Alan Caruba column
Best known these days as a commentator on issues ranging from environmentalism to energy, immigration to Islam, Alan Caruba is the author of two recent books, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy" and "Warning Signs" — both collections of his commentaries since 2000 and both published by Merril Press of Bellevue, Washington.
His commentaries are posted on many leading news and opinion websites, and frequently picked up and shared by blogs as well. Caruba has his own popular daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
In addition to the Center, Caruba — a longtime book reviewer — also posts a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction at http://www.bookviews.com. The site recommends around sixty books each month on topics that include history, biographies, health, business, parenting, books for children and younger readers, and new novels. Caruba is a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Initially a fulltime journalist, Caruba is a veteran public relations counselor who is often asked by members of the news media to comment on news involving PR issues. A longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of Science Writers, Caruba maintains an Internet site for his professional practice at http://www.caruba.com.
Caruba resides in the Gaslight Commons in South Orange, New Jersey. In his former career as a journalist, he was the editor of a weekly newspaper, the East Orange Record, and as a columnist and feature writer for the Morris County Daily Record. He has been a contributor to many consumer and trade magazines. These days, his writings can be found in a variety of newspapers as well as on the Internet.
His commentaries are posted on many leading news and opinion websites, and frequently picked up and shared by blogs as well. Caruba has his own popular daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
In addition to the Center, Caruba — a longtime book reviewer — also posts a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction at http://www.bookviews.com. The site recommends around sixty books each month on topics that include history, biographies, health, business, parenting, books for children and younger readers, and new novels. Caruba is a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Initially a fulltime journalist, Caruba is a veteran public relations counselor who is often asked by members of the news media to comment on news involving PR issues. A longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of Science Writers, Caruba maintains an Internet site for his professional practice at http://www.caruba.com.
Caruba resides in the Gaslight Commons in South Orange, New Jersey. In his former career as a journalist, he was the editor of a weekly newspaper, the East Orange Record, and as a columnist and feature writer for the Morris County Daily Record. He has been a contributor to many consumer and trade magazines. These days, his writings can be found in a variety of newspapers as well as on the Internet.
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February 8, 2012
As someone who vividly recalls the Iranian "students" who took our diplomats hostage in 1979 and the 444 days it took to get them back, the repeat of this by . . .
Alan Caruba
February 5, 2012
I have begun to think of the Republican campaign as a series of Looney Tunes cartoons being replayed again and again. They are filled with a combination of . . .
Alan Caruba
February 1, 2012
The sixteen names of the scientists who jointly signed the article in The Wall Street Journal, "No Need to Panic About Global Warming" on January 27th are . . .
Alan Caruba
January 29, 2012
The only constant in the life of individuals and nations is change. Since the beginning of the last century, the process or rate of change has accelerated with . . .
Alan Caruba
January 26, 2012
It seems like a bizarre notion, but does Barack Obama want to lose the election in November?
I think he does!
One is struck by the way Obama has visibly . . .
Alan Caruba
January 22, 2012
It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world's greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the . . .
Alan Caruba
January 20, 2012
Future historians may conclude that President Obama's decision to reject a permit for the building of the XL Keystone pipeline was a key factor in his defeat . . .
Alan Caruba
January 18, 2012
In 1991, the Soviet Union, arguably the greatest experiment in Communism, collapsed. After Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors moved to shift its Communist . . .
Alan Caruba
January 16, 2012
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." If you want peace, plan for war. The adage is attributed to the 4th or 5th century Latin author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's . . .
Alan Caruba
January 8, 2012
The Founding Fathers, authors of the Constitution, were obsessed with any form of government that could become too powerful, too willing to use force to oppress . . .
Alan Caruba
January 6, 2012
To understand how the Environmental Protection Agency operates, one must first understand that it lies all the time. Its "estimates" are bogus. Its claims of . . .
Alan Caruba
January 1, 2012
Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed this in order to keep readers reading . . .
Alan Caruba
December 29, 2011
It's a little known event, perhaps because its participants want it that way, but as the new year is poised to begin, the Grand Panjandrum of Pundits gathered . . .
Alan Caruba
December 26, 2011
Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the Republic should be tallied.
1. . . .
Alan Caruba
December 23, 2011
For generations of Americans, the most famous kiss between a Navy sailor and a nurse occurred during the celebration of V-J Day in New York's Times Square on . . .
Alan Caruba
December 19, 2011
"By far the most important event in the entire rise of Christianity was the meeting in Jerusalem in around the year 50, when Paul was granted the authority to . . .
Alan Caruba
December 16, 2011
The modern-day Tea Party is a loose amalgamation of people who came together in March 2009 to protest against passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable . . .
Alan Caruba
December 11, 2011
In his extraordinary book, "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century," the historian, Dr. Paul Kengor, stated in his . . .
Alan Caruba
December 8, 2011
The most formidable couple in the world during the 1980s was Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher, a conservative and a woman of . . .
