October 3, 2008
Vouchers benefit foster children
By Stuart Butler
More than a half-million children are in foster care. By definition, they've had it tough. Social service agencies hesitate to remove children from their natural ...
October 3, 2008
Will new prez keep up crackdown on illegals?
By Ernest Istook
Will Mexico need a bailout? That country's second-largest source of income is money sent home by Mexicans living in the U.S. Most of that comes ...
October 2, 2008
A to-do list: Be proactive, build international institutions that work
By James Carafano
Our elected officials in Washington tend to worry about the danger of the day - competing with China, taming Iraq, reacting to Russia, reassuring skittish ...
September 29, 2008
$700 billion bailout? You ain't seen nothin'
By Brian M. Riedl
Think $700 billion to bail out Wall Street is expensive? Just wait. The mortgage meltdown is cheap compared with the coming fiscal firestorm fanned by ...
September 29, 2008
Don't Provide Medicaid Relief Without Demanding Reform
By Dennis Smith
Talk about a helpful prognosis: Cash-strapped states may well get some help from the federal government in meeting their Medicaid budgets.
Washington shares the ...
September 29, 2008
Heat's rightly on for coastal drilling
By Ben Lieberman
Gasoline prices have dropped a little since hitting $4 a gallon, but America’s total energy bill is going to increase as we enter the home ...
September 27, 2008
Gaining Health Care Coverage Without Losing Freedom
By Israel Ortega
Americans are anxious about the future of our health care system — and rightly so. They’re looking for a sensible way to extend coverage to ...
September 26, 2008
The wheat and the tares
By Ernest Istook
You can't fix the mortgage mess if you don't understand what caused it. That's not finger-pointing. That's common-sense.
A Biblical parable offers insight into ...
September 26, 2008
Economic freedom on a global scale
By Kim Holmes
The American stock market falls 500 points. The next day, markets in Europe and Asia follow suit. No surprise. The world economy is, well, a ...
September 26, 2008
Conservative Victory on Energy
By Brian Darling
Under the command of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress rarely produces a decisive victory for the American people and ...
September 26, 2008
The Wisdom of Warriors
By RebeccaHagelin
This election year has generated a lot of talk about the role of America’s military in the Middle East. Less frequently does the conversation turn ...
September 25, 2008
Nanny state foibles
By Helle Dale
The fate of British Prime Minister and leader of the Labor Party Gordon Brown ought to be a salutary example for American politicians advocating the ...
September 24, 2008
Mr. Smith Didn't Do This: How free market is Wall Street?
By Michael G. Franc
To liberals, the financial meltdown results from recklessness by Wall Street’s “big banking boys” who, as socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) explains, were “empowered ...
September 24, 2008
Nuclear crunch for U.S.-India
By Lisa Curtis
After three years of painstaking negotiations, dozens of congressional hearings, and the near fall of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, the final stage of ...
September 23, 2008
A Tale of Two Hackers
By Andrew Grossman
Consider two cases. In one, a suburban housewife posed as a teenage boy on MySpace to learn more about her daughter’s on-again, off-again friend. In ...
September 23, 2008
A Free-Market Fix
By Ed Feulner
Nobody has ever lost money by betting on the federal government to overreact to a crisis. And as Congress weighs a bailout of the financial ...
September 16, 2008
Defenses for a Dangerous World
By Ed Feulner
It’s easy to get a bit complacent on the security front these days. We’ve gone seven years without a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and ...
September 16, 2008
Voting Greene: Criminal politics
By Hans A. von Spakovsky
Almost everyone expects that this year’s elections will be close, but few realize that the margin of victory could be affected by fraudulently cast absentee ...
September 16, 2008
"Drill, Baby, Drill"
By Brian Darling
Less than two weeks ago, the Republican convention erupted with chants of “Drill, Baby, Drill.” In a recent Quinnipiac poll, 62% of likely voters support ...
September 15, 2008
Dealing with Russia
By Ariel Cohen
On Aug. 8, Russia decided to rewrite the rules of post-World War II European security. It repudiated the Helsinki Pact of 1975, which recognized the ...
September 15, 2008
Class is in Session - What Will the New School Year Bring?
By Israel Ortega
Change is in the air. The leaves are changing colors, and there is less sunlight -- a sure sign fall is around the corner, bringing ...
