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Living in the government's fishbowl: News of the American federal government's massive spying program on its citizens means its time to make some changes, argues Alan Caruba
Violence and the civilized society: Conformity and dissidence in different societies (Part One): Mark Wegierski attempts to describe notions of the sovereign in traditional societies, and what happens to these when societies become non-traditional
Keeping Score In America: Chapter One: Michael Moriarty officially launches his latest series with admissions about his unfamiliarity with computers, growing fatter and how he learned to "keep score"
Why Europe?: Why did Europe leap ahead of other regions of the world in so many different fields? A few ingrediants that other places were mising, says Chris Clancy
Barack Obama...poster child: Robert T. Smith argues that Barack Obama is the embodiment of his political party's belief system and that's why they'll never abandon him despite the scandals
The schools' sinister war on guns: Schools aren't simply content with attempting to create safe spaces for their children, writes Selwyn Duke, they're actively trying to condition children to hate firearms
Why 'government' & 'creative' aren't usually found in the same sentence: Michael R. Shannon's local county government decided it needed a new logo and he wasn't surprised that they came up with something completely bland
Reeling in the years: Removing God from from every aspect of American life doesn't make a whole lot of sense given that Christianity informs most aspect of public and private life, argues Charles Sporleder
The crimes of an ideological agenda: The increasing number of scandals surrounding the Obama administration are merely the symptoms of a long illness, writes Frank Salvato
Economy adds 175,000 jobs in may but trouble ahead: The month of May saw some jobs growth in the U.S. but Dr. Peter Morici believes that may not last
Liberty, security, privacy, Big Brother, and the concept of the common good: Barack Obama in the past has asked Americans to trust him. David Huntwork says recent revelations have proven why that was a bad idea
Libya deja vu: Arming Syrian rebels likely to usher in al-Qaida: With Russia supplying the Syrian government with advanced arms there's increasing talk of arming the Syrian rebels. Rachel Alexander argues that it's a bad idea
All the things we do not know: The attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro decades ago neatly illustrate how Americans don't know how their government works to shape history, writes Alan Caruba
The Camelot fraud: The 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy takes place this year and Bruce Walker argues that the late president's reputation only gets worse
Keeping score in America: Michael Moriarty launches a new ambitious series which he hopes will eventually be published in the form of a book
The planned obsolescence of incandescent bulbs and conservatives: If leftists had their way, says Harold Witkov, they would love to do away with conservatives much in the same way that they've done with incandescent light bulbs
Is the Necessary and Proper Clause either necessary or proper?: Dr. Robert Owens wonders Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution has essentially contributed to a diminishing of freedom for Americans
IRS│SRI: Recent testimony by IRS officials in the ongoing scandal of the agency targeting conservatives brought a few truths into spotlight for Robert T. Smith
New organization of leading women for shared parenting may finally end courts favoring mothers: Rachel Alexander hopes that new organization composed of prominent women will change family courts into fairer institutions when it comes to custody of children
President Obama's agenda fails the middle class: Democrats desperately want Barack Obama to tell Americans how his agenda is helping them but Dr. Peter Morici says it's an impossible task
How leftists judge great women: The way that leftists fail to acknowledge prominent conservative women reminds Bruce Walker of the way communists used to scrub undesirables from history
The seriousness of the charge – Thoughts on presidential scandals: Lisa Fabrizio believes that the many scandals of the Obama administration will never earn the attention that prior scandals -- such as those of Richard Nixon -- did
Conflict resolution through cultural diplomacy in the Middle East: In an address to a conference in Istanbul recently Amd. Alan Baker argued that simply signing a document isn't enough to promote peace in the Middle East
Mindless "green" indoctrination of children: Fracking offers a case study of propaganda by environmentalists, teachers and fellow students, writes Paul Driessen
Political agendas and half-staff flags: Lowering a flag to half-staff is meant as a display of respect for someone who is no longer with us but Mark Alexander believes Barack Obama also uses it as a political tool
