American Thinker Blog
April 30, 2007
George Tenet on Al Qaeda nukes
MSNBC reports that former CIA Director George Tenet was seriously concerned about Al Qaeda efforts to smuggle "a small nuke into the United States in 2001." More
April 30, 2007
Honeybees: The first 100,000,000 years
The bees are dying! The bees are dying! Yes, for all you eco-horror fans, it's the latest thing anxiety to hug to your bosom. More
April 30, 2007
AT labeled "ultra-right wing" by prof.
American Thinker was slurred by a professor at Kenyon College, in an opinion piece in the student newspaper, The Collegian, and we use this space to respond. More
April 30, 2007
The real scandal at the World Bank
In the bogus case against Paul Wolfowitz in the media, much has been made of the settlement offered Ms. Riza More
April 30, 2007
Obama throwing his spiritual mentor overboard?
The New York Times reports on its front page today about Obama's strained relationship with his pastor, also known as his "spiritual mentor." More
April 30, 2007
The last time I saw Paris
Afraid to say anything negative about anyone or anything, even if it's the truth, because you just don't feel like giving that undynamic duo of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton another reason for publicity? More
April 29, 2007
Nice try
Sweetness & Light details the planning and promotional work that went into this weekend's World-Wide Impeachment effort. It fizzled More
April 29, 2007
At the Center of the Storm: A Demonstrable Lie
In a review of George Tenet's book "At the Center of the Storm", Michiko Kakutani reveals Tenet's claim that the Administration --or at least the neocons in it--were determined to get Saddam even before the facts were in. More
April 29, 2007
SF Bay Area traffic nightmare (updated)
Terrorists couldn't have picked a better spot. The San Francisco Bay Area faces months of horrible traffic disruption thanks to the explosion of a gasoline tanker truck More
April 28, 2007
Blaming the victim
Colbert King faults Paul Wolfowitz for the antics and unfairness of others.
By the way, what qualified Colbert King to ever have been on the Board of the World Bank? More
April 28, 2007
A note on "The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate"
There should be nothing surprising - and therefore there is noting demonic - about Moslem notion of waging holy war "until all mankind is reduced to the authority of Islam More
April 27, 2007
Bloomberg and the Gongos' din
Today Bloomberg reports:
World Bank employees who lead the agency's drive to battle corruption in poor nations urged ``clear and decisive actions'' to decide the future of President Paul Wolfowitz. More
April 27, 2007
No WMD in Iraq? (A continuing series)
Those pesky chemical agents that the left says that Saddam never had just keep turning up all over Iraq. More
April 27, 2007
Albania article (updated)
It is a disgrace that a wonderful site (American Thinker) and a good and thoughtful writer (Patrick Poole) are so wrong on Albania More
April 27, 2007
Charitable to Obama
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune looked into Senator Obama's charitable giving. More
April 27, 2007
Anti-Americanism in the French election
Germany's socialist Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder made a point of attacking America in order to garner votes, and it worked for him. The lesson has not been lost on Ségolène Royal More
April 27, 2007
But the UN does work hard
There are some grouches who complain that the UN is a useless, anti American, anti Israel, anti everything we hold dear black hole money pit that does nothing. More
April 27, 2007
A significant date in the war on terror
Why does Surrender Harry Reid in particular and the Democrat leadership in general want to, well, surrender in Iraq? More
April 27, 2007
The UN at work
Benny Avni of the New York Sun knows how to write a lede. For example,
"Saudi Arabia, which does not allow women to drive or vote, says it has achieved 'equality between the sexes.'" More
April 27, 2007
After 2008 (a poem)
Our left-leaning guest poet His Smartness, Liberali Maximallus, the creation of G.W. Gorge, offers his thoughts on what he wants out of the 2008 election More
April 26, 2007
Wolfowitz fights back
The New York Times reports that
"Paul D. Wolfowitz accused the bank's board on Wednesday of treating him 'shabbily and unfairly,' More
April 26, 2007
EU attacks Wolfowitz
Though it is certainly none of their business, the EU Parliament has called for Wolfowitz to resign as President of the World Bank. More
April 26, 2007
Welcome aboard, dupes
A number of companies are now offering consumers carbon offset options. Delta Airlines, for example, is taking advantage of the celebrity cachet of carbon offsets to offer them for a fee to passengers who want to mimic the private jetsters Gore and Heinz-Kerry More
April 26, 2007
Now Hillary's a hawk? (updated)
Speaking in front of a Jewish group, Hillary is now threatening Iran, according to the Jerusalem Post: More
April 26, 2007
The Way Ahead in Iraq
Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey, military news commentator and Adjunct Professor at West Point, recently returned from Iraq after meetings with military and political leaders, and has reported his findings. More
April 25, 2007
American Thinker returns
After a battle lasting almost 24 hours, we have regained control of the domain http://www.americanthinker.com/, which was stripped from us unexpectedly yesterday. The details are complex More
April 25, 2007
Haditha bombshell
Newsmax is reporting that an intelligence office provided substantial exculpatory evidence in the Haditha case, evidence he says the NCIS sat on, evidence that supports the defendants' version of the facts More
April 24, 2007
Please stand by
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April 24, 2007
Canadian libs caught red-handed
Canadian Libs were caught red-handed stealing conservative personnel files, and then tried unsuccessfully to bully the publisher of the Western Standard, the newspaper reporting the theft. More
April 24, 2007
Imus is offensive?
