McCain challenger J.D. Hayworth has called for President Obama to release his birth certificate. By refusing to support McCain in the primary, Senator Jim DeMint and the Conservative Senate Fund are sending the message that advocating for birtherism is OK.  more

To Sarah Palin, every media figure — even those like Glenn Beck who support her — has become the enemy.  more

President Obama swept into office with the backing of 18 to 29 year-old voters. But since his election, Obama has paid little attention to the concerns of this demographic and instead has saddled them with the cost of his new programs.  more

President Obama is commander in chief. If he’s opposed to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, why doesn’t he actually do something about it?  more

The Obama administration is preparing for direct negotiations with Iran. Talks with Iran come at a fairly high price and it is unclear what the Obama administration can realistically hope to get in return.  more

The goal of the Republican Party should be to see everyone covered, not through government healthcare, but through government systematically breaking down the barriers to a competitive health insurance market in the U.S.  more

For the Obama administration to argue that the sanctions against Pyongyang are working is a colossal farce. North Korea is still trying to evade them and Kim’s regime seems as strong today as it did yesterday.  more

As David Frum and Richard Perle quipped in An End to Evil, Iranian elections are a contest between “a fanatical fundamentalist, a really fanatical fundamentalist, and a really, really fanatical fundamentalist.”  This year, it looked as if the powers-that-be in Tehran were content to allow the fanatical fundamentalist, Mir Hossein Mousavi, emerge as the new   more

Much hay has been made over the President’s apology for the United States’ role in the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mossadeq.  Despite the fact that Mossadeq was ruling by emergency decree at the time and had threatened President Eisenhower that he would align Iran (and its energy supplies) with the Soviet Union, Mossadeq is remembered   more

Nearly four years ago, I had the honor of meeting Jack Kemp after he gave a stem-winder of a speech at my alma mater, George Washington University.  At the event, Kemp was, to steal a term from last January’s lexicon, fired up and ready to go as he expounded upon the anti-poverty potential of   more

Our war on terror begins with al Qaida, but it does not end there.  It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

- President George W. Bush, address to a join session of Congress, September 20, 2001
And that’s why I think it’s so important for us   more

In 2007, an Israeli preemptive strike destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor modeled after the Yongbyon reactor based in North Korea.  The dangers of the nexus between nuclear weapons, rogue regimes and terrorist-supporting states outlined by President George W. Bush in his famous 2002 State of the Union address very nearly burst out of the hypothetical   more

As a transplanted Californian living in Virginia, I have kept one eye open the past few weeks on the goings on in my old home state.  While most of the media focused on the tax increases shepherded through the state legislature with the help of State Senator Abel Maldonado (who essentially traded his vote in   more

It hardly came as a surprise to anyone on election day when Barack Obama cruised to a 2-1 landslide victory over Senator McCain among voters younger than 35.  The youth vote had long been considered an arrow that solely belonged in Obama’s quiver.  It was the secret to his upset in Iowa, the source of   more