American Thinker Blog

March 31, 2007
Vietnam and Iraq
Ben Voth today makes some excellent points about the parallels between the current political situation and that of the Vietnam War over thirty years ago. More

March 31, 2007
Comments on 12 Angry Men
Dear Editor: I used to work in a theatre when I was in college and remember when I saw this movie long ago thinking how dumb the plotline was, More

March 31, 2007
The Gaza sewage flood
That sewage problem in Gaza this week, when raw sewage flooded from a broken embankment and killed five people, has tugged on the world's heartstrings. Of course Israel was blamed by many. More

March 31, 2007
How low can the UN go? (updated)
Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Commission pushed through a resolution demanding a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion More

March 31, 2007
Michael Crichton on GWT orthodoxy
The Daily Ablution publishes an interview with Michael Crichton, certifiable genius and global warming skeptic. I am proud that his position seems to mirror mine rather closely. More

March 31, 2007
Another brilliant "expert"
How is it possible that so many idiots are considered "experts" - especially on national security matters? More

March 31, 2007
She forgot to learn Hebrew?
Columbia University's Middle Eastern Studies faculty, once the home of the notorious Edward Said, has become dominated by politicized "scholars" and has been subject of much controversy over classroom indoctrination. More

March 31, 2007
He forgot a few things
The "well-respected" new Palestinian Finance Minister pens an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, and lays into Israel, calling for end to sanctions. More

March 30, 2007
Obama, the cynical poseur
Barack Obama, who poses as an enemy of cynicism, is outdoing even Hillary in his cynical use of lobbyists, as detailed in this article in The Hill More

March 30, 2007
Our thoughts and prayers are with Tony Snow
A lot of us have been deeply upset about the horrible news that Tony Snow's cancer has spread to his liver. More

March 30, 2007
Europe appeases again
The European Union has just celebrated its 50th anniversary by capitulating to terrorism, imitating Europe's disgraceful appeasement behavior nearly 70 years ago. More

March 30, 2007
Mahmoud's Magic Theater
Some media worriers are asking why the mullahs kidnapped 15 British Soldiers and Royal Marines just at this time. Well, duh. It's because they were there, easy to grab, and the British have shown their mettle More

March 30, 2007
McNulty's close ties to Schumer
The American Spectator continues to report the extraordinarily close links between Senator Chuck Schumer and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty (reminding me of the way Schumer very obviously managed the Comey-Fitzgerald team earlier): More

March 30, 2007
Property rights in Japan (and America) - updated
Thank you for pointing out the LA Times article about bicycle theft in Japan. As an American resident of Japan I feel you have touched upon one of the most important yet little noticed distinctions between these two cultures -- respect for property. More

March 30, 2007
Let's Play Guess Their Party
Can you tell the party the four indicted solons belong to? Does this story shed any light on why Iglesias was fired as US Attorney? More

March 30, 2007
Columbia University disciplines students
What do you do if you don't agree with an invited speaker? Well, if you're a student at what is considered a top tier university you rush the speakers, shout so they can't speak, wave signs condemning the speakers as racist More

March 30, 2007
General McCaffrey's Strange Report
Michael Yon is a heroic combat reporter who has posted an astonishing "after action report" by General Barry McCaffrey (US Army, ret.), More

March 30, 2007
Tonguetied
The Administration seems determined not to seize opportunities to make its case. An example: More

March 30, 2007
The Murthasburg Address
Six score and four Friedmans ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new vision, conceived in national enervation More

March 30, 2007
The "fly by" media (a poem)
Have you ever stopped to wonder why? Half told truths and half baked lies, corrupted press, malignant tumors, withhold facts and extoll rumors. More

March 29, 2007
Mighty Joe Lieberman
It's not often you see the entire body of Congressional Democrats completely muzzled in the face of serious criticism of their policies More

March 29, 2007
Circumcision touted as AIDS preventative
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that circumcision has been shown to reduce to probability of AIDS infection by as much as 60% in males. More

March 29, 2007
Law & order, Japanese style (updated)
Bruce Wallace of the Los Angeles Times writes an amusing story of his experience in Tokyo when his clunky, cheap bicycle was stolen. More

March 29, 2007
California Heating Up Due to Land Use
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California have recently found that California is warming up, but the main cause seems to be land use. More

March 29, 2007
Taking Another Look At Fred
In a piece earlier this week on AT, I questioned the growing hoopla over the possible presidential candidacy of Fred Thompson. More

March 29, 2007
More than symbolism
While the Democratic majority in Congress seems to treat Iraq as a symbol, real people's lives are on the line. More

March 29, 2007
Two hours?
Houston, we have a problem. A city known for getting things done is having difficulties with the basics these days. More

March 29, 2007
The British military hollowed out (updated)
It hurts to say it, but the Royal Navy has become an object of pity among those of us who admire what Britain used to be and do More

March 29, 2007
Evolutionary Rumblings: The Theory has a Fever
Evolutionists are constantly trying to prove Darwin's theory correct. (This is not to be confused with Barack Obama's assertion that President Bush is perpetrating societal Darwinism on unsuspecting poor people). More

March 28, 2007
AIPAC case "silent witness" ruling reconsidered
Just in case you thought the Libby trial was a uniquely scary reenactment of the old Star Chamber, the trial of two former AIPAC officials is coming up. More

March 28, 2007
Just solution for Palestinian refugee problem
The much-lauded, just-re-approved "Saudi peace initiative" demands "just solution" to "Palestinian refugee problem." But look at what they mean by justice. More

March 28, 2007
The Health Care Walnut (updated)
Steven W. Dugger of Wichita, KS writes: I enjoyed today's article by Geoffrey P. Hunt, but I think he understated one of his points. More

March 28, 2007
A moderate Arab voice
The estimable MEMRI blog brings us news of an Arabic language commentary in the London daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, by moderate scholar Dr. Mamoun Fandy. More

March 28, 2007
Bullying from Turkey
We are now quite used to being told by Muslim countries how we should conduct ourselves at home. More