What about "Rosie to Sheryl Crow: 'Have You Seen My Ass?'..."? or... More
April 24, 2007
Germans and the Jews
John Rosenthal, writing in World Politics Watch, debunks a recent study from Germany's prestigious Bertelsmann Foundation claiming that German antisemitism is on the decline. More
April 24, 2007
AIPAC trial likely to be postponed
Due to the inability of the prosecution so far to come up with a means of presenting its case that passes both constitutional and judicial muster, the case against two former AIPAC officials is likely to be postponed from its initial June 4 trial date.
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April 24, 2007
How to waste tax dollars
If you want a clear, simple lesson on how to waste taxpayer money, here it is. To encourage federal workers to use mass transit, they were given subsidized mass transit passes. More
April 24, 2007
Life imitates American Thinker
Writing in the subscription-only Political Diary at Opinionjournal.com, John Fund recounts a moment from the weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner that suggests our own J. Peter Mulhern is once again way ahead of the pack. More
April 24, 2007
James Pinkerton on James Lewis
James Pinkerton, Newsday columnist and Fox News contributor, picks up on James Lewis' coverage of the English Department at Virginia Tech, and its possible influence on the hatreds of Cho. More
April 24, 2007
Broder: Dems should give Reid the hook
To the consternation of the lefty Think Progress, David Broder has joined the chorus of those suggesting it's time for Reid to be bounced: More
April 24, 2007
Another tainted Pulitzer
Another prestigious prize (this time the Pulitzer), another disgrace ( sloppy reporting to advance a political agenda). More
April 23, 2007
Hailing a hero
Spc. Micheaux Sanders is one of the heroes of Iraq, and Investors Business Daily paints a portrait of the warrior and his valor, and gives us insight into the challenges our troops face in Baghdad. More
April 23, 2007
Iran bribing Iraqi politicians
While Democrats are touting their plans to cut funds to Iraq, Iran is reported to be offering bribes to Iraqi parliamentarians. Evidently the Iranians realize we haven't quite yet lost, as Harry Reid contends. More
April 23, 2007
Hedge Fund John
John Edwards, man of the people, turns out to be also a man of the hedge funds. More
April 23, 2007
The World Bank, nepotism and Wolfowitz
The New York Sun's Ben Avni details real nepotism in the World Bank, about which there has been no commotion as compared to the Wolfowitz case More
April 23, 2007
Hard truths for Israel
On this, Israel's 59th Independence Day, Steven Plaut, Professor of Economics at the University of Haifa, presents 35 hard truths about the Middle East. More
April 22, 2007
Jews for genocide?
Melanie Phillips has gone over the top! Or at least that's what anti-Zionist Jews are saying in Britain. She titled a recent column "Jews for genocide" More
April 22, 2007
Gongos' din
"Gongos" are overseas analogues of American groups with monikers that include words like "citizens", responsibility", people", "integrity" and "justice." More
April 22, 2007
Mahmoud "divorced from reality"
Today's Sunday Times (UK) quotes "foreign diplomats and a Western official" as saying that Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad is "increasingly divorced from reality" More
April 22, 2007
My request to Sen. Lieberman
Senator, I thank you for your simple and eloquent words in regard to the actions of Senator Reid in declaring the Iraq war "lost".
I ask you to be of further service in two ways
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April 22, 2007
WaPo now basically supports Wolfowitz
Despite having megaphoned distortions of what happened at the World Bank for over a week after the exculpatory documents were made public, the editors of the Washington Post finally seems to be backing off and supporting Wolfowitz: More
April 22, 2007
Scandalous
No one fair observer can deny that our President is a honorable man who has tried to appoint honest people to positions in his Administration and who has done his best to run the government with integrity. More
April 22, 2007
Problems with Haditha prosecution?
One of the defense counsel in the Haditha case notes the number of men given immunity and suggests this signals a problem with the prosecution case. More
April 21, 2007
CIA finally clamps down on Plame's cohorts
Too late to preclude the damage done to the Agency and others by the indiscriminate blabbing by Plame's old buddies, the CIA finally is getting serious about controlling the public statements of ex-agents More
April 20, 2007
Was Cho taught to hate?
Yes, I know. Tens of thousands of ordinary college students are lonely, full of rage, lost and frustrated. A few percent are psychotically disturbed, and some of them can kill. Still, I wonder --- was Cho taught to hate? More
April 20, 2007
Pack ice traps seal boats
Al Gore and the other thought leaders (Cameron Diaz) keep telling us the ice caps are melting and lower Manhattan will be under 20 feet of water before we know it. More
April 20, 2007
Blaspheming Barack
Charles Krauthammer may soon need a new secretary to respond to reader e-mail. As I learned this week, when one writes a critical article about Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the furies descend on you. More
April 20, 2007
A long weekend at the NYT?
