American Federalist Journal
Friday - May 16, 2008


'Black and Bluestein'
Larry Elder  Technorati Links

I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I



Alice in Housing Land
George Will  Technorati Links

Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve the housing "crisis" produced this lead paragraph in a recen



Veto Vito
Kathryn Jean Lopez  Technorati Links

Congressman Fossella should resign, without delay.



History Is Back
Clifford May  Technorati Links

Autocracy is back. Now what are we going to do about it?



War Over the War
Victor Davis Hanson  Technorati Links

The battle over wartime reputations can wait until hostilities cease.



Beyonce's New Brand of Pedophilia Chic
Michelle Malkin  Technorati Links

If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus -- wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet -- in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain't seen nothing yet. Pop diva Beyonce...



John McCain's Assault on Reason
Maggie Gallagher  Technorati Links

Last week, Al Gore made headlines when he blamed the Burmese cyclone on (what else?) global warming. "And as we're talking today ... the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up t



Limited Options in Burma
Austin Bay  Technorati Links

How many people have died in Burma (Myanmar) since Cyclone Zargis struck the South Asian nation on May 3? Last Tuesday, Burma's dictatorship officially put the death toll at 34,000, with another 30,000 missing. The United Nations estimated 60,000 dea



The Yuccafication of America
Jonah Goldberg  Technorati Links

The Yuccafication of Gitmo, or the Gitmoizing of Yucca Mountain, are two versions of the same story.



Hillary
Byron York  Technorati Links

Clintons continued presence is a daily reminder of how profoundly divided the party is at this moment.



Campaigning Mom
Kathryn Jean Lopez  Technorati Links

Meet Cindy McCain.



Progress Report
Peter Wehner  Technorati Links

Critics of the Iraq war remain deeply wed to their defeatist narrative, regardless of the facts on the ground.



Obama Rules
Rich Lowry  Technorati Links

Senator Obama must believe that most Americans suffer from an attention-deficit disorder so crippling that they cant concentrate on their own interests or values.



The Governments Jihad on Jihad
Andrew C. McCarthy  Technorati Links

The Department of Homeland Security wants you to accept the premise that there is no true Islamic component in the terrorist threat confronting the United States.



Vote for Justice
Kathryn Jean Lopez  Technorati Links

McCain is no slam-dunk conservative, but he is courting the Right with his Court talk.



Wrong from the Beginning
Peter Wehner  Technorati Links

If Barack Obama fails in his bid to win the presidency, he could apply for a position as a senior writer at The New Republic.



Rethinking the Iraq Critics
Michael Barone  Technorati Links

In trying to understand news about the conflicts in Iraq, I work to keep in mind the difference between what we know now about decision making in World War II and what most Americans knew at the time. From the memoirs and documents published after th



Be Careful What You Wish For
Mark Steyn  Technorati Links

Happy Birthday, Israel. Here's to many more.



Religion and Freedom
Mitt Romney  Technorati Links

Note: The following are remarks made by Gov. Mitt Romney at the Metropolitan Club in New York City where he accepted the Becket Fund's Canterbury Medal for his defense of religious liberty. Thank you It is...



In Fairness to Hillary
David Limbaugh  Technorati Links

The question, my fellow election watchers, is not, "Why won't Hillary do the honorable thing and quit?" but "Why won't Democrats do the honorable thing and quit trying to force her to?" Did Democrats make Ted...