Iran Declares its Nuclear Bad Intentions [08/08/06] At what point do Americans and the rest of the world begin to take Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seriously? He is making no secret of his plans to acquire and use nuclear weapons against Israel, England and America. (Alan Caruba)

No Liberals in My Foxhole! [08/02/06] In times of war, the last person you want in the foxhole with you is a liberal. They are always desperately looking for a white flag to wave. They are always trying to “understand” the enemy and excuse his bad behavior. (Alan Caruba)

Do it Now or Do it Later? [07/25/06] We are beginning to see the national debate about what to do in the Middle East shape up into fairly specific sides. I call them the “Do it now” crowd and the “Do it later” crowd.

The Fate of Lebanon and the Rest of Us [07/18/06] On July 14 in the chamber of the United Nations Security Council, the permanent representative from Israel, Ambassador Dan Gillerman, paused to address his colleague, the ambassador from Lebanon. “You know that what we are doing is right, and if we succeed, your country will be the real beneficiary.”

It’s Always Israel’s Fault [07/14/06] We live in a world where hijackers, primarily from Saudi Arabia, can commandeer two airline jets to destroy the World Trade Center and, within hours, the word is spread that this heinous act was really the work of the Israeli Mossad and Jewish terrorists.

Water’s Nice, But Not as Ice [07/11/06] A little ice to cool a drink on a hot summer’s day is nice, but when you think of it as an Ice Age, it becomes an inexorable force of Nature more to be feared than any fictional global warming. In a recent memoir, marine biologist Trevor Norton recalls growing up “beside a sullen sea” and drawn to the “bluer oceans beyond the horizon, salt-scented and transparent.” As a young boy, Norton marveled at the fact that both he and the world were seven-tenths salt water—that his blood had almost the identical chemical composition as the sea and that, in the womb, he’d even had gills.

Are You Bored with Global Warming? [07/06/06] Are you bored with hearing about global warming all the time? Me, too. The din of asinine predictions, warnings, and claims that global warming is real, i.e. a rapid increase in the overall temperature of the Earth, always seems to occur just as summer arrives when—surprise—it gets warmer. (Alan Caruba)

Islam’s Lethal Certitude [06/27/06] Americans and others in the West cannot comprehend why anyone would blow themselves up to kill, as often as not, other Muslims. Even if you were convinced that 72 virgins awaited you in paradise, committing suicide for the purpose of murder is so foreign to the Western mind that it remains, for most, outside the realm of any discussion.

Drilling for the Future [06/13/06] As the price of gasoline and the myriad products that utilize petroleum in their manufacture rises, Americans are going to ask why the Congress has resisted accessing the billions of barrels’ worth of oil and natural gas in our offshore continental shelf.

The White Man’s Burden [06/09/06] In 1899, when England had a great empire, Rudyard Kipling penned a poem in which he called on the West to “Take up the White Man’s burden” to seek peace in the world, end famine, and vanquish disease. Kipling assumed that the millions living in Africa, the Middle East or India where he had spent many years were never going to achieve these lofty goals on their own.

Throw the U.N. on the Ash Heap of History [06/06/06] The League of Nations came into being after its constitution was adopted at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Peace Conference, as it turned out, was little more than a prelude to World War II, punishing Germany for having started World War I and divvying up the Ottoman Empire under the assumption that the West could do whatever it wanted with the rest of the world.

Has John Kerry Morphed into Al Gore? [05/31/06] The British author and critic, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) said that a phony kind of patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. These days it’s environmentalism. When a candidate for president really doesn’t have any good ideas on how to keep the economy going strong, deal with America’s enemies, or any of the other practical necessities to insure our future, they always rely on the “environment” as their pitch for votes. (Alan Caruba)

Predicting Hurricanes. Not! [05/23/06] Why is it that hurricanes are always treated as unexpected events? The news reports always have someone saying, “We haven’t had one around here in such a long time…” or “We never expected it to be this powerful.”

Drug Choices, Bad Choices [05/17/06] Americans are apparently addicted to everything. Addiction used to have a real definition. It was a medical term that meant an individual was physically dependent on something, usually tobacco, alcohol or a drug of some kind. Everybody understood the use of the word, but recently the President told Americans they are addicted to oil. He might as well have said they’re addicted to driving cars or plastic.

