Jodi Kantor of the New York Times has an excellent account of Barack Obama's ties to Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr., just retired as head pastor of Trinity United Community Church. More

Obama camp caught in a lie. Will there be consequences? More

As a result, Louisiana suddenly has moved from a national ranking of 44 to among the best in the country (99 out of 100 points) regarding financial disclosure for public officials. More

It appears that Hillary just can't stop Obama's momentum no matter what she tries. More

Matt Gonzalez, come on down! You've been chosen as Ralph Nader's running mate! More

After suggesting that he would invade our ally Pakistan and talk to our enemy Iran, Barack Obama has moved on to potentially damage our relations with Canada, our friendly neighbor and number one foreign oil supplier. More

Conclusive tests are being run and the results will be announced in the next few hours, but a package found at a Las Vegas hotel may contain the deadly toxin Ricin: More

Two excellent tributes to Bill Buckley - one from George Will who was probably the second most influential conservative columnist during Buckley's lifetime and Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter who saw Buckley's work close up. More

A surprise from a Hollywood power player. More

With little more than a month to go before the AIPAC criminal case is scheduled to go to trial, the prosecutor has announced he's leaving government service. More

The long and short of it is this: Obama raised at least $50 million in February while Hillary Clinton - whose campaign has been in free fall for most of the month - still managed to raise almost $35 million: More

AT contributor Herb Meyer has appeared on Public Television in a two-segment program where he spoke about the three great threats to western civilization. More

Lst December, Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times column talking about Sen. Obama's visit to New York Times headquarters, reminded us that his middle name was "Hussein". More

Somali elders in Kenya are demanding an apology from the United States government for the appearance of the photo of Barack Obama in Somali garb in our press. More

The audience for the orchestra in North Korea was without any doubt made up of the safest of the safe, the most loyal of the loyal, the most monstrous of the monsters that uphold the pure evil of the Kim regime. More

From Canada comes a story that should give pause to any thinking voter. The CTV television network reports: "Barack Obama has ratcheted up his attacks on NAFTA, but a senior member of his campaign team told a Canadian official not to take his criticisms seriously, CTV News has learned. More

As people like our own Rick Moran dig up more and more of the Barack links to Rezko, others are uncovering more and more links between Barack and other unsavory characters More

Two steps forward, one step back for Iraqi reconcilation. More

The great Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light takes down an insufferable obituary for William F. Buckley, Jr. in Time Magazine, written by one Richard Corliss. More

The 'Winter Soldier Investigation" is returning to Washington, DC, just as the Vietnam-era namesake "hearings" have been thoroughly discredited. More

Have you noticed the absence of Al Gore (global-warming-the-sky-is-falling) in light of the unusually harsh winter across the planet? Why he wasn't even at the Academy Awards! More

It's very obvious that the New York Times "Plan A" for destroying the candidacy of John McCain didn't work out too well. More

Barack Obama's response to Tim Russert's questioning and Hillary Clinton's barbs on Farrakhan may suffice for those who don't listen closely, but the repudiation of only his anti-Semitic views struck many as lawyerly. More

Double Candidates Clinton have each complained of the double standard they perceive in the media's kid gloves treatment of the current frontrunner. More

A small sampling of the incredible outpouring of love and affection (and hate) for Bill Buckley. More

It appears France is going to get in the fight in Afghanistan, which goes directly against MSM reporting that the NATO force in Afghanistan was crumbling. More

Cindy Sheehan picked a strange place (Egypt) in which to complain  about what she perceives as the harm of U.S imperialism.  Lots of data out there.  Here's just a peek:From the Congressional Research Service report for 2004:"In 2004, the United States is providing some form of... More

Leonard Bernstein, the great conductor/composer who frequently fronted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is probably smiling in heaven about now. More

William F. Buckley has passed away. Part of his legacy, National Review Online, reports the sad news More

I don't know how much life is left in the global warming/aka climate change hoax, but this should -- if widely known -- help nail the first part of the coffin lid down on it More

Orin Kerr over at Volokh Conspiracy, the fine legal blog, has been pondering what kind of Supreme Court judges Barack Obama might pick if he became president. More

Obama was unflappable and very smooth. Her strategy was to unnerve him by annoying him with relentless attack on his health care plan. He held his own. He also lies More

This mighty wave of Hope/ Is sometimes hard to bear/ Some just cannot cope More

Sadly, my own studies of the Chinese language decades ago never made it to the point where I could find the right word to describe China's response to America's destruction of the spy satellite falling to earth. More

