Freedom, ha, what freedom
The West has allowed terrorism to succeed. It seems we are reluctant to fight back. We citizens of the free world, heirs to the victorious struggles of courageous and principled forerunners, have for...
View ArticleA choice of dooms
In her Jerusalem Post column this week, Sarah Honig tells a story about a man being offered a choice between two ways of getting killed. It is an apt illustration of the choice Obama is offering...
View ArticleA success story
At last the day came when China and Russia agreed to support a US resolution in the UN Security Council that would make Iran regret it had defied the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, promise never to...
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Communism and Christianity: twin ideologies
Communism and Christianity are ideologically identical in a fundamental assumption: that ultimate virtue lies in the sacrifice of the individual to the supposed good of the community. There are other...
View ArticleA bad idea, badly executed
To continue our discussion of the “Fast and Furious” scandal (see the two posts immediately below, one of them a video of Bill Whittle putting his argument), we now quote Paul Mirengoff’s opinion on...
View ArticleAmong the plots and plans in the political kitchen
With the unlimited technological resources at our disposal, we observed and recorded this interchange: You just gotta do something, B’rack! But what, Samantha? Protect the kids, B’rack. How, Samantha?...
View ArticleTsar Vladimir the Magnificent
When it comes to magnificent life-styles, King Barry of America has a long way to go to catch up with Tsar Vladimir of Russia. Now we declare unequivocally that we are made happy by the outward signs...
View ArticleMagna Carta, the rule of law, and the American Republic
This year, June 19 will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. The chief significance of the document is that it established that nobody, not even the King, is above the law. In...
View Article“Let’s say it was a video – but which one shall we say?”
The House Select Committee’s report on the lethal attack by Muslim terrorists on the US mission in Benghazi on 9/11/12, now released, is a damning indictment of the Obama administration, exposing its...
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Iran’s secret helper: President Obama
Paying ransom for captured citizens is one of the worst things a government can do. It obviously launches a lucrative industry, signaling that it will be profitable to go on capturing them wherever...
View ArticleThe highest treason
Is there any precedent in history for this? Has any other head of state ever done what President Obama is doing to help empower an enemy? Far from preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power, as he...
View ArticleCelebrate, celebrate, this glorious day!
This day of President-elect Donald Trump’s triumph. To add to the pleasure of the victory, consider how glum must they be feeling, all those princes, emirs, CEOs, diplomats, wheeler-dealers,...
View ArticleAlready the world begins to change
The corrective effects of Donald Trump’s victory on the wider world have started. The first thing it is doing is striking fear into the hearts of those who need to be made to fear. Who are they? They...
View ArticleThe decline of the Left
The New Left, a middle-class intellectual movement, reached its apogee with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Its “long march through the institutions” is over now....
View ArticleThe impending collapse of the global warming scare
… is the title of an article by Francis Menton – economist – at his blog, Manhattan Contrarian. He sums up the signs of what is likely to happen to the “climate change” environmentalist movement under...
View ArticleObama’s parting act of extreme vindictiveness
Egypt was somehow (how?) cajoled into bringing a resolution before the UN Security Council condemning the building of Jewish settlements on the so-called “West Bank” – ie. Judea and Samaria. Prime...
View ArticleThe UN must be destroyed
“Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendum” – “Apart from all this, Carthage must be destroyed“. That was the statement Cato the Elder (234-149 BCE) made at the end of every one of his speeches in...
View ArticleThe ruinous presidency of Barack Obama
… ends with a diabolical act of treachery. Bret Stephens writes at the Wall Street Journal: Barack Obama’s decision to abstain from, and therefore allow, last week’s vote to censure Israel at the U.N....
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