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September 30, 2005
Democrats paper over their divide
Christopher G. Adamo
Last weekend a gathering in Gillette, Wyoming highlighted the present, chaotic state of the Democrats and their party. The two faces, one representing moderation and the other representing fire—breathing liberalism tried to smile at each other, but one of them... More
September 30, 2005
Media double standards
Noel Sheppard
For most of September, Americans were bombarded almost 24 hours a day with declarations by media representatives and Democratic leaders about the incompetence of President Bush. During this time, we watched our president and members of his administration, such as... More
September 30, 2005
Dizzy was right
Steve Feinstein
Trumpeter John 'Dizzy' Gillespie was one of jazz's all—time great performers. With his colorful on—stage antics and trademark bent—bell horn, Gillespie was widely recognized as a prime architect of the influential be—bop movement of the 1940's and 50's, and he... More
September 29, 2005
Liberals and Islamofascists
Jonathan David Carson
What merit is there in not stealing because you fear that your hand will be cut off? In not drinking because you have no alcohol? In not being aroused by a woman in a burqa? An Islamofascist walks the streets... More
September 29, 2005
Lilya 4-ever
Thomas Lifson
For the movie fan, these are the best of times and the worst of times. Hollywood, in thrall to a dissident segment of American culture at war with traditional values, and addicted to special effects, violence, sex, and adrenalin—producing clich�s,... More
September 29, 2005
The Siege
Richard Baehr
[Editor's note: The following is a transcript of an address by Richard Baehr to the Stand By Israel conference of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, in Washington, DC, September 28, 2005] It is a great pleasure and... More
September 28, 2005
Winning Hearts and Minds Doesn't Do It
Edward Bernard Glick
I was in favor of toppling President Saddam Hussein long before President George W, Bush was. Indeed I have advocated Saddam's removal ever since the following verbal exchange took place in Tokyo between me and the Iraqi ambassador to Japan,... More
September 28, 2005
The New Anti-Semitism
James Lewis
I never thought I would see an open anti—Semitic political campaign in my lifetime. But after fifty years of skulking in the shadows, the old hatreds are rising like Count Dracula from his mouldy grave. According to the Palestinian news... More
September 28, 2005
Reclaiming higher education from the left
Steven M. Warshawsky
The Left's domination of American higher education, from humble community colleges to Ivy League universities, has been repeatedly and convincingly demonstrated for nearly two decades. The irrefutable evidence of this domination includes the overwhelming imbalance of Democrats versus Republicans on... More
September 27, 2005
Two ladies from Egypt
Magdi Khalil
Two remarkable ladies demonstrate the endless possibilities Americans enjoy. Ms. Dina Onsi Habib Powell is the White House personnel director, who was appointed recently by President Bush to hold the position of Deputy Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, and Assistant... More
September 27, 2005
Hillary Clinton's minority report: she thinks we're stupid
J. James Estrada
'I'm a minority!' If you've ever said this, you've lost more than half the battle. You've lost it all. Where once we were taught that 'all men are created equal' and that we were indeed made in 'the image and... More
September 27, 2005
A word about loyalty in Wartime
Rick Moran
There is a school of thought that believes the idea of loyalty to one's country is a crass, outmoded concept not worthy of consideration by thinking people. Rather, loyalty, if given at all, should be reserved for nebulous and ethereal... More
September 26, 2005
On Second Thought, It Is Vietnam
Bill Ireland
Comparisons of the Iraq war to Vietnam have always rung hollow—except to those who desperately wish them to be true. Aging activists remember the glory days when, abetted by sensational media coverage, they forced an abandonment of U.S. commitment in... More
September 26, 2005
I Gotta Right to My Illusions
Christopher Chantrill
