The hard-left former groupies of totalitarianism keep searching for new murderous ideologies to defend.
Dec 10, 2009
By BRET STEPHENS
‘Last Exit to Utopia” was first published in France nearly a decade ago. It concerns itself primarily with the failure of much of the French left to come to grips with the collapse of communism and the exposure [...]

Dec 10, 2009
By Joseph A. Williams, Ph.D.
 
Published by Common Sense Management Strategies (CSMS)
ISBN-10: 0-615-26855-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-26855-2
152 pages
 
Reviewed by: John E. Frisby, Col. USAF (Ret.), CEO FCI.
 
Every once in a while something comes along that is just right for the moment.  “Who Do You See in the Mirror” is just such a book.  Some have suggested that [...]

July 22, 2009
By Richard Diamond
POWER, AMBITION, GLORY: THE STUNNING PARALLELS BETWEEN GREAT LEADERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND TODAY
By Steve Forbes and John Prevas
Foreword by Rudolph Giuliani
Crown Business, $26, 320 pages
Reviewed by Richard Diamond
A serious crisis creates a true test of leadership — and in some parts of the world, the tests are more difficult [...]

July 13, 2009
By Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton
RIDE THE THUNDER
By Richard Botkin
WND Books, $29.95, 650 pages
Reviewed by Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton
Thirty-six years ago this month, after the North Vietnamese suffered utter destruction of their military complex from Linebacker II air operations and the blockade of all North Vietnam ports, the Democratic Congress passed a bill prohibiting [...]

Book Review
June 30, 2009
By Herbert London
SAVING FREEDOM: WE CAN STOP AMERICA’S SLIDE INTO SOCIALISM
By Jim DeMint
Fidelis Books, $26.99, 314 pages
It would appear that the Republican Party is moribund. President Obama’s initiatives have set Republicans back on their heels. The Republican minority in Congress can say “no,” but the word doesn’t resonate. Obamacrats can bulldoze the [...]

May 15, 2009
By Suzanne Fields
John Edwards wears the scarlet letter on his tailored Armani suits. The bold letter “A” is not embroidered with fine needlework such as Hester Prynne sewed for herself. Neither is it reflected on his chest like the “A” the townspeople of Salem thought they saw, as in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The [...]

The Last Centurion by John Ringo - Offers a very well researched, if fictional example, of Pandemic.  Here is a review by Arthur W. Jordan.
The Last Centurion (2008) is a standalone SF novel of the near future. It is set about a decade from the present when two natural disasters hit simultaneously: a virulent disease [...]

A former ACLU board member says that the organization has lost its way.
April 24, 2009
By JOHN LEO
When the American Civil Liberties Union comes under attack, the salvos are often launched from the right. The ACLU, after all, is as enthusiastic about protecting the interests of feminists, gays, abortionist-rights campaigners and immigrants, legal or illegal, as [...]

Weak leaders, failed military campaigns and a few lessons for imperialists.
April 21, 2009
By PETER STOTHARD
The fall of the Roman Empire has never been a cheerful subject for those with empires of their own. Imperialists who in later centuries wished to dominate large areas of the globe argued sometimes that the first millennium was irrelevant to [...]

Was the Vietnam War ‘unwinnable’?
APRIL 7, 2009
America’s most controversial war ended 34 years ago this month. There are two schools of thought about what happened in Vietnam. The version taught in colleges and textbooks is that it was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks to Cold War paranoia, the [...]