Late Word from the Oil Patch [05/10/06] As I am sure you have read or heard somewhere, “the world is running out of oil” and we’re all doomed. Unless we can figure out how to run our cars on soy sauce, it’s back to bicycles and horses.

An Inconvenient Al Gore [05/03/06] On May 26, a movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, will debut at a theatre near you, starring a man who introduces himself these days as the man “who used to be the next President of the United States.” That man is Al Gore who, since losing his bid in 2000 to lead this country, has given us all cause to thank a merciful God for sparing us his unflagging lunacy.

Re-Thinking Iraq [03/29/06] Americans are at a place roughly analogous to the end of World War II. They wanted to demobilize the huge military machine that defeated our enemies and there was much opposition to the Marshall Plan to save Europe from Soviet domination. It was “mission accomplished” and to hell with the rest of the world.

The Attack on the U.S. Dollar and Energy Needs [03/21/06] It’s bad enough that the Middle East has us over a barrel of oil thanks to our continued dependency on access to its huge reservoirs of crude, but largely unknown to most Americans, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Islamic Development Bank have a long-term goal of replacing the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency for world trade.

The Illegal Immigration Time Bomb [03/17/06] If Hillary Clinton were to be the Democrat Party candidate for President in 2008, one issue alone could defeat her. No matter who the Republicans run for President, one issue alone will prove an obstacle to victory. That issue is illegal immigration.

Endless Environmental Lies [03/15/06] In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that, years ago in the 1980s, I worked for a producer of a particularly effective pesticide that was applied with nothing more toxic than water. It is now, like so many other pesticides, not available to pest control professionals because it was literally forced off the market by the Environmental Protection Agency that insisted millions of dollars of testing be repeated for its continued registration. The company decided it just wasn’t worth it.

Thinking Like an Arab [03/07/06] If it hasn’t occurred to most Americans by now, Arabs don’t think like us. They see the world in very different terms. Rationality, logic, and common sense do not rate high among their priorities.

Scaring People About Energy [02/27/06]
What’s So Great About Ethanol? [02/27/06]
Two by Caruba—Oil and Ethanol: On at least five occasions in the past, the world has been informed that it was running out of oil. It's not, but "... but the oil we need is getting harder to find.” This is true. But is ethanol the answer? Why would the United States throw billions in tax subsidies at a gasoline additive that requires more energy to produce than the energy it generates?

Playing God and Stealing Land [02/21/06] What could possibly be more arrogant than to think that humans should determine which specie continues and which goes extinct? Or that humans can, in fact, keep a specie from going extinct?

Addicted to Nonsense [02/15/06] On February 7, I received an email from the office of the House Minority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, with a headline that read as follows: Pelosi: “It is Long Past Time to Take Action to Prevent Climate Change.”

You’re Under Surveillance [02/10/06] In the midst of all the hypocritical and self-righteous talk about the fact that the National Security Agency actually listens to calls from known or suspected terrorists talking to someone in the United States or vice versa, is the fact that every single American is under surveillance these days. It begins with the Social Security number that is issued to newborn infants!

Exxon Mobil Comes Clean! [02/02/06] I’m shocked! Shocked! Apparently, Exxon Mobil is making a profit on the sale of oil. Moreover, this energy company is telling anyone who’s interested all about it. In fact, on January 31, news of their profits was the big story of the day. I did notice, however, there was no mention of the billions federal and state governments received in tax revenue on gasoline.

Smearing Conservative Writers [01/30/06] In a directory of folks who routinely attack environmental propaganda, I am identified as “a public relations advisor and a vitriolic critic of environmentalism.” Source Watch is a project of the Center of Media & Democracy, a left-wing organization that devotes a lot of time to attacking the public relations profession in general and conservative writers in particular.

Europe’s Biotech Food Ban Must End [01/26/06] Since May 2003, the United States, joined by Canada and Argentina, has pursued a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement process against the European Union (EU) regarding its de facto moratorium banning biogenetically altered food crops.

Animal Loving Freaks [01/16/06] America is home to millions of people who love animals. I love animals. On the floor of the luxury apartment complex where I live, there are at least two dog owners and one cat owner. They actually pay a premium to have these companion pets. On any given day you see the dog owners dutifully picking up their poop out of respect for their neighbors.

An Attack on Iran is Inevitable [01/12/06] A military confrontation with Iran is inevitable. Israel will need to destroy as much of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability as possible. If it does not, Iran’s ayatollahs will launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at Israel.