The New York Times embraced Cuba's new/old dictator Raul Castro with a stunningly fawning piece reminiscent of the way they used to wax eloquently about his brother Fidel: More

The Addison Independent, published in very liberal Vermont, surprisingly reports a message that implies support for troops staying in Iraq -- from a BBC bureau chief, Adi Raval More

There is a superb piece on Youtube with Mark Steyn riffing on multiculturalism. Well worth the few minutes it takes to watch it, but don't be drinking anything while you do! More

Blogger William Katz of Urgent Agenda highlights Obama's own words on national security that provide fodder for a future TV commercial -- for his opponent. More

Cindy Sheehan, who lost the media spotlight--and some funding--as the surge in Iraq proved successful is ba-a-ack. In Cairo. As a guest of the Muslim American Society More

The excerpts below are from an editorial recently published in Lebanon's The Daily Star entitled "Wake up Arabs, Obama may be a Menance." More

You would think that a massive malfunction of Canada's health care system, involving an incompetently run blood banking system, thousands of HIV and hepatitis C infections and deaths caused by negligence, and criminal prosecutions, would be found newsworthy by the US media More

Obama partisans love to compare their man to JFK, at least in terms of appeal and youth. This is glib and fatuous, insulting both JFK's memory and the intelligence of the electorate. More

It didn't take much of a hole in the wall for al-Qaeda to slip in to Gaza after Hamas breached the border with Egypt last month, according to the head of Israeli military intelligence. More

Lieutenant General Muhammad Mushtaq Baig, the Surgeon General of Pakistan, and seven other people were killed in a suicide attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. More

The UK Times reports that Barack Obama's involvement with Chicago slum landlord Tony Rezko, currently under indictment, may involve money originating from a British-Iraqi Middle East wheeler-dealer, Nadhmi Auchi, a convicted criminal. More

A highly-publicized "interfaith" letter signed by many prominent Islamic scholars addressed to Pope Benedict comes from a very problematic source. More

The Iranian "modesty police" known as the Ershad patrol bit off more than they could chew when they tried to arrest a woman in Tehran for "indecency" More

Sderot, Israel, pounded by rockets from Gaza, is receiving support from some brave Hollywood personalities. More

If Hillary Clinton is going to be effective against Obama, she needs to find a new voice., one that will make people smile. My suggestion: before every speech, inhale some helium. More

With a week before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries, the Clinton campaign seems adrift and rudderless More

News from the polling front has Obama surging and Hillary Clinton reeling. More

Parents of inner city kids favor school choice; teachers do not. It is the teachers who have consistently won, in good part because of their political clout on the Left. More

The article Rush talked about  is "The Misnomer of Conservatism" available at this link. More

In their desperate attempt to derail the Obama juggernaut, the Clinton campaign has circulated a picture of Barrack Obama dressed as an African village elder. More

Yet another illegal alien has caused injury to Americans from behind the wheel, this time in Michigan. More

Many will wake up this morning quite surprised that Michael Moore's much touted and morning line favorite Sicko failed to pick up the Best Documentary Oscar[TM] last night. More

More signs of desperation from the Clintons. More

Asia Times' brilliant columnist "Spengler" has an interesting analysis of Obama. He says we can tell a lot about him from the women in his life -- his mother and wife -- and what we can tell indicates his candidacy has frighting implications for this country More

Taylor Marsh, who calls herself, "the antidote to right wing talk", assembles a lot of evidence that Barack Obama has a serious past association with former Weather Underground terrorism supporter William Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn More

She's tried being nice. She's tried being negative. She's even tried ignoring Obama for a while. More

Greenagers is just the latest eco-neologism coined [read: contrived] in the global warming, excuse me, climate change non-debatable debate. More

Teachers College in New York, the Columbia University Graduate School of Education, seems to have a problem with ethics. More

If anyone thinks that Obama's nomination would put the Clintons in America's rear-view mirror for once and for all, think again More

Straight from the mouth of Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan. AP reports Farrakhan addressed a crowd of 20,000: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," More

The Hillary Clinton campaign has blatantly disregarded the law on intellectual property and re-published an entire copyrighted article from the American Thinker website. More

Obama supporters claim that their man is a supporter of Israel. Ralph Nader disagrees. More

A photo of Barack Obama in Muslim garb has been published by the supermarket tabloid, the National Examiner. More

