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The end of the American moment?
By Jeffrey Kuhner

Barack Obama’s presidency marks the decline and fall of America as the world’s last superpower; it is the end of the American moment, the period from 1945 in which the United States walked on the world stage like a...

Politics
Are Republicans the stupid party?
By Steve Malzberg

I am privileged to spend three hours a day, five days a week behind a microphone. I love what I do, and I do it quite well. At times I laugh, but these days, more often than not, I get angry, very angry. I get angry...

Swinging right
By Kerry W. McCarthy

To win elections, conservatives need to attract swing voters. Otherwise, conservatives will stand by, powerless to preserve the American system of government, free enterprise, and individual liberty. But winning without...

Defeating America from within
By Nancy Morgan

As the media obsesses about President Barack Obama on the Jay Leno show and his wife, Michelle's new White House garden, the real story has gone virtually unnoticed. Namely, the Fed’s announcement that it will be...

Obama’s bogus economics
By Joseph Beaudoin

President Barack Obama continues to insist that his stimulus plan will create or save 3.5 million jobs but he has not explained how he arrived at this number.  In fact, nobody has done that in a convincing manner...

Foreign Affairs
The growing cracks in Putin’s regime
By Andrei Piontkovsky

The second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky began last month in Moscow. It is a significant event, though not unique in the history of Russian political trials. The sadistic desire to kick a victim when he is lying down...

Mexico’s American lifeline
By Octavio A. Hinojosa Mier

While the headlines continued to warn Americans about the dangers of travel to Mexico, 300 undergraduate and graduate students gathered at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to discuss the vested interest in...

Culture
YouTube’s Christian Double Standard
By Amy Polasky

Google’s YouTube, the Internet video file sharing site, is the medium of choice for rock stars, wannabes, crazy uncles and proud mommies everywhere. But anyone who has ever been to a happy hour on karaoke night at a...

Making superheroes bad
By Loredana Vuoto

Hollywood never misses an opportunity to defame America and denigrate the values for which it stands. Watchmen, the recently released blockbuster directed by Zack Snyder, is no exception.Based on the comic book by Alan...

Public Policy
Winning the war on poverty
By Mark Rodgers

When it comes to poverty, actions speak louder than words.Last month, I helped launch The Poverty Forum (www.thepovertyforum.org) a unique effort to find consensus among a very diverse group of Christians with expertise...

Lethal science
By Robert Goldberg

There are many in Congress who believe that comparative effectiveness research is a science.  Science—in medicine, anyways—is about applying what we know about the biology of disease to the ability to diagnose,...

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