A fellow at work recently told how his relative was planning to sue her former employer, a well—known national retailer. Suffering from a particular affliction, she frequently absented herself from work up to, and sometimes over, the limit established for... More
September 26, 2005
Ameritocracy: preferences and performance
Ed Lasky
[An earlier article on the subject of meritocracy in American appeared here — editor] President Bush is criticized by many in the media for, among other things, cronyism and relying on family connections to get ahead. If you think about... More
September 25, 2005
CENTCOM Reports
This week's CENTCOM Reports leads off with an account of the opening of the third Afghan National Army base in Herat. Progress continues in the country in the wake of parliamentary elections on September 19th. U.N. worker Peter Erben said... More
September 25, 2005
IAEA issues ultimatum to Iran
Douglas Hanson
After several weeks of delay, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has voted on a resolution calling for Iran to 'come clean' on all aspects of its nuclear program. The vote is essentially an ultimatum that says... More
September 24, 2005
'Plowing fields' and marrying little girls in the Quran
James Arlandson
Most of us have heard that Muhammad married a little girl. Is this true? Shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution in Iran (1979), he lowered the marriage age for girls from eighteen years old down to nine years old. Why would these... More
September 24, 2005
Lessons learned
Thomas Lifson
Hurricane Rita is far from spent, but it has spared the major population center of Houston from its full fury, and has already diminished in intensity. While further destruction and suffering is all but certain, it is not too soon... More
September 24, 2005
Muddle-headed thinking on the future of New Orleans
Ed Lasky and Thomas Lifson
Joseph Nocera, New York Times business columnist, mixes a few good ideas with some economic nonsense, including mandatory gratuitous Bush—bashing, in his column ($link) today on the future of New Orleans. He does get the biggest point correctly, though: New... More
September 23, 2005
The New York Times pushes for higher taxes
Noel Sheppard
In its September 19 editorial entitled 'Taking Full Responsibility' — an altogether too obvious reference to President Bush's hurricane mea culpa — the New York Times has continued what appears to be a full—court press on Congress to raise taxes... More
September 23, 2005
Forgiveness
Selwyn Duke
'Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us....' Few topics are as misunderstood as forgiveness. Bits and pieces about it are imbibed during sermons as wandering minds vacillate between spiritual prescriptions and worldly concerns, but such... More
September 23, 2005
Time for a New Posse
John B. Dwyer
Hurricane Katrina revealed the need for a much better ability to respond to the possible catastrophes — natural or man—made — which may hit our major cities. On Thursday, September 15, in the wake of Katrina, President Bush said: 'It... More
September 22, 2005
Sonia Gandhi's Reluctant War on Terror (2)
N. S. Rajaram
[The second of two articles. The first article may be found here.] Sonia Gandhi's softness towards Islamic Fundamentalists runs the risk of making India an attractive destination for the Jihadis. As noted in the previous article, Sonia Gandhi, though not... More
September 22, 2005
Battling Beijing over Fakes
Brian Schwarz
When President Bush arrives in Beijing next month for a summit with Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, ongoing discussions over textile trade, currency revaluations, and North Korea's nuclear ambitions will be high on the agenda. While there are many... More
September 22, 2005
Big Labor, Wal-Mart and Hillary
Jack Kemp
Wal—Mart, the largest private sector employer in America, is the number one object of hatred and derision on the part of Big Labor and many of its allies on the left. The AFL—CIO opposes Wal—Mart because it is a non—union... More
September 21, 2005
Sonia Gandhi's Reluctant War on Terror
N. S. Rajaram
[The first of two articles] India, along with Pakistan, is one of the key battlegrounds in the struggle against Islamist terror for the future of civilization. The largest democracy in the world, India has suffered its own severe Jihadist terror attacks,... More
September 21, 2005
An anti-American military confederacy may loom in Asia
Frederick W. Stakelbeck, Jr.