September 15, 2008
Nuclear proliferation endangers world stability
By Bob Graham and Jim Talent
During the first presidential debate in 2004, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry agreed -- as stated by the president -- that ''the single, largest ...
September 15, 2008
Malpractice in Massachusetts: How Bay State Policy Undermines Health Reform
By Greg D'Angelo
Three years ago, faced with the prospect of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicaid funding, Massachusetts made a deal with Washington. No ...
September 12, 2008
Can American socialism ever be reversed?
By Ernest Istook
Is socialism too entrenched in America to be reversed?
Sen. Jim Bunning is one lawmaker who has had it.
Even as others such as The ...
September 12, 2008
Time for 'Global Freedom Coalition'
By Kim R. Holmes
Conservatives should ask themselves one key question over the remaining months of the presidential campaign: What role should America play in the world?
September 11, 2008
Experience to judge: Lessons from war in Georgia
By Helle Dale
Does experience in foreign policy matter? Here this question is all the rage due to the American crop of presidential and vice presidential candidates. To ...
September 11, 2008
7-Year Itch: GOP and No Child Left Behind
By Dan Lips
was always an awkward marriage. But it appears that after seven years together, the Republican party is preparing to leave behind No Child Left Behind. ...
September 11, 2008
Forgotten Homeland Security Agenda
By David Heyman and James Jay Carafano
The presidential candidates have discussed quite a few issues in this campaign. Strangely, though, voters have heard little about homeland security.
September 10, 2008
Korean Conundrum: What if Kim's Kaput?
By Peter Brookes
NEWS reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has had a stroke could certainly be true. At 66, he's no spring chicken, especially considering ...
September 9, 2008
India marches into modern era
By Ed Feulner
Mumbai, India -- When I told friends I would be visiting India, the immediate response was, "Why? China's the country of the future!" Well, I've ...
September 8, 2008
Why Our Schools Need to Run Like Businesses
By Israel Ortega
Would it make sense to give a Burger King the power to decide whether or not a McDonald’s may open next door? How about if ...
September 5, 2008
Partisanship is alive and well
By Ernest Istook
What politicians say and what they seek are still very often different things.
September 5, 2008
Reagan's Midnight Ride
By Edwin J. Meese III
During the 1980 Republican convention in Detroit, some Republican leaders — mostly from the East — were suggesting that Ronald Reagan should pick former President ...
September 4, 2008
The Eighth Defense Ministerial of the Americas End of the Line?
By Ray Walser and Roman Ortiz
From September 2 to 6, 2008, the Canadian government will host the 8th Defense Ministerial of the Americas (DMA) at scenic Banff in the Canadian ...
September 4, 2008
Making savings the default option
By Stuart Butler
Americans don't save anymore. The U.S. savings rate actually went negative in 2005 -- the first time that's happened since the Great Depression.
September 3, 2008
Bloom Where You're Planted
By Rebecca Hagelin
I don't know who said it first, but I'll never forget who said it first to me: my mother. It was an admonishment to look ...
September 2, 2008
No Retreat Now
By Brian Walsh and Stephanie Martz
The long fight to protect the attorney-client relationship against aggressive prosecutors can only end with legislation
September 1, 2008
Regaining foreign investor confidence in Korea
By Bruce Klingner
Lee Myung-bak's landslide election victory was greeted enthusiastically by foreign investors who expected growth-oriented business-friendly policies, rapid implementation of economic reforms, and Korean ratification of ...
August 30, 2008
Conservatism Isn't the Culprit
By Ed Feulner
Thousands of Republican politicians, activists and partisans are now lining up behind John McCain and preparing to advance into the fall campaign. If they hope ...
August 28, 2008
China's image
By Helle Dale
The Beijing Olympics are now part of history. The question is how they will be viewed. Olympic history has had some extraordinary highs and lows, ...
August 28, 2008
Unions: What Works -- and What Doesn't
By Ed Feulner
"We must hang together, gentlemen," Benjamin Franklin warned his fellow colonists during the American Revolution, "else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
August 28, 2008
The China Delusion
By Thaddeus McCotter and John J. Tkacik
On Thursday, August 7, President George W. Bush spoke in Bangkok, Thailand about his vision for China’s future. "Change in China will arrive on its ...
August 27, 2008
Russia-Georgia War Highlights Need for Directed-Energy Defenses
By James Jay Carafano
For the second time in recent years, the United States has witnessed another wake-up call for the importance of fielding directed-energy weapons capable of shooting-down ...
