Best Articles of 2009

It is time for the best articles of 2009. These articles were selected from roughly 10,000 articles this year. More than 400 articles appeared in this year's 52 POLITICAL UPDATES.

The economy was the most frequent topic, inspiring eight updates. Second was health care with seven. Tied for third were the culture war, government, news from abroad, and liberalism with five each. What follows are my choices, in chronological order, for the twenty most important news or opinion pieces of 2009.

Gary North: Social Security Is Going, Going, Gone
James Dellingpole: The Great British Climate Fraud
Lew Rockwell: Economics and Moral Courage
Michael Cannon and Ramensh Ponnuru: You Mislead!
Gary North: Medicare Went Broke in 2008
William Jasper: Decades of Suicidal Policies Vis-à-vis Russia and China
James Perloff: Council On Foreign Relations
Steve Sailer: The Gods Of The Copybook Headings With Terror And Slaughter [a.k.a. The Minority Mortgage Meltdown] Return
James Perloff: Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened
Ann Coulter: 49 Million to Five
Steve Sailer: Playing With Fire: The Obama Administration Backs Anti-White Discrimination in Ricci
William Jasper: Homeland Security: Everyone's a Threat
Steve Sailer: The “Obama Bear Market” And Why He Triggered It
Steve Sailer: Demography Is Destiny. And Our Destiny (Courtesy Of Immigration Policy) Is Disastrous
Steve Sailer: Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.) Pay No Attention To That Diversity Mandate Behind The Curtain
John McManus: EU Déjà Vu in the Caribbean
Chuck Baldwin: A Very Real New World Order
Chuck Baldwin: More On The New World Order
Phyllis Schlafly: Community Organizing Explained
Steve Sailer: The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.): How The Community Reinvestment Act Fits In

Previous:
Best Articles of 2008
Best Articles of 2007
Best Articles of 2006
Best Articles of 2005

Government

This update focuses on government. Government caused still more damage in 2009.

Gary North: Social Security Is Going, Going, Gone
Jack Kenny: American Czars
Edwin Viera: The Second Amendment, The States, and the People
Dave Workman: The Year in Review: Major steps to advance gun rights achieved in 2009
Tim Carney: The Washington Toy Story
Floy Lilley: The Economics of Recycling
Joe Wolverton: Oath Keepers: Patriotic Defenders of the Republic?
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Plan to Spread the Wealth
Patrick Krey: Can the County Sheriff Save the Constitution?
William Hoar: The Burden of Social Security

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism.

William Andersen: The Progressive Era
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminist Vendetta Against Men's Sports
David Goodman: The 60th Anniversary of Orwell’s 1984
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Radical Rogues Gallery?
Rich Noyes: Better Off Red?
Bruce Walker: Nazis and Communists: Ideological Bedfellows
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminists Psychoanalyze Themselves Again
Cort Kirkwood: ACORN’s Nutty Antics
Steve Sailer: Norman Podhoretz’s Why Are Jews Liberal? Not Good Enough

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Education

This update focuses on education. Government and liberalism continue to corrupt education. Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings is pursuing a radical agenda.

Carrie Lukas: Keep Uncle Sam Away from Toddlers!
Selwyn Duke: Boys’ Educational Failure Is No Mystery
Phyllis Schlafly: Where Are the Men?
William Jasper: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings
Samuel Blumenfeld: Why the Federal Government Should Get Out of Education
Samuel Blumenfeld: Is Public Education Necessary?
William Jasper: Jennings Coverup Exposes More Media Malfeasance
William Jasper: Are Schools Teaching Children to Serve Obama?
David d'Escoto: The Insanity of the Right

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

Global Warming

This update focuses on global warming. Many of the primary scientific advocates of global warming hysteria have been exposed committing fraud, destroying data, illegally hiding data from FOIA requests, manipulating data to support their conclusions, and scheming to silence scientific critics. Meanwhile, the Copenhagen conference is about to get underway, where a treaty to put in place world government and massive redistribution of American wealth will be considered.

Christopher Booker: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
William Jasper: Climategate: E-mail Scandal Could Melt Copenhagen Plans
Ann Coulter: Do Smoking Guns Cause Global Warming, Too?
James Dellingpole: The Great British Climate Fraud
William Jasper: Carbon Scam? Al Gore, Profits, and Copenhagen

Chuck Baldwin: Climate Change Treaty A Precursor To Global Government?
Larry Greenley: Lord Monckton Says UN Copenhagen Treaty Will Create Communist World Government
William Jasper: From Rio to Copenhagen

Ed Hiserodt: Having Never Heard of Global Warming
George Giles: The Global-Warming Crusaders
Ed Hiserodt: "Not Evil Just Wrong": Dissecting Environmental Extremism

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war.