Politically Correct Suicide [01/09/06] We live in a society in which virtually anything can be known about your buying preferences, your credit rating, where you live, where you went to school, your employment history, et cetera. As often as not, you provide this information whenever you apply for a credit card, open a bank account, secure a loan, or fill out a job application. In short, you give up some of your private information in exchange for something you deem beneficial. (Alan Caruba)

Global Predictions for 2006 [01/04/06] Everyone thinks they can predict the future. No one really can except in the most general way, but that will not deter me from making mine! (Alan Caruba)

A Big Dose of Energy Reality [12/29/05] Americans get interested in energy when either gasoline or heating prices rise. The rest of the time, we assume that, either there are sufficient energy resources, i.e., coal, natural gas, and oil, or if we buy into the doom and gloom “experts”, that we are running out of everything.

The Enemy of the World [12/22/05] The October rioting throughout France has managed to convince the French at last that they are playing host to an enemy in much the same fashion as the July bombings in London woke the British from their slumber. The destruction of the Twin Towers had that affect on America in 2001.

Ding-Dong, Global Warming is Dead! [12/19/05] It’s always hard to determine exactly when a very huge, very bad, and very wrong idea dies in the wake of evidence that requires even the most reasonable person to conclude that it is, by and large, idiotic.

History’s Dangerous Intersections [12/12/05] History is a lot like a dangerous intersection where everyone knows that, sooner or later, an accident is going to kill a whole bunch of people, but do nothing until it happens. Then—and only then—do the town fathers find the money for a stoplight and warning signs.

The Perfidy of Ex-Presidents [12/06/05] We are in a new era of ex-Presidents. Having been the most powerful leader in the world, accepting either defeat at the polls or the finality of a second term, we now have two former Democrat Presidents, Clinton and Carter, who will not get off the world stage, nor restrain themselves from the criticism of the current President.

Pssst! Merry Christmas! [11/28/05] Pass it on. “Merry Christmas.” Don’t say it too loud because you might upset someone within earshot.. And don’t say it in school. Or the city hall. Or, if the American Civil Liberties Union has anything to say about it, anywhere. And, while you’re at it, pal, get rid of those you-know-what trees and decorations. And that crèche with the Baby Jesus.

Who’s Afraid of Osama bin Laden? [11/24/05] In February 1998, Osama bin Laden issued his second “fatwa” against the United States, stating: “The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the Al-Aqsa mosque and the holy mosque (Mecca) from their grip.”

<The Great American Milk Wars [11/17/05] What eminent threat to your health are you worried about? Is it your weight? Does eating sushi frighten you? Junk food? Or, perhaps, it is milk?

It’s Getting Colder, Not Warmer [11/11/05] In 1922, the poet Robert Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice . From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire, but if it had to perish twice , I think that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice ..” The likelihood, the science, points to ice.

Treacherous Journalism [11/03/05] My first response to the huge article that began under the newspaper’s banner, four columns wide, ten and a half inches deep, was one of revulsion. It was Saturday, October 22, and, above the main headline was a paragraph in large, boldface typeface that read, “Insurgent attacks kill four more American troops, pushing the total number of U.S. military deaths near 2,000 since the start of the Iraq war. Page. 8” (Alan Caruba)

Horrible Iranian Options [10/20/05] October 22, 1962 is one of those dates that have slipped into history, overshadowed now by September 11, 2001. Those of us who lived through that day and the tense week that followed, the question was whether the world was about to have its first—and probably its last—nuclear war. It was the day President John Kennedy addressed the nation to announce the naval blockade of Cuba due to the fact that the Soviet Union was putting nuclear missiles there. Those missiles were capable of reaching Washington, DC and several major southeastern and western cities. (Alan Caruba)

I Nominate Jimmy Carter [10/11/05] No, I do not intend to wait around for another list ranking the various Presidents of the United States for their intelligence, courage, whatever. I already have my nomination for the dumbest, dopiest, most goofy President we ever elected to office. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Jimmy Carter!

Running Out of Luck and Money [09/29/05] When I checked the National Debt Clock (http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/) it was at $7.9 trillion and climbing. It rises at a rate of $1.54 billion a day. Something just didn’t sound right when the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snow, told the press that the United States had more than enough money to handle the initial estimate of $200 billion it would cost to rebuild New Orleans and the other areas of the Gulf Coast hit by Hurricane Katrina.