August 26, 2008
Preparing the military for defeat
By James Jay Carafano
After the Vietnam War, respect for the military sank to an all-time low. In one survey, sanitation workers were the only profession Americans thought less ...
August 26, 2008
Socialism and the Cold War circa 2008
By Brian Darling
As Labor Day draws near, so too does the return of Congress, something every American should fear.
While the House of Representatives is clearly controlled ...
August 23, 2008
'Persistent Warfare' Not a Winning Strategy
By James Jay Carafano
The new term in the Army lexicon is "persistent warfare." In short, the Army argues that everything from terrorists to global warming will require lots ...
August 22, 2008
Jail could be the location of your next business meeting
By Edwin Meese
A recent brochure from the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Defense Fund depicts a business man, dressed in a jail-type orange jumpsuit, sitting opposite ...
August 20, 2008
Social Security and Medicare reform: Grading the Wisconsin congressional delegation's proposals
By Brian Riedl
On July 13, the Journal Sentinel opened its pages to Wisconsin’s congressional delegation. Each member weighed in on how he or she would solve the ...
August 20, 2008
A senator in the 'no'
By Ed Feulner
Some years back, a newspaper comic strip showed lemmings running toward a cliff. One said to another, "Don't worry, this was a bipartisan decision."
August 19, 2008
Washington running dry on a gas price fix
By Ben Lieberman
If only drivers could avoid high gasoline prices as easily as Congress has avoided doing anything about them.
Gas has dipped below $4 a gallon ...
August 19, 2008
Legislative Lowdown: The Do-Nothing Congress
By Brian Darling
For conservatives who have the stomach to monitor Congress, the 110th Congress has been especially unsatisfactory. Real Clear Politics has Congress with an average approval ...
August 18, 2008
Getting Government Out of the Way
By Ed Feulner
It’s time, as they say, for some good news and some bad news. First, to get it out of the way, is the bad news: ...
August 18, 2008
Bad News Bear
By Peter Brookes
The good news is that nearly seven years after Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida appears to be battered. The bad news is that like a prize ...
August 18, 2008
Arctic oil and the privileged few
By David W. Kreutzer
You hear a lot in Washington about the plight of the middle class. Politicians are often quick to condemn any policy they claim will help ...
August 18, 2008
The threat of complacency, the hope of faith
By Walter Lohman
Long-time observers of Indonesia's politics and economy are a hardy, stubbornly optimistic crowd. That's because we've seen through too many dire predictions of collapse, disintegration ...
August 15, 2008
Pelosi's Great American con game
By Ernest Istook
Let's hear it for automobiles. They are the great American freedom machines.
August 15, 2008
Environmental Activists, Not Oil Companies, Blocking Domestic Drilling
By Ben Lieberman
It’s true: Hundreds of promising oil leases on federal lands are being stonewalled, contributing to lower supplies and higher prices at the pump. But the ...
August 15, 2008
Preparing the Way: Evangelicals and the election
By Ryan Messmore
Are evangelicals swerving to the left in American politics? Throughout the primary season, the mainstream media loudly trumpeted the idea that younger evangelicals’ attention to ...
August 14, 2008
Saving Georgia
By Helle Dale
World War II history has tragically made a comeback this week. Whether the world has learned any history lessons is critically important in several ways. ...
August 13, 2008
Americans Take Back the House
By Brian Darling
History was made in the House of Representatives on Aug. 1 at 11:20 a.m. when Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) lead a cadre of Republicans, including ...
August 12, 2008
America's Self-Weakening Security Syndrome
By James Jay Carafano
We're told that history repeats itself. Actually, it's people who do that. They repeat their mistakes all the time. That's the real human constant in ...
August 8, 2008
Al-Qaida Shifting Tactics, Finding New Recruits
By Peter Brookes
The good news is that nearly seven years after Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida appears to be battered. The bad news is that like a prize ...
August 8, 2008
Protectionism 1 - Free Trade 0
By Israel Ortega
Trade's in trouble. With little time left in this year's legislative calendar and an unproductive meeting at the latest Doha Round, it's becoming painfully clear ...
August 7, 2008
Immigration question
By Helle Dale
It never occurred to us that moving to Fairfax County from the District would be a bit like moving to a foreign country. During the ...
August 7, 2008
Solzhenitsyn's legacy
By Ariel Cohen
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived ...
