Articles

November 30, 2008
Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai
Andrew G. Bostom
Mainstream media coverage of these rampaging, cold-blooded murderous acts of jihad terrorism in Mumbai consistently ignored the clear ideological linkage to Islam. More

November 30, 2008
The Odd Story of Romance in Dreams from my Father
Jack Cashill
More striking parallels between Obama's first autobiography and the work of Bill Ayers. More

November 30, 2008
Why Rush Limbaugh is a leading American intellectual
James Lewis
The words "intellect" and "intellectual" deserve to be rescued from the myth-makers of the Left, which has decided in its amazing arrogance that it really owns those words. More

November 29, 2008
Legendary Songwriter Now Marches to an Islamist Tune
David J. Rusin
Music and real estate mogul Kenny Gamble, alternatively known as Luqman Abdul Haqq, is one of the most powerful men in Philadelphia -- and also among the most controversial. More

November 29, 2008
The more things change...
Marianne Peracchio
Barack Obama rode in to Washington on a wave of "change" that only temporarily disguised the new status quo of our political culture More

November 29, 2008
A million stories in the naked city
Bob Weir
My partner and I were working plainclothes duty as we drove toward a suspected drug supply house in Queens. A cry for help changed our direction... More

November 28, 2008
Making the World Safe for Marxism
Randall Hoven
I thought communism was defeated when the Berlin Wall came down. I'm now thinking we did not defeat communism at all More

November 28, 2008
Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam
Janet Levy
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 is viewed by the West as the end of the Cold War and the death knell for Communism. In reality, Communists continued to push for the same ultimate goal by alternate means. More

November 28, 2008
Stop and Think
Larrey Anderson
What does your government actually do for you? This article is a series of quick thought experiments to help answer that question. More

November 27, 2008
America, the Blessing
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The America-hating disease has spread like a brush fire upon the earth. More

November 27, 2008
Thankful for Family
Larrey Anderson
There is much more going on the traditional nuclear monogamous heterosexual family than meets the eye. The family is the "laboratory" that creates self-aware and decent human beings. More

November 27, 2008
Thanks for what lasts
Bruce Walker
Barack Obama won the presidency promising change. As we enter our national season of Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the goodness of permanence. More

November 26, 2008
Buyer's Remorse on the Left
Janice Shaw Crouse
The Far Left contends that Barack should be dancing with the ones that brought him to the White House. Those on the right who treasure our traditional America values of personal responsibility and freedom have far more serious cause for worry. More

November 26, 2008
Obama on the 'urgency' of combating 'global warming'
Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Few challenges facing America and the world are less urgent than combating the non-problem of "global warming". More

November 26, 2008
Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
Joe the Farmer
Does this Barack Obama birth certificate issue bug you? A guide to the issue the big media don't want to talk about. More

November 25, 2008
Brent Scowcroft and Obama's Middle East Policy
Ed Lasky
The possibility that Brent Scowcroft will become the eminence grise of the Obama Administration may chill supporters of Israel this winter. More

November 25, 2008
The Sweating of Business
Christopher Chantrill
The point of the old sweatshops was to milk the workers of their just wages, we are told. The point of the sweating of business is to milk commerce of much of its economic added value. More

November 25, 2008
New York Honors Che Guevara with a Statue
Humberto Fontova
Most New Yorkers seem unaware that but for the grace of God thousands of them would have been Che's victims in a missile attack "The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims." More

November 24, 2008
Did NBC Risk Employee Lives in a Green Agenda Stunt?
Marc Sheppard
A rush to the top, while simultaneously rushing to the bottom? Oh, my aching head! More

November 24, 2008
Mein Kampus
Bruce Walker
College has long been bigoted toward conservatives. But levels of indoctrination have reached new hights. More

November 24, 2008
Time Again for Letters of Marque?
Ralph Alter
Once again, piracy captures the world's attention, though it seems unlikely that Hollywood will ever cast Johnny Depp in Pirates of Somalia. More

