
By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 30, 2012 So much in life depends on the “what ifs.” When it comes to American politics, however, the outcomes can be disastrous. It’s a lesson that we need to address more often. I got to thinking about this as the news of the John Edwards trial continues. For me, [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 26, 2012 It’s a pleasant fiction that think tanks are places where scholars spend time in dusty libraries. They are places of great intellectual ferment, but one hardly thinks of them of places were battles rage with infiltrators and propagandists, but The Heartland Institute, a 28-year-old national non-profit organization, is [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 25, 2012 Why did George W. Bush invade Afghanistan? Answer: Occurring just after September 11, 2001 in which 2,977 Americans lost their lives, a CIA team was inserted into Afghanistan fifteen days later to begin a campaign against the Taliban who had allied with Al Qaeda and provided sanctuary for [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 24, 2012 “Expecting the world to be fair to you because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” I don’t know who said this, but it is a great piece of wisdom that we should all embrace. Every time [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 20, 2012 As Earth Day 2012 occurs on Sunday, April 22, I offer a selection of quotes from leading figures in the environmental movement that are worth reading so that you can draw your own conclusions. In 1970, the first Earth Day generated the following quotes: “Civilization will end [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 19, 2012 I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government. He was spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but for the most part he was right. He managed to alienate his fellow Republicans and [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 18, 2012 Americans are paying the hangman for the rope. It is estimated that since the origin of the global warming hoax in the late 1980s, Americans have seen $50 billion of their dollars thrown down the climate change rat hole. In a January CNSnews commentary, Elizabeth Harrington noted that “A [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 16, 2012 Editor’s Note: All this week in the run-up to Earth Day, this blog will post commentaries exposing environmentalism as the totalitarian ideology it has always been. As the nation and the world closes in on Earth Day, April 22nd, a tsunami of Green propaganda will overwhelm us with all [...]

By Alan Caruba GCC/Staff Apr 15, 2012 I do not write unpleasant things about Barack Hussein Obama because he is a Democrat, a far-left liberal ideologue, a confirmed liar, or the sock-puppet of whatever cabal that chose him long ago to be the President. I write unpleasant things because he is all of these things, [...]

by Amil Imani GCC/Staff Apr. 13, 2012 Are you fed up with numerous daily horrific acts that are clearly committed under the banner of Islam throughout the world? Are you tired of hearing it? Well, so am I. However, I have to inform you that it is only going to get worse before it finally [...]