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January 31, 2008
Rudy Could Pave McCain's Road to the Whitehouse
Marc Sheppard
Pundits will surely attribute the gradual rise and swift freefall of the long-time Republican frontrunner more to a lengthy rap-sheet of liberal social misdemeanors than a flawed campaign strategy. More

January 31, 2008
The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation
Selwyn Duke
Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here. More

January 31, 2008
WWJ(ack)D?
Matt May
The unstated - yet obvious - conclusion the breathless coverage of Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy conferring their endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency is that their endorsement also has the imprimatur of the late John F. Kennedy. More

January 30, 2008
The Base is Wrong About the Gang of 14
Richard Baehr
When conservatives lay out their long list of apostasies committed by John McCain, one of them is always his role in the Gang of 14, the 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans in the Senate who agreed to a judicial compromise in 2005. To put it plainly, the critics of the deal are flat out wrong. More

January 30, 2008
Hawaii Government Demands Cartoon be Censored
Andrew Walden
Does free speech exist in Hawaii? A government department of the State of Hawaii is demanding the retraction of a political cartoon More

January 29, 2008
The Liberals' Mommy Fascism
Christopher Chantrill
At the end of the Bush administration conservatives need to clear their heads and think about the future. It's time to do some serious political philosophy. More

January 29, 2008
McCain's ACU Ratings
Randall Hoven
Senator John McCain's lifetime rating of 82.3% from the American Conservative Union is often cited as proof that he is conservative. Here is a closer look at that 82.3 rating. More

January 29, 2008
The Audacity of Questioning Obama's Commitment to Israel
Richard Baehr and Ed Lasky
American Thinker's articles on the disturbing ties of candidate Barack Obama to anti-Isarel adviusors have provoked a torrent of criticism from his supporters. More

January 29, 2008
European Press and the Presidential Election
Soeren Kern
The outcome of the US presidential election affects the lives of millions of people around the world. So it's probably not surprising that many Europeans are resentful that only Americans will have a say in it. More

January 28, 2008
Who's Afraid of John McCain?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
When the New York Times endorsed John McCain last week, the conservative blogosphere was quickly abuzz with the obvious harm the left-wing newspaper would do to McCain's chances. More

January 28, 2008
The Terror Scare?
J.R. Dunn
Influential voices are peddling a dangerous fallacy: that the threat of terror is overblown, another example of scare tactics, like the supposedly nonexistent Communist threat in the 1940s and 1950s. More

January 28, 2008
Is Ahmadinejad setting a trap for Israel and the US?
James Lewis
Like the Jedi Knights in Star Wars, much of Israel's safety depends on an absurdly small number of daring pilots and their jet planes. More

January 27, 2008
The 13 Steps of Liberals Anonymous
C. MacLeod Fuller
The sole mission of Liberals Anonymous is to establish and maintain recovery programs designed to help similar individuals overcome the plethora of congenital illnesses inherent in postmodern American liberalism with which they are embittered. More

January 27, 2008
Is A New Dark Age At Hand?
Lawrence Murray
We like to think that the Internet, the I-Pod, the I-phone, and all the other "Eyes of the Future" will bring about a new Age of Enlightenment. But suppose we're wrong. More

January 27, 2008
Cream Rises to the Top, Even on the Internet
Thomas Lifson
While Lawrence Murray offers American Thinker readers a perceptive critique of many serious problems accompanying the arrival of the internet, all is not yet lost. More

January 26, 2008
Irony of Ironies
Ronald Wieck
For connoisseurs of the idiocies and ironies of American politics, the primary season has offered a smorgasbord of delights. The dumbest, sleaziest, most mind-numbing reality show can't compare with this stuff More

January 26, 2008
The Utopian Dream of Evolutionary Psychology
Miguel A. Guanipa
In today's progressive milieu, the evolutionary psychologist is the anointed high priest to the morally disoriented masses. More

January 26, 2008
How to Respond to a Supercilious Atheist
Alan Roebuck
Atheism as an organized, evangelizing movement has been on the offensive lately. More

