Alan Caruba's Past Articles

461 articles

The Press Endures Obama's Unrequited Love

published: October 20, 2013

Some years ago Bernard Goldberg wrote a book, “A Slobbering Love Affair With Obama”, about the way the press treated his 2008-9 campaign and election as President. The mainstream press ...

We Need Zero Tolerance for "Zero Tolerance"

published: October 13, 2013

When I was a youngster a prize possession of every boy was a set of toy cowboy six-shooters and, if you were especially blessed, a belt and holsters as well. In the pre-television days we all went ...

The Face of Tyranny

published: October 13, 2013

The history of civilization dating back some five millennia is one of unrelenting tyranny, rapaciousness, arrogance, and stupidity. The players and the places changed, but the slaughter was unremit...

A Very Angry America

published: October 05, 2013

I have been trying to remember when there was so much anger between the Democrats and Republicans. Or maybe I should say between liberals and conservatives? Or maybe I should say between the Tea Pa...

Global Warming: The BIGGEST LIE Exposed

published: September 23, 2013

I will never understand the kind of thinking behind a lie so big that it became an international fraud and swindle. I cannot understand why an international organization, the Intergovernmental Pane...

My Cold War and Now Yours

published: September 15, 2013

I spent the better part of my life during the Cold War that began at the end of World War Two in 1945 and did not end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was replaced by the...

The Curse of Liberalism

published: September 15, 2013

“Liberalism has become an ugly blend of sanctimony, self-interest, and social connections,” writes Fred Seigel whose credentials include being a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute...

The Middle East's Peace of the Grave

published: September 09, 2013

After both great wars of the last century nations got together to create organizations that would ensure that large conflicts would not occur again. After World War I, it was the League of Nations...

The Incredible Shrinking President

published: September 02, 2013

In 1981 Lily Tomlin starred in a film, “The Incredible Shrinking Woman”, and it seems to me that Barack Obama is starring in the 2013 sequel, “The Incredible Shrinking President.&...

Why the GOP Lost and How it Can Win

published: August 26, 2013

Throughout the 2012 political campaign, I was nagged by the feeling that Mitt Romney was “too nice” and said so, despite having supported him during the primaries. I kept waiting for hi...

Egypt's Islamic Chaos, America's Islamic Threat

published: August 18, 2013

The President who, in 2009, said he thought it unseemly to “meddle” in the affairs of Iran when protesters against its regime were being shot dead in the streets of Tehran, announced to...

A Military in Decline

published: August 18, 2013

Wars are often unpredictable. The outcome of such conflicts is also unpredictable, but defeat in future conflicts is now being “baked into the cake” and I suspect most Americans are tot...

Drowning in Sea Level Nonsense

published: August 04, 2013

New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D) and forty members of Congress believe the sea levels are rising, that a panel should be created to determine what should be done, and, of course, to throw bi...

Is Obama Committing Treason?

published: August 04, 2013

I have been trying to remember a president that someone did not want to impeach. An effort was made to impeach Andrew Johnson but failed by one vote. Nixon resigned when he was informed that he wou...

Living in a Communist Economy

published: August 04, 2013

In the former Soviet Union, the joke was “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.” It took over four decades of the Cold War to finally put an end to the lie that Communism as an...

Are Americans Living in a Police State?

published: July 21, 2013

The thing about a police state is that it tends to creep up on you. One day you think the Bill of Rights is intact and the freedoms you take for granted are intact, but the next day you find out th...

Is Snowden a Spy or a Hero?

published: July 07, 2013

Interesting to see how Edward Snowden, former employee of a National Security Agency contractor, has dropped off the front pages; how quickly he has become “old news”. The leaders of t...

It Can Happen Here

published: July 07, 2013

“How the Jews Defeated Hitler” is the title of a new book by Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg PhD, subtitled “Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism.” The title ...

Obama's Enormous Climate Lies

published: June 23, 2013

Putting aside Obama’s intention to further reduce our nuclear arsenal as articulated in his June 19 speech in Berlin, he has solidified his position as the World’s Greatest Liar with hi...

The Common Core Straight Jacket

published: June 23, 2013

American education was based on some very fundamental principles and, from the 1640s until the 1840s, they were, in the words of Joseph Bast, the president of The Heartland Institute, “real c...

The Continuing Collapse of the Global Warming Hoax

published: June 23, 2013

While the nation tries to come to grips with the cascade of scandals involving the Obama administration, a significant phenomenon has been occurring. It is the demise of the global warming/climate ...

Living in the Government's Fishbowl

published: June 09, 2013

You have to wonder why all the data gathering by the National Security Agency, Homeland Security, and the FBI failed to identify and surveil the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing? When ev...

All the Things We Do Not Know

published: June 02, 2013

On January 8, 1959 as Fidel Castro was entering Havana after the dictator, Fulgencio Batista, fled the revolution that Castro had led there was much joy among the Cuban people except for those clos...

Obama Runs Away from the War on Terrorism

published: May 27, 2013

“You may not be interested in war, but war may be interested in you.” -- Leon Trotsky If you think about the presidents who we remember and honor the most, it is those who faced war an...

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

published: May 27, 2013

From its earliest days, even before the Revolution, Americans valued their newspapers and understood they played a crucial role in the issues and events of the times in which they lived. It would t...