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Will someone sue the US government over politicized tax enforcement?
Republicans would be foolish to give up on minority voters, but even more foolish to give up on low- income white voters.
By Bruce Walker
There are good reasons for Republicans to be hopeful about the 2014 midterm election.
An interview with David Leonhardt, Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.
Welcome to Obamaland, where death and taxes is no longer an ironic statement, but a grim reality.
To assume that your opponents have any decency, as the Republicans habitually do, is to be left behind in Politics 1.0.
The media loved Obama, but it discovered early on that he did not love it back.
The video story was part of a theme that has run through Obama’s presidency from the beginning.
The progressive consolidation imagines that organization can contain the messier side of man.
Benghazi isn't likely to keep Hillary out of the Democratic field in 2016, but after 2008, she is justifiably paranoid.
Whether or not amnesty comes, the United States of America is becoming too much like Mexico; a society of limited possibilities and diminished social mobility.
By Barry Rubin
Obama wants Americans to believe that government is only the sum total of their efforts together. But that is nonsense.
As Jews, we assume a myriad of financial obligations in order to ensure that we live in accordance with the tenets of our faith. We give generously to our shuls and make charitable donations to various organizations that service the Jewish community. But one of the biggest investments we make is in our children’s future, as we enroll them in one of the many quality yeshivas our community boasts.
Netanyahu made an invaluable turnabout in the way Israel explains itself. We must complete that turnabout. We must not go half way.
The left understands that it is working against natural emotions of loyalty and loss, and so it uses deception.
In the Hebrew Bible everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes.
By Ben Voth
All Americans should take an interest in the accurate recognition of President Bush's good work.
Europe has taken the path of multiculturalism and we can see the results.
Somehow it has become acceptable to dump on Christian Zionists for their political activities, but absolutely taboo to criticize Muslim groups, some of which support Hamas or Hizballah.
The urban political machine has gone national. It's here. It's there. It's everywhere.
Are we on an inevitable evolutionary trajectory rising up or are we doomed to repeat dark ages, progress and then dark ages again?
The left's deconstruction of social institutions is not a quest for equality, but for destruction.
The heat being generated from the Keystone controversy may well have had an influence upon Obama's gaffe in comparing U.S.-Canada relations to Israel-Palestinian relations.
In the free market, money made you king. But under socialism, money just buys you access and leverage.
Unlike some of his biggest detractors, I believe that the President actually likes Israel and values the friendship of the Israeli people.
Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.
Ambassador Rice touted the notion of a spontaneous mob action for several days after the event despite the evidence to the contrary. On what basis did Ms. Rice promote the false storyline?
When I visited the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem a couple of years ago, it was a brutal reminder of what happens when politicians make decisions that don’t involve their brains.
By Jason Maoz
Even as he left office in January 2002 on a note of unprecedented triumph and popularity, the tone of the New York Times’s editorials and most of its news coverage was startlingly jaundiced.
Social thinking is not concerned with solving problems by tackling them, but by transforming society so that the problems no longer exist.
Congratulations, JStreet, you won before you even started! Perhaps you can save your breath, energy and George Soros' and god knows who else's money and go home.
Like Chavez, Obama presides over a poorer country whose poor are convinced that he is the only thing standing between them and absolute poverty.
Shattering the wall of silence surrounding the Holocaust was the first crucial step in the process of mobilizing the American public against the slaughter.
By Ben Cohen
What this year’s AIPAC confab proves is that there is considerable mileage in the values Israel shares not just with the U.S. but with other western states like Canada.
It's not always clear what the Israel Lobby's accomplishments really consist of.
By Barry Rubin
Classic westerns demonstrate that Americans have long been tolerant and understanding toward other peoples.
By J. E. Dyer
It is unconscionable of Obama to handle the sequestration threat the way he has - crippling our ability to readily strike Iran.
Four Republican senators voted in favor of Hagel, including Rand Paul of Kentucky.
By J. E. Dyer
There is a foreign-policy aspect of 'perception benefits' Obama hopes to garner from a photo-op tour of Israel.
When a civilization destroys its families, then it destroys itself.
By Daniel Pipes
You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.
