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January 31, 2011
America and the Middle East Food Riots
Steve McCann
Obama policies have driven up food prices, triggering riots. More

January 31, 2011
The Egyptian Revolt and Imperial Islamism
G. Murphy Donovan
The Arab revolt underway in Egypt may be unique. More

January 31, 2011
Why We Should Fear the Moslem Brother
Karin McQuillan
It is impossible to assess the danger posed by a takeover of Egypt by the Moslem Brothers without knowing that Nazism launched the Brothers and is still at their core. More

January 31, 2011
The Media, Reagan, and Obama
Ed Lasky
The media treated Ronald Reagan disgracefully when he was alive. To use him now that he is dead to bolster Barack Obama compounds the insult. More

January 31, 2011
The Race Game and Obama's Campaign for 2012
Jack Kerwick
In a word, race promises to play at least as large a role in the next election as it played in the last presidential race. More

January 31, 2011
Obama's 3 AM Moment
Nancy Morgan
Which candidate was best qualified to handle a 3 AM moment? America now has a partial answer: not President Obama. More

January 31, 2011
Laughing Your Head Off in Liberal Land
Jack Kemp
The new tone of civility the liberals are pursuing apparently includes wishing violent death on Sarah Palin. More

January 31, 2011
NOW Goes Shark-Jumping
Betsy M. Galliher
Again and again, leftists prove that their goal is no longer liberation, but victimization. More

January 30, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: She Wouldn't Harm a Fly
Clarice Feldman
Frances Fox Piven: still advocating violent social upheaval. More

January 30, 2011
Outwitting Lethal Government Policies
J.R. Dunn
When government policies become lethal to the citizenry, free men and women must take care of themselves. More

January 30, 2011
How to Get Rich from Liberal Delusions
James Lewis
The secret to instant wealth is to spot a mass delusion and bet against it. More

January 30, 2011
Tunisia: The End of a 23-Year Regime
Hammouda Salhi
From Tunis: the inside story of social injustice, ongoing political mass rebellion, and Tunisian Islamism. More

January 30, 2011
The EPA's Mess with Texas
Ben Voth
The EPA is messing with Texas in ways that threaten to disrupt the biggest jobs-producer in the United States. More

January 30, 2011
The Nanny-Staters at Life's Dangerous Intersections
Selwyn Duke
People instinctively think about achieving new levels of safety but seldom worry about losing old levels of freedom. More

January 30, 2011
Ike's Misinterpreted Farewell Address
Zbigniew Mazurak
Foes of defense spending often invoke President Eisenhower's warning against a military-industrial complex. But they overlook his real meaning. More

January 30, 2011
The Decline of Egypt
Ashraf Ramelah
Examining the past sixty years of Egyptian rule to understand the stages of its decline, we see how a once-highly civilized nation was thrown to the wolves and how barely a shred of decency and humanity remains. More

January 30, 2011
The Great Goodness of America
Bruce Whitsitt
When the worst happens. More

January 30, 2011
The Tiger Mother Controversy: A False Alternative
Fernando Villamar
The Tiger Mother controversy sets up a false alternative between "Western" and "Eastern" parenting. More

January 30, 2011
The Church in America: Adopting the Religion of Green/Environmental Activism/Social Justice
Cheryl Smith
What does this have to do with the church in America? More

January 29, 2011
Digital Dark Age Ahead?
Matt Patterson
The vast abundance of digital information showcases its terrifyingly evanescent nature. More

January 29, 2011
' ... without the pat-down'? Whoa, Mr. President!
Robert Morrison
Why did President Obama announce in advance to al-Qaeda that high-speed trains will have a lower level of security than airlines? More

January 29, 2011
The 'Your Money Is Not Yours' Crowd
Bill Costello
One branch of American politics shares the view that the money you earn -- the material manifestation of your mental and physical labor -- is not yours. More

January 29, 2011
Long Live the King
Bernie Reeves
The King's Speech represents the victory of truth over popular sentiment. More

January 29, 2011
Keepers of the Gate
Joseph Ashby
American life has become a refresher course in the folly of despotism -- an education so expensive it would make an Ivy League chancellor wince. More

January 29, 2011
Obama's New Pose: Fake Right, Sucker-Punch Left
Chuck Rogér
We cannot afford to take the faker at his word. More

January 29, 2011
The Left Defends Its Advocate of Violence
Arlen Williams
Marxist agitator Frances Fox Piven in her old age has been caught talking up violence to her callow trainees, and the left has sprung to her defense. More

January 29, 2011
Colonel America
Matthew May
An unceasing adventure of writing, wonder, discovery, physical courage, and the fortitude to overcome loss after devastating loss. More

January 29, 2011
Greenland Is Going to Be OK
Norman Rogers
According to the government's Global Change Research Program, the oceans will rise three to four feet by the year 2100. Ice-covered Greenland is the top candidate to supply the water. More

January 29, 2011
Channeling Neville Chamberlain to Appease China
William R. Hawkins
Contain China? More

January 29, 2011
Illinois Death Spiral
Al Boese
The Illinois pension fiasco continues to plague the state with embarrassment and near-fatal fiscal consequences. Now the SEC is investigating. More

January 28, 2011
Sarah Palin's Way Forward
J.R. Dunn
The leftist attacks on Governor Palin are in no way new, not even in their viciousness. But Palin has the means to prevail unavailable to previous demonized conservatives. More

