Michael D. Brown

The vetting of Barack Obama undertaken by Andrew Breitbart and continued by those working for him posthumously has not proven that Barack Obama was born some place other than the United States. What it has proven is that American journalism is dead. Dead. Here is what I am convinced of about Obama. He was probably [...]

You think every day is a struggle? Yes, each of us struggles, but occasionally we can gather inspiration from those who may struggle a little more than the average person. From Julie Ryan Evans writing on The Stir:

This story epitomizes our flaccid border and immigration policy. It also shows the way we thumb our noses at every law-abiding American citizen who tries to follow the rules, be a good citizen, and worries about the future of this great nation. This is the kind of story that just makes me angrier every time [...]

And you don’t think the media is all gaga over Obama?

When we don’t understand risk we tend to overreact. When we don’t understand physics, we tend to panic. This story is a great example of both – and furthers my belief that in almost everything we do in modern society we have built a perception that we can live in a world where there are [...]

The New York Times unwittingly made the case for limited government, free-market economy and the Founding Father’s vision of this nation in a recent article analyzing how Russian emigrants to the United States, living in New York along Brighton Beach Avenue, are more likely to register and vote Republican than the typical New Yorker. Of [...]

Once again Republicans prove most adept at shooting themselves in the foot. I never cease to be amazed at how Republicans, in the middle of the worst economy since the 1930′s, during the term of the most if not second most inept President in my lifetime, at a time when terrorism, foreign policy and the [...]

Senator Richard Lugar’s (R-IN) 36-year career as a United States Senator started winding down tonight when he lost in a Republican primary to Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock. The AP, NBC and ABC all called the election for Mourdock earlier this evening. Even though some party stalwarts such as Peggy Noonan argued for the re-election [...]

So this is one of the most depressing articles I’ve read in sometime. Yes, the general election is six months away, and an awful lot can happen in six months. But considering the number of Americans who are on the “taking” end of government, this election will be a pivotal point for the direction of [...]

Chen Guangcheng may represent a kind of Archduke Ferdinand moment for American diplomatic history. Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, his assassination on June 28, 1914 set in train a series of diplomatic events that led inexorably to the outbreak of war in Europe at the end of July 1914. Chen Guangcheng is a blind Chinese [...]