"The American people are weary. They don't want boots on the ground. I don't want boots on the ground. The worst thing the United States could do right now is put boots on the ground in Syria." More »What Should Americans Die For?
Jason Richwine, the young conservative scholar who co-authored the Heritage Foundation report on the long-term costs of the amnesty bill backed by the "Gang of Eight," is gone from Heritage. More »The Heretic at Heritage
Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP? More »Requiem for a Grand Old Party
Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria. More »Who Are the War Criminals in Syria?
"This is called slave labor," said Pope Francis. More »The Pope and Godless Capitalism
"The worst mistake of my presidency," said Ronald Reagan of his decision to put Marines into the middle of Lebanon's civil war, where 241 died in a suicide bombing of their barracks. More »Their War, Not Ours
"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people," said Edmund Burke of the rebellious Americans. More »The Dark Side of Diversity
"Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they've already failed," says President Obama of the Boston Marathon bombers. More »Did the Brothers Tsarnaev Fail?
During President Eisenhower's first term, 60 years ago, the United States faced an invasion across its southern border. More »Will the GOP Embrace Amnesty?
That "loving Jesus means hating gay people" is "proclaimed in Christian churches and on Christian television and radio broadcasts." More »Is Christianity Homophobic?
Attacks from abroad — Pearl Harbor, 9/11 — have united us. More »Who Is Winning the Gun War?
That America created only 88,000 jobs in March, less than half the number anticipated, was jolting news, indicating the recovery that the White House has boasted about may not be at hand. More »Where Have All the Workers Gone?
"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you," said Calvin Coolidge, who ever counseled patience over the rash response. More »Is War With North Korea Inevitable?
"Government is theft." More »Today, Cyprus, Tomorrow ...
"Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." More »Is America Still a Good Country?
The Republican National Committee has produced an "autopsy" on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress. More »Who Killed the New Majority?
As President Obama departed for Israel, there came a startling report. Bashar Assad's regime had used poison gas on Syrian rebels. More »Goading Gullible America Into War
Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? More »Was Iraq Worth It?
"The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith," wrote Hilaire Belloc after that bloodbath we call World War I. "Either Europe will return to the Faith or she will perish." More »Pope Francis -- Against the West?
Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama's war powers. More »Who Speaks Now for the GOP?
"Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered," China's new leader, Xi Jinping, told a closed meeting of party elite in Guangdong province. More »Has the Bell Begun to Toll for China?
Regularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called "Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin's Take From a Conservative Perspective." More »Infantile Conservatism
In that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third. More »Cut Commitments, Not Muscle
"It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth — a rising, thriving middle class." More »Who Killed the Middle Class?
North Korea has just pulled off an impressive dual feat — the successful test both of an intercontinental ballistic missile and an atom bomb in the 6-kiloton range. More »Why Are We Still on the DMZ?
"To govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me." More »A Godly Man in an Ungodly Age
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." More »Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?
If last week's hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised questions about the GOP. More »The Republican Obsession
On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama. More »The GOP's Amnesty Caucus Raises the White Flag
When, in the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev said, "We will bury you," and, "Your children will live under communism," Eisenhower's America scoffed. More »America's Role in a Darkening Age
"Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality," ran the eight-column banner in which The Washington Post captured the essence of Obama's second inaugural. There he declared: More »The Old Republic and Obama's America
Rarely have second terms lived up to the hopes and expectations of presidents or their electorates. More »Clouds Over Obama's Second Term
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of physics. More »Al-Qaida in the Heart of Africa
In the 20th century, only two presidents shaped new governing coalitions that outlasted them. They were the only two men to appear on five national tickets. More »Is Obama Shaping a New Majority?
"Chuck Hagel is out of the mainstream of thinking ... on most issues regarding foreign policy," says GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham. Neocon William Kristol concurs: Hagel is "out on the fringes." More »Is Hagel out of the Mainstream?
Editor's note: The following is from a speech given by Patrick J. Buchanan during the Richard M. Nixon Centennial celebration in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 2013. More »Richard Nixon's 100th Birthday
Eight days after the massacre of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary, where each child was shot with a Bushmaster .223, The Nation's Gun Show, the biggest east of the Mississippi, opened. More »America's Coming Gun War
At the Potsdam conference with Harry Truman and Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill learned that the voters of the nation he had led for five years through World War II had just voted to throw him out of office. More »The Republicans -- After Dunkirk
When Socialist President Francois Hollande took office, he swiftly made good on his pledge to raise the top tax rate on Frenchmen who earn a million euros a year — to 75 percent. More »The Depardieu Revolution
In the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst. More »Why the War Party Fears Hagel
For two millennia, the birth of Christ has been seen as the greatest event in world history. The moment Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, God became man, and eternal salvation became possible. More »Christmas in an Anti-Christian Age
"God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function." More »Why God Created the GOP
"No set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society." More »The Dead Soul of Adam Lanza
In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor. More »The Fall of the House of Labor
As the white flag rises above Republican redoubts, offering a surrender on taxes, the mind goes back to what seemed a worse time for conservatives: December 1964. More »The Winter of Conservative Discontent
Given the expectations raised by the Republican punditocracy — that Mitt was headed for a big victory — the jolt of defeat hit especially hard. More »A Republican Retreat -- or Rout?
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's opening bid to Speaker John Boehner, a demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, was not meant as a serious offer. It was an ultimatum couched in an insult. Translation: More »The True Disciple of Saul Alinsky
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ..." More »Stirrings of Secession
Were the average Republican asked for a succinct statement of his views on taxation, he or she might respond thus: More »Who's Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?