March 28, 2007
Has a limit been reached?
Many elites in the United States and Europe continue to behave as pre-emptive Dhimmis, submitting to demands for the application of Shari'a law in their countries. More

March 28, 2007
Radical Islam - the lessons from anti-communism
The RAND Corporation, a think tank that was influential in anti-communist strategy, has issued a report on the lessons to be applied to the struggles against radical Islam More

March 28, 2007
Unbridled academic arrogance
The University of California is preparing to ignore the recommendation of the statutory body charged with passing on proposals for expansion of state-funded higher education, and press ahead with an unneeded new law school, More

March 28, 2007
Inflation moderates in Iraq
The Central Bank of Iraq publishes an array of "key financial indicators" on its website. One of these is inflation More

March 28, 2007
The Sarkozy intifada?
The first round of voting in the French presidential election looms on April 22. One of the three leading candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been blunt about the need to preserve French culture More

March 27, 2007
Comment on Rebranding the Enemy
Robert Heller writes: I found this was a very interesting piece, but I strongly disagree with the conclusion arrived at in this paragraph More

March 27, 2007
Chance Gardner on health care
Barack Obama continues to remind us of the character Chance Garner in the movie (and earlier Jerzy Kosinski novel) Being There. More

March 27, 2007
Flu season (continued)
Discomfiting news via the Houston Chronicle: A group of sick passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Newark on Monday has prompted an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. More

March 27, 2007
The Imam Scam continues
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) was handed a victory of sorts on C-SPAN's Washington Journal call-in show this morning. More

March 27, 2007
Leave no terror enabler behind
As a recovering academic I have fairly close knowledge of hiring practices in higher education More

March 27, 2007
US is the target of Palestinian terrorist leader
Perhaps you are one of those who think we can get along with the Palestinians if only Israel would compromise just a little bit more. More

March 27, 2007
Letter from Iraq
It has been a rather quiet month in Habbaniyah. The big gun goes off now and then and we hear small arms fire coming from some directions More

March 27, 2007
Herouxville, Quebec
The town of Herouxville, Quebec, which gained notoriety by asking that recent immigrants adapt to local ways rather than vice versa, has established an English language website, seeking support for its policies More

March 27, 2007
Peace=capitulation
As Condoleeza Rice, like her many predecessors, scurries around on yet another mission to bring "peace to the Middle East, peace between Israel and the Arabs" one is reminded of the popular definition of insanity More

March 27, 2007
Good news tonight (a poem)
Mr. and Mrs. America, there's good news tonight. The world is at peace. The future is bright. More

March 26, 2007
How non-partisan!
The non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) has decided that after 12 years it will no-longer track earmarks put into Congressional spending bills. More

March 26, 2007
March Madness
Finally, a New York Times article hits all the right notes! More

March 26, 2007
NYT: 150 years of global warming and cooling
Noel Sheppard has collected New York Times articles from the past 150 years on climate change. More

March 26, 2007
Letters on Fred Thompson (updated)
I must take issue with some of the points made by Stephen Warshawsky regarding his scepticism of Fred Thompson's potentential presidential run. More

March 26, 2007
Evan Sayet's "How Liberals think" MP3 file
Evan Sayet's speech on how liberals think, is wonderful. But not AT readers have DSL or cable connections. More

March 26, 2007
Supporting Persian pride
Iranians are a proud people, and they have plenty of good reasons for pride in Persia's long and sophisticated history. More

March 26, 2007
Hugo Chavez pushes "collective property"
On his regular Sunday television show "Hello, President" Hugo Chavez announced he is pushing forward with his plan to seize rural lands he considers "idle." More

March 26, 2007
Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell
Noel Sheppard thinks Bill Maher has become the Rosie O'Donnell of cable TV More

March 26, 2007
Sheez! (a poem)
I think perhaps I've never seen A fool as big as Charlie Sheen. More

March 26, 2007
Nancy Pelosi wants to fight them here
President Bush wants to fight them there. When you cut through all the clutter, that is the difference between the position of the Speaker of the House and the President More

March 26, 2007
Israel: the world's ethical barometer
As usual, historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson gets it; crisply offering a template we should all adopt for judging individuals or countries: More

March 25, 2007
Letters on "Letter to a Popular Atheist"
Steve Alderman's article "Letter to a Popular Atheist" has inspired a a number of interesting responses. More

March 25, 2007
A note on atheism
I hope Mr. Alderman, who wrote the Letter to a Popular Atheist realizes that atheism is a faith-based religion just like any other one More

March 25, 2007
What's new is old (a continuing series)
Never Call Retreat was the last of eminent historian Bruce Catton's Civil War series. More

March 25, 2007
A world without America
Spend about a minute on this video, and a smile will come to your face. More

March 25, 2007
Boston Globe advises deal with Hamas parent organization
The Boston Globe lends editorial space in its Sunday paper to two writers advocating the United States begin talks with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. More

March 24, 2007
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
Sean Penn, who used to make good movies, and Barbara Lee, Congresswoman from Berkeley, addressed a "teach in" today More

March 24, 2007
Carbon dioxide levels in history
One of the pillars of the anthrpogenic global warming theorists is that CO2 levels were fairly constant until fossil fuel burning changed everything. They are wrong, according to a new paper. More

March 24, 2007
Report from the Iraq front
General Petraeus has assembled a team of "mavericks". One of them has posted some interesting observations. More

March 24, 2007
Does the Times management really need help with that?
This headline on IWantMedia.com made me do a double-take: Make the NY Times Reader Free More

March 24, 2007
The face of the antiwar movement (updated)
Rocco DiPippo is not a man to trifle with. He got ahold of some pictures from the antiwar rallies last weekend.... More

March 24, 2007
Quebec votes Monday
My Canadian correspondent J.O. reports on Monday's upcoming election in Quebec. It's a nail biter, with a lot at stake for Americans. More

March 24, 2007
Reagan's tear on Time's cover
Time Magazine put President Reagan with a tear on his face over the state of the GOP. Noemie Emery looked at what they wrote about him at the time of his presidency. More

March 24, 2007
The trial of Conrad Black
Mark Steyn is blogging the Patrick Fitzgerald prosecution of the Conrad Black trial from start to finish. More

