American Thinker Blog

August 31, 2009
Kennedy, the KGB and American Media
Look who's in bed with whom. More

August 31, 2009
The White House Gets Sued for Its Fishy Email Program
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) have filed suit More

August 31, 2009
Compassionate parole for all?
Susan Atkins (of Manson family fame) is up for parole on Wednesday. Parole is urged on the grounds of compassionate release. We're told she has cancer More

August 31, 2009
Always Israel's fault (cont.)
Never miss an opportunity More

August 31, 2009
Unintended consequences
This year's stupidest move by the Democrats? More

August 31, 2009
It's going to get worse for Obama (updated)
A shockingly fast decline. More

August 31, 2009
Medical 'Best Practices' Change Rapidly -- Regulations Don't
Do we really want bureaucrats deciding what medical treatments you can receive? More

August 31, 2009
Where's the leadership, Barry?
Obama, the Flim Flam Man. More

August 31, 2009
AARP urges seniors to jump off the healthcare cliff
AARP pulls out all the stops More

August 31, 2009
The Two 9/11's
There will be two 9/11's this year, but only one will really count. More

August 31, 2009
Experts see significant GOP gains in 2010 but not enough to win back House
Long term trends are going the GOP's way. More

August 31, 2009
Irony writ large: I have met the enemy and it is me
What's right for me, but not for thee. More

August 31, 2009
A case study in big government; Illinois
More taxing entities than any other state in America. More

August 31, 2009
By all means, let's copy the Cuban health care system
The best use for the Cuban communist party newspaper. More

August 31, 2009
Throwing Darts at HR3200 - Day 2
This is the second in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. More

August 31, 2009
British courage, then and now
Gordon Brown is certainly no Winston Churchill, and President Barack Obama (D) is definitely not President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D). More

August 31, 2009
Thomas Lifson on the air
AT editor and publisher Thomas Lifson will a guest today on the Dennis Miller Show, speaking with guest host Chris Myers of Fox Sports Net at approximately 8:20 AM PDT. A live internet feed is available More

August 30, 2009
AQ Khan ordered freed of all restrictions
The ball is in Obama's court now. He talked tough about Pakistan during the campaign. More

August 30, 2009
Statist Healthcare Logic and Mary Jo
Many liberals are in favor of "Sacrificing for the Greater Good" -- as long as the sacrificing can be passed along to someone else in the society. More

August 30, 2009
Throwing Darts at HR3200
When a professor at an Ivy League Law School pronounces the wording of a proposed law "close to incomprehensible", there is trouble ahead if it goes on the books. More

August 30, 2009
The Give-a-Damn Index reaches a new high (updated)
Apathy is long gone. More

August 30, 2009
Obama throws Eastern Europe under the bus
Obama kissed Putin's behind on his European campaign extravaganza and threw our Eastern Allies under the bus (back when that business with Georgia was blowing up) and now it's all but official. More

August 30, 2009
Yep - the Brits lied about why they released al-Megrahi (updated)
Terrorist for oil deal "in the overwhelming national interest" of the British government. More

August 30, 2009
Welcome to the Unionized States of America
The growing government labor force will add to organized labor's clout. More

August 30, 2009
Privacy and Obamacare
Not that we need another reason to oppose this monstrosity... More

August 30, 2009
Just a rainy Saturday in New York
Rainy day activities for liberals. More

August 30, 2009
Giving the President Access to Your Computer
The federal government would be given the power to have direct access to all of our computer records... More

August 30, 2009
Another hypocritical Obama moment
Nice example you're setting there Barry, riding a bike without a helmet. More

August 30, 2009
An odd coincidence?
Is it possible that Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, purloined a critical sentence? More

August 29, 2009
American Democrats, Lend Me Your Ears
A poem to honor Sen. Kennedy's burial. More

August 29, 2009
The crap the left tries to peddle
A response to the single most disgusting op-ed of the week, from our friends at the HuffPo. More

August 29, 2009
There's Nothing Wrong with 'Your Life-Your Choice'
America is a Nation of planners. Throughout life, we are constantly planning. More

August 29, 2009
Thanks Rush!
Rush Limbaugh and AT together in a graphic from the Rush Limbaugh website. More

August 29, 2009
Obama's Nuclear Blackmail of Israel -- and of the World
For the full eight months that the dream of dreams became a reality and the blessed O occupies the Oval office, Iran keeps spinning its uranium-enrichment centrifuges as if nothing happened More

August 29, 2009
A fresh face on the GOP bench?
The palpable hunger for new leadership in the GOP makes most interesting the 2010 Senate run in Louisiana reportedly being mulled by Hurricane Katrina hero General Russel L. Honoré More

August 29, 2009
The Ted Kennedy moral whitewash peaks today
Today marks the high point of Ted Kennedy's memory. More

August 29, 2009
The Soviet era memo showing Ted Kennedy working against American interests
Treason? Or disinformation? More

August 29, 2009
Here's a great idea: Let's give Obama control of the internet
What could possibly go wrong? More

August 29, 2009
Rep. Watson: Che and Fidel were right to 'kick out the wealthy'
Of course, Che didn't exactly "kick out the wealthy" - not unless you count sending them to heaven as being "kicked out." More

August 29, 2009
The Beck Boycott's unintended consequences
Free publicity you can't buy at any price. More

August 29, 2009
Trust Fund Teddy
The double standards this man set in his life abound with irony. More

August 28, 2009
Massachusetts politics and the John Jay standard
An interesting historical parallel for the situation in Massachusetts today, trying to rig the rules for choice of an interim senator to fill our Ted Kennedy's seat More

August 28, 2009
NY Times Magazine Editor: Kennedy Joked about Chappaquiddick
The trouble with seeing the other side of everything is that we often forget we're on the human side. More

August 28, 2009
Black conservative Lloyd Marcus on tour across America
Performing the "American Tea Party Anthem" across our great land on the TeaPartyExpress.org tour. More

August 28, 2009
4% of Israeli Jews: Obama pro-Israel
The numbers are getting smaller by the day. More

August 28, 2009
Obama's war on American sovereignty
What's really going on with AG Holder's investigation of the CIA over interrogation techniques. More

August 28, 2009
Gilad Shalit
Gilad Shalit will feel worse on his 23rd birthday today than you will on your 93rd. More

August 28, 2009
Liberal at Huffpo thinks Mary Jo Kopechne didn't mind dying for Ted
Wow. Just Wow. More

August 28, 2009
Closing the last auto factory
Toyota has announced the demise of the last remnant of auto manufacturing on the West Coast More

August 28, 2009
Was the Richardson probe killed by DOJ political appointees?
It pays to have friends in high places. More

August 28, 2009
ABC, NBC refuse to air ad critical of Obamacare
And their reasoning for not showing the ad is laughable. More

August 28, 2009
Libtalker Malloy accuses the right of killing RFK, JFK
A little historical revisionism. More

August 28, 2009
Krauthammer gives Obama an 'exit strategy' on reform
Never get in the way of your opponent when they are self-destructing. More

August 28, 2009
Spider-Man Artist Pens Our Fate
Does life imitate art? More

August 28, 2009
Democratic congressmen letting the cat out of the Obamacare bag
Making the president out to be a liar. More

August 27, 2009
No more privacy under ObamaCare
Under the ObamaCare healthcare nightmare, the private details of your medical history would be made accessible to an unknown number of government bureaucrats, for supposedly legal purposes More

