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...
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....
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...
No Branch May Usurp Another’s Power
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner The rhetorical wars surrounding President Bush’s warrantless National Security Agency surveillance of terrorist suspects have exposed a frightening want of knowledge and reasoning skills on the part of both...
Checks and Balances: Presidential Prerogatives Stand Pat
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Times Democrats are trying to lob political bombs at President Bush because he authorized the warrantless NSA spying on terrorist suspects in the United States. Unfortunately for them, their munitions expert appears to be...
Word Games vs. Security
By Alan Nathan © 2005 Washington Times Clearly Americans are great fighters. Just look at the efficiency we apply to kicking our own backsides. Whether deciding how long we should give enemies the benefit of the doubt before attacking them, or weighing...
Political Power vs. Popular Will
By Alan Nathan © 2005 Washington Times Often when clashes occur between Republicans and Democrats, it sounds like an argument between two kids in class, each declaring his intent to beat up the other but neither having the temerity to take it outside. Such...
Targeting the Little Guy
By Alan Nathan © 2005 Washington Times Under the Shakespearean maxim of "though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so," we have an avoidable tragedy of our own taking place in Washington. In America today, there's...