Don Devine: Hasan Correctness Psychology
Steve Sailer: The Next Liberal Fad: A “Stolen Generation” Of Black Children?
Steve Sailer: John Derbyshire Says We Are Doomed!—Good News For The Alternative Right
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st Century Issue
Lew Rockwell: Economics and Moral Courage
Don Devine: Racist America
Jad Babbin: Latimer the Liberator?
Don Devine: Conservatism's Regeneration

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Unemployment remains over 10% nationally and over 15% in Michigan. Government debt continues to expand, imperiling the dollar. The economy is not recovering, despite government claims to the contrary.

Gary North: Decide How (Not If) the Government Will Default
Charles Scaliger: The Diminishing Dollar
William Campenni: Financial Bust Connected to Illegal Alien Mortgages
Don Devine: Phony Economic Recovery
Charles Scaliger: A Review of "End the Fed" by Ron Paul
Lila Ravija: Green Shoots and White Lies

See also:
Gary North series: What is Money?
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The House of Representatives passed a 2000-page bill to take over health care.

Thomas Sowell:
The "Costs" of Medical Care Part II Part III Part IV

Ron Paul: Healthcare Reform is Economic Malpractice
Joe Wolverton: Healthcare Bill: Pay for a Plan or Go to Jail
Joe Wolverton: Obamacare and the Demise of Federalism
Jack Kenny: Constitutional Healthcare
Becky Akers: The Healthcare Bill's Sops to the Mental-health Industry
Washington Watcher: He Lies! Obamacare Does Cover Illegal Aliens. (And Legal Immigrants Too, Needless To Say)

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Russia remains dominated by the KGB, which is still involved in terrorism and crime. The European Union continues to expand its power.

William Jasper: Dangerous Connections: NBA and the KGB
William Jasper: KGB/FSB: The “Game” Remains the Same
Patrick Krey: Lords of Chaos: The Kremlin’s Arms Merchants
Thomas Eddlem: The Soviet Roots of Terrorism
William Jasper: No State Sponsors, No Terror

Alex Newman: Holdout Signs Lisbon Treaty Creating EU Super-State
Kevin Grace: What Canada’s Free Speech Victory Says About America’s Matthew Shepard “Hate Crimes” Bill

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The Obama administration continues to attempt to foist a takeover of health care on America.

Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About Health Care: Part 6 Part 7 I'll Pass on 'Opting Out'
Robert Blumen: 'Health Insurance'
Phyllis Schlafly: What's In and What's Out of Health Care Legislation
Thomas Eddlem: Obama Attacks Health care Studies
Alex Newman: Swine Flu: The Risks and Efficacy of Vaccines
Alex Newman: Swine Flu Seizures
James Edwards: Health Reform Loopholes for Illegals
Phyllis Schlafly: Good Health Depends on Defeating Government Health
Michael Cannon and Ramensh Ponnuru: You Mislead!

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. More continues to be revealed about Barack Obama.

Becky Akers: The New Face of Psychiatry
Phyllis Schlafly: If Obama Had Told Us Before His Election
Phyllis Schlafly: Singing Heil Obama in New Jersey
Selwyn Duke: Obama: Beyond the Idea of an Icon
Phyllis Schlafly: The Radical Policies of the NEA
Thomas Eddlem: In the Shadows of Promise

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Environmentalism

This update focuses on environmentalism. The myth of global warming continues to collapse. A cap and trade bill to wreck America's economy continues to be considered in Congress.

Pat Buchanan: Global Warming And The Second Battle of Copenhagen
William Hoar: Global Warming: Scaring Up More Controls
Floy Lilley: Global Warming Scandals
Ed Hiserodt: Cap and Trade
James Perloff: Exposing the Green World Order
Vin Supynowicz: Drive a Big SUV for Mother Earth
William Hoar: Taxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Sovereignty

This update focuses on national sovereignty. America's sovereignty continues to be threatened by the United Nations and potential plans for a North American Union.

Phyllis Schlafly: UNESCO Gets off the Track Again
Alex Newman: G-20 Advances New World Order, Media Admit
Kurt Williamsen: Law of the Sea Treaty: Through Rose-colored Goggles?
Beverly Eakman: Beware UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child
Phyllis Schlafly: What Happened in Guadalajara
Thomas Eddlem: North American Leaders Summit This Weekend
Warren Mass: Clinton Stumps for International Criminal Court

United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

Immigration

This update focuses on immigration.

Michelle Malkin: ACORN's Illegal Alien Home Loan Racket
Steve Sailer: The First Thing We Do, Let’s Abolish The Hispanics!
Robert Engstrom: ProEnglish Makes Case for Official Language
James Edwards: The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal
Peter Brimelow: Building the New Majority—Peter Brimelow's Speech To The American Cause
Alex Newman: Immigration News Update
Terry Jeffrey: Harry Reid's Assault on American Workers

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care.

Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About Health Care
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Joe Wilson Edition Part 5

Thomas Sowell: Listening to a Liar Part II Fables for Adults

Jack Kenny: Healthcare Hirelings
Phyllis Schlafly: Who Lied?
Alex Newman: A Brief History of Government Immunizations
Ron Paul: Healthcare Reform is More Corporate Welfare
Thomas Eddlem: Obama's Healthcare Pitch to Congress
James Heiser: Gov't Guidelines Deny Care to Premature Baby
Vin Suprynowicz: Greeks Falling Out of Their Trojan Horse
James Edwards: Health 'Reform' Covers Illegal Aliens
Phyllis Schlafly: The Opportunity of a Century

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

Education

This update focuses on education. Government and liberalism continue to damage education.

William Jasper: "Safe Schools" Czar Jennings Should be Expelled
Claire Wolfe: Living the outlaw life
Samuel Blumenfeld: Government Education: Enemy of a Free Society
Gary North: Parents, Don't Send Your Kids to College
Phyllis Schlafly: NEA Goes All-Out for Same-Sex Marriage
Education Reporter: Through Grade Inflation, B+ is the New Average
Neal McCluskey: Genuine Change Won't Come this Way
Brenda Walker: Revaluing Work: Class Division Exacerbated By Immigration Hits A Wall (Finally)
Steve Sailer: How UC Bureaucrats Use Advanced Placement Tests To Help Asians, Hurt Whites

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war. A 'hate crimes' bill attacking free speech continues to be considered in Congress. Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court.

Becky Akers: Discrimination, Racism, and the Human Race
Don Devine: Papal Freedom Regression?
Selwyn Duke: Hate-crime Laws Expand, Freedom Contracts
Gary Bauer: When Gays Attack
Robert Knight: Proposed Federal Law Would Be a Hate Crime Against America

Steve Sailer: My Questions For Sotomayor—Will Republicans Dare Ask Them?
Steve Sailer: That Sotomayor Decision: One Law For Frank Ricci—Another For Emily Bazelon?
Jack Kenny: Sonia Sotomayor's Selection
Jed Babbin: Questions for Sotomayor
Thomas Sowell: Equality on Trial

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Unemployment continues to rise as government spending, bailouts, and inflation only make things worse.

Gary North: Deficits Will Matter
William Hoar: Cash for Clunkers
Steve Sailer: Alyssa Katz’ Our Lot: A Liberal Perspective On How Political Pressure To Boost Minority Homeownership Helped Blow Up The Economy
William Hoar: Stimulus Scam Redux?
Gary North: Bernanke Is Stuttering, Stammering, Panicking
Gary North: We Are in the Midst of a Disaster
Thomas Eddlem: Media Raising Concerns Over Goldman Sachs’ Gov’t Influence
Pat Buchanan: Socialist America Sinking
William Hoar: Driving Us to Destruction
Chris Clancy: The Greatest Scam in the History of the World
Gary North: Shredding Your Safety Nets

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government. Government spending and regulation continues to damage America.

Don Devine: Obama Public Service
Becky Akers: “Your Papers, Please!”
Ron Paul: Cash for Clunkers
Gary North: Medicare Went Broke in 2008
Ben O'Neill: "It's Discrimination!"
Art Carden: The Freedom To Discriminate
Charles Scaliger: Freedom and Progress
Larry Greenley: Dangers of a Constitutional Convention
Thomas Woods: The Non-Orwellian View of American History
Thomas DiLorenzo: Who Will Regulate the Regulators?
Ann Shibler: From Farming to Serfdom
Steve DuBord: "Ten Thousand Commandments" of Federal Regulation

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. While the health care debate roils America, more facts about the proposals in Congress continue to emerge.

Gregory Hession:
ObamaCare Shocker: Taxes to Go Up; Way Up
ObamaCare Shocker: Rationing - The Doctor Will NOT See You Now
ObamaCare Shocker: Send in the Social Workers
ObamaCare Shocker: They Really Do Want to Croak Granny
ObamaCare Shocker: Gov't Sees You Naked Too
ObamaCare Shocker: Gov't Healthcare System Already Broken

Thomas Sowell: Whose Medical Decisions? Part II Part III Part IV

Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In a Series
Edwin Rubenstein: Legal Immigration—The Bigger Obamacare Problem
William Hoar: Washington Gives Us the Treatment

Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Brings Chicago-Style Intimidation
Lew Rockwell: Post Office, MD
Thomas DiLorenzo: Single-Payer Groceries, Anyone?
Steven Dubord: Obama’s Healthcare Prescription
Cort Kirkwook: All Doped Up
Ron Paul: Healthcare Plan Based on Economic Fantasy

See also: Sick in America with John Stossel

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Trouble continues in Russia, Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

