THE IGNORANCE OF THE ELITES
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times On matters of war, illegal immigration and eminent domain, it's apparent that reporter, pundit and politico have an ongoing rivalry over who can most effectively misquote, mischaracterize and misrepresent the U.S....
DETAINEE LAWYERS’ CONSTITUTIONAL WRONGS
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag You cannot execute a battle as you might an indictment nor prosecute a war as you might a trial. The Framers of the Constitution knew this when they wrote in Article I, Section 9 that Congress had the right to suspend...
WE CAN’T WIN WARS BY PERMISSION
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Arguments are erupting over whether or not we should go after Iran militarily in light of the widely reported NATO, European and American intelligence having shown physical proof of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad’s Qud...
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...
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...
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...