November 23, 2008
A Libertarian Defense of Social Conservatism
Randall Hoven
Social conserves and libertarians need not be at loggerheads as the GOP recovers from a historic defeat. More

November 23, 2008
Race in the Third Millennium
Selwyn Duke
In our time, the "three r's" of education are revisionism, relativism, and racism, and we are instilled with the notion that the last one is the end-all and be-all, the source of all our woes. More

November 23, 2008
Obama and the Middle East: Reading Election Tea Leaves
Sam Lehman-Wilzig
In Israel, Barack Obama's victory has raised the question: "Is it good for Israel?" The answer depends on several yet unknown factors. More

November 23, 2008
How the NYT Could Save Itself
Andrew Sumereau
Make no mistake, the newspaper industry as we have known it is a dying industry. So why save the Times? Why bother? Many reasons More

November 22, 2008
The Testosterone Crisis
Ed Kaitz
The sweeping Democratic electoral victory has left many conservative Americans concerned about their children's future. Here's another reason. More

November 22, 2008
The Crushing of Sarah Palin
Bob Weir
The other day, as I was watching one of the news channels I had to quickly check my calendar because I had the feeling that I may have only dreamt that the election was over. More

November 22, 2008
Progressives and Obama's Acceptable Blackness
Miguel A. Guanipa
Progressives have found conservative blacks unacceptable, impairing the celebration of some real milestones for the black community. More

November 21, 2008
Under Obama Will Smoking Become 'Cool' Again?
Pamela Meister
Smokers could soon have a reason to rejoice: President-elect Obama is a smoker who has tried hard to quit the habit but just can't seem to do it. More

November 21, 2008
Global Warming? Bring it On!
Gregory Young
The argument propounded by the dubious UN's report on Anthropogenic (human-induced) Global Warming (AGW) is willfully fraudulent. We can and must win the global watrming debate. More

November 21, 2008
The Weight of Government
Christopher Chantrill
In the chaos of defeat Republicans and conservatives feel most ashamed about the profligate spending. How could GOP president and V+Congress so increased the weight of government? More

November 20, 2008
A damned defeat
James Lewis
We've just suffered a damned defeat, not as bad as the loss of a beloved father, but all the same a very bloody punch in the nose. Telling the truth is the first step to recovery. All is not lost. More

November 20, 2008
Obama Out-Gores Gore at Climate Summit
Marc Sheppard
Barack Obama managed to say all the wrong things at this week's Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles -- without even showing up. More

November 20, 2008
Iraq War: Right Time, Right Place, Right War
Douglas Stone
It needs to be said, even as we look ahead to an Obama Administration that has pledged, whatever the cost, to begin a draw down in Iraq: It was smart to go to war in Iraq More

November 20, 2008
Is Israel a Banana Republic?
Daniel Tauber
is the State of Israel a banana republic? The Israeli Left seems to think so. More

November 20, 2008
Obama is a roll of the dice on Israel
Lauri B. Regan
Obama's move to the center on Middle East Issues looks like a head fake in the light of what has transpired since the election. More

November 19, 2008
Oligopoly and the fall of the American automobile industry
Thomas Lifson
More than bad management or greedy unions, it was oligopoly that eventually led to the fall of the Big Three. More

November 19, 2008
Expect an early Obama bailout of the Big Three
C. Edmund Wright
This week's Congressional shenanigans are just chumming the waters and to allow the networks to have all Thanksgiving and Christmas to run "woe is me" stories about the wonderful hard working union families facing economic extinction after the holidays. More

November 19, 2008
Obama Appoints Castro's Lawyer as White House Counsel
Humberto Fontova
Among the throng of Clinton regime retreads recruited for the Obama administration we find Gregory Craig. The media mostly has omitted mention of Craig's role as chief facilitator for Fidel Castro's shanghaiing of Elian Gonzalez. More