The members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an intergovernmental association comprising China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, will recognize the organization's fifth anniversary in June 2006 with a much anticipated celebration, 'Everyone agrees this first jubilee date must... More
September 21, 2005
Misunderestimated again: Bush and recovery from Katrina
Thomas Lifson
George W. Bush is well—accustomed to his political opponents handing him the invaluable asset of their misplaced contempt for his abilities. An overconfident enemy is a blessing to any strategist. But in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of his... More
September 20, 2005
The power of liberal taboos
Christopher Chantrill
The president's mother, Barbara Bush, got into trouble recently for saying on NPR that the underprivileged African American refugees from hurricane Katrina were doing fine in Texas. 'What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary,' she said on NPR, 'is they... More
September 20, 2005
France passes judgment on Katrina
Nidra Poller
Do you know why France is never hit by hurricanes, even though she once owned Louisiana? It's because France signed the Kyoto Protocol. Do you know why la petite Camargue in the south of France, with its famous bulls and... More
September 20, 2005
Ameritocracy: public service and competence
Ed Lasky
The first of two articles. Part two will deal with the private sector. America was founded by a glorious group of ambitious men, glowing with the self—assurance coming from self—made lives and success based on talent and personal initiative.... More
September 19, 2005
Europe - one sick welfare puppy
James Lewis
The flooding of New Orleans is an apt metaphor for an even more insidious morass, one that has kept the poor and black people of the city mired for two generations. Long before the breach of the levees three weeks... More
September 19, 2005
The communist menace reappears in South America
A. M. Mora y Leon
When the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Soviet Union collapsed, and China pursued market—led development, it seemed safe to assume that the threat of aggressive communism toppling national dominoes and dominating an entire continent was gone forever. But while... More
September 18, 2005
Warning Signs about Higher Education
Alexander H. Joffe
In a recent conversation with a major American Jewish philanthropist I was shocked to find that this individual has all but given up hope of reforming colleges and universities. Irretrievably corrupted by leftist politics, institutions of higher education have a... More
September 18, 2005
The Ordeal of Arab Christians
Magdi Khalil
The recent, simultaneous bombing of six Iraqi churches reflects the seriousness of the predicament of Arab Christians, who are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipulate the issue of... More
September 17, 2005
Apocryphal gospels in the Quran:
James Arlandson
Muhammad lived six hundred or so years after Mary and Jesus. What were his sources for his references to their lives? Devout Muslims say that over time Allah sent Gabriel down to reveal the entire Quran to his favorite prophet... More
September 16, 2005
The greatest political appointee in history
Rick Moran
Much has been made of the fact that the President's appointment of Michael Brown to head up the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was a matter of pure politics, a plum assignment given to a loyal partisan who was a... More
September 16, 2005
Admiral Byng and President Bush
Paul Shlichta
Admiral John Byng was court martialed and shot in 1757 for failing to relieve the British garrison at Minorca. Although both the French and the British agreed that he had behaved skillfully and without cowardice, he was executed for 'not having... More
September 16, 2005
It's all your fault
Steve Feinstein
The President has certainly had a difficult time of it lately. Hurricane Katrina has brought forth a dizzying array of problems, each one of them, apparently, clearly the fault of President Bush. The city of New Orleans has long been... More
September 15, 2005
Why the PLO is at war with the US
Lee Kaplan
Refusing to condemn and remove Al Qaeda means Palestinian Authority is now a US enemy in the War on Terror. Recent revelations in the news that al Qaeda has announced a new organization in Gaza in light of the... More
September 15, 2005
Judicial Confirmation Process Has Become A Joke
Christopher G. Adamo
Regardless of the outcome of John Roberts's confirmation hearings, it is plain that liberal Democrats have succeeded in making the entire process a grotesque caricature of what the Founders originally intended. As stipulated in the Constitution, the Senate has an... More
September 15, 2005
Truth for our own sake
Phillip A. Gallagher
January 17, of 2006 will be Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday. Judging from what has been going on in our world it is too bad the old fellow isn't still with us. As the weeks go by we will see more... More
September 14, 2005
Asia looks at Katrina coverage and draws conclusions
N.S. Rajaram
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have found strong resonance in the countries of South and East Asia— from India to Indonesia. It was inevitable that the people and the media here should have drawn comparisons between the American response in... More
September 14, 2005
Back to the campus follies
Alexander Joffe
School is back. Kids around the country have put away baseball gloves, bathing suits, those big scoop things they use to play hai—lai, and they're dutifully waiting for school buses. Or to be dropped off on campus, where they will... More
September 14, 2005
The Second Battle of New Orleans
As the last of the evacuees from New Orleans settle into shelters, the levees are plugged and the water begins to recede, what is being revealed is not the tens of thousands of dead bodies predicted for the past two... More
September 13, 2005
Cultural genocide in the name of Islam
Amil Imani