August 27, 2009
HR 3200: Monument to Ted Kennedy?
Refresh my memory. Who is health care reform for again? More

August 27, 2009
Rebranding ObamaCare
Yesterday's quick moves to use Ted Kennedy's name to pass ObamaCare struck me as a blunder. More

August 27, 2009
The Swine flu whipsaw
It's the pros versus the pols in spinning Swine Flu risks. More

August 27, 2009
DoJ drops prosecution of top Dem (updated)
If political appointees overruled the recommendation of career officials, a scandal is at hand. More

August 27, 2009
Government healthcare horror
In case there is anyone out there who still believes that we should turn over our health care to the government these three stories about the UK's infamous National Health Service More

August 27, 2009
Japanese, Koreans give three cheers for 'Cash for Clunkers'
File this one under "Predictable Unintended Consequences..." More

August 27, 2009
Did al-Megrahi really have only 3 months to live?
Was the only doctor to claim the terrorist had only 3 months to live a Libyan national? More

August 27, 2009
'Kennedy and Chappaquiddick - in the obits'
Yes, but he was kind to the poor. More

August 27, 2009
Payoff for releasing Lockerbie terrorist
Libya, Inc. rolling into Great Britain More

August 27, 2009
Another reason unions support Obamacare
A government bailout for mismanaged union benefit funds. More

August 27, 2009
Libyan honor, Libyan Oil
Europe caves in to Libya because, quite simply, of the opportunities to gain more oil. More

August 26, 2009
Ted Kennedy dead (updated)
AT's writers add their thoughts, and readers comment. More

August 26, 2009
Kennedy's death: This day in history
Ted Kennedy passed away yesterday, August 25th. Without comment -- and simply as a matter of historical interest -- I recap some key historical moments and other notable deaths from August 25th. More

August 26, 2009
No Myth: Illegal Immigrants Covered under Obamacare
Ask the Congressional Research Service. More

August 26, 2009
Going for the media's throat
Mark Lloyd, a scary radical who has a plan to impose stifling government control, has been appointed as "chief diversity officer" at the FCC. More

August 26, 2009
Pets May Not Be So Happy under 'Happy Act'
Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter has introduced well-meaning legislation that is certain to tug at the heartstrings of animal lovers. More

August 26, 2009
Scottish government: Obama-lite?
The Scottish government behind the noxious Lockerbie bomber release was only granted limited self-rule or "devolution" in 1997. More

August 26, 2009
Rangel 'forgot' he's actually $500,000 richer than he reported
Must have forgotten about that $250,000 grand in the credit union... More

August 26, 2009
Turns out that the $4500 "cash for clunkers" rebate is taxable
A nice little present from Uncle Sam More

August 26, 2009
That sound you hear is health care reform being flushed down the toilet
But even Obama has got to hear that water swirling around the commode More

August 26, 2009
Fear-mongering knows no season
Just as the flu season is ramping up it is preceded by an epidemic of fear, panic and angst fortified with "most plausibles," "potentials," and "official forecasts." More

August 26, 2009
Democrats smear anti-health care reform protestors in Denver
Members of an SEIU front group try to pull a "Reichstag fire" at Colorado Dem headquarters. More

August 26, 2009
Is Glenn Beck Allowed to Believe Obama is a Racist?
The far left wishes to make some hay over the matter and ultimately would like to turn Beck's cameras off permanently. More

August 26, 2009
The rank political motives of Obama's Justice Department in CIA prosecutions
Even national security is made to serve the political ends of this administration. More

August 26, 2009
Humberto Fontova on the air
AT contributor Humberto Fontova will appear on the KSFO Morning Show in San Francisco today at 8 AM PDT, to be interviewed by AT contributor Brian Sussman. An internet feed is available More

August 25, 2009
Melissa Clouthier and Andrew Ian Dodge on Moran's show
At issue: The CIA's war with the White House. More

August 25, 2009
Liberal Fascism is not a book anymore
The fog is clearing, and the Progressive path is becoming clearer. More

August 25, 2009
What's missing in the end of life counseling
Taken out of the classroom/off the bureaucrat's desk, this is just the step down the slippery slope of government defining what is and what isn't a worthwhile life. More

August 25, 2009
Medical report on Lockerbie bomber released
Certain to tug at the heart-strings of those with a soft spot for homicidal terrorists More

August 25, 2009
Nixon White House redux
The man behind the Glenn Beck boycott is a White House official -- and the press yawns: More

August 25, 2009
Too hot for ABC
The Dick Morris-created ad against ObamaCare that ABC television has refused to run is available online. More

August 25, 2009
Cheney was right; Obama's wrong
I've begun re-stocking my emergency food supplies as I live in D.C. and I simply have no faith in this Administration's ability to defend the nation any longer. More

August 25, 2009
Manchild President Stays with Adult as Fed Chair
One thing is clear: Barack Obama has turned to the Bush Administration for what might be his most important appointment. More

August 25, 2009
Overwhelming change
We are experiencing a most obvious, planned effort to completely mask a cynical goal to transform this nation. More

August 25, 2009
Britain forced to fly in foreign doctors to fill in physician gaps
Yes, but don't say anything bad about the British nationalized health care system. More

August 25, 2009
Well on our way down the 'Road to Serfdom'
A labor boss in charge of the New York Fed? A "manufacturing czar?" We welcome our new Lord over these lands. More

August 25, 2009
Brutal infighting as Taliban factions split over new leader
Red on red fighting as the Taliban is reeling following Meshud's death. More

August 25, 2009
Gibbs' mushy statement on CIA prosecutions
Obama needs a one handed press officer instead of Gibbs' "on the one hand - then again, on the other hand..." More

August 25, 2009
Another climate change scam
African nations seeking to soak the west. More

August 25, 2009
Did Yale prostitute itself for oil money?
Mohammed cartoons removed from book to please a Saudi prince? More

August 24, 2009
The Art of Politically Correct Apology by Bill Maher
Unsurprisingly, the style of composition is closer to stand-up monologue than reasoned argument, More

August 24, 2009
Now There You Go Again -- More Whoppers from Obama
President Obama has assembled another whopper meal for those who still hunger for more baloney and believe he will not tell a lie. More

August 24, 2009
NYT already offering reasons for death of ObamaCare
"Just in case..." More

August 24, 2009
Harvey Weinstein: Turning Jews Into Nazis
The new Tarantino movie, Inglorious Basterds hit number one this weekend. Lots of people will see the film, think it is based on a true story, and say "Gee. The Jews were just as barbaric as the Nazis." More

August 24, 2009
NYT a little vague about those states west of the Hudson River
The geniuses at the New York Times have published a map documenting the truth of Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker Magazine cover depicting "The View of the World from Ninth Avenue." More

August 24, 2009
We should spend more on health care, not less
Everyone is talking about controlling the rising cost of health care, but is that really such a good idea? More

August 24, 2009
A Birther Compromise
This compromise unites us in a focused effort on that which is most important -- exposing the truth... More

August 24, 2009
When in trouble, feed the base
Going back on his word to "move forward, not back" in interrogation matters. More

August 24, 2009
The high speed rail boondoggle
We don't need high speed rail. More

August 24, 2009
Setting the style - extra toes and all
Will toe enhancement surgery be covered under Obamacare? More

August 24, 2009
FBI Director Mueller scorches Scottish prosecutor over release of terrorist
No diplomatic niceties here. More