November 19, 2008
A Place Where Only Liberal Speech Is Protected
William A. Jacobson
Ithaca, NY Declares Itself a "Community of Sanctuary," but Only for Those Who Oppose the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars More

November 19, 2008
Attention American Auto Makers
Dave St. John
I think the first thing you need before you get a dime of our hard earned tax dollars is some very plain, honest talk. More

November 18, 2008
3 Scenarios for the Obama Years: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Randall Hoven
The real Barack Obama is still unknown, supposedly. I see three possible trajectories he could take, one of which scares me more than the others. More

November 18, 2008
Which Obama Will We Get On Health Care?
David Catron
The President-elect was for single-payer before he was against it. More

November 18, 2008
How the Academic Left Elected Obama
Paul Kengor
Of all the reasons why America voted the way it did on November 4, one factor stands out: young people and first-time voters turned out and voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. More

November 18, 2008
Bush Haters Are Fools, Don't Emulate Them
Yomin Postelnik
We cannot lose track of one thing: unlike the Bush haters, we must promote our values, not just oppose theirs More

November 18, 2008
Lessons from Barney: No More Warm and Fuzzies
Jerry A. Kane
The time has come to ignore platitudes and put into action the rather toothy example bared by Barney, President Bush's terrier. More

November 17, 2008
The Soros Connection in the Minnesota Senate Race Vote Count
Ed Lasky
With a filibuster-proof Senate hanging in the balance, it is worthwhile looking to the fine hand of George Soros behind the development of the Minnesota senate race vote counting fiasco. More

November 17, 2008
Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio
Jim Boulet, Jr.
With the ink barely dry on this November's ballots, Obama has begun a war against conservative talk radio. More

November 17, 2008
Republicans --You Can't Say I Didn't Warn You
Alicia Colon
What has been made absolutely clear in this election is that the Republican Party has an abundance of class acts when what it really needs are hard core community organizers. More

November 17, 2008
Barack O'Bama and the Luck of the Irish
Richard L. Benkin
Incredible good fortune has played a startling role in the rise of Barack Obama to the presidency-elect. More

November 16, 2008
Did Iran Offer a 'Grand Bargain' in 2003?
Steven J. Rosen
Allegations have been made that in May 2003, Iran offered the United States a promising opportunity to resolve the nuclear and terrorism issues through diplomacy, but hard-liners in the Bush Administration turned it down. More

November 16, 2008
Racism is Dead
R. Stephen Bowden
"God is dead," proclaimed Friedrich Nietzsche. Most people didn't yet realize what was happening, he claimed Nietzsche, but future generations would soon learn to live without God. How about racism? More

November 16, 2008
Orwell's Children
Bruce Walker
Orwell's Children live among us now, not in tiny numbers. More

November 16, 2008
A Modest Proposal to Solve the Financial Crisis
Jeff Racho
I've just realized something: I've solved our financial crisis. More

November 15, 2008
Obama: Fear and the Security Force
Selwyn Duke
In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Adulation from his followers, and fear from some others. More

November 15, 2008
Waltzing on the Titanic
Larrey Anderson
America's young people helped elect Barack Obama. Way to go kids! This article is for you. Let's take a look at your future. More

November 15, 2008
Politicians Then and Now
Otis A. Glazebrook IV
Lessons from the Whiskey Rebellion. More

November 15, 2008
The United Methodist Church vs. George W. Bush
Matthew May
Few individuals or groups have matched the slurs, lies, and outright hatred toward President Bush that have come from officials of the United Methodist Church (UMC), More

November 15, 2008
College Football's Biggest Myth
Rusty Weiss
With a myriad of arguments in favor of the implementation of a playoff system in college football, opponents always seem to hearken back to the same counterpoint -- the college football regular season is the most intriguing in all of sports. More

November 14, 2008
Why Europe is secretly afraid of a socialist America
James Lewis
Be careful what you wish for, goes an old saying. More

November 14, 2008
Global Warming --A Political Context
Robert Ferguson
The "global warming planetary emergency" has become the central plank of ongoing campaigns for more centralized government. More