January 28, 2011
State Eligibility Law: Obama's Achilles' Heel in 2012?
Monte Kuligowski
If enough carefully written state eligibility law is passed in time, I believe either that Obama will be stopped or that we will find out what he's been hiding. More

January 28, 2011
Obama Stung by SOTU Plagiarism Rap
Jack Cashill
The first intellectual insider to suggest publicly that President Barack Obama is not the writer the literati have anointed him to be has made his case among the MSM. More

January 28, 2011
The Rest of the World and Obama
Steve McCann
Overseas political and business leaders have Obama's number, and they are worried. More

January 28, 2011
Sharks Are Not Misunderstood Dolphins, and Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace
Kevin DuJan
...No matter how many times the delusional fools in the American media try to convince you otherwise. More

January 28, 2011
Who Needs a Sputnik Moment?
Ion Mihai Pacepa
ObamaCare now looms threateningly over us with disturbing reminders of the Soviet bloc's Sputnik-era health care system. More

January 28, 2011
Carnegie Institution Study: Genocide Reduces Global Warming
Andrew Walden
While some may find genocide morally repugnant, environmentalists have a different concern. More

January 28, 2011
Foxman Must Go
Pamela Geller
The capacity for humiliating, destructive behavior from Abe Foxman (and those Jews who fund the Anti-Defamation League) continues to astound and repel proud Jews across the world. More

January 27, 2011
Making Obama a One-Term President
Richard Baehr
Regardless of his rebound in the polls, Barack Obama is no shoo-in for reelection. Here's how the GOP can win. More

January 27, 2011
Stanley Ann Dunham and the Left's Exploitation of Women
Robin of Berkeley
The left has terribly exploited women and their sexuality. Was Obama's mother a victim? More

January 27, 2011
Sex and Sarah Palin
James Lewis
Sarah Palin is a last-chance test of our cultural health. More

January 27, 2011
I Wish I Were a Democrat
Victor Volsky
Life would be so much more enjoyable. More

January 27, 2011
Honor Killing in America
Pamela Geller
The trials of two "honor killers" are under way in America this week. More

January 27, 2011
Obama's Dangerous Export Initiative
John F. Di Leo
Avoiding the useful, embracing the outright dangerous. More

January 27, 2011
Should Military Spending Be Cut?
Bruce Walker
In the game of chicken that is national politics, it was sure that the left would pounce upon excessive defense spending as a way of reducing the deficit. More

January 26, 2011
Excuses, Excuses
Jeffrey Folks
What we saw Tuesday night was not a new Obama. More

January 26, 2011
The 40-Percent President: Obama's Cruise to Reelection
Paul Kengor
President Barack Obama does not dip below 40-percent approval. Period. That is very bad news for conservatives who want him to be a one-term president. More

January 26, 2011
Obama the Alchemist Would Pluck Your Savings Clean
Geoffrey P. Hunt
There have always been people like Obama, and the greats of literature have satirized them. More

January 26, 2011
Obama 2012 Campaign Manager: John McCain
Jeannie DeAngelis
Rather than lay the groundwork for Obama's defeat in 2012, the Arizona senator is fast becoming a foundational promoter for the president's bid for reelection. More

January 26, 2011
Top Ten Reasons to Support Herman Cain for President
C. Edmund Wright
Even those conservatives who will not vote for Herman Cain to win the Republican nomination should hope that he does run. More

January 26, 2011
Ongoing Disaster in the Gulf
George Scaggs
The federal government has turned the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill into an ongoing economic calamity. More

January 26, 2011
Will Obama Repeat Carter's U.N. Mistake on Israel?
Benyamin Korn
It cost Carter reelection. It may cost Obama, too. More

January 26, 2011
No Labels or No Ideas?
Henry Oliner
Dismissing labels may be a convenient way to avoid commitment to a party that may fail. More

January 25, 2011
The Birther Trial Balloon
Cindy Simpson
This latest Matthews/Abercrombie fiasco is not about the birthers. It is about reelecting Obama in 2012. More

January 25, 2011
That Disdain for Palin
Christopher Chantrill
The name of the game is winning elections. More

January 25, 2011
State of the Obama 'Remaking America' Revolution
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Right now, Americans are forcing transformation on Barack -- not the other way around. More

January 25, 2011
Pillars and Bipartisan Pairs
Janice Shaw Crouse
In recent years, the State of the Union has become nothing more than a laundry list of utopian plans for the future framed in political terms. More

January 25, 2011
Obama Fakes Right
Steve McCann
The country will be treated to yet another orgasmic reaction by the once-mainstream media upon the conclusion of President Obama's State of the Union speech. More

January 25, 2011
What Obama Will Not Say at the SOTU
John Fricke
A long list. More

January 25, 2011
Having Fun with the State of the Union
Harold Witkov
It matters not what President Obama will say in his speech tonight. Despite the exit of some old staffers and the entrance of some new ones, he is not changing. More

January 24, 2011
Obama 2.0: The First Big Lie
Ed Lasky
The first head-fake of Obama 2.0. More

January 24, 2011
Death by Deconstructionism
Larrey Anderson
The 900-pound gorilla in the interrogation room remains unquestioned and unchallenged. More

January 24, 2011
Sarah Palin and the Legacy of Republican 'Idiocy'
Jack Cashill
Sarah Palin may be the reigning Republican "idiot," but she shares in a proud legacy that dates back to at least Dwight David Eisenhower, if not earlier. More

January 24, 2011
Cooking the Gun Homicide Numbers at the NYT
Peter Wilson
All the propaganda that's fit for the gullible. More