Cort Kirkwood: Crescent Over Europe
Steve Sailer: Christopher Caldwell's Reflection On The Revolution In Europe: Now He Tells Us?
Charles Scaliger: Book Review: Triple Cross
William Jasper: Communism Still Stands in the “Stans”
William Jasper: Terrorist Targeting of Police
James Perloff: China Betrayed Into Communism
William Jasper: "Islamists" Denounce Capitalism, Call for Global Caliphate
William Jasper: Hizb ut-Tahrir: KGB-FSB Connection?
William Jasper: Decades of Suicidal Policies Vis-à-vis Russia and China
Cort Kirkwood: Muslim Face of the EU
Don Devine: Real Iranian Revolt
Gustavo Coronel: The World Upside Down: Honduras
Kathryn Gaines: America is Vulnerable to An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. Liberals continue to sympathize with and excuse communists. Feminism continues to harm both men and women. The Obama administration has promoted radicals such as John Holdren, Harold Koh, and ACORN.

William Jasper: Communist Ties Become Issue in NYC Politics
Phyllis Schlafly: Family Court Injustices to Men
Phyllis Schlafly: The Feminists Demand and Receive
Will Grigg: Too Many (Other) People
Phyllis Schlafly: Why Women Are Unhappy
Thomas Eddlem: How the New York Times Helped Tyrants
William Jasper: Leftists in Tizzy Over Exposure of KGB Ties
Phyllis Schlafly: Harold Koh Is Too Dangerous for America
Phyllis Schlafly: ACORN Should Not Receive Taxpayers' Money
Ion Pacepa: Believers in Hate

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The disastrous plans for a government takeover of health care have stalled in Congress, but the threat remains real.

Phyllis Schlafly: Reading the Fine Print in the Health Care Bill
Thomas DiLorenzo: Socialized Healthcare vs. the Laws of Economics
Ron Paul: The Immorality of Taxpayer Funded Abortion
William Andersen: The Cause of Teddy Kennedy's Life
Ann Coulter: Take Two Asprin and Call Me When Your Cancer is Stage 4
Thomas Sowell: Magician Politics
Thomas Sowell: Medical Care Confusion
Don Devine: Infecting the Republicans
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Health Care Plan Can Be Defeated
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare for Illegal Aliens
Michelle Malkin: Inside the Monstrous Obamacare Bureaucracy
Chelsea Schilling: House health care bill 'outlaws private insurance'

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Sovereignty

This update focuses on sovereignty. Internationalist elites promote world government. Institutions including the United Nations and European Union threaten sovereignty.

James Perloff: Council On Foreign Relations
John McManus: Hillary Clinton Lets CFR Cat Out of the Bag
Jerome Corsi: White House mum on North America summit
Jerome Corsi: Texas trying to save 'NAFTA Superhighway'?
Warren Mass: EU to create Regional Financial Regulatory Body
William Jasper: The New Jacobin Elite
Ron Paul: International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse
William McIlhany: A Primer on the Illuminati
William Jasper: UN's Marxist Plan for Global Government

United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

Education

This update focuses on education. Government and liberalism continue to corrupt education.

Steve Sailer: Thoughts On Advanced Placement Testing…And Sotomayor
Steve Sailer: Selling Out And How To Do It—The Case Of Richard E. Nisbett
Steve Sailer: Obama’s Nixon-Goes-to-China Opportunity
Beverly Eakman: Tracking Your Digital Trail
Thomas Eddlem: Education, Policies & Promises
Phyllis Schlafly: College Student Alert: Beware of One-Party Classrooms
Robert Holland and Don Soifer: Multiculturalism and 'Social Justice' in American Public Education

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

Energy

This update focuses on energy. The House of Representatives recently passed a cap-and-trade bill to massively increase energy prices. The goal is to impose more government control on the economy.

Ron Paul: Cap and Trade Will Lead to Capital Flight
Butler Shaffer: Human Life Is Destroying the Planet!
Ed Hiserodt: Obama's Energy Plan
Arthur Robinson: Power Plants Are Batteries
Arthur Robinson: Yes to Energy Freedom - No to Cap-and-Trade
Vin Suprynowicz: I Wish the Earth Were Warming
Phyllis Schlafly: Don't Fall for Cap and Tax
Floy Lilley: Windmill Farms Are Noisy, Ugly, and Ineffective

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. President Obama is threatening to impose more government control on America's health care system. Socialism will lead to worse care and more death.

John Stossel: "Better" Health Care?
Thomas Sowell: Alice in Medical Care
Deroy Murdock: Reading Obama Care Bills Endangers Human Health
Phyllis Schlafly: Massachusetts: A Model Not to Copy
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Health Care Reform in Trouble
Phyllis Schlafly: High Costs of Obama's Health Care Plan
William Hoar: Overdosing on Obama Healthcare
Ron Paul: Fight Government Encroachment into Healthcare!
Ron Paul: When Government Plays Doctor

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. The Federal Reserve has doubled the monetary base, which may lead to major inflation. The government has taken over General Motors and Chrysler.