Maybe with Earth Day on Sunday, the New York Times editors took Friday off and let the staff of NY Sun run the paper More
April 20, 2007
More on European fences
Europe has certainly gained a lot of experience with fences over the millennia, so learn about a couple more.
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April 20, 2007
Thin as a Reid (a poem)
I've wondered who'd do the evil deed;
Not surprisingly, it's Harry Reid.
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April 19, 2007
Learning law and business ethics in New Jersey
The following announcement did not appear on Comedy Central's news show; this is really happening. More
April 19, 2007
Liviu Librescu
I deeply grieve over the loss of this hero. It sickens me that people in my country pity the evil person who murdered 32 lives Monday at VT More
April 19, 2007
The Economist trashes "neo-cons"
We have had our run-ins with the British-based magazine The Economist before. More
April 19, 2007
New York Times Company earnings down again
The string of bad business news for the New York Times Company and its shareholders grows longer and longer with each passing quarter. More
April 19, 2007
Zealots on the NYT editorial board
A New York Times editorial attacks "male justices" of the SCOTUS and expresses unseemly rage More
April 19, 2007
Two houses symbolize two Americas
Yes, there apparently are two Americas; one is the lavish lifestyle of the Democrats who are willing to tax others so they too can live the Democratic way while the other is low keyed and unassuming, earlier known as cloth coat Republicans More
April 19, 2007
Sickness on the left
Tom Gross of the National Review's Media Matters blog, brings to our attention a vile article from Counterpunch. More
April 19, 2007
Deafening silence
Iran exonerates six who killed in Islam's name: International Court of Justice, UN Human Rights Commission, George Soros -- where are you? More
April 19, 2007
Good Fences
Mexico has found an ally in the European Union's Javier Solana in their campaign to prevent the US from building a border fence. A remarkable coup, given that the EU has its own fence as part of a plan to maintain control over immigration from Africa. More
April 19, 2007
Media madness: The Virginia Tech story
There seems to be just one template for the media in covering tragedies like that which just occurred at Virginia Tech: Discussion of further regulation of guns and so much coverage of the perpetrator that copycats are sure to be impressed. More
April 19, 2007
Fear and Narcissism in Virginia
Reasons allow us to make sense out of our world. Understanding is the human species' mode of adaptation. So it should come as no surprise that only hours after the Virginia Tech shooting, we as a society started looking for reasons. More
April 19, 2007
The two Americas of John Edwards
John Edwards likes to speak about "two Americas." But is he really speaking about the vast, troubling and widening gap between the well-groomed and poorly-groomed?
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April 18, 2007
EU Constitution: Like it or not
British conservative Daniel Hannan writes that the superfatted EU "Constitution" is back, under a different name after the French and Dutch voters rejected it. More
April 18, 2007
Look who backed the partial birth ban
The Supreme Court's partial birth abortion opinion rejects a facial challenge to the statute but leaves open the possibility of challenges in the future by particular mothers who claim a health necessity for such an abortion. More
April 18, 2007
A must-read
Christopher Harmon has written the must-read of the month "The Myth of the Invincible Terrorist". More
April 18, 2007
At last!
At last! Some sensible limitation on Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
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April 18, 2007
Rep.Lee Hamilton disappoints
The Democratic congressman offers an endorsement to Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton:
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April 18, 2007
The friends of Andrew Young
Andrew Young: Carter buddy, Arafat friend, antisemite and now PROFITEER. More
April 18, 2007
Iraqi spies in the US (continued)
Tuesday, two more men, this time in Detroit, were charged with spying for Saddam's Iraqi intelligence services More
April 18, 2007
Obama and cynicism
Senator Barrack Obama raised some eyebrows several weeks back when he worked a terrorist angle into a familiar campaign stump speech More
April 18, 2007
Obama not ready for prime time?
Barack Obama apparently believes that the mass murder of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech is on a par with the violence represented by outsourcing of American jobs. More
April 18, 2007
AFRICOM Briefing
AT readers were informed in February that President Bush directed the establishment of the US African Command (AFRICOM). The new HQ will streamline operational functions for an area that previously was assigned to three separate commands More
April 18, 2007
Apirl Mourning (a poem)
It's a cold April morning, students shaking off sleep,
Head toward their classrooms, destinies to keep.
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April 17, 2007
Israeli kids and Holocaust worries
As Holocaust memorials were held earlier this week, a rueful news story emerged of an Israeli poll revealing that a huge 37% of young people there think a new Holocaust is possible More
April 17, 2007
Haditha Story
For quite some time our press has been filled with stories of a Marine Massacre in Haditha, so imagine my surprise when the first I read of this was from a publication in South Africa More
April 17, 2007
No spectacle so ridiculous
Chris Hitchens comes to the defense of Wolfowitz and Riza More
April 17, 2007
The Wolfowitz non-story
Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, has an opinion piece in today's Los Angeles Times worth reading More
April 17, 2007
Is the USA worthy of its servants?