August 24, 2009
Politicization of the Obama Justice Department
Investigating an investigator of Governor Corzine. More

August 24, 2009
More on the real reasons for the Lockerbie killer's release
Scottish nationalism feeding off anti-Americanism. More

August 23, 2009
The changing Obama message
As the anger directed towards Obama Care and the Democrats increases the message changes or morphs in an attempt to see what resonates with the American public. More

August 23, 2009
Your Life Choices
Recently, the VA re-implemented a pamphlet known as "Your Life - Your Choice" dealing with end of life decisions for Veterans. I have briefly looked it over and here are a few pages to really pay attention to: More

August 23, 2009
A wee poem for the president
Silly words should not be missed More

August 23, 2009
Sweden's blood libel of Israel gets worse (updated)
Jews then, Israel now. More

August 23, 2009
The New Third Rail of American Politics? (updated)
It now appears after two fateful attempts (1994 and the present), that the Democrats endeavor to nationalize health care has become the new "third rail". More

August 23, 2009
How many toes do you see?
Surely this must be a trick of lighting, or a matter of blurred focus. Is it possible that the First Lady actually has six toes, as she appears to in this picture? More

August 23, 2009
Rasmussen: Obama Hits new Low (updated)
Two new lows, actually. Weakness within his own camp. More

August 23, 2009
President Obama's Ramadan message
No mention of violence in other parts of the world, including Iran. More

August 23, 2009
Steyn: 'Stimulus hits a pothole'
"[O]ne might easily confuse him with some birdbrained Bush type..." More

August 23, 2009
What big government? Feds to regulate garage sales
In the age of Obama, any outrage is possible. More

August 23, 2009
Now it's Senate Democrats who are threatening insurers
A Rockefeller complaining that a business is making too much money? How funny is that? More

August 23, 2009
FAA personnel dragged away to help with Cash For Clunkers
"All is well," says the FAA. Should we believe them? More

August 23, 2009
What was the real reason for the Lockerbie bomber's release?
It wasn't compassion, but oil leases, anti-Americanism, and Scottish nationalism. More

August 22, 2009
NY Gov plays a dog-eared race card
One advantage of the Obama presidency may turn out to be the rapidly diminishing value of the race card More

August 22, 2009
World Weary ... World Worried
This is not the kind of thing moral people can allow to happen... More

August 22, 2009
The small matter of the constitutionality of ObamaCare
Where does it say the government can require us to buy health insurance? More

August 22, 2009
'Less costly' health care 'reform' to hit middle class hard
President Obama has recently begin speaking of a cheaper price tag for health care reform: 800 to 900 billion dollars. So how will a compromise bill achieve such savings? By a mandate forcing middle class Americans to buy expensive health... More

August 22, 2009
Michelle Obama and the double-edged sword of fashion
The other day, Michelle Obama went full Wal-Mart in her outfit on the First Family's taxpayer-funded Grand Canyon excursion, and the journalistic fashionistas are having the vapors. More

August 22, 2009
NYT backs away from Obama party line on death panels
Uncritical acceptance of Obama propaganda on "false rumors" has its limits, even at the New York Times More

August 22, 2009
Muslim teen who fears family honor killing may be sent home by court
The fate of a 17 year old teen is in the hands of a Florida court More

August 22, 2009
Obama's misleading statements on health care for illegals
The president fails to acknowledge any legitimate slippery slope arguments. More

August 22, 2009
Getting 'weed up' explained
Bedwetting at the White House. More

August 22, 2009
Palin: 'No Health Care reform without legal reform'
Stopping the practice of defensive medicine by doctors will save billions. More

August 22, 2009
Have Obama's expanded deficits killed off health care reform?
The announcement that the 10 year projected deficits will top $9 trillion might doom reform. More

August 21, 2009
Fear No Ice
The party that loves to campaign against the "politics of fear" peddles fear of everything. More

August 21, 2009
Obama's Scarlet Letter
Usually, an "all adults" voter sample polls more, sometimes much more, favorably toward the Democrats than a "likely voter" sample. What's going on now? More

August 21, 2009
Friday funnies
The irrepressible Big Fur Hat looks at what would happen if Joe Biden suddenly became smart, in a hilarious re-telling of the story "Flowers for Algernon" More

August 21, 2009
Bragging Rights: The Lockerbie Bomber Goes Free
Obama's response is pathetic. More

August 21, 2009
Adam Smith on Pan Am 103
Two hundred and fifty years ago, Adam Smith diagnosed the thinking of the Scottish authorities (and of gullible liberals everywhere). More

August 21, 2009
Let Them Eat Arugula (Updated)
Like a child who wandered into an adult cocktail party and tried to seem precocious by mouthing clichés he doesn't really understand, Obama once again made a fool of himself More

August 21, 2009
Report from the Town Hall Front
The other side is organized and showing up. A citizen reporter talked to some last night. More

August 21, 2009
ObamaCare and the Sorcerer's Apprentice
Out of his depth More

August 21, 2009
Charlie Cook: Dem prospects for 2010 tanking
The pollster says the Democrat's situation has "slipped completely out of control. More

August 21, 2009
Not much hope but look at the change: Obama at 45%
Chance for a rebound? More

August 21, 2009
Ties that bind: Iran-Hezb'allah
And a confession from an Iranian that they "took responsibility" for Hamas during the recent war. More

August 21, 2009
Lockerbie killer released on 'humanitarian' grounds
The terrorist receives a hero's welcome in Libya. More

August 21, 2009
The Mother of 'Absolute Moral Authority' is back
Cindy Sheehan is back on stage looking for another 15 minutes. More

August 21, 2009
Spy Agency Fiasco
We regret to inform you that George Bush's "assassination squads" were greatly exaggerated. More

August 21, 2009
Another Even Vaster Right Wing Conspiracy
Guess what? The vast right wing conspiracy of 2009 has exactly the same purpose it had in 1993 and 1994... More

August 21, 2009
The Revolution Has Not Been Publicized (a poem)
(With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) More

August 20, 2009
Kennedy requests special law be passed just for him
(Oh, and it would help shore up "yes" votes for health care) More

August 20, 2009
WaPo hypocrisy on Israel's security barrier
What are we to make of the Post's singular obsession with Israel's barrier? More

August 20, 2009
Reduce the deficit
A new Rasmussen polls shows that by an almost two to one margin, voters say that deficit reduction should be President Obama's highest prioriy. More

August 20, 2009
Backtracking on Obama's grandiose green jobs promise
Remember how Barack Obama claimed that he would create five million 'green-collar' jobs if elected? He was promoting the conceit as recently as a few days ago in Indiana. More

August 20, 2009
Trumka Keeps Talking
The AFL-CIO's Secretary Treasurer goes off teleprompter again. More

August 20, 2009
The Messiah AKA God's Partner
Barack Obama's egocentric personality never ceases to amaze... More

August 20, 2009
House Dems go after insurers for opposing Obamacare
Welcome to government of the thugs, by the thugs, and for the thugs. More

August 20, 2009
ObamaCare and FDR
Would Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel want to give medical coverage to a 48 year old pre-presidential Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a wheelchair with polio More

August 20, 2009
One healthy sector of the economy
A little stim money goes a long way. More

August 20, 2009
James Simpson on the air
James Simpson will appear today at 5 PM on the Ron Smith Show (WBAL 1090 am in Baltimore) to discuss his article Manufactured Healthcare Crisis. An internet feed is available More

