Alan Caruba's Past Articles

489 articles

How "Normal" is Bowe Bergdahl?

published: July 28, 2014

There are few military crimes worse than desertion to the enemy short of outright treason by giving them aid and comfort. So why is the U.S. Army declaring Sgt. Berghdal (he received a promotion f...

Mexico is Deliberately Aiding Illegal Aliens

published: July 21, 2014

It no doubt strikes a lot of Americans as odd that a U.S. Marine reservist, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a 25 year old California native who had served two tours of duty in Afghanistan, was arrested in...

Obama's Massive Illegal Alien Invasion

published: July 21, 2014

On January 29 the Obama administration posted a notice for “Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children” on FedBizOpps.gov. At that time the estimate was for 65,000 children and th...

International Climate Skeptics Gather in Las Vegas

published: July 07, 2014

From July 7 to 9, the ninth International Conference on Climate Change will convene in Las Vegas in a dramatic demonstration that “global warming” was a huge hoax and the claims that &l...;

For Too Many, It's a Very Unhappy Fourth of July

published: July 07, 2014

As Americans pause to celebrate the 238th signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, it well may be one of the saddest Fourth’s in decades. The six and a half years of the Obama regi...

What Economic Recovery?

published: June 30, 2014

You have to know that the Obama administration has run out of excuses for destroying the U.S. economy when it starts to blame it on the weather. According to the Commerce Department, the economy b...

The Obama Presidency Implodes

published: June 30, 2014

The first time I heard the term “military advisors” it was being used by John F. Kennedy and they were being sent to South Vietnam. A strong anti-communist, in 1961 Kennedy approved fin...

Saddam, the Good Old Days

published: June 22, 2014

I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but sometimes I miss Saddam Hussein. Yes, he was a cruel despot. Between September 1980 and July 1988 he pursued an eight-year war against Iran that kill...

Iraq Agonistes

published: June 22, 2014

I remember how the Vietnam War seemed to drag on for years without resolution, from Lyndon Johnson’s initial expansion in 1964, after he was elected in his own right through his second term, ...

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall

published: June 16, 2014

On June 12, 1987, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, speaking in Berlin, said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” It fell in 1989 and, in 1991, the Soviet Union colla...

No, Obama is Not Above the Law

published: June 16, 2014

It was hard enough trying to keep up with the revelations of various scandals that have been the product of the Obama administration, but now into the second year of his second term, the news of it...

The Difference Between the Real World and Obama's

published: June 08, 2014

I keep wondering what it must have been like to be a young student at West Point listening to their Commander in Chief’s platitudes and ignorance wash over them. West Point is where our natio...

The Regulatory Death of Energy in America

published: June 02, 2014

Before President Obama took office in 2009, the amount of electricity being produced by coal-fired utilities was approximately fifty percent of the total. Today it is approximately forty percent an...

Scandal Exhaustion

published: May 28, 2014

Listening to President Obama respond on May 21 to the latest scandal regarding something about which he knew and did nothing—the mess at the Veterans Administration—was such a familiar ...

The Slow, Sure Death of "Climate Change" Lies

published: May 28, 2014

Even though President Obama continues to lie about “climate change” and employs the many elements of the federal government to repeat those lies, this huge hoax is dying. Obama is on r...

Time for the States to Take Back Their Land from the Feds

published: May 25, 2014

According to a 2012 report by the Federal Research Service, “The federal government owns roughly 635-640 million acres, 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Four agenc...

A Call for Anarchy, Not Patriotism on May 16

published: May 18, 2014

The Constitution grants Americans the right to assemble for the redress of grievances. It does NOT permit the seizure of federal buildings or of elected and appointed representatives for the purpos...

The Real State of the Economy--Not Obama's Lies

published: May 12, 2014

My Father was a Certified Public Accountant and so is my older brother, now comfortably retired in Florida. I tell you this because I would be hard-pressed to balance my checkbook. Even so, you do...

Science, Free Speech, and the Courts

published: May 12, 2014

The public, after decades of global warming advocacy, now called “climate change”, has begun to conclude that claims of a massive warming trend were dubious and that real climate change...

Much Ado about the Ukraine

published: May 03, 2014

Events in the Ukraine are now big headlines and the topic of a torrent of commentaries by experts on Russia, the European Union, NATO and related subjects. The whole thing began after protests forc...

Are Lying and Politics the Same Thing?

published: May 03, 2014

In a letter of advice to Peter Carr, dated August 19, 1785, Thomas Jefferson said “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at le...

Obama's Muslim Brotherhood Agenda

published: April 28, 2014

It is a task just to keep up with the conflicts dividing America, so it is no surprise that many Americans are unsure of what occurred during the “Arab Spring” that began in 2011 and it...

Obama's War on U.S. Energy

published: April 28, 2014

A nation without adequate energy production is a nation in decline and that has been the President’s agenda since the day he took office in 2009. He even announced his war on coal during the ...

Try to Ignore Earth Day

published: April 22, 2014

Try to ignore Earth Day, April 22. It won’t be easy. The print and broadcast media will engage in an orgy of environmental tall tales and the usual end-of-the-world predictions. It will scare...

The War Within the GOP

published: April 21, 2014

I started out a Democrat because my parents were Democrats. When I was old enough to conclude that the Democratic Party was so socialist I could not remain one, I became a Republican. In her nineti...