January 24, 2011
Right on Crime: It is High Time for Conservative Justice Reform
Christopher Bedford
The fresh and effective ideas of American justice were once the envy of the world. It is time that the right embraces reform of the justice system based on our principles. More

January 24, 2011
The Real Danger of the Madman
Tim Thorstenson
How much authority to lock up people do we want to give to those in the soft science of psychology? More

January 24, 2011
Regulations Bad, Free Market Good
Henry Percy
Look who's wising up about regulation. More

January 23, 2011
Allegory of the Cave of the Mama Grizzly
Clarice Feldman
Sarah Palin and the media puppeteers. More

January 23, 2011
I Have a Dream that the Abortion Holocaust Will End
Kyle-Anne Shiver
In 1960, when I was in the fourth grade, I learned the word "Holocaust." More

January 23, 2011
The Mercury Threat -- Again
J.R. Dunn
From Minamata to CFL lightbulbs, the arrogance and indifference of politicians and the bullheadedness of special interests expose innocents to the dangers of mercury. More

January 23, 2011
The Tragedy of CP
Keith Riler
A terrible disease of potentially epidemic proportion has descended upon our country, striking mostly liberals. More

January 23, 2011
Normalizing Illegality
Deborah C. Tyler
Criminal psychology has been well-studied -- except in the case of illegal aliens. More

January 23, 2011
Baby, It's Cold Outside (but it's Hot in Cairo!)
Robert Babcock
Americans love romance. Do Islamists? More

January 23, 2011
Zionists, Zionists Everywhere
Mark Cantora
One might be excused for thinking that the old "Jews poisoned the well" libel was long dead and gone. More

January 23, 2011
Full Faith and Credit in the Age of Distrust
David Fennell
The debt ceiling and a way out of our debt crisis. More

January 23, 2011
The Descent of Woman
Jim Mahoney
Femininity is all but extinct, a casualty of an insane frenzy to convince women they are equal to men. More

January 23, 2011
In Israel, Is Demography Destiny?
Jerold S. Auerbach
There are endless warnings that unless the Jewish state relinquishes control over the West Bank, Muslims soon will outnumber Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. More

January 23, 2011
China's Dead Babies
Nancy Morgan
Obama told the American people that there has been "evolution" in human rights in China, yet 35,000 forced and coerced abortions take place there daily. More

January 23, 2011
A Modest Proposal for American Vets
James Lewis
Near my town some leftie has put up a big lawn display of white wooden crosses, one for every American soldier who died in Iraq. More

January 23, 2011
Unsociable Socialism and the Benevolent State
Jeremy Egerer
The other morning, as I was writing articles in my computer room, I heard a woman scream. More

January 23, 2011
The Clock is Ticking in Somalia
Mohamud Ahmed
Time is running out on the Transitional Federal Government. More

January 22, 2011
Your Papers, Please!
Timothy Birdnow
Tyranny never begins with the big things. More

January 22, 2011
Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's Dumbest Decision
Michael Filozof
Roe is so bad it makes other controversial decisions -- like Plessy v. Ferguson or Dred Scott -- look like models of Solomonic wisdom by comparison. More

January 22, 2011
China: Danger Before the Doom?
J. Robert Smith
Will China act militarily to secure its place as a great power more quickly, given the demographic crisis it faces in just twenty years? More

January 22, 2011
When Soccer Moms Go Viral
Betsy M. Galliher
Discourse is a great and peculiar bedfellow, particularly in politics and friendships. More

January 22, 2011
The Taming of the Masses
Jed Gladstein
One of the most dangerous strategies of the totalitarians in our midst is the deliberate confusion they create around the notion of totalitarianism. More

January 22, 2011
The 'Business' of Government
Jerry Shenk
Government is not and never will be a business -- although we would certainly benefit from having it run like one. More

January 22, 2011
Losing the War against Drugs
Jeremy Egerer
I can still vividly remember walking through run-down Neapolitan suburbs as a seventeen-year old, firmly within the grasp of an LSD trip. More

January 22, 2011
Culture Minus Context
Frank Burke
A controversy currently taking place in the literary world reflects longstanding problems with the writing -- and teaching -- of history. More

January 22, 2011
Laughter as the Cure for Liberalism
Joe Hatton
"Liberal" and "unfunny" are perhaps the two best words to describe most political cartoons. But a rare conservative series is helping to change this. More

January 21, 2011
Sarah Palin, Combat Veteran
Stella Paul
The Republican establishment loathes Sarah Palin; the conservative commentariat needs smelling salts at the very mention of her name; and the ruling class took a blood oath to destroy not just her, but her family, too. More

January 21, 2011
The GOP's Great (Lakes) Opportunity
Bruce Walker
Now, more than any time in a generation, Republicans can actually implement their agenda, limited only by their political courage. More

January 21, 2011
Education Cutbacks and Urban Violence
Robert Weissberg
Bloated public education budgets in our large cities may be immune from serious cuts for an unpalatable reason: the threat of urban violence. More

January 21, 2011
Is Michelle Rhee Good for Students?
M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane
Former DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's education reform program sounds conservative, but what lies behind it? More

January 21, 2011
Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution vs. the Forces of Counter-democracy
Walid Phares
Tunisia's revolt is a bold example of the vulnerability of Arab regimes to popular revolt. But there is a long journey ahead, and many pitfalls. More

