Daniel Greenfield

The left understands that it is working against natural emotions of loyalty and loss, and so it uses deception.

Few of those dancing in the circle passing around the fire know what they are truly commemorating and yet the act is its own commemoration.

The Afghan soldiers murdering American soldiers often do it unprompted and sometimes even without any prior planning.

If the fathers of Europe would like to see a future for their children, then they must stop bringing crocodiles home to their birthday parties.

There is no need for Obama to play Therapist-in-Chief. It's not his job, even if he is better at it than he is at his real job.

There was no such clear dividing line when September 11 faded from memory and we returned to a September 10 world.

The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.

The urban political machine has gone national. It's here. It's there. It's everywhere.

We must have peace in our time, the peacemakers say. And Israel must provide it.

Are we on an inevitable evolutionary trajectory rising up or are we doomed to repeat dark ages, progress and then dark ages again?

Criticizing terror as a means while approving of its ends leads to absurdity.

Under Clinton, the anti-war business was booming on the fringe, but the news media never deigned to show up and inflate rally counts the way they did once Bush was in office.

The left's deconstruction of social institutions is not a quest for equality, but for destruction.

In the free market, money made you king. But under socialism, money just buys you access and leverage.

The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.

Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.

Social thinking is not concerned with solving problems by tackling them, but by transforming society so that the problems no longer exist.

Unlike the militarization of civilian law enforcement, military drones are not a threat to Americans.

Like Chavez, Obama presides over a poorer country whose poor are convinced that he is the only thing standing between them and absolute poverty.

Obamerica will be known as a party country, a good place to buy the good things if you are one of the sons of the rich or are a tourist from a rich country.

The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.

It is very doubtful that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan certainly does not.

It's not always clear what the Israel Lobby's accomplishments really consist of.

Tinseltown is pretending to be artistic and creative, even while both qualities are dead as doornails.

When a civilization destroys its families, then it destroys itself.

While the New Age Jews sneer at the Holocaust obsession, Jews know that the past in all its awful terrors is a map and that forgetting it carries a terrible price.

If only Iran began developing the world's biggest chocolate bar, then the bombing raids would begin as soon as the chocolate enrichment process reached the caramel-nougat line.

What infrastructure achievement has the shovel-ready administration managed to achieve?

Instead of the Latino vote, the Republican Party would be wiser to concentrate on the Chinese and the Indian vote, two groups that are easier to sell on the Republican agenda.

The entertainment industry is too big and powerful, but that will change. What will not change is that the nation is losing its values.