Three retired generals are said to have turned down an offer to become what the authors called the "Czar" for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq More
April 17, 2007
More on the Israel boycott vote
EUReferendum has more details on the UK journalists' union and its vote against Israeli products. More
April 17, 2007
Syria threatens Golan Heights violence
It's a good thing Nancy Pelosi is such a foreign policy genius. Her road to peace via Damascus is heading for the Golan Heights and threatening violence.
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April 17, 2007
The money primary
Detailed data has been released on first quarter contributions to Clinton and Obama. Dick Morris goes for the meaningful minutiae, explaining Obama's strengthening hand. More
April 17, 2007
Virginia Tech news via Israeli media
The Jerusalem Post offers information we haven't seen anywhere in the United States media, on a heroic professor from Israel who died protecting his students from the gunman at Virginia Tech.
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April 17, 2007
When the money runs out (Update)
On 2 April, 2007 I warned that if Congress did not pass funding by the 15th of April that the Army would have to start cutting back operations. Now Reuters is reporting that the cutbacks are starting. More
April 16, 2007
MSP Airport finally acts
At long last a blow for rationality and against pc induced dhimmitude:
The operator of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday approved tougher penalties for cabdrivers who refuse service to travelers carrying alcohol More
April 16, 2007
DC Emancipation Day
Today, the nation's capital celebrates "Emancipation Day" -- commemorating the Republican Party's abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia More
April 16, 2007
French surprise?
Christopher Hitchens is such a thoughtful analyst, it's always worth your while to read him and consider his views. He has a surprising take on the forthcoming French elections More
April 16, 2007
The fount of modern terror
The Muslim Brotherhood is the historical fount of modern Islamofascism. Today it is a network of organizations in 70 some nations More
April 16, 2007
Always look on the bright side of life
Reading this New York Times review of a new play about the Holocaust, I am faced with the question: what moral universe does the NYT live in? More
April 16, 2007
Pravda on Imus (updated)
"In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically 'connected', and legendary,... More
April 16, 2007
Obama continues to surge
As matters stand now, it looks like Obama will be the Democrats' nominee. He has already pulled within 2-3% of Hillary on a Rasmussen poll and 4% on a CNN poll, More
April 16, 2007
Missing Headlines
"Nouri stands up to Tehran"
One of the byproducts of the "surge" in Iraq is a strengthening of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's hand in dealing with Tehran. Amir Taheri writes More
April 16, 2007
Green colonialism
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. A Sweden-born, wealthy British resident shoveled out less than 8% of his fortune to buy a Brazilian forest. Banishing all lumbering he intends to preserve it. More
April 16, 2007
The arbiter (a poem)
All Hail! All Hail!
The arbiter is in the house!
Imus grovels gravely
for words he did espouse. More
April 15, 2007
Response to "When Women Cry Wolf"
While I generally support what Kyle-Anne Shiver writes in When Women Cry Wolf About Rape, I would like to offer some comments that go just a bit further. More
April 15, 2007
Who gets charged when "crying wolf" kills?
Merv at Prairie Pundit points to a coming trial in Texas of a woman on chargesof mannslaughter for falsely crying rape. More
April 15, 2007
On rape
A reader we shall identify as "Don" writes More
April 15, 2007
Critic of imams beaten senseless (updated)
A Norwegian of Somali origin, known widely in Norway as a critic of female circumcision and the imams supporting it, was beaten senseless. More
April 15, 2007
Europe -- Your Name is Cowardice
That's the title of a document written by Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the massive German publishing house Axel Springer (AG) and published in Germany's largest newspaper Die Welt. More
April 15, 2007
Brit newsies shaft Israel
The British reporters union just voted to boycott Israel. The boycott is intended to de-legitimize Israel's right to exist in peace and freedom. More
April 15, 2007
Obama blather on Imus
After cozying up to rappers who use far worse language than Imus used and never criticizing them, Obama weighed in late with the usual blathering cheap shot More
April 15, 2007
Taxpayer-subsidized anti-American charities
It is time to demand an Internal Revenue Service investigation of tax exempt "charities" whose agenda is anti-American More
April 15, 2007
Vultures circling for their next meal
Is this a great country, or what? A churlish shock jock makes some callous, insensitive remarks on his radio/TV show and he's reduced to a pathetic, smoldering pile of human rubble. More
April 15, 2007
Holocaust Remembrance Day
This Sunday is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) for victims of the Shoah (Holocaust) in commemoration of the deliberate slaughter of six million Jews. More
April 14, 2007
A model for Hillary
Conservative British commentator Ian Dale writes on his blog:
"A poll out this morning shows that if there were a general election today only 7 per cent of doctors would vote Labour (the British socialist party). More
April 14, 2007
Pelosi's First 100 Days
AP has a flattering story about the first 100 days of Nancy Pelosi's term as Speaker of the House More
April 14, 2007
A Palestinian voice the MSM won't present
Rami Abdulraheem, the Palestinian refugee whose letter we published has, via AT, been in touch with the website Zionism on the Web. Zionists and Palestinians in dialogue! More
April 14, 2007
Oxfam's folly
According to the tearful plea from Oxfam - a poverty and "injustice" advocacy group - international aid should be given to Palestinians no matter what. More
April 14, 2007
Above the Law (II)
The Governor of New Jersey exempting himself from seat belt laws recalls the in many ways similar situation after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 More
April 14, 2007
A manufactured hit job on Wolfowitz
Fox News has done a far better job investigating the allegations against Paul Wolfowitz than any other news outlet and--no surprise to media watchers--this is another manufactured hit job. More
April 14, 2007
Inspired Nancy (a poem)
Talk is inspiring. Talk is fun.
