
The barrier between anarchy and a civilized society, between order and chaos, between respect for decency and lawlessness. If you had just arrived in the country after spending the past month in the Canadian backcountry without any news source, you
by Alfred S. Regnery27 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

In his new book America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder (Sentinal, $32.95), Wall Street Journal columnist and Pulitzer winner Bret Stephens makes a timely analogy between the broken windows policing theory and Pax Americana, or what
by Alfred S. Regnery26 Nov 2014, 5:06 PM PST0

It has often been remarked that the most lethal weapon the West had against Soviet Communism was the truth. When the truth worked its way through the cracks of the barriers erected by the dictators who ran the place, the
by Alfred S. Regnery17 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians, pundits, and, it seems, everybody else. By now everybody in America, and probably well across the world, knows about, and has a theory about, the riots and looting
by Alfred S. Regnery19 Aug 2014, 4:52 PM PST0

The world is outraged over the shooting of a black teenager in suburban St. Louis over an altercation with police. The headlines scream that police “executed an innocent young black man” and the head of the St. Louis NAACP says
by Alfred S. Regnery13 Aug 2014, 8:41 AM PST0

Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter about Ronald Reagan’s funeral from Alfred S. Regnery’s 2007 book, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, about the conservative movement in America. Thirty-five years before he died, when he announced that he would
by Alfred S. Regnery5 Jun 2014, 10:10 AM PST0

No unemployment benefits for millionaires? You would think a proposal to cut them off wouldn’t generate much opposition, particularly from Senate Democrats – but you would be wrong. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania figured out how to get a little
by Alfred S. Regnery16 Jan 2014, 7:16 PM PST0

More than a few things that make up the core of modern conservatism started with “lost causes.” Oh, those who proposed them didn’t think they were lost causes, but if they listened to their critics, to their opponents, to the
by Alfred S. Regnery27 Sep 2013, 4:28 AM PST0

Crime rates across America are down and the prison population is up. Is there a connection? You bet there is. Since 1980, the overall crime rate has dropped by nearly 40 percent. According to FBI statistics, there were 1.9 violent
by Alfred S. Regnery21 Sep 2013, 2:36 PM PST0

Members of Congress, home for the August recess, have been surprised at the intensity of opposition to proposed legislation to “solve” America’s immigration problem. Most members figured they were going to hear about Obamacare, the debt ceiling, and lingering unemployment.
by Alfred S. Regnery3 Sep 2013, 11:27 AM PST0

After nearly twenty years of some of the most effective policing in America, a liberal federal judge has let political correctness trump common sense and slapped a set of legal handcuffs on the New York City Police Department. Stop and
by Alfred S. Regnery20 Aug 2013, 1:38 PM PST0

SWAT teams and similar law enforcement tactics are an integral part of effective policing. In the battle against violence, gangs, and terrorism, they are law enforcement’s most potent weapon, and over the years have saved many innocent lives. The FBI,
by Alfred S. Regnery7 Aug 2013, 4:13 PM PST0

Pedro Vargas set fire to his South Florida apartment last Saturday, killed six innocent people, including a seventeen year old girl, and held two others hostage at gunpoint for three hours before a Hialeah SWAT team stormed the complex, broke
by Alfred S. Regnery29 Jul 2013, 2:38 PM PST0

Should Eric Holder prosecute George Zimmerman on a civil rights charge? Such a move would be all about the politics and very little about the merits of the case–but it would not be unprecedented. After four Los Angeles police officers
by Alfred S. Regnery17 Jul 2013, 10:52 AM PST0

Scant evidence exists that the favored liberal gun control measures have any impact on crime whatsoever. And, when you think about it, why should they, as the guns liberals want to control are virtually all owned by law-abiding, non-criminal members
by Alfred S. Regnery18 Jun 2013, 9:09 PM PST0

In his latest attempt to emasculate the Constitution, President Obama made the unprecedented move last week of nominating three reliable, Washington-centric liberals to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, commonly known as the D.C. Circuit.
by Alfred S. Regnery12 Jun 2013, 3:18 PM PST0

So Ted Cruz doesn’t trust the Republicans. Imagine that. “Let me be clear” he said on the Senate floor the other day. “I don’t trust the Republicans, and I don’t trust the Democrats.” And why not? The last four years
by Alfred S. Regnery30 May 2013, 11:16 AM PST0

Obama’s gun control bill may have gone down to stinging defeat in the Senate, but gun owners in New York weren’t so lucky. And you would think that New Yorkers, being virtually controlled by liberal Democrats, would welcome restrictions on
by Alfred S. Regnery9 May 2013, 12:45 PM PST0

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Those twenty-seven words enshrined in the Constitution by our founding fathers clearly give
by Alfred S. Regnery9 Mar 2013, 1:44 PM PST0

The President’s ill-starred and abysmal choices for his second-term national security team aren’t much more of a surprise than the rhetoric he used in his acceptance speech earlier this week. They won’t do much more for the reputation, standing, and
by Alfred S. Regnery24 Jan 2013, 9:16 AM PST0

In a demonstration of unity, conservatives issued a statement on Thursday morning demanding Republicans in Congress stand up to Obama’s bullying by banding together and refusing to raise the debt limit unless Congress passes, and Obama signs into law, significant spending cuts
by Alfred S. Regnery17 Jan 2013, 11:06 AM PST0

Early last Wednesday morning, soon after John Boehner’s “Plan B” had emerged on the scene, a group of conservative leaders, organized in a group called the Conservative Action Project and chaired by former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, met with
by Alfred S. Regnery21 Dec 2012, 10:02 AM PST0

A friend from Chicago, involved in Illinois politics who has known Obama since his early days in the Illinois State Senate, told me that two things that trump everything else in Obama’s mind: redistributing the wealth and empowering labor unions.
by Alfred S. Regnery9 Dec 2012, 5:58 AM PST0

When the Swift Boat scandal first emerged in 2004, Bill Clinton reportedly called John Kerry, telling him that he better figure out a way to make it disappear. “If you are the issue in a campaign,” Clinton told Kerry, “you’ll
by Alfred S. Regnery7 Nov 2012, 10:09 AM PST0

With his smart-ass “horses and bayonets” remark in Monday night’s debate, in response to Mitt Romney’s concern about a shrinking Navy, the President again showed his ignorance about military readiness and how to keep the world safe. Obama explained, in
by Alfred S. Regnery25 Oct 2012, 4:55 PM PST0