Abridging freedom of the press
by Major Garrett Unconstitutional. Sweeping. Secretive. Abusive. Harassing. Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press, used those words on CBS’s Face the Nation to describe the Justice…
Be careful what you say …
“It is eerily ironic that only days after Obama told students to reject the voices that warn of government abuses and overreaching, it turns out that the Obama Administration has been systematically abusing…
The “idiot” defense
by Jonah Goldberg Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the…
The Islamic Republic of Iran in Perspective
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Historically, Iran is an ancient civilization but a relatively young Muslim country. The seventh century Arab-Islamic conquest of Persia was and is still viewed…
Obama Administration knew and IRS deliberately hid the targeting scandal until after presidential election
The New York Times reports: “The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was auditing the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of politically active organizations seeking…
H.R. 1919 – The Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act
The Honorable Fred Upton U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Re: H.R. 1919 – The Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act Dear Chairmen Upton, Frontiers of Freedom and our more than…
Names
by Gordon S. Jones “How can I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name.” So says John Proctor in The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s…
ABC News: White House scrubbed CIA talking points
White House systematically removed all references to al Qaeda and terror from the CIA talking points. Then the White House falsely asserted that the talking points that it had…
The Iran Enigma
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi History, in her disposition toward intellectually gifted peoples and nations, appears as fickle as the gods of ancient times were wont to be of…
Public Lands States: Promise and… Promise
by Gordon S. Jones The recent arguments before the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act raised questions about whether some states are not being treated on an “equal…
Changing the Benghazi Talking Points
How they were changed to obscure the truth by Stephen F. Hayes Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi…
Venezuela in American Perspective
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The recent post-Chavez presidential election in Venezuela clearly placed the country on a ruinous political, economic and social quicksand. The questionable razor-thin victory of…
Lady Thatcher taught me self-reliance
“Baroness Thatcher’s influence on my development as an entrepreneur goes far deeper than that, to my most fundamental beliefs. . . Baroness Thatcher’s lesson was clear: you get out what…
Lady Thatcher restored self-reliance
“Margaret Thatcher transcended identity politics — it was her ideas not her gender that mattered” by Cal Thomas There is a story about Margaret Thatcher, which is probably apocryphal, but…