March 24, 2007
Email issues resolved
We are now back to more or less normal email service More

March 24, 2007
Media Bias (a poem)
The dues must be paid Or prestige will fade More

March 23, 2007
No WMDs in Iraq? Part II
The Washington Times reports today that US and Iraqi forces have seized caches of chlorine gas and nitric acid in Baghdad. More

March 23, 2007
Turning on Governor Blanco
It is amazing to see how the Main Stream Media is beginning to turn on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. More

March 23, 2007
Marvelous essay on "how liberals think"
On March 5, Evan Sayet, a new name to me but apparently a well-known conservative (!) figure in Hollywood, delivered the "speech of the century" (my characterization) More

March 23, 2007
Desperate Times at the NYT
The drama at the New York Times Company just got a lot more interesting. More

March 23, 2007
Patterico on the LA Times
It made waves yesterday when Andres Martinez ,the editor of the Los Angeles Times resigned, and accused his own paper of having an "agenda", More

March 23, 2007
Obama's pastor
Some very interesting interactions between the press and Barack Obama's spiritual mentor have come to light. More

March 23, 2007
Coming soon to polling place near you (updated)
How long until this issue in Canada becomes a voting issue in the United States? My guess is 2008. More

March 23, 2007
Berserker Norwegian Socialist Dhimmis
The original "berserkers" were battle-maddened Vikings, who, much like Filipino "amok runners," blindly killed friend and foe alike. Today's Norwegian socialist government just bashes its friends More

March 23, 2007
Email disruption
American Thinker's email server has come under a DDos (distributed denial of service) attack, and is no longer functional. More

March 23, 2007
Psychoanalyzing Barack Obama
Steve Sailor, who writes for The American Conservative and VDARE.com, has written a series of pieces about Barack Obama that make fascinating reading More

March 23, 2007
Flanders Field again and again (a poem)
Tis the morning sun invites the poppies to grow in Flanders Field on row by row More

March 22, 2007
Tough Times at the Times
Pinch Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times and CEO of the New York Times Company, must be feeling pretty uncomfortable these days. More

March 22, 2007
Hedge funds, market risks, and James Cramer
Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters raises very important questions about the major media ignoring a revelatory disclosure by CNBC host and market guru James Cramer More

March 22, 2007
Sharia law used in German court?
Der Spiegel reports, via Ummah News Links, on a disturbing ruling in Germany, where the judge cites a passage in the Koran More

March 22, 2007
Mahmoud's attack on '300.'
When Tehran's holy war regime starts to attack a Hollywood movie, what's really going on? More

March 22, 2007
Censoring the internet
The rise of the new media has already had profound political consequences. And it has provoked a reaction from the left More

March 22, 2007
Gore and excess energy comsumption
Al Gore testified before a Senate Committee on global warming and blamed Mankind as its cause. His proposal: raise energy taxes. More

March 22, 2007
Iraq Stock Exchange continues to surge
The Iraq Stock Exchange surged again yesterday, up 2.27%. More

March 22, 2007
Kristof and Obama
Are birds of a feather, when it comes to Israel, flocking together? More

March 22, 2007
Novak Finally Gets It
Belatedly, Robert Novak sees the key deception in the so-called outing of Valerie Plame and the phony Libby prosecution for perjury. More

March 22, 2007
Oil pipeline to counter Iran's trump card
As much as 6.5 million barrels per day of Gulf oil would be routed around the Strait of Hormuz by two newly-announced pipelines. More

March 22, 2007
Hipocralypse Now! (a poem)
The Oscar's burnish slowly wanes, That which bathed those tinsel clowns, As cleaners tease the Kool-Aid stains From tuxedos and designer gowns More

March 22, 2007
Global warming (a poem)
In the name of the father, the son, the new socialist movement Amen, An un-holy trinity brought forth again, healing, absolving conservative sin. More

March 21, 2007
Creator of 1984 video revealed
Pass the popcorn! This is so much fun to watch. More

March 21, 2007
Good Iraq news for pretzels
This is all good news about Iraq, but if you want to get it from the Associated Press and the LA Times, it's best if first twist your body into a pretzel. More

March 21, 2007
Scenes from an anti-war rally
From the website Conservative Propaganda: "One of the slogans amplified to the crowds was to support the resistance in Iraq. Yup, you read that right." More

March 21, 2007
Rwanadans want an apology from France
The self-righteous French have more than a few skeletons in their national closet. One of the biggest is probable French complicity in the 1994 genocidal massacre in Rwanda More

March 21, 2007
Albert in Wonderland (updated)
Mr. Gore went back to Washington today to retell his fantasy that the debate on the science of climate change is over. More

March 21, 2007
What's old is new
Hold on to your hats. Guess what the latest trendy beverage is at the hippest of temples of California cuisine? More

March 21, 2007
KSM confession and the 9/11 Commission report
Ed Epstein notes that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession is at odds in several crucial respects with what the CIA briefer reported to the 9/11 Commission More

March 21, 2007
The fascists among us
Recently I saw a woman demonstrator call the police fascists. More

March 21, 2007
Not progressive at all
As a companion to Henry Wickham's article today on the term progressive, let me offer a few thoughts. More

March 21, 2007
Celebrity (a poem)
It's tough to be me With celebrity Burdened with fame My fans are so lame More

March 20, 2007
De-legitimizing the Troops: Update
A few weeks back, I chronicled the media's effort to de-legitimize the United States' fight to secure democracy in Iraq. More

March 20, 2007
Schumer kissing Fredo (updated)
Senator Schumer, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has never been a practicing lawyer but surely is the self-anointed supervisor of the Department of Justice's Southern District of New York. More

March 20, 2007
Solar global warming deniers
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain No, it's not. And a report announced yesterday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may have provided further evidence of that axiom More

March 20, 2007
More opposition to UC Irvine law school
Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee is often called the dean of statehouse columnists. Today, he joins me in criticizing the proposed UC Irvine law school More

March 20, 2007
Selective amnesia on firing US Attorneys
Jimmy Carter, saint of the anti-war left, fired a US attorney under circumstances more than suspicious. More

