‘Alan Caruba’ Archives
No Peace for the Israelis
By Alan Caruba Writing in the Jerusalem Post recently, Daniel Gordis wrote “Life in our region has taught us that the first necessary step to defending yourself is acknowledging that someone else is out to destroy you.” The peace talks the White House is sponsoring, much as previous administrations going back to Jimmy Carter have [...]
The Problem with the Economy Is Obama
By Alan Caruba On Tuesday evening during a CNN news hour anchored by Wolf Blitzer, he and his guest, David Gergen, the channel’s senior political analyst and a journalist with experience inside the White House as well as reporting on it, were discussing the many polls that show that the Democrat Party will likely lose control of the House [...]
Global Warming Editorial Gets It Wrong
By Alan Caruba It’s rare to come across a newspaper editorial in which virtually every assertion is false, but is absurdly titled “Face Facts.” Since 1988 the movement behind the global warming fraud has labored long and hard to mislead the citizens of the world to believe what is surely the greatest "science" hoax ever [...]
Nazi Dreams were Green Dreams
By Alan Caruba In a week when Jews will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the New Year--5771, the connection between the Nazi’s rebellion against the Judeo-Christian worldview and the present-day ideology that drives the environmental movement needs to be exposed. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere around the world, driven in [...]
Feels Like a Depression to Me
By Alan Caruba 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 trillion dollars. Since Obama took office, it has borrowed or imposed nearly three trillion more debt. Tell me he is not deliberately seeking to bankrupt the [...]
Unfair, Butt True — Alan Caruba
It is clearly unfair to compare, from left to right, Princess Letizia of Spain, Carla Bruni, the wife of France's president, and Aunt Esther...I mean Michelle Obama, seen here together. That said, one picture is still worth a thousand words. It's wrong! Wrong to compare first ladies, but this one is always going on about what we should eat [...]
Two Crazy Greens
By Alan Caruba 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, Maryland. Negotiations failed to sway him from his mission or free his hostages. Lee was a Green zealot and police were left with no alternative than to shoot Lee [...]
America Goes Buggy Over Bed Bugs
By Alan Caruba When The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and all other media in America begin to devote lots of space and time to the subject of bed bugs, you know America has a real pest problem. Uniquely, I know a lot of pest control professionals because I have worked closely with the industry for a quarter century providing [...]
All Wars Must End Sometime
By Alan Caruba As the Vietnam War began to lose momentum for American troops, Sen. George Aiken suggested, “Let’s just declare victory and get out.” This is the way modern wars end. President Obama noted the 4,400 troops that died in combat over seven and a half years in Iraq. He also made mention of American valor on Iwo Jima [...]
Carbon Dioxide Riches Disappear
By Alan Caruba 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 of global deception. I keep waiting for some environmental group to announce that the Earth is running out of oxygen. It’s the kind of huge lie that [...]
The Orwellian EPA — Caruba
By Alan Caruba Every time I conclude that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot get crazier, they demonstrate they are not only crazy, but a continued threat to the health, national security, and the right of Americans to be free of incessant governmental intrusion into their lives and choices. Mind you, they get lots of help from [...]
Our Schools: Dumb and Dumber
By Alan Caruba 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 poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted by a socialist agenda. Our nation’s schools have long been factories of [...]
How I Learned to Love the Bomb
By Alan Caruba 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 should have been “Kiss your asterisk goodbye.” The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the Soviets wanted to put nuclear-tipped long range missiles there, led [...]
The Muddle East
By Alan Caruba For a long time the world’s attention to an increasing degree was on Vietnam. A war was fought there from 1954 until 1975, but the U.S. didn’t get seriously involved until August 7, 1964 with the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the arrival of the first combat troops in March 1965. It would take ten years to extricate [...]
An Ill Wind (Power) in New Jersey
By Alan Caruba Since his election, New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie has been remarkably successful in dealing with the Democrat controlled state legislature and has rocketed to national fame for simply being the real deal when it comes to conservative politics and policies. That is, until he signed a bill on August 19 that one [...]
