Articles

January 31, 2010
Obama's Terror Non-Policy
J.R. Dunn
When the leadership opts out, when no one is in command, things just naturally fall to the level of least effort. More

January 31, 2010
Obama's Nuclear Lie
Brian Sussman
The president's pants were smoldering during his State of the Union address. More

January 31, 2010
What's Wrong with Celebrating Life?
Bob Weir
University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow hasn't even made it to the NFL yet, but he is going to be a star of the Super Bowl. More

January 31, 2010
Obama Talks, Ahmadinejad Laughs
Joel J. Sprayregen
Iranian President Ahmadinejad must have had a good laugh when he read the scant foreign policy section of President Obama's State of the Union speech. More

January 31, 2010
Obama Gets Real with Republicans, Without His Teleprompter
Andy Wickersham
The appearance of the president at the Republicans' retreat in Baltimore on Friday was yet another illustration of the indispensability of the Obama teleprompter. More

January 31, 2010
Degenerate Democracy
Mark W. Hendrickson
Aristotle considered the adjective "degenerate" redundant when coupled with "democracy," and America's founding fathers shared his disapprobation. More

January 31, 2010
The Islamic Republic of Torture, Rape, and Murder
Amil Imani
Under the barbaric rule of the mullahcracy in Iran, sexual assaults have become instruments of policy for extracting false confessions. More

January 31, 2010
Model Middle East Indoctrination
Stephen Schwartz
Most Americans, even many of those concerned with the problems of academic Middle East Studies, have probably never heard of the Model Arab League More

January 30, 2010
Now, Pew Says, Marriage Is a Better Deal for Men Than Women
Janice Shaw Crouse
After forty years of preferential treatment in schools and the job market, many women are now better-educated and make more money than men. More

January 30, 2010
The Great Game in the 21st Century
Ed Timperlake
China sends out a trial balloon that it "mulls setting up military bases in Pakistan." More

January 30, 2010
Why Elitists Fail
Henry Oliner
The fatal flaw. More

January 30, 2010
Obama Turns On the N.Y. Banks
Jeffrey R. Carter
Obama is targeting the wrong activities in his ban on proprietary trading. More

January 30, 2010
From Camelot to Scamalot
Jim Guirard
And not "Scamalittle," either. More

January 30, 2010
The Genius of Martin Amis
R.H.J. King
Many of us belonging to that collective known as the sixties generation have been overly reflective of late. More

January 29, 2010
A Really Mediocre President
Jeffrey Folks
An ugly reality is at the heart of what Obama means by a "really good" president. More

January 29, 2010
Three Important Reasons Why Obama's Demagoguery Will Fail
J. Robert Smith
"It's the economy, stupid." Or is it? More

January 29, 2010
Treating Terrorists Like Ordinary Americans
John Leonard
Much has been written and said recently about the Christmas Day would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being granted the same rights as ordinary American citizens. If only he were treated so poorly. More

January 29, 2010
Mandating Higher Education Inflation
Paul B. Matthews
President Obama's call for legislation that will ensure that payments on federal student loans are never more than ten percent of the borrower's discretionary income is an absolute charade. More

January 29, 2010
A Citizen's Guide to the Constitution
Rick Richman
An important book for two groups: those who are conversant with the Constitution and those who are not. More

January 28, 2010
The Lesson of an Affirmative Action President
James Lewis
You don't pick brain surgeons by the color of their skin. You pick them by competence only. More

January 28, 2010
Barack's Blue Blanket
Jeannie DeAngelis
President Barack Obama is a lot like Linus Van Pelt. More

January 28, 2010
Did Obama's SOTU Pass the Women's Intuition Test?
Janice Shaw Crouse
The President promised the moon, but he said nothing for which he could be held accountable. More

January 28, 2010
Health Care Reform Vaporizes Obama Presidency
Monty Pelerin
How a health care debacle destroys a presidency and jeopardizes a political party. More

January 28, 2010
A Dangerous Dissent on Citizens United
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
The dissenting opinion in Citizens United written by Justice Stevens exposes the sometimes-camouflaged antipathy towards freedom held by liberal, big-government types. More

January 28, 2010
Arrogance in the Air
Lee DeCovnick
Self-righteousness and an unbridled lust for control over the lives of 307 million Americans are the hallmarks of environmental laws in America. More

January 28, 2010
Do Americans Expect Too Much from Politicians?
Jim H. Ainsworth
What does America want? Leadership or looks and charisma? More