Don Devine: Europe Rejects Obamaism
Steve Sailer: Countrywide’s Angelo Mozilo: He Warned Us—But Washington Didn’t Want To Know
Gary North: Don't Get Trapped in the Next Bubble
Gary North: The Fibbing Fed
Charles Scaliger: GM's Bankruptcy
Ron Paul: GM, Amtrak and an Increasingly Fascist America
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Is Remaking America Into Socialism
Karen DeCoster: 'Let's Roll'
Steve Sailer: The Gods Of The Copybook Headings With Terror And Slaughter [a.k.a. The Minority Mortgage Meltdown] Return
Ron Paul: Audit the Fed, Then End It!
Phyllis Schlafly: How Young Engineers and Our Economy Are Betrayed

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Protests continue in Iran. American foreign policy continues to be debated. There is other news from around the world.

Don Devine: War Advice
William Jasper: “Merchant of Death” Trial Still Looms
James Perloff: Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened
Don Devine: OBush Foreign Policy
Warren Mass: ANC Scores Big in South Africa's Elections
Ron Paul: Responses to Piracy

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war. Congress is considering a 'hate crimes' bill to suppress free speech and religious freedom. Abortion and immigration continue to generate controversy.

Nicholas Stix: What The Heretical 2 Case Says About The Federal Hate Crimes Bill
Selwyn Duke: The Hoax That Is Hate-crime Laws
Selwyn Duke: Adding "Sexual Orientation" to Hate-crime Statutes
Gary Bauer: How Will New Hate Crimes Bill Affect Your Free Speech?

Ann Coulter: 49 Million to Five
Thomas Sowell: 'Empathy' Versus Law
Gary Bauer: Obama Erasing a Generation of Pro-Family Advances
Jasmes Edwards: Obama Embraces Amnesty
Ernest Istook: Quiet Amnesty -- Part II

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Government

This update focuses on government. The government continues to take over American industries. It continues to threaten the Constitution as well.

Phyllis Schlafly: Beware of Attacks on the Constitution
Don Devine: Treasury Thugs
Don Devine: Love Big Brother
Thomas Eddlem: National Service: “Serving” Political Ends
Patrick Krey: Constitutionalism 101
Alex Newman: Cancerous Growth of Government
William Hoar: Foreign Aid: Give ’Til It Hurts, Repeat
Ron Paul: Secession: the Ultimate States' Right
Thomas Eddlem: Obama Signs Sweeping National Service Bill
Steve Sailer: Playing With Fire: The Obama Administration Backs Anti-White Discrimination in Ricci
Michelle Malkin: The Million Taxpayer March
Ron Paul: Fewer Taxes for Real Economic Stimulus

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Civil Liberties

This update focuses on civil liberties. The Department of Homeland Security issued a report smearing conservatives as "right-wing extremists". This follows a similar report in Missouri that was withdrawn. Gun and ammunition sales remain high as the Obama administration has supported a treaty that would require drastic gun control.

William Jasper: Homeland Security: Everyone's a Threat
Chuck Baldwin: DHS Report Says "Disgruntled Military Veterans" Might Be "Rightwing Extremists"
William Jasper: New DHS Domestic Terrorism Report Targets Millions of Americans
WorldNetDaily: Homeland Security on guard for 'right-wing extremists'

John Snyder: Gun-Grabbers Undermine U.S. Sovereignty
AWR Hawkins: Treaty Endangers Second Amendment and U.S. Sovereignty
Chuck Baldwin: Obama Positioning For Backdoor Gun Control By Treaty
Ann Coulter: Let's All Surrender Our Weapons--You First!

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Sovereignty

This update focuses on sovereignty. Global elitists are trying to create a world currency. They are also trying to integrate the US and European Union (EU).

William Jasper: Dumping the Dollar for Global Currency
William Jasper: U.S., Russia "Reset" the Convergence Agenda
James Perloff: EU-U.S. Integration: Unattractive Union
William Jasper: Global Fusion: The G20, IMF, and World Government
William Jasper: Somali Pirates : An Excuse to Ratify LOST?
William Jasper: “Conspiracy Theorists” Not So Crazy After All
Thomas Kilgannon: Will Obama (Inter)Nationalize the Banks?
Jerome Corsi: Canada joins Transatlantic Union effort
Joseph Farah: Out of chaos, a new world order

More information:
United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Bailouts and government regulations continue. Government monetary policy bears much blame for the present crisis.

