American Thinker Blog

February 28, 2007
Leave it to Clarice (a poem)
Leave it to Clarice to tell a tale of exactly who they are. Her colorful and precise description is the best I've read so far. Let them prance in purple, pirouette in golden spins. More

February 28, 2007
Carbon credits: indulgence or commutation fee?
The ability of wealthy individuals like Al Gore to purchase what amounts to rights to pollute by buying carbon credits is a repulsive moral dodge, demanding us to consider useful analogies. More

February 28, 2007
I thought the left hated preventive war
Why declare preventive war on the climate? Global warming hasn't attacked anyone. More

February 28, 2007
Louis Farrakhan's reading list
The ADL calls our attention the a reading list provided by Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, replete with anti-Semitic works. Finding a cozy place among them is ex-president Jimmy Carter's tome, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. More

February 28, 2007
Thomas Lifson IBD op ed
Just in case there are any readers who read the Investor's Business Daily editoral page every day, I am providing a link the op-ed I wrote for IBD More

February 28, 2007
Muslim men in Israel raping Jewish girls for revenge
According to the Jerusalem Post, A gang of serial rapists has been prowling the North, raping Jewish women as revenge for IDF actions in the West Bank More

February 28, 2007
No jail time in throat slashing case
One of the most bizarre near-murder incidents in memory has ended with no jail time for the mentally impaired assailant, and none for her accomplice, who has shown no remorse, and who broke several laws. More

February 28, 2007
Liefstyles of the rich and hypocritical
Maybe you thought "hybrid limousine" was a joke? More

February 28, 2007
Carbon Credit (a poem)
I'd like to donate part of my own carbon credit To one of the Gore households, where I'll bet it Could light a guest room for one whole day, That's all I can offer because I may More

February 27, 2007
Abuse of holy sites?
One of the defining characteristics of ethnic bigotry is the application of different standards to different groups. The most common examples these days relate to Israel. More

February 27, 2007
Arise, ye wretched of the earth!
The American labor movement has filed a complaint with the UN over the outrages committed against a powerless group by a presumably evil group of oppressors: America's research universities. More

February 27, 2007
A Modest Proposal to Eco-Celebs
The real inconvenient truth is that Gore, like the celebrity eco-warriors is a hypocrite. I have a solution to their problem. More

February 27, 2007
The missing Oscar
Once again, I failed to see any mention at the Academy Awards of Theo Van Gogh, a truly brave film maker More

February 27, 2007
Real MidEast apartheid
Peanut farmer and ex president Jimmy Carter is absolutely correct, there is apartheid in the Middle East. More

February 27, 2007
YouTube and conservatives
When Google paid more than a billion dollars for YouTube, I was rather surprised. While it is an established brand name, YouTube enjoys weak barriers to entry for competitors More

February 27, 2007
Lincoln at Cooper Union
On this day in 1860 (a year later in the political cycle than he would have today), Abraham Lincoln launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. More

February 26, 2007
Jihack Attacks
MEMRI points today to plans for coordinated Islamist hack attacks on websites the enemies of Allah --- which might include most the web. More

February 26, 2007
Astroturfing CBS and the WaPo
Thanks to the sharp pixels at Mudville Gazette, I've learned a great new word today: "astroturfing." More

February 26, 2007
Blood libel author repudiates own work (updated)
Yesterday, Rachel Neuwirth informed AT readers about the return of the ancient blood libel against Jews, in the form of a book by (of all people) a professor at Israel's Bar Ilan University. More

February 26, 2007
Shame on the American Library Association!
Nat Hentoff writes a stunning op-ed in the Washington Times about the persecution of librarians in Cuba, and the book burning that is engaged in by the totalitarian communist dictator, Fidel Castro. More

February 26, 2007
Islamism is the new totalitarianism
One of the most striking features of our age -- and one of the most disturbing -- is that we argue before we understand. And of all the subjects over which we argue, none is more important to our survival than the war. More

February 26, 2007
More bad news for NYT shareholders
MarketWatch reports that yet another prestigious securities firm, Lehman Brothers, has downgraded the stock of the New York Times Company More

February 26, 2007
A second career for a man and an industry
John Gerome of the Associated Press reports on an entrepreneur who found a second career in an industry that had been relegated to the junk heap: pressing vinyl records. More

February 26, 2007
Letter from Iraq
A few days ago someone drove a dump truck loaded with a bomb into Habbinniyah and exploded it near the town's police station, killing thirty-four people and injuring about sixty, most of them women and children. More

February 26, 2007
Mitt and the Sins of the Great-Great Grandfathers
Kate O'Beirne put the subject of Mitt Romney's Mormon polygamist heritage into clear perspective in an August blog entry at National Review Online. More