January 21, 2011
BP's Russian Gambit
Kim Zigfeld
Oil major BP has announced another foray into the Russian market despite being burned many times in the past by Russia's fundamental corruption. More

January 21, 2011
Sorry, the 'Climate of Hate' is Going Nowhere
Peter Heck
All this talk about resolving our "climate of hate" is nonsense; those who are most guilty of perpetuating it believe the rules of civility don't apply to them More

January 20, 2011
Report Card on Obama's First Two Years
K.E. Campbell
Numbers don't lie. More

January 20, 2011
King Abdicates
Pamela Geller
Rep. Peter King appears to be squandering an opportunity in his forthcoming hearings on radicalization among American Muslims. More

January 20, 2011
Flying the Terrorist Flag in Washington
Mark Cantora
In the Middle East, a symbol is never just a symbol. More

January 20, 2011
Green Follies Escalate in the Face of Failure
Ed Lasky
Those widely heralded compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) turn out to be a bit of dud in the real world. More

January 20, 2011
Race, Propaganda, and Schoolkids
Peter Wilson
A fascinating window into the fun-house mirror world of race theorists, racial "scholars," and a good part of the anthropology profession. More

January 20, 2011
Liberals Who Hate Profits but Profit from 'Green Jobs'
Fred N. Sauer
How to make big profits with no capital of your own and a product that can't compete in the marketplace. More

January 20, 2011
Would You Write for the New York Times?
Alicia Colon
I recall when the New York Times was a bona fide prestigious and noble member of the Fourth Estate. More

January 19, 2011
Tucson and the Kamikaze Left
Richard Viguerie
The left and ruling-class media are in kamikaze mode. More

January 19, 2011
Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin
Robin of Berkeley
When I was ten years old, I participated in an act of unadulterated group evil. More

January 19, 2011
Preserving States' Rights and the Constitution
Bruce Walker
The Founding Fathers considered states' rights absolutely indispensable to the purposes of our nation. We can restore that vision. More

January 19, 2011
Tucson and the Politics of Lament
Jeffrey Folks
Exploiting victims and massaging responsibility to achieve retribution. More

January 19, 2011
Obama's Cellophane Man
Mike Johnson
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, after signs of life, has been returned to his cellophane wrapping. More

January 19, 2011
No Stronger Friend...than France?
Robert Morrison
Even for an unapologetic Francophile like me, President Obama's latest diplomatic gaffe was too much to swallow. More

January 19, 2011
Tunisia Meltdown
Marion DS Dreyfus
Tunisia, until a few days ago, gave every appearance of being among the most advanced and benign Arab regimes. More

January 18, 2011
Death by Liberalism
J.R. Dunn
We have known for years that liberalism is corrupt, wasteful, and futile. Now we know that it is even worse. Liberalism is lethal. More

January 18, 2011
Obama 2.0: The Reinvention Begins
Ed Lasky
We are about to watch the extreme makeover of Barack Obama in real time. More

January 18, 2011
Obama Is America's First Post-Responsibility President
Stella Paul
The degrading spectacle of the Tucson aftermath proves it. More

January 18, 2011
The Great Depression II
Kirk W. Kelsen
There is more to fear than fear itself. More

January 18, 2011
Why Have a Debt Ceiling?
Gene Schwimmer
When an astonished mainstream press ask you if you really, really are willing to risk a federal government default, ask them this simple but profound question: Why do we have a debt ceiling? More

January 18, 2011
Gulf Oil Spill More a Man-Caused Economic than Environmental Disaster
Chad Stafko
Bad government decisions more harmful than the leaked oil. More

January 18, 2011
Mobs, Lynchings, and Psychos
Christopher Chantrill
Is the attempted killing of a member of Congress for the first time in thirty years a reflection on the violence of our political rhetoric or a reminder of the remarkable peacefulness of modern life? More

January 17, 2011
What Obama Has Said about His Own Birth
Jack Cashill
The telling clue nobody seems to have noticed. More

January 17, 2011
What if Obama isn't an ideologue?
Bruce Walker
Might Obama be just another political hack who has conned not only Middle America, but also the few who really believe in Marx? More

January 17, 2011
Obama's Solar Nightmare
Ed Lasky
Failed green schemes run by cronies face an examiner with subpoena power. More

January 17, 2011
Imam Shakeup at the Ground Zero Mosque
Pamela Geller
Imam Rauf had to go because he had become a liability to the taqiyya project of the Ground Zero mosque, but his replacement is no better. More

January 17, 2011
Last Gasp of Affirmative Action?
Eileen F. Toplansky
Is America ready to end a dysfunctional program which was always touted to be temporary? More

January 17, 2011
The Bipartisan Love Train
Jeannie DeAngelis
Republicans are being suckered by the proposal to sit mixed with the Democrats during the State of the Union address. More

January 17, 2011
King's New Dream
Kevin Jackson
King would still have a dream today. He wouldn't want black people dependent on the government. More

January 17, 2011
Dr. King and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Robert Morrison
Religious freedom and civil rights -- together they constitute what James Madison called "the lustre of our country." More

January 17, 2011
Helping Israel Stop Islamic Dominance in the Middle East
C. Hart
U.S. President Barack Obama should stop pursuing closer ties with the Muslim world and start firming up his already established ties with his natural allies. More

January 16, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Another Memo from Leni Riefenstahl
Clarice Feldman
Advice to the presidential couple from the master of propaganda. More