January 27, 2010
One Year Later: The 40-Percent President
Brad O'Leary
In January 2009, Obama's rising tide lifted all Democratic ships. Today, however, the President's agenda is an anchor around the necks of all who support it. More

January 27, 2010
The Scott Brown Effect and Its Consequences
John Chapman
Senator-elect Scott Brown offers such a perfect roadmap for Republicans in 2010, it is worth deconstructing his campaign to draw the key lessons for the next nine months. More

January 27, 2010
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Christopher Chantrill
Every month will bring fresh anguish for President Obama and his supporters. More

January 27, 2010
Guessing What President Obama Might Say in His State of the Union
Harold Witkov
The secret phrase is "back from the brink." More

January 27, 2010
President Obama Flunks Campaign Finance 101
Robert Weissberg
The president's reactions to last week's Supreme Court decision betray a profound ignorance of campaign finance. More

January 27, 2010
Cuba's Latest Whopper
Humberto Fontova
The U.S. Defense Dept. "caused the Haiti earthquake with electromagnetic shock-wave bombs," reports the Castro regime. "Iran is Next." More

January 26, 2010
Forty Years of Feminism Now Bearing Fruit
Pamela Geller
The bitter fruit of forty years of feminist domination in the United States. More

January 26, 2010
How Liberals Will Try to Destroy Scott Brown
Kyle Stone
His sudden political fame will make him the newest target of liberal vitriol and vengeance. More

January 26, 2010
The Speech Needed to Save the Free World
James Simpson
Newly-minted Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell will be presenting the "Republican response" to President Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday evening. More

January 26, 2010
McCain Should Retire
Claude Sandroff
Time for John McCain to go back to Arizona. More

January 26, 2010
Filibuster Under Fire
Joseph Smith
There has been a clamor on the left for the elimination of the filibuster rule in the Senate. More

January 26, 2010
The Pentagon's Willful Blindness
Andrew G. Bostom
The Pentagon's bowdlerized "analysis" of the jihad-inspired mass murder committed by a pious Muslim officer at Fort Hood is a disgrace. More

January 25, 2010
Five Easy Questions for Obama
Randall Hoven
There are just a few things I'm still fuzzy on, and no one else seems to be asking him about them. More

January 25, 2010
Time to Take On the Unions
Ralph Alter
The huge labor unions use their cash to purchase the Democratic Party lock, stock and Obama. But the campaign rulebook just changed. More

January 25, 2010
Global Warming and the Science Fair Test
Andrew Thomas
If the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC scientists submitted their climate change research as a grade-school science fair project, it would fail miserably. More

January 25, 2010
Victory in First Principles
Jeff Elmendorf
Voters are looking for change, but will they find hope in Republicans? More

January 25, 2010
Massachusetts! Now What?
Miguel A. Guanipa
There are some important reasons why we cannot afford to bask in the glow of victory for too long. More

January 25, 2010
Obvious Opacity
Jeannie DeAngelis
According to Nancy Pelosi, campaign promises have one purpose: getting a candidate elected. More

January 24, 2010
Terror at the Mall?
J.R. Dunn
The shopping malls of America will be among the next major terrorist targets. It's not as if the jihadis haven't tried. More

January 24, 2010
The Currency of Social Justice
Andie Brownlow
What happens if the dollar becomes worthless? More

January 24, 2010
Climategate: Just Sign on the Dotted Line
Dexter Wright
The Climategate emails reveal an orchestrated propaganda operation. More

January 24, 2010
A Two-Faced Peace Puzzle
C. Hart
An intriguing signal from Hamas in the Israeli-Palestinian talks. More

January 24, 2010
When Tolerance Trumps Principle
David C.Parks
Tolerance is the pry bar by which the modern liberal moves boundaries. More

January 23, 2010
Major Hasan and the Ideological Blinders
Walid Phares
Major Hasan was not flagged because Washington has disarmed its own analysts. More

January 23, 2010
Tea Party Crashers
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Some members of the media are in a snit about the Tea Party Movement's First Amendment freedom to peaceably assemble without them. More

January 23, 2010
Obama's Suckers
James Lewis
First, don't make any sudden moves. More

January 23, 2010
Say It Loud -- I'm Conservative, and I'm Proud!
Lloyd Marcus
Despite what civil rights dinosaurs (stuck in the past), race profiteers, and the Obama administration would have us believe, America's race relations have come a long way, baby. More

