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April 30, 2007
Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception
Ed Lasky
Relatively few people realize that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed George Soros his family members to be particularly generous in support of Obama's Senatorial campaign. More

April 30, 2007
Marriage and Politics
Bookworm
It was only a matter of time before Democratic politicians began commenting on the fact that the leading Republican candidates have an awful lot of ex-wives floating around. More

April 30, 2007
Transatlantic Summitry and the Cult of Global Warming
Soeren Kern
It's time for another transatlantic summit, and this one, set for Washington on April 30, will have a lot in common with previous EU-US bilaterals: It will be rather short on substance. More

April 29, 2007
Merlin and his Apprentices: The Real "Slam Dunk"
Clarice Feldman
It's a familiar scene: A Clinton holdover writes a book attacking the Bush administration and is paraded around through the network newsrooms for partisan fun and his own profit. I'm talking about George Tenet's soon-to-be released book More

April 29, 2007
Democrat Dreams and GOP Weakness
Richard Baehr
These are dark days for the GOP. Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post's political prognosticator, is starting to talk seriously of the Democrat's being in position to obtain a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in the Senate after the 2010 election More

April 29, 2007
The Obstacle of Black Racial Consciousness
Steven M. Warshawsky
Last week in The New York Sun, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow John McWhorter offered a thought-provoking column on contemporary black urban culture. More

April 28, 2007
Darwin's Nose
Miguel A. Guanipa
It would seem that Charles Darwin was not particularly fond of his own physical appearance. More

April 28, 2007
The De-Deconstructed Jesus
James Arlandson
In modern Jesus scholarship that has apparently drunk deep of postmodern hyper-skepticism, he has been deconstructed to become a demythologized laconic teacher, the Pagan Christ, a Gnostic revealer More

April 28, 2007
Whence War?
Peter B. Martin
War is hell. War is inevitable. Everyone agrees with the first assertion but not all agree with the second More

April 27, 2007
A Cease-fire in the Transatlantic War?
James Lewis
The publishers of Germany's top-line magazine, Der Spiegel, have proposed a cease-fire in the "Atlantic media war" between Europe and America. More

April 27, 2007
The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate
Andrew G. Bostom
Writing in 1916, C. Snouck Hurgronje, the great Dutch Orientalist, underscored how the jihad doctrine of world conquest, and the re-creation of a supranational Islamic Caliphate remained a potent force among the Muslim masses More

April 27, 2007
Albania and the Perils of the 21st Century
Patrick Poole
The tiny nation of Albania has been pulled out of communist isolation and thrust into the era of globalization, and with it into the very real ideological and religious conflicts of the 21st Century. More

April 26, 2007
The Trouble with Harry
Rick Moran
If I were George Bush right about now, I'd wrap my arms around Harry Reid and give him a great big kiss on the cheek. More

April 26, 2007
Media Lynch Mob
Ray Robison
The media likes to portray Jessica Lynch as a victim of military propaganda that pushed her forward as a hero. That's not true. More

April 26, 2007
Democrats and the Politics of Fear
Christopher Chantrill
Ever since the 1960s the Democrats have won about ninety percent of the black vote in presidential elections. How do you get 90 percent of anyone to vote for one side or the other? More

April 25, 2007
Recovering Our Web Address
Thomas Lifson
Yesterday American Thinker suffered a temporary loss of control of our internet domain. The disruption lasted close to 24 hours, but has now been ended. More

April 25, 2007
ANZAC Day, April 25
Bob Myer
Today is ANZAC Day, and it's my second since coming to Australia. It's a singular day from an American point of view More

April 24, 2007
Inching forward in the Middle East
James Lewis
Unlike a football game, progress in the Arab-Israeli conflict comes in inches, not yards. But in the midst of all the pessimism there is genuine movement on the Gordian Knot of the entire seven decades of struggle: The Arab refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist. More

April 24, 2007
Mentors to Mass Murderers
Steven Zak
Mass murders all differ in their particulars. And motive isn't even an element -- part of the definition -- of the crime. The key element is intent. More

April 24, 2007
The Adolescent Society
Christopher Chantrill
Some people think that we have extended adolescence way too far into adulthood. You can live in the adolescent twilight zone between childhood and adulthood until way into your twenties. More

April 23, 2007
Longer Deployments, Shorter War
Gerd Schroeder
Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are too short, and need to be longer. Deployments of 24-36 months or even longer would be one way to address our problems in those wars. More

April 23, 2007
Justice Kennedy's Pro-Choice Opinion
Steven M. Warshawsky
Last week's decision by the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which the Court affirmed the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003, is seen wrongly on both the left and the right as a major victory for abortion foes in this country. More

April 23, 2007
The Missing Moderate Muslims
Amil Imani
"I am already against the next war," read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe More

