.S. Representative, R-Indiana August 14, 2007
Successful Surge Is Dems' Dilemma Iraq: Democratic senators visiting Iraq have seen for themselves that President Bush's surge strategy is working. But their party has so much invested in losing this war, they're muffling the good news. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily August 13, 2007
Dems Still Marching to Pinch's Drummer If truth in advertising standards were applied to politicians, the Democrats would be forced to change their name to the New York Times Party. Because they haven't had an idea since the night Bobby Kennedy was murdered, Democrats need someone to craft policy and positions, and the New York Times has filled the void with all the energy that its ideological publisher has been able to muster. Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events August 13, 2007
House of Corruption? U.S. Rep. Flake, who ran a Phoenix think tank, the Goldwater Institute, before coming to Congress in 2001, is immensely unpopular on both sides of the aisle for forcing votes on his colleagues' pork. Robert Novak -- Nationally syndicated columnist August 13, 2007
The Baghdad Fabulist When the New Republic did its initial investigation, it admitted that Beauchamp had erred on one "significant detail." The disfigured-woman incident happened not in Iraq, but in Kuwait. That means it happened before Beauchamp arrived in Iraq. But the whole point of that story was to demonstrate how the war had turned an otherwise sensitive soul into a monster. Charles Krauthammer -- Nationally syndicated columnist August 10, 2007
Embedded Hostility It is highly doubtful that The New Republic went to press with a story that they knew to be false, from a source they thought untrustworthy. In all likelihood, they simply found a story that validated their views about the "morally and emotionally distorting effects of war." Jeff Emanuel -- Columnist and special operations military veteran August 10, 2007
EditorialWeek? Dissecting Newsweek's global warming cover story that paints skeptics as "deniers" who are pushing a "myth." (Video) Stuart Shepard -- Managing Editor, CitizenLink August 10, 2007
Redbook: Readers beware! I don't know about you, but I find it all pretty crude and distasteful. This is a long way from health and beauty tips, or advice on child-rearing, or the cover story on Faith Hill. Considering that I picked up a women's magazine off the rack -- not a sex manual -- it's inappropriate, to put it mildly. Marcia Segelstein -- Freelance writer and former CBS News producer August 9, 2007
Reporter's Fibs Show Disdain For U.S. Troops Ever since John Kerry sat in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and accused American soldiers of wantonly razing villages "in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan," the Left has embraced a small cadre of self-loathing soldiers and soldier wannabes willing to sell their deadened souls for the anti-war cause. Michelle Malkin -- Columnist and blogger August 9, 2007
Murdoch: Angel or Devil? The elite media have been beating up on Rupert Murdoch for years, when they ought to have been addressing the cause of their own decline. Instead, they preferred to indulge in paranoia and denial. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist August 9, 2007
Bonds Stands Alone, but History Will Be Final Judge Whether he did it purely is another issue, which is why the unconditional applause barely carried beyond the gates of AT&T; Park. Mike Lopresti -- Gannett News Service August 8, 2007
Reform FISA Now Whenever the issue of foreign surveillance is discussed in Washington, Democrats immediately invoke "Big Brother" to scare people. Peter Hoekstra -- Ranking Republican, House Intelligence Committee August 8, 2007
Abortion: Shifting Strategies, Changing Minds In the end, there's a simple explanation for the success of informed consent laws, one founded on a fundamental insight into human nature: If women with unplanned pregnancies recognize their unborn children as living, breathing, feeling (not to mention kicking and yawning) human beings, and if they understand the profound risks -- both physical and psychological -- involved with abortion, they will choose life. Gary Bauer -- President, American Values August 8, 2007
Perceptions of Iraq War Are Starting to Shift It's not often that an opinion article shakes up Washington and changes the way a major issue is viewed. Michael Barone -- Author and commentator August 7, 2007
Wanting The Worst Abandoning all pretense, some Democrats now admit good news from Iraq is bad news for them. It's not that they're claiming the war is lost anymore. It's bad news for their party if we win it. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily August 7, 2007
Propaganda Redux Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush. Ion Mihai Pacepa -- Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. August 7, 2007
A Judicial Setback for the Rule of Law It is quite possible that Judge Munley is the only person in America who thinks the country is in danger of suffering "excessive enforcement" of immigration laws. Kris W. Kobach -- Law professor, University of Missouri August 6, 2007
Illegal Aliens Declare War on the United States Just last week, thousands of illegal and legal Hispanics living in Prince William County, Virginia, met to plan their response to the rule of law. Voting with raised fists, they decided to punish the county through a boycott of non-immigrant businesses, a labor strike, and a lawsuit. Douglas MacKinnon -- Author and commentator August 6, 2007
House Democrats Fail Democracy 101 It's not an exaggeration to say that for a few minutes last week, the United States was not a representative democracy. Tom DeLay -- Former House Majority Leader August 6, 2007
What If We Win? So cynical have our politics become that a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democratic leaders are "not willing to concede there are positive things to point to" in Iraq. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist August 3, 2007
Bush-Haters Endure Tough Week Worldwide Muslim support for terrorism is down, American support for invading Iraq is up, the surge is making progress, and consumer confidence just reached a six-year high. Larry Elder -- Syndicated columnist and talk show host August 3, 2007
Troops & Crimes The media portray our troops as sadistic rabble, but the hard numbers show that ours is the best-behaved military in history, vastly more law-abiding than our general population. Ralph Peters -- Author and commentator August 3, 2007
The Democrats' Ethics Reform Charade Republicans argue that the secretly-drafted new bill changes long-standing Senate rules in an unprecedented manner and is loaded with loopholes that are downright embarrassing. Michelle Oddis -- Human Events August 2, 2007
Republicans Crippled by Corruption It has been corruption more than any other issue that has dragged the Republican Party down in recent years. Having been given a majority in 1994 to root out the corruption of the Democratic Congress, all too many Republicans who came to Washington to do good stayed to do well. Editorial -- New York Sun August 2, 2007
Good News Is Bad News As House Majority Whip James Clyburn suggested this week, success in Iraq also would be awkward for those who have bet their political chips on American failure. To be precise, Clyburn said that it would be "a real big problem for us" should General Petraeus return to Washington next month and present a positive report on progress in Iraq. Clifford D. May -- President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies August 2, 2007
Defeatism Defeated? The solid front of the mainstream media in filtering out any positive news from Iraq and focusing only on American casualties -- in the name of "honoring the troops" -- is now starting to show cracks. Thomas Sowell -- Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution August 1, 2007
Missing in the Debate The fate of the Iraqi people. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint August 1, 2007
The Case for 'Moral Democratic Realism' In his new book, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine," Pepperdine professor Dr. Robert G. Kaufman tries something the Bush Administration seems oddly reluctant to mount -- a full-scale defense of its grand strategy of promoting free societies as the path to world peace and stability. George Weigel -- Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center August 1, 2007
A War We Just Might Win We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily "victory" but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with. Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack -- The Brookings Institution July 31, 2007
Che! You've Got To Hide Your Love Away "If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York City." Che Guevara. Mike S. Adams -- Dr. Adams just finished reading "Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him," by Humberto Fontova. He suggests you read it too. July 31, 2007
The Cult of Global Warming Scientists have documented nine moderate global warming cycles and nine somewhat harsher global cooling cycles in the last 12,000 years. Each cycle lasted roughly 1,500 years and - miracle of miracles -- coincided exactly with the known cycles of the sun's magnetic activity. But this is an inconvenient truth for the Church of CO2 Emissions. Don Feder -- Nationally syndicated columnist July 31, 2007
Partnership for the Ages Values that started with the British idea of liberty -- from our bill of rights to English common law -- found their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence. Gordon Brown -- Prime Minister, Great Britain July 30, 2007
Whose Ox Is Gored After Bush's victory, liberals shouted "Voter fraud!" Why have they changed their tune? John Fund -- Wall Street Journal July 30, 2007
The Relationship Between Media, Religion and Culture We are seeing the rapid evolution (devolution) of standards for what makes it to print or on the air because what used to be "unacceptable" is now our daily bread. Jonathan Morris -- Catholic priest and commentator July 30, 2007
The Baghdad Diarist, 'Shock Troops,' and Fabrications The critical issue here is not that The New Republic's Baghdad Diarist really is an American soldier. The critical issue is whether Private Beauchamp's hyperbolic claims have any basis in fact at all -- and whether The New Republic did the legwork necessary to verify his claims. Jeff Emanuel -- Columnist, blogger, and special ops vet July 27, 2007
Rich Man, Boor Man We live in an age of great wealth--and lousy manners. Peggy Noonan -- Contributing editor, Wall Street Journal July 27, 2007
Teenaged Morality Wilcox argues that teen sexual behavior can be influenced -- that teenagers can be more than the sum of their hormones. But responsible behavior requires both "norms" and "networks." An intellectual belief in right and wrong is not sufficient. Teens require a community that supports their good choices, especially in times of testing and personal crisis. Michael Gerson -- Author and columnist July 27, 2007
Lock Up Lindsay Lohan With fame comes certain responsibilities. One of them is to obey the law, not to endanger the lives of others, and blame everybody else when you do. Kids look up to these girls, whether they should or not. They set standards, including the wrong ones. Susan Estrich -- Columnist, author and law professor July 26, 2007
Denying Personal Responsibility ...now we regularly see folks avoiding responsibility by saying, "mistakes were made." For example, Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho just blew. It wasn't really his responsibility. He was "troubled." He "had issues." Maybe it was President Bush's fault, as Rep. Jim Moran charged. Marvin Olasky -- Editor in chief, World magazine July 26, 2007
Suicide Reversal? An expert panel convened by National Review Online discusses the significance of the Pew poll revealing the drop in Muslim support for Osama bin Laden and terror tactics. Editors -- National Review Online July 26, 2007
Stephen Glass Meets the Winter Soldiers In Iraq, we have seen evidence of the press's predisposition to believe the worst about American soldiers in its coverage of Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, and most recently Hadithah. Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Contributing editor, National Review Online July 25, 2007
Iraqi Christians Pray for the Surge It must have been a huge disappointment. An Iraqi bishop addressing an anti-Israel ecumenical jamboree in Amman, Jordan declined to demand an immediate U.S. evacuation from Iraq. Mark D. Tooley -- Director, United Methodist committee, Institute on Religion and Democracy July 25, 2007
Shutting Down Free Speech The gay agenda triumphant. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint July 25, 2007
How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World? [Editor's Note: With today's headlines being dominated by the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Michael Vick, we thought this the right time to post Ben Stein's brilliant 2003 column about who the real stars are in our society.] Ben Stein -- Lawyer, author, actor, commentator July 24, 2007
Morally Paralyzed The Iranian leaders are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And, like Hitler, they don't think we have the guts to stop them. Thomas Sowell -- Senior fellow, Hoover Institution July 24, 2007
Al Gore's Venus Envy In place of church, family, and nation, they dream of a super-state, a leviathan that will micromanage education, health care, transportation, law enforcement, business, politics, and the exploitation of natural resources, leaving us only the freedom to fornicate and go to concerts. Everything else will be subject to government control. Lee Duigon -- Freelance writer and columnist July 24, 2007
The 'New Victorians' There's always a counter-revolution brewing in the secret places of the hearts of the young finding their own places in the world. Suzanne Fields -- Columnist, Washington Times July 23, 2007
Contempt and Congress Congress's attack on executive privilege shows blatant disregard for the Constitution. John Yoo -- Law professor, UC-Berkeley July 23, 2007
New York Times: Swerving Around Riots In a bracing slap at readers who unthinkingly might refer to several days of riotous behavior as a "riot," the Times quotes the president of the New Jersey Historical Society, Linda Epps, who says: "there is not one truth, and your view depends on your race, your age and where you lived." John Leo -- Senior fellow, Manhattan Institute July 23, 2007
Chris Matthews and "Misinformation" Notably ironic, was Matthews' repeated spewing of misinformation in the process of characterizing the administration of disseminating misinformation David Limbaugh -- Nationally syndicated columnist July 20, 2007
The ACLU: Enemy of America and Christianity Hard as it is to believe, there are people here -- an enemy within -- who hate this country. They are not nationalists but trans-nationalists....Their loyalties are not to America but a cosmopolitan, very secular set of beliefs. Rabbi Aryeh Spero -- Pulpit rabbi and talk show host July 20, 2007
