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James G. Wiles
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August 6, 2017
After Six Months, a Shocking ClarityThis is not some political sideshow for the annual August "silly season." It is a struggle over who controls the government of the United States.
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July 13, 2017
Thanks to the Constitution, the left's biggest problem is the American peoplePolitics has always been a blood sport, as the Founders knew.
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April 30, 2017
Machiavelli's Advice for Mr. Trump – and UsIt is one thing to reform a corrupt state. It's another to reform a corrupt people.
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April 5, 2017
Mr. Trump's – and Ambassador Haley's – OpportunityThe atrocity in Syria demonstrates that it's time for U.S. leadership once again.
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January 10, 2017
The Left Means to Break This PresidentThe American left is organized and determined to bring about a redo of 1974.
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November 25, 2016
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is HereWhy are leftist intellectuals trying to limit the franchise?
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November 1, 2016
Don't Be Fooled: Hillarygate Probe Is Now a Formal Federal Criminal InvestigationKarma just got a lock on the most criminally investigated presidential candidate in U.S. history.
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October 25, 2016
The unacceptable fruit of ClintonismThis week's Clinton corruption scandal: the Terry McAuliffe bribery story.
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October 1, 2016
Here's the vital US security interest in SyriaThis is what this president has done to the U.S. defense posture in Europe and the Middle East.
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September 30, 2016
Nothing can be done in Syria? Not true.It's time for decisive action. Here's what to do.
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September 24, 2016
Samantha Power's problem from HellIf the Obama administration again refuses to act decisively in Syria, R2P is dead.
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August 26, 2016
Hillary and the culture of impunityThe moral rot that pervades Clintonism proceeds apace.
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March 6, 2016
Romney, Trump, and Political Self-PolicingSo far, Mitt Romney has been shouted down. That only helps the Democrats.
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August 19, 2015
Taking Cuba PersonallyDoes anyone doubt that this American president is at best “philosophical” about the continued existence of the Castro regime and would spurn a third influx of freedom-seeking Cubans?
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January 7, 2014
An Epiphany of a Different SortAs 2014 begins, what we're seeing are the resumption of old nationalist, ethnic, and religious conflicts -- some of the very old.
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January 2, 2014
A Striking View from Jerusalem at Year-End"The decline in governmental authority has not been unique to the US, or indeed to the free world."
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December 29, 2013
Will 2014 See a Repeat of 1914?Does China's re-emergence as a dominant economy and world power for the first time since the 1400s threaten a new world war?
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December 15, 2013
Is the 'New Normal' the End or the Beginning for America?Can political lightning strike twice?
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September 16, 2013
Obama: An American ChamberlainPresident Barack Obama has just experienced his "Mush From the Wimp" moment.
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January 30, 2013
Popping Obama's BalloonTwo obvious trial balloons floated in recent days by Washington-based columnists announcing -- sort of -- that the Obama Administration intends to de-couple the United States from Israel and adopt a more independent attitude towards the Middle East
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January 18, 2013
Obama's Goal Is to Break the Republican PartyThat's pretty much President Obama's position to the Republicans - especially the GOP majority in the House of Representatives.
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January 11, 2013
Did We Vote for American Retreat?With his selection of Hagel and Kerry, President Obama seems to think so.
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January 7, 2013
Cocooning Is the Wrong Solution for ConservativesShould conservatives and persons of faith simply withdraw from the public square, live our lives, and quietly await the inevitable collapse of what the indispensible Walter Russell Mead calls Blue State America? In fact, we could do nothing worse.
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January 6, 2013
Stark Evidence of US, British Naval DeclineIs it actually possible that, as you read this, the United States Navy has only one supercarrier battle group at sea? Read on - and be amazed.
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December 4, 2012
Lincoln's Unflinching WordsThe task confronting us is how to assure that there will be more Republican presidents in the face of a Democratic president and Democratic Party who are hopeful of destroying us over the next couple of election cycles.
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September 29, 2012
Missing Christopher HitchensWith cowards and dhimmis at all levels of authority, these United States sure could have benefited from the late iconoclast's acerbic wit.
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February 25, 2012
A Gentle Reproof for Bill O'ReillyThe top-rated Fox News commentator falls into error in describing what to do about high gasoline prices.
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February 22, 2012
Two More Journalists Have Died in SyriaThe deaths - all in one week - of two American journalists, Anthony Shadad and Marie Colvin, and the French photo-journalist Remi Ochlik in Syria are grim reminders of how we get our war news.