March 20, 2007
Open elections
Much verbiage has been devoted to the breakout YouTube commercial with Hillary as Big Sister More

March 20, 2007
No longer even pretending
I suppose it is progress. At least some anti-war demonstrators are no longer pretending that they support the troops. More

March 20, 2007
A Gathering of Eagles (a poem)
The commies came, the commies saw, The commies skulked away, A Gathering of Eagles Just spoiled their Big Red Day More

March 20, 2007
That kidnapped BBC reporter
Now we know who reports from Gaza for the BBC. On a purely human level, one cannot but feel sorry for the father of kidnapped Gaza BBC correspondent Alan Johnston More

March 20, 2007
Europe's self-serving illusion
The European Left has long peddled a fantastic lie about Europe's history since World War Two. More

March 20, 2007
Bong hits for Mao?
Is it just me or does anyone else find it laughably ironic that the self-appointed champion of free speech Joseph Bong Hits For Jesus Frederick is now teaching English in China More

March 19, 2007
Al Gore should put up or shut up
Lord Monckton, whose challenge to Al Gore's theories we highlighted, has issued a challenge to Gore to hold an internationally televised debate. More

March 19, 2007
The A380 arrives in America
Today marks the first time the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet will land at American airports. In fact, two of the jets will grace our runaways More

March 19, 2007
Mainstream Media Disregard Pro-Troop Gathering in Washington DC
Over the weekend, anti-war protesters gathered in Washington DC to march on the Pentagon, reminiscent of a similar march back in 1967. More

March 19, 2007
Spectator Charges More McNulty Perfidy at DoJ
What in the world is going on inside the Department of Justice? The Prowler at The American Spectator charges skullduggery by the professional staff. More

March 19, 2007
Haditha on 60 Minutes
Last night, 60 Minutes took aim at the Haditha incident, in which Marines are charged with a massacre of innocents. More

March 19, 2007
A master wields the scalpel
Jules Crittenden, who knows the news business, takes apart an AP dispatch from Iraq by Stephen R. Hurst, showing how it uses propaganda techniques to spin good news into bad. More

March 19, 2007
I want my money back (a poem)
I'm going to ask for my money back. I've just been watching the Plame non-attack. More

March 18, 2007
Culture of Corruption
It involves a key Democratic Congressman and an important grand jury in the District of Columbia, but you won't find anything current about it in the Washington Post. Wonder why? More

March 18, 2007
What? No WMDs in Iraq?
Reuters reported yesterday that Three suicide bombers driving trucks rigged with tanks of toxic chlorine gas struck targets in heavily Sunni Anbar province More

March 18, 2007
The Palestinian reconciliation farce
I thought the just announced reconciliation of Fatah and Hamas was a sham designed to get the money spigot turned on again More

March 18, 2007
Update on US Attorney firings
Are Gonzales' aides attempting a coup? Red State thinks so: More

March 18, 2007
Kristof: debate the relationship with Israel
Anyone who has been reading my blogging over the years, has probably seen Nicolas Kristof appear periodically More

March 18, 2007
Promising poll of Iraqis
More evidence accumulates that Iraq is not the disaster the Democrats and media portray it to be. More

March 18, 2007
Hamas and the Palestinian people
Is it possible to nourish the body but not the person? Eyes, but not the organs of vision? Ears, but not the organs of hearing? Feet and hands, but not the limbs? More

March 18, 2007
Our gal Val
What do you say about a CIA bureaucrat who appears on a full-page cover shoot for Vanity Fair, dressed as a blond James Bond bombshell in dark sunglasses, while supposedly trying to protect her secret identity? More

March 18, 2007
Are we winning in Iraq?
Iraq is the only country in the Middle East with all three great resources - water, oil and arable land. And a vigorous population. Quite a combination if the bad guys can be defeated More

March 17, 2007
The fraud behind carbon credits
The sale of indulgences for those who emit so-called greenhouse gases is built on widespread fraud. More

March 17, 2007
Cowardice Most Despicable
To be a terrorist is to be a coward. Deliberately targeting unarmed civilians is the most craven of crimes. More

March 17, 2007
Putting big media to shame
The editor of the Rome Sentinel in upstate New York has done a fine three part analysis of the Plame matter. More

March 17, 2007
The Waxman circus
Bozo would have been right at home yesterday at the Waxman hearings. More

March 16, 2007
The CIA: clueless or conniving?
Greg Richards' excellent article on the CIA's ineptness as being the underlying cause of the Plame-Libby fiasco is spot on More

March 16, 2007
Choose life
Almost three years ago an eight month pregnant mother and her four young daughters ranging in age from 2-11 were driving in Israel when they were slaughtered at point-blank range by Islamic Jihad terrorists More

March 16, 2007
Russia eyes large stake in Deutsche Telekom
In the old days in Germany, people used to worry about Russian phone taps. Now, petrodollar-flush Russia is considering buying the phone lines. More

March 16, 2007
Outrageous imams
In a move of breath-taking impudence, the flying imams now intend to extend their lawsuit against US Airways to an elderly couple who reported their suspicious behavior on the plane. More

March 16, 2007
UK targets the middle class for discrimination
In an experiment in social engineering redolent of Communist China or the old USSR, British Universities will be discriminating against middle class applicants More

March 16, 2007
A speech for the Libby pardon
The following is a speech that should be delivered by the President of the United States from the Oval Office and televised live to the nation More

March 16, 2007
HRW's take on the KSM confession
This says it all about "Human Rights Watch" and their bias and derangement. More

March 16, 2007
Hairspray and global warming
Just to give you an idea how complex the issue of global warming is, and how incomplete our understanding, NASA has reported this More

March 16, 2007
KSM and Iraq: tactical allies (updated)
Only Investors Business Daily seems to have caught what I think is significant about the KSM confession: The tactical link to Iraq in the two attacks on the WTC More

March 16, 2007
Creative writing at the NYT
The New York Times writes that man born in 1956 was "born in Palestine," from which he was "evicted" by the Israelis More

