My View

BY MATT BARBER  | JULY 30, 2014

Israel: The Palestinian people's greatest ally

Israel is not tame.

But she is good.

If a poacher shoots arrows at a pride of sleeping lions, are the lions to blame for rousing and defending themselves?

Guest Editorials:

BY NATHAN MEHRENS  | JULY 30, 2014

Delay and deny: Obama's two-face on Freedom of Information

Upon entering office in January of 2009, President Obama promised us an era of openness and transparency in the federal government.

BY ALAN CARUBA  | JULY 30, 2014

A great plan to replace the EPA

For years now I have been saying that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must be eliminated and its powers given to the fifty states, all of which have their own departments of environmental protection. Until now, however, there has been no plan put forth to do so.

BY ROBERT ROMANO  | JULY 30, 2014

The Internet antitrust trap?

By allowing its current contract with the Commerce Department to expire in September 2015, conferring a global monopoly on itself as the sole administrator of the domain name system (DNS), the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may be painting itself with an antitrust bull's eye.

BY LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD  | JULY 30, 2014

Why Obama fails and succeeds

Barack Obama fails because of the content of his character. He is amoral, lacking an ability to judge himself or his actions by any value or virtue. In his mind, Obama is good not because he is honest or wise; Obama is good because he is Obama. The implicit pattern of all his self-appraisals is: "It's good because I like it"-"It's right because I did it"-"It's true because I want it to be true."