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Palin for president?
By Loredana Vuoto

Is Sarah Palin fit to lead? As the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate launches her book this month, Going Rogue: An American Life, questions abound regarding her competence: Can she lead the ...

Politics

The shackles of Obamacare
By Steve Malzberg

So President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi managed to twist enough arms and bribe enough House members to gain a five vote margin of victory (220-215) on their healthcare bill. I'd love to be able to inform you of ...

Marxist health care
By Kerry W. and Peggy McCarthy

In a 1961speech, “Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine,” Reagan defined why medicine is an obvious entry point from which statists can begin the transformation of a society from free to collectivist: “One of ...

Too far to the left
By Dr. Grace Vuoto

Candidate Barack Obama was wiser than President Barack Obama. The president has abandoned his carefully-crafted consensus and has governed exclusively to satisfy the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party. He has fractured his winning coalition—possibly ...

Foreign Affairs

The wolf of appeasement
By Michael Fowler

War is about killing. It is not about acting strong; it is not about scaring the enemy: It is about destroying their ability to make war until they surrender. It is a brutal and ugly ...

Culture

A call to spiritual arms
By Michelle Laque Johnson

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, I took one of those, “If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium” tours through Europe. I’ll never forget traveling through Checkpoint Charlie to visit East Berlin. Our tour ...

Public Policy

Plundered justice in Copenhagen
By Mary Jo Anderson

World leaders continue to wrangle off stage in the lead up to Copenhagen for the Climate Change Summit (COP15), December 7-9. A dismal pre-summit gathering just concluded in Barcelona was given a quick spray of ...