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February 20, 2012
Be Careful What You Wish for, Mr. President. You Just Might Get It.Dividing Americans by religion and class
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February 17, 2012
MSNBC Boots BuchananThe network which finds Al Sharpton acceptable as a pundit could no longer tolerate Pat Buchanan
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February 13, 2012
No More Evasion: Mr. Obama Chooses to 'Scare the Bear'In standing pat on his DHHS regulations, President Obama has framed the issue for November's election.
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February 3, 2012
A Falklands War, Round II?The conflict itself might not inspire Yanks, but it says a lot by analogy about where the U.S. is headed.
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January 30, 2012
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell gets his facts wrongWhite socialist patronizes African-Americans while getting the facts wrong.
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January 25, 2012
Obama Dismantles American Power AbroadToo much attention is being focused on what President Obama is doing domestically. Take a good look at the Obama Credibility Gap on foreign policy.
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January 3, 2012
Go Ahead, Mullahs. Make My Day.We may have just witnessed a Blazing Saddles Moment on the part of the Iranian mullahs' regime in Teheran.
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December 26, 2011
A terrible truth written in bloodChristians are dying because the Islamists hate their religion.
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December 23, 2011
One Last Lesson From Vaclav HavelIn a time when both a American president and a GOP presidential candidate believe themselves to be world historical figures, the life of Vaclav Havel offers an example of the real thing
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December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens Is Dead. Dammit.The world is a much less learned and witty place this morning without the Hitch in it.
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December 7, 2011
It's Official: Huffington Post Says There's a Capital StrikeIt took them seven months, but the Huffington Post seems to have finally caught up with AT in identifying the central problem holding back the revival of the American economy.
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December 5, 2011
Chelsea Clinton's Baggage. No, Not Them.The former First Daughter is getting her star turn -- and bringing some tainted associations of her own with her.
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November 11, 2011
The Blue Wall Street BluesThis has been a rough few weeks for the Democratic narrative about what's wrong with America going into the 2012 election cycle. Basically, they've just been mugged by reality.
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November 10, 2011
EU Elite Again Gives Thumbs Down to DemocracyThe EU's lack of legitimacy is increasingly plain for all to see.
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October 30, 2011
Obama Chooses American DefeatLike their predecessors in 1975, today's Democrats are deliberately snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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October 30, 2011
The Euro: Oh, Snap!Janet Daley of the Sunday Telegraph gives the latest EU bail-out plan both barrels. Bully for her.
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October 28, 2011
What the Hell Was Rajat Gupta Thinking?Conservatives can take cold comfort from the fact that America's alleged #1 insider trader was a big Democratic contributor, including to Barack Obama.
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October 16, 2011
It's a Dick Cheney WorldThe Iranian assassination plot exposed this week must give the former Vice President the last laugh. It's also a wake-up call to Democratic and independent voters.
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October 15, 2011
A Chance for a Second American Century?Pat Buchanan, in his new book, says it's not too late for America to retain its status as world-beater.
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October 5, 2011
Fast and Furious: Let It BleedThe GOP is making a mistake in calling for a Special Prosecutor.
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October 2, 2011
ErdoДџan and the Long Shadow of LepantoHow odd of the Turkish Prime Minister on Tuesday to call attention to the growing Turkish navy on the eve of the greatest Christian sea victory over the Ottoman Empire.
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September 27, 2011
Obama's Last Groupie?The original Wonkette still gets all, um, misty for Barack.
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September 24, 2011
No More 'Sound[ing] Like Crazy People' - in Any LanguageWe need a return to Reagan's eleventh commandment. A good place to start is to put an end to conservative Know Nothing-ism.
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September 21, 2011
The World After ObamaWe may be at a world-historical moment, akin to the Versailles Conference, the Congress of Vienna, the Congress of Berlin, and the end of the Second World War.
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September 11, 2011
Heroism, Poetry, Faith and A Pagan Ethos9/11 has yet to call forth a great poem. We need one.
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August 31, 2011
The Only Thing Keeping Obama in OfficeThe best stimulus which could be given to the American economy right now is the resignation of Barack Obama as president.
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August 28, 2011
Gretchen Morgenson Has Just a Few Questions for Ben BernankeIn effect, America's largest financial institutions were given a license to lie to current and potential investors and business partners about their solvency in the name of preserving the system.
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August 23, 2011
That Federal Bank Bailout in 2008 Was Bigger Than We Knew. A Lot BiggerTurns out America actually was facing a total economic collapse.