Tim Carney: Pro-Liberty vs Pro-Business
William Hoar: Printing and Spending Our Way to Prosperity
Charles Scaliger: The New GM: Government Made
James Perloff: Our Monetary Mayhem Began With the Fed
Charles Scaliger: Creating "Wealth": The Fed Shows No Reserve
Steve Sailer: Thomas Woods’ Meltdown And The Diversity Depression
Gary North: Is George Soros an Austrian?
Phyllis Schlafly: Will the Real Secretary Geithner Please Stand Up?
Don Devine: Transformational Obama Budget

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. We continue to learn more about Barack Obama's origins and goals. Some congressional liberals recently traveled to Cuba and fawned over Fidel Castro.

Bettina Esser: Howard Zinn's Revisionist History Text
Humberto Fontova: Why Did Congressional Black Caucus Overlook Racism in Cuba?
Rowan Scarborough: The Great Left Smear Machine
Michelle Malkin: CBC: Congressional Bootlickers for Castro
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's 'New World Order'
Ann Coulter: Gondon Gekko is a Democrat
Ann Coulter: Are 'Hope' and 'Change' Still Tax-Deductible?
WorldNetDaily: Why leftists love tyrants and terrorists
Steve Sailer: The “Obama Bear Market” And Why He Triggered It
Phyllis Schlafly: How a Community Organizer Became President
Brian Farmer: The Employee Free Choice Act Is a Deception

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Environmentalism

This update focuses on environmentalism. Belief in the global warming scam continues to decline. Congress may soon consider a 'cap and trade' plan to raise taxes and damage the economy. Environmentalists continue to hamper energy production.

Floy Lilley: Out With Windmills – In With Nuclear
Warren Mass: The High Cost of Cap and Trade
Ernest Istook: Green Jobs or Gangrene?
Terry Easton: Cap and Trade: A New Disaster Waiting to Happen in 2009
Ed Hiserodt: A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming
Chris Horner: Is Our President a 'Carbon Communist'?
Michelle Malkin: The Shut Up and Swallow Congress
Warren Mass: Cap and Trade: A Huge, Regressive Tax
Phyllis Schlafly: Global Warming Is Running Out of Hot Air
William Hoar: Trying to Turn CO2 Into Au
Ed Hiserodt: Wind vs. Nuclear Power: Which Is Safer?

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Culture War

This update focues on the culture war. Liberals, elitists, and judicial activists continue to undermine traditional American culture. Abortion, marriage, and immigration are just some of the salient issues.

Selwyn Duke: According to Kinsey, Deviancy Is the New Normal
Phyllis Schlafly: Ginsburg's Judicial Activism Goes International
Don Devine: Capitalist Moral Hazard
Selwyn Duke: Obama: Rescuing Dogs and Rending Babies
Phyllis Schlafly: Yes, Marriage Can Be Saved From the Gay Lobby
Steve Sailer: Demography Is Destiny. And Our Destiny (Courtesy Of Immigration Policy) Is Disastrous
Terry Jeffrey: Obama's Carefully Crafted Cloning Contradiction
Phyllis Schlafly: The Court's One-Two Punch
John McManus: Why America's Culture Is Being Undermined
Patrick Krey: Is Conservatism Dead?

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Increasing violence in Mexico threatens American interests. Trouble continues in Somalia, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.

Robert Spencer: The Somali Pirates Are Jihadists
Warren Mass: From Riches to Rags: Inflation & Poverty in Zimbabwe
Bay Buchanan: Mexico Meltdown II -- Are We Serious Yet?
Alex Newman: Violence in Mexico
Warren Mass: Clinton Meets with Abbas
Warren Mass: Russia's Puzzling Role in Afghan Theater
Allan Wall: Memo From Middle America: Wargaming Mexico—Will The U.S. Have To Invade?
Jed Babbin: State of the War
Brenda Walker: More On Mexico’s Meltdown: Bush Team's Parting Assessments Should Alarm Obama

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Health Care

This update focuses on health care. The left is eager to impose government control on health care. That would mean less freedom, higher taxes, and worse health care.

William Hoar: Taxing Our Health
Mac Johnson: Reimporting Socialism, Not Drugs
Walter Williams: Sweden's Government Health Care
Kurt Williamsen: SCHIP of State
Terry Jeffrey: What Obama Is Doing With Your Medical Records
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Gives What the Doctor Did Not Order
Jane Orient: Stay Healthy: Government Healthcare May Be Coming

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Civil Liberties

This update focuses on civil liberties. Missouri recently withdrew a report branding conservatives as potential terrorists. President Obama supports a 'national service' plan that could reinstate the draft.

