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On the brink of a nuclear standoff.

In Germany’s national election, Angela Merkel’s tax-cutting, free-market coalition ousts the old-guard Left.

Today, as you read this column in your favorite newspaper, I hope that you can appreciate the irony of where I am choosing to voice my opposition to President Obama’s expressed “happiness” to look at proposals to provide federal funding to help “rescue” the struggling print segment of the Fourth Estate. Just what we need…more…

A self-aggrandizing author and his morbid motives.

It’s high time for moral clarity about our true friends and deadly enemies.

Qaddafi takes the podium to blast the West.

Obama’s U.N. Speech and Israel – by Joseph Klein

Much commentary about Barack Obama’s speech to the United Nations Wednesday has focused on his description of pre-Obama America as a deadbeat, lawless, foot-dragging country that tortures innocent Muslims, or did until his glorious ascension to the right hand of power. The predictable emphasis on the speech’s most offensive aspects overlooks more dangerous points yet:…

David Frum and David Horowitz continue their debate.

Up until Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly on Thursday, one might have thought Israel was celebrating the events at the United Nations this week. “Obama spoke clearly in his speech,” Netanyahu told the Israeli press, “about Israel as a Jewish state.” To Israel’s Channel 2 news he said, “The president said let’s come…

In a recent speech to the Air Force Association, Defense Secretary Robert Gates conceded that the rapid modernization of the Chinese military is casting into doubt the long-term prospects for continued U.S. influence in the Western Pacific. While no surprise to interested observers, what is indeed surprising is how little interest the Obama Administration seems…

Why Are Jews Liberals?By: David Forsmark FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 25, 2009 Why Are Jews Liberals?**By Norman Podhoretz****Doubleday, $27.00, 337pp.** In recent years, political polling has recorded undeniable gains for the pro-life movement. What used to be a 2 to 1 advantage for the term “pro-choice” over “pro-life,” has now shrunk to basically 50-50. But…

The Three R’s in the Age of Obama: Rappin’, Revolution and RadicalismBy: Michelle Malkin FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 25, 2009 When the White House announced plans for the president’s nationwide address to schoolchildren two weeks ago, worried parents were dismissed as “kooks.” We pointed to the subtext of “social justice” activism rampant in American classrooms.…

Obama’s U.N. Speech and IsraelBy: Joseph KleinFrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 24, 2009 President Obama delivered his long-awaited speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, Wednesday, September 23rd. The address was entitled “Responsibility for our Common Future”. He claimed major accomplishments in fighting al-Qaeda, dealing with climate change, working for peace in the Middle East,…

“I am not naïve,” President Obama insisted yesterday, as he delivered his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly. And, indeed, some components of his remarks – including his call for sterner action to halt Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programs – were reasonable enough. But nothing more corroded the seriousness of the president’s…