In his LA Times op-ed this morning, Jonah Goldberg posed an interesting question -"Immigrants have to pass a test to vote; why not all citizens?" More

File under the New York Times view of Democrats: The paper has a see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil towards the Democratic Party. More

Ed Morrissey of Captains Quarters blog highlights an interesting piece in the Washington Post today about partisanship on Capitol Hill. More

Hi...I´m Cuban and for obvious reasons I can't reveal my identity. More

Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), the longest serving Republican Senator in history, had his Girdwood home searched yesterday by the IRS and the FBI. More

It's an outrage what they're charging for arugula these days at Whole Foods. That seems to be the received message Barack Obama delivered to Iowa farmers recently. More

In a vicious piece scheduled to hit newstands next month, Vanity Fair magazine tries to smear GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani's wife by portraying her as an "opportunistic, puppy-killing homewrecker:" More

When it comes to lunatic conspiracy theorists, the Middle East dominates the world's supply as thoroughly as it does our oil reserves. More

Ayatollah Ali Akbar Meshkini-Speaker (head) of the Assembly of Experts died. More

Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post goes to bat for Barack Obama, discounting a CNN poll in the process. How often does that happen among liberal columnists? More

Yesterday's New York Times op-ed by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollock suggesting that the Iraq war just might be headed for victory has drawn tremendous note More

A NYT article entitled Who's a Nerd, Anyway? reported on a 11-year study completed at UC Berkeley by linguist Mary Bucholtz, in which she concludes that "nerds" act "Hyperwhite." More

Britain's teens are among the worst-behaved in Europe and it's all the government's fault. At least that is the conclusion of a "study" More

In stark contrast to its position on last year's Duke non-rape case, the NAACP has urged the public not to judge Michael Vick before he has his day in court. More

Keeping the world safe from Koran flushers is no easy job. The desperate criminals who partake in the practice must be hunted down like animals, clapped in irons, and thrown in the pokey for their transgressions. More

A reader emails us the following: More

If you thought that the thugs and terrorists of Hamas were nothing but mindless, brutish, Jew-hating killers, the Washington Post wants you to know how very wrong you are. More

The GOP is not in the same league as far as internet fundraising at this point, and would likely be swamped in the money raising race by her campaign or that of any other Democrat. More

Bravo to Clarice Feldman for pointing up the hypocrisy behind Justice Breyer's complaints about his colleagues to members of the Judiciary Committee. One minor quibble. More

This juxtaposition says it all about the New York Times and its take on Obama More

A group of interest groups like Daily Kos, MoveOn, and the Campaign for America's Future is preparing to attempt to pressure sponsors out of advertising on Fox News Channel More

The Palestinian who headed up the Gaza force that worked with America on security was allegedly a Hamas agent, according to Aaron Klein, writing in the New York Sun. More

Yesterday's UK Telegraph carried a story by Damien McElroy headlined "Iraqi Leader Tells Bush: Get Petraeus Out" More

Blogger Doug Ross brings us up to speed on what promises to be one of the most important political stories of the coming presidential election, one that (surprise!) the dominant media have been doing their best to ignore. More

Apparently America is not alone in suffering from a plague of showboating, overreaching prosecutors More

If one were to turn to The New York Times Sunday Book Review section today, the front page features a long indictment of the Bush Administration and the way it is conducting the War on Terror by Samantha Power. It is a curious article because there is no single book "reviewed" in the... More

I believe the Bush Administration has done the right thing in carrying the war on terror into the heart of terrorism itself. More

Trailing Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama badly in the polls, John Edwards is getting desperate. More

Sen. Barack Obama called the voiding of a Pennsylvania town's illegal immigrant crackdown law a "victory for all Americans." More

The United States has announced plans to engage in a new round of massive arms sales to Gulf allies, as well as to the governments of Egypt and Israel. More

The establishment media has been giddy this week reporting the results of a recently-released Pew Research Center poll which finds support for suicide bombings declining in parts of the Muslim world. More

For some time now, we have been corresponding with Rami Abdel Rahim, a Palestinian residing in London More

As Soldiers deployed to Kosovo, we have major problems with Julia Gorin's recent invective against KFOR and our American troops More

We are very proud that J.R. Dunn's article on the Surge's success has been republished (with our blessing) by Investor's Business Daily More

The New York Times today runs a fire-breathing editorial "Humanity versus Hazleton", wholeheartedly praising a Pennsylvania judge for striking down an ordinance of the city of Hazleton More

We apologize to our readers for the service interruption we experienced overnight. There was no nefarious attack involved, as there was with another recent outage we experienced. More

Early this afternoon, I participated in a blogger conference call with a high level Administration official who briefed us about the White House position on Executive Privilege and related matters More