August 20, 2009
British Muslims celebrate Taliban 'heroes'
Meanwhile, 7 in 10 Democrats believe the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. More

August 20, 2009
New York car dealers running away from 'Cash for Clunkers'
Too much paperwork. Slow pay. Sounds like a preview of Obamacare. More

August 20, 2009
MSNBC's outrageous dishonesty
Not propaganda, just lies. More

August 20, 2009
Obama melds church and state for health care reform
Where's the ACLU when you need them? More

August 20, 2009
Federal Spending Deficit Explodes Nearly Eight Fold
With rock star billionaire Warren Buffet sounding the alarm about the Federal Budget deficit, a retrospective look shows the unprecedented level of the deficit. The 2009 deficit is projected to be $1.977 trillion. This is almost 12 times more than... More

August 19, 2009
The Waxman Inquisition
Oppose Waxman and get a subpoena for your books. More

August 19, 2009
Obama is working for us now!
Not just as the proverbial citizen "us," but "us" as Americans whose goal is to guarantee we do not have another Democratic House, Senate, or President next term. More

August 19, 2009
Labor boss gaffe: Telling the truth about taxes
Big labor has opened its mouth and scored a huge blow against liberal tax policy. More

August 19, 2009
Academic Terrorism - National Press Club Press Conference on Bill Ayers
How did long-time Obama friend Bill Ayers, a self-described "little 'c' communist," and domestic terrorist, become a "distinguished professor" at the University of Illinois? What exactly does he teach? More

August 19, 2009
Rasmussen: GOP Takes Lead on Health Care
A dramatic reversal on which party the American people trust to handle health care More

August 19, 2009
Iranian protestors being tortured and worse
A crime against humanity escapes Obama's concern. More

August 19, 2009
IRS to be ObamaCare enforcer (Updated)
What do you get when you cross health care with the IRS? Something very scary. More

August 19, 2009
At least 75 dead in Baghdad bombings
Who might be behind the violence should be a multiple choice question. More

August 19, 2009
Israeli army kills Palestinians and harvests their organs: Swedish paper
Falling for loony conspiracy theories. More

August 19, 2009
Obama's shallow comprehension of economics major cause for concern
"Impromptu Obamanomics is getting scarier by the day." More

August 19, 2009
Big Labor's Big Threat
Intimidating wavering Democrats. More

August 19, 2009
Robert Novak dead at 78
The "Prince of Darkness" will terrorize the powerful no more. More

August 19, 2009
Axelrod a tool of Big Pharma
Another conflict of interest at the White House. More

August 19, 2009
Prepare for Armageddon on health care reform
Moving closer to a showdown over reconciliation. More

August 19, 2009
Napoleon and Squealer in the White House
As Robert Gibbs explains to the adoring press that the sudden flip on the public option was not in fact a change in policy ... More

August 18, 2009
Obama softens tone on Israel
Whatever Obama's intentions, presidential words matter. More

August 18, 2009
No right of appeal in ObamaCare
A so far little-noticed feature of the ObamaCare monstrosity is systematic denial of patient's rights to appeal to judicial review More

August 18, 2009
Jazz Shaw, Despina Karras on Moran's show
A discussion of the fate of the public option in health care reform as well as a brewing civil war in the Democratic party. More

August 18, 2009
Another road to single payer
The cooperatives being touted by members of the Senate Finance Committee are nothing more than a different version of the "public option plan" designed to lay the framework for universal health insurance. More

August 18, 2009
A Gravitational Pull
A New Zealand newspaper, has a story that may prove prophetic for the future of American medical care. More

August 18, 2009
An Angry Mob on One (a poem)
I am an angry mob, and I took some Tea last week./ I stood by an Obamacare supporter. We began to speak. More

August 18, 2009
The Art of Extraction
President Obama has wedged himself between a rock and a hard place. More

August 18, 2009
Obama to spend $1 billion to fund offshore drilling - for Brazil
To quote the great philosopher Bugs Bunny: "What a Maroon." More

August 18, 2009
A 'fishy' reply from the White House
Time for another kind of "reality check." More

August 18, 2009
Meanwhile...liberals heads exploding over potential loss of public option (updated)
A Democratic civil war brewing? More

August 18, 2009
Health Insurance Co-ops: The public option by any other name
When you think "co-op," think "public option." More

August 18, 2009
Angry AARP members resigning in droves
The powerful liberal lobby has lost 60,000 members over health care reform. More

August 18, 2009
Call center medicine
"Take two aspirin and don't bother me again." More

August 18, 2009
The 'Enemy List'
This nation is under assault from an administration with an agenda that is not pure. More

August 18, 2009
Starting to Fizzle
Why isn't all the government spending working? Isn't the great John Maynard Keynes smiling somewhere in the beyond? More

August 17, 2009
We can't spare this woman: she fights
The entire Republican establishment has lost a large section of the public for some time now. More

August 17, 2009
Dems Demonizing Scooters
Senator Claire McCaskill at a town hall meeting in Sedalia, MO, tried to spin senior scooters as a marginal preference issue, one that should be discouraged in favor of walking. More

August 17, 2009
Could co-ops be a Trojan Horse?
Are Democrats really going to abandon enacting their dream? More

August 17, 2009
Michael Vick's other crime
It's fair to say that most everybody was offended by Michael Vick and by his illegal dogfighting operations. But his other crime is the one that should keep him out of the NFL. More

August 17, 2009
A doctor responds to Obama's NYT op-ed
Mr. President, I just read your op-ed in the New York Times. You must either be incredibly ignorant, or else you believe that Americans are incredibly stupid. More

August 17, 2009
Stupid criminal tricks
Fictional supervillains like the Joker aside, a life of crime is rarely the career choice of smart people. But a New Zealand robber takes the cake. More

August 17, 2009
The city that won't be working today
Chicago, the famous "city that works" won't be working today. More

August 17, 2009
White House blames '3rd parties' for spam email from Axelrod
Obama doesn't care much about your privacy. More

August 17, 2009
White House in disarray over public option
Obama administration is flailing about wildly with no leadership from the president. More

August 17, 2009
Islamic dress code imposed at British public swimming pools
Men also, must cover from their navel to their knee. More

August 17, 2009
Another Democratic senator in trouble
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) has her head on the chopping block over cap and trade. More

August 17, 2009
A student challenges Obama on health care reform
Challenging Obama to an Oxford style debate. More

August 17, 2009
Author of Human Rights report on Israel supports terrorism
According to Joe Stork, the Munich Olympic attacks were a needed shot in the arm to Palestinians. More

August 16, 2009
A Modest Proposal for Health Care
I have found it: the grand compromise. More

August 16, 2009
Hamas lethally attacks mosque -- media and NGOs yawn
Israel showed how to deal with terrorists holed up in a holy site, but the double standard rules. More

August 16, 2009
Idiot Compassion for the Lockerbie Bomber
Scotland's Justice Secretary, Kenny McAskill, has decided to release the Lockerbie bomber responsible for the deaths of 270 on the 1988 Pan Am flight 103. More

August 16, 2009
Rasmussen: New Strongly Disapprove high for Obama
Could the "unthinkable" be just around the corner? More

August 16, 2009
With whom is Israel supposed to cut a two state deal?
According to President Obama's vision of a two-state solution, Israel must conclude a peace agreement with Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. But after last week's Fatah Party convention, three or four states seem to be necessary. More

