STAND ON MERITS PLEASE- A Congress Too Sly
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Whether they're sabotaging our troops' lifeline on the battlefield abroad or assaulting our citizens' sovereignty at home, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are doing everything...
Critics knew Petraeus was on point
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington TimesReminiscent of the days when soldiers and sailors were spat upon by large segments of anti-war activists in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, congressional expectorating was launched in the direction of one Gen. David Petraeus...
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...
JOHN EDWARDS’ WAR ON THE “WAR ON TERROR”
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Is presidential hopeful, Democrat John Edwards, wittily disingenuous or genuinely witless? Like Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis’ fictional 1920’s Bible-thumping huckster who preached what he rarely practiced, Edwards appears...
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...
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...
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...