Alan Caruba
December 4, 2011
Ask any financial advisor what to do when you are drowning in debt and they will tell you to spend less and pay down your debt. This is just common sense. . . .
Alan Caruba
December 1, 2011
As the citizens of the United States and the seventeen member-nations of the European Union look on, a great drama regarding the future of the EU and its . . .
Alan Caruba
November 28, 2011
At present, the amount of the annual Gross Domestic Product, $14 trillion — the value of all the goods and services that generate income — is . . .
Alan Caruba
November 21, 2011
We are living in times when the structures involving the global financial system, national security, and self-governance are under attack, decaying, or just . . .
Alan Caruba
November 17, 2011
By the weekend, news reports indicated that the congressional Super Committee was closing in on an agreement. The deficit-cutting panel is mandated to trim at . . .
Alan Caruba
November 16, 2011
During the long years of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union faced off against each other, both having an arsenal of nuclear . . .
Alan Caruba
November 13, 2011
Generally overlooked in the midst of the many debates and the usual competition between Republican candidates for the Party's nomination is the fact that a . . .
Alan Caruba
November 10, 2011
In the movie, "Cool Hand Luke" the warden of a prison camp utters the now famous line, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." The decision of the . . .
Alan Caruba
November 9, 2011
In bad times, anti-Semitism seems to crawl out of the sewers like a repugnant odor. It is not subject to a rational response. It is pure emotion and a very . . .
Alan Caruba
November 7, 2011
Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement tends toward violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities . . .
Alan Caruba
November 3, 2011
It can be argued that domestic affairs are a president's top priority, but the Constitution expressly puts the chief executive in charge of setting and . . .
Alan Caruba
October 31, 2011
America has been under attack since Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20, 2009. The primary target has been the nation's ability to generate . . .
Alan Caruba
October 26, 2011
I used to write obituaries when I was a young journalist and I daresay they are one of the best read sections of any newspaper. We have arrived at a time when . . .
Alan Caruba
October 23, 2011
There were at last count at least 643 ways to spell Muammar Gaddafi and I for one am very happy he is dead for that reason alone. The fact that he was the . . .
Alan Caruba
October 20, 2011
In Paris on October 15th, a group of finance ministers and central bankers known as the G20, representing major nations, gave the European Union until October 2 . . .
Alan Caruba
October 17, 2011
When early humans got the hang of walking upright, the first thing many did was to walk out of Africa and, eventually, to all parts of the Earth from Asia to . . .
Alan Caruba
October 13, 2011
Norman Thomas, a U.S. Socialist Party candidate for president, once famously said, "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the . . .
Alan Caruba
October 10, 2011
When you murder someone the case is never closed. The same holds when you murder the truth. No matter how long it takes, truth is defended despite all the . . .
Alan Caruba
October 2, 2011
The notion that the Environmental Protection Agency uses "science" to justify their regulations is false, just like most of the claims they issue on various . . .
Alan Caruba
September 28, 2011
If one has been in the habit of reading history then the events of the past and of the present inform each other. For this reason, it occurred to me that the . . .
Alan Caruba
September 26, 2011
"I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism...I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the . . .
Alan Caruba
September 19, 2011
The people who have given us bagels and lox, potato latkes, and chicken soup, in addition to the Old Testament, Albert Einstein, and a list of Nobel Prize . . .
Alan Caruba
September 11, 2011
I have been predicting the death of the global warming theory since late in the last decade when it became obvious that the Earth had entered into a cooling . . .
Alan Caruba
September 9, 2011
There will probably never be a definitive calculation of how much money the United States (and other nations) has wasted on Green programs, litigation, grants, . . .
Alan Caruba
September 5, 2011
I was eleven years old when Israel declared its independence and sovereignty in 1948 with the blessing of the United Nations. World War Two and the Holocaust . . .
Alan Caruba
August 28, 2011
What major weather events and especially earthquakes tell us is that we live on planet Earth on its terms, not ours. Put another way, we don't "control" the . . .
Alan Caruba
August 27, 2011
In 1876 Thomas Alva Edison opened a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey for the purposes of exploring how to produce and distribute electricity. History . . .
Alan Caruba
August 25, 2011
I was a young working journalist during the era of the Civil Rights movement and one evening I was covering a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the . . .
Alan Caruba
August 21, 2011
You know that Barack Obama is in trouble when even the Congressional Black Caucus begins to criticize him.
Maxine Waters (D-CA) recently told a gathering . . .
Alan Caruba
August 14, 2011
As bad as the present financial crisis is, how much worse would it be if the enemies of the United States of America, emboldened by a smaller Army, Navy, Air . . .
Alan Caruba
July 31, 2011
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." . . .
Alan Caruba
July 27, 2011
About halfway into his fifteen minute televised address on Monday evening, it occurred to me that Obama is literally boring Americans to death. He was elected . . .
Alan Caruba
July 24, 2011
The most surprising thing about the current heat wave affecting much of the United States is that no global warming charlatan is claiming that it is the result . . .