August 7, 2008
Hugo's Arms Spree
By Peter Brookes
While Colombia has gone great guns in quashing the narcoterrorist FARC insurgency here - including a daring July hostage-rescue raid - trouble is still brewing ...
August 6, 2008
Stall that slide to the '70s
By Ed Feulner
There aren't many who long for a return to the 1970s. Those of us old enough to recall that decade tend to think of gas ...
August 6, 2008
No Illusions
By Lee Edwards
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is best known for his epic trilogy The Gulag Archipelago, which revealed to the world the full scope of the Soviet Union’s infamous ...
August 4, 2008
Uranium mining: Securing America's energy future
By Jack Spencer and Nick Loris
What does uranium have in common with Arctic oil, off-shore natural gas, coastal wind and cellulosic ethanol? They're all sources of energy that government bureaucrats ...
August 4, 2008
What You're Not Hearing
By Israel Ortega
From rising gas prices and global warming to the war in Iraq and health care, the presidential hopefuls haven’t hesitated to bring up many of ...
August 1, 2008
Ladies, Please
By Jennifer A. Marshall
A user's guide to growing up female in America.
August 1, 2008
Congressional self-control: An oxymoron
By Ernest Istook
Lay's sells billions of potato chips with that slogan each year. The U.S. government operates on the same principle, selling us record-high deficits by appealing ...
August 1, 2008
Aircraft Carriers Are Crucial
By Mackenzie Eaglen
On May 22, a serious fire broke out on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier George Washington as it sailed to relieve the forward-deployed Kitty Hawk in ...
July 31, 2008
Middle East going MAD?
By Ariel Cohen
The forthcoming Russian anti-aircraft system in Iran may precipitate an early Israeli strike - or promote the posture of mutually assured destruction (MAD) between Israel ...
July 31, 2008
On Teaching War: The Future of Professional Military Education
By James Jay Carafano
Dickens was right, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” No statement better captures the state of professional military education ...
July 30, 2008
GOP Fights for Military Voting
By Brian Darling
Sens. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with Reps. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are engaging in legislative combat for the ...
July 30, 2008
The Real Meaning of the 4th of July
By Israel Ortega
Earlier this month our nation celebrated the 4th of July -- Independence Day. For American families, it’s a tradition that involves food, friends and fireworks. ...
July 30, 2008
European tour or vacation?
By Helle Dale
Though much of the media likes to clamor about the importance of the "Fairness Doctrine," "fair" was not exactly how one would describe Sen. John ...
July 28, 2008
Job Market, Economy Is Better Than You Think
By James Sherk
Do you have a better job today than when you first started working? Most of us do.
July 28, 2008
Fannie and Freddie: Bail 'em out, then bust 'em up
By J.D. Foster
News that the Treasury is preparing plans to bail out housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FM2) has infuriated the American people. And ...
July 28, 2008
Does Obama Ever Think of Us?
By Nile Gardiner
Barack 's brief visit to London coincided with the opening of the new Batman film in British cinemas. How fitting. On his journey through Europe ...
July 28, 2008
Kyoto Treaty: Pointless Promises
By Ed Feulner
Next month, the greatest athletes in the world will visit Beijing for the Olympic Games. Undoubtedly they’ll set new records in plenty of sports
July 26, 2008
'Roll back the tax cuts': An exercise in shady financing
By Stuart Butler
It's an election year, so politicians are merrily promising voters all kinds of shiny new programs.
July 25, 2008
Nancy Pelosi: The new George Wallace
By Ernest Istook
There's a Hall of Infamy for politicians who try to obstruct progress.
Alabama Gov. George Wallace qualified for induction in 1963, by standing in a ...
July 25, 2008
Nuclear Power: Lighting the Future
By Rebecca Hagelin
Radical environmentalists didn’t like it when President Bush decided not to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. And they hated his lifting ...
July 25, 2008
Marking the boundaries of weapon use in space
By Peter Brookes
China and Russia are seeking to update the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which, in its new form, would serve to hinder the US's space capabilities ...
July 24, 2008
IAEA indicts Iran
By Peter Brookes
New intelligence continues to blast away like a sledgehammer at Iran’s rocklike insistence that its nuclear program is purely peaceful and not a nuclear weapons ...
July 24, 2008
Doing It Right in the House
By Michael G. Franc
For the first time in a while, House Republicans are on the offense on an issue of national importance: removing obstacles to the production of ...