November 14, 2008
Newspapers Censor Their Way to Oblivion
Jack Cashill
By censoring stories inconvenient for the Democrats and the left, major newspapers (and other media outlets) are writing their own death sentences. More

November 14, 2008
Evil on a Minneapolis Campus
Gary Larson
An 18-year old freshman is beaten up for wearing a McCain-Palin campaign button on campus More

November 14, 2008
Dispatch From Deep Within 'The Youth Vote'
Tim McNabb
One of my occasional self-imposed acts of civil duty is to work as an election judge. This year I happened to be at a student-only polling site on a sizable university campus. More

November 13, 2008
Time Of Death: Oct. 3, 2008
Randall Hoven
The death of the Republican Party has an exact date: October 3, 2008. More

November 13, 2008
Safe Seats and Carolina Blues
C. Edmund Wright
To get a really good close-up glimpse of what demographic problems the Republican Party is facing in the national electorate, one has to look no further than the North Carolina Senate race lost by Elizabeth Dole. More

November 13, 2008
Europe Is Obama's First 'Global Test'
Soeren Kern
President-elect Barack Obama is already facing his first global test. And it's not coming from the usual suspects like Iran or North Korea, but from America's "allies" in Europe. More

November 13, 2008
How the voters bought into Obama
Lauri B. Regan
I fear that the electorate's faith in the One promising change is disastrously misplaced. More

November 12, 2008
The Missing Obama Landslide
Ben-Peter Terpstra
The results are in: Obama 52 percent. McCain 46 percent. The "Obama Landslide" is pure fiction. Days, nay weeks before the polls, however, there were many landslide theme stories. More

November 12, 2008
How Barack Obama Will Ensure His Victory in 2012
Selwyn Duke
No one likes the bearer of bad news, but, in this case, to render good news would be to offer bad prognostication. More

November 12, 2008
It's How You Play The Game
Sally Zelikovsky
From the minute George Bush was elected, the Democrats began their next campaign -- and it was a brilliant one -- to tarnish the Republican brand. More

November 12, 2008
Socialism as Moral Hazard
Harold Kildow
I was taken aback the other day by a self-revelatory little piece by a college professor in the early years of her career. She has a doctorate, and things just aren't working out! More

November 11, 2008
Ten Years of 'Change' in the UK
Graham Cunningham
Good luck, America. We in the U.K. have alredy had 10 years of "change". More

November 11, 2008
The Jewish Vote in 2008 and the Exit Polls
Richard Baehr
Jewish Democrats are trumpeting the results of the national exit poll, which this year seems to show a very solid win for Barack Obama over John McCain among Jewish voters. More

November 11, 2008
What's next for the American media?
Christopher K. Macaig
With the win by President Elect Barack Obama, the media has won. The question now is just what they have won. More

November 11, 2008
A Veterans Day Lesson for the GOP
James R. Stewart
A vivid place of the past -- offering many lessons for those willing to confront and learn them -- is a small village in Flanders called Ypres. More

November 11, 2008
A Veteran's Thanks to America
Col. David Sutherland
One year ago today, November 11, 2007, our Brigade Combat Team began its redeployment from Diyala province, Iraq, back to Fort Hood, Texas. More

November 10, 2008
A Few Post-Election Thoughts
Richard Baehr
It is not a good sign when Party officials describe a loss of at least 6 Senate seats and 20 or more House seats and the presidency as not all that bad, given the circumstances. More

November 10, 2008
A 'Center-Right' Country? We Shall See.
Steven M. Warshawsky
In the aftermath of Barack Obama's decisive win on Tuesday, Republicans and conservatives have begun the inevitable, and necessary, process of asking, "What now?" More

November 10, 2008
American Troops Still in Harm's Way? Oh yeah. Them.
Kyle-Anne Shiver
When was the last time you saw American soldiers being interviewed in prime time? More

