Articles

May 14, 2008
The Bum Rap on Biofuels
Herbert E. Meyer
One of the striking features of modern politics is the speed at which a candidate, or a cause, can topple from the pedestal to the doghouse. More

May 14, 2008
Triple Cross: How Britain Created the Arab-Israel Conflict
Rachel Neuwirth
I hope that no one will mistake me for an enemy of the British people. But history reveals a dark side of British policy in the Middle East. More

May 14, 2008
Israel's Democratic Garrison State Turns 60
Edward Bernard Glick
With all the uniforms, planes, guns, and tanks, there is no doubt that Israel is militarized. But it is not militaristic. More

May 14, 2008
A Birthday Wish for Israel
J.C. Hawkins
I realized early on that my birthday - May 14, 1948 - was extra special because I shared it with an entire nation, Israel. More

May 13, 2008
The Obama Change We Really Can Believe In
Peggy Shapiro
Barack Obama's call to action is "Change we can believe in." With his latest about face on direct talks with Iran's Ahmadinejad, Obama has finally clarified what he is going to change: his opinion More

May 13, 2008
Obama's Attitude on Lebanon, and the Palestinians
Ed Lasky
The dire events on Lebanon have given us an opportunity to discover Senator Barack Obama's worldview and how it might influence his policies towards the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. More

May 13, 2008
Scary Signals: Obama's Ideology Hints At Dangerous Policy
Barry Rubin
One of many scary things about Senator Barrack Obama is how mistaken his ideology makes him, even when he thinks he's getting it right More

May 12, 2008
Obama's Darn Likablity
James Edmund Pennington
Lurking just beneath all that defiant bravado about Obama's unacceptably left wing voting record is the unexpressed Republican fear that the charming Illinois Senator just might be that easy-to-live-with guy America wouldn't mind coming home to. More

May 12, 2008
Bugged by the miracle of Obama
James Lewis
Is anyone else bothered by the superhuman rise of Barack Obama? More

May 12, 2008
Read a Book, Get Charged with Racial Harassment
Selwyn Duke
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student Keith John Sampson was charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I'm not kidding. More

May 11, 2008
Men with Guns
Mike Austin
Another sophisticate has spoken out, and bravely: "...if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got the Army...." More

May 11, 2008
Misunderstanding Islamic Antisemitism
Andrew G. Bostom
Is Islamic Anti-Semitism merely a response to the "occupation" of Palestine or Zionism? Or perhaps merely recycled European Antisemitism? History says otherwise. More

May 11, 2008
A Schism over Shari'a in the Church of England
David J. Rusin
The debate over the trajectory of the Western sociopolitical system and its strained relations with Islam is the most pivotal of our time. Two prelates in the ever more fractious Church of England provide a microcosm of this discourse. More

May 10, 2008
Hezbollah's Beirut Blitz
Walid Phares
The Syro-Iranian axis enflaming various battlefields in the region, from Basra to Gaza, has instructed its proxy local force on the Lebanese battlefield to surge against the pro-Western Government of Fuad Seniora. More

May 10, 2008
Wellness Über Alles
anonymous
A new battlefront in the war to erase politically incorrect civil liberties is taking place across corporate America under the innocuous-sounding banner of "Wellness." More

May 10, 2008
Hillary's All or Nothing
Miguel A. Guanipa
It must be devastating for Hillary Rhodam Clinton to see her chances of becoming the Democratic nominee fade into oblivion. More

May 09, 2008
Hillary Clinton's Nuclear Option
Ned Barnett
Most pundits are telling Senator Hillary Clinton that it's all over. But she is no quitter. Barack Obama cannot expect to coast into the convention. More

May 09, 2008
Obama and the Jewish Vote
Richard Baehr
The Jewish vote in the coming presidential election is up for grabs to an extent unseen for almost three decades, assuming Barack Obama wins his party's nomination. More

May 09, 2008
Our Ferocious Home-Front Warrior: Melanie Morgan
Kyle-Anne Shiver
No war can be won without a lot of behind-the-scenes home-front help. Of course, there's home-front help, and then there's home-front battle. More

May 08, 2008
My Female Pride in Hillary Is Emerging
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Before I finish writing this, I may be running for the Pepto Bismol. That's not a joke. More

May 08, 2008
A Fight Strategy for McCain
Lee Cary
McCain's three-legged campaign strategy may be emerging. It's one that can lead him to victory in November. More