Chalk this one up to United Nations incompetence. More

I guess it's now official. If the New York Times refers to Putins Russia as an autocracy, it must be so. More

Meet Professor Immerman, a Michael Moore-type leftist DNI McConnell unaccountably appointed to a key position in the CIA .Immerman's biased and bizarre views are detailed by Gabriel Schoenfeld More

Although Fidel Castro's brother is considered to have the inside track to the presidency, the Parliament may opt to seat a younger candidate according to the BBC: More

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has decided to quit the presidency in order to avoid an impeachment battle with Parliament, a close aid has told the Sunday Telegraph: More

This morning, on Meet the Press, Ralph Nader announced yet another run for president, promising "to stem corporate crime and Pentagon waste and promote labor rights" More

Clark Hoyt, the ombudsman for the New York Times, goes on the record writing that the story linking Senator John McCain to a female lobbyist should not have run More

Confrontation not all it's cracked up to be. More

The incongruity of this nation sitting on half the world's oil reserves grows more grotesque by the day. More

The New York Times smear appears to have been a huge boost for McCain, and Obama is beginning to plateau, if not slip a bit. More

A shocking new poll out today from Decision Analyst shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton by double digits in the race for the Texas primary: More

Gabriel Schoenfeld of Commentary has issued an APB for the New York Times' James Risen: "On January 24, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena to James Risen of the New York Times...." More

One of the serious real problems being created out of worries over the phony problem of supposedly man-made global warming is the rush to replace incandescent light bulbs with CFL bulbs, which contain mercury. More

Some years ago a motocycle cop in a Bush motorcade was unfortunately killed. Time ran this headline:"Bush Motorcade Kills Cop". Yesterday, the same unfortunate thing happened to policewoman in Hillary's motorcade. Wonder how Time headlined it? More

The latest Rasmussen tracking poll from Texas. has Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical tie as does the most recent ABC-Washington Post poll. More

Iran's nauseating, Nazi-inspired rhetoric over the last few days could presage an attack on Israel or Israeli citizens around the world. More

Even stalwart party members have to be sickened by the breadth of corruption exhibited by GOP politicians More

If Obama loses, maybe the government can hire this guy to help retire the national debt. More

Last night's debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was a fairly staid affair More

How much trouble is the New York Times in for their story yesterday More

It would appear that the overwrought enthusiasm for Barack Obama may have reached its zenith according to some observers. More

This is an historic moment for the good guys. For the first time since Stalin exploded an atom bomb in 1949 there is a working defense against nuke-bearing missiles and planes. More

Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will extend the cease fire between his Mahdi Army and American forces according to sources: More

Better the devil you know... More

A European Union team of experts has calculated that there is an outisde chance Iran could have made enough highly enriched uranium to have the capability to build a nuclear bomb by the end of the year: More

Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingram have both come out and defended John McCain from the outrageous smear being leveled against him by the hit piece in the Times this morning: More

The New York Times under Pinch Sulzberger has, for all practical purposes, become an arm of the Democratic National Committee. More

Duke Lacross players have sued the University for "emotional distress" suffered by 38 players when the Administration failed to support them: More

The decline and fall of the New York Times accelerates, with today's anonymously-sourced hit piece on John McCain. More

My online friend Charles Martin explores the national debt, calculates the national wealth, and [yay!] we're each in the black ! More

StrategyPage.com has a superior summation of the reasons that Vladmir Putin is blowing hot air when he talks about a new "cold war" with the United States. More

One wonders what his worshipful supporters might do when witnessing some other, more private bodily functions: More

The New York Times story alleging "impropriety" on the part of John McCain with a female lobbyist has several different angles to it but basically, it comes down to a story about sexual infidelity - a perfect start to the Times effort to smear McCain. More

In a remarkable technological achievement, the Navy successfully shot down a malfunctioning spy satellite in orbit. More

AT editor Thomas Lifson will be a guest on the KSFO Morning Show Thursday, at 7:05 AM Pacific, 10:05 AM Eastern Standard Time. More

Obama has been very clear that he is fighting against cynicism in his Presidential campaign. Yet he just described his wife Michelle a "pretty cynical about the political process." Is she part of the problem? More

Hillary now claims that she'll win the nomination with the votes of Puerto Rico: More

Anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr whose Mahdi Army militia was blamed for much of the violence in Iraq prior to a cease fire he called six months ago, has hinted that the cease fire will expire on Saturday and his militia will take to the streets: More