March 15, 2007
Please pass this note to the MSM
Howard Dean announced Thursday that he's been engaging in a little foreign diplomacy: More

March 15, 2007
Flying imams suing passengers, too
The CAIR-flying imams great gaslighting adventure rolls on More

March 15, 2007
Plame's outing was a slow bleed
Plame's outing was a "slow bleed" operation, removing any remaining secrecy surrounding her affiliation with the CIA, an operation fearlessly spearheaded by Joe Wilson More

March 15, 2007
Miss Marple on Global Warming
Solar expert Dr. David Whitehouse has submitted a marvelous retort to a fellow "scientist's" scathing criticism of The Great Global Warming Swindle. More

March 15, 2007
Dutch youths riot
The Brussels Journal has been following the outbreak of rioting by the non-immigrant residents of a working class neighborhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht More

March 15, 2007
Obama runs off the Road Map
Presidential candidate Barack Obama has misinterpreted a few key principles of the Road Map More

March 15, 2007
A Moderate Male Chauvinist
It looks like the so-called moderate Muslim Tariq Ramadan has a problem with taking directions from women in positions of authority. More

March 15, 2007
Al Gore: enviro-shill
Al Gore is urging pension fund managers - in the country where he has a green investment fund - to invest in more green energy companies More

March 15, 2007
Time for Pelosi to withdraw her comments
Now that KSM has confessed, we should no longer have to hear Nancy Pelosi claiming that "not a single terrorist who planned 9/11 has been caught and brought to justice." More

March 15, 2007
Compare and contrast
The liberal media is once again showing us its prejudices and priorities. An exceedingly selective interest in preventing secret evidence from being used in trials is on view More

March 15, 2007
Plame hearing to be closed?
The Politico reports that the Plame hearing called by Henry Waxman, scheduled for Friday, (see today's article) may not come off as planned. More

March 15, 2007
Green Guru Gone? (a poem)
So, is he or isn't he going to run? Will he be drafted or will he shun The adoration, The adulation Which the mighty Oscar has begun? More

March 14, 2007
NYT board of directors hears critics
The Wall Street Journal reports a sign that the New York Times Co. may be trying to appease investors who have criticized it More

March 14, 2007
Why I heart Fred Thompson
First , he eschews the mealy mouthed response to the Libby pardon--arguing, rightly I think, that the President should remedy this travesty by immediately pardoning Lewis Libby. More

March 14, 2007
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Our friends at Powerline have done us all a great service by posting a video file of the Great Global Warming Swindle, More

March 14, 2007
Obama record "soft on crime"
One of the perils of being a state senator is the need to vote on the record. More

March 14, 2007
Hezb'allah agrees with Cheney
Vice-President Cheney in a recent speech expressed the belief that a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would embolden terrorists around the world More

March 14, 2007
And the first witness: Hillary Clinton
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent suggestion for the first witness in the current Schumer-generated kerfuffle More

March 14, 2007
Schumer: the shadow AG
Lost in the kerfuffle about the Gonzales firings of 8 US Attorneys is the fact that Chuck Schumer has a hidden agenda: acting not only as the Senator from New York but as well as the Attorney General of the U.S. More

March 14, 2007
Global warming melting down
Evidence continues to mount that the Greens have failed in their campaign to leverage global warming into a universal acceptance of their pet theories and practices More

March 14, 2007
You flunk, baby! (updated)
The Nanny State takes a giant leap forward in the U.K. The Telegraph reports: Babies will be given marks for crying, gurgling or babbling More

March 14, 2007
Academic blowback
Marty Peretz of the New Republic draws our attention to one of the major downsides of the vast numbers of foreign students welcomed in our universities. More

March 14, 2007
John Edwards' carbon neutral campaign
John Edwards, another personal energy hog, joins his fellow energy porkers Al Gore and Teresa Heinz and John Kerry in hopping aboard the sinking ship More

March 13, 2007
Save the Darfurians? (updated)
This is currently on the SaveDarfur.org web site: The German Green Party in the Bundestag has launched an online petition calling on Chancellor Merkel to use Germany´s EU presidency to take strong political action to help end the violence in Darfur More

March 13, 2007
Schumer's amnesia
Macsmind notes the utter hypocrisy of Schumer's criticism of Republicans for making inquiries of US Attorneys about ongoing investigations More

March 13, 2007
Thousands riot in China
As many as 20,000 farmers recently rioted in Hunan Province, burning buses and raising hell. More

March 13, 2007
US Airways and flying imams
Should U.S. Airways really have to decide between protecting its passengers or fighting frivolous lawsuits? More

March 13, 2007
Discussion of Ray Robison article
Brian Preston of Hot Air discusses Ray Robison's article "Has the Global Islamic Jihad Movement fractured?" with terrorism expert Bruce Teft in a video posted to the Hot Air site. More

March 13, 2007
Israel-hater in the Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times has provided op-ed space to Sareee Makdisi, the UCLA professor of comparative literature we examined late last year, to question the use of such terms as Israel's "right to exist." More

March 12, 2007
Boeing presses its advantage
While Airbus remains mired in difficulties, Boeing is letting the world know it is pressing ahead More

March 12, 2007
Tennessee Truffles: the good news continues
Truffles may help save a quintessential part of American culture, the small mountain farm. More

March 12, 2007
Enron, Kyoto, and trading pollution credits
Investigate Magazine is a New Zealand publication which has been looking into the history of Kyoto and pollution credit trading: "...without Enron there would have been no Kyoto Protocol." More

March 12, 2007
Cry me a violent river
Bookworm read this morning's weepy New York Times article by Steve Erlanger on the poor little Palestinian children driven to despair and violence by Israel's attempts to protect itself More

March 12, 2007
John Howard: Australia's "strong horse"
One foreign leader who makes me stand up and cheer is John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia. More

March 12, 2007
"The most influential person in Democratic politics"?
The estimable Dean Barnett, writing on Hughhewitt.com, argues that Markos Moulitsas, a.k.a. Kos (as in Daily Kos), deserves serious consideration for the title. More