How can anywhere anyone
Turn away and seek to deny
A winning smile and a popping eye?
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April 14, 2007
Scheduled airing of Red Lights movie
Either I made a mistake reading the movie schedule earlier this week, or the Sundance Channel has re-scheduled its showing of the film Red Lights, which I see as an allegory about French fear of the violent Muslim young male population. More
April 14, 2007
Guess his party
Take a stab. His political affiliation appears nowhere in the story More
April 14, 2007
Above the law?
Rumors that New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was not wearing a seatbelt during last night's crash that left him critically injured have been confirmed. More
April 13, 2007
Terry Moran and the class warfare theory
Bookworm filets Terry Moran's controversial ABC News blog post sneering at the Duke 3. She boils down his argument to its pure essence More
April 13, 2007
Duke fallout
The media in general, like much of the Duke faculty, saw white frat boys and just knew what happened. Two of the worst examples were Nancy Grace of Headline News and Duff Wilson of the New York Times. More
April 13, 2007
"my face, which is my identity"
It seems that Islamists are trying to get women broadcasters off Saudi television --- or at least, women's faces. It's ok if they look like black tents on the screen. More
April 13, 2007
Deja-View?
Several of the panelists on ABC's program The View have stated on-air that the Duke lacrosse team members who were just exonerated of rape were "probably guilty of something". More
April 13, 2007
Bombing a place I know well
The Iraqi Parliament building was hit by a suicide bomber on Thursday. Here are a few comments based on the AP report and my almost daily visits to that same building in the summer of 2003.
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April 13, 2007
Obama: A long and careful plan
The Chicago Tribune continues to investigate Barrack Obama's background More
April 13, 2007
Dems will talk to dictators but not appear on Fox News
E.J. Dionne pens an approving essay about Democrats who boycott Fox News for its sin of not being as liberal as the rest of the television news industry. More
April 13, 2007
Reader responses to "What are They Smoking?" (updated)
"Psymon" writes: I get a lot out of most of the writings at American Thinker, but the article "What are they Smoking" by Bruce Hanson is pure bunkum. More
April 13, 2007
Iraq developments
Several developments have occurred in the Iraq narrative in the last few days: More
April 12, 2007
The Fighting Brits
For those who are wondering what happened to British grit and courage, Michael Yon has one of his extraordinary "hot combat" reports from Iraq. More
April 12, 2007
Tax code patents
As an inventor with a few patents to my name, I wrestle with chemistry and physics in attempts to improve on industrial processes and measurement techniques. More
April 12, 2007
The Finkelstein tenure case
Norman Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University, is much-read and admired in Arab and leftist circles. This year he faces a tenure decision More
April 12, 2007
Highlights of the Obama speeches book
From page 343:
"one of the things you do get a strong sense of is that Israel at this point possesses such superior military forces, that they don't really have enormous vulnerability in a conventional sense. More
April 12, 2007
No joke
From the PR Newswire:
Unprecedented Offer for New Book: 'Best Speeches of Barack Obama' More
April 12, 2007
How stupid is this?
Robert Novak reports in detail that the CIA doesn't seem to know even now what Plame's status was at the agency. How dumb is that?
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April 12, 2007
Terror-sponsoring Syria takes comfort from Dems
Speaker Pelosi claimed that her trip to Syria would "establish facts, to hopefully build the confidence" between the U.S. and Syria.
Everyone in the Department of State, Defense, and CIA should take note of the 'no-confidence vote' More
April 12, 2007
Ted Rall and Don Imus
Now that Imus has lost his MSNBC show while black broadcasters use similar and worse terminology on the public airwaves, we have an explicit double standard forming. More
April 12, 2007
Missing headlines (a continuing series)
You probably haven't heard that the budget deficit is down sharply, and that federal tax revenues are soaring in the wake of the Bush tax cuts More
April 11, 2007
Got mercury?
The illustration which graces our editorial cartoon space today and tomorrow comes from the multi-talented G. Andrew Duthie More
April 11, 2007
More bias at PBS
In what appears to be a case of outrageous censorship by publicly-funded PBS, a documentary film has been prevented from airing. More
April 11, 2007
Seize the opportunity
One of the things that totally mystifies us supporters of the Bush Administration is its absolute, total, continuous, inexplicable refusal to make its case in the public forum. More
April 11, 2007
Democrat funding games angering military families
Cassandra, the wife of a Marine has a marvelous blog always worth reading. Yesterday she reported on the growing anger of military families at the Democrat funding and withdrawal timeline games More
April 11, 2007
Richard Baehr quoted in the NYT
The New York Times has finally quoted Richard Baehr, American Thinker's chief political correspondent. More
April 11, 2007
Where are the transcripts?