January 23, 2010
John McCain: Palin's Political Bridge to Nowhere
Steve Flesher
Sarah Palin's decision to campaign for John McCain's reelection bid is dismaying some of her staunchest allies and defenders on the web. More

January 23, 2010
Harry Reid's Negro Dialect Strategy
Miguel A. Guanipa
Taking the Majority Leader's observation seriously. More

January 23, 2010
Dusting Off the Political F-Word
Mark W. Hendrickson
Its use is shunned in polite company. Is it time to rethink the question? More

January 22, 2010
Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg
Marc Sheppard
Just months after the UK's Climategate scandal broke, a new study has uncovered compelling evidence that our government's principal climate centers have also been manipulating worldwide temperature data in order to fraudulently advance the global warming political agenda. More

January 22, 2010
The Real State of the Union, 2010
Randall Hoven
The state of our union is, to use the word of the day, "unsustainable." More

January 22, 2010
The Debt Reduction Commission: Another Gergen-Shields Show
Ken Blackwell
Whenever the Establishment in Washington gets a Big Idea about the need to get beyond partisanship, reach for your wallet. More

January 22, 2010
Progressives and Their Fallacies
Chuck Rogér
The "progressive" is a creature who drags muddled thought to unexplored depths. More

January 22, 2010
Brown's Victory and Obama's Agenda
Janice Shaw Crouse
The presidential modus operandi remains unchanged. More

January 22, 2010
Peacock Profits
Matt Spivey
Some contractual windfalls are better than others. More

January 21, 2010
The End of the Obama Mystique
J.R. Dunn
Brown didn't just overcome an unworthy, machine-produced opponent, or even provide the crucial vote to prevent the further socialization of the United States. He destroyed a legend -- the legend of Obama the Omnipotent. More

January 21, 2010
The Democrats Start to Fracture
J. Robert Smith
In the coming weeks and months, the best political spectator sport around might not be Democrats versus Republicans or conservatives versus liberals, but Democrats of all stripes turning on one another. More

January 21, 2010
How to Cause a Political Tsunami
Bob Weir
Imagine that you were Martha Coakley and you were a shoo-in for the United States Senate only a month ago. More

January 21, 2010
Conservatism Rising
Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
Scott Brown's historic Senate victory is a clear refutation of the liberal agenda in favor of the conservative position. More

January 21, 2010
Cast Lead Conclusions
Jeremy Sharon
The intensive campaign to force Israel into accepting the maximalist positions demanded by the Palestinians for their future state is failing. More

January 21, 2010
Haiti and the U.S. Coast Guard: A Sailor's View from Ground Zero
Linda Halderman, MD
An e-mail sent from one of the officers aboard a USCG Cutter on scene the day of the massive earthquake. More

January 20, 2010
Massachusetts Earthquake Puts Everything in Play
James Simpson
Coakley's campaign defines what the Democratic Party has become today: arrogant, boorish, incomprehensibly ignorant, and downright thuggish. More

January 20, 2010
What Has Brown Done for Us?
C. Edmund Wright
Sure, Martha Coakley ran a horrible campaign. But Democrats win safe seats with horrible campaigns all the time. More

January 20, 2010
The Left's Pied Piper
J.C. Arenas
Oh, how the Left yearns for the thrilling days of yesteryear when, Barack Obama played his flute to the tune of Hope and Change! More

January 20, 2010
The Coming Democrat Counteroffensive
Steve McCann
The only way to defeat the Left is to stop playing by their rules. More

January 20, 2010
Peace through Pastels?
Jeannie DeAngelis
Returning potential terrorists to a "meaningful life" through art therapy. Or not. More

January 20, 2010
The Left's Rhetoric of Accusation
Jeffrey Folks
Et tu quoque. More

January 20, 2010
The Obama Administration's Rampant Racism
Greg Lewis
The racist bias of the current administration cuts two ways. More

January 20, 2010
Should the Worst Schools Get the Best Teachers?
Robert Weissberg
A glittering solution that fails to survive even the most rudimentary inspection. More

January 19, 2010
The Brown-Coakley Race, 1978 Version
Rosslyn Smith
Some analysts are wondering about historical analogies to what seems to have happened in the Massachusetts special election. More

January 19, 2010
Liberalism Is Dead
James Lewis
The name "liberalism" has now drifted so far from its moorings that it has turned into a lie. More