So a highly politicized National Intelligence Estimate says that Iran stopped trying to get the bomb in 2003 while those with the most to lose if Iran goes nuclear say otherwise. Who to believe? More

Another alleged "scientific consensus" turns out to be wrong. And this time, the data disproving proving the consensus view was gathered from the internet. More

Can you think of anything Obama has accomplished in the Senate? More

Judging by the polls, it appears that the Democratic party may finally have settled on someone to be their nominee. More

Have you noticed the inconvenient truth people are avoiding the truth this winter, demonstrating their concern for delicate planet Earth by substituting climate change for global warming? More

So how does an American news giant tell its on air talent to handle Fidel Castro's resignation? More

That's Michelle Malkin describing the audience who listened and did nothing when Michelle Obama opined that there has never been a time in her adult life that she has been proud of America. More

Controversy rages over Barack Obama's choice of foreign policy advisors, a topic familiar to AT readers. More

The dynamic duo of Rich Baehr and Rick Moran are giving their take on the outcome of the Wisconsin primary on The Rick Moran Show. More

Perhaps the Obama Campaign should reconsider its priorities and message. The object of one's civic life is not to live in a country one can be proud of More

Jihadists have long been active in Latin America. Now comes news, via PressTV, that Iran is planning to construct a television station in Bolivia (governed by leftist Evo Morales), to serve all of Latin America. More

Barack Obama receives 90% of the black vote versus Hillary Clinton, but when another racial minority, Asian-Americans, shows signs of disproportionately voting for Hillary Clinton in primary elections, the media wrings its hands about possible racism More

Al-Qaeda is getting busier in Afghanistan. More

In a victory for the Bush Administration, the Supreme Court threw out a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the government over the Terrorist Surveillance Program: More

Barack Obama talks a fine-sounding game about renewing our diplomacy and earning international respect. But when push comes to shove and key domestic political support is at stake, he is behaving like a craven pol More

What eventually will bring Obama back down to earth is...Obama More

At this point, many of us may be harboring such unchristian and politically incorrect thoughts such as, "So why don't you just croak already?" More

If preliminary results hold up, the two largest secular parties in Pakistan will have won big victories while the Islamist and conservative parties have gone down to humiliating defeats: More

"She said What?" (John Podhoretz) More

I wonder why this web page, titled "Escalation is not the answer", has disappeared from the official Obama website? More

AT frequent contributor Kyle-Anne Shiver will appear on the KSFO Morning show at 7 AM PST, 10 AM EST. An internet feed is available More

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, has caused no end of embarrassment for the campaign. More

Given the ease with which Barack Obama has demonstrated raising colossal sums of money, one would think that he would be crazy to live up to his promise to eschew private donations for the general election campaign. More

Old Leatherneck, Troy Watson, introduced me to the concept of Chronic Marine Syndrome, which as best I can determine is the inspiration of retired Marine Corps Brigadier General, Mike Mulqueen. More

It was inevitable. There is now a blog following references to Barack Obama as something more than an ordinary politician. More

Reflecting both a cynicism that their vote will be jiggered with by President Musharraf and a genuine fear of terrorism, Pakistani voters stayed home in droves today while the vote for a new parliament was conducted: More

Politics as usual for the politician who promised an end to that. More

We live in an age of cynicism, so perhaps Barack Obama's vapidities will turn enough of the mainstream media into skeptics to burst his bubble a bit. More

The US Department of Agriculture has issued the largest recall of meat in its history; 143 million pounds. More

It will be interesting to see how John McCain responds to this suggestion by Hillary Clinton More

Following mass disqualifications of reformist candidates for parliament ("reformist" being a relative term) by the ultra conservative Guardian Council, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei appealed for all factions to end their squabbling in advance of the elections in March: More

Another instance of religious intolerance in Gaza More

This Tuesday, February 19 at 9:00 pm ET, PBS' Frontline will air a one hour show on what has come to be known as "The Haditha Massacre". More

With Barack Obama becoming the biggest object of adulation for adolescents and young adults since Sanjaya, it should surprise no one that Bill and Hillary Clinton have developed a case of swoon-envy More

A horrific attack in Afghanistan at a dog fight of all places has killed at least 80 people and wounded dozens more. More

This piece in the Baltimore Sun nails it pretty well. Hillary Clinton's campaign is foundering because of one basic flaw; she positioned herself as "inevitable" in a campaign that was about "change:" More

A bill has been introduced to the California State Legislature to mandate teaching about global warming in the state's public schools. This would be a good idea, if two preconditions were met: More