A Qatari sheikh caused quite a row at Milan's Linate Airport More

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports on a nuclear nightmare in the making More

Wouldn't you love being John Edwards for a day? More

Some Republican candidates for President are getting cold feet about showing up at the next YouTube debate scheduled for September. More

The Washington Times Inside the Ring column reports today that US defense and national security officials are having a fit over news that China is shipping arms to the new Iraqi Army and the police. More

Jon Fine of the Business Week blog writes a friendly, even sympathetic note of advice to Pinch Sulzberger, scion of the New York Times' ruling family More

Andrew Bostom has authored the first article in a two part history of the treatment of Jews under Turkish rule. More

In what is being called the "worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history," 7 employees of the liberal advocacy group ACORN have been charged with filling out fake voter registration forms: More

With John McCain's "straight talk express" off the tracks and headed over a cliff, questions have surfaced about who most would benefit by a McCain collapse. More

Remember alcoholism is not a choice/ Or who in his right mind would choose it?/ Glossing over their search for health/ Will only help them lose it. More

Scott Thomas came out of the closet today. More

Herb Meyer informs us that his appearance on the NPR program "On Point" went quite well. More

The New York Times notes how the custom of allowing some "breathing room" has been abolished. This breathing room allowed some wounds to heal, but more importantly allowed perspectives to be developed-away from the emotions roiled by a war More

Here's an excellent illustration of how the left practices "journalism:" More

It's been done before, says Jean Edward Smith, writing in an Op-Ed in the New York Times: More

Via Hugh Hewitt, we get this little niblet about Senator Barak Obama revealing that he and the Democrats don't consider border security part of protecting the homeland. More

In what must be celebrated as a major victory for both sanity and safety, the Improving America's Security Act of 2007 will, indeed, include liability protections for citizens reporting suspicious activity they fear may be linked to terrorism. More

Sharia law has led an unfortunate woman in India to suicide. The Telegraph of India brings us the story. Tarzina Khatun was a woman in the village of Malda, who was unable to conceive a child by her husband Motiur, even after more than five years of marriage. So of course he gave her a pink slip... More

Here is a newsletter from a Seattle school explaining how legos were capitalist tools that interfered with the childrens' education, banned them and then reintroduced them with new rules More

In a widely expected formal announcement, British Defence Secretary Des Browne said on Wednesday that Britain will build two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy in the next decade. More

American Thinker Political Director Richard Baehr sent the following to Editor in Chief Martin Peretz at The New Republic with regards to the Scot Thomas Saga: More

According to a Pew Global Attitude survey based on polling date from 47 countries reported by Reuters, Muslim support for suicide bombings has fallen sharply. More

The bullet riddled body of one of the 23 South Koreans being held hostage by the Taliban has been found by Afghan government forces: More

Just what will those terrorists think of next? More

Here's a little something to get you to reach for you blood pressure meds this morning. More

As political scandals go, the matter involving two of Governor Elliot Spitzer's top aides in crafting a plan to smear state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno doesn't rate very highly on the political dirt-o-meter. No laws were apparently broken. More

On reading that the Carpenters Union hired others to picket for them in Washington, D.C., Ed Morrissey thinks the pickets who are paid less than WalMart workers should unite: More

I greatly appreciated J.R. Dunn's article and analysis of the situation in Iraq. As a Vietnam veteran, I especially appreciated his analysis of Creighton Abram's strategy in Vietnam. More

AT contributor Herbert E. Meyer will apear on the National Public Radio program On Point Wednesday, July 25th. More

Questions about why we released this guy in the first place need to be asked: More

The New York Times has a story today about The New Republic's continuing efforts to verify the stories told by Scott Thomas, the anonymous "Baghdad Diarist" whose stories of American GI's bad behavior have been called into question by a variety of sources. More

If there was any question as to why the Democrats were refusing to hold a debate sponsored by Fox News, last night's broadcast of the YouTube debate on CNN should be self explanatory. More

In one of the more bizarre signs that the Democrat's position on a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is grounded in little more than political expediency and not the national interest, Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times highlights the left's 180 degree flip on how genocide must be prevented at all costs: More

Glenn Reynolds (The Glenn and Helen Show) has a 17 minute phone call with Michael Yon from Baqubah. You can punch on the on-screen player and hear it online. More

Beset by al-Qaeda backed terrorists who are targeting United Nations troops in Lebanon, the guys in the robins egg blue helmets are turning to the terrorists in Hezb'allah to protect them from the terrorists inspired by Osama Bin Laden: More

In a rare dust-up, it looks like a Democrat is being held to account for wrongdoing against a Republican official by a fellow Democrat More

The picture is aresting: women in the beekeeper outfit-like hijabs standing next to a British police woman carrying a sign reading "British Police Go to Hell." More