January 16, 2011
A Priest and an Altar Boy, Hah, Ha, Ha
Randall Hoven
The issue of sexual abuse by Catholic priests is so commonplace that it is the subject of late-night "humor." More

January 16, 2011
Killing Politicians and Other Guilty Pleasures
Denis Keohane
In the leftist pile-on blaming the Tucson shootings on the right, the collective voice of Hollywood was muted. Here's why. More

January 16, 2011
Stuxnet: It's Bush's fault!
James Lewis
It was George W. Bush's fault, the NYT just confessed, that the Stuxnet computer worm ended up destroying 984 Iranian uranium centrifuges over the last year or so. More

January 16, 2011
Deficit-Inspired National Strategy
Frank Ryan
The financial irresponsibility of our elected officials has provided a determined enemy a powerful weapon to use against us in an economic attack. More

January 16, 2011
Smoot-Hawley and the Depression
Dennis Sevakis
Did "protectionism" really exacerbate the Depression? More

January 16, 2011
The New Mercantilism
Samuel Wecker
A case study of the war on Chinese tires. More

January 16, 2011
Liberals and Political Kitsch
Christopher Chantrill
Kitsch deprives feeling of its cost, and therefore of its reality. More

January 16, 2011
The State Department's Israel End-Run
Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker
Talking only with those we like is the behavior pattern of a teenager; when our State Department personnel act this way, its time to call for a reform of the Foreign Service. More

January 16, 2011
Book Review: Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye
Drew Belsky
The story of a towering player in the American Revolution denied his due by history. More

January 15, 2011
Rev. Obama's Revival Meeting
Jeannie DeAngelis
An event that closely resembled a tent revival run by a hypster whose pious pontificating was more about furthering a political agenda than consoling the aggrieved. More

January 15, 2011
Democrat Diversion Strategy Succeeds Again
Steve McCann
The Democrats and the left have once again succeeded in their most well-worn, time-tested, and effective tactic: diversion. More

January 15, 2011
Conversation, Argument, and Civility
Jack Kerwick
Argument requires analytical rigor, expertise in the issue upon which the argument centers, facility with language (i.e., articulation), and combativeness. Matters are otherwise with conversation. More

January 15, 2011
A Dearth of Savings
Sterling T. Terrell
Savings produces growth, but when government penalizes savings through taxes and inflation, why bother saving? More

January 15, 2011
Signs of Our Cities
Richard N. Weltz
A portion of your local tax dollars will be diverted away from such endeavors as education, firefighting, or policing in order to transform your local street signs into an ugly, D.C.-dictated uniformity. More

January 15, 2011
Why Russia Is No Friend of America
Zbigniew Mazurak
Is Russia a potential ally for the United States? More

January 15, 2011
Watch Those Bullseyes and Crosshairs
Eileen F. Toplansky
The language muzzle rears its ugly head again. More

January 15, 2011
And Now for Something Completely Different...
Jim Yardley
Is Monty Python writing scripts for the administration, Congress, and the media? More

January 15, 2011
Are You Liberal, a Liberal, or a Liberalist?
Deane Waldman
One of the left's most venerated tactics is the perversion of language. More

January 14, 2011
Obama Does Best When He Says Nothing
Jack Cashill
In Tucson, on Wednesday evening, we saw President Barack Obama in his full Chauncey Gardiner mode. More

January 14, 2011
See No Evil
Robin of Berkeley
When liberals refuse to recognize evil, their default is to find scapegoats, projecting all badness outwards. More

January 14, 2011
We Beg to Differ
John Fricke
The new rules of civility, as prescribed by our friends on the left. More

January 14, 2011
Time to Call Out Black Race Exploiters
Lloyd Marcus
Unfortunately, since the election of America's first black president, black leftists and race profiteers have gorged themselves in a feeding frenzy of race exploitation. More

January 14, 2011
America Is Losing the Resource Race
Jeffrey Folks
Unlike China, which is pursuing a well-coordinated policy of securing resource rights, America is hobbled by an administration that is ideologically hostile to the exploitation of natural resources. More

January 14, 2011
Sheriff Dupnik Must Resign
E.W. Jackson Sr.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, an elected leader entrusted with preserving the rights of the innocent regardless of party affiliation, has made it clear he is unable to carry out his duties in an unbiased manner. More

January 14, 2011
Time's Running Out for TIME
Mark Cantora
A journalistic institution jumps the shark. More

January 13, 2011
My Name is Betsy. I'm a Killer.
Betsy M. Galliher
I didn't actually pull the trigger, but I'm as guilty as the psychopath who did. Here are just a few of the charges against me. More

January 13, 2011
Liberalism's Ugly Face
Vasko Kohlmayer
Only morally and emotionally deformed individuals could embark on a political smear campaign just moments after such a tragedy without possessing any facts whatsoever. More

January 13, 2011
Shooting 'Solutions' Exploit Tragedy, Ignore Grief
Jan LaRue
It is inconceivable that people who claim to care about the Tucson victims and their families are exploiting death and suffering for petty political advantage. More

January 13, 2011
America: Death by 'Intelligence,' Rebirth by 'Ignorance'
Stuart Schwartz
Judge the elitists by their results, and the "ignorant" start looking pretty good. More

January 13, 2011
The Sick and the Dead
G. Murphy Donovan
A close reading of Sherriff Clarence Dupnik's recent statements suggests that he and Jared Lee Loughner may suffer from similar degrees of delusion. More

January 13, 2011
For Pete's Sake
Richard Kantro
Congressman Peter King can't control lunatics. So he'll try to control us. More