The Islamic Republic of Iran has renewed its war of destruction on Persian antiquities. Its intention is to build up an Islamic empire and to change the whole face of Iran into a backward purely Islamic nation. The Islamic Republic... More
September 13, 2005
The United States: a good and honorable country
Magdi Khalil
[Editor's note: this article was first published in in Al Hayat, an Arabic language newspaper in London. It is presented here for the first time in translation with the permisssion of its author. The image of the United States in the... More
September 13, 2005
The new Supreme Court looms over Democrats
Thomas Lifson
Step—by—step, judicial activism, a trend with half a century's momentum behind it, is being rolled back. The confirmation hearings of John Roberts as the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States got off to such a mild start yesterday... More
September 12, 2005
Disaster: When you want solutions
Christopher Chantrill
There is no doubt that the Bush administration made a big blunder in its planning for hurricane Katrina. It had planned for hurricane relief in which FEMA assisted the state and local governments in getting help where it was most... More
September 12, 2005
Original American Sin
Jonathan David Carson
We wake up in the morning, and our evil deeds begin before we have time to curse the alarm. As we slept, our refrigerators were hard at work giving Chileans skin cancer. We turn on the air conditioner, and amphibians... More
September 12, 2005
Political correctness kills
James Lewis
The most deadly threat faced by the United States is not killer hurricanes. It is not even the jihadists who want to harm us with the best weapons petrodollars can buy. Our worst threat comes from within, as is nearly... More
September 11, 2005
CENTCOM Reports
The American Thinker is proud, on this fourth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, to present a new weekly feature highlighting the heroic efforts of our servicemen and women fighting the Global War on Terror. By arrangement with Specialist Claude Flowers of... More
September 11, 2005
Troubled thoughts on a troubling war
Steven M. Warshawsky
The War on Terror is over. What started as a bold campaign to 'bring justice to our enemies' across the globe has been redefined as, essentially, a counter—insurgency action in Iraq, the express goal of which is to prepare the... More
September 10, 2005
Reality Television
Andrew Sumereau
The spectacle in New Orleans only confirms to many what has been apparent for a long time. One of the very few silver linings to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, (as well as other calamitous disasters like 9/11), is the... More
September 10, 2005
Waiting for John Wayne
James Lewis
If an honest history is ever written about the mess in New Orleans, "Waiting for John Wayne" might not be a bad title. Because that's what Mayor Ray Nagin was doing before President Bush was finally allowed by law to... More
September 10, 2005
Isn't there a war going on?
Trevor Bothwell
You'd never know if from the wall to wall coverage of Hurricane Katrina, but we're still engaged in a war against Islamofascist terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Dan Goure, military analyst at the Lexington Institute, joked, 'Iraq must be... More
September 9, 2005
A challenge to Islamic correctness
N.S. Rajaram
Book Review The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non—Muslims by Andrew Bostom (Editor); Foreword by Ibn Warraq. 2005. New York: Prometheus Books. Price $28 (HB). Jihad is now one of the most widely discussed words... More
September 9, 2005
Dancing on the graves of black people
Rick Moran
For the left, the aftermath of Katrina has proven to be a godsend. In fact, I don't think I've seen them this happy since Hugo Chavez hornswaggled Jimmy Carter into certifying his victory in a recall vote last year. There's... More
September 9, 2005
The Hull of a Slave Ship
Shelby H. Williams
As America watched the human tragedy unfold in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, two distinct classifications of humanity emerged: the doers and the doees. 20 year old Jabbar Gibson took (looted, found) a bus from a school... More
September 8, 2005
Hu's on first?
Brian Schwarz and Thomas Lifson
Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans flood (they are two separate, though related disasters) are undeniably worthy of all the media attention being lavished upon them. But world events hurtle forward, whether or not we care to glance in their... More
September 8, 2005
Federal funding of Louisiana disaster planning
Douglas Hanson
Already, politicians from both parties are scrambling to explain, blame, and accuse the opposition of neglect or malfeasance in responding to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. One thing is certain; the rants of New Orleans' Mayor Nagin and the silence of... More
September 8, 2005
Lessons not learned before Katrina hit
LTC Joseph C. Myers
The disaster in New Orleans seems unimaginable to all of us, and personally disconcerting to me as a former resident and Tulane University graduate. I return annually to the Big Easy, my favorite city in the USA, and seeing it... More
September 7, 2005
Making the worst of a bad situation
Bob Weir
It was to be expected that President Bush would be blamed for the hurricane that obliterated New Orleans and cut a murderous swath through 3 states. As if proving once again that everything in this country passes through a political... More
September 7, 2005
An Open Letter to Bush Haters
Paul Shlichta
I just want to say that, however much I disagree with you, I sympathize with your frustration. Since, in the rather restricted circle in which you move and converse (mathematicians would call it a 'closed set'), everyone shares your hatred,... More
September 7, 2005
New York Times smears Houston
Thomas Lifson
The New York Times Company is facing an abyss, and seems to be doing its best to hurtle faster into the realm of public scorn and business disaster. For a company whose most valuable asset is its prestige as a... More
September 6, 2005
Crucifying George W.