The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) on their web site has announced that it has "taken legal action against proponents of US-Iran war who have waged a defamation campaign against NIAC". More

It was a bien pensant talking point that secular Baathists would never work with Al Qaeda... probably by the same sort of folks who never paid attention to the Hitler-Stalin pact More

There is an important post from Michael Yon on Friday describing a reconciliation meeting (my term, not his) in Baqubah led by Col. Steve Townsend, the American commander for that area of operations. More

Noah Feldman, an orthodox Jew, educated at Maimonides Academy in Brookline, Massachusetts many years back, is very upset that his school paper is not including updates on his life events. He clearly thinks the exclusion of his data is due to his straying from his modern Orthodox upbringing. The New York Times uses Feldman to advance their agenda of cultural relativity with Islam. More

An informal hearing today in the Rayburn House office building where Iranian human rights figures will gather to give testimony about the horrible rights record of the mullahs, the moderator of the event turns out to be an apologist for the theocrats in Tehran: More

Appearing in Miami before La Raza, the largest Hispanic lobbying group in the country, Senator Barak Obama touted his credentials as a supporter of illegal immigration: More

In almost all categories measured in this most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, Hillary Clinton retains a large lead over her closest rival for the Democratic nomination Senator Barak Obama. More

The blog My Right Word notices a very disturbing indication of the mainstreaming of antisemitism in the left-liberal Wonkette website. More

From the website that gave us the liberal rallying cry of the Iraq War comes a post so defamatory, so outrageous in its overgeneralization and calumnious inferences regarding the United States military that the proprietor of the site took the offending article down lest the world see the true nature of the left's utter contempt and hatred for those in service to America. More

Historian D. M. Giangreco examines the historical precedents for an enemy offensive tied to the upcoming report by Gen. Petraeus on the Surge More

One common characteristic of tyrants is their inability to appreciate how ridiculous they make themselves look. More

Rowan Scarborough's superb new book Sabotage lays out a boatload of evidence documenting years of serious misconduct, malfeasance and incompetence at the CIA. More

Bursting with cash, Dubai is going on what appears to be a buying spree for transportation infrastructure. The latest acquisition target is Auckland International Airport More

Clark Hoyt, public editor (ombudsman) of the New York Times, writes about that newspaper's own coverage of the business problems facing the paper. More

Ray Robison has recently published a blog entry wherein he claims that I may have authored a story in The New Republic under the false name of 'Scott Thomas'. More

Thomas Ricks reports that our military leaders are making informal "handshake" deals to release selected detainees back to their communities in return for information and assistance in fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). More

The Economist reviews the struggles of Iran's economy under the rule of Ahmedinejad and the mad mullahs. More

Despite the urging of "experts" who wish to compromise on sovereignty, it is worthwhile remembering what happened to the holy sites of Jerusalem under Muslim rule before foolishly letting go them. More

The brilliant Gabriel Schoenfeld has written an article on the CIA detailing its flaws and failures including those of its past director, George Tenet. It's a scary picture More

TIME is using a cover illustration graphically demonstrating how limited these so-called news organizations' knowledge of the American military happens to be. More

She's the Ma'am who feigned her life's in danger,/ though in Who's Who pages found this "spy" 's no stranger. More

World Politics Review runs a translation of Swiss journalist Kurt Pelda's report on covering the conflict in Darfur. It is a behind-the-scenes sort of article which gives an interesting flavor of the place More

12th Century Sufi master, supposedly "liberal" Al-Ghazali (d.1111) was cited by Stephen Schwartz on AT yesterday as an example of Islamic moderation. Not so. More

Nicholas Noe pens an appalling op-ed for the New York Times. More

"Experts" from the Saban Center and a law school gets facts wrong on Jerusalem and the concept of sovereignty in a WaPo piece. More

The Washington Post may be liberal, but it is fair. Unlike the New York Times, which has become a left wing propaganda sheet. More

I found this excellent point at the National Review Online Media Blog More

Baluchistan is unfamiliar to most Americans, a region relatively ignored by the press, but it is one of the key locations for terrorists. More

The New Republic is running a sensational pseudonymously-authored article entitled Shock Troops, which TNR claims is written by a soldier currently serving in Iraq. More

John Edwards is quite the poverty warrior these days. The man who lives in the $29 million mansion and luxuriates in getting $400 haircuts might be forgiven his hypocrisy if, as this article in the New York Post points out, he hadn't become the richest trial lawyer in North Carolina history More

"Our forces continue to strike wherever they hide," is how Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman Major Mark Young described a series of recent coalition raids targeted on Al Qaeda cells More

All of us owe a debt of gratitude to a man whose passing is widely mourned. We provide addresses for contributions and condolences in his memory. More