August 16, 2009
White House says no increase in threats as a result of town hall protests
Worrying about town hall protestors or other health care opponents would seem to be pretty far down the Secret Service priority list. More

August 16, 2009
Welcome to the 'Help Not Wanted' economy
"Worst. Hires. Rate. Ever." More

August 16, 2009
Slaughter in Palestinian Mosque
Who do you think people will blame? More

August 16, 2009
Hillary's excellent African tour
Did Jeb Bush really steal the election for his brother in 2000? More

August 16, 2009
Those 'other refugees' in Arab-Muslim lands
Forgetting about the oppressed Jews in Arab states. More

August 16, 2009
Is Obama Pulling Our Leg (Off)?
I used to have such respect for doctors -- before Obama told me about them cutting feet off people just to make big money. More

August 15, 2009
Woodstock: Was it something, or was it nothing?
My God.... can we stop this nonsense? Hippies were not revolutionaries. More

August 15, 2009
First, do no harm
A new Rasmussen poll suggests that voters want Congress to follow the maxim, Primum non noceres when addressing the issue of health care. More

August 15, 2009
Obama's punctured gravitas
Barack Obama's political glass jaw is the illusion of gravitas that was successfully sold to enough Americans to get him elected. More

August 15, 2009
James Simpson on the air
AT author James Simpson will be the guest on the Dave Wallace Show between 5 and PM EDT on Baltimore's talk radio powerhouse, WCBM, 680 AM. An internet feed is available. More

August 15, 2009
Orthopedic Surgeons respond to Obama on amputation comment
President Obama has alienated the very profession whose services he will soon need to surgically remove the foot which is starting to chronically be stuck in his mouth. More

August 15, 2009
Remember what victory means?
Sixty-four years ago today, Japan's Showa Emperor (Hirohito) took to the radio for the first time ever to announce to his countrymen that Japan was going to surrender to the Allies. More

August 15, 2009
Woodstock at 40: A triumph of capitalism
The media created myths about Woodstock still persist. More

August 15, 2009
Four years of Sweetness & Light
One of the best sites on the web turns four years old today. More

August 15, 2009
Where are all the Obamabots?
The president's vaunted grass roots operation is a bust. More

August 15, 2009
Consumer sentiment plummets in August
Less consumer confidence means slower growth - even slower than what has been forecast so far. More

August 15, 2009
RINO Hagel gaining influence in White House
A reward for betraying his friend John McCain and the GOP. More

August 15, 2009
Whole Foods, Inc. just not liberal enough
Despite being the favorite overpriced grocery store for rich greenies, the CEO's editorial against Obamacare triggered a boycott. More

August 14, 2009
Earmark Update
Amid all the concern over Health Care Reform and Cap & Trade it is best not to lose sight of the issue that began the current protest against out of control spending -- the earmark process. More

August 14, 2009
Chuck Hagel climbing the White House ladder
Report that RINO ex-senator will assume national security responsibilities. More

August 14, 2009
Cap and trade dead in the Senate?
Potential job losses scaring away Democratic senators. More

August 14, 2009
The Fatah convention: A litmus test for the sanity of the West
We have come to the point when it is just simply impossible for the West to ignore what has happened. More

August 14, 2009
Can the GOP win in 2010?
Democrats self destructing over Obamacare. More

August 14, 2009
'Oh, Big-Spending Obama'
Don't call Obama big-spender because ... he promises to tax a lot too. More

August 14, 2009
A Thank-You Note to the President
Dear Mr. President, You are probably thinking, "Why is a conservative thanking me?" More

August 14, 2009
Europe out of recession - Obama's America? Not so much
Good thing they didn't take Obama's advice. More

August 14, 2009
Stimulus being spent in dribs and drabs
What recession? More

August 14, 2009
Cheney-Bush relationship not all sweetness and light
Vice President Cheney is writing his memoirs More

August 14, 2009
Axelrod's unsolicited email on health care reform
Many wondering how they got on a White House emailing list. More

August 14, 2009
Dem Rep tried to bar TV cameras from town hall (updated)
More signs of panic, as Dems desperately seek to limit the damage from their health care takeover gambit More

August 13, 2009
J Street's Arab and Muslim donors revealed
J Street, the lobbying and fundraising group that bills itself as being a pro-Israel advocacy group ( a claim dismissed by many), has Muslims and Arabs as donors as well as people connected to Palestinian and Iranian advocacy More

August 13, 2009
The Great Bubbie Rebellion
In 2008, Sarah Silverman famously proposed the Great Schlep, in which the comedienne urged young Jews to go to Florida and coerce their grandparents to vote for Obama. Well, things have changed. More

August 13, 2009
Got that mojo workin'
The Democrat political edge so talked about a few months ago seems to have dulled. More

August 13, 2009
Arlen Specter in big trouble
Just a few months after his party switch, Pennsylvania voters seem to regard Arlen as Arnold (as in the traitor Benedict Arnold) More

August 13, 2009
Australian Senate defeats cap and trade legislation
Sanity wins Down Under. An opportunity for a full and open debate on warmist doctrine looms. More

August 13, 2009
47!
Rasmussen's latest overall approval rating for President Obama: 47% -- a new low for him. More

August 13, 2009
Dem Rep shuns town hall for party dinner
Too busy with local Dem bigwigs to face the folks. More

August 13, 2009
We welcome our new taxes under Obamacare
But it's not a tax! It's a fee! More

August 13, 2009
Yale Press bans image of Mohammed in book about Mohammed cartoons
Courage is lacking in some quarters. More

August 13, 2009
The 'Ivan the Terrible' of Obama's Czars
Meet your new "Green Czar." More

August 13, 2009
New poll shows voters ignoring Dem message on town halls
The average voter is seeing through the lies. More

August 13, 2009
National Enquirer scoops NY Times - again
Some stories should be kept from the public - for their own good, of course. More

August 13, 2009
Never a teleprompter around when you need one
Some mistakes aren't correctable. More

August 13, 2009
Obama during Primaries: 'Transitioning to Single-Payer'
Obama and his supporters are having trouble keeping their "myths"--and their so-called "myth-busting"--straight. More

August 12, 2009
Inconvenient Constituents
Georgia Democrat Rep. David Scott is a fool or worse. More

August 12, 2009
ObamaCare: The Ugly Sister
Obama's treats his healthcare plan as he would a very ugly sister More

August 12, 2009
Whitewashing Mary Robinson
Someone is paying money to spin the Medal of Freedom award to Mary Robinson. More

August 12, 2009
Anti-gun Propaganda from Time Magazine
It would be be despicably evil, but it's just not true. More

August 12, 2009
It's the Plan, Stupid
Just as the stimulus bill contained every tired liberal idea filed in the bottom drawer of David Obey's desk, so too ObamaCare is built on the same flawed ideas that made up ClintonCare. More

August 12, 2009
Hugo Chavez the Main Attraction in Venezuela's Revolutionary Circus
The embarrassment and chagrin of the people of Venezuela who suffer under the ham-fisted regime of Hugo Chavez. Remind you of anyone else? More

August 12, 2009
Presidential Dissonance
Perhaps Obama is able, in his arrogance and narcissism, to actually hold two conflicting ideas in his head and not suffer the psychological conflict of cognitive dissonance. More

August 12, 2009
Luttwak: Why Obama will fail on Iran
Nothing we can offer the mullahs for them to change course. More

August 12, 2009
Sometimes, there are no words to describe the irony...
Leaving the rest of us speechless. More