July 24, 2008
Deja vu again: All aglow, anti-Bush in Europe
By Helle Dale
Did we enter a time warp and somehow miss the general election? Or are the numbers so overwhelmingly in Sen. Barack Obama's favor that he ...
July 22, 2008
Republican Socialism
By Brian Darling
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) has pledged to block a Bush administration proposal being steamrolled through Congress to grant the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve ...
July 22, 2008
The Wilting Anti-War Movement
By James Jay Carafano
Hearing a presidential candidate "nuance" his position on the war in Iraq seems to surprise some in the media. But it shouldn’t.
July 21, 2008
Bush administration decision weakens Taiwan’s position
By John Tkacik and Gary Schmitt
Not long after becoming president in 2001, George Bush said he would do "anything it takes to help Taiwan defend herself." But when he leaves ...
July 21, 2008
Constitutional Confusion
By Ed Feulner
Every president, every senator, every member of Congress and every Supreme Court justice takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
July 21, 2008
Uphill battle on drilling
By Ben Lieberman
With only six months left in office, President Bush has finally repealed presidential restrictions on oil drilling in American waters. Now it's Congress' turn to ...
July 17, 2008
Government Is Costing You a Bundle
By Rebecca Hagelin
Congratulations: The rest of your 2008 paychecks belong to you and your family. Enjoy!
July 16, 2008
Fannie and Freddie: Break 'Em Up
By David C. John
With the Treasury and Federal Reserve in effect promising to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac afloat, the mortgage giants' crisis seems to be over. ...
July 16, 2008
Captive Nations Week: Never Forget
By Lee Edwards
Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, five nations remain “captive” to ...
July 14, 2008
Mortgage Monsters: Fannie, Freddie Will Cost You
By David C. John
The stock of mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae fell sharply this week. The drop not only shows how far they've fallen in investors' ...
July 12, 2008
The Real World: Between Iran and Poland
By Ariel Cohen
The recent Iranian missile tests demonstrate the need to deploy a missile defense capable of mid-flight interception of Iranian warheads, which in a few years ...
July 11, 2008
Nightmare for the Left
By Ernest Istook
Environmentalists thought they had a lock on the current "progressive" Congress.
July 11, 2008
American workers: Still getting ahead ... for now
By James Sherk
Where will you be in five years? Many claim the American dream has died. Earnings have supposedly stagnated, even while corporate profits boom and health ...
July 11, 2008
Power of the personal
By Ryan Messmore
How do we meet people's basic needs in America? The answer often depends on where we stand.
July 10, 2008
U.S.-Czech accord making progress
By Helle Dale
Good news from Europe this week. The cause of missile defense took a significant step forward when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landed in the ...
July 10, 2008
Mullahs and Missiles
By Peter Brookes
It's not unusual for a state to conduct military exercises, but Iran had a lot more in mind when it literally went ballistic yesterday - ...
July 8, 2008
No drilling? No excuses
By Ben Lieberman
With gasoline prices above $4 a gallon and no relief in sight, it makes perfect sense to open some of America's extensive off-limits areas to ...
July 8, 2008
Champion of Freedom
By Edwin Feulner
Independence Day 2008 — like July 4, 1826, and July 4, 1831 — will long be remembered as a very special day in the history ...
July 8, 2008
Conservative Response to Death Penalty Ruling
By Brian Darling
On June 26, the Supreme Court struck down a death sentence in Louisiana for a man convicted of raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter. In a 5-4 ...
July 8, 2008
Our health, ourselves
Yet feds have HSAs under the knife
By Greg D'Angelo and Ryan Lynch
To get a clearer picture of the competing visions for health-care reform, Americans need look no further than the surgery some in Congress want to ...
July 7, 2008
State Secrets? Who Needs 'Em?
By Andrew Grossman
If Congress needed a kick in the pants to get moving on intelligence reform, this is it: A San Francisco judge ruled Wednesday that the ...
July 7, 2008
Troubling Statistics for Hispanic Teens
By Israel Ortega
With the recent rise in gasoline prices, we’re all trying to cut corners to make our dollar last longer. For families with teens, this may ...
July 7, 2008
IAEA indicts Iran: Nuclear innocence claim is strongly contested
By Peter Brookes
New intelligence continues to blast away like a sledgehammer at Iran’s rocklike insistence that its nuclear program is purely peaceful and not a nuclear weapons ...