One of the Most Anti-Christian Films of the Year "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" quickly moves away from anything resembling entertainment and turns into a boring, perverted, anti-Christian political platform for homosexual activists. Dr. Ted Baehr -- Movie Guide July 20, 2007
Common Ground in the Mommy Wars Half of all mothers favor dropping out of the labor market altogether. These numbers pose a problem for feminists who spent the last few years arguing that the opt-out revolution is nothing more than a figment of the media's imagination. Megan Basham -- Film critic, Townhall.com July 20, 2007
Our Networks Should Stop Helping Al Qaeda American network executives are eagerly showing "snuff" films of American soldiers so they can go after Bush, beat their competition, or both. Douglas MacKinnon -- Author and commentator July 19, 2007
CNN's Iraq Hit Story Backfires Those Iraqis did not complain as people who felt conquered and oppressed. They complained as people who were under-protected. Those Iraqis apparently weren't complaining about being occupied by American troops. They were complaining about not being occupied enough. Barry Farber -- Talk show host and columnist July 19, 2007
Sex & the Single College Student Washington Post columnist asserts, incorrectly, that the culture wars are over. Michael O'Brien -- Editor, Michigan Review July 19, 2007
Democracy Doesn't Come First Political failure in Iraq. Thomas Sowell -- Hoover Institution July 18, 2007
D.C.'s Assault on the Second Amendment "Voted," say the town records, "that the Selectmen use their best discretion in providing fire-arms for the poor of the town who are unable to provide for themselves." Terence P. Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events July 18, 2007
Why Liberals Lie About Sex For the first time since before President Clinton said what "is, is" a majority of American teens - 53% - have not had sex and are choosing to not do so. Kevin McCullough -- Talk show host and columnist July 18, 2007
Hate Crimes: Introducing the Thought Police For the bill's supporters, it is not enough to walk down the street in complete safety. Nor is it enough to be able to work and live wherever you please. Like the state song of Kansas, they want a place where "seldom is heard a discouraging word" about homosexuality. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint July 17, 2007
Left Wants to Shut Down Marketplace of Ideas Since the early 1990s, talk radio has been driving the left nuts. At the mere mention of O'Reilly or Dr. Laura, their eyes begin to blaze and flecks of saliva fly from the corners of their mouths. What words are most likely to strike terror into the hearts of leftists? "Rush, I used to be a liberal before I started listening to your show." Don Feder -- Author and commentator on public affairs July 17, 2007
The Mother of the Homosexual Movement Evelyn Hooker's cooked research is the shaky foundation of "gay rights." Hilary White -- Life Site News July 17, 2007
The Founders Got it Right Religion now rests in a tortured place in society today, thanks largely to unfortunate and misguided rulings of the Supreme Court. Stephen Mansfield -- Best-selling author July 16, 2007
Our Ready Embrace of Those Cheating Pols But now the country may have caught up with the Clintons. The latest thinking from therapists and religious groups is that affairs need not be a marital death sentence. Some evangelical and other Christian congregations are so alarmed by rampant divorce that they're counseling people to work through their problems rather than split up. Therapists and self-appointed marriage experts are increasingly promoting the same message. And as children of the divorce explosion in the late 1970s now hit bumps in their own marriages, they're rethinking the one-strike rule. Pamela Druckerman -- Author of "Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee." July 16, 2007
A Habitable World? Why did so few people feel the urge to rock against climate change? Touchingly enough, the organizers put it down to the weather. Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist July 16, 2007
Bias, Cut and Dried Need proof that the mainstream news media lean to the left? Keep reading. Gary Schneeberger -- Vice President, media relations, Focus on the Family July 13, 2007
A Culture War Of Words If you think I'm making too big a thing about the incredible degradation of language, keep in mind it represents the decline in the level of civility since the culture warriors declared war on decency. The widespread use of the "F" word is a symptom of the disease. Michael Reagan -- Commentator and talk show host July 13, 2007
Focus on the Public Purpose of Marriage: Protecting Children By bestowing marriage's benefits on same-sex couples, we explicitly are endorsing the view that children do not need both mothers and fathers, since children raised by same-sex couples will be deprived of one or the other. We are legally enshrining the view of marriage as a private relationship that has nothing to do with bridging the divide between the sexes or encouraging the presence of both fathers and mothers in the lives of their biological children. Colleen Carroll Campbell -- Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center July 13, 2007
Rights Are Wrong Dealing with terrorists. James Jay Carafano -- Senior research fellow, Heritage Foundation. July 12, 2007
'Dick Cheney Rules' The vice president consistently gets hostile, biased, uninformed press coverage. Kate O'Beirne -- Washington Editor, National Review July 12, 2007
Liberal's Nifong Hoax The accuser's history of making false accusations of gang rape, the players' alibis and the prosecutor's lies were all known to The New York Times when it reported on Aug. 25, 2006, that "while there are big weaknesses in Mr. Nifong's case, there is also a body of evidence to support his decision to take the matter to a jury." By "body of evidence," the Times was apparently referring to a smattering of racial and sexual stereotypes earnestly believed in Hollywood and in newsrooms across America in defiance of the facts. Ann Coulter -- Legal Affairs Correspondent, HUMAN EVENTS July 12, 2007
Al Gore And NBC: Birds Of A Feather Was what Al Gore called "the largest global entertainment event in all of human history" also the largest in-kind political contribution? And where's the Fairness Doctrine when you need it? Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily July 11, 2007
Fear and Loathing at Live Earth If you take Gore and his jet set friends' claims seriously, we are facing an unprecedented planetary crisis of Old Testament proportions....So why, for Earth's sake, did he organize something as frivolous as what Live Aid creator Bob Geldof dismissed as "just an enormous pop concert?" Matt Kibbe -- President, Freedomworks July 11, 2007
Scalia-Thomas Derangement Syndrome Whole colonies of commentators on the Left, congregating on liberal Web sites and in university faculties, have let their hatred of their political opponents turn itself into misology, the hatred of reason itself. Matthew J. Franck -- Professor and chairman of political science at Radford University July 11, 2007
The Unfairness Doctrine Americans have become accustomed to the wide, wild range of opinion out there, which is now spilling out in every direction on the Internet. There is no turning back. Paul Greenberg -- Nationally syndicated columnist July 10, 2007
Taking America for Granted There is nothing automatic about the way of life achieved in this country. It is very unusual among the nations of the world today and rarer than four-leaf clovers in the long view of history. Thomas Sowell -- Author and senior fellow, Hoover Institution July 10, 2007
Why Are Atheist Books Best Sellers? The arguments put forth are far more emotional than intellectual, and even secular liberal journals have written devastating reviews of the Hitchens and Dawkins books. Dennis Prager -- Author, columnist, and talk show host July 10, 2007
Exploding the Myths of Islamic Terrorism Though the bombs failed to detonate, this week's attacks in London have exploded persistent myths about Islamic terrorism. Ken Connor -- Chairman of the Center for a Just Society July 9, 2007
Banning Jihad Watch Jihad Watch is dedicated to the defense of human rights for all against those who would impose Islamic law, with its institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities. There is no "hatred" in this, except when we report the words of hatred and supremacism of the Islamic jihadists. Robert Spencer -- Director of Jihad Watch July 9, 2007
'Gays' Don't Want 'Marriage' After All The vast majority of homosexuals don't desire "marriage;" rather, militant homosexual activists desire to use "same-sex marriage" as both a tool to normalize homosexual behaviors and as a weapon to tear down the institution of legitimate marriage. Matt Barber -- Policy Director for Cultural Issues, Concerned Women for America July 9, 2007
Our Faux Constitutional Crisis Bush can hardly create a constitutional crisis by exercising a plenary constitutional power, and doing it in a way that has become almost routine. Rich Lowry -- Editor, National Review July 6, 2007
More Lies from Moore Moore put me, fleetingly, into "Sicko" as an example of an American who doesn't understand the Canadian health care system. He couldn't be more wrong. I've personally endured the creeping disaster of Canadian health care. Most unlike him, I'm willing to tell the truth about it. Sally Pipes -- President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute July 6, 2007
Airwave 'Diversity' Ambush This effort by liberals to limit free speech by imposing government control over radio and presumably over television reveals just how out of touch the liberals are — and how impatient they are with a free society. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. -- Author and editor, The American Spectator July 6, 2007
Independence Day Messages From John Adams On July 2, 1776, after long and wrenching debate, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from the Mother Country and the next night John Adams went back to his rooming house in sweltering, sticky Philadelphia to write, by candlelight, two of the most famous letters in American history. Michael Medved -- Film critic, author and talk show host July 5, 2007
Unfree Speech The Fourth of July is an apt moment to reflect on one of the great underreported stories of our time: the rise of speech regulation. Robert J. Samuelson -- Columnist, Washington Post July 5, 2007
Fairness Doctrine, R.I.P. The celebrations should be tempered: the real battle over media regulation is still to come, and won't involve the words "Fairness Doctrine." James L. Gattuso -- Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation July 5, 2007
America Needs a July Fourth Seder We come, finally, to tomorrow, the mother of American holidays, July Fourth, the day America was born. This day has a long history of vibrant and meaningful celebrations. But it, too, is rapidly losing its meaning. Dennis Prager -- Author, columnist, and talk show host July 3, 2007
The Fairness Doctrine Is Not Dead Even if it's passed by the Senate, the Pence Amendment would only ban revival of the Fairness Doctrine for fiscal year 2008. Nothing would stop a liberal president and Congress from reimposing the doctrine in future years. Cliff Kincaid -- Accuracy in Media July 3, 2007
How a 'Gay Rights' Leader Became Straight Homosexuality, for me, began at age 13 and ended -- once I "cut myself off" from outside influences and intensely focused on inner truth -- when I discovered the depths of my God-given self at age 30. Michael Glatze -- Former editor, Young Gay America magazine July 3, 2007
Our National Alienation & Amnesia How do we ask our children to fight, and perhaps die, for a country they do not know? William J. Bennett -- Author, former Secretary of Education, Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute July 2, 2007
What's So Great About America As an immigrant who grew up in Mumbai, India, I believe that the patriotism of Americans would be strengthened if people had a better understanding of why this country is unique. Dinesh D'Souza -- Author and Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution July 2, 2007
Populist Tide . . . to Victory On the eve of Independence Day, the people of this great republic declared their independence from the United States Senate under the stirring battle-cry, "No legislation without explanation." Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist July 2, 2007
Race and the Roberts Court Brown v. Board of Education has not been overturned. Editorial -- The Wall Street Journal June 29, 2007
Techno-Populist Victory The fight over the immigration bill was the first instance of an insider parliamentary struggle in which bloggers, talk-radio hosts and citizens were able to have a major voice through the synergistic power of the Internet, radio waves and telephone lines. Rich Lowry -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 29, 2007
With Evan Almighty, Hollywood Strikes Out Again in Effort to Appeal to Faith-Based Audience Despite the bomb that was Evan Almighty, millions of devout Americans are still waiting to be invited into a theater to see a film that is entertaining, affirms their values and doesn't trivialize their deeply held religious beliefs. Mark Joseph -- Hollywood executive and author June 29, 2007
Amnesty Eight Eight senators who voted for the immigration bill on Tuesday are likely to switch sides and kill the bill today. Editorial -- National Review Online June 28, 2007
Video: Indiana Rep. Mike Pence Opposes the Fairness Doctrine "There's nothing fair about the Fairness Doctrine." U.S. Representative Mike Pence -- Congressman and former radio talk show host June 28, 2007
Setback for the Censors Let us hope that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who is rarely right about First Amendment matters, was right about what he said in April: "If we agree with you in this case, goodbye McCain-Feingold." George F. Will -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 28, 2007
The Roberts Court With the appointment of Justice Samuel Alito in 2005 to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor, a conservative majority became a working reality on a great many current and future issues. This dividend of the 2004 presidential election -- and, we should mention, this dividend of the conservative revolt against the nomination of Harriet Miers in 2005 -- is likely to rank as Mr. Bush's most lasting achievement once his eight years in the White House are concluded. Editorial -- The Washington Times June 27, 2007
The Jessie Davis Case and Dangers of Out-of-Wedlock Parenthood This horrifying story conveys some significant messages and should help to refocus attention on the nation's most significant and menacing social problem: the unchecked epidemic and unquestioning acceptance of out of wedlock birth. Michael Medved -- Talk show host and columnist June 27, 2007
The Un-Fairness Doctrine Once you've had a virtual monopoly on the airwaves, it's difficult to deal with a new landscape in which anyone can express a political opinion about anything without fear of regulation or retribution. Lynn Woolley -- Talk show host and commentator June 27, 2007
Free Speech Sanity Supreme Court retreats from a terrible law. Editorial -- Rocky Mountain News June 26, 2007