August 12, 2009
Failing the test: Robinson does not deserve a medal
Mary Robinson is the antithesis of what the Medal of Freedom is about. More

August 12, 2009
Obama's Potemkin Village town halls
A facade of lies. More

August 12, 2009
On Iran, business as usual for the UN
UN tells Iranians "shut up and take it." More

August 12, 2009
Five Freedoms lost under Obamacare
An unreasonable trade off. More

August 12, 2009
Stop Telling Me That Everything in My Country is Broken!
We don't need to demolish everything and start over at a reckless speed. More

August 11, 2009
Two peas in a pod
Rick Richman proves that Obama was not misunderstood when in his speech in Cairo he seemed to be equating creation of state of Israel after the Holocaust with the suffering of Palestinians. More

August 11, 2009
Are We Paying to Defame Palin?
Jesse Griffin, an Alaskan blogger who's been defaming Palin, seems to have some interesting links to parties receiving stimulus funds. More

August 11, 2009
Obama Lies About Supporting Single Payer at NH Town Hall
Tracking the misrepresentations and lies that are told when Obama speaks can keep one busy for hours, but the one about not supporting single payer really stood out. More

August 11, 2009
NYT perfumes Fatah's belligerent political convention
Falling far short of conveying the complete, hard-eged, anti-Israel, belligerent tone and positions of delegates at the "moderate" Fatah party convention More

August 11, 2009
Ed Morrissey and Rich Baehr on Moran's show
Topics covered will include Sarah Palin's "death panel" remarks as well as Democratic pushback against the protestors. More

August 11, 2009
Harry Reid is in big trouble
And he's not the only Dem senator facing grim re-election prospects next year. More

August 11, 2009
Racism in health care bill seen by US Commission on Civil Rights
The US Commission on Civil Rights is proving a thorn in the side of the Obama administration. More

August 11, 2009
Obama's Tone Deafness
The president has a problem. More

August 11, 2009
Town Hall in Upstate NY: Locals vs the Zombies
How to stage manage a town hall with media cooperation. More

August 11, 2009
Another sub-prime crisis looms
Government tries same tricks it used with Fannie Mae. What could go wrong? More

August 11, 2009
Rasmussen: 57% oppose socialized medicine (updated)
Even those who support a single payer plan don't think it will work as advertised. More

August 11, 2009
Soros sticks his two cents - and much more - into health care debate
A little cash infusion for reform groups. More

August 11, 2009
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Just how anti-American are you?
Some questions for Mary Robinson that Obama obviously never asked. More

August 11, 2009
Obama's 'reality check' - Not!
What's so real about touting the benefits of a bill that hasn't even been written yet? More

August 11, 2009
'Death Panels' in Oregon?
Foreshadowing what Obamacare will be like? More

August 11, 2009
Please explain this to me
As I understand it, the proponents of Obamacare claim the capability to cover everyone with no rise in cost and no cut in service (rationing). If this is possible, why stop at Healthcare? More

August 10, 2009
Obama's way with words
Another of those Obama fumbles (or was he just being candid?) More

August 10, 2009
Jewish Dem organization rebutted
AT's Richard Baehr and Ed Lasky have a guest op-ed in the Jerusalem Post today More

August 10, 2009
Americans know who their friends are
Despite all the ridiculous posturing and advances to the Middle Eastern dictators by this administration, Americans aren't buying. More

August 10, 2009
Notes of a Puzzled Wannabe Mobster
Some basic questions from a tea party wannago More

August 10, 2009
Guess who beat up Gladney?
Not just a rank-and-file union thug. More

August 10, 2009
Wasting energy to conserve energy
Another example of clumsy, wasteful, harmful consequences from the Stimulus Bill. More

August 10, 2009
Lavish 'climate change' junket for House members (updated)
How better to fight "climate change" than fly an executive version of the Boeing 737 all over the world? More

August 10, 2009
Astroturfers offered $10-15 an hour to demonstrate for Dems
The Dems may rue the day they introduced astroturfing as a complaint. More

August 10, 2009
Surprise! Preventive care will raise, not lower health care costs
Saving money by preventing some diseases or catching them early is a mirage. More

August 10, 2009
The sound you hear is the public option swirling down the drain
Looking for a way out of the impasse. More

August 10, 2009
Wind Farm Blowback
Neighbors of wind farms have discovered that they are far from the benign, clean, efficient ways of harnessing energy to our needs that delusional greenies maintain. More

August 10, 2009
Pelosi and Hoyer call reform opponents 'un-American'
The Speaker of the House thinks you're unpatriotic for opposing Obama's reform. More

August 10, 2009
Obamabots go back to sleep
"Organizing for America" is rather disorganized. More

August 10, 2009
About those journalists freed from North Korea...
All is not as it appears. More

August 10, 2009
Good idea, Barry; let's clean up the mess - yours
Time to roll up our sleeves and get to work fixing what the Democrats have broken. More

August 10, 2009
Yeeha! Deficit up $181 Billion ... in ONE Month
And they thought George Bush was a cowboy... More

August 10, 2009
Kyle-Anne Shiver on Radio
Monday, August 10, at 10:05 a.m. Eastern time, Kyle-Anne Shiver will be the guest of Brian Sussman on KSFO San Francisco Talk Morning Show. A live stream is available More

August 9, 2009
Chicago thug tactics
America has been sucker punched. The unifier, the great post-racial, post-American President, has adopted the street tactics of Chicago thug politics. More

August 9, 2009
Why does Obama stick a finger in the eye of the Jewish community?
There may be a strategy at work. More

August 9, 2009
Defending Palin's 'Death Panel' remark
Palin's right to be worried. More

August 9, 2009
Health Care Funds for Community Organizations
Money for community organizers as part of the House Health Care "Reform" bill. More

August 9, 2009
Journalist: '45%-65% of protestors are racists'
Shocking insight from an unbiased media source. More

August 9, 2009
Note to CNN's Blitzer: Coalition Deaths in Afghanistan Near 1,300
Can we count on Mr. Blitzer to soberly keep us informed? More

August 9, 2009
Down the memory hole with Obama
Signing statements are patriotic - just ask the New York Times. More

August 9, 2009
'Remember when protest was patriotic?'
An appalling double standard. More

August 9, 2009
As a Black Conservative, Should I Be Afraid?
Is it open season on black conservatives? The signs aren't good. More

August 9, 2009
Washington Post calls for reason from both sides in debate
A call for a return to reason in debate over reform. More

August 9, 2009
How is Obama going to spin these statements from Fatah?
"Fatah will continue to sacrifice victims until Jerusalem will be returned [to the Palestinians], clean of settlements and settlers..." More

August 8, 2009
Obama and Public Debate
While Candidate Obama sounds like a truly committed servant of the people, President Obama sounds, well... More

August 8, 2009
Ice choking the Northwest Passage
Warmist doctrine has it that the Northwest passage (through Arctic waters to reach the North Pacific from the North Atlantic) should be clear sailing anytime now. Unfortunately for them, reality says otherwise. More

August 8, 2009
NYT Outs Obama's Backwards Afghan Strategy
The New York Times has outed President Obama's bassackwards strategy of surging troop strength in Afghanistan without a plan. More

August 8, 2009
Will Obama Condemn Racist Union Thugs?
Two union members yell racial slurs at a black man and then punch him in the face, and so far President Obama has not condemned the union thugs for "acting stupidly." More