The Iraq Stock Exchange Index (ISX) surged another 6.2%, resulting in a year-to-date gain of 33.5%. More

What is it about American academics and their inability to recognize evil? More

Charles Krauthammer diagnoses the surge and realistically confronts what the probable outcome might be: More

Following up on our story yesterday about the article comparing Cheney to Iran's thuggish President Ahmadinejad by Nicolas Kristoff, Davi Bernstein of Commentary Magazine takes the New York Times clueless columnist to the woodshed for a well deserved whuppin': More

At 4:42 AM, we just felt a pretty intense earthquake in Berkeley. More

The Fortune Washington Bureau Chief Nina Easton looks at why so many Americans are bearish in the face of record prosperity. More

Looks like Murtha has been characteristically dishonest about his latest earmark More

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." More

Erwin Chemerinsky girded his loins, the Dems' front group CREW manned the laboring oar, but Plame and Wilson have flamed out: More

Yes, the polls don't look so good for the GOP right now, but the Democrats just can't help themselves. They continue to use their Congressional majorities to try really stupid stuff. More

The New Republic has published an article entitled "Shock Troops" which paints a most unflattering pictures of our troops in Iraq. The problem is that it seems to be the work of another fabulist. More

Two of the best minds in the blogosphere will be talking, and the rest of us get to eavesdrop. More

The man who gave us the internet has set his sights higher: a change in world consciousness. More

Kudos to Tom Gross of National Review Online for exposing the media whitewash on the Arab genocide against black Africans in Darfur. More

We all knew that Barak Obama was liberal. But just how devoted he is to the nanny state has been a pretty well kept secret by both the Senator and his campaign. In fact, if you read most mainstream media accounts of where the Senator stands on a host of issues, you might think he was a candidate of the center More

Smearing a politician is just too easy these days. More

This piece in the New York Sun by John Leo informs us of some strange and wonderful doublespeak about "civil disturbances" that crop up occasionally in the New York Times. More

Now that Algore's scuttled back under the rug/ Followed by Live Earth shame,/ Will the Nobel Prize this time evade his grasp?/ Are those worthies erasing his name? More

A recent study by University of Colorado Professor Liam Downey debunks the highly charged accusations of "environmental racism." More

America has lost a distinguished Soldier, a true Warrior and a respected Leader. Gen. Wayne A. Downing, who led the United States Military's Special Operations Command prior to his retirement, died July 17, 2007. More

Another major company may vanish soon, unless something changes, and unions will have played a major role in killing it. More

It shouldn't surprise us that whenever the Washington Post looks at a Republican,they see the face of Richard Nixon staring back at them. More

When he's not slandering the troops or posing with Code Pink love bombers, Murtha is swiping funds from the federal treasury for his friends and family. More

The media are full of reports on the terrible crash of a TAM Airlines A320 at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. More

Democrats threaten to subject our future, by targeting for cuts "one of the most important strategic, collaborative efforts between the United States, Poland and the Czech Republic." More

An important member of the terrorist umbrella group Islamic State of Iraq has been captured by American forces: More

This article from the Defense Department website describes yet another successful operation conducted by US and Iraq forces against Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Such successes are becoming the norm in and around Baghdad, and beyond. More

The New York Times writes about al-Qaeda.in Pakistan and their strengthening position there but does not mention A.Q. in Iran More

Don Harry Reid went to the mattresses last night in his war against GOP "obstructionism." Just what was the GOP obstructing? More

Ever see a drowned polar bear? I haven't either, but I do keep hearing about the 'tragedy' and More

The further redacted affidavits filed in the Miller case are now available online. Two interesting facts emerge. More

Her major backers donated nearly $90,000 to former governor Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, shortly after Vilsack dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Clinton More

Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf has decided to take the bull by the horns and start regaining some control over the lawless, terrorist infested tribal areas in the north. He has sent thousands of troops into the area to battle extremists who not only threaten his hold on power but also carry out attacks against NATO forces in Afghanistan: More

Intrepid war reporter Bill Roggio is reporting a major offensive against al-Qaeda involving several brigades of Americans and Iraqis aimed at hitting the terrorists in Babil: More

John Edwards and his $500 haircuts are a perfect metaphor for the Senator's hypocrisy about "two Americas" and his populist soak the rich campaign. It has probably damaged Edwards more than any single issue or event during his entire campaign. Now Politico is seeking to duplicate those results by "Feminizing" Mitt Romney. More

Ah, Conventional Wisdom. If there's one thing Washington loves it's CW. That's because if you subscribe to CW, you don't have to think very hard which for both politicians and pundits, is a state of being much to be desired. There's only one problem with conventional wisdom; it is often wrong. More

