This article first appeared at Salon on 28 May, 1999. On many occasions over the past few years, including innumerable campaign appearances and three State of the Union addresses, the president of the United States has looked the American people in the eye and assured them that because of his policies, “There are no more [...]

This article first appeared at Salon, on September 13, 1999. One of the many letters responding to my Salon News column aboutblack racism and denial was from an angry Chicago reader named Alice Huber, who introduced herself as an African-American woman married to a white man. According to Huber, I was indeed a “bigot,” as [...]

This post first appeared at Salon, on July 6, 1999. The other day I picked up a phone message from a woman concerning a charity event for homeless youngsters that I was helping organize in Hollywood. The woman is a liberal, and she said she had found a friend who was willing to volunteer her [...]

I don’t think Democratic voters, disillusioned with Obama, are going to come out in force on Tuesday and I think that Republicans — scared for their country to a greater degree than they have ever been — will. It is my guess (and it is a guess) that the tide against the Democrats is so [...]

This article first appeared in Salon, on October 25, 1999. The other day I received an e-mail from a stranger posing two questions that have been on my mind for some time; thus his message seemed uncannily personal. “I was curious,” the writer said, “if you have ever looked at your political ‘apostasy’ and wondered [...]

This article first appeared in Salon on January 18, 1999. What is it with progressives? Why do they feel the need to lie so relentlessly about who they are? Recently Rigoberta Menchú’s autobiography was exposed as a complete hoax. Now it’s Betty Friedan’s turn to be revealed as a feminist fibber. In a new book, [...]

This article first appeared in Salon on December 6, 1999. Winston Churchill once remarked that there was nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Perhaps that’s why he enjoyed being a conservative — it guaranteed he would frequently be a target. Recently, I dodged my own political bullet when columnist Jack White [...]

The unspoken truth about the fighting in Gaza, which began on December 19, 2008, when Hamas rockets broke a voluntary truce, is that this is the frontline of a much larger war. This war began 30 years ago with the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is now global in scope. Its agenda is the extermination [...]

This article was first published in FrontPage Magazine on October 24, 2008. For a conservative, the hazards of speaking on a college campus are more extensive than you might think. Once the security guards are in place – as they inevitably must be – the risk of getting pied or physically attacked or having one’s [...]

From Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs: As predicted here at Atlas, the vile Islamic supremacist, through massive voter fraud (isn’t always how they get their way?), has taken the electon. In my New York Times interview here, I repeated what I have said and thought for some time — that the first country that will be Islamic [...]