Atomic Iran: The Open Secret [09/26/05] Here’s what I don’t understand. I have recently finished reading Congressman Curt Weldon’s book, “Countdown to Terror”, Ilan Berman’s book “Tehran Rising: Iran’s Challenge to the United States”, and Kenneth R. Timmerman’s “Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran.”

Heartless, Hopeless Africa [09/19/05] For as long as I can remember in my nearly seven decades of life, the most enduring image of Africa was of a starving black child. Not only has this not changed, there is little hope this will improve.

America as a Third World Nation [09/07/05] The haunting images of New Orleans were those of a Third World nation unable to cope with a natural disaster. The over-riding question in the first days following the hurricane was “What is the government doing?”

Mother Nature Versus Moronic Theories [09/02/05] If ever there was a time for Americans to repudiate the endless claims of environmentalists, it is now. Hurricane Katrina is an object lesson in the power of Nature to lay waste to everything in its path. Just as surely as the rising of the sun, it will be mere hours before some environmental group announces that this hurricane resulted from “global warming.”

US Education Sucks! [08/31/05] Soon the doors of the nation’s schools will open and children from kindergarten to the twelfth grade will return. Some will do so joyously, happy to see their classmates, and others, as Shakespeare put it, “creeping like a snail unwillingly to school.” All of these students will be subject to a multi-billion-dollar deception that involves the federal government, the National Education Association, PTA’s, school administrators, and the teachers themselves.

Is Bolton on a Fool’s Errand? [08/22/05] A day or so before John Bolton’s recess appointment as US Ambassador to the United Nations was announced, columnist Charles Krauthammer opined on Fox News that he was being sent on “a fool’s errand.”

Can Democracy Succeed in Iraq? [08/15/05] In the midst of our desire to see a happy outcome in Iraq, we must never lose sight of the ability of Arabs to reject every opportunity to join the modern community of nations, i.e., the industrialized West and those in Asia who are working toward a more peaceful, integrated worldwide marketplace.

The 2008 Elections: Newt vs. Hillary? [08/08/05] There’s a really good profile of Newton Leroy Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, in the August issue of GQ magazine by Robert Draper. Mind you, I do not usually read GQ because men’s fashions have never been of much interest to me, but Lauren Starke, the magazine’s publicist, knew I would want to read the profile.

All War All the Time [08/01/05] I have a friend who recently made a list of all the nations that have openly suggested they would like to “nuke” the United States. They included North Korea, a general in Red China, and as soon as they announce they have perfected a bomb of their own, we can add Iran to the list. Lots of other nations have nukes, including Great Britain, France, India, Pakistan, and the Russian Republic.

G-8 Failure on a Global Scale [07/18/05] I’m fairly sure that the world leaders at the G-8 meeting in England were more disappointed being overshadowed by the Islamist terror attack in London than by the fact that their priorities and solutions were so misdirected and wrong the conference can best serve as an example of gross incompetence.

Islamic Jihadists Send us Reminder [07/12/05] If anyone still thinks that the worldwide Islamic Jihad is going to go away simply because we have had some success in Afghanistan and are paving the way for a democratic government in Iraq, the attack in London as the G-8 meeting was to convene should dispel such notions.

Animal Rights and Animal Nuts [07/08/05] Other than the biblical injunction against inflicting unnecessary pain on animals, the beginning of our modern concept of humane treatment, I do not believe animals have “rights.” Humans do, but animals are, well, animals. We grow, slaughter, and eat a lot of them. Others become members of our family as pets and some serve mankind for the purpose of research to defeat the diseases that afflict us.

Stem Cell Research: Progress and PR [07/04/05] A friend of mine, the president of a New York public relations firm, has a big stake in the success of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research because his wife, a childhood sweetheart and mother of his children, was diagnosed with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis many years ago and requires constant care.

Mad Cows Don’t Scare Me! [06/27/05] Just what is the level of risk that you might get Mad Cow Disease? Zero! That’s right, the odds of contracting Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) come as close to non-existent as possible. You have a far better chance of being hit by a bolt of lightning.

Global Warming is More Scare than Science [06/21/05] On June 13, USA Today declared that “The debate’s over: Globe is Warming.” That’s another headline you can ignore. The world has been warming ever since the last Ice Age, but it is not rapidly warming in ways that threaten our existence, nor warming in a way that requires the industrialized nations to drastically cut back on their use of energy to avoid the many scenarios of catastrophe the Greens have been peddling since the 1980’s.

