opinion

If laws were enough to deter criminal behavior prisons would be empty. The latest effort to “control” guns in America is as likely to deter someone intent on breaking the law as outlawing lust would affect one’s libido. What’s in a heart can’t be controlled by restricting what’s in a …

There’s no doubt the money battle over Amtrak will continue on Capitol Hill in the aftershock of this accident. But as of today we know one thing for sure: It isn’t a lack of taxpayer money that causes train operators to speed. So calls to double Amtrak’s budget less than …

Our Colorado public school district organizes a cross-country overnight trip each year for fifth graders to visit historical sites in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, and my daughter was very excited to go. She raised money from a lemonade stand to use for spending money, we let her borrow a phone …

The failure of the bipartisan Super Committee to reach an agreement this week augers badly for both political parties and even more so for the American people. The fact that there will be automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion over the next year is no great benefit. They are heavily skewed …

One does not have to be a homophobe or bigot to believe that the Supreme Court made a tragic error today in creating out of thin air an imaginary right for gay marriage. Friday’s landmark mistake will have legal, sociological, and spiritual consequences for years to come. First, consider the …

As the war in Syria now drags on into its fifth year, I am distraught by the apathy of the American public. No modern crisis has created so much human suffering yet so little response by the American public. Had Syria been devastated by a sudden catastrophic earthquake, Americans might …

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:34:18 +0000 – By Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarlandNational Security Expert President Obama unveiled the first part of his Iranian policy directly to … the Iranian People. It was a good opening pitch, insofar as it went. But Iran is playing hardball, so the important thing is …

The War Powers Resolution will most likely die this Friday. Who will kill it? Barack Obama, probably the only president who could get away with it. “Only Nixon Could Go to China” has become a catch-phrase that means only someone from one extreme of the political spectrum could get away …

The Gates of Hades are open and the Hounds of Hell let loose. They are raping, torturing and beheading their way through Iraq and Syria, killing everyone who stands in their way – Americans, Christians, even their fellow Muslims. We can’t negotiate with them, or buy them off, or contain …

Programing Alert: Author Ralph Peters will be a guest on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on December 9 at 10pm ET. Tuesday’s willful, unnecessary and gratuitously destructive release of the one-sided “torture report” at the insistence of outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. (backed by the White House) amounts …