November 10, 2008
Bittersweet Victory
Ed Kaitz
When Thoreau said "you never gain something but that you lose something" he could have been describing the disturbing vacuum recently created in the lives of many Democrats. More

November 09, 2008
What do the election results mean to conservatives?
Bruce Walker
The results of the 2008 election mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. What do those results mean to conservatives More

November 09, 2008
Hit-and-Run: Death in a 'Sanctuary City'
David Paulin
A few decades ago, it was rare to see the kinds of hit-and-runs now occurring regularly More

November 09, 2008
U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives and Israel's Security
C. Hart
There are three key issues that are important to clarify in terms of U.S.-Israel relations even before American President-Elect Barak Obama takes over the White House in January 2009. More

November 09, 2008
'Always Keep The Church On Your Side'
Augustus Goddard
The Democratic Party seems to have forgotten the injunction of Henry VII and turned a silent ally into an open enemy. More

November 09, 2008
George W. Bush: Political Punching Bag
Daniel Tauber
There was a time when people prayed for President Bush. But watching Oliver Stone's W., you would never know it. More

November 08, 2008
America's Third Republic?
Harold Kildow
In current argot, we have been operating under US Constitution, 2.0 since the Roosevelt era. Will the Obama Administration and the 112th Congress bring us US Constitution 3.0? More

November 08, 2008
The Islamist Role in the 2008 Canadian Elections
Raheel Raza
If you are Canadian and Islamist, you probably voted for the New Democratic Party (NDP), which won 18.2% of the vote on October 14, 2008. More

November 08, 2008
Credo in Unam Nationem, Sub Deo-Redux
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Republicans have been swept aside, consigned to the wilderness, by their own undoing. Time for some reflection. More

November 07, 2008
President-Elect Obama's First CIA Briefing
Ishmael Jones
When President-Elect Obama sat through his first detailed CIA briefing yesterday, he was staring into the face of the greatest threat to the success and survivability of his presidency. More

November 07, 2008
Barack Obama: The Kingfish Reborn
Henry P. Wickham, Jr.
John McCain once referred to Barack Obama's upcoming presidency as the second term of Jimmy Carter. It's more accurate to say that Obama's election is the first term of the Huey Long administration. More

November 07, 2008
How To Get Your Hand Bitten
Randall Hoven
Why do Republicans keep thinking their problem is not cooperating enough with Democrats? More

November 07, 2008
Our Language is the Loser
C. Edmund Wright
One of the big losers in this cycle is the English language. Not all of this is new to this election cycle of course, but it does seem to be getting worse. More

November 06, 2008
Opportunities of an Obama Presidency
Dave Smithee
On Obama's win, and why it could be the best thing for American conservatism... if we have the courage. More

November 06, 2008
GOP Defeat and the 'New Tone'
C. Edmund Wright
Tuesday's debacle was some 8 years in the making. Or more. More

November 06, 2008
What happened to free expression?
Peter B. Martin
Where has liberty of expression gone? Was it slain at Stanford? Was it harried away at Harvard? More

November 06, 2008
Obama Supporters: Now That It's Over...
DeAnn Caylor
To the supporters of President-Elect Barack Obama, heartiest congratulations. This is a big moment for you and for this nation. More

November 05, 2008
The American Eagle Needs Two Wings to Soar
Jay Rooney
Now that he's won, letting The Great Unifier rule without opposition would be risky and inimical to the American political tradition. More

November 05, 2008
Why McCain Lost
Jewish Odysseus
John McCain's incoherent, C- campaign did not deserve to win the Presidency this year. On the other hand, America doesn't deserve the punishment an Obama presidency is about to inflict upon us. More

November 05, 2008
Hope and Change in the Real World
Christopher Chantrill
I'm not expecting Sen. Obama to deliver on hope and change, let alone on "transforming the world." More

November 05, 2008
Do We Get the Government We Deserve?
William Tate
Yesterday, Americans by the millions went to the polls and elected a new President. More