March 12, 2007
Halliburton and the Moonbats (updated)
As soon as I read yesterday's Wall Street Journal article online, I knew the moonbats would have a field day: Halliburton's CEO is basing himself in Dubai. More

March 12, 2007
A recipe for failure
Democrats, beware if you inveigle conditions for defeat in Iraq under the guise of a perceived mandate! More

March 11, 2007
How Times have Changed
A little over 50 years ago, the MGM film "Blackboard Jungle" an adaptation of the Evan Hunter novel of the same name was the latest box office hit. More

March 11, 2007
Christianity and American way of life (updated)
I think Mr. Warshawsky's essay today, while obviously well-intentioned, if so widely off the mark in terms of realistic assessment of the influence of Christianity in America that an opposing voice is clearly in order. More

March 11, 2007
An intelligence "gold mine"
We may have scored an enormous coup in the defection of an Iranian General who has brought with him documentation of what Iran has been up to More

March 11, 2007
Another milestone on the way in Iraq?
Energy production is a key to the eventual success of a democratic Iraq. Very good news indeed appears to be on the way. More

March 11, 2007
Venezuela and Nicaragua
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez continues his petrodollar-fuelled diplomatic offensive, aiding strategic political allies with access to lower cost energy. More

March 11, 2007
The Tennessee truffle
If you've said adieu to French wine. Soon you'll be able to feast on homegrown truffles. More

March 10, 2007
Bush's unsung battle against anti-Semitism
The President's battle against gobal anti-Semitism has gotten too little notice and too little in the way of thanks. More

March 10, 2007
Comic art from Iraq
A link to some outstanding comic looks at the folks who inhabit Forward Operating Bases, or FOBs More

March 10, 2007
When CAIR criticizes a Muslim
When will a spokesman from CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) finally attack a foreign Muslim for not respecting American culture and democratic norms? More

March 10, 2007
"More oversight" and national security
Some common sense is needed about the Department of Justice recordkeeping errors in keeping track of use of the Patriot Act. More

March 10, 2007
Occupation, legitimacy and democracy
The lessons of the occupation of Iraq will be debated far into the future. One theory is that it was mistake to disband the army and destroy the corrupt Baathist infrastructure which had kept a semblance of peace More

March 10, 2007
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
From Caligula to Kim Jong-il, history teaches us the wisdom of Lord Acton's dictum about tyrants. The latest example comes from the tiny West African nation of Gambia. More

March 10, 2007
AT author on the air
AT author Henry Wickham is scheduled to appear on WCTC radio today (Saturday) at 5:15 PM EST to discuss his article, "America's Neo-Copperheads." More

March 9, 2007
Hillary! and justice
Hillary's commitment to justice has an interesting early history. More

March 9, 2007
Missing headlines (a continuing series)
A twofer today: trade news and unemployment news More

March 9, 2007
Major Second Amendment Decision
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (commonly referred to as the "D.C. Circuit") today (Friday, March 9) issued a very important Second Amendment decision More

March 9, 2007
Intellectuals and the Military: reader responses
Thoughtful reader responses to James L. Holmes' article on why intellectuals hate the military. More

March 9, 2007
The US - Mexico Border Powder Keg
Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reports today that there has been an "unprecedented surge" of violence along the US - Mexico border, much of it carried out by gangs armed with modern military weapons and gear More

March 9, 2007
Contra Rudy (updated with rejoinder)
Some thoughts on Richard Baehr's article on the GOP presidential field today. More

March 9, 2007
Soros wants to make Hamas a "partner"
Prominent Obama-backer George Soros unburdens himself in an interview with the U.K. Financial Times. More

March 9, 2007
Problems for Egyptian Christians
Last Christmas, many Christian clerics condemned Israel for erecting barriers to protect itself from Arab terrorist bombers. More

March 9, 2007
US Constitution survives another end run
The end run attempt around the Constitution has fallen down - for now. More

March 9, 2007
SOTU 16 words proven true (again)
Much of the Wilson/Plame fuss about "Bush lied" related to the 16 words in the State of the Union address which said that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa. More

March 9, 2007
Reversible error
The Wall Street Journal publishes a must-read article today by Elizabeth Loftus and Richard Steinberg on the injustice done to Scooter Libby More

March 9, 2007
It's official: 2006 was worst year ever for Airbus
EADS, the parent of Airbus just released its earnings for the year 2006, prompting its co-CEO Louis Gallois to say, "It is clear ... it was the worst year for airbus in its life," More

March 9, 2007
Missing the point
Rosa Brooks of the Los Angeles Times complains that the US Human Rights report doesn't focus on American violations! More

March 8, 2007
Good news for Airbus
After a terrible spell of bad news, Airbus announced the first firm order for its A350XWB wide body airliner, not due for delivery until 2014 at the earliest. More

March 8, 2007
General Petraeus' press conference
General Petraeus had a most illuminating press conference today (March 8, 2007) in Iraq. It is available on video More

March 8, 2007
Pleased to offer corrections
Commentors at Davidsmedienkritik properly point out some factual errors in today's piece on "Germany's Anti-American Neurosis" amidst mostly general agreement on its thesis More

March 8, 2007
Another liberal "failing upward"
Rick Kaplan has had a long career in the television news business, one distinguished by questionable relationships with liberal politicians he is supposed to cover in an unbiased manner More

March 8, 2007
Spikey writes Dem talking points on Libby pardon
MSNBC, home of the left loonies, is running a Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball that sets out what the Dem talking points will be, should the President pardon Libby. More

March 8, 2007
A new home for Gitmo detainees?
According to Poltico, leading house Democrats insist that the Guantanamo "detainees" be evacuated to North America More

March 8, 2007
The Gitmo smear machine
A big law firm, Kuwaiti money, a major p..r. firm and a gullible press have distorted the situation at Gitmo and slandered this country throughout the world, to the benefit of our enemies. More

March 8, 2007
The limits of the nanny state
Tolerance is liberal code for advancing the causes of the Left; they have no use for it when it becomes an inconvenience. More

March 8, 2007
Obama, the silver-tongued orator?
Watch Senator Barack Obama attempt to explain his investment improprieties. I counted 26 uhs and ums. Looks kinda guilty to me. And he has been heralded as articulate and "clean"? More