Alan Caruba
July 17, 2011
As is well known, I am an expert on practically everything. This is why I am obscenely wealthy, sought after by the major media, and am an object of desire even . . .
Alan Caruba
July 12, 2011
Casey Anthony, the mother of a toddler whose body was stuffed into a bag and tossed into a swamp, will walk free in a day or so. A jury was unable to conclude . . .
Alan Caruba
July 10, 2011
The vote to end the $6 billion in subsidies to ethanol producers reminded me how much Greens love us all. Surely only love could inspire taking corn and turning . . .
Alan Caruba
July 8, 2011
Any parent or teacher who has tried to hold a conversation with a self-centered, petulant child or teenager knows how frustrating it is to try to get beyond the . . .
Alan Caruba
July 3, 2011
When we celebrate the Fourth of July, let's keep in mind that the first Americans won their independence from England with the force of arms. It was, in fact, a . . .
Alan Caruba
June 27, 2011
America is a sovereign nation, a constitutional Republic that will celebrate the 235th anniversary of its declaration of independence in 1776 and the 223rd . . .
Alan Caruba
June 22, 2011
The lies being told about Bisphenol-A, BPA, via the print and broadcast media, and via the Internet are a destructive tsunami intended to ban its use. If . . .
Alan Caruba
June 20, 2011
I always thought it was creepy the way Barack Hussein Obama has repeatedly referred to the likelihood of his being a one-term President. It is as if he knew, . . .
Alan Caruba
June 12, 2011
A problem with which American administrations have grappled since the days of Thomas Jefferson's presidency has been Arabs and the Middle East. The Marine . . .
Alan Caruba
June 7, 2011
In May Rasmussen Reports took a survey of a thousand adults asking if they believed that States have the right to secede. "One-in-five Americans believe . . .
Alan Caruba
June 5, 2011
Something I never thought I would ever see in my former hometown, a wealthy New Jersey suburb of New York City, was a Dollar Store, but one opened recently in a . . .
Alan Caruba
May 30, 2011
As of May 30, 2011, America has 600 days more of rule by President Barack Hussein Obama.
He is the 44th President and, while we have had incompetent . . .
Alan Caruba
May 23, 2011
Over the course of the first four elements of The BPA File, we have documented a massive, global campaign to ban bisphenol-A, BPA, a chemical that has been . . .
Alan Caruba
May 19, 2011
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report titled "A Nation at Risk" that documented nationwide failure in American schools. . . .
Alan Caruba
May 16, 2011
Is Obama a Muslim? Does Obama hate Israel? Will Israel be attacked again? Will Iran nuke Israel? Has Maghreb and Middle Eastern turmoil flummoxed the White . . .
Alan Caruba
May 12, 2011
It was a relatively short Wall Street Journal article on Saturday, May 7th. "Fannie Mae Falls Back Into the Loss Column."
"Fannie Mae reported a net loss of . . .
Alan Caruba
May 9, 2011
Even Pakistanis do not believe that their political and military leaders did not know bin Laden was living, as one columnist put it, "wrapped in the bosom of . . .
Alan Caruba
May 3, 2011
Americans greeted news of Osama bin Laden's death with a celebration of the payback it represents for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001 . . .
Alan Caruba
May 2, 2011
Last week ended in pageantry that altered history in ways the whole world could take notice, vicariously participate, and absorb into the collective conscience. . . .
Alan Caruba
April 27, 2011
In a revealing article in the April issue of The Atlantic, "Beyond BPA: Could 'BPA-Free' Products Be Just as Unsafe?" the effort to scare American consumers and . . .
Alan Caruba
April 25, 2011
Anyone such as myself who lived through the long years of the Vietnam quagmire knows that the United States is repeating the same errors in the Middle East that . . .
Alan Caruba
April 18, 2011
Anyone who has been paying any attention to the environmental movement has got to have concluded it is insane.
* While the United States stands poised on . . .
Alan Caruba
April 13, 2011
The absurdity of raising taxes in the midst of a recession that increasingly looks and feels like a depression only underscores the Democrat's historic and . . .
Alan Caruba
April 10, 2011
In the months and years leading up to the beginning of World War Two, all the parties knew full well Hitler's intention to start a war. When he struck a deal . . .
Alan Caruba
April 4, 2011
According to a new book, "The Healthy Home," every single room in your home or apartment is lethal. You would be better off living in a tent in the woods . . .
Alan Caruba
March 30, 2011
When I began this series about bisphenol-A, BPA, I instituted a Google Alert for Internet posts that mentioned it. From January through March it generated a . . .
Alan Caruba
March 28, 2011
One of the great afflictions of the environmentalists — Greens — everywhere is a profound lack of understanding of the role that energy plays in . . .
Alan Caruba
March 24, 2011
It almost makes one wistful for the Cold War when the world was neatly divided between the United States and its allies against what Ronald Reagan called "the . . .
