POLITICS

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the case of Three O Realty v. Empire State Development Corporation, an appeal of a New York state court’s decision to allow that state to seize a number of privately owned buildings (via eminent domain)...

President Bush makes no bones about his Christianity– or his seriousness regarding war with Iraq (though Saddam’s head should have long ago been stuffed and mounted in the Oval Office). That, however, disturbs Christians of the more...

Americans are criticized for being the world’s most overweight people. Yet our excessive bodyweight reflects on America’s highest values and achievements. Being obese is detrimental to one’s health, resulting in the risk of stroke, certain cancers...

Something was missing from last weekend’s vast wave of demonstrations against war in Iraq: Iraqis. Across Europe and the United States, 2 million or more protesters took to the streets to denounce the Bush administration’s plans to disarm Saddam Hussein....

In their ongoing war against America ‘s foundation, the protestors who rallied last weekend against the United States-led war against Iraq enable our enemies seething to destroy us. Before staging the rally it organized in New York City , United for Peace and...

I don’t feel safer because the United States government has issued a High Alert. I would feel safer if: The United States acted in its own interest and stopped apologizing for it. For example: if Iraq is a threat to us — then attack Iraq. Don’t...

Memorial services will be held during the next few days to mark the anniversary of the execution of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who is believed to have been killed on Feb. 21, 2002. Remembering Pearl–seized while researching shoe bomber Richard...

Is the death penalty, by its very nature, “arbitrary and capricious” as the governor of Illinois and the Reverend Jesse Jackson have suddenly erupted into insisting? No. And they should be made to prove that it is. People cannot and should not be executed...

When Colin Powell demonstrated to the United Nations that Iraq conceals its weapons of mass destruction, deceives inspectors, and collaborates with Al Qaeda, I was reminded of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. After his military entered Palestinian territories...

It will not end with Iraq. The toppling of Saddam Hussein will make the Middle East a better place, free a nation that has suffered unspeakable cruelty, and shame the illiberal “peace movement” that even now counsels appeasement and willful blindness in...

The outbreak of doctors’ strikes in America is spreading. So far, doctors in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida and New Jersey have held temporary strikes to protest the prohibitive cost of medical malpractice insurance. Now, doctors in Illinois have announced...

Outsiders wonder if the U.N. Security Council will endorse Washington’s goal of toppling Saddam Hussein. But policy insiders assume an American war and an American victory, followed by Iraq’s rehabilitation. For insiders, the main issue is the extent of...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell seems to long for his days as an antitrust lawyer in the Clinton Justice Department. According to news reports this week, Powell directed FCC economists to devise “an objective scientific formula”...

The big news earlier this month was that a North Korean rocket can hit Hollywood. Two days before the chief of the CIA released that bit of newly declassified intelligence, Richard Gere was in Berlin saying there wasn’t “any sort of basis” for...

Mistake # 1: A debate is underway as to whether or not we should go to war. We’re already at war. On 9/11/01 this became abundantly clear. We are not merely at war with al Qaeda. We are not merely at war with terrorist organizations. We are first and foremost at...

President’s Day is the politically correct (and union-approved) way to celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, America’s two defining presidents in the pre-20th century era. But while both men deserve much of the accolades they...

We face an enemy that believes deeply that God is on their side. Our enemies fight both because they hate us and because they believe that, with God’s help, they will triumph over us one day soon. For our enemies, this is not simply a platitude, a statement of...

Richard Perle is the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Department of Defense advisory panel made up of leading figures in national security and defense; he is also a resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. In the Reagan Administration he served as...

A reader asked the following questions, and since they’re asked politely and with seeming sincerity, I’ll answer them. Question 1: What is a ‘militant Muslim’, how do you suppose you round them up and how exactly do you get rid of them? More to...

The day after 9/11, Texas police arrested two Indian Muslim men riding a train and carrying about $5,000 in cash, black hair dye and boxcutters like those used to hijack four planes just one day earlier. [The police held the pair initially on immigration charges...

Never underestimate the unwillingness of a pacifist to give up on his dogma, no matter how much factual evidence is presented demonstrating the folly in his approach. And, so it has been in the weeks following Colin Powell’s intelligence exhibition on...