January 13, 2011
A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents
Ken Blackwell
Why is Paris known as the City of Light? Is it because the U.S. Congress banned Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulbs, so he had to take his invention offshore? More

January 12, 2011
The Media Has Declared... WAR!
John Fricke
Last Saturday, journalism died. The media openly declared war on free speech and the 1st Amendment it was sworn to protect. More

January 12, 2011
Incitement to Tyranny
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The left-wing radicals are at it again, folks. More

January 12, 2011
We Need More Political Rhetoric, Not Less
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Speech of all types -- political or otherwise -- is protected because it forms the fundamental platform for sustaining the marketplace of ideas without which a democratic republic cannot survive. More

January 12, 2011
Lost in Modern America
J. Robert Smith
Americans who live for politics will find that the solutions to public mass murders lack the panache of a presidential signing ceremony. More

January 12, 2011
American Society and Character in the 21st Century
Steve McCann
Class, character, and national crisis. More

January 12, 2011
Arrogant and Authoritarian: Barack Obama and the New Progressives
Chuck Rogér
Blindness to physical reality, denial of human nature, and a consuming desire to use government force to impose fantasies on fellow human beings. Welcome to the mind of today's American "progressive." More

January 12, 2011
Scientists Challenged to Become Better Global Warming Propagandists
Norman Rogers
Strange doings at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. More

January 11, 2011
The Real Cause of the Arizona Killings
Bernie Reeves
Mass killers are almost always schizophrenics who should be institutionalized to protect them -- and us -- from random and murderous violence. More

January 11, 2011
The Disconnect in Arizona
Drew Belsky
Correlation without causation. More

January 11, 2011
Free Speech in the Crosshairs
Joe Herring
We conservatives are being backed into a media-developed trap. More

January 11, 2011
Separation of Journalism and Politics
Lauri B. Regan
The mainstream media reached a new low with their coverage of the Tucson shooting spree by a deranged "left-wing pothead" (as one classmate described him). More

January 11, 2011
Forget about Economic Recovery in 2011
Monty Pelerin
The best we can hope for is continued stagnation, and the worst is almost unthinkable. More

January 11, 2011
Hanoi Jane and Jared
Jeannie DeAngelis
Jane is more focused on condemning uninvolved conservatives than she is on the maniacal murderer who slaughtered half a dozen people in cold blood in a parking lot. More

January 11, 2011
Will 2011 Be America's Year of Union Discontent?
Adam Shaw
Left-wing policies do not just spend money on unions, but they also hand them power -- power that unions will use with devastating consequences. More

January 10, 2011
Grieving Giffords
J.R. Dunn
Today, we seem to be seeing politics, and politics of a very strident and hateful variety, beginning to supersede the private rituals of grief. More

January 10, 2011
The Left, Not the Right, Owns Political Violence
Michael Filozof
The left's protracted association with political violence. More

January 10, 2011
The Tucson Massacre Witch Hunt
Sally Zelikovsky
The coordinator of the San Francisco Tea Party, and the media which pursued her for comment on the Tucson massacre. More

January 10, 2011
Executive Order 0?
Robert Morrison
With Reagan, words were deeds. With Obama, words are words. More

January 10, 2011
Murders, Lies, and Liberal Fantasies of Conservatives
Chidike Okeem
When murderers are held in less contempt than others whom liberals wish to blame for the murder, we see major steps towards the steady dismantling of personal responsibility in American society. More

January 10, 2011
A Cloudy Future
Andrew Thomas
Microsoft and other companies such as EMC and CA Technologies are touting "The Cloud" as a breakthrough that will change our lives forever (whether we like it or not). More

January 10, 2011
Too Much Constitution?
Eileen F. Toplansky
Critics of the reading of the Constitution in the House of Representatives overlook the incredible power of ritualized readings. More

January 9, 2011
Clarice's Pieces: Be Scientific (Skeptical) about Scientific Research
Clarice Feldman
David Suzuki said, "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." His observation is proven right every single day. More

January 9, 2011
The Constitution Did Not Condone Slavery
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
A Washington Post front page news article claims that the original Constitution "condones" slavery. Wrong, wrong, wrong. More

January 9, 2011
Progressives and the 'Bad Stuff' in the Constitution
David R. Stokes
To hear the media buzz in the aftermath of the reading of the Constitution in the House, it is clear that some on the left simply don't get it. More

January 9, 2011
Good News! American Workers Are Giving Up
Jeffrey Folks
Just what America needs at this point in its fragile economic recovery: a furtive leader who won't own up. More

January 9, 2011
A Scaled Tariff Would Help Balance the 2011 Budget
Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
America's two critical deficits -- budget and trade -- are easier to balance simultaneously than to balance separately. More

January 9, 2011
Is American Society 'Evolving'?
Keith Riler
There is no real basis for the concept of "social evolution" in any period that might be relevant to the liberal agenda. More

January 9, 2011
Reading the Documents Doesn't Always Help
Matthew Ruley
A sobering reminder about the public reading of founding documents. More

January 9, 2011
Israel and the Palestinians: Irreconcilable Differences
Jerrold L. Sobel
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just the business end of a larger struggle between the enlightened West and Islamofascism. More

January 9, 2011
Justice: The Soul's Astonishment
Samuel J. Mikolaski
In all the blather about redistribution of wealth, fairness, and social justice, there lurks an underlying assumption about justice. More