James Lewis
It is a painful thing to see a good and decent man slandered and abused. George W. Bush has been crucified in the media for five years, day after day. This week, after the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe of New Orleans,... More
September 6, 2005
The New York Times contradicts itself in Katrina's wake
Noel Sheppard
Once a Pariah, Army Corps of Engineers Now the Tonic For All Our Ills In the wake of catastrophic damage to New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina, the New York Times appears to not only be engaging in some of... More
September 6, 2005
New Orleans myths: The numbers tell a different story
Richard Baehr
There will be plenty of time to argue about who was responsible for the slow response in New Orleans this week in dealing with those who did not choose to leave, or were unable to leave the city before the... More
September 5, 2005
Katrina, left and right
A.M. Mora y Leon
Hurricane Katrina and its horrific aftermath has filled the media and blogosphere. As a wakeup call about the fragility of civilization, even in the world's most powerful country, it's a worthy story. And as a story, it's vastly beyond politics,... More
September 5, 2005
Battle Tanks vs. Bulldozers
Douglas Hanson
It didn't take long for the left to figure out another way to attack GW on what are now regular rotations of the National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the left and... More
September 4, 2005
Big labor splits
Thomas Lifson
A pillar of the Democratic Party is crumbling before our very eyes. The AFL—CIO has been the greatest financial patron of the Democrats, as well as an indispensable adjunct for organizing on the ground, precinct—by—precinct. For years, reliance on big... More
September 4, 2005
Katrina and self reliance
James Lewis
The only upside to a catastrophe like Katrina is what it can teach us. To me, living in an earthquake zone with an inevitable Big One coming in five or fifteen years, the lesson is self reliance. The most pathetic... More
September 3, 2005
Anger-based politics
Thomas Lifson
A Holiday Weekend Classic Anger has become the energizing force of America's Left. The legacy of the 2000 presdiential election for the Democrats is a crippling sense of entitlement to the support of the American people, unjustly denied them by... More
September 3, 2005
Wal-Mart and the Death of the American Labor Movement
Richard Baehr
Weekend Holiday Classic For many years, civil rights advocates have complained that major commercial chains— supermarkets and department stores, avoided locating stores in inner city neighborhoods. Now Wal—Mart has decided to enter these neighborhoods. But the welcome mat has... More
September 2, 2005
Race, Class, and Baloney in the Big Easy
Rick Moran
It certainly didn't take long for the race baiters, class warriors, and economic determinists to heave themselves up from the flood waters that have inundated New Orleans to inform us all of the real tragedy being played out in that... More
September 2, 2005
Exploiting Cindy: standard operating procedure
Christopher G. Adamo
If conservatives have one common failing among them, it is their lack of sufficient cynicism to properly assess the nature of their liberal opponents. Their reaction to the ongoing antics of Cindy Sheehan stands as inarguable proof. Long before her... More
September 2, 2005
The Madness of the Left
Ronald Wieck
A cynic might speculate that the tide must be turning against the monsters, the jihadist murderers and other assorted thugs, as Jane Fonda has announced that she's rolling up her sleeves and hitting the road ( with the odious George... More
September 1, 2005
Nothing to say but "I hate you"
Steven Zak
When I read that Move America Forward's "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour, a counterweight to Cindy Sheehan's hate—America brigade, was stopping for a press conference in nearby Burbank, I made my way there to provide another face in... More
September 1, 2005
When smart people have crazy ideas
James Lewis
One of the frightening things about the Islamic world is that it has many very intelligent people with beliefs that are delusional, at best. We can easily see the same thing here at home, so this is not a slam... More
September 1, 2005
New Orleans, the tragedy
Thomas Lifson
As Hurricane Katrina headed toward New Orleans, sticklers for the actual meaning of words told us that it would be wrong to label the impending disaster a tragedy. That term, with its origins in drama, refers to horrible consequences produced... More
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