Isaiah Z. Sterrett column
Isaiah Z. Sterrett is a Lifetime Member of the California Junior Scholarship Federation, Sustaining Member of the Republican National Committee, and Basic Member of the American Conservative Union. He writes a weekly political column from his home in northern California.
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 18, 2006
SOMETIMES, when attempting to analyze politics, it becomes necessary to decode the words of politicians. Below is my (humble) attempt to do so with various . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 4, 2006
For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll." In the sacrifice of soldiers, . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 8, 2006
TO BE SURE, Massachusetts' brand-new healthcare legislation is flawed. The Conservative Response, posted immediately by the libertarian Cato Institute, is that . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 9, 2006
My column has been inconspicuously absent for the past several weeks, so I think I have some catching-up to do. True, events of worldwide importance have been . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 27, 2006
SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES pitching yet another dimwitted fit over a film as utterly harmless as "Brokeback Mountain" should learn to channel their energy elsewhere. . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 19, 2006
ADMITTEDLY, the Golden Globes are not of great importance. The idea that they're "Hollywood's biggest party," as the blathering entertainment press likes to . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 29, 2005
As it turns out, contrary to the mournful screams of liberals, "Bush's wiretaps" were (and remain) completely justified by law. It's true that this country's . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 8, 2005
I guess it was only a matter of time before John Kerry and Howard Dean, once rivals for their party's nomination, competed once more. This week, in total . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 1, 2005
THE FIRST MAJOR act of this White House after being reelected was to sell President Bush's Social Security plan. Needless to say, nothing much came of Bush's . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 25, 2005
There is nothing illegitimate about opposing the war in Iraq. Political dissent rests at the core of American political culture. What is illegitimate, however . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 17, 2005
SOMETIMES, try as one might to adhere to at least the basic seriousness required for analysis of the media, it's important to step back and examine — from a . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 4, 2005
IF GEORGE W. BUSH completely lost control of the presidency after being reelected in one of the nastiest campaigns in American history, this was the week he got . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
October 27, 2005
AS WE SIT ON tenterhooks waiting for President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee, it is important that we recognize Harriet Miers for her grace and dignity. . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
October 13, 2005
AMERICANS OPPOSED to the nomination of non-judge Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court now include Charles Krauthammer, Ann Coulter, George Will, . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
October 6, 2005
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, alleged adherent to the judicial philosophies of Justices Thomas and Scalia, has decided — along with "Architect" Karl Rove — that . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
September 29, 2005
NEWS OUT OF THE Kremlin that Vladimir Putin will not seek a third-term through constitutional manipulation (or military force, for that matter) is highly . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
September 22, 2005
IT IS RARE that weather stories replace the news of the world in the media's spotlight, but it's happened. Cleaning up after Katrina and bracing for Rita has . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
September 8, 2005
WITH THE Storm of the Century behind us, we await another storm — a political storm — in which the stakes constitute nothing less than the future of the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
August 24, 2005
The Israeli pullout of Gaza represents one of the most dramatically positive chapters in the history of international relations. Yet, paradoxically, it is . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
August 17, 2005
INSTEAD OF REPORTING on the recent coup in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, where the pro-Israel, pro-U.S. leader was ousted by a 17-soldier brigade, the U.S . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
August 10, 2005
In the African nation of Mauritania the other day, they had a coup. It was bloodless — a tidy overthrow — but it's troubling, nonetheless, and not just to the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
August 3, 2005
ALL I CAN SAY is thank Goodness John Bolton was never a member of the Federalist Society. That would have spelled the end for sure. W. was brave for . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
July 27, 2005
I HAVE TO ADMIT that I haven't been very attentive to the news lately, mainly because I just got a job in Joe Wilson's office. He takes care of the missus — . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
July 20, 2005
HE'S NEITHER a savage beast nor a blithering idiot. That's the important part. Liberals' primary argument against nearly every Republican to come down the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
July 13, 2005
IF MITT ROMNEY, the Republican Governor of ultra-liberal Massachusetts, harbors presidential aspirations — and he almost certainly does — now is the time to cut . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
July 6, 2005
I'M WRITING from my home this week or, as a majority of the Supreme Court thinks of it, "fair game." What is now "my bedroom" may next week be "Room 12" of a . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 29, 2005
ONE SIMPLE, do-it-yourself method of examining American politics is determining what, at any given moment, liberals are screeching about. This works mainly . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 16, 2005
REFLECT ON THE FACT that Democrats are now more concerned with ousting Howard Dean from the Chairmanship of the DNC than they ever were about ousting Saddam . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 2, 2005
JIM JEFFORDS was ahead of his time. He jumped ship before it was popular. As we're currently learning, the summer of 2005 is the season of turncoats.
John . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 18, 2005
LAST WEEK, when not inciting mob murder in the Mid-East, liberals were whimpering about iPods. Though once chic, the New York Times said, the Apple digital . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 11, 2005
IN A SINGLE Sunday, the New York Times managed to call iPods unhip and denounce high school theater as a "refuge of nerds and spazzes." Talk about having one's . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 4, 2005
WELL, I'm relieved. I was certain that I was the only person bored to tears over this current batch of faux news, but apparently I'm not alone. Far from it: . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 27, 2005
I AM CONTINUALLY stunned by liberals' sublime willingness to provide conservatives with evidence to suit our points. The left-leaning punditocracy feigned . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 20, 2005
WITH JOHN EDWARDS giving interviews again, one is almost brought to nostalgic tears over memories of the 2004 election. Sure it was bloodcurdling — but in the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 13, 2005
IT'S ONE THING to read about the "Summer of Threat," as we do in the government's new WMD report. That's history. What's unnerving is to discover that . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 6, 2005
NEXT, they'll tell us "Cats" wasn't a hit.
Since George Bush assumed the presidency, liberals have lost on every major issue. They supported the Kyoto . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 30, 2005
SHE ASSUMED he would understand. But he didn't.
Emailing the head of Op-Ed at the L.A. Times to protest the unjust treatment of women writers seemed like a . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 24, 2005
THE SECOND anniversary of the Iraq war's commencement was met by about 400 fuming protesters in Oslo. Four hundred — or, the approximate number of people in . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 16, 2005
I spent last week attacking Republicans for being Congressional ninnies too afraid of big, bad Democrats to speak up, and liberals spent the same period of time . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 9, 2005
REPUBLICANS are swell politicians, n'est-ce pas?
Sen. Bill Frist, hardnosed Congressional bully — er, wait, that's the minority party's leadership — said that . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 2, 2005
Who would have thought, back when Condoleezza Rice was serving as provost of Stanford, that her presence in Europe would one day provoke the Washington Post to . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 23, 2005
HALF THE PEOPLE in America yelled at me last week for having the gaucherie to say Chris Rock shouldn't host this year's Academy Awards ceremony. I hate to be . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 16, 2005
They really should have known it wasn't going to work out when he suggested that "Ellen DeGeneres has crabs." Sentiments like that are never positive.
Perhaps . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 9, 2005
IT MUST BE stressful to be a Democrat. You never know what wars to oppose, what government bureaucracies to support, what lies to tell; everything changes . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 2, 2005
ASIDE FROM THE terrific story of the Slovak man who literally urinated his way out of an avalanche, the Iraqi election is arguably this week's, this month's, . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 26, 2005
ON TV last week, George W. Bush talked about liberty, and the History Channel took liberties.
The president's words shot in the face of the liberal . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 20, 2005
W. and his associates are out and about this week, merrily gabbing about the White House's second-term agenda: social security reform at home — plus a little . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 12, 2005
So, the two subjects in which Democrats are currently most interested are: (a) torture, and (b) the burning question of Abraham Lincoln's sexuality. No joke. . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 5, 2005
I WAS ALL SET to write about the latest Anna Nicole court ruling when news broke that liberals support terrorism. The unofficial newspaper of France, or, as . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 29, 2004
WE'RE ALL huffing and puffing about the best, brightest, and most memorable players of 2004 — and we're all apparently obliged to include Paris Hilton. I don't . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 23, 2004
SOME SELF-AGGRANDIZING schmuck masquerading as a journalist found an unassuming soldier in the desert and proceeded to demand that the fatigued GI harangue Don . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 15, 2004
KERRY LOST to the Republicans, so Democrats want Howard Dean, who lost to Kerry, to help them beat the Republicans.
They also like Hill, mainly because of Bill . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 8, 2004
OUR GREAT OPPOSITION to illegal immigration should not stem from economics, but from national security. But a quick review of the monetary costs of the ultra . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 2, 2004
IN THE QUAINT little city of Alexandria, Virginia there lives a woman whom I humbly classify as my new friend. Her name is Alicia, and she works on King Street . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 17, 2004
THE ACLU is at it again. Instead of bleating about some Ten Commandments poster in Indiana, now they're hot about airport safety. In a startling development, . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 10, 2004
HERE'S THE SCOOP on Democrats and their current talking-points: all of this idiotic liberal chatter about "values," "evangelicals," and the "religious right" . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 3, 2004
DEMOCRATS HAD a bad night, Republicans had a good night, and that means America had a great night. With Bush in and Daschle out, conservatives control the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
October 28, 2004
NEXT TUESDAY, when millions of Americans make a choice that will forever affect America and the world, George W. Bush will be reelected — assuming that Sen. . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
July 21, 2004
PAGOSA SPRINGS, COLORADO — Those interested in connections between various political and social figures will find great appeal in examining the careers of Sandy . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
July 7, 2004
The good news for Democrats is that John Kerry made the smartest possible decision when he selected John Edwards to run with him. The good news for Republicans . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 30, 2004
In the complex universe of international politics, Iraqi sovereignty is what we call an overwhelming success.