Whither Personal Responsibility [Josh Hancock's] family has turned self-responsibility on its head, blaming everyone but Josh and themselves for the cause of this tragedy. And the lawyers are standing by holding their coats. As a result, in this case they've filed suit in St. Louis Circuit Court against the bar and restaurant that he last frequented, the tow truck company that he crashed into and the driver of the car whose vehicle was being assisted by the tow truck driver. Horace Cooper -- Assistant professor, George Mason University School of Law June 26, 2007
The West is Losing World War IV Gaza is the most recent example of where Western failure of imagination is being defeated by ruthlessness and determination. Newt Gingrich -- Former House Speaker and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. June 26, 2007
Unfairness Doctrine Liberals now seem less interested in challenging conservative talk radio in the marketplace than in strangling it with government regulation. Editorial -- National Review Online June 25, 2007
Sen. Lott's Foot-in-the-Mouth Problem Republican leader has made foolish statements about immigration and talk radio. Editorial -- The Washington Times June 25, 2007
Valuing Speech 'Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values.' That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime. George Will -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 25, 2007
They Give at the Office, Too No wonder the public distrusts the news media - a mainstream reporter discloses that many more journalists give money to liberals than to conservatives. Editorial -- The New York Post June 22, 2007
The Terrorist Facilitation Act of 2007 Illegal-alien advocates are whitewashing the fact that the immigration bill will make it much easier for terrorists to enter the country and conceal themselves while preparing to commit mass murder. Editorial -- The Washington Times June 22, 2007
'Sicko': A Universal Nightmare If America listens to Democrats and Michael Moore, waiting lists, under-funding and less medical options are the future of American healthcare. Ericka Andersen -- Human Events June 22, 2007
The Mouse That Roared President Bush's veto of expanded funding of embryonic stem cell research will be condemned. But while others make it a campaign issue, Bush embraces research that gives the sick and disabled genuine hope. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily June 21, 2007
The Next Supreme Court Vacancy There's plenty of room to confirm another strong justice. Edward Whelan -- President, Ethics and Public Policy Center June 21, 2007
Marriage Lessons From Ruth Graham Some couples enter marriage thinking that, afterwards, they can change the things about their loved one that are central character traits or simply annoyances; yet, neither will likely change. Ruth Graham modeled the importance of one's facing reality, assessing the ramifications completely and straightforwardly before entering marriage and then being willing to accept the circumstances of your marriage "for better or worse." Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D. -- Senior Fellow, Beverly LaHaye Institute June 21, 2007
Iraqi Insurgents Winning by Exploiting Western Media "What incredible economy of effort the enemy is afforded when US media is their megaphone. Why spend precious resources on developing your own propaganda machine when you can make your opponent's own news outlets scream your message louder than you could ever have hoped to do independently?" -- a Marine officer John Hughes -- Professor of communications, Brigham Young University June 20, 2007
Democrats, Republicans, Same Old Corruption Anyone who wonders why Congress has a job approval rating of 23 percent, seven points lower than even Bush's, need only look at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) failure to change the ethics of the Congress. Dick Morris -- Former Clinton administration political adviser June 20, 2007
The Law Versus Orders Rule of law is critical to the preservation of liberty. Unfortunately, most Americans neither understand nor appreciate this, and we are increasingly being ruled by arbitrary orders and privileges based upon one's status. Walter E. Williams -- Author and economics professor June 20, 2007
Let's Not Minimize Nifong's Culpability Nifong was running for office in a heavily black jurisdiction and deliberately pursued apparently well-to-do white defendants for the express purpose of exploiting racial tensions to improve his prospects for re-election. David Limbaugh -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 19, 2007
The Democratic War Against Prosperity The latest salvo from the left includes tax penalties on successful investors and entrepreneurs. Larry Kudlow -- Economics editor, National Review Online June 19, 2007
No Global Warming Since 1998 Lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little if any global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent). Bob Carter -- Environmental scientist, James Cook University June 19, 2007
The Pagan And The Saint In the last half of the 20th Century, two men profoundly influenced the moral climate of America. Both are octogenarians now, living out the last days of their very different dreams....One was driven by lust and the insatiable pursuit of pleasure; the other driven by the love of lost humanity and the God who has the answers. Doug Patton -- Freelance columnist and senior writer, GOPUSA.com June 18, 2007
A War on Memory An attack on religious symbolism has been waged for several years now on a barren hilltop in California. A simple cross to honor fallen soldiers is simply too much for militant 'separationists,' who seem intent on disassembling this country's Christian past. Michael Medved -- Talk show host and columnist June 18, 2007
The Great American Pants Suit A judge pins a $67 million value on a pair of trousers--his own. Walter Olson -- Senior fellow, Manhattan Institute June 18, 2007
Cruel Britannia There are two ways to destroy a nation. One is from without by an invading military force. The other is from within when the people of the nation no longer embrace and promote the history, language and culture that brought it to prominence and power. Britain has chosen the second option, which is national suicide. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 15, 2007
We Agree On Border Security, Don't We? Fences are ugly, I grant you that. But not as ugly as 12 million people living in the shadows in a country that has forfeited control of its borders. Charles Krauthammer -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 15, 2007
Liberal Hollywood Shies Away from Abortion When even Hollywood declines to celebrate the moral courage involved in choosing an abortion, it might be time we all woke up to what abortion really is. Gerard Baker -- United States editor, The London Times June 15, 2007
Principally Politics The marriage debate in Massachusetts. Michael Graham -- Contributor, National Review Online June 14, 2007
Guest Workers: Home-Invader Program? Take a clue from Europe. Thomas Sowell -- Author, professor and nationally syndicated columnist June 14, 2007
Why Do Rush And Sean Scare Them So? Radio station WIOD, AM 610, has been the official channel for emergency information from Broward County government for the past year. The County Commission, all Democrats, balked at renewing the deal Tuesday, unable to stomach the station also being home to Rush Limbaugh's talk show. Hugh Hewitt -- Editor, Townhall June 14, 2007
Why TV Addiction Links to Liberalism
An important new study from the Culture and Media Institute shows that those
who describe themselves as heavy TV viewers embrace distinctly liberal
attitudes on a range of crucial issues, placing them well to the left of those
who report light TV viewing. Michael Medved Talk show host, movie
critic and commentator on public affairs June 13, 2007
The Other Thing Reagan Said in Berlin It was neither democracy nor capitalism Reagan foresaw bringing down the wall. It was Christianity. Terence Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events June 13, 2007
The Pace Disgrace Senate Democrats made it clear that Pace's confirmation would mean a fight. And it appears that neither Secretary of Defense Gates nor the president have the stomach for that. Editorial -- New York Post June 13, 2007
Vote-Fraud Demagogues Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID. Are they are all racists? John Fund -- Wall Street Journal June 13, 2007
Monument to Murder The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems. The memorial stands as a rebuke to such twisted thinking. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 12, 2007
The 'Greatest Guest' President Bush was welcomed like a hero returning home from war when he visited Albania on Sunday. What does this obscure Eastern European country understand that much of America doesn't? Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily June 12, 2007
The Incredible Shrinking Father Artificial insemination begets children without paternity, with troubling cultural and legal consequences. Kay S. Hymowitz -- City Journal June 12, 2007
Hitting the Wall Reagan's prophetic Berlin speech, 20 years later John Fund -- Wall Street Journal June 11, 2007
Immigration Bill: a Lame Joke Becomes Reality I don't know whether this sham of an immigration bill is dead or just resting "in the shadows" like a fine upstanding member of the Vampiric-American community. Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 11, 2007
Charles Pickering Gets the Last Word A maligned civil rights hero, the changing South, and the future of the courts. Harry Stein -- City Journal June 11, 2007
Sitting Out the Pledge In New York's public schools, patriotism is passe. Marc Epstein -- Served as dean of students at Jamaica, NY High School for the past six years. June 8, 2007
New Toolkit for Shaping Kids' Views of America The authors write, "It was our love of America and our belief in its inherent goodness and greatness that led us to write this book. It was also our fear that raising good Americans in today's political and cultural climate is becoming more and more difficult." Lisa De Pasquale -- CPAC director, American Conservative Union June 8, 2007
ABC Joins Smear Campaign Against Surgeon General Nominee Point by point analysis of a hit piece. Peter LaBarbera -- President, Americans for Truth about Homosexuality June 8, 2007
A Study in Media Bias: The New Republic's Coverage of CMI's Seminar About the raunchiest image displayed was a cartoon image of God from "The Family Guy" in bed with a woman who's holding a condom. His plea, written out below, as if in a New Yorker cartoon, is "C'mon it's my birthday." I was the only one in the audience--which, like the panel, was overwhelmingly white and long in the tooth--who laughed. Ben Adler -- Blogger, TNR Online June 7, 2007
Amnesty Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers at Least $2.6 Trillion The increase in taxes and fines paid by amnesty recipients may initially exceed slightly the increase in government benefits received. In the long run, however, the opposite will be true. In particular, the cost of retirement benefits for amnesty recipients is likely to be very large. Robert E. Rector -- Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation June 7, 2007
What's Faith Got to Do With It? One shouldn't expect politicians to be theologians, but if they are going to talk about their faith publicly, more depth should be required. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 7, 2007
Yes, Immigration Is About Culture A certain Catholic parish on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
... must be one of the most multiethnic institutions in America. Survey the pews on any Sunday, and you will find people who can trace their ancestors -- or perhaps their own birth -- to every continent on Earth. All shades of human epidermis are represented in that congregation. But as multiethnic as this parish is, it is not ultimately multicultural.
All who belong believe in the same basic things: the same natural law, the same justice, the same God. They all would agree, I believe, on the indispensable elements at the heart of American culture.
Terence Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events June 6, 2007
D-Day: On the Beaches, Over the Cliffs, and Behind the Lines I am often at a loss for words when writing about a time when we were at no loss for heroes. They volunteered for missions impossible and accomplished feats unimaginable. Mary Katharine Ham -- Townhall.com blogger June 6, 2007
The Boys of Point du Hoc These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. Ronald Reagan -- speech delivered on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. June 6, 2007
Philly Boots Boy Scouts Philadelphia is a great old city, the birthplace of our nation. The founders of this country believed self-government was the requisite for constitutional government. We must have men and women of character before we have free institutions. Without character, we are fit to be ruled by a tyrant. And so it is the tyranny of political correctness has overturned the cradle of liberty. Hans Zeiger -- Author and spokesman for the Scouting Legal Defense Fund June 5, 2007
The Left's Bumper-Sticker Expletives Higher civilization has always regarded the use of expletives in public (outside of, let us say, theatrical performances) as a form of assault on civilization. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and author June 5, 2007
Don't Liberate Me We're surrounded by adolescent intellectuals. Thomas Sowell -- Author and commentator June 5, 2007
Killing for Allah at JFK As long as American Muslim groups do not formally renounce the jihad ideology of Islamic supremacism that would destroy American Constitutional government and replace it with Shari'a, and do not expel those who refuse to renounce these beliefs in word and deed, American mosques must be monitored, and American Muslims called to account for harboring this menace. Robert Spencer -- Director, Jihad Watch June 4, 2007
They Call This a Consensus? Global warming "consensus" simply doesn't exist among top scientists. Lawrence Solomon -- Executive director, Consumer Policy Institute June 4, 2007
Deja Vu Amnesty The 1986 immigration bill was a disaster so why does the President think this one will be any better? John Gizzi -- Political editor, Human Events June 4, 2007
Too Bad With his pro-immigration stand and disdain for his core supporters, President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder. Peggy Noonan -- Contributing editor, Wall Street Journal June 1, 2007
Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Myths [According to a Kaiser Foundation survey]...89 percent of Americans were either very or somewhat satisfied with the quality of their own health care. Of the rest, 5 percent were somewhat dissatisfied and just 5 percent were very dissatisfied. Where else are there so few people "dissatisfied" with something?...
Not everyone may be perfectly happy with the medical care they receive, but would it be possible to go to Canada or socialist health care systems and find some scary stories about the waiting times patients face? Sure, but unlike Moore's analysis of the U.S., you don't have to focus on a few unusual cases.