July 7, 2008
Rise of the unelected
By Ernest Istook
America's future prosperity may hinge on who wins an internal fight within the Bush administration.
July 7, 2008
One New Crime a Week
By Brian Walsh
It used to be easy to avoid committing a federal crime. If you avoided murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping, assault, battery and theft, there were few ...
July 3, 2008
Preparing for the G8 summit
By Helle Dale
Next week, the leaders of the G8 countries will be meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, for their annual summit. Once again it will at least provide ...
July 2, 2008
Planned Teen Parenthood
By Daniel P. Moloney
Teenagers aren’t ready to be parents. Their parents would tell them this — if the government would let them.
July 2, 2008
No Room for Negativity
By Ed Feulner
We're about to mark another national birthday. But we don't seem to be in the mood to celebrate. Polls show 80 percent of Americans think ...
June 30, 2008
Success of faith-based initiatives prove the power of the personal
By Ryan Messmore
How do we meet people's basic needs in America? The answer often depends on where we stand.
June 30, 2008
An Individual Right Rekindled
By Andrew Grossman
“Assuming that Heller is not disqualified from the exercise of Second Amendment rights [e.g., a felon], the District must permit him to register his handgun ...
June 30, 2008
Should Terrorist Detainees Have More Rights Than Americans?
By Charles D. Stimson and Andrew M. Grossman
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that terrorist detainees held by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in federal court.
June 27, 2008
Clear signal needed on disputed isles
By John Tkacik
In March 2004, the last time controversy over the Senkaku (Diaoyutai) islands surfaced, the US State Department affirmed that the United States Mutual Security Treaty ...
June 27, 2008
Korean nukes: Don't get giddy
By Peter Brookes
North Korea gave the world some good news this week - finally handing over a declaration about its nuclear program and promising to blow up ...
June 26, 2008
Unleash America's Energy Potential
By Rebecca Hagelin
As any driver can tell you, the pain at the pump is pretty acute right now. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. Demand ...
June 26, 2008
Opening America's Energy Potential
By Israel Ortega
Most New Yorkers rely on public transportation to get around. In an age of $4-a-gallon gasoline, they’re lucky.
June 25, 2008
Dueling Voices on School Choice
By Jennifer A. Marshall
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program has survived the first round of its congressional appropriations gauntlet. But its fate after the full committee has its say ...
June 24, 2008
A Court Divided: Election Likely to Tip the Balance
By Robert Alt
All eyes will be on the Supreme Court this week, as it closes its term by handing down some of the most anticipated decisions of ...
June 21, 2008
The Real World: Iran and U.S. elections
By Ariel Cohen
U.S. President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain have called for an expansion of U.S. domestic oil drilling to Alaska, federal lands and the ...
June 21, 2008
Immigration Reform: A Two Way Street
By Israel Ortega
Immigration. Lately, speaking this one word alone is akin to stirring up a hornet’s nest. Nonetheless, our country needs to do something. Illegal immigration persists, ...
June 20, 2008
'Congressional common sense': An oxymoron
By Ernest Istook
new government claim reminds me of hucksters on late-night TV.
This week, we were told that America will reap $54 billion in benefits simply by ...
June 20, 2008
Why Polar Bears and Politics Don't Mix
By Israel Ortega
After months of relentless lobbying, environmentalists had reason to celebrate recently when the Bush administration named the polar bear a “threatened species.” Should we join ...
June 19, 2008
Who'll lead in Asia?
By Walter Lohman
Occasionally, a simple remark reveals far more about the state of American leadership than any speech, policy statement or white paper. During an official visit ...
June 19, 2008
Ireland's Move
By Helle Dale
Last week, voters in Ireland proved that while their nation has a reputation as romantics, the Irish also possess a great deal of common sense. ...
June 18, 2008
Time to get serious about energy
By Ed Feulner
About 50 miles off the coast of Florida, deep sea rigs are now drilling for oil. That makes perfect sense. For decades, the U.S. has ...
June 17, 2008
Ireland Saves Europe From Itself
By Nile Gardiner
Thomas Cahill’s history, “How the Irish Saved Civilization” may require a second volume after last Thursday’s historic Irish referendum. Ireland’s rejection of the Treaty of ...
June 17, 2008
Wages: It Pays to Look at the Big Picture
By Ed Feulner
Charles Dickens captured the spirit of an era in a single sentence: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” For ...