Where are the transcripts of the dialogue between House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad? More
April 11, 2007
Update on Baghdad security
On Sunday, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero of the Joint Staff assessed the security situation in Baghdad in light of ongoing operations. It contains positives you won't read about in the MSM. More
April 11, 2007
No more GWOT? How about this?
Democrat Congessman Ike Skelton, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has announced that the designation "The Global War on Terrorism" is to be banished. More
April 11, 2007
Ahmadinejud and the pundits
No sooner did Ahmadinejud proudly announced that Iran can now enrich uranium on an industrial scale, than the political commentators displayed their gymnastic agility by promptly getting on all fours and sticking their heads in the sand. More
April 11, 2007
Richard Baehr radio interview and podcast
Richard Baehr will be interviewed by a Philadelphia radio station on Wednesday, April 11th at 12:10 eastern time. More
April 10, 2007
Los Angeles, City of Productions
2 A.M.
Sleepless in Los Angeles. There are so many helicopters buzzing in this place it sounds like a war zone. Endlessly they are circling More
April 10, 2007
What about Bill?
Perhaps the investigation into his own record by the Clinton library staff is responsible, perhaps Hillary knows he's a liability, or perhaps it's just that the White House isn't big enough More
April 10, 2007
The Imus insult (updated)
Even by modern tabloid standards the outrage over Mr. Imus' thoughtless comments is remarkable. More
April 10, 2007
What the...?
Maybe it is just me, but I feel almost punched in the gut reading the story of Marines in dress uniform being kicked out of a Target store because they were suspected of recruiting More
April 10, 2007
Dianizing the Admiralty
My favorite European website EU Referendum was the first to register profound disgust at the permission given the 15 captured Brits to sell their stories More
April 09, 2007
Anthrax: some new findings
Dr. Laurie Mylroie has given me permission to share with American Thinker readers her important analysis of a recent article on the source of the U.S. anthrax attacks More
April 09, 2007
Welcome Rush listeners!
Here is the Nathan Hale article Rush is reading on air. More
April 09, 2007
Appalling bigotry
Hugh Hewitt delivers a well-deserved slap-down to a New York Times op-ed on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Mitt Romney More
April 09, 2007
Blame Israel (updated)
Robert Novak has a long history of antipathy toward Israel. But his column today stretches to make an absurd point: that Israel is responsible for the plight of Palestinian Christians. More
April 09, 2007
The Caucasus maneuver is working
The power calculus of nations is played out on a multi-dimensional chessboard, where the ability to constrain your rival's access to neighbors counts as a partial choke hold. More
April 09, 2007
Diverting defense resources
Senators Hagel and Durbin are to push a bill that ties climate to national security and impose demands on the CIA and Pentagon to devote resources to this issue. More
April 09, 2007
How much are top newspapers worth?
The website BizzyBlog does a rough calculation of the actual price being paid for the newspapers owned by the Tribune Company More
April 09, 2007
An inconvenient truth for the American left
One of the dirtiest of the dirty little secrets of media reporting of the war on terror is that the local left in countries like Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan has turned against the American left, and is beginning to make common cause with America.
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April 09, 2007
General Petraeus' letter to the Iraq People
Monday, April 9, 2007 will mark the 4th anniversary of the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's regime. For many in Iraq and around the world, it will be a time for reflection on the early days after liberation in 2003 and on what has transpired since then. More
April 08, 2007
Response to "America's Broken-Down Media"
I wanted to forward my thoughts to Ray Robinson regarding his article "America's Broken-Down Media" I hope the writer of the original Time article understands that he is denigrating and discounting the leadership provided by the NCO's and Officers that a privileged to lead young soldiers into combat. More
April 08, 2007
An inconvenient question for San Francisco (updated)
Reader Sue K. made a superb point about the visit of the French warship Prairial to San Francisco More
April 08, 2007
Reply to Stefania Lapenna
Stefania Lapenna wrote in her recent article The Ancient Persian Empire that we in the West suffer from "ignorance, as well as the lack of a deep knowledge of Iran's history, society and culture." Some of her points are well-taken. Some are exaggerated. Some are simply mistaken. More
April 08, 2007
NYT Sunday Mag swings and misses
As a Catholic, I viewed the NYT Easter Sunday Magazine cover story on Pope Benedict XVI with trepidation. More
April 08, 2007
Judge the tree by its fruit
David Brooks is one of the few moderate columnists that the NYT has in its roster. Today, he makes the startling observation that the work of Walt and Mearsheimer and other foes of the "Israel lobby" has served to reinforce the worst instincts of Arab elites: More
April 08, 2007
Slouching toward a new Dark Age
We noted with great displeasure last week the decision by at least some UK schools to stop teaching about Holocaust and other sensitive topics like the Crusades because it might contradict what the students learn at home More