If only Iran began developing the world's biggest chocolate bar, then the bombing raids would begin as soon as the chocolate enrichment process reached the caramel-nougat line.
If the Mullahs can simply buy a usable and tested bomb design from North Korea, they could transform their status into a nuclear weapons state overnight.
What infrastructure achievement has the shovel-ready administration managed to achieve?
By Barry Rubin
Obama's State of the Union address touted an American return to world leadership, but concealed the failure of Obama's policies, especially in the Middle East.
Full text of President Barack Obama's "State of the Union" address to Congress, February 12, 2013.
Instead of the Latino vote, the Republican Party would be wiser to concentrate on the Chinese and the Indian vote, two groups that are easier to sell on the Republican agenda.
The entertainment industry is too big and powerful, but that will change. What will not change is that the nation is losing its values.
In a world of cynics and naysayers, where too many people almost instinctively assume the worst of their fellow citizens, our generation was fortunate to have Ed Koch.
CAIR's #MyJihad campaign and the media's coverage of it bears no connection to reality at all, or to the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations and enslavement.
The Republican Party of 2012 looks a lot like the Democratic Party of '88. It's outdated and running on fumes.
The Emergency Committee for Israel released a new web ad highlighting Chuch Hagel's confused response about U.S. policy on Iran.
By Barry Rubin
Hagel's brain is the mass market version of Kerry's and Kerry's is the collector's edition of Obama.
By Batya Medad
Israeli citizens, we must do what's best for us and not pay and not pay attention to the U.S.A. That's the only way we'll get respect and be left alone.
By Barry Rubin
Kerry subscribes--as is so fashionable today in the Obama Administration and academia--to the abusive relationship approach to foreign policy.
Our military has to become less American and more European, less imperial and more multilateral.
Conservative movements and parties cannibalize themselves.
Republicans who try to adapt to liberal values are pursuing a dead end.
If Schumer buys Hagel's transformation so will a majority of senators.
By Peter Huessy
A nuclear weapons reduction plan advocated by Hagel evinces a less than serious understanding of both the nature of US deterrence needs, and the geopolitical balance between the United States and Russia.
This is one of those times that I wish the anti-Semites were right, and that there was actually a semi-covert, powerful and well-funded Jewish lobby forcing the US to do its bidding.
The Obama administration has succeeded in making the issue of Hagel all about Israel and Jews.
By Daniel Pipes
It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.
The ability to perceive and make difficult choices is fundamental to the survival of a country.
What Obama means by 'saving' the Middle Class is turning them into welfare clients.
The glorious day of the inglorious man is here. And someone else is paying. Any someone else who isn't him.
Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.
If you believe that people are basically good, then they can be trusted with an AR-15.
Both the Left and the shooters agree that the people you are shooting at should not have guns.
The Left seeks to create a society where everyone is a lab monkey except the experts running the experiments.
The issue isn't really guns. Guns are how we misspell evil.
What is lost in the discussion are the Biblical underpinnings of abortion and how this is not primarily a legal issue but a religious one.
Can American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years?
A senior member of President Harry Truman's own administration secretly gave American Zionist lobbyists advice in 1946 on how to pressure Truman to support creating a Jewish state.
By Barry Rubin
Barack Obama is not a Communist, a fascist, a Muslim, a Marxist, a Progressive or even a socialist. Obama and those who control much of America’s academia, mass media, and entertainment industry—plus a number of trade unions and hundreds of foundations, think tanks, and front groups—are believers in a new, very American form of leftism.
Politicians take for granted that education is the road to empowerment and equality. Obama has read poems off his teleprompter about the wonders of education as the only means of ensuring "our" children's future. There is nothing revolutionary about that. Every politician takes it for granted that education means empowerment. But does it really?
The interesting question is “why did they change it?” A platform is not a binding document; it is intended as a general statement of a party or candidate’s positions. Its planks are generally written to appeal the broadest possible constituencies. Most voters never read platforms or care about them. Is the change is intended to send a message to the leadership of the Muslim nations that Obama has been courting since his 2009 speech in Cairo that he is taking concrete steps to weaken the bond between the U.S. and Israel?
When all the bubbles of rhetoric pop, there are still the hard unpleasant realities to deal with.
July 3, 2026 