August 8, 2009
Asking Obamabots to inform on their neighbors may be illegal
Even more "fishy" than we first thought. More

August 8, 2009
Email fraudsters: takes one to know one
After having been previously gotten emails telling me that I have won various European and Nigerian lotteries, today I got the following email More

August 8, 2009
Liberals trot out the racism card to explain opposition to health care
You know they think they're losing when they play the race card. More

August 8, 2009
'I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking...' - President Obama
Shut up, he explained. More

August 8, 2009
Democrats unhinged
In case you haven't noticed, the republic is broken. Putting it back together will probably be even more of a miracle than the one that attended its formation 221 years ago. More

August 8, 2009
Barack Obama - the early years
A video interview from 1993. More

August 8, 2009
Thank Obama (a poem)
If you can't find a job/ thank Obama. More

August 7, 2009
The Decline in July Unemployment Really Means An Increase
President Obama interprets the decline in the official unemployment rate from June's 9.5% to July's 9.4% as a sign of "light at the end of the tunnel." But it's more likely a on-coming train. More

August 7, 2009
Sweden shows how to save money in health care
Two scandalous news stories about Swedish medical care -- both from taking the cheapest way out -- by not doing routine brain scans. More

August 7, 2009
New York Times covers up fierce anti-Israel radicalism at 'moderate' Fatah party convention
A textbook example of keeping a lid on how Mahmoud Abbas's political movement has veered toward undying hostility toward Israel More

August 7, 2009
Obama the polarizer
Rasmussen data show. More

August 7, 2009
The Obama Way
A tale of two quotes More

August 7, 2009
Powerful Dem Rep stonewalls subpoena of Countrywide
Let's find out if the chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee got special treatment on that mortgage. More

August 7, 2009
Presumed Bhutto assassin killed in US strike
A huge blow to the Taliban in Pakistan. More

August 7, 2009
Obama's Black Panther Scandal
Imagine if a Republican president's attorney general dropped charges against Klansmen who staked out polling places in hoods, carrying weapons, after winning the case. More

August 7, 2009
White House declares an end to the 'War on Terror'
No "jihadists" either. More

August 7, 2009
Obama looses labor thugs on tea party town hall protestors
Same tactics labor has used for 100 years. More

August 7, 2009
NYT averts its eyes on Mary Robinson
All the news that fits the Obama agenda. More

August 7, 2009
Obama's honeymoon over - what did he accomplish?
A presidency that will be remembered for missed opportunities. More

August 7, 2009
More cooking the books on climate change
Facts are still stubborn things. More

August 7, 2009
GOP turns the tables on Dems
The Democrats should be thanking Republicans for the favor. More

August 6, 2009
The Top Ten 'Clunkers' Are All Detroit Brands
Guess whose brands are being traded in for somebody else's cars? More

August 6, 2009
Third Party Collection and Obamacare
If Obamacare goes through it will amount to a huge budget cut for the facilities that treat our active duty and retiree community. More

August 6, 2009
Don't Know Much About Arithmetic
Proof of our genius President's math abilities More

August 6, 2009
Firing up the leftist base
I've been watching the media onslaught aimed at these townhall protesters, and now think I understand why we saw a huge pickup in coverage on the birth certificate controversy over the last 2 weeks More

August 6, 2009
Mary Robinson and terror against civilians
Mary Robinson, slated to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, accepted terrorist acts against innocent civilians as legitimate More

August 6, 2009
A health care reform confession
A prime candidate for the enemies list. More

August 6, 2009
The First Obama Misinformation Suppression Program
Last September, two St. Louis city and county attorneys and a local sheriff made news with the first Obama misinformation suppression program. More

August 6, 2009
Obama tries to gin up turnout for health care events (updated)
Smells of flop sweat More

August 6, 2009
Something odd about those two freed journalists
There is something about this episode that just doesn't smell right. More

August 6, 2009
August 6, Hiroshima Day
Some mourn the destruction. Others celebrate the lives that were saved. More

August 6, 2009
Astroturf fantasies
The "smoking gun" that blew up in the left's faces. More

August 6, 2009
Journalist's return a really big shoo
A carefully coordinated media event. More

August 6, 2009
Soros funded NGO bows to pressure and identifies 'Hamas war crimes'
It's a amazing what can happen sometimes when bias is exposed to the light of day. More

August 6, 2009
Final installment of Lasky interview with Claremont's Greenfield
A discussion of national security, health care, and the economy in the reign of Obama. More

August 6, 2009
Proud member of the right wing 'mob'
For Obama, it's "My way or the highway." More

August 6, 2009
White House backtracks on calling Ahmadinejad the 'elected leader'
Meanwhile, 100 opposition members go on trial for "subversion" More

August 6, 2009
Republican Senators: La Raza is Watching You
Janet Murguia had a special warning for those Senators still laboring under the delusion that democracy welcomes freedom of thought... More

August 5, 2009
NYT fawns over 'moderate' Abbas and Fatah
Somewhere Orwell is smiling. More

August 5, 2009
Time to Inform on Ourselves
The White House wants us to inform on those who are disseminating (what they consider as) misinformation about Obamacare. Let's accommodate them. More

August 5, 2009
Guess whose jet?
As the nation endured hearing hosanna after hosanna toward Clinton, Obama, Gore, and various Clinton team members, a name popped up that few people would recognize More

August 5, 2009
Things looking up for GOP, not Obama
We are seeing a sea change in political sentiment in just 9 months. More

August 5, 2009
When bureaucrats control your life
Life at the mercy of federal bureaucratic incompetence. More

August 5, 2009
Sen. Carl Levin & the Convenient Surge
An opponent of the surge in Iraq, Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich) is now calling for one in Afghanistan. More

August 5, 2009
Rasmussen Poll Watch: Good News and Bad News
Good news and Bad News for Republicans in yesterday's Rasmussen Generic Congressional Ballot More

August 5, 2009
Obama tries to discredit health care dissent
The hubris of the Democratic Party on display. More

August 5, 2009
Obama solves other problems over beer
The Obamaglow fades More

August 5, 2009
Hezb'allah stockpiles 40,000 rockets
Right under the noses of the UN, Syria and Iran have fully resupplied the terrorists - and then some. More

August 5, 2009
Who will Obama honor next year?
Now that President Obama has decided to honor Mary Robinson, an Irish citizen, UN official, and foe of Israel, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, who will be on that honors list next year? More

August 5, 2009
Gibbs: Ahmadinejad is the 'elected leader' of Iran
The low point of Obama's presidency? More

August 5, 2009
'Culture of Corruption:' 13 Dems under ethics cloud
"The most ethical congress in history" had a few slip-ups. More

August 5, 2009
Kyle-Anne Shiver, syndicated columnist
American Thinker could not be prouder of Kyle-Anne Shiver, the first of our star columnists to enter into a syndication agreement. More

August 5, 2009
Left begins smear campaign against Town Hall protests (updated)
Anger does not play well on TV More

August 5, 2009
Krugman chokes on his own 'brilliance'
Never ask a question in a public forum unless you already know the answer to it. More

August 5, 2009
This is peace according to Fatah
Someone should send Fatah a dictionary. Looks like they've confused some definitions. More

August 4, 2009
Cash for Clunkers Stimulates Foreign Brands Most
Six of the top ten brands of new vehicles purchased through the Cash for Clunkers program are foreign. Oops! More

