Newsday

So Mike Huckabee has had a pretty good week. Mike who?

Don’t laugh. Not so long ago, a governor of Arkansas -- from a place called Hope -- made it all the way to the White House. And now Huckabee, born in the same town, who served as chief executive of the Razorback State from 1996 to January of this year, hopes to be the second.

On Saturday, Huckabee won a straw poll in Spartanburg County, S.C. OK, that’s an obscure place… more

The purpose of our mind is to fit things into a larger meaning -- that’s the mental feature distinguishing us from animals.

So since we are smarter -- though not always gentler -- than critters, we can all attempt to answer the question: What’s the larger meaning of the Virginia Tech shootings? Who or what is to blame?

One who stepped forward with an explanation was Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE.). On Thursday, The Associated Press reported, Biden ascribed the shootings to the… more

Our civilization is under attack from a new kind of weapon: the suicide killer. Sometimes these killers explode bombs, sometimes they crash airplanes into buildings, sometimes they go on shooting rampages -- as happened at Virginia Tech on Monday.

Technology has made each individual potentially more of a menace to society, here and around the world. Not only do people have access to explosives and rapid-firing guns, but the specter of future infernal invention haunts us further. What new methods of… more

The pundits seem to agree: George W. Bush is toast, kaput. So how come the president’s holding steady, even rising, in the polls? And what does that mean for 2008?

Let’s consider the weight of the punditical pile-on: Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine, sees "An Epic Collapse" -- specifically, the Iraq war, the Walter Reed hospital mess, the flap over the fired U.S. attorneys. Concludes Klein: "It is increasingly difficult to imagine yet another two years of… more

So who is an American? What’s the key to American identity? The answer can be hard, even brutal. But it’s ours -- we earned it with our own blood.

Whenever America travels around the world in a military adventure -- or misadventure -- the question needs to be answered anew. And whenever globalists and open-borderers want to bring the world here, without respect for American culture and tradition, that question needs to be answered yet again, even more emphatically.

The classic exposition… more

All questions about immigration are questions of political and economic power. Specifically, which group in America has the political power to open or close the border -- thereby gaining economic advantage?

So today, who stands to win, and who stands to lose, from President George W. Bush’s renewed effort to enact "comprehensive immigration reform?" Let’s look at the record.

Bush traveled yesterday to Yuma, Ariz., to talk tough on border security. He had to talk tough. Since 9/11, immigration advocates have conceded… more

Once again, the Iranians have prevailed in a hostage crisis. The smirking leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, fresh from his latest demonstration of "performance-art politics," is no doubt preparing his next stunt for the world stage.

And once again, the rogue regime in Tehran has been enabled by many westerners, who knee-jerkingly sentimentalize hostages, reflexively look for the worst in their own country and instinctively adapt the language of their avowed enemies.

Any hostage who appears on television, or on Internet… more

Have you ever wondered why phrases such as "sectarian violence," "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" are heard so often around the world -- but not in the United States?

Why do people in so many other countries systematically slaughter their countrymen? And why is America a happy exception?

There are "killing fields" around the world, in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. But not here. One reason we are no longer cursed with civil strife is that Martin Luther King Jr. helped lift… more

The same bad idea that is ruining Europe threatens to ruin the United States, too. Indeed, the news that Uncle Sam can’t find more than 600,000 of what the government calls "fugitive aliens," those who have been ordered out of the country but slipped past the enforcement system, reminds us, yet again, that border enforcement and maintenance of sovereignty are low priorities for Washington.

The bad idea threatening both America and Europe is this: Borders don’t matter. Why not? Because patriotism… more

The best indicator that the Bush family political dynasty might survive George W. Bush comes from the news that George P. Bush, the president’s nephew, has joined the Naval Reserve. That’s not quite frontline service for the younger Bush although, of course, he could eventually find himself in a hot zone.

But, even if George P. is never anything more than a weekend warrior, he’ll still have given more service than most Americans.

Indeed, what’s most remarkable about the geopolitics of… more