January 25, 2008
Are the Dems out of love with Hill and Bill?
James Lewis
Liberals don't actually choose their leaders --- they just fall in love. To the rest of us that might seem pretty strange --- but then can you imagine conservatives going to a Broadway musical like Camelot, to sing songs about a politician? More

January 25, 2008
Can the GOP Reframe the Illegal Immigration Issue?
Lee Cary
One major task facing the eventual Republican presidential nominee will be to reframe the debate toward the real issue: the negative ramifications, to both illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens, that stem from mass uncontrolled immigration from Mexico. More

January 25, 2008
Nonprofits Escaping Tax on Unrelated Business Activities
Rosslyn Smith
Large and wealthy not-for-profit organizations are apparently escaping taxation on income earned on commercial ventures by offsetting the income with expenses from other activities More

January 24, 2008
Hillary and Bill Use Alinsky Tactics To Bring Down Obama
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Obama was up; now he's down. Even though Obama seems to be harnessing the South Carolina black vote that will give him that state's delegates, he has been feeling the brunt of the Clintons' mastery of the tactic of polarization, taught decades ago to Hillary by Saul Alinsky. More

January 24, 2008
Happy Birthday, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!
Bruce Walker
On January 27, 2008, our nation celebrates an important political anniversary. Ten years ago Hillary Clinton (then the First Lady) went on television with Matt Lauer More

January 24, 2008
So's Your Old Man
Christopher Chantrill
Conservatives have long understood that socialism and fascism are two sides of the same coin. They are both reactionary movements attempting to roll back the modern era to a simpler, less corrupt age driven by something higher than money, money, money. More

January 23, 2008
Barack Obama's Middle East Expert
Ed Lasky
Barack Obama's real thinking about Israel and the Middle East continues to be an enigma. One of his advisors in particular clearly warrants attention, as does the reasoning that led him to being chosen by Barack Obama. More

January 23, 2008
Hypochondriasis Economicus
Steven M. Warshawsky
One of the downsides to the growth of a broad-based "investor class" in this country is that increasing numbers of Americans suffer from "economic hypochondria." More

January 23, 2008
Why they Hate Mitt Romney
Amy D. Goldstein
Have you noticed how all of the Republican candidates can barely conceal their contempt for Governor Mitt Romney? More

January 22, 2008
Will the Ice Caps Melt?
Jerome J. Schmitt
Al Gore's prediction that ice caps will melt and raise the sea level 20 feet within a century appears to ignore a certain well-understood law of physics. More

January 22, 2008
Saving the Trees and Killing the Children
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Today markes the 35th anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that changed America. More

January 22, 2008
Hillary Clinton's 'Guidance' for the Media
Lance Fairchok
Chris Matthews is in trouble. The socialist progressives are now accusing him of being part of the dreaded vast right wing conspiracy, a terrible insult in their world More

January 21, 2008
Toppling the Times: Rupert Takes On Pinch
Ed Lasky
The American mediascape is about to experience an earthquake, Rupert Murdoch is preparing to topple the New York Times from its position as the pre-eminent general interest daily newspaper, generating severe financial pressure on a struggling media company reeling from mismanagement. More

January 21, 2008
Is There Waterboarding In Hell?
Randall Hoven
John McCain promised to do "whatever is necessary" to get Osama bin Laden, including following him "to the gates of hell." More

January 21, 2008
War? What War?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
A pertinent question for 2008 might be: How many 9/11's does it take to wake a sleeping giant and keep him alert at the helm? More

January 20, 2008
Election Year Nonsense
Selwyn Duke
To use a play on Winston Churchill's cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage. More

January 20, 2008
Barack, Hillary, Language, and Victory
Lee Cary
Political campaigns are fought with the weapon of language. Barack's campaign uses it as a subtle and surgically-applied force. Hillary's uses it as a blunt instrument More

January 20, 2008
The Mature Christian Voter
Ben-Peter Terpstra
You're not ready to call yourself a "mature Christian voter" if ... 1. You think Jesus cares about carbon credits. Newsflash: He was a carpenter! More

