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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

The Disappearing Relevance of Truth

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I sometimes get the feeling that if Viewpoint were devoted purely to bringing Left-wing dopiness to our reader's attention we could wor...

Telling it Like it Isn't

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The folks at TruthOut.org are a real hoot. One of their favorite tactics for gulling the gullible is to run a headline guaranteed to distur...

Degenerate Discourse

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The Daily Standard has yet another example of the Left's depraved idea of political discourse. Does this degree of coarseness, tasteles...
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Good News From Afghanistan

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An article in the U.K. Telegraph tells of heartening developments in Afghanistan: One of the Taliban's most senior and charismatic co...

It's Just as Well

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The French are opposed to having their military train Iraqi security forces. No doubt this is just as well. We probably don't want the ...

Making Your Opponent's Case

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A recent issue of Discover magazine carried an article by science writer Carl Zimmer on the work of a research team at the University of M...

Post-Modern Congressman

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Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has the transcript of yet another Democratic lemming plunging over the cliff of sanity. This time...
Monday, February 21, 2005

An Unheeded Plea for Sanity

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Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic , perhaps the chief journalistic organ of American liberalism, has written a remarkable e...

Left-Wing Debating Technique

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Howard Dean recently engaged foreign policy neo-con Richard Perle in a debate on America's conduct abroad. The exchange was marred by di...

Senator Kennedy Call Your Office

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Time magazine reports that secret back channel talks with Baathist insurgents have been going on for some time in Iraq. It may be that they...
Sunday, February 20, 2005

Whom the Gods Would Destroy

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PowerLine has been following the Jeff Gannon affair and is amazed at how ugly it has gotten. Remember that what Gannon did was infiltrate t...

With Friends Like This

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A man who claims to have been a friend of President Bush secretly taped phone conversations with Mr. Bush before his election in 2000 and ha...
Saturday, February 19, 2005

Standing Out From the Crowd

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Hillary Clinton seeks to align herself with the tide of history, a move which distinguishes her from most of her colleagues in the Democrat...

Bullish on the Economy

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David Malpass, an economist with Bear, Stearns, is bullish on the American economy: Some economy watchers have been looking for a slowdown...

Letting the Consumer Decide

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Here's some good news in the battle against pain: Withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx may make a comeback on the market after advisers to...

Peculiar Choice

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Does it not strike you as odd that the navy is commissioning an attack submarine named for former president Jimmy Carter, known around the w...

Don't Fix It, End It

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Ask yourself one simple question. Why does our government insist on total control of our well being when it comes to the issue of Social Se...
Friday, February 18, 2005

A Natural Ally

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Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail makes a case for cultivating India as an ally in the war on terror. The Russians have demonstrated themselve...

The Pirate-ization of Social Security

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I just don't get it...or... maybe I do. President Bush wants to "fix" Social Security by privatizing it, i.e. allowing peo...

The Moral <i>Sine Qua Non</i>

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Dennis Prager has been writing an excellent series of columns on the indispensibility of Judeo-Christian faith as the only realistic ground ...