Democrats still insist our efforts are useless. Perhaps they should listen to the Iraqis themselves. More

Following up on Mr. Lifson's post from yesterday about the Arctic ice sheet growing, we get news that the ice between Canada and Greenland has also been expanding. More

While Sen. Obama turns a phrase partially in the tradition of an inner-city AME evangelist, the exalting themes are not new. More

The ultraliberal CBC reports a truth that is mighty inconvenient for Al Gore. More

Critical thought and a rational mind are all conservatives have to protect from the madness of crowds. Supporting John McCain over conservative principles is a bargain with fear. More

Please permit me a response to the thinking of Mr. Hamid. More

The death of Hezb'allah master terrorist Imad Mughniyeh has had significant reprecussions throughout the world. More

Security improvements - but a long road ahead for political reunification. More

TSP in limbo. Dems playing politics with national security - again. More

In a move guaranteed to open an international hornet's nest of trouble, Kosovo will declare its independence from Serbia on Sunday: More

In a state that Hillary Clinton desperately needs to stay in the race, an ARG poll released today shows an Obama lead in Texas. More

Hezb'allah terrorist chief Imad Mughniyeh was planning massive terrorist attacks on moderate Arab countries prior to his being assassinated, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper: More

There are endorsements. And then there are "endorsements." More

This would be shocking if we didn't suspect the Saudis weren't giving a wink and a nod to terrorists already. More

Madame Speaker: I just heard on the news that you are leading the Democrats out of the House for a break without passing the new intelligence bill. What are you thinking? More

Outraged Muslim "Youths" torched cars, burned an elementary school, and attacked at least one journalist in the 5th night of rioting in Denmark: More

I have a theory as to why the MSM and the liberal pundits are falling in love with Obama More

There is considerable confusion this morning as to whether or not civil rights icon Representative John Lewis (D-GA), an influential congressman and Super Delegate who was supporting Hillary Clinton, has switched sides and now supports Barack Obama. More

Yet another climate expert concurs that, while solar activity normally fluctuates in 11-year cycles, we now appear to be at a cold standstill. More

Beleaguered by hedge fund shareholders angry at the dismal performance of the New York Times Company, Pinch Sulzberger has opted to nominate two new directors for the company's board. More

The news from Iraq continues to be positive as the parliament has passed three vital pieces of legislation that will assist in political reconciliation. More

File this one under "Weird Political Stories:" More

Hats off to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters for uncovering outright hysteria over global warming: it is going to require us to learn to eat bugs, or so goes the latest hysterical claim. More

Is the American electorate solidly behind the idea of increasing foreign aid $845 billion over the next 13 years? Apparently that is what Barack Obama believes More

In a bid to get the United Nations to sign off on another round of sanctions against Iran, the CIA has taken the extraordinary step of sharing intelligence with the International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA) that prove the Iranians want to build a nuclear weapon: More

We know the NYT avoids the use of the word "terrorists" terrorists to describe, well, terrorists but this twisted headline shows the absurd lengths to which the paper will go to to follow their principle that no man is a "terrorist" More

With the threat of a presidential veto in the offing, the Senate passed a bill that would prevent US intelligence agencies from using waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" on al-Qaeda prisoners: More

When I read what passes for adult discourse in the mainstream press, I think I'm back in junior high school. Witness these two wishful-thinking paragraphs by Bonnie Erbe of PBS and Scripps Howard More

Primary voters in Maryland contradicted the media narrative that voters are looking for centrist candidates to garner crossover voters. More

Why are the Democrats continuing to argue that the U.S. is ready to adopt their Iraq strategy? More

Another pathetic response to the reasonable questions raised by American Thinker about Barack Obama's thinking on Israel. More

Marty Peretz blows hot and cold on Obama's foreign policy team. More

The dynamic duo in some hot political talk. More

Bobby Jindal hasn't yet been governor of Louisianafor a month, and already he is being mentioned for the vice president nomination. More

Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Sally Bulinas is the latest distinguished scientist to declare anthropogenic global warming theory wrong. More

Iowahawk has penned a devastating parody on the Archbishop of Canterbury's embrace of sharia. Don't miss another instant classic from a gifted satirist: More

Barack Obama and John McCain easily won primaries last night in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. solidifying their front runner status and bringing both candidates much closer to the nomination of their respective parties: More