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August 21, 2011
Martial Virtues and the Survival of CivilizationsIt's the Silly Season. Yet, in the midst of America's earliest presidential campaign ever, the sultry air is filled with talk of Western societal decline.
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August 12, 2011
Obama/Hillary Coming Soon to a Primary Near You?Well, it's all up to Hillary Clinton now if the Democratic Party is to survive the 2012 elections.
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August 9, 2011
Kipling - and a Chinook DownKipling (the poet laureate of the British Empire) knew all about violent death in Afghanistan. He was a clear-eyed chronicler of Britain's imperial wars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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August 4, 2011
Will China really buy UK's mothballed aircraft carrier?A purchase of HMS Ark Royal by Beijing would give China the ability to put two fledgling carrier battle groups into the South China Sea by the end of 2013.
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July 27, 2011
The Danger of a Weak American PresidentIt's now clear that the emperor has no clothes. By August 2, President Barack Obama could become largely irrelevant in our domestic politics. But conservatives should not necessarily offer three cheers for this outcome.
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July 23, 2011
A Moment of DangerNormally at this time, we would be well into the summer doldrums or, as it's called in Washington, the Silly Season. Not this year.
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July 16, 2011
Nothing to Fear?It was in his March 1933 inaugural address that the newly sworn in 32nd president of the United States uttered historic words which seem certain to be echoed by the new president who will be sworn in on January 20, 2013.
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July 3, 2011
Obama Wussed OutMark Halperin is wrong. He's not a 'dick.' He's a wuss, and the story of how he just wussed out has not really been told.
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June 27, 2011
The Shocking Truth about What's Going on in LibyaAn American admiral spills the beans.
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June 24, 2011
Before the Surge Troops Leave Afghanistan, Do WaziristanWithin living American memory, there's a precedent for how to do this. It can, if executed with sufficient nerve, mean something which looks a great deal like victory.
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June 21, 2011
Is Another Shoe Yet to Drop in Opinion-gate?President Barack Obama just got caught opinion-shopping for a government lawyer. How far will the scandal reach?
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June 13, 2011
A Good Man, Slighted: Christopher Hitchens deserved a knighthood this year. He didn't get it.A native-born Englishman, Hitchens deserved a gong last week and he didn't get it. Shame on the House of Windsor.
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June 10, 2011
Is Permanent Recession the New Normal?The capital strike, and, thus, a stagnant economy, will likely continue until Obama's out of office.
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June 6, 2011
David Brooks is willing to give war a chanceWith the appointment of a new executive editor, it's a time of renewal at the New York Times.
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May 31, 2011
Obama May be Getting Tough with GaddafiFor Moammar Gaddafi, the "or else" part of "leave or else" is about to arrive off the Libyan coast. Every now and then, Obama does something commendable.
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May 29, 2011
Fine, lads, you can have himO'Bama's Irish sojurn leads to an embarrassing man-crush from an Irish journo
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May 11, 2011
New 'Great Game' Limits America's Options in PakistanThere is an 800-pound gorilla in the room with Pakistan and the US -- one to whose existence both the media and political commentators are loath to admit.
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May 9, 2011
The national disaster which isn't being reported.What a difference having a Democrat in the White House makes
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May 7, 2011
Canada Is Ready for Her Star TurnFor sixty-six years, Canada has punched below its weight in world affairs. With the conservative victory in this week's election, that may be about to change.
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May 4, 2011
Finally, Once Again, America's President Is FearedHow 'bout this guy Obama? Have you noticed? This guy kills people. In the name of the United States.
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May 2, 2011
Xinhua: 'Huge Warship on the Verge of Setting Out, Fulfilling China's 70-Year Aircraft Carrier Dream'The title is a translation of the caption for photos circulated on April 7, 2011 by Xinhua, the New China News Agency.
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April 29, 2011
Just in Time, Obama Changes the SubjectPresident Obama just did something only presidents can do: he changed the subject of our nation's political conversation. To his advantage, he and his handlers hope.
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April 28, 2011
Rollback? Bring It On!Ronald Reagan rolled back the advance of communism. Now is the time to begin the rollback of federal spending.
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April 20, 2011
An Odd Sort Of ClosureWith Joe Lieberman's retirement from the Senate, the anti-American left's purge of the Democratic Party is now complete.
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April 19, 2011
Will the Euro-Elites Listen to the European Voters?Another anti-EU, anti-immigration party now stands on the verge of political power in Western Europe.
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March 8, 2011
'Where are My Carriers?'This President has no options because, a month into the Arab Spring, he has decided against moving American naval assets to give himself options.