August 4, 2009
Liberating the Third World with the Chains of Liberalism
The virus of liberalism is so virulent that it spreads like wildfire even throughout a place such as the Third World. More

August 4, 2009
Stacy McCain, Dan Rhiel, Jimmy Bise on Moran's show
They'll look at the lefty blogger who slandered Sarah Palin by starting a divorce rumor as well as the town halls being held by Democrats that are being disrupted by conservatives. More

August 4, 2009
Duplicitous Chavez gulls Obama
It's one thing to spout platitudes in a classroom or campaign, but quite another when there are actual consequences More

August 4, 2009
Pimp My Ride
What to do instead of scrapping all those Cash for Clunkers trade-ins. More

August 4, 2009
GOP upset victory in Delaware special election (updated)
Taking a seat that was held by the Democratic Party for roughly 40 years in a state where the Democrats rule the House, Senate, and the Governor's office. More

August 4, 2009
Jewish Democrat Organization averts its eyes
The National Jewish Democratic Council actively satirizes its willful blindness to an anti-Israel outrage . More

August 4, 2009
Anti-Chavez TV network attacked in Caracas
Hugo Chavez does not like criticism any more than does Barack Obama. More

August 4, 2009
Obama sends Bill Clinton to North Korea
Obama, Bill Clinton, and John Kerry all involved in trying to get our journalists released. What could go wrong? More

August 4, 2009
Obama's war on Sherrif Joe Arpaio
An Obama vendetta against Sheriff Joe. More

August 4, 2009
Reimagining Government
The section of the White House website entitled "Delivering on Change" has been changed, revising some of its more audacious claims More

August 4, 2009
Obama's national security policy missteps may doom Greg Craig
Passing the buck for failure. More

August 4, 2009
Homegrown, Made in the USA Jihad
Everything the sociologists are saying about terrorists is wrong. More

August 4, 2009
The White House even games citizen's correspondence
The least spontaneous presidency in history. More

August 4, 2009
Who's the rude one?
Citizens who are demanding answers or lawmakers who don't read bills they are pushing? More

August 3, 2009
The Heat is On
August is the best month of the entire year. Congress adjourns for a month-long recess in August and our representatives have the chance to spend the month in their home districts and states, unable to pass legislation. More

August 3, 2009
Media Matters Firing up Anti-Birther Machine
This just in my email box from those leftist guerrilla warriors over at Media Matters. They are launching an ad campaign to attack Lou Dobbs for mentioning the birth certificate controversy. More

August 3, 2009
LA mulls spending federal money for Canadian circus
Your tax dollars may soon finance a long term Los Angeles gig for the pride of Quebec: Cirque du Soleil. More

August 3, 2009
Obama channels Robert A. Heinlein
The dean of science fiction writers anticipated the arrival of Barack Obama and his cash for clunkers nonsense. More

August 3, 2009
Can the Schadenfreude - Part 3
Just a cautionary note to Republicans who may have been taunting, baiting or needling their liberal friends over Obama's falling ratings More

August 3, 2009
Boo-hoo, poor Mary Robinson thinks she is 'bullied' (updated)
The sponsor of the anti-Semitic hate fests known as Durban I and Durban II, Mary Robinson, can't stand even the slightest criticism of her receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. More

August 3, 2009
New York Times notes AT blog on Obama body language with Gates and Crowley (updated)
Not one iota of snark More

August 3, 2009
Don't Let Sleeping Blue Dogs Lie
It's time to hold the Blue Dogs accountable for their statement on health care reform. More

August 3, 2009
Softening up the Middle Class for the Coming Tax Hike
When Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared on George Stephanopoulos' program "This Week" on ABC, every question and every response had been carefully rehearsed beforehand. More

August 3, 2009
Welcome Gitmo Prisoners to the US!
Why have one when you can have two at twice the price? (Government logic.) More

August 3, 2009
Jobless grad sues college
Promising the moon and not delivering. More

August 3, 2009
Rahmbo browbeat network heads to carry Obama's health care presser
The media created this monster and now have to deal with the consequences More

August 3, 2009
Raising taxes on the wealthy will mean less revenue
So much for the idea that soaking the rich will pay for Obama's schemes. More

August 3, 2009
Geithner lies - hope dies
Next up: Middle class tax increases More

August 2, 2009
Letter of complaint
Gimmeabreak! You get a lot of mileage out of Obama walking in front of the beer bunch. More

August 2, 2009
Anti-Birthers are Beginning to Worry
After reading Bill Maher's embarrassing diatribe one can only conclude that the left is worried - very worried. More

August 2, 2009
Barack Obama, laughingstock
It is starting. Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly, middle-of-the-roader. More

August 2, 2009
Cash for clunkers picks winners and losers
Government meddling with the market has dramatic advantages for a few car dealers and shuts others out completely. More

August 2, 2009
Anti-Czar bill introduced
It isn't getting a lot of media attention and with the Democrats' majorities in the House and Senate, it is probably doomed, but for the sake of the memory of our Constitution, somebody had to do it. More

August 2, 2009
Richard Baehr interview
AT's chief political correspondent Richard Baehr recently was interviewed by Larry Greenfield of the Claremont Institute on the current political scene. More

August 2, 2009
Media Matters desperate to discredit embarrassing Obama photo
What's a left-winger to do when Barack Obama gets caught showing his character? Deny, discredit and denigrate, of course! More

August 2, 2009
'Why Israel is Nervous'
Obama has managed to nearly wreck this vital relationship. More

August 2, 2009
Dems considering the 'Armageddon option' on health care
Don't get the GOP angry. You wouldn't like them angry. More

August 2, 2009
Rubin on Eric Holder's Justice Department
Holder sure didn't waste any time, did he? More

August 2, 2009
Debunking myths about our 'lousy' health care system
Surprise! Who's more satisfied with their health care system; Us, or the Canadians? More

August 2, 2009
Did Sarah Palin just 'Pwn' the media with divorce rumors?
A little payback by the Palin camp? More

August 1, 2009
When Obama waits for the facts
Sometimes President Obama knows enough to refrain from speaking when he does not have the facts at his command. More

August 1, 2009
Meet the Czars
Multitalented Andrew Thomas of Dark Angel Politics turns his artistic talents on a fanciful handful of new czars. Inspired by a true story. More

August 1, 2009
Who really selected Mary Robinson for the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Mary Robinson, who headed a United Nation Commission that condoned suicide bombing against Israelis received one of America's highest honors. Who really selected her? More

August 1, 2009
'Dear Skip...'
A distinguished Harvard colleague writes an open letter to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. published in the Harvard Crimson, about his behavior toward Sgt. Crowley. More

August 1, 2009
Malthus, Obama, and AT's James Lewis
One of AT's best takes apart Obama's thinking on health care. More

August 1, 2009
Second installment of Claremont's Greenfield interview with AT's Ed Lasky
Lasky pulls no punches. More

August 1, 2009
Waxman, liberals, strong arm health care through committee
The battle will be joined back home. More

August 1, 2009
Can Obama stand the gaff?
Having a thin skin and being president don't mix. More

August 1, 2009
Who wasn't invited to White House Beer Fest?
The one person who didn't overreact in the entire incident. More

August 1, 2009
Carl Icahn's Obama Prophecy Coming True
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Barack Obama would be a 'terrible' U.S. president... More

August 1, 2009
What To Ask Your Congressperson About Obamacare (Part 7 of 7)
Why should taxpayers trust Congress not to make a mess of America's entire health care system? More