John Lott -- Author and researcher June 1, 2007
It Takes a Socialist Village... Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has unveiled her economic vision. Should she be given the power to implement it, we can say goodbye to the prosperity and opportunity we have enjoyed since the Reagan years. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist June 1, 2007
Rachel Carson's Deadly Legacy Today, hundreds of millions of people -- mostly African children under 5 -- get seriously ill and more than a million die every year from malaria in large measure because many nations stopped using DDT. Angela Logomasini -- Director of risk and environmental policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute. May 31, 2007
The Case for Conservatism Conservatism argues, as did the Founders, that self-interestedness is universal among individuals, but the dignity of individuals is bound up with the exercise of self-reliance and personal responsibility in pursuing one's interests. George F. Will -- Nationally syndicated columnist May 31, 2007
Al Gore, Media Scholar? It's a common liberal conceit: Liberalism is the very definition of sweet reason, so an attack on liberalism is an "assault on reason." Democracy is only truly democratic when the Democrats are in charge. Debates aren't truly informative unless the liberals win the argument. The same holds true for elections. L. Brent Bozell III -- President, Media Research Center May 31, 2007
Robbing Rector Does the WSJ read before they editorialize? Kate O'Beirne -- National Review Washington editor May 30, 2007
'Hypocrisy' at the Top There are 12 million illegal aliens here because Washington either can't or does not want to control the borders. Level with us, Mr. President: Which is it? Incompetence or indifference? Maggie Gallagher -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author May 30, 2007
Stigmatize Planned Parenthood So radical is Planned Parenthood that they cannot concede that a wanted unborn child is also a victim when his or her life is taken. Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online May 30, 2007
Immigration? Look to Europe Lessons from across the pond. Stanley Kurtz -- Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center May 29, 2007
Foundations of Betrayal How the liberal super rich are undermining America. Jamie Glazov -- Managing editor, Frontpage Magazine May 29, 2007
Academia's Assault on Intelligent Design What is the state of academic freedom when well qualified candidates are rejected simply because they see God's fingerprints on the cosmos? Isn't the Academy supposed to be a venue for diverse views? Aren't universities supposed to foster an atmosphere that allows for robust discussion and freedom of thought? Dr. Gonzalez's fate suggests that anyone who deigns to challenge conventional orthodoxy is not welcome in the club. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society May 29, 2007
The Amnesty Fraud If the current immigration bill is as "realistic" as its advocates claim, why is it being rushed through the Senate faster than a local zoning ordinance could be passed? We are, after all, talking about a major and irreversible change in the U.S. population, culture and political balance. Why is there no time to talk about it? Are its advocates afraid the voting public might discover what a fraud it is? Thomas Sowell -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author May 25, 2007
Malign Neglect The amnesty bill does nothing to stop illegal immigration. Charles Krauthammer -- Nationally syndicated columnist May 25, 2007
Ethics Gap Had a Republican done what Murtha did, there's a good chance there would have been an investigation. After 12 years in the minority wilderness, Democrats are probe-happy. Editorial -- Investor's Business Daily May 25, 2007
Camouflaged Amnesty It appears Democrats and Republicans care more about harvesting votes for their respective parties than doing what's best for their fellow citizens. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist May 24, 2007
Who is Stealing Our Culture? Gramsci famously laid out a strategy for destroying Christianity and Western culture, one that has proven all too successful. Instead of calling for a Communist revolution up front, as in Russia, he said Marxists in the West should take political power last, after a "long march through the institutions" -- the schools, the media, even the churches, every institution that could influence the culture. William S. Lind -- Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation May 24, 2007
Europe's Culture War -- Already Lost? The dark forces of secularism, such as the European Union (EU), are waging war in Central and Eastern Europe, where they target countries such as Poland, Slovakia and the Baltic states. Paul Belien -- Editor of the Brussels Journal and an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute May 24, 2007
Immigration Inconsistencies Regarding the fence, the supporters of the new immigration law, are, with the exception of the president and Sen. John McCain, mostly people who oppose the surge in Iraq. Yet, while they require that the Iraqi surge have specific performance measures to justify continued funding (e.g., perfectly functioning Iraqi government, no more violence, etc.), they are perfectly happy to measure the success of the new proposed Mexican border fence by inputs -- rather than results. That is, once the 5,000 new border agents and the new fences are in place, they will deem the border secure, thus triggering the Great Amnesty of 2007-08. Tony Blankley -- Editorial page editor, The Washington Times May 23, 2007
Edwards Encourages Memorial Day Protests Edwards' views on the war aside, the most offensive aspect of his call to action on Memorial Day is that it is the Armed Forces' most sacred day. Lisa De Pasquale -- CPAC director, American Conservative Union May 23, 2007
Reeducation Camp It's apparent that in a number of cases, universities aren't looking for a fair investigation or resolution of these conflicts, but are intentionally intimidating conservative students and professors as a way of forcing them to conform or quit. Stanley Kurtz -- Senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center May 23, 2007
If We Build It They Won't Come I expected there to be some opposition to implementing strategic fencing along our land border with Mexico. I did not, however, expect one of the biggest obstacles to be the federal agency primarily responsible for protecting the American homeland. U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter -- California congressman and 2008 Presidential candidate May 22, 2007
'Sicko' Cuban health care works only for the select few: if you are a high-ranking member of the party or the military and have access to top-notch clinics; or a health-care tourist who can pay in foreign currency at a special facility catering to foreigners; or a documentarian who can be relied upon to produce a lickspittle film whitewashing the system. Rich Lowry -- Editor, National Review May 22, 2007
Public Safety Issue Number One Personal accountability is the key to reducing recidivism. Breakpoint staff -- Prison Fellowship Ministries May 22, 2007
Lying About Taxes Different in kind from normal congressional debate, this is based not on the merits of higher taxes but disagreement on the existence of any increase. The mystery is easily solved. Under the Democratic budget, the Bush administration's tax cuts are permitted to expire at the end of 2010. That means higher taxes if Congress does nothing. Robert Novak -- Nationally syndicated columnist May 21, 2007
It's Hip to Hate Squares The national media went straight to work ridiculing Falwell, painting him as a screw-loose spoiler of sexual liberation who saw gay monsters under every bed, never mentioning that People Magazine, the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post had all delighted in Tinky Winky's subversive sexuality just months earlier. Mary Katherine Ham -- Managing editor, Townhall.com May 21, 2007
Life is Short Keep your commitments. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint May 21, 2007
Rotten Deal No matter how discontented the public is with our broken immigration system, the political elite's answer is always higher levels of immigration. Rich Lowry -- Editor, National Review May 18, 2007
Right Revolt Conservatives won't stand for the Bush-Kennedy immigration deal. Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online May 18, 2007
Jerry Falwell -- Say Hello to Ronald Reagan! From the news coverage of Falwell's death, I began to suspect his first name was "Whether You Agree With Him or Not." Ann Coulter -- Author and colunmist May 18, 2007
Earth's Revenge -- Gaia Is One Unhappy Lady What also should sound familiar is the way that Earth is spoken of as if it were alive. It's in keeping with the "paganism-lite" that permeates much of our culture, especially our pop culture. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint May 17, 2007
I'd Do It All Again In a 1999 article, Jerry Falwell explains why religious believers should participate in the public square. Rev. Jerry Falwell -- Chancellor, Liberty University, and pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church May 16, 2007
House Dems Excommunicate the Pope Where exactly in the Constitution does it say that Washington politicians are to be exempt from moral or religious requirements or judgments of their faiths? Maggie Gallagher -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author May 16, 2007
Three Reasons to Honor Jerry Falwell The genial Reverend maintained an unstained reputation, united religious believers of many faiths, and showed us the best way to change the world: from the bottom up. Michael Medved -- Talk show host and columnist May 16, 2007
Car Wreck Confessions Online confessions don't cut the mustard. True confession is not an end in itself; it leads to repentance and restoration, and reconciliation with God and the people we've injured. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint May 15, 2007
State of Marriage In the debate over the health of the institution, we should at least know the numbers. Leo Morris -- Editorial writer, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel May 14, 2007
Fort Dix: The Backlash that Wasn't Media hypes Muslim fears of nonexistent threat, phony statistics about anti-Muslim bias. Robert Spencer -- Director, Jihad Watch May 14, 2007
The Leftmedia Middle? Fact is, the media's center is far left of the electorate's center. Mark Alexander -- Publisher, The Patriot Post May 11, 2007
The Ring Thing We must have marriage. W. Bradford Wilcox -- Sociology professor, University of Virginia May 11, 2007
Resisting the Raunch Culture that Objectifies Girls The American Psychological Association recently issued an alarming report on this trend, concluding that girls who view themselves as sex objects are more prone to academic failure, depression, eating disorders, low self-esteem, and poor self-image. Colleen Carroll Campbell -- Commentator and fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center May 10, 2007
The Most Overexposed Celebrities Spears isn't the only star to have worn out her public welcome. Lacey Rose -- Forbes.com staff writer May 10, 2007
Scandalous "Scandals" The very definition of a "scandal" by the media differs radically according to who is involved. That is a bigger scandal than any particular scandal the media report. Thomas Sowell -- Professor and columnist May 9, 2007
The Left's Global Warming Solution: No More Children! Scientists at a UK think tank have determined that the greatest threat to the planet is more human beings. Ben Shapiro -- Columnist and radio commentator May 9, 2007
A New Pelosi Pigout? When Dennis Hastert was accused of profiting from congressional earmarks last year, media went into a front-page frenzy over "corruption." With Nancy Pelosi now in the same spot, it's a back-page story. House editorial -- Investor's Business Daily May 9, 2007
Battle of France By any normal standard Sarkozy has established a clear mandate for sweeping conservative reform in France. Editors -- National Review May 8, 2007
Pro-Family Candidate Elected President of France over Gay 'Marriage', Euthanasia Supporter Royal said: "Opening up marriage to same-sex couples is needed in the name of equality, visibility and respect." On adoption she said, "Whether the parents are homosexual or heterosexual, adoption is above all a family project. From the moment a same-sex couple is recognised as a family, this family has the right to conceive of family projects."
Sarkozy on the other hand, maintained that the family must be protected. "Our model," he said, "must remain that of a heterosexual family: children need a father and a mother." Gudrun Schultz and John-Henry Westen -- Life Site staff writers May 8, 2007
Academic Firefight: Iraq Vet vs. Radical Prof When Jason Walter was fighting against insurgents in Iraq he never dreamed that he'd come home and have to fight against teachers and administrators at Bloomsburg University on his way to a degree there. But during the past several months he has been an army of one battling to make sure that no other student will be penalized, as he has been, for having served his country and continuing to be on alert. Peter Collier -- Author and commentator May 8, 2007
Why Atheism Fails: The Four Big Bangs Yet, like all atheists before them, they still can't answer the fundamental questions of origins. Frank Pastore -- Talk show host and columnist May 7, 2007
Taking Aim at God, and Missing Thanks to the astounding discoveries of modern science, I think the God hypothesis has a lot more going for it today than it did in the eighteenth century. Dinesh D'Souza -- Author and commentator May 7, 2007
The Great Feminist Pander Economic illiteracy runs amuck. Rich Lowry -- Editor, National Review May 7, 2007
The Healing of a Nation II Chronicles 7:14 says, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (NIV) Rebecca Hagelin -- Vice president, The Heritage Foundation May 4, 2007
Leftist Thought Control The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint. David Limbaugh -- Attorney and commentator May 4, 2007
The Kennedy Catastrophe: Banishing Religion from the Public Square In the decades since Kennedy's famous speech, radical separation of church and state has become the prevailing model for many in America. Candidates are eager to suggest that they are personally religious, but at the same time that their religion won't play any role in their governance....In other words, the naked public square prevents political leaders from discussing life's most important questions in public. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society May 4, 2007
Tales from the School-Choice Wars The State of Washington's teachers union spends eight times more money on politics than the state's Republican and Democratic parties combined. John Stossel -- Co-anchor, ABC News' 20/20 May 3, 2007
National Day Of Prayer is an Event Even the ACLU Should Love While the organization likes to promote itself as the prime defender of First Amendment rights, at least two of those rights are a sharp ideological thorn in the ACLU's flesh: freedom of religion (if it involves publicly acknowledging God), and freedom of speech (if that speech is formed as a prayer). Alan Sears -- President, the Alliance Defense Fund May 3, 2007
Fake Anti-'Gay' 'Hate Crimes' Keep Piling Up Although there may be very isolated incidences of legitimate bias-motivated crimes against homosexuals, they're anything but epidemic as homosexual activists would have you believe. Truth be told, the whole "needle in a haystack" thing comes to mind. Matt Barber -- Policy director for cultural issues, Concerned Women for America May 3, 2007
The Thought Police What the 'hate crimes' law would do. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint May 2, 2007
Bourgeois Porn Paradise Meet, for example, Peter Acworth. He is not just another pornographer.... Today he's the founder and head of one of the nation's most successful fetish porn Web sites, and the subject of a glowing profile in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Maggie Gallagher -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author May 2, 2007
Sandra Day O'Connor Connects Court Critics to Cookie Caper O'Connor's muddling of protected speech with criminal conduct is a compelling reason for Congress not to expand "hate crime" laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity because homosexual activists will use them for "putting an end, once and for all" to religious and political speech of a different viewpoint. Jan LaRue, Esq. -- Former chief counsel for Concerned Women for America and member of the Culture and Media Institute's Board of Advisors May 2, 2007