Alan Caruba
March 21, 2011
Isn't it about time that the mainstream media and all others begin to examine the record and conclude that a Communist holds the reins of power in the White . . .
Alan Caruba
March 16, 2011
Reading the Environmental Protection Agency's news releases is a trip into the world of science fiction, of fantastical assertions and predictions that have no . . .
Alan Caruba
March 14, 2011
Have you noticed that you rarely hear "global warming" mentioned on radio or television and the term rarely occurs any more in the print media?
One reason is . . .
Alan Caruba
March 10, 2011
We all see the world through the prism of where we live. Most of us live in the cities and suburbs. From the early 1940s when my parents moved to the picture . . .
Alan Caruba
March 6, 2011
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until . . .
Alan Caruba
March 1, 2011
With exquisite timing, I sent my passport renewal application to the agency responsible for issuing a new one at precisely the time when the federal government . . .
Alan Caruba
February 27, 2011
A news item by Agence Press France flew under the radar of many American news media. On February 25th it reported that "The White House on Friday named Jeremy . . .
Alan Caruba
February 23, 2011
Writing for Health News Digest.com in early February, Michael D. Shaw noted that bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics and an . . .
Alan Caruba
February 21, 2011
I have this theory that we, the adults, all function at the emotional level of 13-year-olds, the age of bar mitzvahs in which the young man can declare to the . . .
Alan Caruba
February 16, 2011
Remember when everyone was calling George W. Bush stupid? I do. Since then, his published memoir of his years in the White House has been on the bestseller . . .
Alan Caruba
February 14, 2011
In his famed poem, Mending Wall, the American poet, Robert Frost chided the rock wall that he and his neighbor would mend each spring, replacing fallen rocks. . . .
Alan Caruba
February 6, 2011
"I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin. I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors. All of us against the foreigner."
— . . .
Alan Caruba
February 3, 2011
Imagine that every day of your life begins with a morning call to prayer from minarets around the city or village in which you live.
Imagine that you are . . .
Alan Caruba
January 31, 2011
It took several weeks for word of the British defeat at Yorktown to reach the king and parliament. Not long after the end of the American Revolution, the . . .
Alan Caruba
January 29, 2011
Those of us around at the time of the 1979 Iranian student revolution that deposed the shah are having strong feelings of déjà vu because that uprising was . . .
Alan Caruba
January 27, 2011
In July 2010 I wrote a commentary about Bisphenol-A, more commonly called BPA. It is a chemical that has been in wide, safe use for over 50 years, but has come . . .
Alan Caruba
January 24, 2011
The Holocaust of the last century is remembered for the mass murder of Europe's Jewish population, an estimated six million who perished. In total, an estimated . . .
Alan Caruba
January 19, 2011
I have known a few Communists in my time. The worst of them are the unrepentant ones, still aglow from the 1960s and 70s when the college campuses and streets . . .
Alan Caruba
January 16, 2011
Unless I am seriously mistaken or misinformed, the rate of unemployment in the U.S. remains high and the foreclosure rate on homes is approaching the level of . . .
Alan Caruba
January 13, 2011
It's the curse of having sat through too many local town council meetings and too many speeches by politicians; it's taking notes as they speak because you want . . .
Alan Caruba
January 9, 2011
There is no religion, past or present, that has not generated an End Times prediction. As the year 2011 begins, you can be sure that the media will begin to . . .
Alan Caruba
January 2, 2011
The greatest absurdity has been the belief that human beings have any influence over the planet on which they live.
The Earth is the third planet from the . . .
Alan Caruba
December 29, 2010
The great issue of our times is the same great issue of the 1830s. The question is whether Congress can pass legislation or the President issue executive orders . . .
Alan Caruba
December 27, 2010
In ancient times a soothsayer could make a good living divining the meaning of chicken bones and shiny pebbles. The modern version is usually some journalist . . .
Alan Caruba
December 19, 2010
Not long ago I saw a television documentary on the rise of the Third Reich in Germany. I have, in addition, read any number of books on the period of the 1920s . . .
Alan Caruba
December 15, 2010
Recently I received an email and requested permission to share it. It says a great deal about the danger of a government inclined to ignore the Constitution. . . .
Alan Caruba
December 12, 2010
Muhammad, the self-proclaimed prophet of Allah, died in 632 AD. As historian James Carroll notes in his forthcoming book about Jerusalem, "The next year, only . . .
Alan Caruba
December 5, 2010
It seems almost beyond reason that a single U.S. agency could so hate America that it was prepared to ignore the Constitution, distort a Supreme Court decision, . . .
Alan Caruba
December 2, 2010
If you had any doubt that Barack Obama's agenda is to destroy the United States of America, but still want more proof, I offer you the announcement that his . . .
Alan Caruba
November 25, 2010
The Korean War ended in a stalemate in 1953. Having begun on June 25, 1950 with the blessings of Joseph Stalin, an armistice agreement on July 27, 1953 left the . . .
