Europe: Faust or Whore?
By Julian French.
“Forget these frivolous demands which strike a terror to my fainting soul”. So pleads the Devil’s agent Mephostophilis to Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s Goethe-inspired play.
Faustus has just agreed [...]
The White House is Defeating the U.S. Military
By Alan Caruba.
I began March with a look at the way President Obama is undermining the U.S. military and did not think I would have to return to this topic for a while. I was wrong.
A March 25 article in The Washington Times was titled “Obama [...]
Crimea and The Hypocrisy of the Nation States
By Peter Kelly.
Revolution in Ukraine has seen the fall of a democratic President
This week Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and applied to join Russia, a move rejected by almost every western state and acknowledged [...]
Democrats: It’s Time for a Clearer Message and Better Messengers
By Peter Rosenstein.
This week, the Democratic Party is the party of the people and the Republican Party is the party of the wealthy 1 percent. Too often the messengers of the Democratic Party forget that and get tongue-tied trying to [...]
Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?
By Rich Rubino.
U.S. House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill (D-Mass.) had no problem publicly belittling Republican President and friend Gerald R. Ford. He said Ford was “worse than [Warren G.] Harding and [Herbert] Hoover [...]
The Path to War
By Alan Caruba.
Having lived through the long Cold War with the former Soviet Union, including the Cuban Missile crisis, my thoughts over those years were that their leaders would not risk war because the outcome would be disastrous [...]
America Spirals Down the Socialist Sinkhole
By Alan Caruba.
America for its first century and a quarter was home to a capitalist system and philosophy that took it from a largely agricultural economy to one that saw the rise of its vast industrial base. In 1913 that changed with [...]
Global Warming “Scientists” Continue to Fudge Data
By Alan Caruba.
Despite the growing worldwide recognition that global warming—now called climate change—is a hoax and that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle going on seventeen years, those most responsible for it continue [...]
“Time to Face Reality”: The World’s Rapidly Shifting Military Balance
By Julian French.
Alphen, Netherlands. 14 March. Four events this past month have highlighted the rapidly shifting balance of military power in the world. Yesterday General Sir Peter Wall, Head of the British Army, warned [...]
Putin Around With Vladimir
By Allen Schmertzler.
Despite efforts to socialize it out, bullying is in big time. Because behaviors tend to run in social circles, one has to be careful about who they “Putin around” with. Vladimir’s “Putin around” [...]
War Games
By Robert Slayton.
The Right wants us to do so much more on the world scene. We should be intervening in so many places, they argue, and any failure to do so signifies inept and gutless leadership, a symptom of America’s decline. [...]
Obama Golfs While Americans Job-Seek
By Alan Caruba.
A close relative of mine has been spending months job-seeking and the news from the White House in the first week of March was that the President was playing golf in Key Largo while Joe Biden was in the Virgin Islands soaking [...]
Saudis backing Israel’s Mossad, confirmed?
By Barry Lando.
On October 12, 2012, Ispeculated there was a strong likelihood that Saudi Arabia was bankrolling Israel’s Mossad. Those funds paid for, among other things, theassassinations of several of [...]
EPA Attacks Prospect of World’s Largest Copper Mine in Alaska
By Alan Caruba.
I could write every day about some new obscene Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to thwart energy the nation needs, forcing the shutdown more coal-fired plants and the mines that supply them. Goodbye thousands of [...]
Crisis in Ukraine
By Azmat Hassan.
The Sochi Winter Olympics, a magnificent obsession of the inscrutable Russian President Vladimir Putin ended on a high note for him and his countrymen. However, hardly had the Sochi glow faded that the many months long simmering [...]
The Not So Free Exercise of Discrimination
By Allen Schemertzler.
Last year Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, most likely a presidential hopeful, poked his finger in the eye of conservatives of his own Republican Party by telling them to end “dumbed-down conservatism” [...]
The Progressive Destruction of the U.S.
By Alan Caruba.
Barack Obama is the final piece of the map in the progressive movement’s century of steady destruction of the U.S. dollar, income taxation, and massive, liberal intrusion into the lives of all Americans from birth to death.
An [...]
Obama Opposes KeystoneXL Pipeline and Jobs Anywhere in America
By Alan Caruba.
It’s taken nearly five years, but Americans are finally aware that President Obama is opposed to anything that contributes to the economic growth of the nation. Along with a Democratic controlled Senate and its opposition [...]
Checks, Balances, And Checkbooks
By David Corbin.
Most governors play more the lamb than the lion in confronting centralized government“I don’t control the checkbook . . . I’m not the king of New Jersey. I’m just the governor.”– NJ Gov. Chris Christie
The [...]
Americans: Israel is the MVP
By Yoram Ettinger.
At a time when the White House is pressuring Israel to make dramatic concessions, the Jewish State enjoys an all-time high popularity among Americans, and therefore among their representatives in the US House of Representatives [...]