Obama's birther blunder
Birth certificate questions abound
By Dr. Grace Vuoto
On April 27 President Barack Obama issued a copy of his long-form birth certificate and declared, “We do not have time for this kind of silliness.” He said "We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do.” Indeed, the American people have better things to do and we are wondering why it has taken the president so long to comply with this basic constitutional requirement.
The politics of envy
Class warfare playbook on display
By Lloyd Brown
During the next 18 months, we can look for liberals to pull out all the stops on their hate campaign. The target is "the rich." To generate hate, liberals will use an old device: envy.
Obama favors black nationalist pastors
Rev. Smith peddles anti-American vitriol
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Is President Obama a black nationalist? This goes to the heart of his presidency - and partly explains why Mr. Obama is losing the broad middle of America. On Easter, Mr. Obama and his family attended Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington. The liberal press corps made much of the fact that the church was founded in 1863 by freed slaves. Yet the church's pastor, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith, is a race-baiting black nationalist. He is a more polished version of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a longtime pastor of Mr. Obama's.
The transnational Libyan war
U.N. conducts our foreign policy
By Herbert London
For many, the American engagement in Libya is an enigma. Was the use of American aircraft a humanitarian mission to prevent a bloodbath, were these planes deployed to assist the so-called rebels, were they meant to send a message to Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi – perhaps even oust him?
Gen. Gotovina sentence ignites firestorm
Moral equivocation of Hague tribunal
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Croatia is headed toward another war. The Balkans - again - will explode with violence. It is only a matter of time. And the so-called "international community" has been pivotal in stoking the flames of ethnic conflict.
Majority-minority America on the way
2010 census portends end of an era
By Dr. Grace Vuoto
The numbers are in: the white population is moribund. The latest figures from the 2010 census point to the emergence of a new America to be eventually dominated by minorities, especially Hispanics and Asians, the two fastest-growing ethnic groups in the land.
Liberal bias rampant in higher education
Sacred causes trump freedom of thought
By Herbert London
As you might guess, discrimination is high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference where psychologists discuss racial prejudice, homophobia and sexism. Yet, remarkably the most controversial speech at this year’s meeting held in late January was by Professor Jonathan Haidt from the University of Virginia.
Sound education underpins liberties
The indispensable liberal arts
By Joseph Vigliotti
It is well known that the current state of the American education system is appalling. Daily, we read stories about successful students from other countries under far more rigid and disciplined systems of education. The rhetorical questions we ask are: How can we catch up to them? How do we exceed them? Our leaders tell us we must excel in math, science, and technology in order to “beat” the world. But there is another more vital question that is overlooked in the education debate: What should a proper education do for the average American citizen?
The plight of orphan diseases
Rare illnesess require more resources
By Gayle S. Fixler
There exist an estimated 7,000 rare diseases - some with unpronounceable names like Angiolympoid Hyperplasia with Eosinphillia, Mucopolysaccharidosis, and Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia. Otherwise known as orphan diseases, they are among a group of medical conditions that affect 200,000 or fewer people in the United States.