February 25, 2007
Beating the drums
Now here's a story which reeks of psyops: "Three Arab states in the Persian Gulf would be willing to allow the Israel Air force to enter their airspace in order to reach Iran in case of an attack on its nuclear facilities" More

February 24, 2007
When polygamy in the family is and isn't news
The AP searches the Romney family tree to breathlessly reports his great- grandfather was a polygamist More

February 24, 2007
The Battle of Baghdad
Is the correlation of forces swinging in our favor in Iraq? More

February 24, 2007
John F. Kerry gets sadder and sadder
The John Kerry Heinz couple are now authors of a new book on... the environment. More

February 24, 2007
Non news fit to print
Usually, if something doesn't happen it is not news. More

February 24, 2007
UK police and forced conversions to Islam
The UK Daily Mail reports that police in the UK are investigating forced conversions to Islam through intimidation and providing protection to young women who were physically threatened in order to obtain their conversions. More

February 24, 2007
The enemy has a vote
This past week some Democrats have been taking about dictating the conduct of the war in Iraq to the President. More

February 24, 2007
Missing headlines (a continuing series)
Charles Rust-Tierney,the former President of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU ,is arrested for possession of very graphic and disturbing child pornography. More

February 24, 2007
How do they train "scholars" in Iran these days?
A learned professor from Iran tells us how tricky Jews like Walt Disney (a Congregationalist) were More

February 23, 2007
Jimmy Carter refuses to debate again
Jimmy Carter continued his speaking tour to stimulate discussion and debate about Israel by once again refusing to discuss or debate his views with an opponent More

February 23, 2007
Welcome Rush listeners!
Here is the article Rush has discussed today. More

February 23, 2007
Happy Birthday, RNC!
The Republican National Committee was established on this day in 1856 to coordinate nationwide opposition to the pro-slavery policies of the Democrats. More

February 23, 2007
Greenpeace co-founder changes mind
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, pens an op-ed in the New York Post endorsing the use of nuclear power, an enemy that the greenies fought tooth and nail for decades. More

February 23, 2007
Missing headlines (a continuing series)
This year the federal budge deficit will be 1.6 percent of the economy - a level lower than in 18 of the past 25 years More

February 23, 2007
Pelosi's appalling ignorance (updated)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made and still carries on her website a breathtakingly untrue charge against President Bush More

February 23, 2007
Israel and Azerbaijan to consider natural gas deal
Ummah News Links offers the information that, "The government of Azerbaijan has invited Israel to begin negotiations on the supply of natural gas. " More

February 22, 2007
China cracks down on "internet addiction"
China's autocrats abhor the free flow of information that is possible on the internet. More

February 22, 2007
Bait and switch and trap: The real story behind the Libby Trial
Early in the Fitzgerald case I wrote, "The Wilson Gambit was a stealth operation undertaken outside normal procedures and supervision, used as a political weapon...." It now looks like I was right. More

February 22, 2007
The Spanish connection to 9/11
What we know of the planning of 9/11 is largely derived from the CIA interviews of two captured plotters. The 9/11 Commission was not allowed to interview them or their CIA interrogators More

February 22, 2007
Liberal hysteria
The New York Times mounts its editorial high horse to denounce the federal appeals court decision that Gitmo detainees do not have a right to be heard in court. More

February 22, 2007
Mookie on the run
Ralph Peters pens an insight-rich column for the New York Post on the spectacular opportunity handed to us by Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr's fleeing of Iraq. More

February 22, 2007
Fly High you Eagles, soar (a poem)
In response to the announced intention of Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan to lead a Washington protest originating at the Vietnam Memorial, the group Gathering of Eagles was formed. More

February 22, 2007
The unbearable absurdity of the Economist magazine
We have in the past noted that The Economist magazine has a typically European elitist view toward America (particularly in its ridicule of Christians). More

February 22, 2007
All is Vanity....
Vanity Fair recently brought out its Hollywood issue for 2007. Among the many articles is one about the famous 1957 film A Face in the Crowd. One of Elia Kazan's greatest films, it deals with the swift rise and swifter... More

February 21, 2007
Feminism and female oppression
Brussels Journal carries a long and interesting essay on the role of feminism as an enabler of the oppression of women More

February 21, 2007
Update: Minneapolis Airport taxi mess
All you frequent (and not so frequent) flyers into Minneapolis-St Paul Airport no longer have to worry about getting a cab if you're carrying a closed package of liquor or guided by a seeing eye dog. More

February 21, 2007
It's official: San Diego paper a propaganda organ
On Monday, the legacy media crossed a critical line. More