January 19, 2008
World War IV: A Military Perspective
Christopher D. Geisel
Not once during my six months serving in Iraq did I ever hear anyone refer to our conflict there as "World War IV." But for properly identifying our Islamist enemy and for putting this global fight in epic historical context, Podhoretz's World War IV deserves great credit. More

January 19, 2008
Trade deficits: Should you worry?
Dennis Sevakis
The answer, of course, depends upon who you are, where you are and whether you're an individual or a sovereign government. More

January 19, 2008
Everyone looks for Solomon, but we need David
Tom Panion
In this election year, people are swayed by emotion. They know what they want. They will tell anyone willing to listen what they want. But what do we need? More

January 18, 2008
Hillary's Oedipal Problem
James Lewis
At her radical core, Hillary Clinton is the candidate of female vengeance. One of the most revealing facts is that Senator Clinton is surrounded by an inner circle of women only, her Amazon Battalion. More

January 18, 2008
The Anti Soundbite Candidate
Rick Moran
Fred Thompson is perhaps the most substantative candidate to run for President in many years. He has taken the time to think about what should be the relationship between the government and the governed. More

January 18, 2008
The Feminists and the Jews
Abraham H. Miller
Why would a magazine committed to feminism, the empowerment of women, and the evolution of women's rights in the Middle East refuse to run photos of three senior women in a Middle Eastern government? More

January 17, 2008
Obama, Hillary and Alinsky's Tactics
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The emergence of a racial tinge to the Democratic Party nomination fight was all but inevitable, given both Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's training as disciples of Saul Alinsky. More

January 17, 2008
Hillary's Choice: Political Power and Alinsky
Andrew Walden
Hillary Clinton's praise for LBJ over Dr. King as a deliverer of civil rights reflects her own decision more than three decades ago to forgo a career as a Saul Alinsky organizer. More

January 17, 2008
Does Big Government Help Women?
Christopher Chantrill
When the first woman to be a major party candidate for president wins her first presidential primary by playing the gender card it tells you something. The Romantics were right and the rationalists were wrong. Life really is all about feelings and not about reason. More

January 16, 2008
Barack Obama and Israel
Ed Lasky
One seemingly consistent theme running throughout Barack Obama's career is his comfort with aligning himself with people who are anti-Israel advocates. More

January 16, 2008
Democrats and Conspiracy Theories
Marc Sheppard
When Bill Maher suggested on Friday night's Real Time that Republicans had somehow hacked the voting machines in order to assure a Hillary win, I must admit to being quite shocked. More

January 16, 2008
Obama's Oratorical Motif
Lee Cary
Senator Barak Obama's default oratorical motif imitates the speech patterns of Martin Luther King. While imitation is a form of flattery, it can also be a tool of self-promotion More

January 15, 2008
Barack Obama's Race Problem: White Liberals
Charles J. Sykes
Barack Obama has a racial problem, but it's not what the media thinks -- it's not rednecks, older voters, or even women offended by attacks on Hillary Clinton. Obama's racial problem is white liberals. More

January 15, 2008
MSM Trying to Kill the Immigration Card
Selwyn Duke
With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two primary contests and Mitt Romney's recently falling star, a fiction is being bandied about: The anti-amnesty position wasn't playing well in Peoria. More

January 15, 2008
Saving Major Coughlin
Andrew G. Bostom
It may not be too late to save the career of a Pentagon analyst of jihad threats whose frank and honest work has gotten him into trouble. More

January 14, 2008
Obama as Liberal Messiah
J.R. Dunn
When liberals refer to "leaders", they're not talking about the same thing as everybody else. More

January 14, 2008
Ron Paul and the Lodestar of Liberty
Bruce Walker
Ron Paul is not a nut. But Ron Paul holds the vain hope that American government would return to constitutional law anytime soon, even if he did win the presidency. More

January 14, 2008
Mau-Mauing the Clintons
Bob Weir
Given the past record of political campaigns run by the Clintons, it was bound to happen. The very same couple who coined the phrase, and practiced the politics of personal destruction are now being accused of racism. More