A federal court ruling in a tax shelter case against accounting giant KPMG could end up assisting Steve Rosen and Steve Weissman, the two AIPAC employees accused of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified information. More

One thing to me rings loud and clear/Through mainstream media sources/Libs don't understand, Volunteer,/When it comes to our fighting forces. More

Well, the big secret about Yasser Arafat's death is out, thanks to his lifelong comrade-in-terror, Ahmed Jibril. More

WSMV television in Nashville, Al Gore's home town, recently reported that "more than 100,000 people" have signed a petition urging Al Gore to run for president. More

According to US News and World Report, Fred Thompson's "front porch" campaign for President has recently been reaching out to gather support from a group that any Republican will need to gain the nomination; the Christian right: More

The involvement of Syria and Iran in aiding and abetting those fighting US troops in Iraq has been well documented for a number of years. But if this report in the Los Angeles Times is true, we may want to sit down with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and have a good, long talk:. More

As far as public relations go, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has a lot to learn. The Iraqi parliament has decided to take the entire month of August off. The stated reason is that Baghdad can get kind of steamy during the summer, with the temperature reaching 130 degrees at times. It's not like these folks have anything to do... More

Read this interview in The Telegraph with former Deputy Secretary General and current Foreign Office big shot in Gordon Brown's new government Mark Malloch Brown. Just make sure you do it on an empty stomach... More

The BBC, which made its reputation during the dark days of WW II, allows anti-Semitism to flourish on its bulletin boards. More

This past weekend, the Washington Post published two pieces: one by Michael Gerson titled "What Atheists Can't Answer" and a response by Christopher Hitchens. More

Defeat in Iraq, a Liberal Dream./America groveling, it may seem/Unthinkable. It won't be when/ Our cities explode. Think again. More

During the Energy Crisis of the late 1970s, I worked in a large department store. When the price of electricity increased, we bought less of it. More

Well, Osama is now toasted crispbread without hummus, it now seems. The "new" Osama tape, US officials have said, was first aired five years ago. More

We are proud to announce the addition of our new associate editor, Rick Moran. More

From our "It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Guy" Department, George Galloway, the British MP whose nauseating defense of Saddam Hussein and virulent opposition to the Iraq War has made him a controversial figure on both sides of the Atlantic, will be suspended for one month from his parliamentary duties because of ethics violations: More

The news from Afghanistan is grim and getting grimmer according to Britain's most senior generals. Are things really that bad? Or, is the left-wing Guardian engaging in some wishful thinking? More

The New York Times reports that the San Francisco school system has learned a painful lesson about wealth-based efforts at achieving diversity; it doesn't work: More

The mind reels. Assuming this report in the blog Dutch Concerns is correct, Dhimmitude is being welcomed by a cabinet minister in a modern, advanced democracy. More

AT contributor Paul Shlichta will be a guest on the nationally-syndicated Dennis Miller Show Monday. More

More on how stupid the conviction of Conrad Black is: Obstruction without obstructing anything; mail fraud without fraud. More

It is very gratifying to see the estimable Steven Hayward of the admirable Ashbrook Center recognize the astuteness of our contributor Herbert E. Meyer's predictions More

The Grey Lady seems to justify the terrorists in Afghanistan who were supporting the Taliban and AQ and who were killing American and allied troops. More

John Edwards, move over! Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich may not have your kind of wealth for haircuts, but when backed by the deep pockets of Illinois taxpayers he can spend money like... well, like John Edwards. More

An odd little dance is going on in Britain, where the forces of Politically Correct Science are defending their fast-losing cause in real climate science. More

It is not the season for crocuses, the harbingers of spring and thus of new life, but we seem to have had one push its head up last week More

This online video takes place at what appears to be a girl's private high school, Padua Academy (a National School of Excellence, as specified by the US Dept. of Education). More

Naharnet is reporting on talks between Lebanese factions being hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government outside of Paris. And no one in Lebanon is expecting any movement in the crisis that has gripped the country for 8 long months. More

Via Memorandum, Ynet has the exciting espionage story of some highly trained, stealthy rodents who were caught entering Iranian territory. Or maybe they were left wing squirrels and only wanted to surrender: More

Samizdata makes the not unreasonable case that the penchant for criminalizing business decisions is making the US an unfavorable venue for publicly held companies More

The Japanese National Maritime Research Institute has proposed a new technique to sequester CO2. More

One the most comic aspects of liberal media bias is the well-established pattern of identifying politicians caught up in scandal by party only when they are Republicans. More

We have been telling our readers for years that the BBC is in the habit of distorting the news to make those whom it disfavors look bad. More

I want to say something hopeful in this discouraging time, when there so many are eager to proclaim that America has failed in Iraq. More

