United States Bill of Rights

August 9, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Not everyone can join the American Nation

This is a peculiar moment in history, one in which we have come to expect the unexpected. Even so, I was surprised to see this: a reporter and a White House official debating poetry. I&r...

November 23, 2016 | Clifford D. May

These not-so-united states

The People’s Democratic Republic of Oregon. That has a kind of ring to it, don’t you think? The reason this phrase has crystalized in my mind: Just after it was confirmed that Donald...

November 2, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The “ideals of 1776”

Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task last week. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they — or rather we — are doing to...

May 2, 2016 | David Weinberg

Hate Preachers on Qatar Campus: Obama Gives Qatar Undeserved A+ on Fighting Incitement

“Kill the infidels... Count them in number and do not spare one.” Blatant religious incitement of this sort feels like such a caricature of radical Is...

May 17, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights

The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...

October 6, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Anwar Al-Awlaki’s American Journey

He was born in a land of freedom, tolerance and opportunity. He wanted none of it.

October 3, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

War-Power Paranoia

Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...

February 1, 2010 |

Rigging the Numbers

It is welcome news that the Obama administration has reversed its irrational decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters in Manhattan's federal court. So far, however...

November 20, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Cause Célèbre Islam: Racism, Revolution, Black Nationalism

“We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”...

October 20, 2006 | The New York Sun

Pragmatism Trumps Suicide

Judge Richard A. Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, is one of America's most prolific intellectuals and legal philosophers. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, his power...

August 1, 2006 | The New English Review |

Stephen Breyer, the Court’s Necromancer

Authored by Alykhan Velshi Originalism is the house judicial philosophy of conservatism. It maintains that the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning, that this meaning i...

December 14, 2005 |

McCain & Miranda

“Cruel, inhuman and degrading” may prove more dangerous than meets the eye.

December 13, 2005 |

R., International Community

Lindsey Graham's frivolous defense of the McCain Amendment.

December 11, 2005 |

The International-Law Trap

What Europe thinks is "cruel, inhuman, and degrading" doesn't govern us.

September 5, 2005 |

A Not So Sensible Iraqi Constitution

Pace Charles Krauthammer, the proposal's Islamist influence is not mild.

January 4, 2005 |

Should We Make a Treaty with al Qaeda?

Since the early 1990s, al Qaeda has, at the very least, killed American soldiers and desecrated their remains in Somalia; urged the murder of all Americans — civilians and military alike &m...

December 8, 2004 |

International Law Targets American Sovereignty

The ICRC report is just the latest use of a wolf in sheep's clothing.