Ed Kaitz

Ed Kaitz


  • November 22, 2012

    Orwell's Struggle May Be Over

    For George Orwell, being regimented or pushed around by the state is, in the end, far more preferable than the "tyranny" of free competition.

  • October 7, 2012

    Madison Is Definitely Rising

    Despite heavy entertainment industry odds, Bray, the band, and the band's brilliant support staff have managed to catapult Madison Rising's deeply inspirational music and Reaganesque message to the top of the music charts.

  • September 28, 2012

    Did Romney Read Gandhi?

    Gandhi has always been championed by the left as an enlightened progressive. But in fact Gandhi was as conservative as Mitt Romney in his deep conviction regarding the status of freedom, self-respect, and individuality

  • September 25, 2012

    Greg Buckley's Agony

    Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr. was murdered by an Afghan police officer "trainee" in southern Afghanistan. Earlier in the year Buckley was told by a superior officer to apologize to the Afghani trainee

  • June 3, 2012

    When Democrats Confuse Statism with Community

    When liberals today invoke "community," they most probably have in mind "planning" and "power."

  • May 22, 2012

    Complications From His Father (and Mother)

    His birthplace is not the only part of Obama's life story that has been changed in his literary agency's telling

  • April 9, 2012

    Textbooks Behaving Badly

    Are academic textbooks important in deciding the fate of nations? If so, America is in big trouble.

  • April 8, 2012

    Two Cheers for the Hoodie

    Since the White House, members of Congress, civil rights leaders, and others are now promoting the "hoodie," it's worth taking some time to consider its advantages in these rather uncertain, tribal, and thoroughly pedestrian times.

  • November 10, 2011

    Obama's Socialism in God's Name

    Jeremiah Wright's longtime congregant Barack Obama wants to tell you what God desires for America.

  • November 9, 2011

    OWS: Plato Bets on Tyranny

    Plato's dialogue is nothing less than chilling in its illustration of what happens in a popular government when corrupt politicians inflame the vices of undisciplined citizens in order to destroy the business class and establish a tyranny

  • October 10, 2011

    Why America Needs Herman Cain

    Cain's nomination represents what could be the last and best opportunity Americans have to pry our battered country out from the clutches of the Marxist pro-Obama Democrat left.

  • August 2, 2011

    Joe Biden's Tea Party 'Terrorists'

    Democrats ought to be more careful when choosing colorful epithets to describe their conservative political opponents

  • July 4, 2011

    The Education of a Compassionate Conservative

    The "compassion" card is the Holy Grail to a progressive Democrat. It's a philosophical ace in the hole that has allowed Democrats to rhetorically smother and intimidate Republicans for generations.

  • June 19, 2011

    The Knowledge That Could Have Saved Congressman Weiner

    An avoidable self-inflicted inferno.

  • June 11, 2011

    Obama's Lip Service to Adam Smith

    Surprisingly, President Obama cited Adam Smith in his speech to the British Parliament. If only he really understood what he said

  • June 7, 2011

    Rep. Weiner and the Failure of Anger

    Lying, like bravery, generosity, and prudence, is acquired by habit, which becomes part of our character, and character determines conduct.

  • June 6, 2011

    Losing Dorothy Rabinowitz

    Should the GOP really ignore the longer term in making its case?

  • April 13, 2011

    The Radically Confused Harry Reid

    A lesson on what's really radical.

  • November 28, 2010

    Richard Cohen and the Invisible Power

    Adversary intellectuals and their trump card.

  • November 18, 2010

    Obama, the Inattentive Student of Gandhi

    On his recent trip to India, President Obama claimed to have been inspired by Gandhi. If so, he must have been a singularly inattentive student.

  • April 5, 2010

    Undermining Our Faith

    "What is it then that drives some intellectuals in free countries to hate their native land and wish for its annihilation?"

  • March 30, 2010

    Listen to the Panther

    A leftist who wised up has much to say to a new generation.

  • March 21, 2010

    Aristotle's Warning

    "People are prone to think that the fact of their all being equally free-born means that they are all absolutely equal."

  • March 18, 2010

    Obama: Vote on Healthcare, Then Evaluate the Bill

    If history teaches us anything, it is that societies prosper through merit, not hope.

  • March 15, 2010

    Pelosi and Marx on 'Freedom'

    Nancy Pelosi wants to give birth to a new kind of freedom in America -- the freedom from being "job-locked." She's not exactly the first to push the concept.

