David Mamet: How a Liberal Playwright Became a Conservative
How does a successful liberal playwright and screenwriter such as David Mamet become a conservative? In a way he probably has always been a conservative but didn’t know it....
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Are You an Optimist or Pessimist About America?
In November 2011, Commentary magazine asked 41 members of the cultural elite — writers thinkers, and professors — whether or not they were optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future....
IndoctriNation: A Powerful Film for Christian Parents
Colin Gunn, a feisty Scottish filmmaker, and Joaquin Fernandez, an American cinematographer, have produced a powerful and highly provocative film called IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity...
How Happy Can 2012 Be?
It will indeed be a happy new year if we manage to remove Barack Hussein Obama from the presidency in November. Then we shall all be happy (the exact...
Why Ron Paul Is Attracting So Many Voters
One of the surprises of the campaign for the Republican nomination is the growing number of voters who approve of Ron Paul’s stand on the issues. The Texas Congressman...
The Phantom President
There is a man in the White House with a wife and two daughters. We see him getting on and off Air Force One or a big presidential helicopter....
Is Man Immortal?
I found the following passage in a book by Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of a Future State, published in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1830. It struck me as being as...
Education: Orphan Issue of the Campaign
There have been some mentions of “education” in the Republican debates and by candidates in general. Some of the Republicans have even advocated getting rid of the Department of...
How Big Government Bungled the Nation’s Security
Ten years after 9/11, we are finally getting the truth about how our expensive, bureaucratic security services totally bungled their investigations into Islamic terrorism so that 19 Islamic terrorists...
The Osawatomie Connection
It wasn’t until I read fellow writer Selwyn Duke’s article on Obama’s Osawatomie speech ("Did Obama Give Anti-Free Market Speech at Osawatomie for Communist Connection?") in which he...
The George Soros Plot to Destroy Israel
If you’re wondering who’s funding the network of left-wing, non-government organizations in Israel, which aim to topple Netanyahu’s government and turn Israel into an Arab majority state, it turns...
Conspiracies Old and New
Antony Sutton, in his remarkable expose of Skull and Bones, the secret senior society at Yale, wrote that a conspiracy, to be considered as such, must be comprised of...
The Truth About the Valerie Plame Case Finally Emerges
Now that memoirs by the late Bob Novak, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, and former President George Bush have all been published, we now know much more about the Valerie...
Does God Exist?
Does God Exist? I recently came across a very interesting debate on YouTube on the subject of “Does God Exist?” The debaters were Christopher Hitchins, the Anglo-American author of...
Spain’s Election: Will It Move Europe to the Right?
Although the socialists took a beating in Spain’s election on November 20 — in which the conservative Popular Party won a majority of seats in Spain’s parliament — the...
The Great American Debt
The American national debt hangs over the nation’s head like the sword of Damocles, ready to drop and severely damage the American economy. The present debt has now reached...
The Socialist Agenda Behind “Whole Language”
We have known for quite some time that there is a socialist political agenda behind the movement to do away with systematic phonics and replace it with Whole Language...
Ron Paul Scores in Foreign Policy Debate
One of the great virtues of the 11 debates the Republican candidates have undergone is that by now we know much more about them as human beings and as...
‘Tis the Season in Which We Celebrate America’s Christian Heritage
One of our local radio stations is already playing Christmas music full-time. It’s amazing how many songs have been written about Christmas. Most of them are secular, but the...
Why Edward de Vere Could Not Have Written Shakespeare’s Works
Roland Emmerich’s new film, Anonymous, tries very hard to persuade us that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the actual author of the works attributed to...