Articles
August 31, 2006
Kafir-phobia: Americans as Violent Anti-Muslim Bigots
Patrick Poole
The story that developed in July was just too good to pass up: a Jordanian—born restaurant owner in Xenia, Ohio had been the apparent victim of repeated attempts to burn down his store. The day after the third attack, when... More
August 31, 2006
A Warning to Islamofascist Terrorists
Jacques Dhervillez
I suspect that you have found recent events in Lebanon rather disconcerting. One of your leaders, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezb'allah, is quoted as saying: 'We did not think, even one percent, that the capture would lead to a... More
August 31, 2006
Who's Crazy?
Thomas Lifson
Was Hitler crazy? He certainly believed in bizarre contra—factual conspiracy theories, had a deep interest in the occult, and is believed by many historians to have so ineptly and arbitrarily handled German military strategy and weapons development that he turned... More
August 30, 2006
Soldiers, Dogs and Mosques
Dan Gordon
During the recent war launched by Hezb'allah against Israel I served as an escort officer with the IDF Military Spokesperson's Unit. In that role, Captain Doron Speilman and I on separate occasions hooked up Martin Fletcher of NBC News, and... More
August 30, 2006
Should Israel offer nuke inspections?
James Lewis
The 70 million people of Iran are now under the whip of a raving suicide cult intent on getting nuclear weapons. Whether the regime is really intending martyrdom or not it may not even know itself. It certainly talks and... More
August 30, 2006
What President Bush Should Do about Plamegate
Clarice Feldman
The gentle whooshing sound audible throughout the Greater Beltway is the deflating hopes of assorted journalists, Bush haters, and Democrat officials whose fantasies of frog marches and impeachment hearings are now dead. Today, the Wall Street Journal excoriates Richard Armitage,... More
August 29, 2006
It's Not the Dependency Ratio, Stupid
Christopher Chantrill
Back in the late 1940s, The New Yorker wants us to know, Richard Gosser, president of a United Auto Workers local in Toledo, Ohio, wanted to set up a union pension plan for the workers. Ten cents an hour was... More
August 29, 2006
Missile Defense: From Reagan's Vision to Today's Imperative
James A. Leggette and Michael W. Funk
One day a madman could come along and make the missiles and blackmail all of us. — Ronald Reagan, to Mikhail Gorbachev, 1985 No doubt, President Reagan would have agreed with the Jack Ryan's, the hero of Tom Clancy's... More
August 29, 2006
This is Your Gazan Conversion
Andrew G. Bostom
The forced conversion of two television journalists to Islam is nothing new — except for the use of videotape and the celebrity value in play. The jihad of today is actually very old, and embedded in the very foundations of Islam. Fox... More
August 28, 2006
President Bush Should Change His Strategy in Iraq
Ted Belman
President Bush was asked about Iraq at his press conference last week and answered, 'The strategy is to help the Iraqi people achieve their objectives and their dreams, which is a democratic society. That's the strategy. The tactics — now,... More
August 28, 2006
Security Guarantees for Iran's Mullahs?
Amil Imani
In dealing with the mullahs ruling Iran, what you see is not what you get, and what you hear is not what they mean. Transparency and honesty are not their strong suit. So, we need a first—rate sleuth to see... More
August 28, 2006
Noam Loves Hassan: The Left has Abandoned Israel
James Lewis
When Noam Chomsky shook hands with Hezbo Sheikh Nasrallah in May of this year, we could see the handwriting on the wall: no left—wing US administration is now going to support Israel in a standoff against a nuclear—armed Iran. The... More
August 27, 2006
Lieberman and the GOP: The Last Straw?