January 19, 2010
Obama's Health Care Discrimination
Selwyn Duke
One thing we get with our mother's milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call "invidious" discrimination. More

January 19, 2010
When Terrorists Have a Falling Out
Lona Manning
Forty years ago, violent radical groups wanted to destroy America, but they ended up destroying themselves...with a little help from the FBI. More

January 19, 2010
A One-Step Program for Better Airline Security
David Gayvert
President Obama's recent (if only implicit) acknowledgment of the need to at least talk about terrorism in a less abstruse, more immediate manner is a small but welcome development. More

January 19, 2010
Fixing the Financial System: The Fix Is In
David Butler
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was created by Congress "to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." But look at what is off-limits. More

January 18, 2010
The Content of Obama's Character
Christopher Chantrill
On the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday, we celebrate also the first year of America's first black president, Barack Obama. More

January 18, 2010
Michelle Obama: Snakeskin and Skin in the Game
Jeannie DeAngelis
Based on one full year's worth of observation, it is obvious Michelle Obama's pronouncements, advice, injunctions and edicts include a personal exemption for the occupants of the White House Executive Residence. More

January 18, 2010
Fabian Conservatism
Bruce Walker
Who trusts Republican leaders? Not serious conservatives, who have been burned so many times. The question, though, is what to do? More

January 18, 2010
Climategate: The Truth Hurts When It Hits You in the Head
Dexter Wright
The joke on the internet these days is "What do Tiger Woods and Phil Jones of East Anglia University in Britain have in common? They both got hit in the head by a model." More

January 18, 2010
California: An Obituary
Claude Sandroff
Only raw and unrestrained liberalism could have destroyed the world's 8th-largest economy. More

January 18, 2010
The Great Hate of the Left
Wendi Lynn G
The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hatemongers. More

January 18, 2010
Improve National Security with Quality Assurance Principles
Al Boese
It may surprise you to learn that national security could benefit from standard Quality Assurance (QA) measures and processes, widely in use today throughout the business and manufacturing worlds. More

January 18, 2010
King Represented the Conscience of a Nation
Bob Weir
April 4, 1968 is a day I'll never forget. More

January 17, 2010
Sarah Palin at Mid-Career
Thomas Lifson
Sarah Palin's debut on FOX News last week engendered the usual disdain from the usual suspects, but more significantly, not much enthusiasm from her fans. More

January 17, 2010
Palin's Curious First Week at Fox
C. Edmund Wright
The decision to jumpstart Palin's FOX News career with Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck bears comparison with the decision to start her media campaign with Katie Couric. More

January 17, 2010
The Quayled Lady: Why You Should Forget Sarah Palin
Selwyn Duke
Sarah Palin, the Wasilla woman often billed as the best hope of the GOP, certainly isn't one of those plain vanilla characters who inspire blasé reactions. More

January 17, 2010
How to Lock Democrats in Power
James Simpson
A variety of moves being undertaken by Democrats are designed to ensure their permanent hold on power through engineering a new electorate. More

January 17, 2010
The Curious Case of the Incurious Economists
Jennifer Roback Morse
State-sanctioned same-sex marriage restructures the incentives for child-rearing arrangements, and much else. Few are thinking through how people will react. More

January 17, 2010
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of...Words
Amy McManus
Abortion defenders find themselves arguing a difficult case when it comes to negligent homicide of the unborn. More

January 17, 2010
Mubarak Responsible for Copts' Blood
Ashraf Ramelah
Egypt's beleaguered Coptic Christians continue to endure. More

January 16, 2010
A World of Happiness
Matt Spivey
Happiness statistics are rotten in the state of Denmark. More

January 16, 2010
A Black-on-Black Discussion of Black Racism
Lloyd Marcus
This topic may infuriate many of my fellow blacks. More

January 16, 2010
Obama and Reality
Miguel A. Guanipa
Obama is a man for whom all other issues are marginal when compared to his own agenda. More

January 16, 2010
Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
Jason McNew
In a bizarre 1984 book, ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. Let's examine the facts. More

January 16, 2010
Is James Cameron Keeping His Friends Close but His Enemies Closer?
John Schultheis
I am a conservative, and I hope this review will surprise and encourage other conservatives who have not seen Avatar to give the movie another chance. More

January 16, 2010
Let's All Join the War on Terror
Bob Feferman
We must demand that Wall Street provide us with the opportunity to invest in terror-free mutual funds. More