Is the U.S. Government Out to Undermine English? And it's a story of a misguided federal agency that is using taxpayers' money to punish those who encourage English, rather than reinforcing English as the language of American success and cultural unity. Newt Gingrich -- Former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives May 1, 2007
No Shock, Just Facts: Liberal Indoctrination on Campus "Indoctrination U" points to the failing system as a whole -- the insidious usurpation of college administration, policy, and course and class offerings by sundry Marxists, Socialists and anti-Americans who seek nothing less than to brainwash students with the politically favored causes of the day. Cheryl K. Chumley -- Freelance journalist May 1, 2007
Even If Entering Iraq Was A Mistake, Leaving Is Worse The preoccupation of the Left with the alleged wrongness of the war and the alleged deceit of President Bush is another example of passion rather than reason determining a leftist position on a major issue. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and author May 1, 2007
Homosexuals, Hate, and the Gospel Simply stated, hate crimes are designed to punish thoughts and feelings and to treat people differently based on membership in a group. They are a slippery slope toward suppressing free speech and the free exercise of religion. La Shawn Barber -- Blogger and commentator April 30, 2007
My Conversion to the Lutheran Feminist Faith I'm sick and tired of a God who made me in his image. I want to make up my own God. Mike S. Adams -- Professor and columnist April 30, 2007
The Liberal Media Has Voted Early...Again! The secular press has largely been silent on this controversial bill. The media's silence and the unprecedented speed of this legislation are not accidental. Congress has put this bill on a fast track to be passed just one month after its proposal. Harry R. Jackson, Jr. -- Pastor and commentator April 30, 2007
The Squalid Politics of War Why would Reid not demand his party deny funds for a lost war? Hearken now to the April 12 quote of Harry Reid: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding." Patrick J. Buchanan -- Author and commentator April 27, 2007
PBS Sanctions Pro-Islamist Censorship PBS Crossroads series Producer Leo Eaton said the film "creates a one-sided narrative...it fails the most basic Journalism 101 test." But the remark is contradicted by film scenes featuring Muslims from both extreme and moderate ideologies. Ericka Andersen -- News producer, Human Events April 27, 2007
The Enduring Legacy of the First Landing The Virginia Charter of 1606 made it clear that while enterprise and prosperity were important goals of the colony, Gospel evangelism was the first mission of the settlers. Doug Phillips -- President, Vision Forum Ministries April 27, 2007
Abusive Rhetoric The new anti-Catholic bigotry. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint April 26, 2007
Dead Duck Walking The Supreme Court takes on those nasty campaign commercials. Dahlia Lithwick -- Senior editor, Slate April 26, 2007
A Feminized America is Easy Prey for the Chos and the Islamofascists As the threat of radical Islam grows, and as the VA Tech media attention encourages "copy cat massacres" elsewhere, it may be time to realize America still may need masculine qualities of courage and strength, as well as the modern equivalent of the musket over the fireplace, to survive. Dave Petteys -- Blogger, Backbone America April 26, 2007
Beating Freedom of Speech The attacks on Kadra and Faizi show that there are many others in the West today who believe that they must likewise act upon Allah's commands and victimize those whom they deem to have offended Islam. This is a challenge to all Western governments, for it is a challenge to the freedom of speech that is rooted in the constitutions and laws of Western states, and ultimately is intimately connected with the freedom of conscience and the Judeo-Christian view of the dignity of the human being before God. Robert Spencer -- Scholar of Islamic history, and director of Jihad Watch April 25, 2007
Personal Jesus John Shelby Spong's "nontheistic" Christianity. Jason Lee Steorts -- Contributor, National Review April 25, 2007
What About Separation of Rosie and Hate? Loudmouth Rosie O'Donnell of ABC's 'The View' railed against the Supreme Court decision this morning. By itself, that's not newsworthy. Previously, she's used her network platform to equate Christians to terrorists, so it came as no surprise today that she believes faith should disqualify someone from serving as a Supreme Court justice. Bruce Hausknecht -- Judicial analyst, Focus on the Family April 25, 2007
Cho's Erototoxic Addiction Although violent video gaming and pornography/erototoxic addictions are often not reported in the press, these obsessions, along with depression medication, are a common youthful killer profile. Dr. Judith Reisman -- President, Institute for Media Education April 24, 2007
Was Cho Taught to Hate? Was Cho ever taught to respect others, to admire the good things about his host country, and to discipline himself to build a positive life? That answer is readily available on the websites of Cho's English Department at Virginia Tech. This is a wonder world of PC weirdness. English studies at VT are a post-modern Disney World in which nihilism, moral and sexual boundary breaking, and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated. James Lewis -- Blogger, American Thinker April 24, 2007
Our Marital Future David Blankenhorn's new book, 'The Future of Marriage,' explodes the widely promoted myth that redefining marriage to include same-sex partnerships would be a harmless innovation. Robert P. George and Ryan T. Anderson -- George is professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University. Anderson is assistant director of the Program on Bioethics and Human Dignity at the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ. April 23, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta This prohibition is one result of the tireless campaign of dedicated homosexual agitators to curtail freedom of speech in any case where its exercise would allow the expression of disapproval of homosexual practice. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 20, 2007
What a Difference a Judge Makes The magnitude of who gets to appoint the next justice to the United States Supreme Court is supremely illustrated by the Court's ruling upholding the congressional ban on partial-birth abortion. Jan LaRue, Esq. -- Member of the Culture and Media Institute's Board of Advisors April 20, 2007
Something Horribly Wrong The reality of evil. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint April 19, 2007
The New Underground Women's Movement The struggle feminism created is not now, nor has it ever been, solely between women and men. The struggle is between women who want their babies, and women who want something else more. The conflict is between women who value marriage, and Marxists who see marriage as another manifestation of class warfare. Jennifer Roback Morse -- Author and commentator April 19, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta The church, to the extent that it bases its teaching on the Bible, is not at liberty to choose its position, or even its wording when teaching from scripture. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 19, 2007
Cho's Madness The Virginia Tech massacre, guns and pop sociology. Editorial -- The Wall Street Journal April 18, 2007
Why We Need Religion The world Elton John dreams of -- a world in which religion is banned -- is one we have already glimpsed. Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot showed us what lies at the end of that road. Jeff Jacoby -- Columnist, Boston Globe April 18, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta To the global homosexual political movement, the freedom to speak certain words from the Bible is a freedom which cannot be allowed. Wherever this movement has obtained power, it has exercised it to deny freedom of speech. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 18, 2007
A Post-Imus 'Republic of Virtue' A culture that cheers on collective efforts at suppression of heresy, dissent or other unpopular words is every bit as chilling as one merely enforced by law. And there is usually a political agenda (often hidden) behind such public exhortations to suppression: Crassly silence one's political opponent in the name of public virtue. Or, as in the case of Mr. Imus, use his suppression as a chilling threat to others -- who are one's true political enemies. Tony Blankley -- Editorial page editor, Washington Times April 18, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta To the global homosexual political movement, the freedom to speak certain words from the Bible is a freedom which cannot be allowed. Wherever this movement has obtained power, it has exercised it to deny freedom of speech. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 17, 2007
A Glimpse of Evil We don't believe any public policy will be able to expunge from society the kind of insanity or evil that leads to the kinds of acts witnessed yesterday. But we do believe that Americans have the capacity to reason out their own choices about how to defend themselves. Editorial -- The New York Sun April 17, 2007
You're Dead, I'm Healing This whole notion of instant healing (like its twin, instant forgiveness) is morally wrong. First, it is narcissistic. It focuses on me and my pain, not on the murderer and the murdered. Second, it is almost obscene to talk of our healing when the bodies of the murdered are still lying in their blood on the very spot they were slaughtered. Our entire focus of attention must be on them and on the unspeakable suffering of their loved ones, not on the pain of the student body and the Virginia Tech "community." Dennis Prager -- Author, columnist, and talk show host April 17, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta To the global homosexual political movement, the freedom to speak certain words from the Bible is a freedom which cannot be allowed. Wherever this movement has obtained power, it has exercised it to deny freedom of speech. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 17, 2007
A Culture of Anger The discourse of our time has become about anger, with pundits, politicians, and their supporters acting as if their anger and hatred were virtues in themselves. Mark Earley -- President, Prison Fellowship April 16, 2007
The Media Cornucopia, and the Threat from the Left Media abundance has meant more room for right-of-center viewpoints that, while popular with many Americans, leftist critics find completely unacceptable. The fact that Bill O'Reilly gets better ratings than Bill Moyers perturbs them to no end. It's just not fair! Adam D. Thierer -- Senior fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation April 16, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta The homosexual rights movement has killed the English church's right to to stand as a moral authority independent of the nation's social policies and political currents. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 16, 2007
Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson The "Declaration" launched the first country ever based on people's unalienable rights. According to Jefferson, these rights are "derived from the laws of nature" and not "the gift of their Chief Magistrate." No tyrant--nor any majority vote in Congress--can violate them. Gen LaGreca -- Author and commentator April 13, 2007
(Voluntary) Flat Tax Now At 67,204 pages, the tax code and its accompanying regulations and Internal Revenue Service rulings stretch just longer than 71 Gideon Bibles stacked side by side. Deroy Murdock -- Columnist and media fellow, Hoover Institution April 13, 2007
PBS at a Crossroads Why is a film on moderate Islam being suppressed? Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. -- President, Center for Security Policy April 13, 2007
Fear of Fox The liberals' favorite argument is that there is no argument --nothing uttered in opposition to liberal beliefs exists, at least nothing worthy of their intellectual engagement. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. -- Founder and editor-in-chief, The American Spectator April 12, 2007
Shut Up, They Explained I enjoy a good debate as much as the next guy but, increasingly, the next guy doesn't want to argue -- he wants to demonize me. He doesn't want to win the debate; he wants to shut it down. Clifford D. May -- President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies April 12, 2007
It's Hard Out Here for Decency Don Imus is pilloried for his comments, but a rap group that objectifies women just as demeaningly receives the most prestigious honor those in the entertainment business can bestow on one another. Where's the top-of-the-newscast outrage over that kind of bigoted, misogynist bilge, which fills the radio airwaves and the heads of our children every day? Gary Schneeberger -- Senior director, Citizenlink April 12, 2007
Top 40 Depravity Is the Sharpton & Jackson Circus truly committed to cleaning up cultural pollution that demeans women and perpetuates racial epithets? Have you seen the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart this week? Michelle Malkin -- Columnist and blogger April 11, 2007
Biblical Liberation from Liberalism Leviticus 19:15 declares: "You shall not commit a perversion of justice: you shall not favor the poor and you shall not honor the great, with righteousness shall you judge your fellow." Michael Medved -- Author, columnist, and talk show host April 11, 2007
The High Cost of Loving Dartmouth It is difficult to understand the hostility so many colleges have toward alumni who are vigorous and devoted. William F. Buckley, Jr. -- Nationally syndicated columnist and author April 11, 2007
It's the Culture, Stupid While many secular Europeans abhor "red America," many religious Muslims dislike and fear "blue America." Dinesh D'Souza -- Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution April 10, 2007
Adams v. UNCW Higher education will never change while faculties remain monolithically leftist, and they can only remain monolithically leftist by applying shifting and higher standards to conservative professors. Mike S. Adams -- Criminology professor and nationally syndicated columnist April 10, 2007
Requiem for the Magna Carta The homosexual rights movement has killed the English church's right to to stand as a moral authority independent of the nation's social policies and political currents. Scott Lively -- President, Abiding Truth Ministries April 10, 2007
'Equal Rights' for Women: Wrong Then, Wrong Now In 1971, the women's liberation movement burst on the scene and became the darling of the media. Its leaders demanded a gender-neutral society in which men and women would be treated exactly the same, no matter how reasonable it might be to respect differences between them. Phyllis Schlafly -- President, Eagle Forum April 9, 2007
What Meets the Eye Tehran didn't want a deal. It wanted the humbling of the Great Satan's principal ally. And it got it. Very easily. And it paid no price for it. Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist April 9, 2007
A World without Children a Result of Worldwide "Demographic Death Spiral" Moderns are more concerned about careers and possessions than about replenishing the Earth or continuing the species. Ian Hunter -- Professor emeritus, University of Western Ontario April 9, 2007
An Easter People: The Centrality of the Resurrection If Christians are correct about what happened on the first Easter morning, then the resurrection is the single most important event in human history. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society April 6, 2007
Answers To the Atheists The most serious believers, understanding that they need to ask themselves searching questions, have always engaged in dialogue with atheists. E.J. Dionne, Jr. -- Columnist, The Washington Post April 6, 2007
Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheist's assertion that "I know there is no God" emerged as the least defensible. Dr. Francis Collins -- Director, The Human Genome Project April 6, 2007
Permission to Celebrate Jamestown? There is every reason to celebrate the 400th birthday of America, for warts and all, there never has been a better country for all its citizens. Mona Charen -- Nationally syndicated columnist April 5, 2007
The Passion of Bach The crucifixion of Christ has inspired some of the West's greatest art. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint April 5, 2007
The Christians Are Coming! The Christians Are Coming! Leftist academics now must prepare and train for attacks on them and the children in their care by people they can't admit as dangerous. Jon Sanders -- Policy analyst, John Locke Foundation April 5, 2007
Politics Again Deliberately Distorts Jesus Feigning an appreciation and attempting to link with the core values of Christian faith is nothing new among Islam's extremists. Rhonda B. Graham -- Columnist, Wilmington News Journal April 5, 2007