William Jasper: Profiling and Criminalizing Political Dissent
James Perloff: Tenth Amendment Movement: Taking On the Feds
Jacob Hornberger: Two Checks on Tyranny
John Eidsmoe: The Militia: In History and Today
Jerome Corsi: Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies'
Ron Paul: On Reinstating the Draft
Patrick Krey: Any Volunteers for National Service?
Patrick Krey: At Uncle Sam's Service

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The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Bailouts and stimulus plans are failing to improve the economy. The causes of the recession continue to be explored.

Thomas Sowell: False Solutions and Real Problems
Thomas Sowell: Subsidizing Bad Decisions
Lew Rockwell: Beating Back Obamanomics
Thomas Woods: Unnatural Disaster
William Andersen: It Is Time to Admit the Obvious: The Political Classes Deliberately Are Blocking an Economic Recovery
Ron Paul: Is Spending the Answer?
Steve Sailer: Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.) Pay No Attention To That Diversity Mandate Behind The Curtain
Charles Scaliger: Shock & Awe Economics
Gary Benoit: The Inflation Tax
Kurt Williamsen: Economy Killers
William Hoar: Stimulating Government, Not the Economy

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government.

Patrick Krey: A Presidency Fit for a King
Warren Mass: Bill Would Give Feds Control Over Family Farms
Michelle Malkin: Look Beyond the Bogus Bonus Smokescreen
Terry Jeffrey: Obama's Deficit Charade
Chuck Baldwin: Romans 13 Revisited
Jack Kenny: Counting the Cost of the Census
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Stimulus
Edwin Vieira: Dangers of "Judicial Supremacy"
Robert Rector: Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform Successes
William Hoar: Social Security Sham
Chuck Baldwin: President And Congress Grovel Before The Fed
Ron Paul: Freedom From Government
Don Devine: Victims of Flight 1549?
Steve Sailer: So You Want To Boost The Economy? End Affirmative Action!
Brian Farmer: The Welfare State Is Really Socialism in Disguise

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Immigration

This update focuses on immigration. Before leaving office, President Bush commuted the sentences of Ramos and Compean, but refused to pardon them. The Senate refused to renew the E-Verify program.

Phyllis Schlafly: E-Verify Is a "Shovel-Ready" Solution
Pat Buchanan: Illegals To Get "Stimulus" Jobs? Left Cannot Survive E-Verify Sell-Out Of Unemployed Americans
Ernest Istook: Quiet Amnesty
Joe Guzzardi: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Rise And Immigration-Related Fall
William Jasper: Amnesty for Aliens (Including Terrorists) Who Serve in Military
Chuck Baldwin: Ramos And Compean Are Going Home. What Took Bush So Long?
Phil Kent: Illegal Immigration Battles Loom with Obama
Chelsea Schilling: Immigrants ravage U.S. infrastructure
Michelle Malkin: The State of Our Borders 2008
Steve Sailer: Sailer’s Next Big Idea: Immigration Brings Diversity Deduction—Not A Diversity Dividend

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

Sovereignty

This update focuses on sovereignty. The United Nations, European Union, and more theaten national sovereignty and promote world government.

William Jasper: The G20 Push to "Supersize" the IMF
Charles Scaliger: Agenda Behind Brown's "Global New Deal"
Willaim Jasper: LOST: Law of the Sea Treaty
Chelsea Schilling: United Nations' threat: No more parental rights
John McManus: EU Déjà Vu in the Caribbean
Chuck Baldwin: A Very Real New World Order
Chuck Baldwin: More On The New World Order
Kelly Taylor: Trans Texas Corridor Renamed, Not Dead
Jerome Corsi: Is the Trans-Texas Corridor dead?

More information:
United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. Liberals are mobilizing thanks to Barack Obama's election as President. There have been more revalations about Obama's political associations.

Phyllis Schlafly: Community Organizing Explained
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminists Expect to Cash in With Barack Obama
Michelle Malkin: Stimulus Slush Fund for Housing Entitlement Thugs
Selwyn Duke: That Thing Called Feminism
WorldNetDaily: Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Steve Sailer: Blagojevich, Obama, And The Diversity–Fueled "Chicago Way"
Donald Devine: Obama Bureaucracy Payoff
Thomas Sowell: Freedom and the Left

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Congress passed a "stimulus" spending bill that will make the economy worse.

Don Devine: Obama Hope or "Epic Ruin"?
Gary North: Get Out of the Euro
Steve Sailer: The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (cont.): Charting The CRA Crackup
Charles Scaliger: Parallels With the Great Depression
Ann Coulter: Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted
Mac Johnson: Obama’s Spendulus Does Not ‘Pump Money Into The Economy’
Larry Greenley: The Fed's Hockey Stick Chart
Thomas Woods: Washington and the Stimulus: A Parade of Blockheads
William Jasper: "Supersizing" the IMF

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Congress passed a "stimulus" spending bill that will make the economy worse.