January 13, 2008
Bush Wrongly Blames America
J.R. Dunn
I take second place to no one in my admiration for George W. Bush. But there are times when he comes out with something so obtuse, so ill thought out, that it simply grates on the brain. More

January 13, 2008
Rudy Giuliani Should Be GOP Nominee
Steven M. Warshawsky
Now that the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary are behind us, the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination begins in earnest More

January 13, 2008
The Race for the American Mind
Selwyn Duke
The new media's ability to move the news may not survive. The attack upon free expression is more varied than one may think. More

January 12, 2008
NYT's Paul Krugman Sees Europe Through the Looking Glass
Randall Hoven
Star op-ed columnist (and Princeton University professor) Paul Krugman tries to paint Europe as doing better than the U.S. economically, and he credits that to its big government ways. More

January 12, 2008
Whose War? Separating Fact from Fiction in 'Charlie Wilson's War'
Paul Kengor
I'm an historian, not a film critic. My objective here is to show where the movie is inaccurate -- at times, woefully so. More

January 12, 2008
Problems in the VOA-Somali Service
Abdirahman Warsame
At the beginning of the Voice Of America-Somali program, Somalis in the Diaspora and back home were very enthusiastic about the radio service. More

January 11, 2008
Immigration: A Modest Proposal
Richard Baehr
No issue seems to excite the GOP base more than immigration and the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already here More

January 11, 2008
Is America Ready For a Failed Obama Candidacy?
Marc Sheppard
Rather than relieving racial tensions, might an Obama candidacy instead intensify them? More

January 11, 2008
Female Voters Give Themselves a Bad Name
Pamela Meister
Up until New Hampshire, perhaps it could be said that Hillary's style was definitely turning voters off in droves More

January 10, 2008
Do You Believe in Magic?
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Do you believe in magic? I don't either, but there are few among us who wouldn't agree that Barack Obama's meteoric political rise this year has seemed downright magical. More

January 10, 2008
A Moral Challenge for the Democrats
Bruce Walker
There is a difference between Mrs. Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama. That difference is not about political ideology. It is not about specific policies. The difference between Clinton and Obama is about ethics and character. More

January 10, 2008
Eaton Agonistes, Redux?
Andrew G. Bostom
The Pentagon has fired Stephen Coughlin, its most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism More

January 09, 2008
Obama's Glaring Ambiguities
Lee Cary
When infatuation with Barak Obama transitions to examination of his positions, how will he reconcile the racial exclusiveness of his religious environment with the racial inclusiveness of his political speech? More

January 09, 2008
Obama and the Childish Left
James Lewis
What adult would vote for a totally untested presidential candidate by falling in love? Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Senator Joe Biden, and a million other Democrats -- that's who. The New York Times stable of Leftie pundits is reliving the Decade of Love. More

January 09, 2008
Liberals and Mathematical Models
Jerome J. Schmitt
I just don't understand American liberals and their attitude toward mathematical models. The left places inordinate amount of faith in untested models predicting man-made warming of the global climate, while ignoring time-tested mathematical models in another important field. More

January 08, 2008
Obama's Alinsky Jujitsu
Kyle-Anne Shiver
As she copes with falling behind Barack Obama in every major poll, I suspect it must bother Hillary that he also appears to have mastered the playbook used by her own political teacher, the legendary amoral guru of left wing activism, Saul Alinksy. More

January 08, 2008
The one-two punch aimed at GOP conservatives
James Lewis
The one-two punch of McCain and Huckabee is aimed at the conservative base of the GOP. It is designed to wrest party leadership away from the conservative coalition that has more-or-less controlled it since Ronald Reagan. More

January 08, 2008
Republic of Georgia Election a Triumph for Democracy
S. John Massoud
Over the weekend, democracy took another large step in a republic of the former Soviet Union. The Republic of Georgia, a key ally in the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq, had its first free and truly fair election in its history. More

January 07, 2008
Only McCain Can Beat Obama
Richard Baehr
I know John McCain does not go down easily among many conservatives. But with Barack Obama looking like the victor among Democrats, his party needs the Arizona Senator at the top of the ticket. More

