Shocking: Leftist Jon Stewart Talks about ClimateGate
It’s unbelievable, but while the entire Left has decided to ignore ClimateGate, leftist comedian Jon Stewart broke ranks. On his show yesterday, Stewart shattered the silence surrounding the scandal...
View ArticleRobert Kagan: Obama’s Lonely Decision, Washington Post
So now two presidents in the space of less than three years have bucked overwhelming conventional wisdom, as well as public opinion, and decided that they did not want to lose a war. And what lonely...
View ArticleThe Flight from Fiscal Responsibility – by Tony Blankley
Regularly reading the Financial Times (Britain’s leading financial daily) can put an American in a fighting spirit. At least, it puts this American (transplanted former Englishman and naturalized...
View ArticleMedia Matters complaining about corny climate change jokes now
Media Matters continues to push its desperate “stolen climate emails” meme on its home page. (Funny, I don’t recall Media Matters being so scrupulous about the origins of other newsworthy data…) No...
View ArticleThe Left’s Architects of Disaster
If blame could be assigned for America’s ongoing economic collapse, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven would deserve special recognition for their contribution to the nation’s ongoing decline. The...
View ArticleThe State Of The Union Address Obama Should Give
In a culmination of his controversial first year in office, President Obama will deliver the State of the Union address this evening. Front Page magazine turned to a panel of experts for their advice...
View ArticleWalter Russell Mead: The Death of Global Warming – The American Interest
The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at...
View ArticleThe Decline of the West, and the Rise of the Rest
The panel discussion below recently took place at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend in West Palm Beach, Florida (Nov. 17-20, 2011). The transcript follows. To view the question and answer session,...
View ArticleThe Euro Crisis and the Decline of Europe
Reuters news service reported on February 14, 2012 that the “rating agency Moody’s warned it may cut the Triple A rating of France, Britain, and Austria, and it downgraded six other European nations...
View ArticleComing Apart, Coming Together
Editor’s note: Charles Murray will be speaking at the Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club on Monday, April 30th at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles at 11:30 a.m. For more information, click here....
View ArticleFrom Surf to Serfdom
Unemployment in my home state of Massachusetts is less than the national average. In August, it stood at 6.3% compared to 8.1% nationally. The state benefits from very robust high-tech sectors. But, of...
View ArticleTaming Islamist Turkey
Megalomania in the Middle East is not uncommon; it has afflicted numerous figures in the Muslim Middle East including the likes of Gamal Abdul Nasser, the dictator of Egypt, Iranian Shah Muhammad...
View ArticleSometimes a Bang, Sometimes a Whimper
David Goldman calls How Civilizations Die “an apology for conventional thinking,” and it is easy to see why—if one understands “conventional” to mean conservative. A religious Jew and strong supporter...
View ArticleA New Year in America: Will We Continue Down the Road to Decline?
Looking back over 2012, one could be forgiven for thinking that if America goes on at this rate, the nation must be ruined. But as Adam Smith replied to a young man who said those same words about...
View ArticleSignposts on the Road to Decline
In late 1930 the Tory leadership in Britain’s governing coalition decided to back independence for India despite the increasing, vicious sectarian violence that graphically showed India was not yet...
View ArticleNo Future for France
An atmosphere of insurgency hangs over France. Month after month, demonstrations against the legalization of gay marriage bring together hundreds of thousands of people, and mobilization is not...
View ArticleThe Coming Collapse of the Welfare State
In 1935, the year that FDR signed the Social Security Act into law, the birth rate was 18.7 per 1,000. In 1940, when the first monthly check was issued, it had gone up to 19.4. By 1954, when Disability...
View ArticleWestern Arrogance and Decline
For three centuries the West built up enormous economic, cultural, and military capital that dwarfs and dominates that of the rest of the world. Other countries may hate and resent Europe and the...
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