March 8, 2007
Educating Abdullah II
I was listening to Jim Lehrer's interview with Jordan's King Abdullah that followed his speech to a joint session of Congress. More

March 8, 2007
The scandal machine
Gabriel Schoenfeld's post on the Libby verdict below makes a good occasion to offer our readers veteran Commentary contributor Paul Johnson's review of Suzanne Garment's 1992 book Scandal More

March 8, 2007
Obama the scofflaw
Barack Obama, while training at Harvard Law School to be an officer of the court, was a parking ticket scofflaw More

March 8, 2007
Never trust a guy called "Father of Jihad"...
OK, listen up all you culturally sensitive FBI agents. It's time for your Arabic lessons. Not fancy Arabic - just basic jihadi dude talk. More

March 8, 2007
American Library Association
(letter to editor): Shame on Hentoff. Nat Hentoff is hypocritical once again. More

March 7, 2007
Carbon offset justice for all
It now appears that Al Gore receives "offsets" for his enormous "carbon-footprint" as an employee benefit from his London-based company, Generation Investment Management. This revelation brings to mind a couple of questions: More

March 7, 2007
Al Gore: the hypocrisy grows and grows
Kudos to Dan Riehl for his continuing stream of excellent work on Al Gore. His latest: "Al Gore: an inconvenient tax scam" More

March 7, 2007
Airbus: the bad news continues
More evidence accumulates that Airbus' focus on it's a 380 super jumbo has robbed the company of the ability to produce competitive aircraft in other, much larger and more important market segments. More

March 7, 2007
Bizarre
Our friends at Citizen Journal have taken note of a bizarre abortion case in Boston. More

March 7, 2007
Curious omission
Today's New York Times editorial on Libby case omits Richard Armitage's name: What we still do not know is whether a government official used Ms. Wilson's name despite knowing that she worked undercover. More

March 7, 2007
Fitzgerald abused his office and the public trust
Tom Maguire has two not to be missed posts on the Libby case at Just One Minute. More

March 7, 2007
Witch hunts and hunters
Where do we find them? The men and women who are willing to stand up against a vengeful media, ready to launch the justice system against its political enemies? More

March 7, 2007
"We Just Met the President!"
"Rudy," the Yankee fan from Brooklyn, hit a grand slam with the Los Angeles Dodger crowd who turned out Monday night to endorse "America's Mayor" as their candidate for the 44th President of the United States. More

March 7, 2007
Iraq Stock Exchange Index
The Iraq Stock Exchange maintains a comprehensive index, the Iraq Stock Exchange Index (the ISX). It is one measure of confidence in the Iraqi economy More

March 7, 2007
Patrick Fitzgerald's very misleading answers
Even after the trial he's still spinning his tales as Steve Gilbert shows in a fisking fisking of Fitzgerald's stated reason for pursuing Libby when he knew Armitage was the leaker. More

March 6, 2007
The Canary In The Coal Mine Of Islamic Civilization
Women are the canary in the coal mine of lslamic civilization. And they are choking and dying across the Muslim world. More

March 6, 2007
Would global warming be a bad thing? (updated)
Would a rise in average temperature of a degree or two really be bad thing? More

March 6, 2007
Shocking Libby verdict
The Libby Trial is now an American tragedy. More

March 6, 2007
Hillary's Selma "sermon" - the rest of the story
Hillary took the passage in Galatians out of context when she quoted Galatians 6:9 in the closing part of her speech at First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama More

March 6, 2007
Israelis Choose life
The determination of Israelis, despite the constant threats of all their neighbors who loudly proclaim their goal of annihilating them, is found in some very inbteresting statistics. More

March 6, 2007
Global warming jumps the shark (a continuing series)
Global warming can be blamed for anything and everything. The latest example: Brothel owners in Bulgaria are blaming global warming for staff shortages. More

March 6, 2007
Muslims for freedom
An important gathering of Muslims dedicated to retaking their faith from the hands of brutes and madmen has taken place in St. Petersburg, Florida. More

March 6, 2007
Shipping France's patrimony to the Gulf (updated)
France may be having trouble shipping A 380 jumbo jets to Persian Gulf customers, but it will be shipping some of the masterworks from the Louvre to a "satellite" museum to be constructed in Abu Dhabi More

March 6, 2007
Foreign policy training in the streets
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says that Barack Obama is qualified to lead nation's foreign policy because he was a Jakarta "street kid" for 4 years. No kidding. More

March 6, 2007
The new leftist law school in California
I am the analyst who was formerly responsible for reviewing new campus and center proposals for the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC). More

March 6, 2007
A key arrest goes unnoticed
The arrest last week in Pakistan of a man dubbed the Defense Minister of the Taliban, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund has received far too little attention. More

March 6, 2007
Republican Justices Dissented from the Dred Scott Decision
On this day in 1857, the Supreme Court announced its infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision. More

March 5, 2007
Fluorescent lights: inauthentic, or a way to save the planet?
What is a good anti-global warming crusader to do? Laurie David's stopglobalwarming.com website tells us that one way we can "take action" is to: Use Compact Flourescent Bulbs More

March 5, 2007
Stop me before I pander again
There has been a lot of attention paid on the web and on talk radio to this audio clip of Hillary Clinton affecting a Southern accent More

March 5, 2007
Rock Obama, Rock (a poem)
Rock Obama, rock Obama, rock Obama, rock. Hillary and Billary, keep your eyes on the ticking clock. More

March 5, 2007
Lancet scientific fraud exposed?
The Times of London yesterday presented a devastating critique of a scandalously sloppy and politicized article in the famous Lancet medical journal, one of the first medical journals ever printed. More

March 5, 2007
Liberal math
Let's compare and contrast Liberals' view of two mathematical models: More

March 4, 2007
What we are dealing with
IraqSlogger has a video clip showing the execution of Iraqi captives by al-Qaeda after the usual tiresome pseudo-religious voiceover claptrap More

