With the coming nomination, and the possible election, of Barack Obama, history is repeating itself. A venerable liberal yearning finds human expression anew. More

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has based his entire bid for the White House with Carter-style ideas and campaign policy advisers stemming directly from the administration and school of thought of the Carter Presidency. More

Today, for the first time in American history we have two --- count 'em, two --- hard-core Leftists running for the Democrat Party nomination. More

A few days ago I had an opportunity to discuss the pithy but engagingly written book War and Decision with its author, Douglas Feith. More

Last week President George W. Bush gave an outstanding speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. It stands out among the top five or so best speeches of Bush's two terms More

Despite the protests of her husband, Michelle Obama deserves intense scrutiny. She may be family, but she is also at the top of her husband's list of advisors. More

John McCain may be the oldest candidate running for the presidency but he appears to be the only one interested in the economic welfare of those younger than seniors More

How low will Al Gore go when peddling his global warming claptrap? More

There's one problem with the contention that Democrats are going to have a blow out year: if the American left is in such great shape, why are all their programs collapsing? More

Senator Obama, I think it might be time for you to do a bit of adjustment on that attitude of yours. Time to ditch some of that peevish audacity and pick up an ounce of humility. More

Almost every day another species of plant or animal is "discovered" to be threatened by global warming. The latest I have seen are moose in Scandinavia. More

The closeness of the primary contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has made the mechanics of the primary process itself the central issue of the campaign. More

Senator Barack Obama tries to be all things to all people with his vague language of change and hope. But sometimes he makes the mistake of promising something More

Barack Obama has enshrined the principle of unconditional summitry with Iran as one of the central foreign policy planks of his campaign for President. What would be the consequences? More

In order to appease an intransigent minority group, the California Supreme Court has resorted to inventing a new legal principle to justify their predetermined goal. It could lead in unexpected directions. More

The "energy plan" announced by the Democrats offers one thing: a significant slowdown of our economy for at least twenty years. More

Omniphobia is all around us, and it'll get us in the end. More

Sen. Arlen Specter announced that he wants to have an independent US Senate investigation into how Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner has handled the New England Patriots videogate/spygate cheating scandal. More

Were Jews living in Islamic societies victims of antisemitism? If so, to what extent? How did conditions for Jews in the Moslem East compare with those in Christian Europe? More

We know all too well what makes Hillary tick and McCain seems to be an open book. But Obama is a man of mystery; I propose we give him the benefit of the doubt, though he may not apprecaite the gesture. More

Feminism has been dying the death of a sick old woman. The real moral battles of feminism were won long ago. More

The engines of the "Free Mumia Abu-Jamel" movement continue to drone on, part of what has become a perverse American tradition. More

Slowly but surely it is beginning to dawn on a world mesmerized by the Democratic primary contest that an oil cartel has been picking our pocket with impunity by willfully failing to adjust its output to the additional needs of China and India. More

I suppose it is fitting that the news media and the super delegates are ignoring the significance of a thrashing of monumental proportions. More

We're watching the culmination of the decade-plus deterioration of the conservative Republican brand. No one, including base conservatives, trusts the Republicans to govern effectively. More

The old media is warming up to fully engage its next new storyline featuring Barack Obama, slayer of the Clinton Dragons, soon to become America's Post-Modern Uberpolitician. More

No one, including conservatives, trusts the Republicans to govern effectively while following anything even faintly resembling a conservative platform. More

Despite the success that liberal democracy has experienced since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western concepts of freedom may no longer be progressing, but in fact regressing. Ask Mark Steyn. More

When it comes to Barack Obama, only one subject infuriates the swooning mainstream media more than his father's race -- and that's his father and stepfather's religion. More

American patriots should have known better, I suppose, than to think that the Winter Soldiers would have enough pride not to show their faces in public again after their March tomfoolery in Detroit. More

I hope that no one will mistake me for an enemy of the British people. But history reveals a dark side of British policy in the Middle East. More

One of the striking features of modern politics is the speed at which a candidate, or a cause, can topple from the pedestal to the doghouse. More

With all the uniforms, planes, guns, and tanks, there is no doubt that Israel is militarized. But it is not militaristic. More

I realized early on that my birthday - May 14, 1948 - was extra special because I shared it with an entire nation, Israel. More

Barack Obama's call to action is "Change we can believe in." With his latest about face on direct talks with Iran's Ahmadinejad, Obama has finally clarified what he is going to change: his opinion More

The dire events on Lebanon have given us an opportunity to discover Senator Barack Obama's worldview and how it might influence his policies towards the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. More