February 21, 2007
German discontent with the EU
Roman Herzog is a formidable figure in Germany's government and politics. He once supported the EU project, but now strongly and openly opposing the EU bureaucracy More

February 21, 2007
Responding to Iran's "offer"
I find the official American reaction to Iran's president's "offer" rather less than adequate. More

February 21, 2007
Why Israel lost the propaganda war
Democracies can win fierce battles against totalitarian killers, and still lose on the domestic front --- via the information war. More

February 21, 2007
Is the pope modifying his stance on Islam?
Pope Benedict XVI appears to be modifying his approach to the Muslim world, according to an analysis appearing the publication Our Sunday Visitor More

February 21, 2007
Study shows Hugo Chavez rigged elections
The New York Sun reports a blue ribbon study which shows that Hugo Chavez, who has assumed dictatorial powers in Venezuela, rigged both his election "landslides." More

February 21, 2007
Edwards campaign contests report of anti-Israel remarks
John Edwards' campaign is strongly denying the report we cited yesterday that he saw a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as a major threat to world peace. More

February 21, 2007
Fitzgerald attacks Bush in closing argument
Why did Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor in the Libby Trial, attack President Bush in his summation yesterday? More

February 21, 2007
Investor's Business Daily editorials have a new home
For some time now I have been an admirer of the insightful editorials published by Investor's Business Daily. More

February 20, 2007
The little suicide bomber that couldn't
Breaking news from Israel that an attempted suicide bombing was aborted by the bomber himself, with the backpack containing the bomb discarded in a dumpster. More

February 20, 2007
Lufthansa slams EU carbon trading proposal, threatens to move hub
The European Union Commission has proposed legislation to include commercial aviation in its carbon trading scheme. Under such regulations airlines flying out of the EU would have to "buy" emissions rights More

February 20, 2007
Who killed feminism?
Jonathan Strong asks an amusing yet serious question: "Did Hillary Kill Feminism?" More

February 20, 2007
Edwards: Israel's threat to world peace
National Review's HillarySpot catches John Edwards spouting the popular European view that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace: More

February 20, 2007
The cavalry arrives
A positive post yesterday by Mohammed at Iraq the Model on conditions in Baghdad: More

February 20, 2007
The other Duke rape case
LaShawn Barber has a must-read post on a Duke rape case that is not getting very much press attention yet. More

February 20, 2007
Not the usual moonlighting cop
James Morris sounds like someone dreamed up by desperate Hollywood writers, looking to find a premise for a new television series. More

February 20, 2007
The Politicians of Fear
The big news of last week was of course the House passing a resolution disapproving of the President's Iraq "surge" plan. But the actual text has seldom been published More

February 20, 2007
Herbert Brownell, GOP civil rights hero
A forgotten hero of the modern-day civil rights movement, Herbert Brownell, was born on this day in 1904. More

February 19, 2007
Obama alleged to omit credit where due
Barack Obama has been alleged to have taken credit for others' work in getting asbestos removed from a Chicago housing project. More

February 19, 2007
Nosebleed triggers embassy alert - oh, brother!
From the BBC in Paris comes the following: "Nosebleed triggers embassy alert" at the Canadian consulate More

February 19, 2007
Leftist Jews and Israel
Edward Alexander writes in the New York Post of "Leftist Jews' Hateful Obsession", which makes an excellent companion piece to Rachel Neuwirth's article published here two days ago. More

February 19, 2007
Turkmenistan joins the modern world
After the death of the "Turkmanbashi" (meaning leader of all the Turkmen) Saparmurat Niyazov, it seems that the nation of Turkmenistan, one of the former Soviet Republics, is finally joining the modern ages. More

February 19, 2007
Fauxtography propaganda
The ever-alert Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs catches another computer photo fraud. More

February 19, 2007
Do it yourself jihad
The mall massacre in Salt Lake City, Utah, by a Bosnian Muslim killed in the attack, is another reminder that solo practitioners of jihad are a threat anywhere, anytime. More

February 19, 2007
Personalizing the Plight of Kilo Comapany
The father of one of the Kilo company members, whom no MSM outlet would listen to, tells his story about the Haditha Marines. More

February 18, 2007
NYT's Kristof burnishes Jimmy Carter's image
Truly breathtaking! In an op-ed today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times praises Jimmy Carter. The very same New York Times columnist who defended University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian More

February 18, 2007
That Vichy stink
The peaceful, natural death at age 96 of Maurice Papon, the highest-ranking Frenchman to be convicted for a role in the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, considered to be a "symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis", is another reminder of the Vichy smell Ed Lasky noted yesterday. More

February 18, 2007
The Last Dance
There will be the usual sellout crowd at Assembly Hall in Urbana, Il. this coming Wednesday night. But this game will also mark the last dance for Chief Illiniwek More