January 16, 2010
Norman
Joe Herring
A tale from the future. More

January 16, 2010
The Quiet Man
Jim Mahoney
This April 30, it will be 35 years since that last Huey hovered above the embassy roof in Saigon. For 35 years we've been told that that shameful image represents America's defeat. It does not. More

January 15, 2010
Ideological Rationalization of the Senate
Bruce Walker
Many Democrat senators simply do not at all represent what the voters of their states believe or want. An ideological rationalization of the Senate may be on the way. More

January 15, 2010
The Toothless Visas Viper
Pamela Geller
The Visas Viper program is used by the Department of State and other national agencies to place on "watch lists" known or suspected international terrorists. More

January 15, 2010
Voting Democrat Causes Cancer
Randall Hoven
Voting Democrat is associated with over 150,000 cancer deaths every year, according to the Hoven Institute for Studies Just as Valid as Studies Cited by Democrats. More

January 15, 2010
Are We Stimulated Yet?
Tom Bruner
The Recovery Act does not seem to have worked very well in any measurable way. The good news is that our leaders are considering a Plan B. The bad news is that it looks a lot like Plan A More

January 15, 2010
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
Where they have gone, why, and what we can do about it. More

January 15, 2010
Eureka, I Am a Conservative!
Harold Witkov
Individual Americans by the droves are experiencing their own political eureka moments and transforming into conservatives. More

January 14, 2010
Antarctica and the Myth of Deadly Rising Seas
Marc Sheppard
Monday's report of near-freezing water beneath an Antarctic ice shelf strikes another serious blow to the sky-is-falling-because-oceans-are-rising prophecies of the climate-alarm crowd. More

January 14, 2010
Climategate: How to Hide the Sun
Dexter Wright
The Climategate crowd successfully worked to obscure the connection between solar activity and climate. The leaked CRU e-mails reveal how. More

January 14, 2010
Some Advice for the Republican National Committee
Larrey Anderson
It turns out that the majority of Americans do want "hope and change." We just want it to start with the GOP. More

January 14, 2010
Ending Corruption in Washington
Vasko Kohlmayer
Forget about reform efforts, and even about throwing the bums out. To get corruption out of Washington, you have to go for the source. More

January 14, 2010
Something about Martha
Rosslyn Smith
There seems to be something about Martha that is making a segment of Massachusetts voters who normally vote Democrat pause to consider whether that is such a good idea this time around. More

January 14, 2010
Who Will Tell Obama?
Carol Peracchio
Mind the spinach, there, Mr. President. More

January 13, 2010
Why Intelligence Keeps Failing
Herbert E. Meyer
Simply put, the reason our intelligence service keeps failing to connect the dots is because the officials in charge don't know how. More

January 13, 2010
The Truth about ObamaCare
John Lilly
Last April, a senior Obama administration official almost let the cat out of the bag regarding the real impact of Obama-style health care "reform." More

January 13, 2010
How 4 Deaths Became 401,309
Douglas A. Thompson
Some like to claim that a lack of health insurance kills lots of people. More

January 13, 2010
The Breaking of Nations
John Griffing
Americans should pay attention to the Lisbon Treaty and the corresponding events in Europe. We're on the same road, and we're fast approaching a point of no return. More

January 13, 2010
Shake and Take
Jeffrey Folks
Just as he has done with health care suppliers, Obama is putting the squeeze on domestic energy producers More

January 13, 2010
It's Time to Play Ball
Lauri B. Regan
Two domestic terrorist strikes already on Obama's watch. Three strikes and he's out. Unfortunately, he's not even in the game. More

January 12, 2010
Blue to Red: Massachusetts Senate Race
Richard Baehr
An unusual opportunity now presents itself in the special election for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts. More

January 12, 2010
NYT & David Brooks: Intellectuals Я Us
Stuart Schwartz
David Brooks does what comes naturally to those who regard themselves as born and educated to lead the rest of us. More

January 12, 2010
Hey Obama, Who's Freddy?
Andrew Walden
With all the Marxists dug out from the very public -- yet very opaque -- story of President Barack Obama's life, could there be room for one more? More

January 12, 2010
Harry Reid Trashed White America
Lloyd Marcus
The elephant in the living room of the controversy that everyone seems to be ignoring is Reid's horrific slap in the face of white America More