Andrew Sumereau
When the GOP gets clobbered in November with the angry and apathetic conservative base sitting on their hands, the Republican establishment will need to look for the stupid and self—defeating moves responsible no further than Connecticut to find Exhibit A.... More
August 27, 2006
Lamont, Lieberman and the GOP
Richard Baehr and Thomas Lifson
Ned Lamont and his supporters are doing immense harm to the Democrats' cause, thanks to Senator Joseph Lieberman's independent candidacy for Senator, a quest which deserves the support of all sentient Republicans. Polling showing the official GOP nominee Alan Schlesinger... More
August 27, 2006
Prelude to Apocalypse
Dan Gordon
Contrary to what is now the accepted wisdom in the media, Hezb'allah in its recent offensive against Israel neither 'badly bloodied the Israel Defense Force,' nor 'fought it to a standstill' in Southern Lebanon. In fact, the opposite is the... More
August 26, 2006
A Taste for Destruction
Bob Weir
Eddie Kelly was one of those seasoned cops who had learned policing from his father, who had also been 'on the job.' He was about 48 when I first met him, working as his partner one night during a 4pm... More
August 26, 2006
You Don't Win in Politics Playing Only Defense
Teri O'Brien
The New York Times reported�this past week�that most Americans don't see the connection between the war in Iraq and defeating our current determined, patient enemy, one dedicated to killing Americans and ultimately destroying Western civilization. Sadly, I have to ask,... More
August 26, 2006
To be Young, Gifted, and in Reno
Thomas Lifson
My attitude toward public education in America usually vacillates between anger and despair. Despite spending more money per pupil than any other major country, American public schools progressively dumb down our kids, as revealed in international comparisons on standardized tests.... More
August 25, 2006
Human Rights: Universal or Islamic?
David G. Littman
Ongoing attempts over the years by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) — speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights — to sponsor an Islamic Charter 'in accordance with the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam'... More
August 25, 2006
Olmert's Threat to Israeli and American Security
Rachel Neuwirth
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must go. He is endangering the security of Israel and he now poses a serious liability to American security as well. Good leadership is indivisible — Olmert cannot be bad for Israel and simultaneously be... More
August 25, 2006
America's Strategic Fix and Our New Decision Points
LTC Joseph C. Myers
America's national leadership since 9—11 has said that we are in a 'Global War on Terror.' More recently, they describe it as a 'Long War.' Putting it together then we are in a 'global—long war on terror' against jihadists, Islamic... More
August 24, 2006
Climate of Fear: From Nuclear Winter to Global Warming
Bruce Thompson
Before there was Global Warming Theory to scare the public into rash action, there was Nuclear Winter Theory. The two theories are contradictory, but both were peddled by the political left, and both used some similar rhetorical and political tactics.... More
August 24, 2006
CIA Versus White House
Rick Moran
If anyone ever thought the war between the White House and the CIA boiled down to some kind of senseless, meaningless bureaucratic squabble with no real consequences for the future of our security, think again. The partisanship, the ideological conflicts,... More
August 23, 2006
DNC Changes the Rules Again
Ned Barnett
Over the past week, the Democratic National Committee drastically changed the rules for nominating a Presidential candidate. In doing so, they junked the long—standing tradition of having the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary launch the vote—gathering primary season.�... More
August 23, 2006
Brutalizing the Baha'i in Iran
Amil Imani
Islam, the 'religion of peace,' is anything but peaceful, particularly when it comes to other religions. To the oppressive Islam, there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet—the seal of the prophets at that. Grudgingly, Islam barely... More
August 23, 2006
Handicapped Candidates Only?
Paul Miller
When Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D—IL—5th), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), rallied Democratic heavy weights such as Senators John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to support Tammy Duckworth in her congressional primary race, the obvious was so... More
August 23, 2006
UK Airliner Bombing Plot Bust Questioned
Ray Robison
Larry Johnson, a reputable terrorism expert, has published an essay in which he assails Bush and Blair for the revelations concerning the UK Sky Bombing Plot. He says, to put it succinctly, that the plot was not mature and that... More
August 22, 2006
Renascence of the Third Reich
Greg Richards
Who would have thought it twenty years ago? In the first decade of the 21st century the most important world political movement is based on something recently thought to be as dead as the dinosaurs — the Third Reich. There... More
August 22, 2006
A Look at the Muslims' Mindset
Amil Imani
Defusing the present dangerous confrontation between Islam and the West demands rational, impartial and cool heads to untangle facts from myth. We must seek to understand the Muslims' mindset in comparison with that of the West, acknowledging vast individual and... More
August 22, 2006
Which Gas-guzzling Dinosaurs?