April 07, 2007
Sean Penn, the "pundint"
A lovely young woman who identifies herself only as "Cynthia" has done a terrific video fisking of Sean Penn's recent rant More
April 07, 2007
Nancy's game? (updated)
While Mike Dukakis might not have realized how silly he was going to look in a helmet when he climbed into that tank, it is hard for me to imagine that the usually stylish Speaker was unaware that few women have ever looked like anything other than servile frumps in head scarves More
April 07, 2007
Giuliani and abortion
I appreciate Stephen Warshawsky's criticism of Giuliani's Abortion Folly on constitutional grounds. However, this focus on the constitutional issues overlooks more fundamental issues. More
April 07, 2007
The other troubled Airbus model
While Airbus struggles with the financial and technological consequences of its A380 superjumbo program, the company also faces potentially serious trouble with its next-largest airliner, the four-engine wide body A340-600. More
April 07, 2007
Passover tips from Japan (updated)
There are a number of varieties of Japanese commercial television programming that seem almost unthinkable on an American screen. More
April 07, 2007
Defining pedophilia down (updated)
Did you know that if a fifty-year-old man only marries a nine-year-old girl one time he's not really a pedophile? Yup, that's the reasoning of a Dutch court More
April 07, 2007
Showing the Tricolor flag
San Francisco is hosting a French warship over the holiday weekend. More
April 07, 2007
Easter cluster bomb hunt
So, the kiddies are bored and just too old at the thought of the usual Easter egg hunt? Well, have some so called anti war, human rights activists have just the solution.
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April 06, 2007
UN feared today's global warming report media panic
Believe it or not, the specter of media overreaction to this morning's IPCC Working Group 2 Summary for Policymakers was actually dreaded by one of the committee's leaders. More
April 06, 2007
Trashing Queen Victoria
The death of Britain as a serious nation is symbolized, not so much by the sad behavior of 15 clueless kids kidnapped by the Khomeini fanatics, but by no less than Admiral Sir Alan West More
April 06, 2007
America's Fun Couple: The Clintons
Vote for Hillary and it'll be Jerry Springer everyday.
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April 06, 2007
An Arab-American rebukes Pelosi
Emilio Dabaul, an Arab-American with relatives in Syria, writes a superb rebuke to Nancy Pelosi on the website of the American Congress for Truth. More
April 06, 2007
Missing headlines
Doom and gloom be damned:
The U.S. economy added a stronger-than-expected 180,000 new jobs in March More
April 06, 2007
Prosecute Pelosi's crime (updated)
Robert F. Turner is a heavyweight* in the world of law and diplomacy, and he thinks Nancy Pelosi may have committed a felony violation of the Logan Act in her trip to Damascus. More
April 06, 2007
Lincoln on supporting the troops
I recently happened across two paragraphs from Gabor Boritt's wonderful study on Lincoln's Gettysburg address in The Gettysburg Gospel. More
April 06, 2007
How leftists exploit grief over troop casualties
At first glance, the home page for the "Iraq Veterans Memorial" looks like a genuinely respectful site honoring the troops.
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April 06, 2007
No WMD in Iraq? (A continuing series)
The Associated Press (via the Times-Picayune) reports that another chlorine truck bomb has been detonated in Iraq; this time in Ramadi. More
April 06, 2007
Race and felonious voters (updated)
There it goes again: The New York Times characterizes felon voting laws as Jim Crow-era. More
April 06, 2007
Road to Damascus (a poem)
Nancy, with the headscarf and the smile
Walking a dhimmi mile
On the Road to Damascus. More
April 06, 2007
Time to Retire (a poem)
Flailing about with helpless arm,
Tilting at anyone he can alarm,
This long-faced lugubriousnist supreme,
Still trying to live his impossible dream More
April 05, 2007
The friends of Nancy Pelosi (updated)
Ynet News went right ahead and published the politically incorrect headline: "Terrorists endorse Pelosi's 'good policy of dialogue'. More
April 05, 2007
Saddam's spies
Saddam Hussein's intelligence service operated in the United States, probably far more effectively than our CIA did in Iraq. More
April 05, 2007
Email from a Palestinian
We just received the following email from a self-identified Palestinian living in London. I have no way of verifying his identity, but the emailer provided a street address and a telephone number More
April 05, 2007
Warfare on the Streets of San Francisco (updated)
One of many reasons I rarely drive across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco is the existence of Critical Mass, a group which stages monthly mass bicycle rides through the streets, forcing all other traffic to stop More
April 05, 2007
De Facto Diplomacy
Nancy Pelosi went to Syria, not as a private citizen, but on our payroll in her official capacity as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives More
April 05, 2007
The politics of pettiness
Democrats, led by John Kerry, are having a continuing hissy fit over President Bush's recess appointment of Sam Fox, a wealthy GOP donor, as his ambassador to Belgium. More
April 05, 2007
The New Silk Road
The governments of Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement to finance a major rail project that is viewed as the "New Silk Road" since it establishes a rail line of commerce between Europe and central Asia, one not under direct Russian control.