April 22, 2007
Spain's Feminized War on Terror
Soeren Kern
The anti-terrorism policies of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a self-proclaimed feminist, have led to so many blunders that Spaniards of all political leanings now fear that he has made Spain more, not less, vulnerable to terrorism. More

April 22, 2007
The Awakening Russian Bear
Jeff Lukens
The fearsome Russian Bear appears to be coming out of a 16-year hibernation. President Vladimir Putin says he wants to regain Russia's prominence in the world community, and his actions are backing up his words. More

April 22, 2007
Is the Orange Revolution Over in Kiev?
John Massoud
Just a few short years ago, what seemed to be a tidal wave swept across The Ukraine. More

April 21, 2007
Give 'Em Surrender Harry Finds His Tet Offensive
Scott Sultzer
We now have two "Harry" bookends to the current historical period. At one end is Harry Truman, "Give 'Em Hell" Harry. At the opposite end of the spectrum we have "Give 'Em Surrender" Harry, the Senate Majority leader. More

April 21, 2007
Packaging Science
Jonah Avriel Cohen
The art of persuasion includes many skills beyond pure reason. Lately, liberals are thinking about how to package science to win public support for their causes. More

April 21, 2007
The Deconstructed Jesus
James Arlandson
Deconstruction overturns privileged hierarchy and meaning. Defenders promise us that they do not practice Anything Goes in their deconstruction of texts. Do they keep their promise? How do we verify it? More

April 20, 2007
No Secret Trial for AIPAC Defendants
Clarice Feldman
This week, federal prosecutors proposed a procedure that would have denied the defendants in the AIPAC case a public trial. Federal judge T.S. Ellis III laughed them out of court. More

April 20, 2007
The Muslim Brotherhood's Duping of America
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
Making the Muslim Brotherhood a major player in Middle East politics seems to be one of the few subjects on which both Democrats and Republicans seem to agree. More

April 20, 2007
An Apology for Koranic Antisemitism?
Andrew G. Bostom
Two months after the mass murdering acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/01, Dr. Walid Faitihi boasted that this carnage engendered two related "successes" -enhanced Muslim proselytization efforts, and damage to Christian-Jewish relations in the U.S. More

April 19, 2007
The Fight To Bar Arms
Janet Levy
With the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech in which 32 people were slain on campus by a lone gunman who turned his weapon on himself, no doubt the clamor to ban personal ownership of guns will be raised again. More

April 19, 2007
Where Was God On Tuesday at VTU?
Don Crawford
How could a loving god allow one crazed maniac to kill in such horrible fashion so many innocent people at Virginia Tech University last Tuesday? More

April 19, 2007
In Defense of Defending Ourselves
R. E. Smith Jr.
They called it a "massacre." Students and faculty at Virginia Tech were gunned down by a madman. They were taken by surprise with little means to protect themselves, except to run and hide. More

April 18, 2007
Galileo Denied Consensus
Jerome J. Schmitt
In 1632 Galileo Galilei was accused of heresy for questioning the Aristotelian "consensus model" of the universe which held that the sun and all other heavenly bodies revolve around the earth. He was threatened by the Inquisition with torture for holding these views More

April 18, 2007
Pelosi has a Sheehan of Her Own
Ray Robison
It was in the summer of 2005 that the Bush Administration began to lose the support of the American public for the war in Iraq. A principal catalyst of this momentous transformation was the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. More

April 18, 2007
Nifong, Fitzgerald, and Justice Defiled
Chrisopher G. Adamo
So the State of North Carolina is finally officially recognizing what has been blatantly obvious to every honest and objective observer of the Duke lacrosse Team debacle since it first made national news. More

April 17, 2007
The Wolfowitz Set-up: Just Say "No"
Clarice Feldman
When it comes to media reports of bad conduct by Administration officials and appointees, it is a good idea to Just Say No to the first accounts you read. More

April 17, 2007
Hypocrisy has a Human Price on the Streets of Baghdad
Rocco DiPippo
I have observed first-hand the effects of the Bush Administration's new Iraq security plan since it began two months ago. More

April 17, 2007
The New Lynching: Why I Must Defend Don Imus
Selwyn Duke
So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. More

April 16, 2007
Levin out the facts
Ray Robison
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) challenges the assertions of the Vice President of the United States Richard Cheney regarding the cooperation of the Saddam regime and al Qaeda. The Senator relies on "intelligence reports" that are in fact political documents created by the Senate, not intelligence products More

April 16, 2007
Another Crisis in Command
Douglas Hanson
We are running a war from the banks of the Potomac much as we did in Vietnam. The Bush administration has been fighting a regional war without any semblance of unity of effort. More

April 16, 2007
Whatever Happened to "Duty, Honor, Country"?
Gerd Schroeder
General Douglas MacArthur in his final address given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962 spoke these words that every officer in the military knows by heart More