Christopher Chantrill
A lot of car guys don't appreciate New York Times foreign policy columnist Thomas Friedman setting up as an expert on the auto industry. He allowed as how he thought Toyota should take over the bankrupt General Motors. It would be... More
August 21, 2006
The Fog of Peace
Ray Robison
The end of hostilities across the Lebanese—Israeli border now necessitates a considered after action review to determine the lessons learned. The first determination that needs to be made is the end state. During conflict we hear the term 'fog of... More
August 21, 2006
Prelude: The Lebanon War and What Lies Ahead
Stephen Schecter
The Lebanon War of the summer of 2006 has now come and gone. It was not yet a nuclear war, but given the way it started and ended it certainly was a prelude. Once again the Arab world displayed its... More
August 21, 2006
Israel's Sour Victory
By Michael Lopez-Calderon
The recent cessation of hostilities in the Israel—Hezb'allah '34—day war' has military experts, media personnel, and politicians scrambling for conclusive analyzes. The early diagnoses lean toward a Hezb'allah victory, with analysts divided over the type of victory, i.e., a political... More
August 20, 2006
A dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (10)
James Arlandson and Soliman albuthe
Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six; Part Seven; Part Eight; Part Nine. Part Ten concludes our dialogue. Soliman al—Buthe (or al—Buthi) wrote an Open Letter to Congress in 2005. Then he initiated... More
August 20, 2006
Inadvertent Exposure: Liberalism's Flaws in Movies
Mark Butterworth
There is either an arrogance or ignorance on the part of liberal storytellers which occasionally makes it impossible for them to conceal their moral madness. Three recent movies display the flaws inherent in the dogma in liberal lives onscreen. Conservatives... More
August 19, 2006
A Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (9)
James Arlandson and Soliman albuthe
Part One, which has a brief Introduction; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six; Part Seven; Part Eight Soliman al—Buthe (or al—Buthi) wrote an Open Letter to Congress in 2005. Then he initiated a dialogue with me,... More
August 19, 2006
Santayana Was Wrong
Sharon Tosi Moore
''Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' — George Santanya, 1905* At long last Jimmy Carter has discovered the answer to securing lasting world peace and has finally earned his Nobel Peace Prize. During an interview... More
August 19, 2006
The Pieta Pose
Ed Lasky
Today's print edition front—page of the New York Times (visible here) features a large heart—rending photo, above—the—fold, by Tyler Hicks. A visibly grieving female Arab mourner is being being consoled by another woman. Out of curiosity, I researched other photos of his from the... More
August 18, 2006
Worrisome Trend Lines for Al Gore
David Runyan
Global warming enthusiasts love to jump to conclusions from sequences of numbers, regardless of their provenance. In the same spirit of reckless conclusion—jumping, why not enjoy ourselves? First, let's look at the Farmer's Almanac for July 15 of this year. ... More
August 18, 2006
The Bolton Confirmation Hearings Loom
Bill Lalor
Last April, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton wryly noted at a Federalist Society event in Manhattan that the United States is the only member of the U.N. that is expected to do anything other than advocate on its own behalf. To... More
August 18, 2006
Making the World Safe for Shari'a?
Andrew G. Bostom
Grand Ayatollah Sistani is said to be the most important friend the Coalition has in Iraq. But he is a troubling friend. Almost universally regarded as the most important figure in Iraq's domestic politics, his 2003 fatwa urging Iraqis to... More
August 17, 2006
Four Questions for Global Warming Enthusiasts
Lloyd Brown
Hollywood has rushed into the debate over climate with one—sided movies that will scare a few people and enlighten no one. As much as I like popcorn, I'm not buying any tickets until the global warming alarmists can satisfy my... More
August 17, 2006
"Fake But Accurate" Science?
Jonathan David Carson
The American Association for the Advancement of Science claims for its journal Science 'the largest paid circulation of any peer—reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million.' Be that as it may, Science... More
August 17, 2006
Hezbollah Plays Oprah
Richard Baehr
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Hezb'allah is starting to spread the green around Southern Lebanon, offering $10,000 per family for rental assistance for a year, while clearing roads, helping reconstruct houses, feeding the returning residents and helping them with... More
August 16, 2006
Doing the Math
Frederick J. Chiaventone
One would think that the revelations by Great Britain's MI5 of the plot by Islamic terrorists to destroy themselves and as many as 10 commercial airliners enroute to the United States might stimulate a deeper, more critical look at recent... More
August 16, 2006
Iraq: Not "Civil War" but War Against the Militias
James Lewis
The "Defeat at Any Price" Democrats have found a new trope: Iraq is now in a "civil war." But as usual they get their facts wrong. Civil war is what Saddam waged for thirty years on the majority Shiites, Marsh... More
August 16, 2006
Throwing Pinch Overboard
Thomas Lifson
It has finally happened. The left is beginning to turn against New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., known far and wide as 'Pinch.' It is simple to understand why: the New York Times is becoming a failing business... More
August 15, 2006
Storm Signals Mean Political Change
Christopher Chantrill
The good thing about 8/10 is that it was an inconvenience. When the terror plot was foiled in London on August 10, 2006 many flights were canceled. Tens of thousands stood in line to submit to new security procedures. People... More
August 15, 2006
Corruption of the Faith?