Alan Caruba
November 21, 2010
What kind of government deliberately denies its citizens access to the energy they need to live, to conduct business, to transport goods, to travel, and to just . . .
Alan Caruba
November 18, 2010
November 20, 2009 is an important date because it was the day that "global warming" ended. It was the day that a total fabrication, a hoax, was revealed to be . . .
Alan Caruba
November 14, 2010
Historically, the Federal Reserve has had a poor record when it comes to correcting an economic slide into Depression.
In his book, "New Deal or Raw Deal?" . . .
Alan Caruba
November 7, 2010
Every time you see some product being sold as "Green," allegedly safer or beneficial for the environment, you can be sure that it is more expensive than a . . .
Alan Caruba
November 1, 2010
After three decades of trying to push the global warming scam to a point where billions could be made selling and trading bogus "carbon credits," the global . . .
Alan Caruba
October 27, 2010
"The men the American public admires most extravagantly are the daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." . . .
Alan Caruba
October 25, 2010
Normally, we assume that anyone who runs for and assumes the office of president has an agenda intended to succeed and thereby ensure that history will look . . .
Alan Caruba
October 23, 2010
The headline on the National Public Radio website said, "NPR Ends Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks," but it should have said, "NPR Fires Williams for . . .
Alan Caruba
October 18, 2010
How many recall the eight years of George W. Bush's two terms in office during which he was constantly derided as being too dumb to be president? He was deemed . . .
Alan Caruba
October 11, 2010
Time and again in these troubled and troubling times people make reference to Germany in the 1930s, the rise of the Third Reich, and to Hitler as they express . . .
Alan Caruba
October 8, 2010
Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison on October 6th for trying to kill a lot of innocent Americans in Times Square on May 1, 2010. He was completely . . .
Alan Caruba
October 4, 2010
One of the shows I enjoy watching on the Science Channel is "How It's Made." All manner of things we use to enhance our lives start out as raw materials and the . . .
Alan Caruba
September 27, 2010
In mid-September, Cathy Zoi, an Assistant Secretary of Energy, said that the U.S. Department of Energy has a "mandate" to issue regulations about what household . . .
Alan Caruba
September 20, 2010
Any scientist who has not sold his soul to the environmental movement will tell you that the reason that greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), do . . .
Alan Caruba
September 12, 2010
What if the government banned air conditioning? What if flat-screen televisions were determined to use too much electricity and were ordered phased out of . . .
Alan Caruba
September 10, 2010
Whenever I drove into New York via the Lincoln Tunnel, I would join the other cars on the long, graceful curve leading to its entrance and, looking to my left, . . .
Alan Caruba
September 5, 2010
Between the time that George Washington took the first oath of office as president and when Barack Obama did — 1789 to 2009, the United States had borrowed nine . . .
Alan Caruba
September 2, 2010
For a few hours on Wednesday the nation's attention was on James J. Lee who took hostages at the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, . . .
Alan Caruba
August 31, 2010
The headlines report the way the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been lying and some, myself included, are calling for an end to this snakes' nest . . .
Alan Caruba
August 30, 2010
As the nation's children return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and communities coast to coast realize how . . .
Alan Caruba
August 26, 2010
As a child in the 1950s, I learned how to "duck and cover" in order to protect myself from an atomic bomb explosion. Little did I know that the instruction . . .
Alan Caruba
August 25, 2010
The older you get the faster time seems to speed by. One minute you're talking about the Baby Boom generation, 1946 to 1964, and the next it's Generation X, 196 . . .
Alan Caruba
August 22, 2010
It is increasingly obvious that the Obama administration is more interested in protecting Mexicans than Americans.
Case in point; Maricopa County Sheriff Joe . . .
Alan Caruba
August 15, 2010
On November 18, 1978, the world was shocked to learn that more than 900 members of the People's Temple had committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. They took . . .
Alan Caruba
August 14, 2010
"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country." — Barack Hussein Obama, . . .
Alan Caruba
August 13, 2010
On August 12, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out a press release, "EPA Proposes Rules on Clean Air Act Permitting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
It . . .
Alan Caruba
August 12, 2010
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...we have just as much unemployment as when we started.. . . .
Alan Caruba
August 8, 2010
There are two topics I generally try to avoid discussing. Number one on the list is homosexuality. Number two is most things having to do with religion, . . .
Alan Caruba
August 4, 2010
In the August 3rd edition of The Wall Street Journal, in the Greater New York section, the lead article was "9/11 Memorial Pledged as Part of Mosque Plan."
. . .
Alan Caruba
August 1, 2010
These are truly extraordinary times. With every passing day, we are witnessing what can only be called the People versus the Government. The distrust and . . .
Alan Caruba
July 25, 2010
The unemployment rate keeps climbing and the polling results for the President and Congress keep falling. Conservatives are well aware that the Obama . . .
Alan Caruba
July 21, 2010
There is no single duty that a President has as Commander-in-Chief that is more important than ensuring the nation's engines of defense remain at a level that . . .
Alan Caruba
July 18, 2010
"The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how . . .