February 18, 2007
NYT on Gaza greenhouses
Greg Myre of the New York Times writes of Gaza today ("Israelis Are Gone, but Gaza Rebuilding Is Slow"). More

February 17, 2007
Should Americans boycott Austria?
What do you say about a country that sells 800 50-caliber state-of-the-art sniper rifles to Iran, and then acts surprised when those rifles magically end up killing American Soldiers next door in Iraq? More

February 17, 2007
Somalis charge that BBC a "tool of propaganda" for Islamist Somali regime
A group of 260 Britons of Somali origin has submitted a letter to the chairman of the BBC's board of governors, charging that the BBC's Somali service has become a "tool of propaganda" of the beseiged Islamist regime in Somalia. More

February 17, 2007
The Dear Leader's birthday
Yesterday, listening to the radio while driving, I learned that (once again) I had missed the Dear Leader's birthday, the major event of the year in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. More

February 17, 2007
Is Lady Liberty Weeping?
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." So wrote Abraham Lincoln. More

February 17, 2007
Smells Vichy to me
Haaretz reports, "French President Jacque Chirac has announced his support for lessening pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program" More

February 17, 2007
"Progressive" rabbi apologizes to AT author
Our contributor Rachel Neuwirth, whose article "Beyond Self-hating" appears today, has received a formal written apology and an unspecified cash settlement from Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of Hillel at UCLA More

February 16, 2007
Austria okays export of more guns to Iran
Austria gave us Hitler... so why not sell guns to Iran? More

February 16, 2007
Global Whining
"We are at a tipping point. We must act, and act swiftly ... Such action requires international cooperation. This was Al Gore on February 3rd More

February 16, 2007
Corporate bosses against school vouchers
A powerful group of businessmen and former politicians have embarked on a project to fight school vouchers in the state of Texas. More

February 16, 2007
Gracing the pages of the LA Times
The Los Angeles Times runs a column today by Andrew Cockburn, conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite. More

February 16, 2007
The command for Iraq
Wednesday, President Bush led off his press conference with a comment which, to my ear, was very significant More

February 16, 2007
Healing or justice?
The New York Times headline on the opening of the Madrid Terror Trial is almost comic: "Hopes for Healing as Spain's Terror Triral Begins" More

February 16, 2007
Oh those Jews!
Just when you thought conspiracy theories couldn't get any weirder, along comes one that reaches new comic heights. Except, of course, that there are people who take the lunacy very seriously. More

February 16, 2007
The "carbon sink" and global warming
According to this week's Science magazine, the ocean's ability to absorb carbon may be far greater than previously estimated. That means that atmospheric CO2 gets eliminated perhaps twice as much as global warming alarmists thought More

February 16, 2007
Letter from Iraq
A reader who requests anonymity writes from Iraq. More

February 15, 2007
Mexicans and Apocalypto
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, about life in Mayan times, generated a torrent of criticism for alleged racism, mainly because it depicted the brutality of human sacrifice as practiced by that civilization. More

February 15, 2007
Why Scooter and not the others?
Stephen Spruiell of National Review's Media Blog points out some of the sworn testimony in the Libby Trail which is contradicted by other sworn testimony. More

February 15, 2007
Scientific consensus - except for those other scientists
"Scientific consensus!" chants the mainstream media in America when it comes to global warming. Not so long ago, that would have been the end of the story for nearly everyone. More

February 15, 2007
Selective linking at the NYT (updated)
The New York Times publishes an article today on the bloggers covering the Libby Trial, mentioning AT. More

February 15, 2007
Only part of the news fit to print
The New York Times is trying to discrdit the Bush administration and seriously misleading readers. Again. More

February 14, 2007
Breaking News? Not Quite Because an Illegal is the Perpetrator
If an Army Ranger, a veteran of the Iraq war, was stabbed in his own front yard by an illegal alien, don't you think that that story would garner some press coverage? More

February 14, 2007
A General who cannot see a "smoking gun"
The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can't see a smoking gun when it is right in front of him. More

February 14, 2007
globalwarminghysteria.com
My British friend Peter Glover has established a new website globalwarminghysteria.com. The name pretty much says it all. More

February 14, 2007
Iraqi geography and some perspective
Most (not all) of the car bombs have been detonated in Baghdad. It's time to get a perspective on that. More

February 14, 2007
The seventy three percent solution?
The CBC is touting a new poll of Canadian Muslims as good news. The Strong Conservative is not so sure. More

February 14, 2007
How much more evidence is needed?
First Austrian-made guns that are unique and rare and that were recently shipped to Iran for "anti-drug" efforts find their way to Iraqi "insurgents". Then Iranian officials are captured within Iraq and are alleged to have been aiding violence More

