President Barack Obama is ignoring the causes of the economic crisis.  He is looking for solutions in the Keynesian economic myth that government interventions got America out of the Great Depression.  Yet, the...

At this year’s meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.—the largest annual gathering of the nation’s conservatives—there was much disappointment and despair among the rank and...

I received the shocking news in September of last year: My best friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was dead within two months. It was a harsh blow, coming on the heels of the death of my beloved...

For at least five years there has been one consistent cri de coeur in the liberal community: “Bush lied.”  Presumably he justified the invasion of Iraq by suggesting Saddam Hussein was attempting to acquire nuclear...

After a long string of defeats, the British won the second battle of El Alamein in 1942. It was a turning-point in World War II. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill immortalized the occasion by giving a speech in...

Israel’s recent election clearly indicated a marked rightward shift in the electorate, and a corresponding decline in the traditional left-wing parties. This has reinforced the secular right-leaning Likud and Yisrael...

Raul Castro, comrade in despotism to brother Fidel, recently marked the one-year anniversary of his official rule over Cuba since longtime leader Fidel stepped aside. The many political dissidents of Cuba would decline...

At the recent Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland there was an unexpected guest: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Everybody knows that Mr. Putin never went to Davos. So what induced...

Hollywood continues to champion abortion, assaulting traditional family values and the inviolable right to life.  In “Revolutionary Road,” the long-awaited movie reuniting Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, a...

The American education system’s many weaknesses are legendary, but one of its hallmark strengths has gone unnoticed until now. It’s great at employing people. Not necessarily employing them productively, mind you,...

Comparative effectiveness—which is supposedly the “science” of comparing two treatments for the same illness and determining which one provides the best outcome for the least amount of money—is something that at...