Victor Davis Hanson writes about how Republicans lost their appeal, and how to get it back in time to win in 2012.

If the Republicans can offer a sane alternative of balanced budgets to the current mega-deficits; if they demonstrate the nexus between those who don’t pay taxes and those who have so much money that they don’t worry about taxes; and if they can talk without braggadocio of the tough choices abroad that are not solved by apologies, then they will win again in 2012.

Conservatism is the political belief that best mirrors human nature across time and space; but because its precepts are sometimes tragic and demand responsibility rather than ever-expanding rights, it requires adept communicators — not triangulators and appeasers whose pleasure is only for the moment.

Bingo.

Another good review of the new Star Trek Movie and here is a negative opinion of the film.

Ralph Peters believes the Obama Administration and the MSM are being taken in by the civilian casualty con being played by our enemies in Afghanistan.

A compelling new theory about what caused the Tunguska explosion in Siberia in 1908.

Charles Krauthammer explains why the Hamas 'peace' plan really isn't about peace at all, it's about victory...for Hamas.

Michael Gerson writes about new research that explains why the young in America are abandoning religion.