January 9, 2011
Who Will Be America's Next Ambassador to Venezuela?
Jeannie DeAngelis
Hugo Chávez nominates a contingent of potential ambassadors made up of Marxist actors, pudgy liberal comedians, communist apologist/directors, libertarian socialist linguists, and an impeached ex-president. More

January 9, 2011
Unsafe, Legal, and Not So Rare
Jeannie DeAngelis
Truth is, abortion is in no way safe for the injured party, and while legal, it doesn't appear to be rare in New York City. More

January 8, 2011
Lynn Woolsey: A National Embarrassment
Nancy Morgan
My nephew, Lance Corporal Lee Morgan, will be deploying to Afghanistan next Friday, fighting a war described by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) as "an epic failure, a national embarrassment, and a moral blight." More

January 8, 2011
Periodical Perspective
Bruce Walker
If we travel back and see the battle of ideas fought seven decades ago, it is clear that the left is immune to truth. More

January 8, 2011
Real Financial Reform or Retribution?
Frank Ryan
The problems that the FDIC and bank directors and officers face is having laws written by people who have no concept of what it takes to run an economy. More

January 8, 2011
Our Flawed Justice System
R. B. Parrish
Is the whole heap of judicial machinery -- the compendiums of laws, the storied court buildings -- all just intended as a façade? More

January 8, 2011
The Limits of Federal Power: ObamaCare on Trial
Jon N. Hall
A proper Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ObamaCare would set huge precedents having far-reaching ramifications. More

January 8, 2011
Conservative Audacity Ahead
Monte Kuligowski
A conservative presidential candidate should follow Obama's example in 2012 and beyond and get things done, no matter the cost. More

January 8, 2011
The Trouble with Truce-Calling
Peter Heck
At the heart of our "fiscal issues" is a moral problem. More

January 8, 2011
Harlem Renaissance Writer Resisted Politics of Victimhood
M. Catharine Evans
Rediscovering 20th-century writer Zora Neale Hurston's conservative philosophy. More

January 7, 2011
Three Gifts from the Tea Parties
Larrey Anderson
A blueprint for continuing political success has been drawn up. More

January 7, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg: An Abject Failure
Pamela Geller
Bloomberg is like some madman on a mission to build Mecca on the Hudson. More

January 7, 2011
Why the Constitution is Better Than Marx
James Lewis
Americans don't talk about the Constitution nearly enough. More

January 7, 2011
All Aboard for Gun Safety?
Richard Kantro
When toy guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have toy guns. More

January 7, 2011
More Hurdles for Drilling
Jeffrey Folks
In another political tease, the president has announced that drilling projects approved before the Deepwater Horizon accident may possibly be allowed to resume. More

January 7, 2011
Iberia and the Muslims -- Down a Deadly Path
Eileen F. Toplansky
Spain has become a major battlefield between the forces of tyranny and the forces of freedom. More

January 7, 2011
America, the Great Satan
Mark Cantora
The United States is the Great Satan -- but only in context. More

January 6, 2011
What Obama Thinks of America
Wendy Wright
Sometimes the best way to find out what a person thinks about you is to find out what he tells others. More

January 6, 2011
Saving California Almost Half a Billion a Year -- Easy
Joseph Somsel
Hey, Jerry Brown. Here's a practical way to to chip away a significant chunk of the multibillion-dollar deficit California faces this year. More

January 6, 2011
Reevaluating Pension Entitlements in the Public Sector
William Sullivan
It is time for America to curtail the unions' immense power and demand that the public sector join the realm of fiscal reality. More

January 6, 2011
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Health
Andrew Foy, MD
Is there a " right to health"? More

January 6, 2011
Saving America
Harvey M. Sheldon
A huge challenge awaits our Congress. More

January 6, 2011
Subsidizing Afghan Corruption
Tom Roberson
To have any chance of winning in Afghanistan, we must dump Hamid Karzai's corrupt administration. More

January 6, 2011
Obama's Southern Sudan Policy
Rachel Ehrenfeld
Not for the first time, a murderer and thief is to benefit by promising peace to an American administration. More

January 5, 2011
Psychology and the Shrinking of America
Robin of Berkeley
The originators were not interested simply in fixing people. Many were hard-bent on revolutionizing the West. More

January 5, 2011
Obama under the Glare of WikiLeaks
Janet Levy
A glaring, disinfecting light thrown on Obama's duplicitous foreign policy. More

January 5, 2011
Will Obama Be a One-Term President?
Jack Kerwick
Regrettably, I am not persuaded that he will. More

January 5, 2011
The Attack of the Radical Egalitarians
Robert Weissberg
Trying to asphyxiate the goose that lays the golden eggs. More

January 5, 2011
The Military after DADT
Scott Ruppert
In the eyes of the military, Don't Ask, Don't Tell is not a gay issue, a witch hunt, or a civil rights or equality issue. Instead, it's a social issue with far-reaching organizational implications. More

January 5, 2011
You and I Live in the 21st Century -- Health Care Is Back in the 19th
Deane Waldman
The healthcare system is broken. More

January 5, 2011
Why Israel Is Losing the Information War
Rob Miller
Many people who are informed about what's actually happening in the Middle East constantly wonder why Israel fares so badly in the information wars. More

January 4, 2011
Playing the Violence Card
Christopher Chantrill
Our lefty friends have just come off a pretty a good century playing the blame game on conservatives for "violence." That's about to change. More