February 14, 2007
From Jew-hater to Jew-lover
Our contributor Alamgir Hussain, who grew up Muslim, has written about his journey from a Jew-hater to a lover of Jews. More

February 14, 2007
That depends on what the meaning of "diverse" is
New York City is to open an Arabic public school. But of course it wants it to be "diverse." More

February 14, 2007
Russert on the hot seat
Tim Russert has got some explainng to do. At the close of the Libby Trial on Tuesday, the defense indicated it wanted to recall Russert to the stand to impeach a statement of his. More

February 14, 2007
Netherlands news
Geert Wilders has no doubt been denounced already as an "Islamophobe", and I would suspect he is now or will soon be under death threats. More

February 14, 2007
Room at the Top for the U.N.
Mayor Bloomberg is looking for office space for the United Nations. Here's an idea: More

February 13, 2007
Bush on C-SPAN
There was a very good interview of President Bush on C-SPAN on Sunday, February 11, 2007 More

February 13, 2007
About that Moslem holy site
Covering the latest Muslim-inspired clashes in Jerusalem, the MSM, relying on their skimpy religious/historical knowledge plus Muslim propaganda, have ranked the importance of the area's sites to the respective religions More

February 13, 2007
NYT names an "expert"
The New York Times reports that "skeptics" doubt US evidence on Iran's Actions in Iraq. So who is one of these "experts" (a word the Times uses) worth citing? More

February 13, 2007
Why I support Mitt Romney
Some conservatives have been quick to criticize Mitt Romney for his past comments regarding homosexuals and abortion in particular, and have pointed out that Romney has changed his stand More

February 13, 2007
Trivializing anti-Semitism
The Associated Press reports today that "Republican Mitt Romney's choice of a museum honoring auto pioneer Henry Ford as the site of his presidential announcement was strongly criticized Monday by Jewish Democrats, who noted Ford's history of anti-Semitism." More

February 13, 2007
Sharansky calls for worldwide mobilization
Soviet refusenik Nathan Sharansky has called for a worldwide mobilization of Jews and non-Jews to work against the new campaign to erase the State of Israel. That new campaign of liquidation comes from the international Left and Iran. More

February 13, 2007
News scam
CBS is being used to broadcast false information to the public. Mr. Bob Schieffer claimed on Sunday's program "Face the Nation" that Republicans "cut off debate" on Iraq Senate resolutions. More

February 13, 2007
The politics of assassination
Rick Moran, who never lets political correctness of any sort interfere with his thinking, raises the very touchy question of assassination and Barack Obama's candidacy. More

February 12, 2007
Criminal rights over public safety
The new Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is already making waves. The Boston Globe reports that he wants limit employers' ability to check the criminal backgrounds of potential employees More

February 12, 2007
Deadly dilly-dally (a poem)
I cut and I paste till I'm blue in the face, As Chamberlain mimes repeat his mistakes. More

February 12, 2007
Hugo Chavez can't repeal laws of economics
Hugo Chavez may be able to received dictatorial powers from Venezuela's legislature, but he still can't repeal the law of supply and demand. More

February 12, 2007
The French. Again
A pair of recent news items about France and its language once again demonstrate the ridiculous lengths to which that nation will go in fighting a rearguard Anglophobic campaign. More

February 11, 2007
The liberal halo in the media
How bad are the liberal media in their relentless propagandizing? Check out the way halos magizally appear around the heads of the annointed. More

February 11, 2007
Masterful summation of Plame situation
The anonymous author who uses the pen name Fedora has done a masterful job of summing up the Plame case More

February 11, 2007
Clarice Feldman intreview
Clarice Feldman appeared on Macranger's internet radio program. A webcast can be heard here. More

February 11, 2007
Why watch the nickels and dimes? It's taxpayer money after all
A favorite trope of the Left is to denounce greed. At least in others. More

February 11, 2007
Scenes from the media revolution
A small broadcast television station, KFTY, Channel 50 in Santa Rosa, California, has fired its entire news staff and is going to rely on viewer-submitted material for news. More

February 11, 2007
Netanyahu bloggers conference call
The bloggers conference call with Benjamin Netanyahu we covered earlier is now available as a podcast at the One Jerusalem website. More

February 11, 2007
Invested in Defeat
While political partisanship is the norm, rather than the exception, in Washington D.C., leaders from both sides of the aisle have historically come together for the sake of unity and for the good of the nation during a time of war or crisis More

February 11, 2007
McCain's hypocrisy
The unbearable absurdity of the Mccain-Feingold Campaign Reform law is on display More