Andrew G. Bostom
Far too many people in the public eye mischaracterize the acts of terrorists and other villains as inconsistent with "mainstream" Islam, as a "corruption of the faith." While this belief is comforting, especially to those who know, work with, or... More
August 15, 2006
Israel's Shattered Dream of Peace
James Lewis
Islam sees history playing out in centuries of bloody warfare until all infidels are converted. Modern cultures dream of a permanent peace among sensible peoples. Both dreams are fictitious, but jihadi Muslims are much readier to die and kill for... More
August 14, 2006
How Low Can Democrat Stocks Go?
Noel Sheppard
Last week was certainly a bad one for shares of Democrat companies. From Tuesday's drubbing of Lieberman Locks, to Thursday and Friday's hammering of Appeasements 'R' Us, the Standard & Poors Democrat Index reached a low not seen since before... More
August 14, 2006
Israel's Fog of Politics
James Lewis
It is easy to imagine the heated arguments in Israel's war cabinet, but it's hard to know what they portend for the future. The Doves, led by Shimon Peres, are saying, in his words, "We didn't start this war, so... More
August 14, 2006
Another Such Victory
J.R. Dunn
'Another such victory and we are undone.' —— Pyrrhus, after the Battle of Asculum (279 B.C.) You know you're in trouble when Israel lets you down. One of the few useful methods of judging the results of a war... More
August 13, 2006
Humanist Myopia: Blaming Bush
William J. Becker Jr.
In an opening scene of David Lynch's 1986 perverse but relevant film Blue Velvet, a man is watering his front lawn on what appears to be a halcyon suburban day in the American town of Lumberton. It's a carefree scene... More
August 12, 2006
A Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (8)
James Arlandson and Soliman albuthe
Part One, which has a brief Introduction; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six; Part Seven This part concludes the discussion begun in Part Seven. The Open Letter to Congress defining jihad is repeated here: Open Letter... More
August 12, 2006
A Lesson on Terrorism from Harold the Saxon
Paul Shlichta
The Battle of Hastings was a turning point in Western Civilization, as the Norman invaders (from France) crushed the Saxon defenders, and eventually gave the world what was to become British civilization. The hapless Saxons were led by Harold Godwinson,... More
August 11, 2006
Anti-Semitism in the Guise of Political Protest
Janet Levy
Last week, a Los Angeles 'rabbi to the stars' invited an allegedly remorseful Mel Gibson to address the Jewish congregation at Temple of the Arts with a public apology for anti—Semitic slurs the actor made after being stopped July 28... More
August 11, 2006
A Bright Future for Cynthia McKinney
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
Don't worry about Cynthia McKinney's future. She's got it made. Despite her defeat by almost a 60—40 margin in the August 8, 2006 Democratic primary for Georgia's 4th Congressional District seat, her future is secure.� In Congress, which is an... More
August 11, 2006
Will Israel Bring Out the Hammer and Anvil?