Can Patriots Survive the Patriot Act? [06/13/05] Like everyone else I will be celebrating the Fourth of July as the birthday of our great nation, but I will be doing so with a nagging sense of foreboding about how much longer it will still be a nation that protect the rights set forth in the Constitution.

America’s Jobs Are Disappearing [06/06/05] Ron and Anil Hira have written “Outsourcing America” ($22.00, Amacom) about the way American jobs will be leaving thousands, possibly even millions, unemployed while low-paid, but well educated workers in India, China and elsewhere replace them. This is likely to be one of those warnings that are going to go largely ignored until it is too late. (Alan Caruba)

Mexico’s Coming Collapse [06/02/05] I received an email recently from a 55-year-old, unemployed American who had been to 14 States looking for work. He couldn’t find any, he said, because “I am not a Mexican.”

Have Conservatives Thrown in the Towel? [05/24/05] An interview with Pat Buchanan in the May 17 edition of The Washington Times has evoked a lot of discussion on the various message boards that self-identified conservatives visit. “The conservative movement has passed into history,” said the three-time presidential candidate, commentator, and magazine publisher.

Is Newt Gingrich Too Smart to be President? [05/20/05] Say what you will about the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, demonized by the Democrats when Clinton was in office, the man’s intellectual powers are impressive. It was, of course, Gingrich, along with former Rep. Dick Armey, who wrote the Contract with America that put the Republican Party in control of Congress in 1994.

The Republican Revolution is Dead [05/17/05] Back in 1994 when the famed Republican “Contract with America” captured control of Congress for the party, Newt Gingrich, one of its authors, noted that, “Washington is like a sponge. It absorbs waves of change, and it slows them down, and it softens them, and then one morning they cease to exist.”

Oil Now and Oil Tomorrow [05/04/05] Between January and this month, the cost for filling my car tank has doubled. People ask why. The answer is that years of effort by environmental organizations have finally paid off, placing so many restrictions on this nation’s ability to keep pace with its energy needs, that everyone will now pay more and maybe, in the process, figure out who to blame.

Worrying About “W” [04/29/05] A lot of thoughtful conservatives are having serious second thoughts about George W. Bush. His failure to act upon core values of fiscal conservatism and sovereignty is a growing concern. (Alan Caruba)

Killing People to “Save” the Environment [04/26/05] I confess it took me a long time to realize that much of what passes for the environmental movement or environmentalism involves imposing restrictions that (1) destroy economic growth and (2) often destroys lives.

An Elusive Palestinian Peace [04/19/05] The most vexatious aspect of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the refusal of any Arab nation to provide any help whatever in resolving it. By dint of wars declared upon it, the Israelis became the unwilling “occupiers” of land on which dwelt three million Arabs who came, in time, to be called Palestinians. The land, Gaza and the West Bank, and the people who lived on it previously had been part of Egypt and Jordan.

The Black Plague and its Descendents [04/12/05] This month, the New Jersey Pest Management Association issued a news release to warn against the prospect of billions of mosquitoes and threat of West Nile Fever they pose. West Nile Fever arrived in New York City in 1999 and, within three years, it had spread to California.

A Deadly Coincidence: School Shootings and Drugged Students [04/05/05] I keep waiting for someone to notice the way the rash of school shootings the US has experienced has coincided with the massive program of drugging “over-active” students or those deemed to have an “attention deficit.” Medicating students has replaced counseling. (Alan Caruba)

Destroying the Economy One Law Suit at a Time [03/29/05] I suspect most Americans think that the $368 billion penalty extracted from the tobacco industry was inherently unfair. They sell a product that is legal. State governments benefit from the taxes on the sale of that product. Some States even invest in tobacco companies to benefit their pension funds. People may freely choose to either purchase the product or not. Smokers voluntarily assume the inherent and widely known risk of using that product. The verdict against the industry simply does not pass the smell test.

A Worldwide Criminal Enterprise [03/25/05] I don’t know when it first dawned on me that the study of history was the study of a worldwide criminal enterprise, but a look back at just the last century reveals that the Nazis had it in mind to control and loot all of Europe, while the Empire of Japan sought to do the same with China and Pacific Basin nations.