February 10, 2007
NBC's Black Kettle
Lance Dutson , one of the bloggers covering the trial for media bloggers association, has written a magnificent piece on the Russert/Mitchell aspect of the Libby Trial. I urge you to read it all. More

February 10, 2007
Libby Trial: The NBC Connection
The prosecution has rested in the Libby Trial, and like a fish left out in warm weather, a strange and unpleasant odor is becoming more and more apparent as the sun shines on case. More

February 10, 2007
Obama's declaration
Rather than comment directly on Obama's announcement this morning, I will refer readers to the coverage at Sweetness & Light, which is doing a superb job of comparing the airy rhetoric of today with previous statements. More

February 10, 2007
Scipio Asiaticus
This morning (Saturday, February 10, 2007), General David Petraeus acceded to the command of the coalition forces in Iraq - MultiNational Force - Iraq (MNF-I). More

February 9, 2007
Elie Wiesel attacked in SF
Elie Wiesel was attacked in an elevator in San Francisco by a Holocaust denier who has apparently been stalking him More

February 9, 2007
Friday morning's holy violence at Al Aqsa
"With our soul, with our blood, we sacrifice ourselves for Al-Aqsa," the Palestinian crowd shouted yesterday, according to the press report, "The soldiers of Satan want to turn Al-Aqsa into a synagogue." More

February 9, 2007
Washington Post caught with pants down on Feith story
So much for the vaunted fact checking of the ancien presse: More

February 9, 2007
Bibi Netanyahu conference call
Bibi Netanyahu, the former Israeli Prime Minister, held a bloggers conference call yesterday in which I participated. More

February 9, 2007
How to lose the war (and blame the GOP)
Hugh Hewitt notes that the Democrats in Congress are serving notice to all our intelligence sources in Iraq that their identities will not be protected. More

February 9, 2007
Obscene
The oh so liberal columnist Ellen Goodman has now officially joined ranks with Iran's Ahmadenjihad by publicly stating global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers More

February 9, 2007
Media Keeps Lying about "Lying "About Pre-War Intel
Watching the media reports on the Administration's handling of pre war intelligence is like having a conversation with a seriously disturbed person for whom no contrary evidence is sufficent to get through the closed loop fog of his delusions. More

February 9, 2007
Your tax dollars at work
Tavis Smiley is slated to host two presidential candidate forums on PBS. Are we to take seriously the prospect of an even-handed examination of both Democrat and Republican candidates from him? More

February 9, 2007
Boston Globe praises Saudi "statesmanship"
The Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) takes a breathtaking step into fantasy-land today as its editorial page offers paeans to "Saudi Statesmanship". More

February 9, 2007
Global warming surprises
The joke goes that every time Al Gore opens his mouth, the temperature drops ten degrees. And it's not a bad one, as far as political jokes go, not in the least because it appears to be rather close to the truth. More

February 8, 2007
The Hypocrisy of Tim Russert
Tim Russert berated Robert Novak on air for talking to the FBI without a subpoena. Turns out he had voluntarily cooperated too, and covered it up. More

February 8, 2007
Russert cross examination (continued)
Earlier, Russert denied that he was happy when Libby was indicted. Firedoglake reports that the defense won and was able to play a tape from the Imus show on MSNBC More

February 8, 2007
Muslims rebuke Pope in Open Letter
One hundred Islamic scholars have signed an Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI. It explains how he got things wrong in his lecture at the University of Regensburg. More

February 8, 2007
Russert on the Hot Seat (updated)
Tim Russert, who is a key prosecution witness, took the stand for about 11 minutes today in the Libby Trail. It was not a good day for him. More

February 8, 2007
Congress already wants to go home
One of the changes initiated by the new Democrat Congressional leadership was to increase the number of days per week that Congress is in session from three to five. It seems that Congressmen and women in both parties are already starting to complain More

February 8, 2007
Hillary vs. CalPERS & the World
Last week Hillary said she should "take" all of Exxon-Mobil's profits and put it in a special alternative energy fund. Now if this were to happen, many union pension plans would be harmed. More

February 8, 2007
Jung on Hitler and Islam
"We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. More

February 8, 2007
Border crossing chic
The New York Times carries a troubling piece today that almost glamorizes illegal border crossing. "Run! Hide! The Illegal Border Crossing Experience," reads the headline. More

February 7, 2007
Jimmy Carter's feelings are hurt
Group hug! Jimmy's hurtin'. No, he didn't fall and scrape his knee. Former US President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Bringing Peace to the Middle East, and all-around global messenger of sweetness and light, has been called a bigot. More

February 7, 2007
The $622 Billion Answer - Response and rebuttal
Hokum! The idea we as a nation wasted billions of dollars on an assertive defense in the GWOT because we went into Iraq is totally ignoring the all the relevant facts. More