John Quincy Adams versus Maureen Dowd
By Alan Caruba As this is being written, two rallies are being held in the pouring rain in New York, just outside the proposed site of the Ground Zero mosque. One represents people opposed to it and one with people who see no problem whatever in an Islamic house of worship a few steps from where Muslims, in the name of Islam, destroyed [...]
Mexico, Bloody Mexico
By Alan Caruba It is increasingly obvious that the Obama administration is more interested in protecting Mexicans than Americans. Case in point; Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has eleven suspects accused of murdering law enforcement officers in his maximum security county jail in downtown Phoenix. As reported in the August 18 [...]
No Peace for Israel
By Alan Caruba The Iranians and the Syrians are on heightened military alert as the Russians fuel the Iranian nuclear reactor at Brushehr today and everyone has an opinion about when and who will attack it. If the world wanted to stop the plant from functioning, it could and would have done so long ago. The military alert is [...]
People Have Noticed
By Alan Caruba "Apres moi le deluge”, “After me, the flood” and though attributed to the French King Louis XV, historians believe it was actually said by Jeanne Poisson, Madame de Pompadour. The last members of the monarchy spent France into the poorhouse until they had their heads separated from their bodies via the [...]
We’re Broke: Now What?
By Alan Caruba “Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.” So said Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University, in a commentary on Bloomberg.com, August 10. His solution was to “radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and [...]
Why It’s Too Darn Hot
By Alan Caruba Having written for a decade that the Earth has been cooling, it was rather disconcerting to receive a news release from Accuweather reporting that “The year 2010 is on track to become the hottest year on record since modern record keeping began, according to climate researchers at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric [...]
Why Are Liberals Blind to Evil in the World?
By Alan Caruba Why do so many Jews, located primarily in New York City, Los Angeles, and in Florida, mindlessly vote the Democrat Party line and thus support the Democrat destruction of the nation remains a mystery to me, but the same can be also said of Afro-Americans. Perhaps it is because both share a history of persecution and both are [...]
A New Deadline for War with Iran
By Alan Caruba The world has a new deadline for war. It is August 21, 2010 when the Russians activate Iran’s first nuclear reactor by loading fuel. Both the Russians and the Iranian regime have concluded that President Obama is weak and they have plenty of reason to think this. They have taken his measure since he was inaugurated in [...]
Obama is America’s New Jim Jones
By Alan Caruba 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 their lives at the urging of Jim Jones, the Temple’s founder. Until 9/11 it was the single biggest loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster and the [...]
The First UnAmerican President
By Alan Caruba “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, spoken at a White House dinner to celebrate the beginning of Ramadan! Well, of course, he does. Why wouldn’t someone who thinks the sound of the call to [...]
The EPA Must Be Stopped
By Alan Caruba 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 is a frontal attack on the U.S. economy that is currently in the throes of a decline that has not been seen since the Great Depression. If the EPA succeeds in [...]
Big Green Lies Are Imploding
By Alan Caruba As World War Two wound down, in 1945 Italian partisans found Benito Mussolini and his girlfriend trying to flee to Switzerland. They shot both of them and then hung them by their heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan. He had led the National Fascist Party and had been the 40th prime minister from 1922 until being deposed, jailed, [...]
Short Memories, Bad Politics, Big Debt
By Alan Caruba “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…and an enormous debt to boot!” It was a decade of disaster and the man who spoke these words was Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of [...]
Why Billions of Bed Bugs are Biting
By Alan Caruba After decades during which bed bugs were a rare event, they now make headlines infesting places from the Jersey City Goldman Sacks building to a Victoria’s Secret shop on New York’s Upper East Side, along with dormitories, apartments and homes throughout the nation The bed bug explosion is more related to the loss of [...]
On the Blago Watch
By Alan Caruba If the nation was not contending with a horrible economy, taking a deep breath of relief after the capping of the BP oil well, and not distracted by other stories in the news, I am sure it would have been riveted by the trial of former Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich. If ever a trial called out to become a Hollywood [...]
