Here is the full list of Alan’s Historical Writings, listed by date published. To view in category form, simply choose from the right column or drop-down menu above.
An “Obsession” with Truth – Divergent Views
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontpagemagThe phrase “divergent views” does not do justice to the verbal gymnastics that followed the anti-terrorism event I was privileged to introduce at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virgnia. After my brief introduction to...
CIRCUMVENTING LEGAL AUTHORITY
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Whether it's about unlawful aliens, property rights or reconciling our jurisprudence with international law, inferior vestiges of government power have circumvented an authority not vested in them by our Constitution...
THE RUDY GOP SHIFTS TO THE CENTER
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani often enjoys poll scores above all presidential rivals from both sides of the political aisle. For many, he inarguably projects the kind of appeal that says to voters, “You matter...
IRAQ CIVIL WAR IS IRRELEVANT
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Front Page Mag.com The American heart too frequently out maneuvers the American mind, and does so to an extent that makes us all look laughingly stupid as well as predictably vulnerable to enemy tactics; e.g., pulling out of Iraq...
IRAQ’S CIVIL WAR IS IRRELEVANT
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag The American heart too frequently out maneuvers the American mind, and does so to an extent that makes us all look laughingly stupid as well as predictably vulnerable to enemy tactics; e.g., pulling out of Iraq because of...
LIES ABOUT A LIAR – Scooter Libby
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag.com We seem to have no effective gauge for measuring what separates the painfully banal from the truthfully outrageous. Vice President Cheney’s former chief-of-staff, I Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was found guilty of making...
THE MEDIA RESPECTS CITIZENS LESS THAN ILLEGALS
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag.com With the possible exception of HMO’s, the media seems to be the only industry we can’t hold legally accountable for negligent service after purchase. On March 4th, The Washington Post’s Editorial Board had a piece...
DECIPHERING POLITICAL HACKS: Here’s their secret code
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag After debating over 200 Congressional leaders, countless interest group advocates and their respective media enablers, I’m no longer mystified about how these cult-like zealots can so comfortably deny the undeniable when...
MEDIA LIES: A TWO FRONT WAR
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Plenty know by now that in 2004 the progressive Pew Foundation published an extensive poll exposing the five-to-one ratio of liberals to conservatives in the news-reporting media. Strangely, media outlets must believe...
IDEOLOGY PARADING AS ANALYSIS
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag This warning to the Washington Post is the journalistic equivalent to, “Your fly is open.” In other words, you missed a few things while rushing. No excuse is mitigating enough to forgive the Lilliputian thinking that...
THE IGNORANT LEADING THE STUPID
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Nothing like a good troop surge debate to reinstate everyone’s faith in our lawmakers’ grasp of the Constitution – which is rivaled only by a cadaver’s handshake. We’re watching this comically grotesque dance between...
DEMOCRATS OPPOSE THE “ESCALATION” THEY ONCE SUPPORTED
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag.com Republican incompetence over Iraq has given cover to Democratic stupidity and again we’re trapped between those failing and those refusing success. President Bush is sending 21,500 additional military personnel to...
WORSE THAN WATERGATE – BUT INVISIBLE IN THE MEDIA
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag.com President Clinton’s Former National Security Advisor was caught stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives (before the 9/11 Commission could read them), but his actions have garnered less...
WRECKING AMERICA: A BIPARTISAN PURSUIT
By Alan Nathan © 2006 DC Examiner The vile and disgusting truth about both political parties is that they marginalize all of us by empowering the government to bully individuals with intrusive legislation. If their druthers were any more unchecked,...
NATION’S TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM IS UN-AMERICAN
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner If their druthers were any more unchecked, Republicans would harm the collective good in the name of individual freedom while Democrats would assault individual freedom in the name of the collective good....
THE BRITS END THE WAR ON TERROR
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag The Observer in Britain reported on December 10: Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase “war on terror” and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more...
THE ALZHEIMER’S STUDY GROUP
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag.com Again we see why cooking alone and operating heavy machinery aren’t the only things folks should stop doing after they turn 75. The Over the Hill Gang’s assessment of our challenges in Iraq includes a recommendation...
POLITICS AND WAR
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMagazine.com There are times when the inertia of diplomacy endangers more lives than would the action it’s trying to abate, and it is at such moments when action becomes the more humane choice. Stupidly, we forget that the...
“CHANGE”DOES NOT MEAN “SURRENDER”
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag.com Iran and much of the Middle East are celebrating the Democrats’ victory. If I’m a Democrat, I’ve got to feel uncomfortable with an enemy state heralding my party’s triumph just because it views left-wingers as more...
THE UN’s RIGGED STANDARDS
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag The UN’s partisans have a formula for dealing with the nuclear threat of North Korea: just sit back and relax as once more America begs legitimacy from the illegitimate. Unable to voir dire the UN Security Council as we...
REPLACE RUMSFELD AT WHIPLASH SPEED
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner How can we maintain our allegiance to the Iraqi War when those responsible for its victorious outcome are so instrumental in its delay? It’s not as if we don’t want success or appreciate the gravity of failure....
Fighting Terrorists Makes More Terrorists [SARCASM]
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner War opponents are cheerfully heralding the National Intelligence Council’s national intelligence estimate that portrays our war in Iraq as the catalyst for increasing terrorist volunteers. Completed in April but...
WHY THE ENEMY CAN REJOICE – And Who They Can Thank
By Alan Nathan © 2006 The national argument has turned to guidelines for interrogating terrorist prisoners and instead of reaching a consensus that provides some legal specificity, our leaders are lunging for ambiguity in the name of international law....
The UN: Too Much of a Joke to be Funny
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag At what point does an institution’s incompetence become so expansively documented and self-evident that even the most academically impoverished finally accept its life-threatening uselessness? A quick look back reveals...
A Wall and Legalization – Defending US Borders
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Times There are more than 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, while another 400,000 enter from Mexico every year. The tedious and atrophic arguments of "stop being xenophobic because we need them for our...