By Michael Lopez-Calderon
Despite calls from many quarters for a deeper Israeli ground offensive into Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet have thus far avoided the risky move. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) do not want a repeat of 1982. ... More
August 11, 2006
The BBC and Home-Grown Terrorists
James Lewis
More than twenty people have been arrested in Britain in a plot to kill thousands of innocent air passengers. The British press is undoubtedly looking frantically for somebody to blame. But they won't see the most obvious one: the tax—funded... More
August 10, 2006
A Visit to Gitmo
Bob Weir
Yesterday morning our frequent contributor Bob Weir had breakfast with Congressman Michael Burgess of the 26th District in Texas, back from a visit to Gitmo. BW: Congressman, there have been a lot of negative news stories about the treatment of prisoners... More
August 10, 2006
See You In Havana
John Mendez
And so it ends, not with an assassin's bullet or a military strike or even a popular uprising (at least not yet). Instead, the messianic Castro appears as though he will succumb to intestinal bleeding, if not already, then in... More
August 10, 2006
Hard Thoughts about the War
Steven M. Warshawsky
Two recent articles on National Review Online demonstrate what I consider to be the two biggest failures to date in thinking about the War on Terror: a studied refusal by most westerners —— including American conservatives who support the war ——... More
August 9, 2006
Enron and Today's Oil and Gas Prices
Noel Sheppard
If a Senate study concluded that legislation signed by George W. Bush and supported by Halliburton was partially responsible for today's high oil and gas prices, do you think you would have heard about it? Well, such a report was... More
August 9, 2006
A Hinge of History
Rick Moran
As I recline in my virtual hammock this lovely Midwestern midsummer's day, feeling the warm, gentle breezes as they waft across my face ('God's air conditioning' we call it out here), my thoughts turn to the currents and eddies of... More
August 9, 2006
The Habit of Betrayal
James Lewis
'Very Soon, This Stain of Disgrace [i.e. Israel] Will Be Purged From the Center of the Islamic World — and This is Attainable' ——— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, October 26, 2005 "'Imam [Khomeini] said: 'This regime that is occupying Qods [Jerusalem]... More
August 8, 2006
Smell That Whiff of Panic?
Christopher Chantrill
Smell the whiff of panic? Iraq has/may/will soon collapse into civil war! Israel may not be able to fully dismantle Hezbollah! Like Falstaff before battle we whine to Prince Hal that we "would 'twere bed—time, Hal, and all well." It's... More
August 8, 2006
AP Writer Ignores Evidence of Iraq WMD
Ray Robison
A�recent�article by Pulitzer—winning AP writer Charles Hanley entitled "Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD" builds a not so subtle argument: those who believe Saddam Hussein still had WMD need to get fitted for tin foil hats.� He begins... More
August 8, 2006
Downsizing Credibility: Cleaning Up the Reuters Mess
Thomas Lifson
Journalism has changed forever. Two of the world's most prominent news organizations have been forced to retract material and eat humble pie, thanks to the debunking of internet journalists. Spotting anomalies and, in spontaneously self—organized fashion, combing through the evidence... More
August 7, 2006
Islam's Useful Idiots
Amil Imani
Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non—Muslims: A new generation of 'Useful Idiots,' the sort of people Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in... More
August 7, 2006
Hope in a Time of War
James Lewis
In calling attention to genuine dangers today we run the danger of inspiring fear and not hope. But that would be a mistake. Realistic alarm is no cause for despair. It is a call for unity and strength. But we... More
August 7, 2006
Institutional Failure at Reuters
Thomas Lifson
Though I am five thousand miles away, I think that I can detect the vibrations emanating from West Norwood Cemetery in London. For surely Paul Julius Reuter, the German rabbi's son who founded the Reuters News Agency a century and... More
August 6, 2006
Reuters Admits Photo Fraud: Now What About Qana?