I read about the Palestinian Authority asking the State Department to intervene on the PA's side in lawsuits brought against it by U.S. victims of Palestinian terrorism More

The Berkeley City Council voted last night to rescind a controversial letter to the Marine recruiting office where they referred to the office and the Marines manning it as "unwelcome intruders:" More

Who killed Imad Mughniyah? More

There was a fine display of British outrage yesterday at the UK Telegraph website. Most readers of the Telly blog by journalist Damian Thompson are blasting the Archbishop of Canterbury More

Citing Chinese inaction in helping to resolve the agony in Darfur, Steven Spielberg has pulled out as artistic advisor to the Beijing Olympics: More

Hooray for Denmark, the little country that could. More

In another legislative victory for the "lame duck" President Bush, the Senate has voted against an amendment that would have stripped a key provision from the bill re-authorizing the Terrorism Surveillance program: More

Oh where have you gone, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? More

Western governments have "the moral imperative to intervene - sometimes militarily - to help spread democracy throughout the world." The same speaker says that "fostering democracy in the Middle East 'is the best long-term defence against global terrorism and conflict.'" More

There are conflicting reports of a confrontation early this morning between representatives of the pro-troop Move America Forward and anti-military protestors of Code Pink. More

No self-respecting American conservative would adopt the historical dialectical as a political model. It's way too intellectual, way too indirect, and way too European More

Representative Tom Lantos was a liberal Democrat from the San Francisco area. But that never stopped him from standing up and proclaiming his support for what he thought was right. More

They are voting today in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. in both Democratic and Republican primaries. More

This really is too rich for irony. More

This shocking article in the New York Sun shows the utter futility in trying to enforce current campaign finance laws. More

Two captured letters released by the US military show Al-Qaeda in Iraq in desperate shape while local leaders complain bitterly about the success of "The Awakening" that has brough 80,000 Sunnis into an alliance with the Americans: More

Another top NATO general is going on the record about our success in Afghanistan, though you are unlikely to hear about such things from the mainstream media that prefer a narrative of failure. More

Harbert Management and their partners have disclosed that they now own 14 million shares of the New York Times Company slightly less than 10% of the shares outstanding. Harbert and their partners accumulated this position over a 49 day period commencing in December. They acquired the... More

Does Thomas Lifson mean those like Chuck Hagel? More

Tom Maguire takes note of a NYT article which cites an undisclosed Rand report critical of the planning and troop levels in Iraq. More

Via Ed Morrissey, we get the good news that a key militia leader has been captured by US forces in Muqtada al-Sadr's stronghold of Sadr City: More

The very first trial under the Military Tribunal system of justice for detainees at Guantanamo could be a capital case involving 6 terrorists charged with complicity in the 9/11 attacks on the United States: More

Something very fishy happened during the GOP Washington State caucuses. More

Senator Barack Obama cruised to an easy win in the Maine Caucuses on Sunday More

Suffering 4 major defeats this past weekend and with the probability of taking it on the chin in three other contests on Tuesday, a desperate Hillary Clinton has fired her long time campaign manager and replaced her with one of her oldest political hands: More

The latest fading minor celebrity to claim the spotlight (in this case overseas) for his BDS ranting is Philip Roth, most famous as the writer of Portnoy's Complaint, a novel published almost 40 years ago. More

For better or (more likely) worse, the word "pimp" seems to have entered the political vocabulary. More

Enthusiasts for closing down Guantanamo Bay as a prisoner for battlefield detainees rarely specify where they would re-locate prisoners. Close attention should be paid to this story More

The editor of the premier science journal in the world has been watching the presidential debates "in alternating stages of boredom and disbelief," embarrassed that they are not conducted in the "stately" manner of "other" unspecified "nations." More

I'm sure you're all familiar with the old nursery rhyme "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me." Politics today provides direct evidence of this wisdom. More

British government kow tows to China. More

On the heels of Berkeley, California telling the Marine recruiters that they were "intruders" in their own country and "unwelcome" in the city, the Mayor of Toledo gave a Marine training unit 24 hours to leave his town: More

Mike Huckabee continued his impressive string of wins in the south, barely edging John McCain in Louisiana 43-42% while also taking the caucuses in Kansas. More

Senator Barack Obama won all three Democratic contests on Saturday, sweeping caucuses in Washington State and Nebraska while thumping Hillary Clinton in the Louisiana primary: More

American traitor Adam Gadahn, AKA "Azzam al-Amriki" (Azzam the American) has disappeared. More

