Only Bigots Oppose the Mosque! - Pat Buchanan (8/30/2010)
"Prejudice," wrote Burke, "is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved."

We've Made a Deal: America Picks Door Number 2 - Larrey Anderson (8/29/2010)
Someday we may elect politicians with the courage to cut federal spending by 40% [ii], privatize Social Security and medical care, and transfer a host of federal programs back to our states and local governments. But not yet. Were not so lucky.

Dismantling America: Part I - Thomas Sowell (8/28/2010)
To get their way, the political elites must erode or dismantle the Constitution, bit by bit, in one way or another. They must dismantle America. This has been going on piecemeal over the years but the Constitution is now being circumvented wholesale.

The GOP and the Temptation of Hubris - John J. Pitney, Jr. (8/27/2010)
Republicans hold the keys to majority status in their hands. They won't like everything that's on the other side of the door. For those who may have forgotten, a revisit to the turbulence and corruption following the 1994 takeover would be in ord

Who's ObamaCare's Daddy? - The Wall Street Journal (8/26/2010)
Looping back to Mr. Obama's political advice, his government takeover of health care is unpopular because it is arguably the worst legislation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, and the voters know it. Time for a complete diaper change in Congress.

Obama Demagogues Private Enterprise - John Stossel (8/25/2010)
Social Security is popular but unsustainable. Its commitments over the next 75 years exceed its expected revenue by $5.3 trillion. Politicians know this, but pander anyway. Time to privatize their stealth piggy bank in order to rescue it.

The Ecstasy of Empire - Paul Craig Roberts (8/24/2010)
The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. Without a revolution, Americans are history.

And Now: The Stealth Obama Ocean Grab - Michelle Malkin (8/23/2010)
It's not enough that the White House is moving to lock up hundreds of millions of acres of land in the name of environmental protection. The Obama administration's green radicals are also training their sights on the seas. Without a whisp of a vot

Putting Government First - Pat Buchanan (8/22/2010)
It is impossible to believe that the Obamaites, who intervened twice and massively with bailouts to prevent minor layoffs of local and state government employees, have the stomach to do the major surgery needed to cut the federal monolith down to size.

Bean-Counters and Baloney - Thomas Sowell (8/21/2010)
The bean-counters have struck again-- this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third base. Golly.

A Tea Party Manifesto - Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe (8/20/2010)
The big-government crowd is drawn to the compulsory nature of centralized authority. They can't imagine an undirected social order. Someone needs to be in charge—someone who knows better. Big government is audacious and conceited.

America At The Precipice - Nile Gardiner (8/19/2010)
The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. Bad for Obama. Bad for America.

The Solomon of San Francisco - Pat Buchanan (8/18/2010)
Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary. Peering at the 14th Amendment, he found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union must recognize gay marriages.

The Great Guy Theory of History - Daniel Henninger (8/17/2010)
People who before the election were no more special than anyone else suddenly are called Congressman this or Senator that. But the deal is that you are supposed to try to do some good in return for the gift of power and status.

Justice Brennan's Footnote Gave Us Anchor Babies - Ann Coulter (8/16/2010)
Democrats act as if the right to run across the border when you're 8 1/2 months pregnant, give birth in a U.S. hospital and then immediately start collecting welfare was exactly what our forebears had in mind when they wrote the 14th Amendment.

Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11 - Dorothy Rabinowitz (8/15/2010)
The Bloombergs, the Obamas, the Cuomos, cannot understand what the big deal is with a 15-story mosque being built at ground zero in New York. Yet no ordinary American has any difficulty in putting his or her finger right on the problem. It's insulting

GOP Blank Check for War? - Pat Buchanan (8/14/2010)
High among the blunders of history was the "blank cheque" Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit. The GOP may be repeating that blunder today.

Obama Loves the Hood, Unfortunately It Is Not Fort Hood - Maj. Gen. Jerry Curry (8/13/2010)
Insinuations to the contrary, Barack Obama wasn't born in the "Hood," he never lived in the "Hood" and he never experienced first hand the drugs, violence and poverty of the "Hood." He grew up in a "non-Hood" white family, attending private schools.

Review Afghan U.S. Policy - Richard S. McPhee (8/12/2010)
We are in the midst of challenging economic, military, judicial and global terrorism that threatens the foundation of our nation. There is a basic disconnect between reason and wisdom within these various disciplines.

America's Ancien Régime - Nile Gardiner (8/11/2010)
What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today's Obama administration were he alive today is anyone's guess. But I would wager that he would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display.

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Keith Olbermann - Ann Coulter (8/10/2010)
It's a tried-and-true strategy from the minds of Marx, Lenin and Hitler: Keep telling the same big lie and eventually it morphs into the truth in the minds of the masses. Unfortunately, it seems the mushy Right is content to be slandered into oblivion

Our Big-Government War on Terror - Gene Healy, The Cato Institute (8/9/2010)
Guess what happens when you combine a crisis atmosphere with a gusher of federal funds? You get a dangerous, wealth-gobbling bureaucracy that fails to achieve its ostensible goal, whether that's better health care — or uncovering terrorist threa

The Soak-the-Rich Catch-22 - Arthur Laffer (8/8/2010)
Anyone who is familiar with the historical data available from the IRS knows full well that raising income tax rates on the top 1% of income earners will most likely reduce the direct tax receipts from the now higher taxed income. Just ask John Kerry.

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution? - Ernest S. Christian, Gary A. Robbins (8/7/2010)
The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

Taxes: A Defining Issue - Daniel Henninger (8/6/2010)
If the Obama presidency didn't exist, we would have to invent it. At a time when the American people need to make some decisions about the nation's purpose, along comes Barack Obama to make the choices crystal clear.

Tax Hikes Hurt Job Creation - The Altoona Mirror (8/5/2010)
With the nation's unemployment rate still troubling at 9.5 percent, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner believes it is time to kill more of the country's job-creation ability. Never let a crisis go to waste.

The Year America Dissolved - Paul Craig Roberts (8/4/2010)
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives' war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.

Don't Ask/Don't Tell Should Go (Another View) - John Stossel (8/3/2010)
America is one of many countries that forbid openly gay people to serve in the military. Others are: Cuba, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey and Venezuela. See a pattern?

Trusted Most -- Men with Guns - Pat Buchanan (8/2/2010)
Public confidence in Congress has plummeted to the lowest level of any institution since Gallup began asking the question in 1973. One-half of all Americans have little or no confidence in the Congress. This is bad news for democracy.

Obamacare's Political Future - James C. Capretta (8/1/2010)
July 1 was the 100th day since the president signed the sweeping legislation into law. The Democrats who pushed it through to enactment in the most polarizing debate in years are hoping that the passage of time will be their salvation. Perhaps.