Barack Obama's pose as a fighter against cynicism does not comport very well with his employment of a convicted felon to instruct youngsters in the art of campaigning. More

In his press briefing the other day MNF-Iraq spokesman, Maj. Gen. Bergner explained the discovery of a major enemy media center capable of producing DVDs, CDs (56 every 8 hrs.), posters, etc. More

I share with Mark Steyn the belief that the trial of Conrad Black and his associates was a travesty, and so today's jury verdict in which he was found guilty of three of the thriteen charges is dispiriting More

At a historical moment when Iran threatens to wipe Israel off the map, Princeton University professor-emeritus Richard Falk is worried about a new Holocaust - against the Palestinians More

In a continuing move to suck the brains out of British schoolchildren, the curriculum board has decided to make teaching about Winston Churchill no longer mandatory More

Last week, Dr. Asma Mobin-Uddin, CAIR-Ohio president and a pediatrician, penned a plaintive op-ed for the New York Post decrying the role of doctors in the recent attempted terrorist attacks More

One of the success stories that is coming to light as a result of the "mid-term" report the president issued on Iraq this week is the stunning turnaround in Anbar province More

The most well-argued defense of the Libby commutation was made yesterday by David B.Rivkin, Jr More

From the AT mailbag: More

Judge Reggie Walton is a very sensitive man. He is also not afraid to put his sensitivity upon display for the world to judge. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light nails the liars for reporting none of the benchmarks in Iraq have been met More

Kudos to the Washington Post's Al Kamen for an excellent column yesterday full of really interesting, indeed some shocking, items. More

You can't fool all of the people all of the time and accounts of Joseph A. Wilson's appearance before the Conyers subcommittee indicate his day may have come. More

Salon's Michael Scherer contrasts the "muscular vision" Clinton, D-N.Y., with Obama's downright effeminate touches. More

Do you believe America is becoming more homogeneous? How can Gavin Newsom have popularity ratings past 70%, while Senator Vitter is suffering slings and arrows? More

Bob Woodward sports a catchy headline today with his report on a meeting of the CIA's Iraq Study Group late last year: "CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible'" More

The latest federal budget deficit projectionis are once again heading south, yet polls reveal that the public believes the economy is not doing well. More

Well, the truth will out eventually. The European Union has just been labeled "an empire" -- something its critics have been ridiculed for saying for a long, long time. This is now creating a big fuss in Europe. More

The Investigative Officer in in the LCpl. Sharratt Article 32 hearing has recommended that murder charges be dropped. This clears one of the defendants in the so-called "Haditha massacre." More

On the very day before the British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle is to hit Aussie TV screens, the Royal Society has published the work of 2 scientists who claim to have disproved its core position More

How much longer will Pinch Sulzberger's family allow him to drive the family fortune into the ground? More

Steve Gilbert notes that in an article today about a group poring over the D.C. Madam's list to find Republicans, the Washington Post refers to these true moonbats as merely "a liberal website." More

The website UM Nexus [UM as in United Methodist Church -- President Bush's church] argues that the President's commutation of Libby's sentence goes against the teachings and principles of Jesus Christ. Matt May disagrees. More

AT contributor Herbert E. Meyer will be a guest on Dakota Talk Radio tonight (Wednesday, July 11) at 7 PM CDT, 5 PM PDT. The program can be heard on an internet stream More

AT contributor Andrew G. Bostom has a column in today's New York Daily News on the terrorist medics More

The New York Times goes overboard in an editorial today. More

Okay. So John McCain is going to have to (formally) drop out of the race soon. Imagine, if you will, the mischief McCain can do now that he doesn't have to even think about appealing to Republican primary voters More

David Vitter's madam troubles will not force him to resign, but they may help Democrat Mary Landrieu in her re-election bid next year. More

American Thinker has been following a political tactic that seems to be accelerating: attempts to alienate Evangelicals, among Israel's greatest allies against Islamic extremism, from their support of the Jewish state More

Global warming I fear, As well you should too; You poor misinformed dear, Before your planet's all through. More

The levels of bias and ideological commitment demonstrated by NBC "News" rose to new heights over the past weekend. More

AT editor and publisher Thomas Lifson will be appearing Wednesday morning on KSFO radio's Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan Show, just after the 7 AM PDT. The program is available online in a live feed. More

Opponents of the Dubai Ports deal can now claim that we did indeed dodge a bullet in sinking that deal. More

Louisiana Republican Senator has pre-emptively apologized for having his telephone number among those in the data base of the so-called DC madam. More

Rick Moran issues a wake-up call: Syria is signaling its intentions quite clearly. More

AT contibutor Peter B. Chowka, who has written several pieces on Michael Moore's fast-fading film SiCKO, will be a guest tonight (July 10) on the syndicated Rollye James Show More