February 7, 2007
US African Command Established by President Bush
On the heels of Ethiopia's decisive victory over terrorists and their Iranian sponsors in Somalia, President Bush announced yesterday the formation of a new unified command. The US African Command (AFRICOM) will better focus both civil and military actions on a continent that has become increasingly important More

February 7, 2007
Boston Globe op-ed revives anti-Semitic trope
A report on left wing ("progressive") anti-Semitism from the American Jewish Committee is drawing howls of protest from Jewish leftists. Some appear to have been driven a bit nutty. More

February 7, 2007
Timeline for Wilson's mission has been wrong (updated)
From the outset, Joseph Wilson IV has insisted he was sent to Niger at the Vice President's behest. But we have just learned in the course of the Libby Trial that even the updated timeline is wrong: Plame recommended her husband for this trip before the vice president even asked about the report More

February 7, 2007
IPCC's cloudy forecast
The bold assurances of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that their predictions are 90% sure should give the layman pause. "If it sounds too good to be true..." More

February 7, 2007
The Caracas connection
Aleksander Boyd reports in Vcrisis.com on the second seizure of a major shipment of cocaine coming out of Caracas airport on a flight to Mexico. More

February 7, 2007
More on "Personality Matters"
I agree with Jennifer Rubin and have another example for her about how we need to heed those personality traits. More

February 6, 2007
The Bush Economy: Luck?
Today I called my local newspaper to ask why they are running an editorial on the front page. The headline reads: "Bush budget rides on economic luck" More

February 6, 2007
Defending marriage
The story of the Washington state ballot initiative to cancel heterosexual marriages if they don't produce children within three years has achieved wide visibility this morning. More

February 6, 2007
Ed Lasky, Jimmy Carter and Al Qaeda
Ed Lasky was interviewed on Israel National Radio, and a web feed of the interview is now available here. More

February 6, 2007
Damage toll mounts from NYT SWIFT leaks while MSM pays no heed
When the New York Times chose to reveal secret information about the monitoring of international financial transactions last June, critics, including American Thinker, posited that this would seriously hamper efforts to identify the financiers of terrorism. More

February 6, 2007
Escalation of the conflict with Iran
Jack Risko of Dinocrat recently has been watching the escalation of our ongoing conflict with Iran, and has been watching the formation of US policy towatd that nation even longer. More

February 6, 2007
The Guardian's Monbiot takes on the moonbats
The British paper, the Guardian, is the paper that the New York Times strives to emulate. But even the Guardian can smell an overcooked turkey, and it has found one in the moonbat offering in the 9/11 conspiracy annals, the film: Loose Change. More

February 6, 2007
Obsession isn't just a perfume
The New York Sun shines its light on a comic headline appearing in the New York Times: "Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War." More

February 6, 2007
NYT Department of Double Standards
In its ongoing campaign to burnish its readers' view of Islam and Arab nations, the New York Times heaped praise on the wisdom and taste behind the "cultural district" to be built on an island by the Abu Dhabi oil despots. More

February 5, 2007
Bond bombs
FBI Agent Bond admits that she mistestified when she said that Libby told her Rove told Novak. In fact he said Rove said Novak told him about Plame. More

February 5, 2007
Media don't know how to report Ethiopia's triumph
News of Ethiopia's lighting victory over the short-lived Islamic Courts Union in Somalia has nearly vanished from the mainstream media. I suspect there are two reasons for this. First, western news analysts do not know how to interpret this successful campaign -- sponsored surreptitiously by the US More

February 5, 2007
Amateurs and pros
It seem that the user generated commercials on the Super Bowl were very well received and they certainly are cheaper to make than some of the professionally generated ads that bombed. Paul More

February 5, 2007
Welcome Rush listeners!
Here is the item Rush referred to. More

February 5, 2007
Libby trial update
The Libby trial continues today with FBI agent Bond acknowledging that her notes are inaccurate and that the summary of the second interview prepared by her supervisor Eckenrode is substantially at odds with her notes. More

February 5, 2007
Ann Coulter, warrior
The trouble with Republicans is that they don't know how to fight dirty! More

February 5, 2007
New York Times and Palestinians
I am shocked! The New York Times admits Palestinians use hospitals to fire from and colleges for arsenals More

February 5, 2007
Generals gone wild
Former US generals have called upon a foreign power (the UK) to stop US moves against Iran. Does anyone else have a problem about the propriety here? More

February 5, 2007
Mayor Newsom's popularity in SF
Tucked away in a Matier and Ross article in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Oakland A's new stadium in Freemont would be subject to high tides and "global warming" problems, is a recent poll on Mayor Gavin Newsom. More