April 15, 2007
When Women Cry Wolf About Rape
Kyle-Anne Shiver
It is time for us - especially us women -- to come down hard on the woman who cried "Wolf" and those who enabled her. They caused a whole lot more damage than the little boy in the fairytale. More

April 15, 2007
The Defective "War Czar" Narrative
Christopher J. Alleva
On Wednesday, Peter Baker and Tom Ricks wrote a front page story in the Washington Post that reported that the White House allegedly is trying to recruit a "War Czar." More

April 15, 2007
God, Golf and Gratitude
Selwyn Duke
Major issues can rise from minor things, and so it is with last weekend's Masters golf tournament. More

April 14, 2007
Thoroughly modern mutilation
Bob Weir
Have you noticed how many young people are wearing jewelry these days? I don't mean wristwatches, bracelets, and finger rings. I'm talking about nose rings, lip rings, tongue studs,and much, much more. More

April 14, 2007
Deconstruction: a primer
James Arlandson
It seems that everyone in the media uses the terms "deconstruction" or "deconstruct." More

April 14, 2007
The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: A Review
Robert Cheeks
Among my first experiences in the metaxy, the place that philosopher Eric Voegelin defined as "the middle ground of human existence between the divine and material realms," occurred in 1958, when as a twelve year old, I attended a celebration of the Mass at St. Aloysius Catholic Church. More

April 13, 2007
Fantasy Manhood from France
Thomas Lifson
Inevitably the question arises: how do the French deal with anxiety about their national manliness, their will to stand and fight? More

April 13, 2007
Learning from George McGovern and Earl Browder
Andrew Walden
Three and a half years after congressional Democrats made that slaughter possible by cutting off all US aid to anti-communist forces with their so-called December, 1974 "Foreign Assistance Act", a genocide began in Cambodia. Will see similar events in Iraq following a funding cut off? More

April 13, 2007
What are they Smoking?
Bruce Hanson
"What are you smoking?" is a familiar question meant to imply mental impairment from the ingestion of controlled substances, usually in a sarcastic vein. But I have to wonder if we shouldn't be paying closer attention to this very question More

April 12, 2007
Shoplifting Secrets
Peter B. Martin
This is not a guide to shoplifting, but about the wholesale theft of U.S. strategic material and its consequences. Increasingly, American classified information and material is being compromised, either through espionage, outright theft or though negligence More

April 12, 2007
The Imus Formula
Duncan Maxwell Anderson
In the post-Easter crucifixion of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show that substituted for news this week, the hypocrisy would make a Pharisee blush. More

April 12, 2007
Why the rise of Islamism?
Daniel Mandel
According to the Hoover Institution's Dinesh D'Souza, the Western radical left has so repelled Muslims with its secularity, impiety and license that it, rather than gruesome Islamist imperial ambition, is a primary cause of Muslim rage and terror against America. More

April 11, 2007
Waxman Peddles Wilson's Lie
Clarice Feldman
Is Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, ignorant, lying or counting on the fact that the press is both? More

April 11, 2007
Who is Mahmoud's Target?
James Lewis
Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad has been hopping around like a male chimp performing a threat display --- pant-hooting, baring his big canine teeth, and tearing off branches to impress the hell out of all the other apes More

April 11, 2007
Terrorist Funding in Real Time
Rachel Ehrenfeld and John Wood
Advanced mobile technology and lack of regulations combine for a swift, cheap and undetectable way to fund terrorists. More

April 10, 2007
The War on Children
J.R. Dunn
It seems at times that not a week goes by without a child disappearing or being found dead under ghastly circumstances. More

April 10, 2007
The Supreme Court Turns the Ratchet
Christopher Chantrill
All the liberal wing and the moderates on the Supreme Court have done, in regulating CO2 as a pollutant, is give the ratchet of compulsion one more turn. More

April 10, 2007
Who's Next to Host ABC's The View -- David Duke?
Steven Zak
Deniers of 9/11 and of the Holocaust are two of a kind. It is a given that television networks put profits above pride, but ABC has reached a new low in its sponsorship of Rosie O'Donnell. More

April 9, 2007
Cheney is Absolutely Correct
Ray Robison
On the Rush Limbaugh radio program, VP Cheney restated his position that Saddam had ties to al Qaeda. The Vice President is completely correct. More

April 9, 2007
Jimmy Carter: The Democrats' Philosopher
Amy D. Goldstein
It was no coincidence that former President Jimmy Carter praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East last week. After all, Pelosi and her fellow congressional Democrats are simply implementing Carter's political philosophies once again. More

April 9, 2007
Europe: Let Uncle Do It
James Lewis
Europe gets forty percent of its oil through the Persian Gulf. But by an accident of history (and civilized policy -- ours, that is) it is the United States that guards the Gulf from madmen like Ahmadinejad. More

