It’s beginning to look a lot like … wait, don’t say it. If you say it in the wrong place—like a school or courthouse—and you really mean it, you may become a casualty of the war on Christmas.

Clothes always mean something, which is why The New York Times gave major attention to an issue facing many schools: “Can a boy wear a skirt to school?”

Is the fact that fertility is falling around the world good news? You would certainly think so if you agree with the analysis cheerily offered by The Economist. That magazine recently offered a cover story that celebrated falling human fertility as “changing the world for the better.”

What is it about President Obama’s fondness of bowing to foreign heads of state? A few months ago there was a widely viewed video of the president bowing to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah. Last week, there he was bowing again, this time to Japan's emperor Hirohito.

The deeply wrong decision to bring confessed 9/11 mastermind Sheik Khalid Mohammed to New York City for a criminal trial that will treat him and his co-conspirators as ordinary criminals and American citizens to boot has shocked hundreds of millions of Americans. Democrat allies of President Obama have dutifully trooped forward to support this very dangerous exercise of political posturing, but the president can and should reverse course and instead order the military tribunal that convened to receive the guilty pleas to resume its work.

This week Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid makes his first attempt to open debate on Obamacare. After last week’s stunning news on the massive budget deficit for the first month of the new fiscal year, we hope that Reid and his Democratic colleagues realize that now is not the time to burn through another 1.2 trillion, which is the (conservative) projected cost of the House version of Obamacare. Over the next decade, healthcare costs under the Obama plan are projected to soar—with increases to the tune of $289 billion.

Which presidential candidate drew stronger support from conservatives—Reagan in 1980, or McCain in 2008? The answer is shocking and enlightening, as exit polls show McCain got 78 percent of self-described conservatives, while Reagan drew only 72 percent.

After Republican victories in the elections of 2009, the Obama strategy has become increasingly obvious—and obnoxious. The administration means to continue pushing dozens of complicated measures at once, leaving their opponents so confused and exhausted that they’ll be unable to fight back.

The terrorist who attacked Fort Hood last week was a jihadist, and one who ought to have been thrown out of the Army a long time ago. The investigation will reveal why that did not happen, but the safety of our troops requires us to speak candidly about the motivations of this hater.

On this Veteran’s Day, we at the Salem Radio Network and Townhall.com join all Americans in thanking our men in women who wear or who have worn the uniform of the United States. We thank their families as well. The incredible courage and sacrifice of our armed forces are always on display—even if all too often unnoticed by a country that tends to take for granted those who guard our freedoms every minute of every hour of every day.

November 9, 1989. That date, now two decades past in memory, is the date millions of people around the world had prayed for. What happened on that day was what few could believe would happen in their lifetimes. What happened on that day is that the Berlin Wall fell.

There are very few occasions in a century that are truly historic. One of them occurred 20 years ago when the Berlin Wall fell and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union began to collapse.

“Voters have a pretty good grasp about what they think marriage should be.” Those were the words of Jeff Flint, a strategist for the successful effort to repeal the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine.

The results of Tuesday's election in Virginia have the most significance of all the votes across the United States. Virginia had gone decisively to President Obama a year ago--and the swing into the Republican column was enormous, a genuine landside that comes only when a major political realignment has occurred.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed a bill establishing a special day of recognition for Harvey Milk, a homosexual San Francisco politician assassinated in 1978.

Saul Alinksy was a hard left genius and a radical whose book, "Rules for Radicals," has guided the operations of far-left politicians and radical activists for decades.

Barack Obama’s attacks on Fox News are an abuse of power that shows contempt for the traditions of a free opposition press. Democrats insist this “war on Fox” is justified because of the cable network’s conservative orientation, while Fox executives insist that it’s their commentary shows, not their news reporting, that tilt to the right.

When Michael Jackson died in June, I commented that he had always blurred distinctions--between black and white, gay and straight, grown up and child. Now he’s erasing the most important dividing line of them all: between alive and dead. Four months after his sudden death, Jackson's the star of a big new movie, "This Is It," assembled from rehearsal footage for the final concert tour he never got to begin.

The controversy over the arrest of Roman Polanski has now spread to a larger controversy in France. Soon after the famous filmmakers arrest, French culture minister Frederique Mitterrand responded with a denunciation of the United States, calling the arrest evidence of the nation’s "dark side."

President Obama has declared that the problem with healthcare is access. But with healthcare costs increasing 8-10 percent a year, isn’t the larger problem cost? Unfortunately Obamacare will only make that problem worse.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to condemn Israel for last year's war of self defense against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. The resolution also criticized Hamas for its rocket attacks, but primarily blamed Israel for its role in the war.

The U.S. Senate is set to consider expanding hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation, offering coverage to gays, lesbians and transgendered people. The House of Representatives recently voted 281-146 for this expansion in coverage.

The bitter health care debate highlights the fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives, as identified by neo-conservative thinker Norman Podhoretz. He suggests that attitudes toward America itself characterize the big divide between left and right, with the left seeking to change a perceived heritage of injustice and oppression, and the right trying to protect and reinvigorate institutions and traditions that produced freedom and prosperity.

Last week the Commissioner of the National Football League Roger Goodell announced that divisive voices were not welcome in the NFL--a comment that was understood to be a blackball of Rush Limbaugh whose participation in an ownership bid for the St. Louis Rams had been leaked and then attacked by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

The White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who has spearheaded the White House attack on Fox News, told a high school audience a few months ago: "Two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa, not often coupled with each other; but the two people that I turn to most."