Alan Caruba
July 14, 2010
You may have noticed that the mainstream media has virtually dropped "global warming" as a topic worth reporting. That can be traced to "Climategate," the . . .
Alan Caruba
July 11, 2010
I was frankly surprised when Barack Obama was elected President in 2008. I thought his self-identification as a black American would tip the scales to John . . .
Alan Caruba
July 4, 2010
Not far from where I live in New Jersey, in Montclair, Richard and Cynthia Murphy were arrested as Russian sleeper agents, allegedly in the employ of the SVR, . . .
Alan Caruba
June 27, 2010
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All those with business before the court of public opinion will draw near. A bill of indictment has been issued for Barack Hussein Obama, . . .
Alan Caruba
June 20, 2010
The Gulf of Mexico could turn into a giant dead zone if some means cannot be found to staunch the flow of oil and toxic gases emerging from the damaged well . . .
Alan Caruba
June 13, 2010
I do not know what it is about Islam and liberalism that causes both to turn logic and truth on its head, but we have been witnessing it in different ways in . . .
Alan Caruba
June 8, 2010
Next to the huge international hoax about global warming allegedly caused by carbon dioxide, the biggest lie being told to Americans these days is that we are . . .
Alan Caruba
June 6, 2010
There is a cruel calculus of war. It is the number of casualties required to win. Beyond that, it is the consequences of losing.
Sixty-six years ago, on June . . .
Alan Caruba
June 2, 2010
For anyone who has followed Al Gore's Green Brick Road to the land of Global Warming, there has to be more than a bit of schadenfreude — taking pleasure in . . .
Alan Caruba
May 31, 2010
Ever since polls have been taken there have been presidents who encountered disapproval during their terms in office. Usually history exonerates them to some . . .
Alan Caruba
May 24, 2010
When the government controls the provision of energy, it controls the lives of all citizens and the growth or failure of the nation's economy. Everything else, . . .
Alan Caruba
May 19, 2010
"Denial" is not a river in Africa, nor is it a proper term for the legion of climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, and others like myself who have devoted . . .
Alan Caruba
May 16, 2010
For some time now friends have been asking me why I haven't written anything about the Arizona law, amnesty, illegal immigration, and Mexicans.
The problem . . .
Alan Caruba
May 14, 2010
It's not just the lies about climate change.
It's not just the lies about renewable, wind and solar, energy.
It's not just the lies about so-called . . .
Alan Caruba
May 11, 2010
It is almost beyond comprehension that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) will introduce the Cap-and-Trade Act on Wednesday, May 12th, for . . .
Alan Caruba
May 9, 2010
We are now nearly nine years passed the attack on September 11, 2001 that killed some 3,000 Americans in the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and seventeen years since . . .
Alan Caruba
May 6, 2010
I feel sorry for atheists and this is particularly true on the National Day of Prayer, May 6th.
Curiously, almost every atheist I know has read the Old and . . .
Alan Caruba
May 2, 2010
Lately I have been playing with the question, is the United States of America too big to fail?
Greece's bonds are now rated as "junk." It will have to be . . .
Alan Caruba
April 21, 2010
It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an . . .
Alan Caruba
April 20, 2010
While America maintains the greatest military power in the history of mankind, fearful of another terrorist attack on its soil, it is being destroyed from . . .
Alan Caruba
April 18, 2010
Among the legacies of Richard M. Nixon, famed for the Watergate scandal that forced his resignation, it should be noted that he created the Environmental . . .
Alan Caruba
April 14, 2010
President Obama, his weird circle of advisors (czars), and the ideologues within the Democrat Party led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid . . .
Alan Caruba
April 10, 2010
We now live in a nation that will not name its enemy. Homeland Security wants to eliminate terms like Islamic jihad or terrorism from its vocabulary lest we . . .
Alan Caruba
April 8, 2010
The British, when they still ruled the American colonies, learned to their displeasure what a bad idea it is to pick a fight with patriots.
By the time the . . .
Alan Caruba
April 3, 2010
I come from a generation, just as several before it, that was drafted into military service. The Draft, conscription, goes back to the days of the Civil War and . . .
Alan Caruba
April 1, 2010
Lisa Jackson, Obama's EPA director, has just announced the agency's new auto regulations of gas mileage based on global warming. In addition, the agency asserts . . .
Alan Caruba
March 30, 2010
I keep wondering when the world is going to begin to take Islamic terrorism seriously.
The world's leaders and, in particular, the media could begin by . . .
Alan Caruba
March 29, 2010
As the sun begins to set on an America whose dollar set the standard and whose capacity for manufacturing was unchallenged, a new superpower is emerging and it . . .
Alan Caruba
March 24, 2010
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide." — John Adams (1835-1826)
. . .
Alan Caruba
March 23, 2010
On Tuesday, March 23rd, when Benyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Jewish state of Israel, meets with President Barack Hussein Obama, a Muslim, he will . . .