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April 04, 2007
What Links the AIPAC case to the Fired US Attorneys?
The man who instituted the criminal case against the two AIPAC attorneys,Paul McNulty, finds himself in the cross fire respecting the fired US Attorneys. More
April 04, 2007
Thin Skinned Fabulist Loses to Bush(Again)
In one of the most preposterously self-referential moves, Senator Kerry had succeeded in bottling up the President's nominee, Sam Fox, as Ambassador to Belgium More
April 04, 2007
UN and North Korean counterfeiting
A blog item last year noted North Korea's long standing operation to counterfeit U.S. currency. It seems that our friends at the UN knew about the operation for more than a decade and kept their mouths shut. More
April 04, 2007
Reactions to "Ban the Bulb?" (updated)
Yesterday's article today "Ban the Bulb?" resulted in an outpouring of interesting reader mail, which has continued today, including a long response by Duane Truitt More
April 04, 2007
The money primary
Barack Obama has released his first quarter fundraising totals, and the data are even more impressive than they appeared Monday. More
April 04, 2007
More NYT whitewashing of Democrats (updated)
The New York Times has published an article on the New Jersey pension fund fiasco without ever identifying Democrats as having been in charge. More
April 04, 2007
Boy slavery charges in Dubai
Dubai's leaders, who paid a fortune to Bill Clinton for speeches, are facing charges of boy-enslavement. More
April 04, 2007
Greens and Gosplan
Greens are crowing over the Supreme Court's move to throw itself into the global warming debate in Monday's Massachusetts v. EPA decision. They may live to regret it. More
April 04, 2007
The Fitzgerald cover-up
In September of last year, I asked the Department of Justice to look into several actions of Patrick Fitzgerald in connection with the Libby case suggesting that on their face this conduct seemed unethical. More
April 04, 2007
The Rolling Stones' Oedipal cannibalism
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards just admitted that he snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. It is the ultimate sign of cultural primitivism More
April 04, 2007
Commentary article on counterinsurgency
The April edition of Commentary magazine has a most interesting article on counterinsurgency, discussing the French experience in Algeria and the strategy developed by a French colonel, David Galula. More
April 04, 2007
Take me back to dear old Gitmo (a poem)
Take me back to dear old Gitmo
Where once I had it better than I knew.
My head is full of lice.
A shower would be nice.
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April 04, 2007
AT author Gerd Schroeder TV interview
Gerd Schroeder, a Major in the United States Army and American Thinker contributor, will be interviewed today (Wednesday, April 4) on the Glenn Beck Show on CNN Headline News. More
April 03, 2007
Nancy's wonderful adventure
It's amazing what Superwoman can do. One day you're inaugurated as Speaker of the House, next day you launch One Hundred Days of History-Making Legislation; then you find yourself face-to-face with world leaders like Bashir Al-Assad, the Lion of Syria. More
April 03, 2007
American Thinker makes headlines in Africa
A blog item in American Thinker has made headlines in Zimbabwe, the once-prosperous African nation led by extreme leftist Robert Mugabe More
April 03, 2007
Wild Irish Rose (a poem)
What is that stench wafts 'neath the nose?
Is it ABC's Wild Irish Rose? More
April 03, 2007
What would Jesus tax?
Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich wants to raise taxes. Big time. No less than $7 billion, ostensibly to fund education and health care.
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April 03, 2007
The WaPo's front page propaganda
The Washington Post gives front page treatment today to a propagandistic "news" article by Peter Eisner on the forged letter that is falsely claimed to have played a leading role in leading the United States into war with Iraq. More
April 03, 2007
French train breaks speed record
For all the troubles of Airbus, the French do trains very well indeed. A specially-outfitted TGV train set has broken the world speed record for railroads, reaching 357.2 miles per hour More
April 02, 2007
No WMD in Iraq? (A continuing series)
It seems that since General David Petraeus has taken command of the Coalition forces in Iraq, the official state of denial about Iraq's WMD from both MNF-I Headquarters and the Pentagon has been lifted More
April 02, 2007
Playing down synagogue desecration
In the politically correct world of sensitivity to certain favored minorities (and by definition callousness to others, minority or not) truth is often the first virtue to go More
April 02, 2007
Music industry awakens from digital slumber
Apple and EMI announced today that they will begin offering their entire catalog via Apple's iTunes in May. More
April 02, 2007
The Christian terror threat to America's children
I don't know whether to guffaw or vomit. More
April 02, 2007
PC's deadly taboo
I have to disagree with Mr. Lewis' assessment in "As long as you're hated it's better to be feared" that "what they [the mullahs] have over us is sheer pig-headed fanaticism." More
April 02, 2007
The serious version
Janet Ellen Levy, whose April Fools' Day satire "Send me to GITMO!" ran on American Thinker yesterday, has a serious article today on Front Page Magazine reporting on her trip there. More
April 02, 2007
Learning to love Quebec nationalism
Since the 1960s, Quebec has seemed a rather tragic place to me, one that has lost much of the magic it once enjoyed. | 