It Must Be Easter If the History Channel is serving up shows like "Something About Mary Magdalene" and "Banned From the Bible: Part 2, and if sacrilegious art exhibits abound, Easter must be right around the corner. Lisa Fabrizio -- Columnist April 4, 2007
The Assault on Holy Week Let's take a closer look at Rev. Jeffrey John. He constitutes the worst of these insults to the Christian faith, because he speaks as a representative of an actual church. Lee Duigon -- Freelance Christian writer April 4, 2007
A Symbol of Decline What does the statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" inspire? Guilt, confusion and discomfort. Far from reinforcing pride in British national identity, the politically and emotionally correct, but nationally irrelevant Alison Lapper has for 18 months symbolized its sad decline, a cultural fifth column sitting on the fourth plinth of London's Trafalgar Square. Barbara Kay -- Columnist, National Post April 4, 2007
Rebelliously Chaste Chastity is a misunderstood virtue. It is more than simply refraining from premarital sex. It's an attitude, a way of life, and open rebellion against a debauched culture. La Shawn Barber -- Columnist and blogger April 3, 2007
Washington's Working Women If she stopped and faced reality, she would have to acknowledge that traditional values aren't so foolish after all. Janice Shaw Crouse -- Senior fellow, Beverly LaHaye Institute April 3, 2007
Celebrating Easter in the Modern Culture So what are we to make of this accelerating cultural abhorrence of Christ and Christianity? Jerry Falwell -- Chancellor, Liberty University, and pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church April 3, 2007
A Day for Fools and Christians Since the nonsense of April Fool's and the solemnity of Holy Week coincide this year, it's worth asking what it might be, besides foolish superstition, that makes the churches overflow on Palm Sunday and Easter every spring. John Andrews -- Claremont Institute fellow and former President of the Colorado Senate April 2, 2007
Genetically Engineering Children -- A New Concern for the Pro-Life Movement There are parents who are deliberately ensuring that their children are born with disabilities, from deafness to dwarfism. A fourth option-inflicting permanent disabling conditions on children-is now being used. Joseph A. D'Agostino -- Outgoing Vice President for Communications, Population Research Institute April 2, 2007
The Feminists are Back -- Brandishing the ERA An equal rights amendment could allow government to impose radical changes on American society, from legalizing same-sex 'marriage' to solidifying the legality of abortion to subjecting women to the draft. Carol Platt Liebau -- Attorney and political commentator April 2, 2007
Rosie O' Donnell is Bad News What do you have to do to be held accountable for your ridiculous, often incorrect, statements on a major network television program created and controlled by Barbara Walters? Lorie Byrd -- Columnist and blogger March 30, 2007
Global Warming Heresy There's a much more important issue that poses an even greater danger to mankind than global warming. That's the effort by environmentalists to suppress disagreement with their view. Walter E. Williams -- Economics professor and columnist March 30, 2007
The Teflon Naturalist Charles Darwin's defenders routinely attempt to shield him from responsibility for the horrific consequences of his ideas. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 30, 2007
The De-Christianization of Europe The situation in nations like Germany, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, is telling: there is a clash between not so much Christians and Muslims but secularists and Muslims. This clash has gotten quite violent at times. And as we observe the collision on our TV screens, the "enlightened" secular European explains the problem as "religious fundamentalism of any stripe." As cultural relativists, they cannot dare blame any of this on radical Islam. Instead, they blame religious orthodoxy generally, willfully indicting devout Christians in the process. Dr. Paul Kengor -- Executive director, Center for Vision & Values, Grove City College March 29, 2007
Pandering to Child Pornographers For normal people, the problem we want to solve in passing laws banning child pornography is not adults' lust for profits, but their lust for children. Maggie Gallagher -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 29, 2007
Teaching the Bible in Public Schools When even liberal magazines like Time think it is a good idea for kids to study the Bible, you and I have no excuse for not making sure local kids have every chance to do exactly that. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 29, 2007
Vote Buying This is the kind of politics many people, regardless of party, have grown to hate. Democrats promised to "clean up" the way Congress operated when they became the majority in January. They are rapidly becoming much like those they replaced, as Republicans mimicked the Democrats they replaced with their misspending and grabs for power for its own sake. The influence of lobbyists and the temptations that come with power are truly bipartisan. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 28, 2007
Can Our Culture Survive The Death Of Morality? According to O'Reilly, it is fine for the military to ban homosexual behavior but we cannot ban the behavior because it is immoral. We have to come up with some kind of practical reason which relates to military discipline but we can't refer to adultery and homosexuality as immoral because that requires making a judgment based on an agreed upon standard. Since absolute truth was the first casualty of the culture war, many believe we cannot consider anything to be simply immoral. But the fact is adultery and open homosexuality lead to a breakdown in morale and discipline precisely because it is immoral behavior. Dr. Tony Beam -- Director, Christian Worldview Center at North Greenville University March 28, 2007
Voting Like an Atheist California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark proudly declared he would push an agenda conforming to nontheistic doctrine. "I look forward to working with the Secular Coalition to stop the promotion of narrow religious beliefs in science, marriage contracts, the military and provisions of social services," he said. Terence P. Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events March 28, 2007
Quran Uber Alles Judge Christa Datz-Winter's startling assumption that the Quran could be a legitimate basis for decisions in a German court is simply the logical endpoint of the disastrously self-destructive relativist multiculturalism that has governed European policy for decades now. Robert Spencer -- Expert on Islamic history and theology, and director of Jihad Watch March 27, 2007
Liberal Myths about Radical Islam The striking aspect of the liberal critique is that it stresses the horrors of the Crusades while virtually ignoring the Islamic jihad to which the Crusades were a response. Dinesh D'Souza -- Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution March 27, 2007
No More Stains Our friends in Iraq and our national honor Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 27, 2007
A Tale of Two Babies Both children, different as their situations are, demonstrate the reality in our culture today: the tragic reality that children have become mere commodities to meet our needs, or, if they don't meet our needs, things to be discarded. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 26, 2007
The Essence of Liberalism: Embracing Life's Losers While the right wants to reward beneficial choices and discourage destructive directions, the left seeks to eliminate or reduce the impact of the disadvantages that result from bad decisions. Michael Medved -- Nationally syndicated columnist and talk show host March 26, 2007
Abortion and the Politics of Ultrasound Why are abortionists so afraid to allow mothers to see what's inside their wombs? Because most will cancel their abortions once they've seen they're carrying a real baby. Star Parker -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 26, 2007
Parents Rail at Graphic Sex in Books -- but How About Online, Rap Lyrics? Billie Ammons says her 12-year-old son started asking her for graphic explanations about sex after reading Gil's All Fright Diner. The book was erroneously recommended to him by the librarian at Cuffe Elementary School on the South Side. Mary Mitchell -- Columnist, Chicago Sun-Times March 23, 2007
Finding a Decent Place to Stay We must not acquiesce in the pornification of our culture. The next time you're booking a place to stay, check out cleanhotels.com. Simply type in your destination, and CleanHotels provides a list of all the porn-free hotels in the area. Rebecca Hagelin -- Vice president, The Heritage Foundation March 23, 2007
Al-Mighty Preacher Running Out of Power Nuclear power is an ancient bugbear for the environmentalist left, and Gore is now their leader and sovereign. He's willing to speak the Inconvenient Truth to Power - just so long as it doesn't offend his own power base. John Podhoretz -- Commentator and author March 23, 2007
The Inter-Branch Clash Over Fired U.S. Attorneys Subpoena threats from Congress are politically tactical but legally dubious. They flout our bedrock separation-of-powers doctrine, under which the two political branches are peers -- neither the other's master, and thus neither in a position to command the other's unqualified cooperation. Andrew C. McCarthy -- Director, Center for Law & Counterterrorism, Foundation for Defense of Democracies March 22, 2007
Crumple Zone: Drug Warriors Push Broad Censorship of Student Speech The Christian Legal Society, the Alliance Defense Fund, the Rutherford Institute and the Liberty Legal Institute also are alarmed by the sweeping claim that public school officials may censor any speech they consider contrary to their "educational mission," even if it happens off campus. Jacob Sullum -- Senior editor, Reason Magazine March 22, 2007
The Plight of Elderly Americans The care of the institutionalized elderly is becoming a national disgrace. If these conditions prevailed at Abu Ghraib or in our nation's daycare centers, members of both parties would be foaming at the mouth, calling for reform. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society March 22, 2007
Outlawing Conscience: Homosexual Practice Trumps Religious Belief If we do nothing, we are going to be facing the same future that Christians in the UK are facing: a future in which preaching the truths of the Gospel is against the law. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 21, 2007
The Dangers of Liberal Toleration In truth, liberal philosopher John Rawls is not being tolerant at all. His view privileges some comprehensive doctrines and suppresses others. Any doctrine that is easily privatized is privileged while any doctrine (Christianity for example) that by its very nature has public implications is suppressed. The liberal argument is nothing more than a camouflaged grab for power. Jim Tonkowich -- President, Institute on Religion and Democracy March 21, 2007
Progressive? Let us resolve that from this day forward not to tolerate the calling of any of these bad ideas progressive, and let us resolve to call none who advocate them progressive. If we must call them anything, let us refer to these advocates as Statists, Socialists, Leftists, Euro-wannabes, or Euro-decadents. Anything but progressive. Henry P. Wickham, Jr. -- Contributor, The American Thinker March 21, 2007
Sir Isaac Newton Regarding the Bible, Newton wrote: "The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet the labors of the centuries have established its Divine origin." Bill Federer -- Author and commentator March 20, 2007
Signs of Life in the Second Amendment The right to keep and bear arms, though treasured by many Americans, was a complete stranger to the Supreme Court. But recently, a federal appeals court did something no federal court had ever done before: It struck down a gun control law as a violation of the Second Amendment. Steve Chapman -- Columnist and editorial writer March 20, 2007
Compassion and the Decline of America By 'compassionately' changing the score of a lopsided baseball game, the coaches undermined the values of truth, wisdom, fairness, and character building. Dennis Prager -- Nationally syndicated columnist and talk show host March 20, 2007
A Conscience That Moved the World The life of William Wilberforce and the bicentennial of his extraordinary achievement, the abolition of slavery, remind us that great men don't shirk things because the focus-group numbers look unpromising. Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 19, 2007
Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone? Adolescents -- with their short attention spans, their demand for a painless life, their need to blame everyone else for their problems, and their perpetual sense of victimization despite having just been given new cars -- are the model for all of civilized society right now. Ben Stein -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 19, 2007
Why Real Men Confuse and Anger Liberals When a real man speaks with plainness and honesty it sends shivers down the spines of those who oppose him, and in a sense reveals their weakness and inadequacies. Kevin McCullough -- Commentator and author March 19, 2007
Apostle to the Irish Because of St. Patrick, a warrior people "lay down the swords of battle, flung away the knives of sacrifice, and cast away the chains of slavery." Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 16, 2007
Media, Homosexuals Target General Pace This controversy says more about the Washington Post than it does about Pace. It shows that a major American newspaper has become a virtual house organ of the gay rights movement. And it shows that this paper will not hesitate to use its power and influence to try to intimidate those with different views. It is the Post, in fact, which is being intolerant. Cliff Kincaid -- Editor, AIM Report March 16, 2007
The Crime of Conviction: General Pace and Morality While the world should be applauding a man who proposes that one of the most important institutions in our country should have moral integrity, instead we hammer him for having a conviction. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 16, 2007
'Grey's Anatomy' Theology Do the tantrums of "Grey's" characters lead to God? No. Marvin Olasky -- Editor, World Magazine March 15, 2007
Gen. Pace vs. Parson Warner What this uproar tells us is that America is no longer a moral community. On the most fundamental issues -- abortion, promiscuity, homosexuality, euthanasia, sterilization, cloning, and the creation of, and buying and selling of, fetuses for research -- we are at war. What part of the nation sees as progress, the other sees as depravity. Patrick J. Buchanan -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 15, 2007
Gen. Pace and the PC Police Duly enacted laws, including prohibitions against lying, stealing, and murder, should not be repealed just because they coincide with religious principles and moral codes such as the Ten Commandments. Elaine Donnelly -- President, Center for Military Readiness March 15, 2007
It's the Media, Stupid An overwhelming majority of Amerians believe their country is on the road to moral decay. Most of them blame the media. Jessica Braunschweig -- Reporter, United Press International March 14, 2007
The Core Of Conservatism: Distinctions And Consequences Above all, conservatives feel impelled to make clear distinctions between right and wrong. We reject all notions of moral relativism. Though we're obviously imperfect, and (like all human beings) often fail to do the right thing, we try to draw lines between the beneficial and the dysfunctional, between productive and destructive. In policy as well as personal life, we seek to differentiate between good and bad behavior, and we want all of society (not just government) to encourage the good and discourage the bad. Michael Medved -- Nationally syndicated columnist and talk show host March 14, 2007
Hillary's Human Rights Campaign According to Martin Luther King, "How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a manmade code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law." Terence P. Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events March 14, 2007
Let's Set the Record Straight Conservatives are not the heartless monsters the media make them out to be. George J. Esseff, Sr. -- Entrepreneur, philanthropist and devout Catholic March 13, 2007
Atheists, Conservatives, and Christianity To see the main roots of our culture in ancient civilizations that ended thousands of years ago -- instead of in the religious and philosophical framework that has dominated the West for the past 1,000+ years -- is to abuse history and defy logic. Steven M. Warshawsky -- Frequent contributor to American Thinker March 13, 2007