Government sources are saying that a sweeping case involving as many as 6 detainees at Guantanamo, charged with conspiracy in the 9/11 attacks, may be in the offing: More

David Shuster's been suspended from MSNBC from using a vulgar but common street term, "pimping", to describe how Clinton's campaign was using Chelsea to promote her mother. More

Acting in his role of President of the United States Senate, not as Vice President, Dick Cheney his signed an amicus brief from Congress urging the Supreme Court to strike down Washington, DC's firearms ban as an unconstitutional breach of the Second Amendment. More

Despite John McCain's heartfelt, even humble speech before conservative activists at the CPAC conference, many on the right remain unconvinced that a McCain presidency would be anything short of a disaster. More

Today sees the Democratic contest for president move into the next stage. More

Jonah Goldberg expertly explains the vast and highly visible chasm between the two parties when it comes to fundamental principles More

Al Qaeda appears to be crumbling in Iraq, a spectacular victory in the War on Terror. A senior leader has bared his soul to Amit R. Paley of the Washington Post More

Now that John McCain has the nomination all but wrapped up, pundits and political junkies are turning their attention to the next order of business; who will be McCain's choice for the second spot on the ticket? More

The debate over global warming theory is turning into a contest between two explanatory models for climate change: human activity or solar activity. Now comes news that solar activity may be declining More

The House gave final approval to the stimulus package yesterday proposed by President Bush and sent it to the White House for signing. More

Hugo Chavez's seizure last year of a huge oil project in the name of the state has not come without costs. More

As part of the never-ending lies about veterans, the media has falsely peddled stories that they are more suicidal and homicidal than those who never served in the military. Now, they are peddling tall tales of the number of homeless vets More

Caught using an advoctae as co-author of an article on Gitmo. More

More backtracking by Berkeley politicians who are about to eat a fairly large portion of crow. More

More bad news for advocates of ethanol and other bio fuels. Several recent studies have shown that these alternative fuels actually cause more greenhouse gas emissions than regular fuels: More

Once again, the Archbishop of Canterbury sticks his foot in it. More

The Washington Post has a new publisher, a dynamic, intelligent, and comparatively young (41) lawyer. Did I mention that she is the granddaughter of legendary former CEO Katharine Graham? More

John McCain hit many of the notes I suggested this morning, and seems to have won over the balance of the CPAC crowd's verbally expressed opinion. More

Mitt Romney has just told CPAC that he is withdrawing from the presidential race, to avoid prolonging a fight with McCain and thereby damage his prospects of defeating Clinton or Obama. More

The UK Times asks, and then two days later seems to answer the question: "Does Islam fit with our law? More

Just how much money does Hillary have left? More

Just what kind of welcome may be the story of the year. More

When Mike Huckabee dropped his "innocent" slam at Mormons to a NY Times reporter last month, he violated that tacit understanding in American politics. More

Just whose side is Musharraf on? More

Randle P. McMurphy endorses Nurse Ratched. That is, the actor who played McMurphy in the movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson, has endorsed Hillary Clinton, who often has been compared to Nurse Ratched More

The numbers appear daunting for Romney if he hopes to overcome McCain's huge lead. More

Joseph Goldstein of the New York Sun reports on information that could upset the "No WMD in Iraq" narrative: More

The race for delegates will continue for a long while on the Democratic side. More

Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post reports on the actual behavior of Democrat voters: More

Jerry Zeifman, who at the time of Watergate "had overall supervisory authority over the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Inquiry staff that included Hillary Rodham" reports on her misdeeds while on the Committee staff. More

Many Republicans who do not agree with him on any number of issues have long been aware that John McCain receives exceptionally good press, and lots of it. It won't last. More

Does it matter to whom Reagan bequeathed his legacy? More

A different kind of headache for our forces to overcome. More

Kennedy's shocking betrayal of Clinton comes back to haunt him in Massachusetts. More

The last Iwo Jima participant in the iconic photo of the flag being raised on Mount Surabachi has passed on. More

Rick Moran and Richard Baehr are covering Super Tuesday on Blog Talk Radio. Listen to them at this link. More

AT is so obviously pushing McCain More

Never mind the National Intelligence Estimate alleging Iran has discontinued its nuclear program. More

Chad's long, bloody nightmare continues with no one willing to help stop it. More

Super Tuesday at the polls in Illinois. More

Why is everyone having such heart failure over the arguments and discussions that Republicans are having during an intense primary season? More