May 08, 2008
Life Without Edges -- The Left's Seductive Promise
AWR Hawkins
In an election year such as this, the responsible voter must assess the "glorious" ends of the Left's various offers of a life without edges: an existence free of the normal dangers, struggles, and consequences of life. More

May 07, 2008
Obama, the One Hit Wonder
Todd Feinburg
With the rock star candidate hobbled by the preacher, it's hard to imagine that Barack Obama won't be looking more like an aging one hit wonder come late Fall. More

May 07, 2008
The Wright-Obama Split in Historic Perspective
Taru Taylor
Sen. Barack Obama's recent fallout with Rev. Jeremiah Wright transcends daily news. The gravity of their broken friendship commands larger perspective. More

May 07, 2008
At the Turn of The Cycle
Christopher Chantrill
In climate, as in politics, ther are natural cycles. We may be seeing some new ones starting these days in both spheres. More

May 06, 2008
Hamas Needs Shrinks Without Borders
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The homicidal maniacs of Hamas outdid even their most deranged Islamic brethren by putting out a film claiming that the Jews secretly planned and carried out 6 million deaths of their own people. More

May 06, 2008
A Free Market Solution to White Guilt
James Lewis
White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. Without it the Junior Senator from Illinois would be just a skinnier Bill Clinton. More

May 06, 2008
Gaia Declares Hudna
Allan Nadel
What lies behind the failure of the globe to warm as predicted by settled science? More

May 05, 2008
Barack Obama's Goldmine
Ed Lasky
An odd dynamic is at work as the primaries wind down, one that has made victory for Barack Obama all but certain, despite plummeting poll numbers. More

May 05, 2008
Are Global Warmists Pulling a Cool Fast One?
Marc Sheppard
Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd. More

May 05, 2008
Jeremiah Wright's Apprentice
Lee Cary
Trinity United Church of Christ looks to be following a steady course in the wake of the retirement of Pastor Jeremiah Wright. More

May 04, 2008
Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror
Joseph Myers
Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound. More

May 04, 2008
Obama's Trap
Todd Feinburg
Barack Obama set the trap. Then he stepped in it. Or, as Reverend Wright might put it, Barack's chickens are coming home to roost. More

May 04, 2008
The Decline of Leftism in Europe
Bruce Walker
In less than a week the major political parties of the Right in Britain and Italy scored unprecedented electoral victories by winning mayoral races in Rome and then in London. More

May 03, 2008
Obama's Stealth Pro-Abortion Stance
Ned Barnett
For more than a month now, the media has effectively covered up a potentially damning statement made by Senator Barack Obama. More

May 03, 2008
Pope Benedict, Logos, Chaos, and Freedom
Andrew Walden
Speaking at the White House, Pope Benedict XVI April 16 embraced America's quest for freedom. Benedict's visit to America came just weeks after his Easter Eve baptism of Magdi Allam, Italy's most prominent Muslim. More

May 03, 2008
Be Happy: The American Refusal to Deal with Suffering
Jude Acosta
We are a nation of hopefuls and always have been. In our relatively short time on earth, this nation has spawned more utopian societies and splinter religions promising immediate deliverance than any other culture in history. More

May 02, 2008
The Democrats' Ex-Presidents
J.R. Dunn
Why is it that so many Democratic leaders find it necessary to continue making spectacles of themselves after they leave office? More

May 02, 2008
It's Obama's Character, Stupid
Kyle-Anne Shiver
I picked up a copy of Time magazine yesterday, in which a columnist declared that issues of "character" were a "distraction" in the Presidential race. What a heap of pure poppycock! More

May 02, 2008
Secrets of the Cambridge, Massachusetts Peace Commission
Hillel Stavis
The City of Cambridge Peace Commission got a rousing sendoff rom the entire City Council when it went to visit its friends in the Palestinian territories. But then the Freedom of Information Act went to work on this government body. More

May 01, 2008
An Appeal to American Thinker Readers
Thomas Lifson
American Thinker today launches its first-ever appeal to readers for financial support. We want to explain to readers why we are doing this at this particular moment. More

May 01, 2008
Thus Endeth the Lesson From Jeremiah
Lee Cary
The Jeremiah Wright story will have a dead cat bounce, but the political lesson from Obama's pastor is, for all intents and purposes, over. More

May 01, 2008
Obama and Wright project their bias on all African Americans
Peggy Shapiro
When Reverend Wright accused those who criticize him of attacking the black church as a whole, he echoed Obama's much-heralded speech on Wright and race in the U.S. More