Scene 1: Discredit Religion; Scene 2: See Scene 1 The much-ballyhooed "Lost Tomb of Jesus" didn't prove much of anything...well, except that attempts to disprove Scripture are deemed more newsworthy than discoveries that support biblical accounts. Michael Medved -- Nationally syndicated columnist and talk show host March 13, 2007
Why Christians Embrace 'Gay' Porn Stars The thought of personal sexual restraint is foreign to these bloggers. Thus they have near cataclysmic system failure when someone they believed was homosexual turns a corner in his life and leaves that filth behind. Kevin McCullough -- Talk show host and author March 12, 2007
Naked Truth about Kids' World The news that some girls had used their cellphones to photograph each other naked and e-mail the pictures to boys at Castle Rock Middle School "was a real eye-opener" (so to speak) to parents and teachers. Diane Carman -- Staff columnist, Denver Post March 12, 2007
Nobody Here but Us Believers Democratic office-seekers have been to the mourner's bench, and they're drenching their campaigns in religiosity, if not necessarily authentic religion. Suzanne Fields -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 12, 2007
The Left Doesn't Extend Free Speech to All Liberals are temporarily satisfied with public condemnation of "forbidden" (in their opinion) speech, but in due time, and sooner than you think, they will insist on criminal penalties for slips of the lip. James Studdard -- Columnist and attorney March 9, 2007
ACLU Bigwig Busted with Child Porn -- and the Media Don't Cover the Story This is off-the-chart disturbing, and you would think the media would be all over it. When Ted Haggard was scandalized by a male prostitute in Colorado, the media relentlessly hammered the preacher. He deserved much of it, but the coverage was everywhere. How many of you have heard of Charles Rust-Tierney? Bill O'Reilly -- Television show host March 9, 2007
Job Interview: How to Tell If the Candidate Will Lie, Cheat, Steal? The best way is to find out how often your candidate goes to church -- but you can't ask that in a job interview. Jack Yoest -- Blogger and management training consultant March 9, 2007
Bipartisan Hypocrisy In today's Roman circus, talking populist while enjoying the high life mixes no better for the left than mouthing old-fashioned virtue and living the low life do for the right. Victor Davis Hanson -- Historian, Hoover Institution March 8, 2007
Sex and Video: Time Out By the time a youth reaches 18, he or she has witnessed 32,000 murders, 40,000 attempted homicides, and 200,000 acts of violence. Couple that with news reporting on wars and civil strife, and for some, violence, even murder, becomes an acceptable solution to problems....TV detox is long overdue. Arnaud de Borchgrave -- Editor at large, Washington Times March 8, 2007
Dumbing Down of America A huge slice of the U.S. educational establishment is complicit in a monstrous fraud that, if you did it in business, would get you several years at the nearby minimum security facility. Teachers are handing out grades kids do not deserve. States are dumbing down tests to make themselves look good. Voters are being deceived about how much kids are learning. Patrick J. Buchanan -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 8, 2007
Fixing Our Broken Politics Is it possible to have cleaner and more engaging politics that challenge the mind and offer real solutions to our problems, instead of crass appeals to our lower nature, the flip-flopping in order to garner favor with a particular interest group and the insincerity that seems to be behind it all? Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 7, 2007
The Fall of Our First Freedom If freedom comes from man, it can be taken by man, and the result is arbitrary power. Judge Roy Moore -- Former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court March 7, 2007
The Soldiers the Media Love Just six months ago, Time magazine ran a feature called, "How Veterans' Hospitals Became the Best in Health Care." Today the website features a report on veterans' care from Time's sister company, CNN, called, "Iraq Veterans Tell Horror Stories." That's quite a reversal of investigative opinion since August, but when there's a negative story to focus on during a war, sometimes you have to turn the satellite truck on a dime. Mac Johnson -- Writer and medical researcher March 7, 2007
Sacrificing Others' Lives for Political Gain a Hallmark of the Left Honesty, of course, all too often takes a backseat to ambition and to political maneuvering. However, there is something far more sinister -- and far more alarming -- about the mindset that allows political and personal gain to be sought at the knowing expense of others' lives. Jeff Emanuel -- Blogger and columnist March 6, 2007
Coulter vs. Maher: Whose Comments Are Worse? You have to be artful if you're going to be in the outrageous remark game. John Gibson -- Television show host March 6, 2007
Hillary's Gay Partnership Candidate Hillary tells a homosexual audience she embraces their entire agenda, from same-sex marriage to adoption -- but it's very hush-hush. Amanda B. Carpenter -- Assistant Editor, Human Events March 6, 2007
The Lost Tomb of Jesus? Things you'd have to believe to believe James Cameron. Frank Pastore -- Talk show host and columnist March 5, 2007
Are You Really a Catholic, or Do You Just Play One on TV? Catholics for a Free Choice is not a Catholic group; it's a "Catholic" group, one whose Catholic identity doesn't go much deeper than the name on its letterhead. Kathyrn Jean Lopez -- Editor, National Review Online March 5, 2007
Boom Towns Behind Bars With more crime and rising prison populations, we cannot afford to lock effective faith-based programs, with a proven record of reducing recidivisim rates, out of America's prisons. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 5, 2007
Culture of Lying This saga exposed an unholy alliance between liberal politicians and the leftist big media who are quick to attack someone whose policies and party they don't like, but rarely correct errors of their own making, or investigate bogus charges when they help the policies and party the media prefer. Cal Thomas -- Nationally syndicated columnist March 2, 2007
Hip-hop Giving Wrong Lessons in Social Behavior The X-rated rap lyrics are troubling enough. In addition to that, the videos portray raw anger over seemingly minor disputes, violent hyper-masculinity and shallow materialism. But even more crass are the roles assigned to young attractive women: They are inevitably cast as mercenary trollops, eager and available for any thug-style pleasure. Lawrence Aaron -- Columnist, The Record March 2, 2007
Public Schools: Parental Rights in Jeopardy One of the latest developments in public education is that schools believe they are the de facto parents of the children who attend them. Paul Weyrich -- Chairman, Free Congress Foundation March 2, 2007
2007 German Horror Tale Six decades after Hitler, German politicians and church leaders still do not understand true freedom: that raising children is a prerogative of their fathers and mothers and not of the state, which is never a benevolent parent and often an enemy. Paul Belien -- Editor, Brussels Journal March 1, 2007
Character, Not Celebrity, Should Count in News and Politics The tabloids and the cable TV channels have gone overboard in a prurient pursuit of personalities whose antics are of no real consequence. John Hughes -- Professor of communications, Brigham Young University March 1, 2007
Sinking Credibility The media blows its coverage of the supposed bones of Jesus. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint March 1, 2007
Are They Playing Fair? Time Magazine and the jihad against pregnancy care centers Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint February 28, 2007
Calling All Fathers: Save the Girls We can now assert with confidence that most of the primarily girl pathologies - eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression - can be linked to an oversexualization that encourages girls to obsess about body image and objectify themselves. Kathleen Parker -- Nationally syndicated columnist February 28, 2007
Why Liberals are Right to Hate the Ten Commandments Reviewing the Ten Commandments one by one exposes their irreconcilable conflict with the demented and dysfunctional philosophy of today's left. Michael Medved -- Nationally syndicated columnist and talk show host February 28, 2007
Christianity is the Safe Faith to Insult Prominent Christian clergymen won't issue any death warrants, and the Vatican won't call upon "all believing Christians" to avenge the insult. Neither Cameron nor Jacobovici will have to spend the next decade or so in hiding. Mark Goldblatt -- Professor of Old and New Testaments at SUNY February 27, 2007
Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame Al Gore may be a comical dupe when it comes to climatology (in college, he collected a C+ and a D in his two natural-sciences courses), but the global-warming debate and the consequences of that debate are serious. Mark Alexander -- Publisher of The Patriot Post February 27, 2007
Legal Fictions Creating parents with a judicial magic wand Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint February 27, 2007
Rethinking Abu Ghraib In reality Abu Ghraib did reflect the values of a debauched liberalism run amok. These values are ruining America's image in the traditional world. Dinesh D'Souza -- Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution February 26, 2007
Touchy, Ain't She? The politics of personal destruction resurfaces -- in the Democratic presidential nomination race. Jed Babbin -- Editor, Human Events February 26, 2007
The Oscars Go Green In officially atheist Hollywood, Albert Arnold Gore Jr., is the second coming of Moses, Maimonides, and Martin Luther, all rolled into one. David Kahane -- a "nom de cyber" for a Hollywood writer February 26, 2007
Curtains for Conservatism? There are still millions of conservative voters out there. What they don't have is a conservative candidate to vote for. Lee Duigon -- Freelance Christian writer February 23, 2007
Go on in the Name of God The perseverance of Wilberforce is showcased in the new movie Amazing Grace. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint February 23, 2007
Amazing Grace The abolition of slavery is the driving force behind it, yet the movie is more about one man's response to injustice -- thus hopefully inspiring reactions of our own. Russ Breimeier -- Reviewed this movie for Christianity Today February 23, 2007
Death of the Chief The University of Illinois' removal of its symbol, Chief Illiniwek, epitomizes some unsavory aspects of contemporary American public life: political correctness, hypocrisy and bureaucratic tyranny. Robert Novak -- Nationally syndicated columnist February 22, 2007
Overwhelming Damage, Overwhelming Grace One of those helped said, "I have never felt and experienced love like this from total strangers who work for people they have never known." Marvin Olasky -- Journalism professor and editor-in-chief of World Magazine February 22, 2007
GWU Gomorrah Would George Washington want to attend the university named after him? Malcolm A. Kline -- Executive Director, Accuracy in Academia February 22, 2007
For Presidents' Day -- George Washington Makeover He was our first president, our best president and one of the primary reasons the experiment called America was able to work. But of course they don't teach you that in school anymore. Tom Purcell -- Nationally syndicated political humor columnist February 21, 2007
Presidential Candidates: Craving Power over Principle Upon leaving the presidency, George Washington issued a prophetic warning that political parties would likely "become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reigns of government." Judge Roy Moore -- Former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court February 21, 2007
Why Not Mandate Condoms for Boys? It doesn't seem fair that legislators are focusing solely on adolescent girls to try to slow the spread of HPV, a sexually transmitted disease. Jill Stanek -- Registered nurse and pro-life leader February 21, 2007
Happiness Is a Moral Obligation Happiness -- or at least acting happy, or at the very least not inflicting one's unhappiness on others -- is no less important in making the world better than any other human trait. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and columnist February 20, 2007
What Would Wilberforce Do? Evangelicals engage politically, not primarily because we want to form a voting bloc, but because we know that if we ignore politics, we imperil the wellbeing of millions of people. Christianity Today -- Editorial February 20, 2007
Racy Show Shines Light on Double Standard The College of William and Mary removes a cross from an historic Christian chapel -- but allows a lewd Sex Workers' Art Show on campus? Kerry Dougherty -- Columnist, The Virginian-Pilot February 20, 2007
Hate Bloggers, Death Threats and Apologies Abound The media have given limited coverage to the John Edwards campaign's Christian-hating bloggers, and almost no coverage to a gay activist's death threat against a pro-family leader. J. Matt Barber -- Policy director for cultural issues, Concerned Women for America February 19, 2007
The Great Liberal Death Wish The liberals keep comparing the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam, and they are determined to bring about the same defeatist consequences. Samuel L. Blumenfeld -- Author of eight books on education February 19, 2007
Washington's Dance with the Devil Liberals in Congress are playing politics with the Iraq war, but it's not a political game. The future of our country, indeed the free world, is at stake. They're dancing with the devil while masquerading as patriots. Barbara Simpson -- Talk show host and columnist February 19, 2007
Yo, George, Wassup? In today's anti-patriarchal climate, it isn't surprising that the birthday of America's 'Father' has been reduced to a free day and cheap sheets. Kathleen Parker -- Syndicated columnist February 16, 2007
A Refreshing Match Made in Hollywood It took almost two decades to get a classic children's book made into movie. Megan Basham -- Film Critic, Townhall.com February 16, 2007
Liberalism Is Philosophically Un-American America stands out in the world in that it is not only democratic but chooses liberty, the individual and right over wrong as opposed to the implementation of the socialist model. Rabbi Aryeh Spero -- Pulpit rabbi and talk show host February 15, 2007
Cultural Marxism Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in America. They favor code words: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace, reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools, inclusion, diversity, and sensitivity. All together, this is Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism. Linda Kimball -- Writes on culture, politics and world view. February 15, 2007
Actress Charlize Theron Says Cuba and America Are Both Un-Free Actress can't distinguish between being fired by a private company and being thrown into the Gulag by a Communist dictatorship. Larry Elder -- Talk show host and author February 15, 2007
A Chaste Approach to Sex Young people are becoming disillusioned with today's "hook-up" culture. Chuck Colson -- Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship February 14, 2007
Morning Show Retreat Fewer women are tuning into network morning shows and producers wonder why. Megan Basham -- Film Critic for Townhall.com February 14, 2007
Will Decency Ever Trump Politics? The former chairman of a Georgia county Democratic Party makes particularly vile comments about a seriously ill Republican congressman. Jeff Emanuel -- Columnist and blogger February 13, 2007
The Gospel According to Darwin Darwin Day celebrations are fascinating because they expose a side of the controversy over evolution in America that is rarely covered by the mainstream media. Although journalists routinely write about the presumed religious motives of anyone critical of unguided evolution, they almost never discuss the anti-religious mindset that motivates many of evolution's staunchest defenders. John G. West -- Senior fellow, Discovery Institute February 13, 2007
Dixie Chicks, Dissent, and "Whacked" Paranoia Perspective is sorely lacking when fabulously wealthy, celebrated recording artists somehow believe that the fabric of free speech in a community is in danger because they said something political and a bunch of folks replied in no uncertain terms that they didn't like what they said. They're seeing free speech at its most vibrant and they think it's in peril. Jon Sanders -- Policy analyst, the John Locke Foundation February 13, 2007
The Worldviews of Sex Ed It's not just a question of the body, but of the deepest beliefs of the mind, heart, and soul. Mark Earley -- President, Prison Fellowship February 12, 2007
