Alan Caruba

Editor's Note: Alan passed away on June 15, 2015. He will be greatly missed

Alan Caruba: A candle that goes on flickering in the dark.

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Maureen Dowd, Eleanor Clift, David Brooks, Dana Milbank, Bret Stephens

“If his lips are moving, he’s lying” is an old cliché, but it fits President Barack Hussein Obama

Spending, Spending, Spending...

President Obama may appoint Jon Corzine, its former Governor, to replace Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, is frightening beyond description

It will take a minimum of a decade to meet the USA’s present need to reduce spending and reduce the burden of its borrowed debt

Marilyn Monroe and Me August 4, 2011
America's changing culture

The nation could save itself trillions by just ridding itself of the crazies running the EPA

This is about life and death in America, not sexual preferences.

Arab Attitudes August 1, 2011
How many people do Arabs have to kill before we get around to figuring out that Islam is a murderous cult that has been killing each other since the Sunni/Shiite schism shortly after the death of Mohammad

What the U.S. needs is a realistic budget that constrains the way its seemingly endless departments and agencies throw public funds at politically-driven pet projects, ear marks

Unleashing Americans July 31, 2011
Too much taxation, too much regulation, too much borrowing, and too much wasteful spending is what the national debate is all about and it is a long overdue debate

There’s a reason for the Stuxnet virus and for the assassinations. It is the fact that Iran, once armed with nuclear weapons, will use them against either Israel or America or both

Sustainability of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid

Identifying a Psychopath July 26, 2011
Anders Behring Breivik, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, and other psychopaths share characteristics

The speech was a bore, a repeat of all the poll-tested words and phrases he will repeat between now and November 2012

Communism is a kind of magical thinking based on collectivism that always seems to come back to a handful of men ruling by coercion

Reminded me of how different, how coarse, how vulgar our present day cultural scene is

It’s Just a Heat Wave July 23, 2011
The Greens think you’re stupid

Neither the White House, nor the Democrats in Congress have put forth any plans, let alone any numbers, other than to propose tax increases, now euphemistically called “revenue” increases

Borders Bites the Dust July 21, 2011
New Technology Drives Out Old Technology

The Love of Scandal July 20, 2011
Keep an eye on the British journalism scandal to see how their politicians use it for their own gain and hope that their avaricious American counterparts do not take any lessons from it

The Syrian Horror Show July 19, 2011
This is a region of the world dominated by a warrior cult called Islam. As such it will remain an enemy of the West and of each other. It is a huge horror show

It is none of my business if you’re fat. It is surely not the government’s business if you’re fat

Flatlining the Economy July 16, 2011
It doesn’t matter if you think he’s a Marxist, a Muslim, a narcissist, a sociopath, or any other name for his behavior

Is Tim Geithner the most clueless Secretary of the Treasury this nation has ever had?

Jimmy Carter Redux July 13, 2011
Much of what we now see as President Obama’s agenda is a reflection of Carter’s

A Trip to the Moon July 12, 2011
Capitalism built this nation. Socialism is destroying it

America is heading in a bad direction, too. Do we have time to turn around a wounded society

Scary American Stats July 10, 2011
A shift in the direction of common sense and an understanding of fundamental economics

When not interfering with the free marketplace, agriculture, timber and other industries, one Green obsession has been energy and, in particular, oil and coal,