Alan Caruba
March 20, 2010
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than . . .
Alan Caruba
March 17, 2010
Don't you think, if the Democrats had the votes for Obamacare, it would be the law of the land right now?
I have been telling friends for days that it doesn . . .
Alan Caruba
March 15, 2010
During what can only be hoped will be the final struggle between the socialist and capitalist approach to health care the debate is focused on the cost of . . .
Alan Caruba
March 14, 2010
Both my Father and older brother were Certified Public Accountants. Around the dinner table, the Internal Revenue Services was spoken of as the adversary. "Tax . . .
Alan Caruba
March 7, 2010
One of the keystones of the Obama administration's energy policies has been a very expensive emphasis on "clean energy," sometimes called "renewable energy," . . .
Alan Caruba
March 4, 2010
What was that most homeowners and apartment dwellers most feared in the recent record-breaking blizzard that hit the northeast?
The answer is losing . . .
Alan Caruba
March 3, 2010
The author and conservative icon, Ayn Rand, wrote that "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral . . .
Alan Caruba
February 27, 2010
After seven and a half hours of the Republicans trying to introduce some rationality into the discussion of Obamacare, the "reform" of Medicare that actually . . .
Alan Caruba
February 25, 2010
"In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of . . .
Alan Caruba
February 20, 2010
As the massive global warming fraud implodes, the one aspect of it that has not been explored in depth is the equally massive waste of billions of dollars spent . . .
Alan Caruba
February 14, 2010
The most enduring images of the Great Depression from 1929 through to the beginning of World War II for America in 1941 were those of homeless people, hobo . . .
Alan Caruba
February 11, 2010
The announcement by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that Iran was now "a nuclear state" . . .
Alan Caruba
February 6, 2010
Perhaps it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or perhaps it is the spin that has been added to . . .
Alan Caruba
February 3, 2010
When President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce "greenhouse gas emissions" in accordance with the failed UN Copenhagen Climate Change . . .
Alan Caruba
January 31, 2010
All across America, various environmental organizations have been engaged in schemes to deter development such as housing, new energy plants, or the horror of a . . .
Alan Caruba
January 28, 2010
After the State of the Union speech and the instant analyses on television and the punditry that follows on newspaper's editorial pages and, of course, on news . . .
Alan Caruba
January 24, 2010
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." — Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister
It began as a . . .
Alan Caruba
January 20, 2010
Yes, it's true. The emperor has no clothes. Even in a State where you cannot swing a dead cat without hitting a dozen Democrats, the voters said "No."
"We . . .
Alan Caruba
January 18, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti is a perfect example of the arrogance of environmentalists who are always running around crying "Save the Earth" or making claims that . . .
Alan Caruba
January 16, 2010
I have a friend who lives with his blind Malamute dog, Boris, in a cabin deep in the Missouri woods. He is as self-sufficient as one can be, but he is not one . . .
Alan Caruba
January 15, 2010
Barack Obama taught a University of Chicago Law School course on the U.S. Constitution. In response to inquiries during the campaign, the school released the . . .
Alan Caruba
January 10, 2010
"I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about, by the . . .
Alan Caruba
January 7, 2010
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I . . .
Alan Caruba
January 2, 2010
I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point . . .
Alan Caruba
December 27, 2009
If you felt a frisson of fear on news that the Senate had passed Obamacare the day before Christmas, then you now know what it was and is like to live in a . . .
Alan Caruba
December 26, 2009
If there is an American remaining who does not understand that the Islamic revolution is at war with our nation and the West, then they are in serious denial.
. . .
Alan Caruba
December 24, 2009
The news of the day before Christmas is that former President Jimmy Carter has apologized for anything he has said or done to offend America's Jewish community . . .
Alan Caruba
December 20, 2009
When I listen to politicians arguing the merits of some piece of legislation, I am usually 99% sure they have no idea how demography — population — will effect . . .
Alan Caruba
December 17, 2009
When President Obama shows up in Copenhagen to take part in the greatest fraud perpetrated worldwide in the modern era, there is only one thing you need to know . . .
Alan Caruba
December 12, 2009
Historians are likely to look back at 2009, the first year of Barack Obama's term in office and assess the damage it has done to Americans and to the image of . . .
Alan Caruba
December 10, 2009
One of the great ironies of the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen is that its focus is on "global warming" at a time when Planet Earth has . . .
Alan Caruba
December 6, 2009
"Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged . . .
Alan Caruba
November 28, 2009
When President Obama delivers a speech on why he is going to send more thousands of U.S. troops and spend more billions on the eight-year-old conflict in . . .
Alan Caruba
November 24, 2009
The revelations that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) doctored the data supporting the global warming claims of the . . .
Alan Caruba
November 23, 2009
For those of us "skeptics" and "deniers" who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, "See, it's the Sun that determines how warm or cool . . .
Alan Caruba
November 21, 2009
I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one "crisis" after another using wretchedly bad "science" to support their scams. On Tuesday, . . .