November 04, 2008
Election Prediction
Richard Baehr
The final deluge of national tracking polls and state polls has arrived, and they reveal a most unusual picture. More

November 04, 2008
If Obama Wins ... or if McCain Wins
Larrey Anderson
There are three distinct possibilities of what might happen to America under an Obama administration. Believe it or not, one of them is not all that bad. More

November 04, 2008
The True Name of Barack Obama's Change: Intolerance
Jeff Tyler
The world has elected Barack Obama president of the United States. It is now waiting to see if the Americans will reject him on November 4. More

November 04, 2008
Would You Hire This Man?
Marc Decatur
Before the interview, I contacted several of his references. Each gave a glowing appraisal of the man and his abilities but when asked about specific accomplishments, none came to mind. More

November 03, 2008
Say Goodbye to America
Noel Sheppard
When the sun rises on November 5, regardless of who the president-elect is, a more un-United States than has existed since the Civil War will wake to dispute the results of the disgusting campaign that has mercifully come to an end. More

November 03, 2008
The Coming Obama Global Test
Rocco DiPippo
Are those who hold deeply anti-American views even capable of protecting America from her conventional enemies like Iran? More

November 03, 2008
A Tale of Two Activists
Ed Kaitz
While the "Messiah" was busy in Chicago softening the rough edges of Marxist educational theory, another African-American activist was working quietly in San Antonio, Texas, improving the lives of children one at a time. More

November 03, 2008
Symposium: Why do so many Jews still vote Democrat?
Symposium
Several AT writers share their thoughts on election eve. More

November 03, 2008
Thoughts on the election from a Canadian friend
Tristram Waye
An admirer of America from the North provides a very interesting perspective on our presidential race. More

November 02, 2008
Obama and the Fate of the Democratic Party
Augustus Goddard
The Democratic Party is the most successful political organization in the world, if survival in the volatile arena of politics is the criteria of success. More

November 02, 2008
The Obama Bubble Could Cost the Democrats
James Lewis
Obama's stealth campaign has now been exposed by the New Media as just another assault on power by the old-fashioned radical Left, beefed up with race-baiting demagoguery. More

November 02, 2008
Was Jesus a Socialist? That is the question.
Kyle-Anne Shiver
While I truly tremble at the mere mention of the name "Jesus" in the same sentence with the word, "socialism," this question is one of the central issues of this presidential election, with Barack Obama a convert to the Marxist Black Liberation Theology practiced by Jeremiah Wright. More

November 02, 2008
Letter to Christopher Hitchens from a longtime Iraqi friend
Ayad Rahim
An Iraq-born friend of 20 years tells Hitch why he is dismayed by his endorsement of Obama. More

November 02, 2008
An Afternoon with Israel's Iron General
Joel J. Sprayregen
Gen. Matan Vilnai coordinates defense against Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. More

November 02, 2008
Obama's Middle East Studies Mentors
Cinnamon Stillwell
When voters go to the polls on November 4th, they will choose not only a new presidential administration, but also the candidate's circles of influence. More

November 01, 2008
Obama runs against Clinton prosperity by attacking deregulation
John Berlau
Barack Obama has two basic economic messages. One is to blame the policies of deregulation that John McCain voted for. And the second is to hug former rivals Bill and Hillary Clinton. That combination contradicts history. More

November 01, 2008
Evita Peron Obama
Jim Boulet, Jr.
When it comes to Barack Obama, fans of "Evita" have seen this show before. More

November 01, 2008
Conservatism's blonde moment
J.R. Dunn
It so happens that virtually all the conservative women who have turned on Palin share one feature. They are one particular type of female: they are blondes. More

November 01, 2008
Obama's Adam Smith Problem
Ed Kaitz
Adam Smith helps us understand the problems in Barack Obama's economic policies. More

November 01, 2008
Notre Dame stands vindicated
Matthew May
Where does the University of Notre Dame go for its apology? More