We already knew that underestimating President . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 23, 2004
As we near the June 30 transfer of power in Iraq, liberals' desperation only increases. The New York Times is drearily asking questions like, "Did Bush . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 17, 2004
It is a paradox, indeed: in the week following the death of the greatest American president of the twentieth century — the man who defied decades of hard . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
June 2, 2004
Until the home of Iraqi National Congress director Ahmed Chalabi was raided by U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police, liberals hated him. They said he was a puppet of . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 27, 2004
Once again Unisom Kerry has been outfoxed by the dumb guy from Texas.
"The fourth step in our plan," said the President on Monday night, "is to enlist . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 19, 2004
Remember the Clinton years? Democrats were so much happier then. Their biggest worry was impeachment — and even that wasn't too serious. They won easily in 19 . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
May 12, 2004
If there's one positive aspect of the Abu Ghraib atrocities, it's that liberals have finally found torture that they don't support.
In 1936, Josef Stalin . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 28, 2004
Last week I wrote a column in which I argued that liberals have started addressing conservatives as "neoconservatives" because the word "conservative" — without . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 21, 2004
The difference between liberals and lemmings is becoming increasingly unclear. Left-wing columnists, especially, have a mysterious gift for writing exactly the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 14, 2004
Liberals playing the foreign policy blame-game is an irony worthy of O. Henry. It should top the list of absurd inconsistencies, right along with weeping . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 7, 2004
Democrats are awfully tetchy these days. They're mad that their presidential candidate is a pompous whiner; they're mad that people from places like Kansas . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
April 1, 2004
I guess you can't expect much maturity from the party of Lyndon Johnson, who revealed his surgical scars to reporters, or Bill Clinton, who revealed his, well, . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 25, 2004
My liberal friends and I got into a bit of a squabble earlier this week when discussing the Second World War. The Madrid train bombings came up — probably in . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 17, 2004
CALL ME a crooked liar, but it seems to me that things are improving in Iraq. Consider, for example:
Nearly 60,000 Iraqi citizens have been trained in the . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 10, 2004
THIS WEEK'S Reason to Support John Kerry is: He's smarter than you!
According to his vainglorious wife, TEH-RAY-ZAH, his interests are "insatiable," and . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
March 3, 2004
If you thought Mel Gibson's movie was bloody, wait until you see this election.
President Bush called Sen. John Kerry Tuesday evening to congratulate him on . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 18, 2004
THEY'VE DONE IT again. Lifetime TV has come out with another trashy sex movie that bashes men, mocks Christianity, and promotes teen sex.
Admittedly, I . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 11, 2004
THE NEW YORK TIMES was utterly shocked last week to discover that First Lady Laura Bush isn't a blithering idiot. According to the Times, the once "decorous" . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
February 4, 2004
WE'RE LEARNING a lot about Democrats from these primaries. We've seen, for example, that men like Sen. Joe Lieberman — who believe in actually killing . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 28, 2004
To hear the Democratic presidential candidates tell it, the winners of the New Hampshire primary were John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Wes Clark, and Joe . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 21, 2004
PRESIDENT BUSH'S State of the Union address was better than expected. Highlights included his strong defense of the Patriot Act, an absolutely necessary . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
January 10, 2004
Continually reminding voters of President Clinton's failed healthcare plan, depletion of the military, bungling of every foreign policy endeavor that came his . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 16, 2003
December 14, 2003, is a day of monumental significance. American forces captured the former Dictator of Iraq without firing a shot, and jubilant Iraqis danced . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
December 12, 2003
Astounding as it may be, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean can now officially be included among the many liberals who successfully avoided the Vietnam War. He was . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 25, 2003
Right-wing Republicans who write books calling liberals traitors and defending Joe McCarthy are hardly synonymous with northern California. An outspoken . . .
Isaiah Z. Sterrett
November 6, 2003
Liberals have found a new hobby, it seems—a new way to reaffirm their manifest superiority over the rest of us. Oh, certainly it's been around in one form or . . .