February 5, 2007
Canada and immigration
It looks like this is spreading. And in multi-culti Canada of all places. Good. More

February 4, 2007
Casualties of War
The sustainability of our effort in Iraq is being questioned in part due to the toll that combat is taking on our forces. In this regard, it is useful to compare the Iraq War with previous American wars More

February 4, 2007
The Islamic University of Minnesota
An institution by that name has opened its doors in Minneapolis, according to Hiraan Online, as discovered and posted on Ummah News Links. More

February 4, 2007
"Personnel is Policy"
Back in the Reagan Administration, we had a saying that always drew sneers from the press and from the Washington establishment: "Personnel is policy." Now, just consider two recent personnel decisions by the Bush Administration: More

February 4, 2007
Viva Super Bowl Sunday
Like millions of other Americans who have recently acquired large screen high definition televisions, I am hosting a Super Bowl party today. More

February 4, 2007
A Roman settlement in China?
From China comes the story of DNA investigation aimed to uncovering evidence of a Roman presence in northwestern China, adjacent to the Gobi desert. More

February 3, 2007
Free speech and its consequences
A senior Pentagon official has lost his job over comments criticizing the law firms which have represented Guantanamo Bay detainees. More

February 3, 2007
Gavin "my pants made me do it" Newsom
Today's American Thinker features a touching letter to the editor describing SF Mayor Gavin Newsome's "tragedy." But as usual in Baghdad on the Bay, words don't mean what they mean. More

February 3, 2007
World opinion and morality (updated)
Despite disavowing another run for the presidency, John Kerry has thrust himself onto the global stage in the Middle East and Switzerland. More

February 3, 2007
San Francisco's cardinal virtue
We in San Francisco are on the world stage-again with the Gavin Newsom tragedy. San Francisco has predictably placed in the media fishbowl the core values of San Francisco. More

February 3, 2007
Sherlock Holmes meets Sandy Berger
Ray Van Dune (a pseudonym of somebody I know) has resurrected Baker Street's most famous fictional resident to look into The Case of the Purloined NSC Documents. More

February 3, 2007
Seven questions for the NIE
The declassified summary of the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq (an NIE is the intelligence community's maximum document) is on the Web More

February 2, 2007
Yale's elephant in the living room
An unintentionally amusing and revealing news report comes from the Yale Daily News. It seems that applications are down almost ten percent this year for next year's freshman class. More

February 2, 2007
The return of the paper ballot
Good news for those of us who have been concerned about the lack of a paper trail with touch screen voting machines. More

February 2, 2007
Airbus and foolish competition
Thank you for once again providing excellent coverage of Airbus and the A380 program. I would like to add a point to your latest article where you mention the effect that delays in the A380 schedule will have on Airbus's suppliers. More

February 2, 2007
Gaia's Warriors
The environmental pseudo-religion so ably described by JR Dunn, not only has its apocalyptic doctrine, it also has its own military arm. More

February 2, 2007
San Francisco and Mayor Newsom
The first reaction of many residents to Gavin Newsom's affair with one of his best friends' wife was a bit of a yawn, in line with the rest of the world's image of the city as a den of iniquity. More

February 2, 2007
Always Isarel's fault
The BBC headlines the charge of a "human rights organization "that Israel continues to control Gaza through an 'invisible hand'". Does this not prove that no matter what Israel does, it gets blamed? More

February 2, 2007
Another Leftie embarrasses himself (updated)
The Washington Post online (washingtonpost.com) has an opinion column ("Early Warning") by someone called William Arkin. Mr. Arkin is hilariously clueless More

February 1, 2007
WaPo Warriors (a poem)
Want to slam our soldiers, Arkin?/Well here is one to slam./I got used to Lefty slamming/When I came back from Vietnam. More

February 1, 2007
What does it take to shock San Francisco?
Most of the country already thinks of San Francisco as a den of iniquity and licentiousness, dedicated to self-indulgence and heedless of the consequences. The political leadership of the city, specifically hizzoner da mare, is doing what it can to confirm the judgment. More

February 1, 2007
Clarice Feldman on the Libby Trial
Our astute Libby Trial correspondent Clarice Feldman has been live blogging the Libby Trial from the media room, and has posted her reflections on yesterday's proceedings at Just One Minute. More

February 1, 2007
Charlie Rose debriefs John Burns
Occasionally a combination of the New York Times and PBS produces something positive. More

February 1, 2007
No innocent lamb
The Munich District Attorney's office has indicted 13 CIA employees allegedly involved in the Khaled Al-Masri "kidnapping." The incident is being used to whip-up anti-American sentiment throughout the world More