  • September 7, 2009

    On Bullying, Costco Disconnects from Reality

    Wouldn't a campus warrior do as much for our kids in the long run as a campus psychotherapist?

  • May 7, 2009

    The Pity of Obama's Judicial Doctrine

    In addition to Obama's severely myopic understanding of the American legal tradition, the current president once again is demonstrating his breathtaking arrogance with respect to the Constitution

  • May 2, 2009

    Obama's Litmus Test

    Back in 2005, then Senator Barack Obama voted against the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court....

  • April 21, 2009

    Those Who Secede

    The modern secessionist movement however has been a mostly left-wing phenomenon. "Sanctuary Cities" like New York and Seattle are only the latest manifestation of the mindset of standing apart from America.

  • April 19, 2009

    The Worrisome Educator

    Penn State University's "Department of Counseling and Psychological Services" has a video presentation that should leave any decent American shocked, saddened, and yes, even enraged.

  • March 21, 2009

    Educating Michelle

    Now that the First Lady is proud of her country for the first time, perhaps she can learn something about those who made it all possible for her.

  • March 1, 2009

    A compelling conservative

    Those searching for brilliant, passionate, and compelling messengers to lead the conservative movement into the future might want to consider this person.

  • February 25, 2009

    Eric Holder's Tragic Prison

    Citizens of all colors are about to witness on a national scale what has been quietly fermenting for decades within the Ivory Tower.

  • February 16, 2009

    How Democracies Become Tyrannies

    Can a free people willingly choose servitude? Is it possible for democracies to become tyrannies? How?

  • February 6, 2009

    Obama's Leninism

    Obama's recent frustrations and impatience over the "Stimulus Bill" have less to do with his claims of "catastrophe" and "crisis" and more to do with his breathtaking inexperience in a true marketplace of ideas.

  • January 30, 2009

    Hypocrisy 201

    In the socialist mindset then, corporate executives are regarded as criminal but dictators who enslave their people in the name of altruism are considered virtuous.

  • January 23, 2009

    Obama to Reinstate American Funded Abortions Worldwide

    This morning the announcement came from officials in Washington that Obama plans to sign an executive order that terminates the ban on American taxpayer funded abortions worldwide.

  • December 7, 2008

    When elites eschew defense: The case of India

    What happens when elites renounce the ties to nation that provide the bulwark against foreign aggression? India offers a lesson from history.

  • November 22, 2008

    The Testosterone Crisis

    The sweeping Democratic electoral victory has left many conservative Americans concerned about their children's future. Here's another reason.

  • November 10, 2008

    Bittersweet Victory

    When Thoreau said "you never gain something but that you lose something" he could have been describing the disturbing vacuum recently created in the lives of many Democrats.

  • November 3, 2008

    A Tale of Two Activists

    While the "Messiah" was busy in Chicago softening the rough edges of Marxist educational theory, another African-American activist was working quietly in San Antonio, Texas, improving the lives of children one at a time.

  • November 1, 2008

    Obama's Adam Smith Problem

    Adam Smith helps us understand the problems in Barack Obama's economic policies.

  • October 12, 2008

    Hypocrisy 101

    Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, has unleashed the vicious attack on John McCain and Sarah Palin that we have been anticipating of late.

  • October 4, 2008

    American Gothic Redux

    Photographer Jona Frank recently attempted to capture life at the Evangelical Christian Patrick Henry College (PHC), demonstrating how the Left in this country perceives both homeschoolers and Evangelical Christians.

  • September 20, 2008

    Obama campaign stoking racial hatred

    What follows is definitive proof that much of America is poised to elect a divisive, juvenile, and deceitful candidate for president

  • April 5, 2008

    Doublethink and the Liberal Mind

    The belief that Barack Obama is a candidate who can "unify" the nation may be the most brilliant example of what George Orwell called "doublethink" in the recent history of the Democratic Party

  • March 20, 2008

    Obama's Anger

    Back in the late 1980s I was on a plane flying out of New Orleans and sitting next to me was a rather interesting and, according to Barack Obama, unusual black man.

  • November 24, 2007

    Natural Law and Child Abuse

    A recent AP news report has concluded, after compiling the results of numerous studies over the years, that there is a strong and disturbing link between severe child abuse and non-traditional family environments.

  • July 15, 2007

    Private Morality and Public Servants

    Add Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the list of politicians who have claimed that their private affairs have no bearing on their public performance.