Alan Caruba
November 15, 2009
You will recall that, shortly before the end of the 2008 political campaign, the White House announced a threat to the entire financial system and called on . . .
Alan Caruba
November 8, 2009
I have long harbored strong doubts about the knowledge that most Americans possess regarding the sources of energy they largely take for granted. We flip a . . .
Alan Caruba
November 6, 2009
The earliest indications are that Major Malik Nadal Hasan, the alleged killer of thirteen soldiers who wounded 30 more at Fort Hood broke under the stress of . . .
Alan Caruba
November 4, 2009
The November 3rd elections were a turning point, swiftly reached.
The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama was followed by Tea Parties around the nation that . . .
Alan Caruba
November 1, 2009
In the movie, "Groundhog Day," the main character wakes up day after day, trapped in the same events, desperately looking for a way out of that living nightmare . . .
Alan Caruba
October 28, 2009
Though it pains me deeply, I have to agree with President Obama's reluctance to send more troops into Afghanistan.
Perhaps he is thinking about the problems . . .
Alan Caruba
October 25, 2009
I am always amazed at the variety of choice that exists in my local supermarket. There are other supermarkets in the area, but the one I frequent most has lower . . .
Alan Caruba
October 20, 2009
Not long ago U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, told everyone they only had a few weeks in order to save the Earth from "climate change" and this week it's . . .
Alan Caruba
October 18, 2009
It has finally dawned on me why President Obama and the Democrats in control of the Congress rushed to pass an unread "stimulus" bill "redistributing" billions . . .
Alan Caruba
October 11, 2009
As the greatest hoax of the modern era, "global warming," bites the dust around the world, it behooves us all to contemplate why environmentalists — Greens — . . .
Alan Caruba
October 3, 2009
No single government agency has grown so big and so fast as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and no single agency threatens constitutionally guaranteed . . .
Alan Caruba
September 30, 2009
Here's a look at the introduction of a draft bill co-sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), co-sponsored by John Kerry (D-MA). It is the Senate alternative to . . .
Alan Caruba
September 27, 2009
It is not a new observation, but it is one that needs review and repeating every so often. Why do liberals always seem to get on the wrong side of any issue . . .
Alan Caruba
September 22, 2009
When World War Two arrived at America's doorstep, we had to virtually build an Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines from scratch. The war had been raging in Europe . . .
Alan Caruba
September 20, 2009
Iran has been at war with the United States for thirty years.
When one's life spans time from the beginning of World War Two, the decades of the Cold War, . . .
Alan Caruba
September 13, 2009
There have been many mass marches on Washington, D.C., so the locals know how to make plans to anticipate the congestion and the police are polite and skillful . . .
Alan Caruba
September 9, 2009
Has it been eight years?
What I learned from 9/11 was that a lot of Americans have concluded that it was America's fault we were attacked. That may sound . . .
Alan Caruba
September 6, 2009
In November 2008, I wrote of Afghanistan, "Having lived through the long years of the war in Vietnam, I can tell you that Afghanistan looks and smells like . . .
Alan Caruba
September 2, 2009
"Tailgunner" Joe McCarthy, a 1950s U.S. Senator who lent his name to any effort to expose America's enemies, was right. At the height of his fame, he said the U . . .
Alan Caruba
August 30, 2009
Here's a question that has been nagging me for months. Are Obama's ever-growing number of "czars" constitutional? I am not a constitutional scholar, but I have . . .
Alan Caruba
August 23, 2009
Though most Americans are unaware of it, the rest of the world is taking an active interest in the sometimes heated debate we are having regarding the alleged . . .
Alan Caruba
August 15, 2009
Referring to a 1990 report in The Economist, the editors recently said, "To revisit the Arab world two decades later is to find that in many ways history . . .
Alan Caruba
August 8, 2009
In 1898, an article by the great French novelist, Emile Zola was published in L'Aurore. It was addressed to the President of France. Zola accused the military . . .
Alan Caruba
August 2, 2009
The term "the perfect storm" has come to mean how circumstances and bad judgments come together to create havoc and death.
I have begun to conclude that . . .
Alan Caruba
July 27, 2009
Ten minutes into the answer to the first question asked at President Obama's latest press conference, I had a kind of epiphany. This guy should be called the . . .
Alan Caruba
July 26, 2009
I have often wondered why it is such a tiny nation as Israel commands so much news coverage. Having declared its sovereignty in 1948, it is now just over sixty . . .
Alan Caruba
July 19, 2009
I recently read an interesting book by Christopher Kelly, "The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and The Fall of Rome." Our popular image of Attila is that of a . . .
Alan Caruba
July 12, 2009
If you can have a pride of lions and a gaggle of geese, then I suggest that the forthcoming July 17-20 meeting of the National Governors Association can be . . .
Alan Caruba
July 8, 2009
An estimated 2,000 "Tea Party" nationwide protests against excessive taxation did not get much coverage in the nation's mainstream media.
You had to visit . . .