US Infrastructure: Increasingly Unsafe [03/21/05] Years ago when I had a full head of hair, I worked for the New Jersey Institute of Technology and gained a great respect for engineers and architects. Without them, nothing gets built, nothing works, and we would all be back rubbing two sticks together to make a fire.

The Latino Face of America [03/15/05] A funny thing happened to me while I was pushing a cart up and down the aisles of my local Pathmark supermarket. I hit one aisle and suddenly realized that a very large portion of it was devoted to Goya and other products favored by Latinos. Not being a Hispanic or Latino—the terms are interchangeable—I had not noticed that before, but the fact is, New Jersey and nearby New York are major population centers for Latinos, even though much of the Hispanic population remains spread throughout the Southwest and, of course, throughout California. (Alan Caruba)

North Korea is China’s "Borrowed Knife" [03/07/05] It just never fails to amaze me how, throughout history and, in particular, the last century, nations great and small saw what was coming and yet were unable or unwilling to stop two world wars and an endless spate of smaller, but no less deadly conflicts. Which brings us to today where we peer across the vast Pacific Ocean at North Korea and wonder whether its leader is insane enough to launch a nuclear-armed missile at us or maybe just at South Korea or Japan?

This U.S. Marine Needs Your Help [02/28/05] The two Iraqis were stopped as they attempted to flee a site that was found to be filled with several mortar aiming stakes, a flare gun, three AK rifles, 10 AK magazines with assault vests, and materials for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices. Lt. Pantano ordered the two men to search their vehicle to insure it was not booby-trapped. At some point both men, ignoring an order to be quiet, and then an order in Arabic to stop, moved swiftly in his direction. He shot them both.

New Jersey’s Nutty CO2 Notions [02/22/05] While the entire northeast of the United States was digging out from a huge blizzard—usually a sign of cold weather—a meeting on “the climate challenge” was occurring in London, England and “an independent report” by the Institute for Public Policy Research (Great Britain), The Australia Institute, and the Center for American Progress announced that “an ecological time bomb is ticking away” that will plunge the world into chaos due to the heat said to be generated by greenhouse gas emissions.

Call It Eurabia Now [02/15/05] I used to wonder why the Jews of Europe, particularly German Jews, didn’t flee the Holocaust that would destroy six million of them by the end of World War II. Some did, of course, but many simply could not conceive that their fellow countrymen would conspire to kill them.

Do Smokers Have Any Rights? [02/07/05] Do people who enjoy smoking have any rights? Increasingly, the answer is no. It is essential to keep in mind that smoking cigarettes, cigars or pipes is an entirely personal choice. No one is required to smoke. Millions voluntarily stop smoking every year. People have been smoking and enjoying tobacco products for a very long time, but now they have been demonized and ostracized.

Fourth Estate, Fifth Column [02/01/05] It is unfortunate that so many of the Fourth Estate (journalists) are also a Fifth Column, a force inside our nation seeking to distort and destroy its achievements. Nowhere was this more obvious than the mainstream news coverage of the first free elections in Iraq, as the first step toward a constitution and a government that is not composed of psychopaths and thugs.

Thwarting America’s Energy Needs [01/28/05] Well of course you want the entire shoreline of the East and West Coast to be filled with windmills producing insignificant amounts of energy. Nothing better than to head for the beaches of New Jersey or California and look out on the inspiring vista of wall-to-wall windmills. And let’s not stop there. Kansas could be turned into a huge windfarm to keep the streetlights on in the Topeka.

Mexico’s Undeclared War on America [01/24/05] If a foreign country was sending more than a million of its people to illegally enter the United States every year surely that would be grounds for war. Mexico is doing that. It is no stretch of imagination to say that Mexico in engaged in an undeclared war on the United States of America.

Global Warming Fiction Vs. Facts [01/17/05] The famed novelist, Michael Crichton, may achieve what mountains of scientific data produced by meteorologists and others have not. He may get the public to understand that the UN Kyoto Climate Control Protocol is, itself, a work of fiction.

Forestry for Dummies [01/14/05] Recently, managers of the nation’s 155 national forests were granted more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without the lengthy environmental reviews previously required by the 1976 National Forest Management Act. To most people that might not qualify as front page news, but it should be.

Love Canal Revisited [01/13/05] As 2004 came to an end, there was an Associated Press story about a study that had stretched into seven years and cost at least $3 million. What the study found was that, in an area of Niagara Falls, NY called Love Canal, the “preliminary findings indicate no spikes in cancer or death rates and, minimal, if any, effects on births.”