Gary North: Fractional Reserves Have Wrecked the Fascist State
Mac Johnson: The Media's Favorite 'Untouchable'
Steve Sailer: The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.): How The Community Reinvestment Act Fits In
Thomas Sowell: What Are They Buying?
Ron Paul: Stimulus for Whom?
Gary North: How Bad Is the Crash?
Phyllis Schlafly: Barack's Bailout for Trial Lawyers
Walter Williams: Congress' Financial Mess
Ron Paul: Stimulating Our Way to Rock Bottom

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Global Warming

This update focuses on global warming. The global warming myth is collapsing, and more and more scientists are coming out against it. But the global warming fearmongers are continuing to push their big government agenda.

Ed Hiserodt: Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
Chris Horner: Media Muzzles Climate Change Debate
Ed Hiserodt: Carbon Dioxide a "Pollutant"?
William Jasper: Big Chills for Global-warming Alarmism
Chris Horner: It's Cold Outside, But Global Warming Industry Still Hard At Work
William Jasper: Heat or Cold: Which Is More Deadly?
Chris Horner: No Rush to New Kyoto?
William Jasper: Scientists Challenge Global Warming “Crisis”
Ed Hiserodt: Making Renewable Energy Practical

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Education

This update focuses on education. Bill Ayers and comrades are using schools to promote socialism. Heterodox views are punished harshly on campus, as illustrated by a recent controversy involving Walter Block.

Phyllis Schlafly: 'Social Justice': Code Word for Anti-Americanism
Education Reporter: 'Social Justice' Education is Already Shaping America's Future
Bill Costello: Where the Education Gender Gap is Leading America
Bill Andersen: Leftist Faculty, Duke, and Campus Realities
Thomas DiLorenzo: Thought Policing 101
Karen Effrem: Evidence of Academic or Emotional Harm of Preschool Education or All-Day Kindergarten
Phyllis Schlafly: Some Change Is a Big Improvement

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war. Another anniversary of Roe v. Wade has passed, and pro-abortion fanatics are ever more intent on restricting freedom. America's holidays are also under attack.

Don Devine: Merry Newspeak Freedom
Phyllis Schlafly: We Must Educate Leaders To Be Conservatives
Warren Mass: Faith Triumphs Over Persecution
John Eidsmoe: The War on Christmas
James Fulford: The War Against Thanksgiving
Ron Paul: Restricting Freedoms and Choices

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News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Trouble continues in Israel, Somalia, India, and elsewhere.

Robert Spencer: Calling for Genocide In Your Neighborhood
Michael Economides: Russian Energy Imperialism
Ilana Mercer: Paleos Must Defend the West…And That Means Israel Too
Robert Maginnis: Stay Out of Somalia
Robert Maginnis: How Close Are We To War With Iran?
Thomas Sowell: The Meaning of Mumbai
Felix Moreno: Victim Disarmament at Sea
Gustavo Coronel: Hugo Chavez’s Bleak Political Future
William Hoar: North Korean Blackmail Beats the U.S. Blacklist
Pat Buchanan: China's Path to World Power
Don Devine: Congratulations General Odierno?

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The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. America's economic troubles continue as government bailouts only make the situation worse.

Kurt Williamson: Socialism's Success
Michael Telzrow: Socialism's Broken Promises
William Jasper: Bailout Mania!
Charles Scaliger: Bernanke's Money Maneuvers
Gary North: When Trust Runs Out
Alex Newman: Auto Bailout: Lemon or Lemonade?
Ron Paul: Government and Fraud
Walter Williams: Counterfeiting versus Monetary Policy
Ron Paul: Economic Freedom or Socialist Intervention?
Charles Scaliger: Bretton Woods
Gary North: Oldsmobile Nation
Pat Buchanan: In Earmarks Lies Salvation?
Will Grigg: Sovietizing the Economy: The Final Phase
Charles Scaliger: Free-market Thinkers

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government. Government is threatening freedom in the areas of civil liberties, health care, gun rights, and more.

Will Grigg: En Route to Military Rule
William Hoar: Bad Economics & Medicine
William Jasper: Asthma Sufferers Victimized by UN Ozone Madness
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Plan to Rejoin the World Community
William Jasper: Rooting for World Government
Phyllis Schlafly: Con Con Is a Terrible Idea
Gun Owners of America: End Of The Year Report
Phyllis Schlafly: "The Doctor Will See All of You Now"
Ron Paul: Gun Control: Protecting Terrorists and Despots
Robert Higgs: Let's Check Marx and Engels's List
Edwin Viera: Bedrock of the Constitution
Edward Rubenstien: The High Cost of Diversity—Due To Go Up Under Obama
William Hoar: Mental-health Parity's Poison Pill
William Jasper: Bush Pushes Foreign Aid, Despite Economic Woes
Laurence Vance: The Flat Tax Is Not Flat
Edwin Viera: Hazards for Habeas Corpus

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