June 17, 2008
McCain-Lieberman: Then and Now
By Brian Darling
Four and a half years ago, the U.S. Senate rejected a global-warming bill sponsored by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) by a decisive ...
June 16, 2008
The Argentina Farmers' Strike
By James M. Roberts
It's quite a comedown for what was one of the world's wealthiest countries 100 years ago. Argentina's economic glory days are long gone, thanks to ...
June 13, 2008
Gitmo Inmates' Constitutional 'Rights'
By Charles Stimson
In a sweeping decision that will have myriad consequences -- foreseen and unforeseen --the Supreme Court found that the right of habeas corpus under the ...
June 12, 2008
Bush's trans-Atlantic tour: American contributions to European prosperity
By Helle Dale
Did you know that President Bush left on Monday for a week-long trip in Europe? Unfortunately, an outgoing president is not going to command as ...
June 10, 2008
The UN Sinks to New Depths
By Nile Gardiner and Ray Walser
Last week’s unopposed election of Nicaraguan Reverend Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann as the next President of the 192-member United Nations General Assembly will further undermine the ...
June 10, 2008
Playing Politics with the Global War on Terror
By Brian Darling
May was a successful month in Iraq on many levels: Attacks in Iraq hit a four-year low, U.S. troop deaths are at their lowest level ...
June 10, 2008
Today's world, the reality of values
By Walter Lohman
In The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria offers American policy makers an important perspective. He aims to illuminate the new world that U.S. foreign policy must ...
June 10, 2008
Getting the Bulldozer Back on Track
By Bruce Klingner
President Lee Myung-bak confronts a deepening political crisis that requires a bold proactive strategy to overcome the country's factionalism and put South Korea back on ...
June 9, 2008
Road to Clean Air Runs Through Yucca Mountain
By Jack Spencer and Garrett Murch
Take their seemingly never-ending preaching over CO2. The world is in peril without major action, we’re told. According to Al Gore, we’ve never faced a ...
June 9, 2008
Oil: Open Up Federal Lands
By Ben Lieberman
The more we look for oil and natural gas in the United States, the more we find. If only we were allowed to go and ...
June 9, 2008
At This Restaurant, Taxpayers Are Cooked
By Ed Feulner
Recently, an attendant on my United Airlines flight drew groans when she announced that the price of our in-flight meal had gone up. Her captive ...
June 9, 2008
Save the Earth, Sacrifice American Workers?
By Ben Lieberman
It may be time to put American workers on the endangered-species list. For nearly 40 years, the environmental movement has all but declared war on ...
June 7, 2008
The Real World: Iran and U.S. elections
By Ariel Cohen
Iran is emerging as a key issue in the U.S. 2008 presidential campaign. In his speech to the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee – ...
June 6, 2008
Lieberman-Warner: A State-by-State Snapshot
By Rebecca Hagelin
Well, isn’t it just like Congress to take the latest fad -- in this case, “global warming” -- and use it to try to usher ...
June 6, 2008
The not-so-final frontier
By Peter Brookes
China destroyed one of its own aging, low-Earth-orbit (LEO) weather satellites last winter while it was circling at 500 miles above the planet, using a ...
June 5, 2008
Mexico Needs Reforms
By Israel Ortega
Mexico should open its nationalized oil, natural gas, and electricity sectors to private investment and participation.
June 5, 2008
For the U.S., it's perception vs. reality
By Helle Dale
Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times Marsha Deane, of Alexandria, pumps her fist, while David Petrella, of Cleveland, waves the American flag outside the Marriott Wardman ...
June 4, 2008
Big Money, Big Oil, Big Risk
By Ariel Cohen
Azerbaijan benefits greatly from the rising oil prices so far. Oil at over 125 dollars a barrel brings windfall profits to the country and allows ...
June 4, 2008
Carbon-Cap Conundrum Losing Legislation
By Michael Franc
Think the recent spate of Big Government initiatives on Capitol Hill is ambitious? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Move over, $307 billion farm bill. Forget ...
June 4, 2008
Soak the Rich, We All Get Wet
By J.D. Foster
A $1 Million 'Surtax’ Would Mean Less Money For NYC
June 4, 2008
Dealing With the Middle Kingdom
By Jim Talent
The foundation of any successful China policy is American strength.
June 3, 2008
The Newest Trends in Terror
By Peter Brookes
The good news is that al Qaeda's in bad shape; the bad news is that the terrorist threat is evolving. If we don't adapt, the ...
June 3, 2008