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders explains to the Berkeley city council that free speech is for all. It is not a ticket for leftists to suppress other views. More

It appears that even the communists on the Berkeley city council can be affected by popular opinion: More

A true international peace march against the leftist guerilla terrorist organization in Colombia known as FARC took place yesterday. More

A surge by Barack Obama has allowed him to leap ahead or pull even in several states he trailed badly in last week which means that it is likely neither he or Hillary Clinton will come out of Super Tuesday with a large lead in delegates. More

Without much excitement, the Republican party appears ready to hand John McCain a smashing victory today when 21 states hold primaries and caucuses. More

"Out of multiplicity, unity." As we yell and scream at the radio and TV and the computer screen these days, and even at each other, that's a vital principle to keep in mind. More

By a narrow margin, the Serbian people decided to maintain close ties to the west despite the threat of Kosovo independence which would almost certainly be recognized by the EU: More

Germany has refused to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan to assist beleaguered Canadian and Dutch forces in the south. More

A shocking survey from Great Britain shows that fully a quarter of the British people believe that Winston Churchill was a myth and Sherlock Holmes was a real person: More

'Speaking truth to power' forgives all sorts of sins if you're a lefty. More

John Perazzo, writing on Front Page Magazine today, documents, in the words of Jeremiah Wright himself, just how radical this very important man is. This is must reading to understand Obama's real politics. More

According to the most recent polls out today, John McCain is poised to take all but a handful of states during tomorrow's Super Tuesday primaries. More

Hillary Clinton's once big lead in the Super Tuesday primaries has evaporated as Senator Barack Obama is surging as we go into tomorrow's vote. More

The United Kingdom, which gave the world limitations on the power of monarchs, representative democracy, the Industrial Revolution, and countless other gifts that constitute pillars of modernity, now faces a crisis that will signal whether it slides into Third World status, in a new dark ages. More

Apparently that is one of the government's worries, and impelled the investigation into AIPAC which led to the indictments of two of its former officers. More

"Husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review...." More

A new and promising website, the No Free Lunch Journal, examines how the UInited States lost its nuclear warhead design advantage. More

More than 100,000 protestors were in the streets of Ankara to protest a government measure that would lift the ban on head scarfs at Universities: More

A breakthrough in talks between writers and TV studios is being reported that may lead to the end of the 3 month long strike that has crippled the television industry: More

Something is happening in the Democratic race that wasn't expected. Senator Barack Obama is surging in California and other states and is shaping up to do very well on Super Tuesday: More

Despite almost the entire panoply of elected Republican leaders in Maine endorsing John McCain's candidacy, Mitt Romney turned his people out in droves and took the state caucuses by a more than 2-1 margin over the Arizona Senator: More

Falling further behind industry giant Google all the time, Microsoft has decided to make a leap into better competititveness by making a bid for another industry titan. More

As the Marines are being maltreated in Berkeley, Oakland and Sand Francisco, we have this report of the death of an extradordinary member of the Corps, certainly not anyone the bien pensants have ever or will ever hear of let alone understand. More

Once again Noemie Emery nails it on the Clintons: Reviewing the Clintons' dismissal of those who objected to preferential hiring and admission programs for the sake of diversity until faced with real competition from Obama More

The City of Berkeley has declared war on the Marine recruting office in town, referring to them as "intruders," and both sides appear to be gearing up for battle. More

A handsome, achievement-free politician decides to run for the office of chief executive. He's never run anything in his life. His campaign is brilliantly summed up in the slogan: "He's fresh while everyone else is tired." More

A Science magazine article claims that IF you believe the grossly alarmist assumptions of the UN "consensus" panel on human-caused global warming, all of the American Southwest has to come to a screeching halt! More

For a guy who touts himself as a uniter and not a divider, Barack Obama sure doesn't vote that way in the United States Senate. More

Yesterday's green propaganda teach in demonstrated campuses are as much about indoctrination as discovering truth from the interplay of diverse viewpoints. More

Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander, was killed by a US missile strike targeting him specifically on Wednesday: More

Some might consider this endorsement a possible kiss of death while others see a beneficial boost. More

For the first time in 53 months, the US economy contracted on the jobs front, losing 17,000 jobs in January: More

The New York Sun editorially defended Barack Obama's stance toward Israel on January 9th. But today, the Sun, a newspaper we greatly admire, takes another, more skeptical look at Obama and Israel More

Finally some good news from the Border Patrol. More

A virtual love fest in Hollywood last night. More