January 4, 2011
Marketing 'Climate Change'
Steve McCann
A good indicator that a movement ostensibly based on so-called scientific facts has run out of steam is when that crusade must openly resort to crass marketing techniques to sell a flawed product. More

January 4, 2011
Happy 7th Birthday, American Thinker!
Stella Paul
Congratulations to everyone at American Thinker! AT is seven glorious years old today, so I'm blowing up lots of red, white, and blue balloons. More

January 4, 2011
Prominent Editor in Egypt: 'I Accuse!'
James Lewis
The enlightened half of Egyptian society finally is speaking out loud against Islamic reactionary violence. More

January 4, 2011
Socialism by Other Means
Aaron Gee
Who needs state ownership when the government can micromanage via regulation and tax away most of the economic benefit of an enterprise? More

January 4, 2011
Overturning ObamaCare in the Supreme Court Will Not be a Slam Dunk
Monte Kuligowski
What makes a matter constitutional or unconstitutional is often not the Constitution itself, but instead the string of cases interpreting the Constitution. More

January 4, 2011
The Lamest Duck of All
Frank Burke
Obama's vaunted lame duck session successes will, like most of the administration's agenda items, come back to bite him at a later date. More

January 3, 2011
Will Obama Silence Blundering Abercrombie?
Jack Cashill
For reasons clear to no one just yet, Hawaii's new Democrat governor, Neil Abercrombie, has gone public with his desire to silence the so-called "birthers" with proof of Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth. More

January 3, 2011
Bush Derangement Syndrome vs. the Obama Hate Machine
Trevor Thomas
Spot the haters. More

January 3, 2011
Unpalatable Truths and Delicious Lies
Sibyl West
If you want to gain approval and successfully use people, then cover your intent with familiar language and ideas that are dear to them, things they believe they know well. More

January 3, 2011
If You Can't Beat Them, Shame Them
Jeffrey Folks
Since the rise of social networking, public shaming has come back into vogue in a big way. More

January 3, 2011
The Coming Political Upheaval
Monty Pelerin
It is poetic justice that the political excesses that created the financial crisis will be instrumental in terminating the era of political dominance of economies. More

January 3, 2011
The Return of Price-Fixing
Bob Weir
Can discounts really harm shoppers? More

January 3, 2011
Pay/Go, Cut/Go, No Go
Jerry Shenk
Among the most deceptive measures passed in the 111th Congress was The Statuary Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, or, in Washington vernacular, Pay/Go. More

January 2, 2011
The Occupied Territories Revisited: the Doctrine of Defensible Borders
Harry Kanigel
Essential information for all who wish to understand Israel's struggle for survival, and the borders which can protect it. More

January 2, 2011
The Olive Tree Initiative: A Fig Leaf for Anti-Semitism?
Leila Beckwith
The University of California at Irvine uses the Olive Tree Initiative to cover its unwillingness to address the anti-Semitism on its campus. More

January 2, 2011
The Triumph of Propaganda
Nemo Almen
It is not difficult to deprive the vast majority of independent thought. More

January 2, 2011
Nuclear Proliferation and Democracy
Yehoshua Socol and Moshe Yanovskiy
Nuclear proliferation should no longer be treated as an unthinkable nightmare; it is likely to be the future reality. More

January 2, 2011
Islam: A Religion Custom-Made For Men
Amil Imani
Oppression of women, for one, is so systemic in Islam that to this day, women are, at best, second-class citizens under Islamic law. More

January 2, 2011
Obama's Bucket and Other Social Science Insights into His Presidency
Jay Partin
Barack Obama, like all of us, is a product of his own experience. More

January 2, 2011
Tend My Flock
Bill Warner
If you ask a Christian leader why he does not speak out on Islam, you get some version of this: My duty is to tend to my flock. More

January 2, 2011
Rule of Law in the Age of Obama
Scott Strzelczyk
Those who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution are stating that they will uphold the Rule of Law. In the next breath, the same people say the Constitution is a living and breathing document. More

January 2, 2011
Why We Need a New Foreign Policy in Lebanon
Anthony Tsontakis
Throwing American money away in Lebanon. More

January 1, 2011
2011: The Year Ahead
Staff
Serious and silly, AT pundits offer their predictions for the year ahead. More

January 1, 2011
The 2011 Congressional Agenda
Elise Cooper
What can be expected with the GOP in charge of the House. More

January 1, 2011
The Stealthy Spread of Socialism in the U.S.
K.E. Campbell
Populist-sounding rhetoric. Political speech. Euphemisms. Deception. This is how the socialist infection is spreading. More

January 1, 2011
The 10 Biggest 'Non-Story' Stories of 2010
George Scaggs
While it's not unusual for Big Media's undeniable bias to lead them to miss, if not intentionally ignore, certain stories, in terms of volume, 2010 seems to have offered a banner crop. More

January 1, 2011
Semantic Engineering for Conservatives
Jim Guirard
It's easy to find examples of semantic engineering -- the use of words or phrases that mask a concept's true meaning -- among the left. More

January 1, 2011
It Sure Seems Like We're Done
Jack Curtis
The Classical era passed in under a millennium and a half; ours has already gone longer, but Reagan's Morning in America has become Obama's Closing Time. More

January 1, 2011
Roll Back the Hippie Damage
Samuel Pennell
The liberals nod approvingly and call it "progress." This is astonishing. More

January 1, 2011
The Seed. A Resolution for the New Year.
Miguel A. Guanipa
It is in our most secret moments that we cultivate the real person whom we eventually become in public. More