Anti-America Crowd Seeks U.S. Capitulation to Leftist Causes Al Gore chooses the coldest day of the year to give global warming speeches with the regularity of an infant on Ex-lax. Jack Langer -- Editor, Regnery Publishing February 12, 2007
A Tale of Two Cities: Resisting the Atheist Attack How might we guard against the men and women who try to persuade us that God does not exist, that there is no inherent human dignity, and that some people have less worth than others? If ideas really do have consequences, this set of ideas will inevitably lead to great human suffering and utter cultural collapse. Ken Connor -- Chairman, Center for a Just Society February 12, 2007
Liberals Vs. The Troops Leftwingers often deny that they oppose our soldiers, but they can't deny their own words. John Hawkins -- Professional blogger February 9, 2007
Exclusion in the Name of Tolerance It's paradoxical that in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance," certain ideas and populations are being run out of the public square. John Bambenek -- Graduate student, U. Illinois and Franciscan University February 8, 2007
All the "News"? This picture of marriage and a family as a burden is not peculiar to the New York Times or the San Francisco Chronicle. It is common among the intelligentsia of the left. Thomas Sowell -- Senior fellow at the Hoover Institute February 8, 2007
Morals Week Spreads to 20 College Campuses Students are making inroads against the academic community's official religion of moral relativism, thanks to the sheer persistence and courage of a bunch of kids who refuse to be bullied by academic leftists. Mike S. Adams -- Criminology professor and columnist February 8, 2007
Loving Your Enemies A radical solution to chaos Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint February 7, 2007
Law & Ordure: Conservative Victims Unit Law & Order fantasizes about murdering a prominent conservative. Again. Lisa De Pasquale -- CPAC director, American Conservative Union February 7, 2007
The Homosexual Assault on Traditional Marriage Should heterosexual couples who cannot or will not have children be barred from marriage? Ben Shapiro -- Author of Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth February 7, 2007
The Noble Savage is French Toast Politically Correct history is a goner. Rousseau's notion that man is not a fallen creature is eviscerated by new anthropological evidence. James Lewis -- Writer for The American Thinker Web site February 5, 2007
Down With Self-Esteem There is such a thing as unearned grace - don't I know it! - but self-esteem is unearned folly. Its fruit is pride, not humility. Paul Greenberg -- Nationally syndicated columnist February 5, 2007
What's so Hot about Fickle Science? The silliest argument is the anecdotal one: "You only have to look outside your window to see that climate change is happening." Mark Steyn -- Nationally syndicated columnist February 5, 2007
The Inside Man William & Mary's new president, a former ACLU activist, is trying to secularize the college. Cesar Conda & Vince Haley -- Leaders of SaveTheWrenCross.org. February 2, 2007
Laus Deo -- Crossing the Line at William and Mary The argument for removing the Wren Cross is based on Sandra Day O'Connor's dubious "endorsement" principle. Newt Gingrich & Christopher Levenick -- Gingrich is the former speaker of the House of Representatives and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Levenick is the W.H. Brady Doctoral Fellow at AEI. February 2, 2007
Separate and Unequal Research proves that children and mothers who are part of families that include fathers and husbands are far better off than those moms who try to make it on their own. Rebecca Hagelin -- Vice president, The Heritage Foundation February 2, 2007
Minding the Media Gone are the days when reporters demonstrated a greater allegiance to their vocation than they did their politics. Alan Nathan -- Host of "Battle Line with Alan Nathan" February 1, 2007
Forcing Girls to Cheer for Girls It is Orwellian, but not inconceivable, that either the California legislature or a California judge will require "equal enthusiasm" from cheerleaders at the girls' games. Dennis Prager -- Talk show host and columnist February 1, 2007
Art, Amber Alerts and AWOL Parents Some bad guy followed Jon Benet Ramsey home, most likely after watching one of her feathery, rhinestone-studded routines in a "beauty" pageant. There's no reason to believe he's not still out there. We forget about it until a John Mark Carr comes along or another "Amber Alert" flashes across our TV screen. Jan LaRue -- Chief Counsel, Concerned Women for America February 1, 2007
Open Hearts, Open Minds, and Open Legs Since I officially walked out of the "open doors" of the United Methodist Church, I've been asked repeatedly about what motivated me to make that decision. Mike S. Adams -- Criminology professor and columnist January 31, 2007
The New Totalitarianism: Forcing People to Be Tolerant The invention of "hate crimes" is but one aspect of a larger social-engineering project which flies the banner of tolerance, diversity, and human rights but which aims at making this a secular-totalitarian society. Our culture's deep roots in biblical teachings are being severed, slowly but surely. David J. Peterson -- Author of Revoking the Moral Order: The Ideology of Positivism and the Vienna Circle January 31, 2007
Tolerance as a Tool for Transformation During the 20th century, socialist visionaries redefined tolerance and began using it as an effective weapon against Biblical values. Trained facilitators (in schools, government, corporations and churches) began turning cultural norms upside down. Berit Kjos -- Cultural commentator and education expert January 31, 2007
All the Old Dudes (Saturday's anti-war demonstration) was comprised predominantly of middle-aged '60s throwbacks...When the Raging Grannies showed up, it was hard to distinguish them from the rest of the crowd. Jack Langer -- Freelance journalist and Ph.D. candidate January 30, 2007
Squashing the First Amendment There are liberals who preach the need for "diversity of views" in calling for the return of the Fairness Doctrine because they bridle at the high ratings of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and other conservative broadcasters who currently have more public favor than the comparatively fewer liberal commentators. But these liberals ignore why we have the First Amendment. Nat Hentoff -- Nationally syndicated columnist January 30, 2007
Lessons from a Fighter Rocky consistently demonstrates compassion, selflessness, and loyalty, showing the best way to respond to a "nasty" world. That sounds like a pretty good reflection of the Christian worldview to me. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint January 30, 2007
Liberate Political Speech The Supreme Court must reverse its decision to uphold McCain-Feingold's restrictions on free speech. Editorial -- Los Angeles Times January 30, 2007
The State of the Union Address -- The Missing Page The administration's softened position on marriage protection, the sanctity of human life, and a host of other social issues will not help boost his approval ratings. The president's voting base wants to see him lead with conviction on issues that matter to them. The President's "fall from grace" may end when conservatives see this happen. Harry R. Jackson, Jr. -- Bishop, pastor, and commentator January 29, 2007
Why So Few Christian Patriots? It isn't that Americans have lost their Christian roots, it's that Christians have lost their American roots. They don't know that the American story, and the larger story of Western Civilization, is their story. No wonder they don't vote. They don't understand America was and is the greatest expression of Christian values in all of history. Frank Pastore -- Winner, 2006 National Religious Broadcasters Talk Show of the Year January 29, 2007
Christian Comeback in Europe To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of Christianity's demise in Europe may have been greatly exaggerated. Chuck Colson -- Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries and Breakpoint January 29, 2007
Violence Vanquished Significant reductions in violence in six Violence Free Zones are the "direct result of the work of moral mentors and character coaches." Janice Shaw Crouse -- Senior fellow, Concerned Women for America January 26, 2007
State of the Union: Demoralized After 9/11 we had a brief infusion of backbone. Afghanistan was liberated, Pakistan tamed, Libya intimidated and al Qaeda scattered. But when Iraq proved difficult, the voices of retreat and failure gained momentum. Mona Charen -- Syndicated columnist and political analyst January 26, 2007
The Dawkins Delusion An Oxford theologian contends that the aggressive rhetoric of Richard Dawkins' books masks a deep insecurity about the public credibility of atheism. Alister McGrath -- Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University January 26, 2007
Fixing No-fault Divorce "It is crucial for state legislatures to strangle the beast that needlessly kills millions of marriages: no-fault divorce." Michael J. McManus -- President, Marriage Savers January 25, 2007
The New Intolerance Fear mongering among elite atheists is not a pretty sight. Christianity Today -- editorial January 25, 2007
Embryos, Floods and the Naming of Names Something for backers of embryonic stem-cell research to remember. Stuart Shepard -- Managing editor, Citizenlink January 25, 2007
The Singles Without Bliss One of the most suppressed facts of the feminist revolution was that the older a woman gets, the more difficult it is for her to become pregnant. Suzanne Fields -- Columnist, The Washington Times January 24, 2007
Proclamation: National Sanctity of Human Life Day 2007 Among the most basic duties of Government is to defend the unalienable right to life. George W. Bush -- President of the United States January 24, 2007
Carter and Clinton's "New Baptist Covenant" Scam The New Baptist Whatever is designed to undercut the Southern Baptists. Whenever the media is looking for "Baptists" to endorse the left's latest social lunacy, they will turn to the Carter/Clinton Baptists. Don Feder -- President, Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation January 24, 2007
Fearmongering The big lie, conceived by the Weather Channel in cahoots with environmental extremists, is to get us in a tizzy over global warming... Walter E. Williams -- Nationally syndicated columnist January 23, 2007
Informed Choice NZ study: Women who've had abortions suffer greater instances of depression, drug use, suicidal thoughts, and total mental health problems. Chuck Colson -- Chairman, Prison Fellowship Ministries January 23, 2007
Religious Left: Vietnam! Vietnam! Perhaps even more than the secular left, the religious left has insisted that every U.S. military action, actual or proposed, over the last 30 years is a disastrous reprise of the Vietnam War. Mark D. Tooley -- directs the United Methodist committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy January 23, 2007
The Young Battle for Life The battle against abortion can still be won. Nikolas T. Nikas -- President, Bioethics Defense Fund January 22, 2007
Doctors vs. Down Syndrome Sufferers 'At least 85 percent of Down syndrome pregnancies are ended by abortion.' George F. Will -- Nationally syndicated columnist January 22, 2007
Lies and Fraud of Roe v. Wade 'Very simply, there is no right to abortion in the Constitution. Period. It's not there.' David Kupelian -- Managing editor, Worldnetdaily.com January 22, 2007
A Middle Ground for Stem Cells Scientific advances in the past two years suggest that stem cells can be developed without killing human embryos; that stem cell science and ethics can be reconciled. Yuval Levin -- Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and former executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics. January 19, 2007
The Stripper Has No Clothes The New York Times has massively misrepresented the Duke lacrosse rape case. Ann Coulter -- Legal affairs correspondent for Human Events January 19, 2007
Journalistic Malpractice in 'Marriage is Dead' Report The New York Times report that more women are single than married is a statistically finagled lie. Michael Medved -- Nationally syndicated columnist and talk show host January 19, 2007
To Fight 'Fascism,' New York Times' Author Wants to Ban Religious Right In the name of fighting fascism, he wants to institute censorship and punish political incorrectness with prison sentences. Irony is always lost on the left. Don Feder -- President of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation. January 18, 2007
Pursuit of Happiness We're richer than ever, but we're not happy. Are we so obsessed with feeling good that we're missing the real road to happiness: doing good? Betsy Hart -- Nationally syndicated columnist January 18, 2007
Will Media Again Censor Washington, D.C. March for Life? "If the media would report that thousands of Americans converged on the capitol in the attempt to protest Roe v. Wade, it would have an impact on our society." Daniel T. Zanoza -- Founder, Republicans for Fair Media January 18, 2007
Author Blames 9/11 On 'Cultural Left' -- Response is Profoundly Hostile Radical Muslims say they hate us because of our debauched culture -- but don't report this to the American left unless you're ready to put up your dukes. Paul Crespo -- wrote this book review for NewsMax.com. January 17, 2007
Socializing Sexual Risk U.S. states are undermining traditional cultural values by providing, and possibly requiring, vaccinations against venereal disease for young girls. Terence P. Jeffrey -- Editor, Human Events January 17, 2007
Boxer Decked By Own Left Jab Boxer is now bobbing and weaving, trying to dodge critics who are calling for an apology to Rice. Janet M. LaRue -- Chief Counsel, Concerned Women for America January 17, 2007
A Rabbi's Warning to U.S. Christians There is a war being waged against Christian conservatives in America. Rabbi Daniel Lapin -- Scholar and author Rabbi Daniel Lapin is president of the national organization Toward Tradition January 16, 2007
Remembering Dr. King A policeman recalls working the streets of Brooklyn on the day Dr. King was assassinated. Bob Weir -- writes for the American Thinker Web site January 15, 2007
Pornography -- The Real Perversion A segment of our culture is perverse and pornographic, and perhaps this part of American culture is the one that foreigners see. Dinesh D'Souza -- Author of The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 January 15, 2007
Bush's Historic Veto He held the line against a Brave New World. Charles Krauthammer -- Nationally syndicated columnist January 15, 2007
The Intolerance of Tolerance One of America's noblest virtues has been so distorted it's become a vice. Gregory Koukl -- Radio talk show host and founder and president of Stand to Reason. January 11, 2007
Lesson in Education from Oprah We need new approaches to fix our education system. Star Parker -- is a nationally syndicated columnist. January 10, 2007
Unprotected A UCLA student health psychiatrist warns that the sexual revolution is devastating the emotions of young women. Mona Charen -- is a nationally syndicated columnist January 9, 2007
Bleating Hearts A Glasgow bioethics professor doesn't seem to be worried about nuclear technology in the hands of Iran, but he's up in arms about the mullahs getting technology to make gay sheep straight. Mark Steyn -- Mark Steyn is a nationally syndicated columnist. January 8, 2007
Why We Left the Episcopal Church The media are misrepresenting the cause of the schism in the Episcopal Church. The Rev. John Yates and Os Guinness -- The Rev. John Yates is rector and Os Guinness is a parishioner of The Falls Church, one of several Virginia churches that voted last month to sever ties with the Episcopal Church. January 7, 2007
The Culture War is About the Authority of a Book If you want to predict on which side an American will line up in the Culture War wracking America, virtually all you have to do is get an answer to this question: Does the person believe in the divinity and authority of the Five Books of Moses, the first five books of the Bible, known as the Torah? Dennis Prager -- Radio show host and columnist December 27, 2006
Defamation Nation Defamation of character has replaced free speech as the principal way of resolving disputes in America. Mike S. Adams -- Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington January 3, 2007
Report: 51 priests in same-sex civil partnerships Revelation confronts Anglicans already on verge of schism over homosexuality WND -- Worldnetdaily.com January 3, 2007
Losing the Enlightenment A civilization that has lost confidence in itself cannot confront the Islamists. Victor Davis Hanson -- Opinion Journal Federation November 29, 2006
The 50-year failure of conservatism Democrats won Nov. 7 for two reasons Republicans would rather not talk about, education and media. Beverly K. Eakman -- WorldNet Daily November 29, 2006