Obama appeasement of China, Japan wrecking recovery: Ahead of the next trade deficit report Dr. Peter Morici argues that American economic policies have made a bad trade situation far worse than it should be
The case for impeachment: Bruce Walker argues that Barack Obama's crimes are materially different from those that nearly started impeachment hearings against Bill Clinton...which is why Republicans need to act
Be afraid. Be very afraid: The Obama administration's war against a few media outlets reminds Alan Caruba of another government's fight against newspapers
Chapter Forty One of An Ecstatic Loneliness: The Divinity of Acquaintanceship: Michael Moriarty pays tribute to the recent literary and philosophical efforts of another writer for ESR, one Bruce Walker
Triplegate: It's like Saul Alinsky is running the country: The spate of scandals surrounding the Obama administration makes Rachel Alexander think that Barack Obama listened a little too closely to Saul Alinsky
The IRS scandal smoking gun?: Barack Obama maintains that he had no idea the IRS was tar getting conservatives but Dr. Peter Morici isn't buying it
Anyone for a laptop?: Chris Clancy reminisces of an encounter he had once with two English public servants on vacation in China and what it taught him about the difference between the public and private sectors
The crazy descent into madness: If you want to demonize a behavior and those who practice it, writes Jane Gaffin, a pretty effective way is to simply declare them mentally ill
What is it about 'stereotype' that the Tea Party doesn't understand?: Virginia Republicans went ahead and chose a black man for their candidate for the state's Lt. Governor race and the media had a snit about it, reports Michael R. Shannon
Is Egypt heading toward a military regime?: Just three years after the Mubarak regime was toppled it would appear that Egypt is already sliding back towards a military backed government, writes Dr. Jacques Neriah
Prince Charles: Too "green" to be king?: As Prince Charles continues to push his environmentalist views many in England are wondering if the heir to the throne has crossed a line, writes Dennis T. Avery
Big Green helps Big Wind hide bird and bat butchery: Ron Arnold asks why do taxpayers have to subsidize this? Why do environmentalists give it a free pass?
The President as Sergeant Schultz: Barack Obama's repeated insistence that he didn't know what was going on when it comes to recent scandals reminds Alan Caruba of a famous fictional character
Can there be today a properly balanced society and psyche?: As the warm exuberance of late-Spring arrives, Mark Wegierski looks at the sociology of romantic affinities
Chapter Forty of An Ecstatic Loneliness: The Marxist Priest Of Nixon In China: A recent aborted listening of John Adams' Nixon in China prompted Michael Moriarty to muse about some supposed heroes
The seventeen year itch: Over the next few months a new brood of cicadas will emerge and Lisa Fabrizio says if they had generational memories they would be shocked at what they would see
The bugs are back: The lack of extreme weather and the accompanying bureaucrats has forced the media to find a new thing to obsess about this summer, writes Michael R. Shannon
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today": None of us gets to live in the world we grew up in because the world moves too fast. Things change. What was science fiction yesterday is your cell phone today
As a CEO, President Obama gets an "F": Dr. Peter Morici knows a thing or two about what makes a successful leader and Barack Obama isn't one of them
What kind of people are we?: The trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell was quite illustrative at how debased our society has actually become, says Robert T. Smith
Precious: The cycle of dependency that government welfare creates is built upon a foundation of character destruction, writes Chris Clancy
Sacrificial lambs: Kevin Gabriel argues that the people who died in the Benghazi embassy were sacrificed by the Obama administration for several key reasons
The green enemies of humanity, science, and the truth: There's plenty of fabrication in the environmentalist movement but Alan Caruba believes that Friends of the Earth may top them all
If there was ever a golden opportunity: Conservatives who talk impeachment over the most recent scandals to hit the Obama administration need to get realistic, argues Frank Salvato
Obama's 'enemies list' -- Tyranny in action: Mark Alexander argues that the fact that the IRS targeted conservative groups proves the tyrannical tendencies of the Obama administration
Iran fears growing Israel-Azerbaijan cooperation: Israel and Azerbaijan seem to be building up their relationship and that spells a blow to Iran's dream of regional hegemony, says Michael Segall
A bee in their bonnet: Anti-pesticide activists falsely blame new pesticides for bee colony problems says Paul Driessen
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