January 12, 2010
Iran and Its Revolutions
K.M.Mehrdad, PhD
In the past weeks, the most sacred symbols of Iran's '79 Revolution -- namely its flag and founding father, Ayatollah Khomeini -- have come under direct attack. More

January 12, 2010
Obama's Jobs Hole
Christopher Chantrill
Thank goodness the mainstream media has not made invidious comparisons to the Bush recession of 2001-02. Back then, only 2 million jobs were lost. More

January 12, 2010
Islam and the West: 'Overlapping Consensus' or Capitulation?
Janet Doerflinger
Yale political scientist Andrew F. March argues that fears of an inherent conflict between Western and Islamic political norms are overblown. More

January 12, 2010
The Second Boston Tea Party?
Bruce Walker
The challenge which Republican Scott Brown is making in Massachusetts to win the special Senate election against Democrat Martha Coakley ought not to be a huge surprise. More

January 11, 2010
Harry Reid, Liberalism, and Race
E.W. Jackson Sr.
The truth is that Harry Reid and his liberal cohorts are the very definition of racists. They do not see "minorities" as individuals, but as part of a faceless group of victims. More

January 11, 2010
Obama Aids the Enemy He Will Not Name
Pamela Geller
Obama has opened to our mortal enemies a veritable treasure trove of intelligence. More

January 11, 2010
Bravo to Brit Hume: Why Faith Is Not a Private Matter
Selwyn Duke
The profound stupidity and prejudice reflected in a double-standard that denies only Christians (and perhaps a few other groups) the right to advocate their beliefs. More

January 11, 2010
Mother Nature's Sucker-Punch
Vasko Kohlmayer
It could not be more ironic that all the efforts of the world's sophisticates to build Obama up have been brought to naught by Mother Nature, who exposed him for the chump he is. More

January 11, 2010
Blood for Oil Chronicles
Lona Manning
Remember "Blood for Oil?" Of course you do. More

January 11, 2010
Merry Christmas from the World of Islam
Joel J. Sprayregen
Flight 253 was far from the only Christmas attack on Christians. More

January 11, 2010
Eric Holder, Dems Turn Their Bigoted Eyes to You
Matt May
Since he appointed himself arbiter of cowardice relating to race in America, Eric Holder should immediately resign his position and facilitate what is obviously a desperately needed dialogue about race among Democrats. More

January 11, 2010
Failing to Connect the Plots
Jeannie DeAngelis
The word "intelligence" seems somehow out of place in proximity to this group. More

January 10, 2010
Lessons to Be Learned in the Climate Alarm Zone
Marc Sheppard
Polar Bear extinction forecasts betray the wondrous land of imagination climate alarmists have journeyed to...and provide a fabulous opportunity to offer our children an indoctrination inoculation. More

January 10, 2010
The Last Nail in Europe's Coffin
Pamela Geller
The Euro-Mediterranean "Partnership" is more like a suicide pact. More

January 10, 2010
The End of Insurance
Keith Riler
Health insurance as we know it (think home/auto/life) will no longer exist following ObamaCare's implementation. More

January 10, 2010
How The Media Have Mangled The Pro-Life Story
Jack Cashill
Consciously and completely mistold by the major media. More

January 10, 2010
President Obama Must Choose Sides
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
There appears to be a battle raging within Barack Obama. How this war is resolved will decide how we fight the war on terror and determine if we win it at all. More

January 10, 2010
Eat More Canine?
Jeffrey Folks
Environmental radicals are urging the consumption of man's best friend. Seriously. More

January 9, 2010
Budget Director Gone Wild
Lisa Schiffren
Peter Orszag, the Obama White House Budget Director -- a very senior job on anyone's economic team -- does not appear to have been focused like a laser on his job this year. More

January 9, 2010
Understanding the Democrats' Scheme
John F. Gaski
It is time to think the unthinkable and speak the ineffable. More

January 9, 2010
A Revolution in Massachusetts
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Scott Brown is driving the Democrats mad with his campaign. More

January 9, 2010
Bombs Don't Take Down Airliners -- People Take Down Airliners
Scott Boerman
After a refreshing respite, we're now being subjected to a new round of presidential speeches, this time related to the Christmas bomber. The lectures are long on verbal bravado, stern gazes, and the now-clichéd "let me be clear." More