Thomas Lifson
Stop the pixels! Caught red—handed publishing a fake photo, using PhotoShop or similar program to exaggerate the smoke rising from Beirut after an Israeli air raid, Reuters has withdrawn the picture. As in the case of the Rathergate memo, credit... More
August 6, 2006
Moral Inversion at the New York Times
Ed Lasky
Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist who never apologized for supporting terrorist—funder Sami Al—Arian, now attacks Ehud Olmert for defending his people, delivering a stunning first line in his column today: "As I see it, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is... More
August 6, 2006
I Love the Smell of Pulitzers in the Morning
Edward Anderson
One of the quickest, surest ways for a journalist to obtain the life altering, career making award known as the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism is to expose aberrant behavior on the part of US Armed Forces service members. Service members... More
August 5, 2006
A Dialogue with a Saudi Muslim (7)
James Arlandson and Soliman albuthe
Part One, which has a brief Introduction; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six. Soliman al—Buthe (or al—Buthi) wrote an Open Letter to Congress in 2005. Then he initiated a dialogue with me, so we decided on this... More
August 5, 2006
Dialogue on
Vernon Schubel and Henry Wickham
[On July 2, 2006 The American Thinker published an interview from the Kenyon Alumni Bulletin with Professor Vernon Schubel. Kenyon alumnus, Henry Wickham, commented on the Schubel piece, and concluded that it was a whitewash of Islam. Professor Schubel has... More
August 5, 2006
Morning in Vienna
Timothy Birdnow
There are pivotal moments in history, events in which the course of human affairs is altered forever. One such moment occurred along the Danube River in 1683. On that fateful morning in the later 17th century, the fate of Western... More
August 4, 2006
The Myth of the Suicide Bomber
Frederick J. Chiaventone
Americans as a rule have a remarkably short span of collective memory. Thus when terrorists seize aircraft to plunge themselves into skyscrapers in New York we are doubly aghast. What must be the motivation behind such desperate acts? Similarly, the... More
August 4, 2006
The Indian Nuclear Deal and Congress
James R. Holmes
Last week the Washington—based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) released a report containing satellite images of work underway at the Khushab nuclear complex in Pakistan's Punjab province. The report's authors concluded that Pakistan is expanding its plutonium production... More
August 4, 2006
Ballistic Missile Defense and Terror
J.R. Dunn
Ballistic Missile Defense(BMD) is one of those military assets that — along with the F—22 Raptor, carrier battle groups, and guided—missile subs — have been criticized in recent years as being irrelevant to the new strategic realities of the War on... More
August 3, 2006
Lost Audacity: Once Again a Time for Boldness in Israel
Edward Bernard Glick
Israel lost its first war in Lebanon when it fought Hezbollah for eighteen years and withdrew suddenly in 2000 without victory. If it loses this second war, it will be for the same reasons: political immobility, military timidity, and the... More
August 3, 2006
Mullahs in Denial: Can't Keep Their Story Straight
James Lewis
Does the name Ali Larijani ring a bell? No, he's not the brilliant TV and movie character Ali G, created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, famous for duping celebrities and political figures into interviews where he asks outrageous questions and... More
August 3, 2006
Bush and Israel: Shoulder to Shoulder, Hip to Hip
Rick Moran
Stubborn or courageous? Calculating or clueless? Smart or dumb? Historians will have a tough time trying to define George Bush. At least the honest historians will. And by honest, I mean those who will make an effort to glean the... More
August 3, 2006
You Can't Teach (Some) Old Media New Tricks
Thomas Lifson
Jefferson Morley writes about the international online media for the Washington Post. He is sneering at conservative websites which dared to raise questions about the troubling inconsistencies in reports, and some very curious photographs that seem, well, posed to extract maximum... More
August 2, 2006
Mel Gibson's Self-Immolation
Tim McNabb
'For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law... More
August 2, 2006
The Inconvenient Truth: Hurricanes and Global Warming
Noel Sheppard
Since Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans last summer, there has been a lot of media and left—wing speculation that the apparition called global warming is responsible for an upsurge in hurricane activity and intensity. Fortunately, for those seeking sanity... More
August 2, 2006
How the Media Enable Terrorism
Rachel Neuwirth
A major segment of the global media is behaving in a manner that makes terrorism and mass killings more likely rather than less likely. They enable and encourage terrorist slaughter of innocents by supplying providing a propaganda bonanza for the... More
August 2, 2006
Mad Mel
Thomas Lifson
Most guys who made a personal profit well into the hundreds of millions of dollars on their last film might feel pretty happy. If the film triumphed over a generally hostile press and the opposition of industry big—shots, the pot... More
August 1, 2006
Hezbollah's Iwo Jima Delusion
By Michael Lopez-Calderon
Recent dueling essays on The American Thinker have debated whether Israel is following the tactics of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at the expense of Gen. George S. Patton's methods. James Lewis argued that indeed the IDF's approach was more... More
August 1, 2006
To Hell with Hezbollah
Herbert E. Meyer
I worked for President Reagan at the CIA, and during those years I made quite a number of overseas trips. While having dinner one evening with some of our local CIA people, I fell into a conversation with a young... More
August 1, 2006
Georgian Forces Move into Abkhazia
Douglas Hanson
The world situation remains normal: full of armed conflicts. Only a few of these attract the attention of the world's mass media. The border lands of the former Soviet empire are one area that remains a source of of instability. While... More
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