Federal Control of Education [01/04/04] If your goal was to control people and you were willing to be patient to achieve it, the best way would be to gain control of the schools. The Federal government, aided and abetted by the National Education Association, a teacher’s union, has achieved this.

A Force Majeure, Earthquakes, Etc! [12/29/04] Whatever name you give it, the earthquake was just one more reminder that, for all the prattling of environmentalists, we humans are just “renting” Earth for our brief sojourn between birth and death, and often enough Earth shows its utter disregard for our lives and property by perpetrating an earthquake, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a hurricane, or a huge forest fire.

Bogus Science News in 2004 [12/27/04] National Geographic should come with a warning label: “Beware! Anything you read in this magazine may be dangerous to your mental health.”

Welcome to Kookville! [12/20/04] Turns out that the United Nations is not simply incapable of stopping wars and genocides, it is so utterly corrupt that it needs to be eliminated entirely in the hope that the many other existing international organizations, treaties, unilateral and bilateral relations can be allowed to do what it will not and cannot.

Killing Christmas [12/14/04] This anti-religion craze has seized schools from coast to coast and shows up in heated debates over whether to publicly display a crèche or a menorah during the holidays. It is so viscerally un-American that it is profoundly offensive to anyone with a shred of knowledge about our nation’s history.

Hanukkah 2004: No More Compromises [12/09/04] There can be no compromise with the Palestinians until they rid themselves of the corruption and oppression represented by the era of Arafat and the “government” he left behind. The Israelis learned this the hard way. Now the rest of the world is being instructed in the demands of militant Islam that has no hesitancy to kill hundreds and thousands of innocent people to achieve its goals.

The Moon? Mars? Forget About It! [12/05/04] It is the unmanned probes that have been the most successful ventures of NASA and therein lay several simple truths. (1) Humans are neither designed, nor intended to function in outer space and (2) technology permits us to do all the exploration we need to at this point in time. (3) Space probes are far less costly than Space Shuttles that have to be rebuilt from scratch every time they fly. (4) They are far less expensive. (5) No one gets killed.

English versus Arabic and Spanish [11/30/04] America is the greatest and most successful experiment regarding the integration and assimilation of people of differing cultures, languages and religions. America is living proof that such assimilation is possible and results in a society that rewards personal merit and hard work. But it only works if those emigrating to America want to
part of the American culture and society.

Murdering CARE [11/21/04] What kind of justification can they give for murdering Margaret Hassan, the Iraqi director of CARE International, a humanitarian group providing aid? The terrorist’s demand was that the British troops leave Iraq in 48 hours. If they did this, they said, she would be turned over to Base of Jihad, a group affiliated with al Qaeda. But you and I know they never intended to do anything else than kill her (Alan Caruba)

Three Cheers for Decency! [11/18/04] “We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and…from the rising to the setting sun, may His Kingdom come,” wrote Samuel Adams, after signing the Declaration of Independence that would sever the colonies’ subordination to England and its king. (Alan Caruba)

How Safe Do You Feel Today? [11/12/04] The Constitution was written “in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity….”

We are that posterity. Our common defense is being tended to by the most powerful military force on the face of the earth. And the greatest risk we face today is the loss of the blessings of liberty whenever Congress is in session.

After Arafat [11/08/04] Who, I am asked, will be Arafat's successor? It hardly matters. Whoever is designated-not elected-the next prime minister will be more concerned with not being assassinated by his political enemies than with negotiating peace with the Israelis. Indeed, even the appearance of negotiating anything that might lead to a peaceful resolution will prove a hot ticket to Paradise. (Alan Caruba)

Animal Lovers and Others [11/04/04] People say that all the really bad liberal ideas start in California and then ooze out from the left coast to cover the rest of the nation. Not so. I believe that New Jersey is ignored for its egregiously stupid, liberal ideas, and I want to set the record straight.

It’s the Economy, Stupid, and It’s Good! [10/24/04] If you believed the Democrats, you would have to conclude the economy is a mess, but it is not. By June of this year, all the economic indicators pointed to a very healthy economy and one that was growing.

The Right War in the Right Place, But Not for the Reason You Think [10/18/04] Mr. Caruba says the war in Iraq is "The Right War in the Right Place, But Not for the Reason You Think." While not completely dismissing all the other reasons for the Iraq war, the most important reason, he says, is strategic.