January 9, 2010
Kentucky's Answer to Unconstitutional Federal Actions
Daniel Baker
There is indeed nothing new under the sun. The answer to the federal government's current expansion far beyond the limits set by the Constitution lies in Thomas Jefferson's response to the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. More

January 9, 2010
A Country Boy and His Dreams
Josiah Cantrall
A country boy takes a deep breath, steps up, and enters politics. More

January 8, 2010
Obama and the White House Chicago Boys
Ed Lasky
Game the system and rig future elections. That is how things are done in the streets of Chicago. Signs are emerging that the Chicago Boys -- the triumvirate of Obama, Emanuel, and Axlerod -- are up to their old tricks. More

January 8, 2010
MS-NBC: Intelligence Failure a 'Conspiracy' against Obama?
William Tate
One thing you've got to say for MS-NBC: They stand by their man. But even Tammy Wynette would cringe at the senseless devotion to Barack Obama they displayed this week. More

January 8, 2010
Obama's Progressive Goose and Our Conservative Gander
Victor Volsky
The logic of B+. More

January 8, 2010
Don't Tax You. Don't Tax Me. Tax That Guy Behind the Tree!
Jeffrey L. Scribner
Politicians like Barack Obama try to make you believe that someone else will pay the tax he wants to impose. More

January 8, 2010
Empowering Iranians to Dislodge the Mullahs
Amil Imani
The regime is tottering. More

January 8, 2010
The Strange New Friend of the Iranian Demonstrators
Hassan Daioleslam
As the Iranian uprising enters its seventh month and spurs the ruling regime's disintegration, the Iranian community in the U.S. is witnessing a peculiar sideshow. More

January 7, 2010
The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Democrats
Lauri B. Regan
A chance encounter with Al Gore and a lesson on intellectual dishonesty. More

January 7, 2010
Getting Control of Congress, Permanently
John Armor
We are now experiencing a disconnect between national political leaders and the citizenry. Congress is out of control and needs adult supervision. Here's how to give it to them. More

January 7, 2010
Mad and Madder
Carol Brown
The chair of the GOP has announced that his party will not win back the House in 2010. Nor is he convinced that the GOP is ready to lead. More

January 7, 2010
Climategate and the Migrating Arctic Tree Line
Dexter Wright
One of the more enlightening e-mails to spill out of the Climategate scandal is a report on the progress of Siberian fossilized tree ring work. More

January 7, 2010
Liberal Media Bias Shows Up in the Strangest Places
Warren Cole Smith
What makes a city a good place to do business? More

January 6, 2010
Racial Spoils in Obama's America
George Picard
"There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America,'' declared candidate Barack Obama. His policies say otherwise. More

January 6, 2010
What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration
James Simpson
Democrats ramming through unpopular legislation need not fear the electorate once universal voter registration becomes law. More

January 6, 2010
The Obamas: Conspicuous Sacrifice vs. Conspicuous Consumption
John Dietrich
A recurring theme of the Obama White House is "sacrifice." The president has repeatedly stressed the need for us to tighten our belts. What about the Obamas themselves? More

January 6, 2010
Repeal the Health Bill
Christopher Chantrill
Sooner or later, the American people must rise up and do more than complain about the latest wizard wheeze of the progressive educated class. More

January 6, 2010
Emperor Obama and the Mob
Jonathan F. Keiler
Like a Roman imperator, Obama watches a toothless Senate do his will... More

January 6, 2010
Our Second Civil War
Bruce Walker
The 1960s saw a second Civil War rage in the culture -- one whose final outcome has not yet been determined. More

January 5, 2010
American Thinker's First Six Years
Thomas Lifson
American Thinker turns six today. Like six-year-old human beings, we're still growing and learning rapidly, with lots more eventful life ahead. A report to readers. More

January 5, 2010
Confessions of an American Thinker Moderator
Jeanette Colville
It's 6:00 a.m. Bleary-eyed and groggy, the AT moderator drags herself out of bed with a pounding heart and the urgency of an astronaut headed for a space launch. More

January 5, 2010
Did Obama Politicize the Terror Database?
James Lewis
There must be a reason why so many red flags were ignored. More

January 5, 2010
A Brief 2010 Republican Midterm Platform
Bruce Walker
This is what Republicans should do to win in 2010 More

January 5, 2010
Saudi Arabia: Spoilt Child of the Middle East
Michael I. Krauss
In one of the supreme acts of Chutzpah of our new decade, Saudi Arabia has just accused Israel of behaving like a "spoilt child." More