With the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace. More »Is Middle East Peace a Mirage?
"What the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote, and that strategy worked." More »Mitt Wasn't All Wrong About Gifts
At his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl. More »Who Fed Susan the Benghazi Bullhockey?
The stunning resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, days before he was to testify on the CIA role in the Benghazi massacre, raises many more questions than his resignation letter answers. More »Petraeus and Benghazi: A Time for Truth
After its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis. More »Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?
"Are the good times really over for good?" asked Merle Haggard in his 1982 lament. More »The Coming Age of Austerity
On June 6 of this year, a bomb planted at the U.S. compound in Benghazi ripped a 12-foot-wide hole in the outer wall. More »The Smoking Gun of the Benghazi Cover-up
"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence." More »Romney for President
Early in Ronald Reagan's second term, Bill Rusher, the publisher of National Review, was interviewing the president in the Oval Office for a documentary on the conservative movement. More »McGovern & Goldwater: Losers or Winners?
"It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven't had such discussions," said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of reports the Obama White House has agreed to one-on-one talks with Tehran over its nuclear program. More »Negotiations -- or War With Iran?
Usually, not always, the peace party wins. More »Will Obama Paint Mitt as Warmonger?
On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe house, killing two more Americans, as other U.S. agents fled to the airport. More »Behind the Benghazi Cover-up
"In Syria, I will work ... to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad's tanks, helicopters and fighter jets." More »Stay out of the Syrian Maelstrom
In diplomacy, always leave your adversary an honorable avenue of retreat. More »Is a Nuclear Deal With Iran Possible?
Three days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was assassinated, Jay Carney told the White House press corps it had been the work of a flash mob inflamed by an insulting video about the Prophet Muhammad. More »The Unraveling of Obama's Foreign Policy
Two weeks after Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were murdered in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration has conceded it was an act of terrorism. More »The Clinton-Rice Credibility Gap
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. More »America's Last Crusade
Mitt Romney has conceded that his thoughts, expressed at that Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser, were "not elegantly" stated. Those mocking him might concede he has tabled one of the mega-issues of our time. More »No Apologies Needed, Mitt
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, More »The Irreconcilable Conflict
Is it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East? More »Is It Time to Come Home?
What is Bibi Netanyahu up to? More »Has Obama Called Bibi's Bluff?
The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew. More »A Godless Party Expels the Creator
Both the 20th and 21st centuries have seen failed presidencies. More »Last Recourse of Failed Presidents
"The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose," said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural, 100 years ago. More »The Large Purpose' of Romney-Ryan
Looking back all the way to America's Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. More »Last Hurrah of Nixon's 'New Majority'?
Whittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded." More »A Grand Old Party in Panic
After his great victory in Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush went before the United Nations to declare the coming of a New World Order. More »The New World Disorder
U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world. More »The Most Dangerous Man in the World'?
Mitt Romney's decision to select Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate speaks well of the man who made it. Indeed, it seemed less like the moderate man we have come to know than Adm. David Farragut in Mobile Bay: More »Mitt's Damn-the-Torpedoes!' Decision
This week, the friends of Barack Obama introduced into the political battle of 2012 the moral equivalent of poison gas. More »The Cost of Winning Ugly
"Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind." More »The Natural Map of the Middle East
Two weeks ago, Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A, an Atlanta company famous for its juicy chicken sandwiches, appeared on "The Ken Coleman Show" to air his biblical belief that those who champion same-sex marriage are risking divine retribution upon us all. More »On the Chick-fil-A Front of the Culture War
Has Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war? More »Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP. More »In the Long Run, Is the GOP Dead?
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone fumble during the Super Bowl. And understandably so. More »Obama's America -- and Ours
Mitt Romney is today the beneficiary of some desperate counsel from alarmed Republicans on how to escape the snare in which he has found himself. More »The Chickens of Globalization Come Home to Roost
The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president. More »Is Mitt Serious About Condi?
San Bernardino, Calif., has now followed Stockton into bankruptcy. More »Salad Days of the Public Sector Are Over
Comes now news from across the pond that executives at one of the world's most respected banks, Barclays, rigged Libor. Even the venerable Bank of England is apparently being investigated. More »Casino Capitalists Playing With Fire
"Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view." More »Why This Obsession With Iran?
For John Roberts, it is Palm Sunday. More »John Roberts Makes His Career Move
In 1948, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. wrote for Life magazine a controversial article on a subject that has been the cause of spirited and acrimonious debate ever since. He listed the consensus of our academic elite as to which American presidents had been Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average and Failures. More »Rating and Ranking Our Presidents
Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. More »Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?
In introducing his new book, "Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America," Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America? More »Behind the Crack-up of the Right
"The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean customers — and to support more good jobs here at home." More »Now Korea Is Cleaning Our Clock
"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain. More »Dress Rehearsal for a Mideast War?
Within days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up." More »Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?
In 1919, after Boston police went on strike to protest the city's refusal to recognize their new union, Gov. Calvin Coolidge ordered the National Guard into the streets. More »The Bell Tolls for the Government Unions
In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria — arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to "create safe zones" for anti-regime forces "inside Syria's borders" — The Washington Post invokes "vital U.S. interests" that are somehow imperiled there. More »Syria's Insurrection Is Not America's War
When Hillary Rosen said that Ann Romney had "never worked a day in her life," it was among the better days of the Romney campaign. More »Ann Romney Asks the Right Question
After taping John Stossel's show on March 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol. More »How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists