Last week, at FrumForum, I wrote that ground forces must remain a defense priority. And, as if to prove my point, President Obama has announced that he is dispatching 100 American soldiers to Uganda, south Sudan, the Central African Republic,…

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, sadly, is now history. And its demise is being celebrated by the media as a milestone on the march to “civil rights” and “equality” for gay men and women. But in fact, just as with same-sex…

Supporters of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (myself included) objected to its repeal in large part because we want to protect the U.S. military’s unique warrior culture. But “don’t worry!” we were told. “Gay men and women don’t want to change…

As John Tabin points out, the Republican victory in New York’s 9th congressional district suggests that the American Jewish community’s love affair with Barack Obama might be over. Commentary editor John Podhoretz, in fact, joked on Twitter that in 2008,…

Rick Perry is catching a lot of flak because of his comments about the death penalty. During last night’s debate, Perry was asked if he “struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any of those [executed] might have…

Demographic changes have made it much more difficult for Republicans to win national elections. In California, the GOP hasn’t won a Senate seat since 1988, and has no discernable prospects for winning there anytime soon. Similarly, at the presidential level,…

The Washington Post reports on the long-term demographic challenge facing the GOP: “Minorities are the majority in 22 of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan regions,” the Post observes. This matters, of course, because minorities, far more so than white voters,…

The apparent overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi is obviously a good and long overdue thing. But those eager to declare “Mission Accomplished” might want to reflect upon recent history (in Iraq and Afghanistan) and the nature of modern-day war….

Philip Klein and John McCormack have chimed in with their take on the relative or overstated importance of “executive experience” in a presidential candidate. At issue for both men, as it is for me, is whether Rep. Paul Ryan should…

Jonah Goldberg warns conservatives not to nominate a presidential candidate who might be viewed as “too conservative.” But I think Jonah’s got this wrong. He seems to mistake “weak” candidates with candidates who are “too conservative” — but the two…