March 4, 2007
Eco-Nazis trivialize the Holocaust
First came Ellen Goodman's offensive column, in which she likened global warming "deniers" to Holocaust deniers. The came attention to Al Gore's use of the word "Krystallnacht." More

March 4, 2007
Coulter vesus Maher
In the uproar over Ann Coulter's tasteless "joke" at the CPAC Conference, Bill Maher's much more egregious call for Dick Cheney's assassination to the applause of his audience have been ignored, as Newsbusters showed. More

March 4, 2007
Saudi-Iranian summit apparently fails
It appears that the talks between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Iran's President Ahmedinejad blew up. More

March 4, 2007
Intelligence and Iran's Nukes
In her latest essay on Iran's nuclear weapons program, American Thinker contributor Rachel Neuwirth raises some important questions More

March 4, 2007
Someone who really speaks truth to power
Pat Dollard puts together another worthwhile film clip. The only guy from Hollywood who is trying to get the real story out, the story of the Soldiers and Marines More

March 4, 2007
Capt. Lisa Nowack: legal update
On February 10, I wrote in AT about NASA Capt. Lisa Nowak ("Lisa Nowak's Criminal Liability.") More

March 4, 2007
Deja vu all over again?
The highly placed Persian government official, angry that not all bowed to his importance, appalled that others followed the non state designated religion and desperate to divert blame for the country's impending deterioration from himself, informs the all too willing ruler that the entire situation is the fault of the Jews. More

March 3, 2007
Divorce by text message
Sweetness & Light picks up from MEMRI an example of the latest innovation from Islam: the text message divorce. More

March 3, 2007
Spielberg's famous stolen Rockwell
Steve Gilbert is not alone in believing there is something not quite kosher about Steven Spielberg's claim that he didn't know the famous Norman Rockwell painting in his collection had been famously stolen: More

March 3, 2007
Where's the outrage?
On or about August 1st of 2005 Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was filmed accepting $100,000 in cash from a man wearing an FBI wire. More

March 3, 2007
Probably there will be an eclipse today
The Associated Press headlines, "Total lunar eclipse expected Saturday." Expected? What happens if it doesn't show? More

March 3, 2007
Algoreaphobia (a poem)
It's said, I have Algoreaphobia. I'm causing the Earth to get hot! More

March 3, 2007
The end of the litmus test?
The Weekly Standard's Noemie Emery reports that social conservatives may well make a deal to end their litmus test and accept Rudy Giuliani as their candidate. More

March 2, 2007
Airbus suffers crippling blow
Airbus has had an eventful and terrible week More

March 2, 2007
Green commisars (updated)
The news of Al Gore's hypocrisy in paying his own company for "carbon credits" to offset his enormous personal "carbon footprint" may be startling, but upon reflection should not be a surprise. More

March 2, 2007
Obama's African ancestors also owned slaves
What the may may not realize is that Obama's African forebears also owned slaves, not just his white forbears. More

March 2, 2007
Is Pat Buchanan Economically Illiterate?
Perhaps the most persistent and vocal opponent of the policy of free trade is Pat Buchanan. More

March 2, 2007
Keegan's alternate reality
When a distinguished historian gets basic facts wrong about adversaries in a global war, the rest of his analysis deserves closer scrutiny. More

March 2, 2007
Ignorance in high places
House Judiciary Committee subcommittee on commercial and administrative law Chair Linda Sanchez needs to spend a bit of time reading the Constitution More

March 2, 2007
Deconstructing Al Gore's utility bill (updated)
Much of what has been written about Al Gore's carbon footprint demonstrates the ignorance of the writers more than it illuminates the facts. More

March 2, 2007
"A flim-flam of epic proportions"
Noel Sheppard, of Newsbusters and American Thinker, reviews the story the mainstream media will not tell: Al Gore's highly questionable financial ties which enable him to personally profit from the Global Warming Scare. More

March 2, 2007
Global warming's intellectual dissidents
The oxymoronic "scientific consensus" claimed on global warming has generated its own intellectual dissidents. More

March 2, 2007
The perils of occupation
Occupation is never easy. Even the most successful of military occupations under the best possible circumstances have their troubles. More

March 1, 2007
What's happening in the Libby Trial?
The jury is now in what is the seventh day of its deliberations and a number of people have asked me what is going on. More

March 1, 2007
The MSM's new best friend
Bookworm has a long essay making the case that the mainstream media owe a debt of gratitude to the blogosphere for serving as a "crucible" in which increasingly rushed and inaccurate reporting is vetted More

March 1, 2007
What Will the Bushitler Cheneyhalliburton Crowd Do Now?
According to papers filed with the SEC, in the fourth quarter of 2006 Soros purchased nearly 2 million shares of ... hold your breath ... Halliburton. More

March 1, 2007
Loving and Compassionate?
Yesterday's UK Guardian featured an appalling cartoon referencing the recent assassination attempt on Dick Cheney during his visit to Afghanistan. More

March 1, 2007
Carl Levin, secret ventriloquist?
For some reason, the press keeps putting Carl Levin's words in other people's mouths. More

March 1, 2007
Double Standards
The Bay area free weekly AsianWeek really took a hit on Wednesday. More

March 1, 2007
Al Gore's legacy of hypocrisy
You've seen the stories in the US and Great Britain, about Al Gore's large energy usage at what can only be called his estate. More

March 1, 2007
Blindingly stupid
Sometimes a serious proposal emerges which is so stupid that it stuns me. Other times, proposals anger me. Rarely, both qualities are combined in one legislative proposal More

March 1, 2007
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, R.I.P.
Rick Moran, a man notable for his lucid and graceful prose, as well as his prodigious output, pens a thoughtful essay commemorating Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., an author with similar qualities. More

March 1, 2007
TXU and global warming
The proposed buyout of TXU Corp by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is an example of fashion over technology when it comes to global warming. More

March 1, 2007
Who Is To Blame?
The Washington Post is reporting a truly tragic story about a 12-year-old boy in Maryland who died after bacteria from an infected tooth spread to his brain. More

March 1, 2007
Youth Narcissism: Blaming the 1980s? Try the 1960s
A new study has proclaimed today's college students "more narcissistic than ever." More