The New York Sun nicely skewers the irony of the New York Times' editorial condemnation of the Libby sentence commutation More

After editorially rejecting anything but a weak and ineffectual program of sanctions against Iran yesterday, today the Los Angeles Times publishes an encore: an op-ed by the deputy of the political bureau of Hamas More

AP is reporting: The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc More

It is unlikely that the Kennedys will ever regain a prominent place in American politics after Ted retires. And this overheated nincompoopery by RFK,Jr. makes me think that day cannot come too soon More

Bloggers noted some whoppers in the Los Angeles Times report that Fred Thompson lobbied for pro-abortionists. More

Airman Jonathan Schrieken, 22, is fighting for his life after being shot in the heart by a gunman intending to make an antiwar statement More

From Aspen we get this report of a talk by Karl Rove and a comment from the audience by former Secretary of State Powell More

John Hughes of Bloomberg reports that Sen. Leahy says that Patrick Fitzgerald may testify before Congress on his prosecution of the Libby Case. More

The Los Angeles Times has problems with sanctions against Iran. We shouldn't sanction Revolutionary Guards because they are too powerful in Iran. Huh? More

Two pages, 1375 words, and not one bit of analysis from the NYT of the potential synergies of a successful News Corp buyout of Dow Jones & Co. More

One of the contributions of anthropology in the last generation has been the concept of "displacement activity." This is activity that is a substitute for attacking an intruder to the group. More

Reading the Washington Post Sunday Style section piece on super Hillary fundraiser Bal G. Das yesterday almost sent me reaching for my Vatican Saint Recommendation Form. More

The Shrill One went down to Selma, she was looking for some votes to seal. More

Following on the heels of the preposterous academics' boycott of Israel, the British transport union has followed suit More

Some anniversaries just should not be ignored. On this date in 2004, these immortal words were spoken by the man who almost became president More

Bush's commuting the sentence of Lewis Scooter Libby caused quite a stir this week. Strangely enough, the people that had the most problem with it were Hillary and Bill Clinton More

Ominous signs from Kosovo, where the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are threatening renewed violence if they do not get their way and establish an independent ethnic Albanian state. More

Gateway Pundit is compiling some very suggestive reports that Los Angeles Mayor and Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair has moved on to yet another mistress, leaving behind Mirthala Salinas, More

It turns out that the brand new fancy skyscraper headquarters of the Times has developed a slight problem with infestation by some of the more common scavenger species More

Don't be surprised by LTC Kilcullen's comments. They are not at all uncommon. More

Bahrain, with its three quarters of a million people, may seem a tiny concern, but the island nation is home to the US 5th Fleet More

On July 4, the Web site of Live Earth announced that "music legend" Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens) will headline the Live Earth concert in Hamburg. This is a man who has advocated Salman Rushdie's death. More

Tanveer Ahmed was born in Muslim Bangladesh, but raised in a secular household. Now living in Australia, he writes in The Australian about some uncomfortable truths Muslims must face. More

Where is the world's best-performing stock market right now? Someplace you probably didn't consider More

Anti-Americanism is very traditional in Europe (going back at least to 1776), but after World War Two it went into abeyance for decades. More

A mass epidemic of denial seems to have set in at senior levels of the British and American governments More

The Bush Administration, with its usual half-measures in making its case - our case - in public, had a very flat, pro-forma response to the most recent videotape of al-Qaeda's number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri More

The media coverage of the news that the mayor of Los Angeles and co-chair of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been sleeping with a reporter is almost as disgraceful as Anthony Villaraigosa's behavior itself. More

As Texans return to their storm soaked homes, Their cars and trucks out of sight, Do they wonder why Katrina rescuersers Don't notice them? They just might. More

Remember how many media libs swooned over former French prime minister Daniel de Villepin? He published poetry! More

Did the celebrants understand what is behind all the window dressing of Independence Day? More

Well, this is a stunner. The Los Angeles Times takes Hillary Clinton to task for the hypocrisy revealed in her remarks castigating George Bush for commuting Scooter Libby's sentence. More

There's a headline you will never see in the New York Times. You don't believe it? Well, judge for yourself the latest evidence. More

One measure of strength for any GOP presidential candidate is denegation from the MSM. On this particular index, Rudy Giuliani appears to be rather promising. More

Reuters reports that Senator Joseph Lieberman said yesterday that he was not ruling out endorsing a Republican in the White House race. More

John B. Dwyer in his June 26, 2007 American Thinker piece "A winning counterinsurgency strategy," is very effusive in his praise for the "new" counterinsurgency strategy being implemented in "the surge" in Iraq More

AT editor and publisher Thomas Lifson will be a guest on CNBC's Kudlow & Company today More