One of many scary things about Senator Barrack Obama is how mistaken his ideology makes him, even when he thinks he's getting it right More

Lurking just beneath all that defiant bravado about Obama's unacceptably left wing voting record is the unexpressed Republican fear that the charming Illinois Senator just might be that easy-to-live-with guy America wouldn't mind coming home to. More

Is anyone else bothered by the superhuman rise of Barack Obama? More

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student Keith John Sampson was charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I'm not kidding. More

Another sophisticate has spoken out, and bravely: "...if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got the Army...." More

Is Islamic Anti-Semitism merely a response to the "occupation" of Palestine or Zionism? Or perhaps merely recycled European Antisemitism? History says otherwise. More

The debate over the trajectory of the Western sociopolitical system and its strained relations with Islam is the most pivotal of our time. Two prelates in the ever more fractious Church of England provide a microcosm of this discourse. More

The Syro-Iranian axis enflaming various battlefields in the region, from Basra to Gaza, has instructed its proxy local force on the Lebanese battlefield to surge against the pro-Western Government of Fuad Seniora. More

It must be devastating for Hillary Rhodam Clinton to see her chances of becoming the Democratic nominee fade into oblivion. More

A new battlefront in the war to erase politically incorrect civil liberties is taking place across corporate America under the innocuous-sounding banner of "Wellness." More

The Jewish vote in the coming presidential election is up for grabs to an extent unseen for almost three decades, assuming Barack Obama wins his party's nomination. More

No war can be won without a lot of behind-the-scenes home-front help. Of course, there's home-front help, and then there's home-front battle. More

Most pundits are telling Senator Hillary Clinton that it's all over. But she is no quitter. Barack Obama cannot expect to coast into the convention. More

In an election year such as this, the responsible voter must assess the "glorious" ends of the Left's various offers of a life without edges: an existence free of the normal dangers, struggles, and consequences of life. More

McCain's three-legged campaign strategy may be emerging. It's one that can lead him to victory in November. More

Before I finish writing this, I may be running for the Pepto Bismol. That's not a joke. More

With the rock star candidate hobbled by the preacher, it's hard to imagine that Barack Obama won't be looking more like an aging one hit wonder come late Fall. More

Sen. Barack Obama's recent fallout with Rev. Jeremiah Wright transcends daily news. The gravity of their broken friendship commands larger perspective. More

In climate, as in politics, ther are natural cycles. We may be seeing some new ones starting these days in both spheres. More

White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. Without it the Junior Senator from Illinois would be just a skinnier Bill Clinton. More

The homicidal maniacs of Hamas outdid even their most deranged Islamic brethren by putting out a film claiming that the Jews secretly planned and carried out 6 million deaths of their own people. More

What lies behind the failure of the globe to warm as predicted by settled science? More

Trinity United Church of Christ looks to be following a steady course in the wake of the retirement of Pastor Jeremiah Wright. More

Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd. More

An odd dynamic is at work as the primaries wind down, one that has made victory for Barack Obama all but certain, despite plummeting poll numbers. More

Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound. More

Barack Obama set the trap. Then he stepped in it. Or, as Reverend Wright might put it, Barack's chickens are coming home to roost. More

In less than a week the major political parties of the Right in Britain and Italy scored unprecedented electoral victories by winning mayoral races in Rome and then in London. More

We are a nation of hopefuls and always have been. In our relatively short time on earth, this nation has spawned more utopian societies and splinter religions promising immediate deliverance than any other culture in history. More

Speaking at the White House, Pope Benedict XVI April 16 embraced America's quest for freedom. Benedict's visit to America came just weeks after his Easter Eve baptism of Magdi Allam, Italy's most prominent Muslim. More

For more than a month now, the media has effectively covered up a potentially damning statement made by Senator Barack Obama. More

I picked up a copy of Time magazine yesterday, in which a columnist declared that issues of "character" were a "distraction" in the Presidential race. What a heap of pure poppycock! More

Why is it that so many Democratic leaders find it necessary to continue making spectacles of themselves after they leave office? More

The City of Cambridge Peace Commission got a rousing sendoff rom the entire City Council when it went to visit its friends in the Palestinian territories. But then the Freedom of Information Act went to work on this government body. More

American Thinker today launches its first-ever appeal to readers for financial support. We want to explain to readers why we are doing this at this particular moment. More

The Jeremiah Wright story will have a dead cat bounce, but the political lesson from Obama's pastor is, for all intents and purposes, over. More

When Reverend Wright accused those who criticize him of attacking the black church as a whole, he echoed Obama's much-heralded speech on Wright and race in the U.S. More