January 5, 2010
Happy States
Jeffrey Folks
According to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control, the five happiest states in the nation are Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, Tennessee, and Arizona. More

January 4, 2010
Berkeley's Unbearable Whiteness of Science
Thomas Lifson
The racial madness that has left-wing America in its thrall finds its apogee in the Berkeley, California public schools. More

January 4, 2010
Is Obama Really at War with a 'Network of Violence'?
William Tate
Who is his real enemy? More

January 4, 2010
The Ministry of Wellness
Kevin Boss
As a restaurateur, I've been following the heath care debate especially attentively. More

January 4, 2010
Whom Are We Hiring?
Jim Yardley
In the real world, there are a lot of things that have to happen between seeing a "Help Wanted" ad and actually getting a paycheck. More

January 4, 2010
Obama and the 'Readjustment of Our National Life'
Robert T. Smith
The ongoing project. More

January 4, 2010
The Tea Party Movement Does Not Need a Leader!
Lloyd Marcus
The tea party movement is bigger than any one person. More

January 4, 2010
Letters for Obama
Ken Blackwell
Advice on keeping peace for another Nobel laureate. More

January 3, 2010
History Is Knocking for Obama
James Lewis
That steam-puffing locomotive of history is heading our way. At some point you can no longer be president and run from it. More

January 3, 2010
The Jihad Decade Cometh
Pamela Geller
As we look back on the past ten years, it is clear that we are now entering a post-American decade. How did it all go so wrong so quickly? More

January 3, 2010
(P)raising (Mc)Cain
Gene Schwimmer
In the fullness of time, John McCain's losing presidential campaign of 2008 may turn out to have been to the 21st century what Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign was to the 20th. More

January 3, 2010
George Gilder's Israel Test: Who Passes? Who Fails?
Ron Lipsman
A basic dividing line in the world. More

January 3, 2010
Does the Media Misrepresent Obama When It Comes to Israel?
Leonard Getz
The Obama administration has blamed the media for misrepresenting its overall policy and strategic approach to the "peace process." More

January 3, 2010
California Faculty Association Coerces Members' Beliefs
Leila Beckwith
Is it equitable or honorable to force faculty and staff to contribute to political causes that they find highly objectionable? More

January 2, 2010
America Retreats -- Mullahs Advance
James Lewis
Under President We're So Sorry!!!, the United States doesn't scare anybody. More

January 2, 2010
Umar Farouk's Terrorist Triumph
Jeannie DeAngelis
The real question is whether the homeland was ever or could ever be safe with Janet at the rudder. More

January 2, 2010
Self-Inflicted Health Care Costs
Rich Lindbloom
Part of the solution to the quixotic health care bill being proposed by the enlightened public servants in Washington can be found in a reflective consideration of dental floss. More

January 2, 2010
Health Care and Our Inalienable Rights
Scott Lazarowitz
Leftist supporters of government health care do not seem to understand or are hostile to the concept of the individual's right to life and liberty. More

January 2, 2010
Expedite Nobel Peace Prize to Save a Judge's Life
Joel J. Sprayregen
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 should be shared by an Iranian doctor and a Venezuelan judge. More

January 2, 2010
Dad's Advice
Jim Ross Lightfoot
My dad told me many years ago that you can't fix a problem unless you know what caused it. More

January 1, 2010
2010 Will Be Worse
Monty Pelerin
The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression. More

January 1, 2010
Mr. Smith, You're Needed in Washington
Phil Orenstein
We no longer seem to be living in a Constitutional republic. How could we be when the votes of our public officials are easily bought off with bribes, threats, and subversion of our Constitution? More

January 1, 2010
In Defense of Profiling
Chuck Hustmyre
Let's get one thing straight right up front: Profiling is an effective tool. More

January 1, 2010
A Bucket List for America
Jim H. Ainsworth
Not things to do before dying, but things to do to keep her from dying. More

January 1, 2010
The Last Great Tiger-Hunt
G. Murphy Donovan
To date, there's been some good and a lot of bad news for Tiger. The good news is that our hero seems to have come out of the scrape on the sunny side of Valhalla. More

January 1, 2010
Ammo for the Battle of Ideas

A "libertarian and progressive" scholar offers unexpected ammo to conservatives. More

January 1, 2010
The Most Important Three-Year Period in History?
Steve McCann
The most important three-year period in the history of the United States will start on January 1, 2010. More