January 07, 2008
Hey GOP: Cheer Up, Chin Up!
Randall Hoven
Why are Republicans so depressed? They have nothing to fear but a discouraged Republican base. More

January 07, 2008
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Obama
Randall Hoven
If Republicans, candidates and base alike, cannot pull themselves out of the funk in which they find themselves, it soon will be time to start making the best of a bad situation. More

January 06, 2008
The Arab 'Right of Return' to Israel
Rachel Neuwirth
A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis "peace" conference to legitimate the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian "Arab refugees" -- meaning in practice the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees More

January 06, 2008
Britney, Anna Nicole and the Future of America
Bob Weir
Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity to shock their way to fame and fortune. More

January 05, 2008
Romney, Thompson Seek Wyoming 'Big Mo'
Rick Moran
Fresh off of disappointing finishes in Iowa, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson are hoping to rebound on Saturday when Wyoming Republicans gather in county conventions across the state More

January 05, 2008
Only Change Can Save Cuba
John Mendez
Those who know real oppression rarely seek answers from dictators even the mythical "benevolent" kind. In the US, it seems, there are far more communists in the bourgeois class than there ever was or will be in the proletariat. More

January 05, 2008
Global Hot Air from the BBC
Graham Cunningham
Billions of people now 'know' about global warming and how it threatens the planet. They 'know' that it is all the fault of decades of irresponsible, profligate industry and capitalism. And yet, what exactly do they really know? More

January 04, 2008
The Big Winners
Richard Baehr
There were three winners in Iowa last night: Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, and John McCain. The race in both parties has now changed, with the path to the nomination clearer on the Democratic side than the Republican. More

January 04, 2008
Lesson from Iowa: It's the Economy, Stupid
Amy D. Goldstein
What is the lesson out of Iowa? It's the economy, stupid. More

January 04, 2008
Who Will Control Your Thermostat?
Joseph Somsel
Californians may lose ultimate control of their thermostats, if proposed revisions to state building regulations are approved. All in the name of the greater good, of course. More

January 03, 2008
Mike Huckabee and Christian Duty
Bruce Walker
Mike Huckabee is talking about using the coercive power of government to force other people to pay taxes and to comply with onerous and arbitrary laws to do what Mike thinks, as a Christian, he should be doing. More

January 03, 2008
Bloomberg: Perot With Smaller Ears
Lee Cary
Do we need another diminutive, entrepreneurial, big-ego billionaire promising us relief from partisan bickering? More

January 03, 2008
The Other Jihad: Islam's War on the Hindus
Janet Levy
Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal catastrophically may fall into the hands of jihadists. But the South Asian version of jihad is a less familiar but no less fearsome variant of the war directed at the Great Satan, America and the Little Satan, Israel. More

January 02, 2008
Go Directly To Jihad, Do Not Pass Gitmo
Randall Hoven
Gitmo has suffered almost universal condemnation. So what are the people released from it up to? More

January 02, 2008
Don't Count Your Victories Before They're Won
Gerd Schroeder
The war in Iraq is not over or waning. In many ways the false idea that the war is won is far more dangerous than the defeatist ideas of the last year ever were. More

January 02, 2008
Election Fallout of the Surge Plan
Christopher Alleva
Less than eleven months from now Americans will go to the voting booths to elect the next president. The "surge" provides a unique case study to judge each party's application and execution of policy. More

January 01, 2008
Dreaming of a United-We-Stand America in 2008
Kyle-Anne Shiver
With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last week, we in America are jolted back to the reality that we are a world at war with IslamoFascist armies. More

January 01, 2008
Obama's Oblique Race Card
Lee Cary
Barack Obama's new stump speech employs the homiletically lyrical style of his well-received Jefferson-Jackson Day delivery, while making oblique reference to the race card. More

January 01, 2008
The Conservative Tide in Major Democracies
Bruce Walker
In each of four major nations important to us, France, Germany, Canada, and Britain, elections and poll rersults are favorable to conservative political forces. More