How could Muslim doctors want to bomb innocent young party goers in their own country? Because for decades the BBC has been telling them how evil Britain and the West really are More

So writes Melanie Phillips on her personal website, Melaniephillips.com, in today's must-read column. More

Daniel Johnson makes a connection between socialized medicine and the Muslim doctors' plot in the UK in today's New York Sun: More

Like Roger L. Simon, I had to suppress some schadenfreude at the news of Albert A. Gore III's arrest. More

In the heat of anger, when despair takes over, as tiredness overcomes, the normal restraints governing the path from brain to mouth become flabby. When that happens, sometimes, long suppressed truths are revealed. More

We just celebrated Independence Day but this law is in opposition to the freedom we celebrate. More

BBC reporter and terror-sympathizer Alan Johnson, kidnapped and held for four months in Gaza, now credits his release to law and order approach of Hamas More

A thing we all contend with, As a decidedly un-green nation, Is Al Gore's global warming myth, And his gaseous pontification. More

Something important just happened, and we should notice it before the moment slips away More

Julia Gorin's hate-shtick is getting old. More

TV does not sympathize With those who moralize . More

Last night on a show they call Countdown, the host Keith Olbermann let his slip show a bit. More

Many minds are reeling with revelation that seven doctors - people supposed to be dedicated to saving lives - have been detained as suspects More

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has established ties with Sojourners: a liberal Christian group supportive of Hamas More

Our contributor Stefania Lapenna has posted some pictures of the Cuban medical system -- the real one that average Cubans experience More

The new axis of evil linking Venezuela and Iran is apparently being activated to bail out the mullahs' regime, which is unable to produce enough gasoline to meet domestic needs. More

This is rich: The NYT's editorial board attacks Bush for the "baldly poltical act" of commuting Libby's prison sentence. Down the memory hole we go! More

Sunday's New York Times Magazine had a brief article "Loyal to a Fault" More

The NYT editors' editorial is so bad it's not even worth fisking. The WSJ cuts Bush no slack: More

Questions have been raised in many quarters (including here) about the media's use stringers and translators in Iraq More

As the University of California, Irvine presses its case for a brand new law school despite an official finding that California's supply of lawyers is more than adequate, there is a genuine and urgent need to train more nurses. More

President Bush did the right thing in commuting I. Lewis Libby's jail sentence. Libby's appeals can now continue More

If someone told you that blacks are different from other groups in America because they just can't control themselves, getting carried away with raw emotion, you might assume it was a KKK member speaking. More

The U.S. Court of appeals for the District of Columbia today rejected Libby's appeal for release pending appeal. More

The U.K. Daily Mail presents a column by former jihadi Hassan Butt, in which he notes the media's supportive role in doing work for the terrorists. More

Thenoutstanding journalist Youssef Ibrahim exposes the knee-jerk apologists for Islamists and their response to the latest terrorist outrages in Britain. Not only in the U.K., but the United States. More

Joseph Schumpeter didn't have reverse engineering in mind when he coined the phrase "creative destruction." But it somehow seems apt when considering the following news More

A New York Times article reports on British news sites seeking out readers in America, including efforts at adapting in some ways to appeal to American readers. More

The New York Times manages to find room for a report on decline of Iraqi civilian deaths. More

Nobody seems to be shocked to see that a new poll finds that Barack Obama is the most popular candidate among Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans. More

Perhaps it would be wise for us to remind ourselves just why our forefathers demanded independence. More

The New York Times continues to descend into a parody of a newspaper by noting Fred Thompson's family has engaged in lobbying. More

Two of the five people arrested in connection with the attack on Glasgow airport and the attempted London bombings are doctors, legal immigrants to the UK More

The UK Times says Gordon Brown has to get serious in the wake of this week's aborted terror attacks, offering up a number of sound suggestions More

The iPhone has had its successful debut with long lines and huge hoopla. This latest little miracle of advanced technological engineering takes all of the popular hi-tech gadgets in the marketplace and combines them into one sexy little package. More

"Nose landing gear was accidentally retracted during boarding at gate 209 [at Beijing Airport] . Two people w[ere] injured on board." See photo More

Melanie Phillips notes some bad signs in the appointments by Britain's new foreign minister More

Carl Hiassen, the very talented novelist and Miami Herald columnist, covers the heartwarming story of a mother and son falsely accused of graft, when in fact they are the victims of a mere coincidence. Or something. More

Britain is in its highest state of alert following three failed car bombings in London and Glasgow. More

London's leftist mayor "Red Ken" Livingston has made a controversial statement. I would like to see the statistics More

Japan's Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma has stirred up a hornet's nest at home with a remark that can be interpreted as meaning the atomic bombing of Japan is not something that is blameworthy. More