April 8, 2007
The Intersection of Judaism and Islam
Ron Kean
I've often wondered why people don't care about the 30 Years War these days. It's relevant today as the West fights militant Islam. More

April 8, 2007
Scandal: the welfare state of "Palestine"
Moshe Dann
According to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) tens of billions of dollars (one-third from US taxpayers, the rest mostly from Canada and European countries) have been spent over the last 50 years providing "Palestinian refugees" and their descendents More

April 8, 2007
The Ancient Persian Empire
Stefania Lapenna
Tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West have been heightening. After years of appeasement in the hope of getting something in exchange, Western leaders now seem to have realized that multilateral talks on the nuclear issue inevitably lead nowhere. More

April 7, 2007
Giuliani's Abortion Folly
Steven M. Warshawsky
It has long been understood that Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice stance on abortion could cost him dearly among conservative voters More

April 7, 2007
America's Broken-Down Media
Ray Robison
According to Mark Thompson, writer for Time magazine, America's army is broken. More

April 7, 2007
Postmodern Truth Soup
James Arlandson
One postmodern theorist states: "Postmodernism swims, even wallows, in the fragmentary and the chaotic currents of change as if that is all there is" More

April 6, 2007
Dealing with Leftists who "Support the Troops"
John Robinson
One of the biggest problems we conservatives have always faced is language. Conservatives all too often allow liberals to bamboozle us into arguing issues on liberal terms. More

April 6, 2007
Does Violence Have to be Taught?
Selwyn Duke
It seems that the more we come to believe that "Violence has to be taught," the more our children learn to be violent. It's a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off More

April 6, 2007
A New Yardstick
Nathan Hale
At a very young age I had the good fortune to learn a life lesson that appears not to have taken hold among the Democrats' elite, nor much of the legacy media and only scarcely among academics. More

April 5, 2007
SCOTUS Emits Scare Pollution
Marc Sheppard
The Supreme Court of the United States has arrogantly ruled that the second most vital gas to sustaining life on Earth is a "pollutant." More

April 5, 2007
Power at Any Price
Pamela Meister
The Democrats claim that the November 2006 election gave them a mandate to end the war in Iraq. That isn't what they were saying late last year. More

April 5, 2007
Rethinking the FBI?
Al Johnson
Would the United States be better off with a new counterterrorism agency? More

April 4, 2007
The Almighty Euro beats the Royal Navy
James Lewis
Today Britain is being raked over the coals by the nasty old Barbary Pirates, in the shape of the Madcap Mullahs of Qom More

April 4, 2007
Pity A Poor Democrat
Christopher Chantrill
Don't think it's easy being a Democratic officeholder. More

April 4, 2007
Beware of Mullahs Bearing Gifts
Amil Imani
Despite the current imbroglio over the British hostages, Iran's mullahs have repeatedly indicated their willingness and ability to help restore order in Iraq, on the condition that the United States packs up and leaves the region. More

April 3, 2007
Ban the Bulb?
Luminus Maximus
In a few weeks the US Congress is likely to vote to phase out the standard incandescent lightbulb within a decade. More

April 3, 2007
The Democrats Go Fishing
J.R. Dunn
Last week, Democratic strategy for the rest of the Bush presidency was rendered transparent: the Dems intend to impeach George W. Bush by whatever means necessary. More

April 3, 2007
Living-Room Warriors
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I get very queasy when I consider the fact that we are urged by our media and the Democrats to fight the Iraq War using newspaper/television opinion polls for decision making. More

April 2, 2007
When the money runs out
Gerd Schroeder
Now that Congress has passed the Iraq Accountability Act, one of the best questions that I have heard is: "when will the lack of funds start hurting the troops?" More

April 2, 2007
As long as you are hated, it's better to be feared
James Lewis
Tehran isn't interested in loving the West, or even in tolerating us. If you doubt it, just listen to the Khomeini gang. More

April 2, 2007
The Muslim Brotherhood's Propaganda Offensive
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is heightening its U.S. propaganda offensive in advance of the 2008 presidential elections, taking advantage of the political uncertainty and opposition to the current Administration's defense policies More

April 1, 2007
Send Me to GITMO!
Janet Levy
Whenever I hear of rich people like Martha Stewart, Dennis Kozlowski or Leona Helmsley being convicted and sent to prison, I find myself wondering how these jet-setting sybarites withstand incarceration. More

April 1, 2007
Seating Arrangements
Paul Shlichta
In a recent analysis of current gender disparities in communication, Selwin Duke wisely refrained from tackling the toilet-seat-position (TSP) issue. More

April 1, 2007
Home of the Hamburger?
Barry Popik
A veritable war among the states has broken out, with various locales claiming to be the home of our iconic national meal on a bun. More