Bob Knight: Free speech vs. sound of silence In George Orwell's futuristic novel "1984," a tyrannical government masks its activities through the use of Newspeak -- saying or doing something oppo
Saving Free Elections Pawing through the ashes of the Romney defeat, it's clear that if the Republican Party wants to compete nationally, it has to do several things, such
Voter Suppression Real and Imagined Did you know that the United Nations, whose blue-helmeted troops have been charged with everything from rape to theft in Third World countries, is goi
Slinging Mud from the Soptic Tank Public figures' records are fair game in political campaigns. It's not "mudslinging" unless it's untrue or employs "derogatory personal slurs" (Living
Clueless in Minnesota and Michigan At the Minnesota Supreme Court on July 17, the ACLU argued that Gopher State people aren't smart enough to be allowed to vote in November on whether t
Court Taxes Our Patients with Awful Ruling When is a tax not a tax? Answer: When you're busy pushing a major expansion of government like Obamacare. The tax that is not a tax becomes a "penalt
Obama's Bullying Pulpit I don't know which was more embarrassing: Barack Obama trying to bully the Supreme Court again or the Washington Post trying to clean up after
When Nobody's Business Is Everybody's Business When I was a copy editor at the Los Angeles Times, a young reporter submitted an article about a single mother having trouble obtaining government che
An Oil Spill We Can't Afford Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion XL pi
The King of the World Rodney King showed up at the United Nations on Sept. 20 and instructed everyone there to well, get along. Actually, it was Barack Obama, but his messa
How the Devil's Law Firm Helps to Corrupt Kids If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions? It would be to corrupt innocent children. I'd
Doomsday Prophets Who Never Say They're Sorry Well, we're still here despite doomsday evangelist Harold Camping's warning of the end of the world on Saturday, May 21 at 6 p.m. But wait. Camping
The Wages of Envy Every so often, a single incident epitomizes larger truths. One of these is that all issues, whether social or fiscal, are moral issues. Former Intern
National Histrionic: You bad, bad people should be ashamed. A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine's relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb pho
Obama's Oily View of America When Barack Obama is in flyover country, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear a moderate Republican on the stump. But when he's on the Left Coa
Obama's War on the Young President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what bet
The Bullies' Many Pulpits When I was a kid, I got bullied fairly frequently because I was short. So my parents enrolled me in a Judo class. After a few unexpected flips in the
Obama to God and America: You're Wrong About Marriage Allow me to take off the gloves. As one who helped draft the first version of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), I regard Obama's order on Feb. 23 to
American dream or socialist nightmare There are few things more galling than communists lecturing Americans on how we can live up to our "values." A case in point is former Obama administr
Reagan's communism rollback a model for Tea Party Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan's
Recall Sheriff Dupnik A lot of people are wondering what to do about Clarence Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. He's the left-wing lawman who shot off his mouth and bla
Left childishly calls 'timeout' after demonizing the right The first major campaign event of the 2012 presidential election was held on Jan. 12, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Barack Obama, speaking at a memorial serv
Why persuade or vote when you can rule by fiat? Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.
KNIGHT: Ruling elites wage war on morality As the nation lurches back toward well-founded suspicion of big government, the ruling elites are putting the pedal to the metal against the moral fou
Putting a Gun to the Public's Head Government's most essential function is to protect citizens. All other services are secondary. Camden, New Jersey is one of the most dangerou
The Choice That Liberals Hate Never have so many politicians spoken so weirdly about something of which they know so little. On Oct. 14, President Obama trotted out "born gay, alwa
More than a Litter Bit of Difference When you've got some dirt to deal with, you can do one of two things. You can take out the trash or sweep it under the rug. Most of us, being sinners,
ACLU Defends Right to Life for Terrorists, Not Babies The American Civil Liberties Union has discovered the right to life. Seriously. The ardently pro-abortion organization declares in its August 30 law
Ripping Out the Crosses, One by One While the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero has New York Gov. David Paterson offering public land as a peace offering, a familiar symbol
Will 'marriage' backers charge sedition? In light of federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker's ruling on Aug. 4 striking down California's marriage law, let's imagine a worst-case scenario.
The Kagan Moral Train Wreck As we watch in disbelief, the United States Senate is about to take the Fifth on a Supreme Court nominee who has no business being near a courtroom ex
Americans Reject a New Racial Divide What if they threw a race war and nobody came? So far, thankfully, that sums up the results of the left's recent efforts to instigate racial animosity
Truth in labeling for former 'Conservatives': 'Gay rights' agenda is liberal Trojan Horse As a longtime conservative, I believe in building coalitions. We can't agree on everything, and it doesn't help the cause to concentrate on areas of d
Defending the Military While They Defend Us While the nation watched the Gulf oil spill and other distractions, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Barney Frank managed to ram through on May 27
The Evil Spawn of Vilecom Warning: The following is not for kids, although this is about kids. Truth in advertising is good. That's why it's time for Viacom, the communication
Sexual morality is so over On ABC's This Week on May 30, Will agreed with colleague Matthew Dowd that apart from a few glitches, homosexuality will soon be a non-issue in the mi
Conservative Media Fiddle While the Military Burns Barney Frank and his friends are rolling their tanks through Congress while everyone is talking about something else. As we reel from one crisis to th
With Arizona, You Get Egg Roll on Your Face Oh, that Arizona. What a handy thing to have in your transnational quiver for those times when you want to identify with the tyrants of the world. "We
Kagan's Just the Latest Radical Obama Lawyer President Obama went back to the radical bullpen for his second Supreme Court nominee. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, former dean of Harvard Law Schoo
Hastening the End of Morality The University of California Hastings College of the Law case, which the U.S. Supreme Court heard on April 19, has its share of absurdity, but what's
Debt's All, Folks What with the bailouts, the stimulus, and now the government health care takeover, we're being told that we face $1 trillion annual deficits for the i
Obama's Legal Appointees Constitute a Radical Cadre Well, Merrick Garland's fate is probably sealed. As a prospective Supreme Court nominee, the D.C. Circuit judge has drawn favorable comment from conse
As the Elites Celebrate, the Resistance to Obamacare Begins There were undoubtedly lots of hangovers in Washington, D.C. on Monday morning, remnants of the packed saloons the night before. Washington's socialis
Don't Ask Who They Are But What They Do As we look down the barrel of state-sponsored terrorism and the enormous burdens of fighting two wars, here is something to think about.
Brown's Win Triggers Some Wonderful Political Theater Now that the big drama is over, and Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown has taken what was for four decades Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, Americans
All the Bile That's Fit to Print You cannot find a better example of selective outrage and character assassination than the Jan. 5 New York Times editorial, "Hate Begets Hate." Thi
Hey Starbucks, Hold the Mush, Just Serve Java I needed a lift this afternoon, so I stopped at a Starbucks today in northern Virginia. My medium-sized cup was decorated with drawn Christmas ornamen
Churches Gone Wild The tension between church and state has been around since Jesus held up a coin and confounded the Pharisees with His admonition to "render unto Caesa
How to Defend an Indefensible "Safe Schools Czar" What do you do if you're caught in something shocking, inexcusable and even criminal? You divert attention by getting someone to attack the messenger:
