Lee Cary

Lee Cary

  • July 29, 2016

    Hillary Clinton's speech with something for everyone

    She listed many failures of the Obama regime but placed no blame. These were the major portions of Clinton’s acceptance speech: A call for national unity, An attack on Trump’s character and business honesty, A long self-...

  • July 28, 2016

    Hillary’s Philly speech agenda

    Her rigged race against Bernie told us little about her plans for America. The themes of this Democrat convention include unity, children, women, family, racial, gender, with accompanying appeals for justice and human rights for the various and su...

  • July 27, 2016

    Excerpt from Hillary’s address to the Democratic National Convention

    These words come from Hillary Clinton’s speech, entitled “United We Can Build A Better America.” Tonight we need to remember what a Presidential election is really about. When the polls have closed, and the ads are finally...

  • July 25, 2016

    DNC Wikileaks Hack Outs Hillary Shill at Washington Post

    A Washington Post blog site joins the conga line of the busted. The reporter for the Washington Post’s blog, The Plum Line, is described by the news outlet thusly: “Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog wit...

  • July 24, 2016

    DNC Wikileaks hack reveals CNN in bed with Dems

    Another media outlet is busted.  In his piece entitled “DNC Wikileaks hack reveals Politico in bed with Dems,” American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson recently busted an “influential reporter” at Politico for running an ...

  • July 22, 2016

    The RNC speech that made Texas proud

    It was not a polished speech delivered by a politician. It was plain-spoken by former U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. If you saw it, you know why Texas is proud of Luttrell, the man whose actions in Afghanistan are portrayed in the movie L...

  • July 16, 2016

    Have we muddled up the definition of Islamic radical terrorism?

    Most Muslims in the world are radicals.  They – the truly “radical” Muslims – live by a flexible, relativist interpretation of Islam (“surrender to the will of God”), rather than by strict adherence to the ...

  • July 7, 2016

    How Comey Wrote Trump’s Acceptance Speech

    American can’t be great again until its government becomes honest. When Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech in Cleveland as the Republican Nominee for the Presidency of the United States of America, he will repeat his campaign mantra...

  • July 3, 2016

    Has the U.S. Department of Justice violated the Hatch Act?

    Who will be the first Republican to publically suggest that the DoJ has violated the Hatch Act? The Hatch Act of 1939, also known as An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is named after the late U.S. Senator from New Mexico, Carl Atwo...

  • June 29, 2016

    Benghazi Committee’s Event Horizon

    South Carolina Republican Congressman "Trey" Gowdy (R. 4th Dist.) led the House Benghazi Committee into a black hole. In a CBS Face the Nation video of an interview back on October 18, 2015, Gowdy aimed to fend off criticism of the commi...

  • June 28, 2016

    Why Trump frightens the GOP Illuminati

    George Will, Brent Scowcroft, Hank Paulson, and Paul Ryan all fear Donald Trump. They’re part of a growing list of GOP Establishment Illuminati that includes Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and Mitch McConnell. George Will officially declared ...

  • June 18, 2016

    DHS’s plan for countering violent extremism

    The regime’s Department of Homeland Security CVE plan for keeping Americans safe is worth reading. If, having read the preface below, you wish to read the entire 38-pages document, you will find it here. WARNING: Although written in ...

  • June 10, 2016

    Is the Hillmailgate FIX in?

    Josh Earnest came close to a tacit confession that the FIX is in. On the afternoon of June 9, 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with President Obama in the White House.  We are unlikely to ever know with certainty the substance of the ...

  • June 8, 2016

    GOP luminaries bashing Trump thereby endorse La Raza

    Did Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell do their La Raza homework before calling Trump a bigot? It appears they may not have.  Or worse, they’ve done their homework but chosen not to factor in the nature of the organizati...

  • June 8, 2016

    How McConnell and Gingrich reacted to Judge Sotomayor’s 'wise Latina' comments

    Mitch waffled, while Newt called Sonia a racist. You may remember when appeals court justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a controversial speech in 2001.  In 2009, the New York Times remembered: In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned ...

  • June 5, 2016

    Is a ‘Red Summer’ coming to Chicago?

    As weekend shootings continue in Chicago, we wonder if worse is ahead. The original Red Summer was in 1919. “The ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 marked the culmination of steadily growing tensions surrounding the great migration of Afr...

  • June 1, 2016

    Who helped Barack Obama avoid the taint of Chicago corruption?

    How did Barack Obama emerge from Chicago in 2008 untainted by political corruption? His rise to power began at the 2004 Democratic Party Convention when Illinois State Senator Barack Obama was catapulted onto the national stage by the alluring fo...

  • May 22, 2016

    Testing the Planet Fitness open bathroom policy in West Texas

    Planet Fitness passed a recent test of their open bathroom policy in West Texas. West Texas is one of the five, geographically-diverse states of Texas.  Its land is largely barren, semi-arid and widely unpopulated – discounting cattl...

  • May 19, 2016

    The missing definition of ‘conservative’

    Media political pundits using the term “conservative” should be asked to define it. For example, the dueling talking-heads prevalent ad nauseam on FOX News discussing POTUS candidates routinely say that Donald Trump is not a conservati...

  • May 3, 2016

    Louisville mayor and university president assault Confederate memorial

    City of Louisville Democrat Mayor Greg Fisher and University of Louisville president James Ramsey – currently engaged in a battle with the school’s Board of Trustees – want a memorial commemorating Confederate veterans in their city...

  • April 29, 2016

    Obama fabricates a legacy of economic achievement

    President Obama is using Whig history to shape the narrative arc of his economic achievements. In 1931, Herbert Butterfield, an Oxford University don, wrote a short book entitled The Whig Interpretation of History. It’s not on today’s ...

  • April 28, 2016

    Lena Dunham’s threat to move to Canada if Trump elected

    How would Lena Dunham adjust to working with more than just white people? Lena Dunham is a popular television writer, producer, director, and actress, according to TIME magazine online.  She is also a political activist promoting the candidac...

  • April 21, 2016

    Princeton professor explains the dark side of progressivism

    A Princeton University economics professor highlights the darker sides of the reformers of the American Progressive Era in an interview. Hillary Clinton has repeatedly described herself as a “progressive,” and even as a “proud, m...

  • April 17, 2016

    Gender diverse bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, and more

    Let’s accept where today’s progressives will force us to go, and get there ahead of them. The history of the American progressive movement proves that Hillary, and all other “proud, modern, American progressives,” stay focu...

  • April 12, 2016

    Is James Comey the new Eliot Ness?

    The media is pushing the notion that James Comey is the reincarnation of the original FBI Untouchable, Eliot Ness.  A brief trip down Memory Lane may cause some to reserve judgment on that claim. On July 14, 2003, one line in a Washington ...

  • April 11, 2016

    An example of how Ann Coulter is right: Media hiding illegal immigrant crime

    The Dallas television affiliate of  CBS, owned and operated by the network, may have confirmed Ann Coulter’s claim, in Adios America, that the liberal media hides the truth about illegal immigrant criminals in America. On March 20, 2016...

  • March 31, 2016

    A hypocritical liberal media accuses Obama of hypocrisy

    As President Obama begins his long goodbye from office, the media that made him begins reclaiming its credibility – too late. Let’s mark the beginning of the liberal media’s effort to distance itself from the Obama regime with tw...

  • March 28, 2016

    An appeal to Trump and Cruz supporters

    We must resist the Socialist Democrats’ effort to forge, with the MSM’s aid, an irreparable split between us. Full disclosure: I voted for Cruz in the Texas primary.  If Trump is the GOP nominee, I’ll vote for him in Novembe...

  • March 16, 2016

    The GOP Cavalry is Late

    The Republican Cavalry may be coming from an unexpected direction. An American Thinker (AT) article, posted on July 5, 2012, entitled "If the GOP Cavalry Doesn't Come," stated that, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ObamaCa...

  • February 14, 2016

    Trump's new ad is as devastating as Willie Horton was

    Donald Trump’s new ad featuring Jamiel Shaw, Sr. is in the impact class of the Willie Horton ad back when Bush 41 ran against Dukakis.  It tells me that Trump has smarter people designing his ads than Cruz, to date. First Cruz uses...

  • January 24, 2016

    Chris Matthews’s question on the difference between Democrat and Socialist answered

    A distinguished scholar answered the Matthews Question about how Democrats and Socialists differ almost a century ago. Last July, when MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to define the difference between a De...

  • December 10, 2015

    Illiberal Reformers: The Racist, Sexist, and Elitist Roots of Progressivism

    A Princeton University professor’s book could help frame an important political discussion as the 2016 election approaches. Dr. Thomas C. Leonard’s Illiberal Reformers is due to be released by Princeton University Press next February. ...

  • October 19, 2015

    Carly's Gender Card

    Carly Fiorina’s recent criticism of Hillary for playing the race card may have been ill-advised.  At an Iowa campaign event on 17 October, 2015, Republican Presidential Candidate Carly Fiorina is quoted as predicting that “...

  • October 15, 2015

    Unspeakable words in the Democrat candidates' debate

    Words of great national importance were unspoken in this week’s Democrat candidates’ debate, conspicuous by their absence. The unspeakable words at the Democrat debate were “national debt.” The word “debt” al...

  • September 17, 2015

    CNN's Jake Tapper stages a food fight

    Last night, the CNN Republican presidential candidates fell into a trap set by CNN’s Jake Tapper, aided by two junior questioners. The intent, made clear in the framing of the questions, was to position the candidates to dispute each other...

  • September 16, 2015

    Why the GOP won't fight to defund Planned Parenthood

    Despite verbal posturing to the contrary, the GOP has not waged a spirited fight to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood.  And, they’re unlikely to do so in the future. Past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior. ...

  • September 13, 2015

    Making sense of the GOP's cave-in on the Iran deal

    Why did the Republicans in Congress offer only token, perfunctory opposition to Obama’s Iran nuclear deal?  In response to that question, Rush Limbaugh recently stated on-air (Sept. 11, 2015) that, “There is no explanation that an...

  • July 16, 2015

    Why do Democrats honor Confederate generals?

    It’s time the Democratic Party apologizes to African-Americans for naming U.S. Army forts after Confederate generals. Colin Flaherty’s recent AT piece, “As long as we're eliminating symbols of past racism...,” calls for...

  • June 30, 2015

    Obergefell v. Hodges and Tax Exemption for Churches

    The Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage settled little. It merely launched a bigger struggle over the definition of marriage. Now, resistance to Obergefell v. Hodges will join Roe v. Wade in becoming another, long-tailed comet moving acros...

  • June 27, 2015

    The monuments to the framers of <em>The Southern Manifesto </em>of 1956

    As Confederate flags come down, so should the monuments that honor the Democrat politicians who overwhelmingly supported The Southern Manifesto of 1956.   The Southern Manifesto – officially entitled The Decision of the Supreme Cou...

  • February 7, 2015

    Brian Williams: It's all about him

    Brian Williams’s on-site reporting displays a pattern of personal embellishments. With the revelation of his false claim of combat experience in Iraq, Williams transitions from the dean of Big Media’s news anchors to the clock that str...

  • December 26, 2014

    NYPD's strategy behind soft resistance to protesters

    NYC officials may have learned a lesson from the D.C. Police Department on handling ANSWER Coalition protestors. American Thinker readers know the history of ANSWER and how its signs popped up early in Ferguson.   They also know that, whil...

  • December 1, 2014

    Leftist organizers are using Ferguson to rehearse the Big Ugly

    Multiple far-left groups are using Ferguson as a pretext to rehearse widespread civil disobedience when the Welfare State taps the brakes.  The scaling down of the Welfare State in America is not a question of “if,” but “whe...

  • November 27, 2014

    Hard-left drivers of the 'new civil rights movement' demonstrations on Ferguson

    The “spontaneous” demonstrations across America on Ferguson are widely populated by socialist and communist groups. Here are four more groups adding to a previous post here.  (1) A.N.S.W.E.R. is active in street demonstrations ...

  • November 26, 2014

    Just who is driving the 'new civil rights movement' demonstrations on Ferguson?

    If you think all the demonstrators across America in the wake of the grand jury in Missouri declining to issue a true bill on Officer Wilson are motivated by genuine racial grievances, think again. The message is in the signs, which are basically ...

  • November 15, 2014

    A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition and the Partnership for Civil Justice

    See also: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition not letting Ferguson crisis go to waste and A.N.S.W.E.R. and the Party for Socialism & Liberation in Ferguson The “Justice Center” in D.C. is the center for the hydra-headed effort behind the A.N...

  • November 14, 2014

    A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition is Marxist-Leninist Activism in Ferguson

    See also: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition not letting Ferguson crisis go to waste   The Party for Socialism and Liberation marches along with the A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition.org signs in Ferguson, Missouri. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)...

  • November 13, 2014

    A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition not letting Ferguson crisis go to waste

    A complex organization stands behind the A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition.org signs in Ferguson, Missouri.  A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition is part of an enterprise structured like Charles Handy’s “Shamrock” organization with: (1) “a core ...

  • November 12, 2014

    Don't Shoot Coalition in Ferguson: a facade for progressive social activists

    See also: Behind the Don't Shoot Coalition in Ferguson Ferguson’s Don’t Shoot Coalition members are supplemented by professional social activists, from in, and outside, Missouri. Two such groups are profiled below – one th...

  • November 11, 2014

    Behind the Don't Shoot Coalition in Ferguson

    A core of community organizers is behind the 45 organizations placing demands on the policing agencies in St. Louis County. As the Grand Jury’s decision concerning Officer Darren Wilson is awaited, Don’t Shoot Coalition (DSC) is prepar...

  • November 7, 2014

    Group proposes 'Rules of Engagement' post-Grand Jury decision

    A large group of community organizers are anticipating street demonstrations when the Grand Jury decision is announced on the shooting of Michael Brown.    Don’t Shoot Coalition, a group of about 50 organizations, most from in...

  • November 5, 2014

    A post-election word on parties

    This early American Thinker’s voice is largely forgotten today, but he was once more Jeffersonian than Jefferson. John Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) was a graduate of William & Mary College, a Virginia lawyer and plantation owner, a Rev...

  • October 20, 2014

    Milking the State Department's cash cow

    The liberal media is ignoring the developing story detailing the fiduciary incompetence of the Department of State (DOS) during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. Meanwhile, the Inspector General (IG) of the DOS, Steve A. Linick...

  • October 13, 2014

    Crony Christianity

    Crony Christianity challenges the separation of Church and State.      Crony Christianity is the collaborative arrangement between government and Christian faith-based organizations whereby government funds Christian organ...

  • October 12, 2014

    Hillary's reputation for competence as Secretary of State erodes from within

    Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State continues to draw internal criticism. The former Secretary of State is coy about her 2016 POTUS candidacy intentions, but the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) continues to identify a...

  • September 25, 2014

    State Department won't say how missing records for $6 billion were stored

    A spokesperson for the State Department refuses to say if any missing contract files from March 2008 - March 2014 were stored electronically. The American Thinker began covering the case of the missing records for $6 billion on April 5, 2014, soon...

  • September 14, 2014

    State Department can't account for $6 billion in last 6 years

    After six months, the search for missing State Department accounting records continues. Multiple websites, including the American Thinker, reported in early April 2014 that, “There has been, in the most charitable interpretation, grave slopp...

  • July 26, 2014

    Hillary's not laughing any more, we trust

    Hillary Clinton thought it was funny when Kaddafi died.  Who’s laughing now? In this 11-second video, then Secretary of State Clinton laughed about the fall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, saying, “We came. We saw. He died....

  • July 25, 2014

    Julia and Pajama Boy, a Millennials Love Story

    A Millennial Love Story began the day Pajama Boy (P.J.) met Julia in a rope line outside an elite venue for an Obama fundraiser. They chatted excitedly as they awaited his coming. Talking while texting friends, they soon realized that they both at...

  • July 12, 2014

    The Democrats' War on Children

    Central American children are pawns in the Democratic Party’s pursuit of political advantage through an open Southern border.  Gilberto Ramos is just one of their most recent victims. The Guardian recently told Gilberto’s story...

  • April 16, 2014

    Vice President Clinton?

    Here’s a prediction, albeit a longshot. After the midterms, Joe Biden resigns citing vague, undefined health reasons. Biden will devote his time to assembling documents from his many years in the Senate and as VP for inclusion in the planned...

  • March 27, 2014

    California State Sen. Yee's Arrest Partner

    On March 26, California State Senator was arrested by the FBI.  CBS San Francisco reported: SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — State Senator Leland Yee, one of the most powerful Democratic politicians in California, was arrested Wednesday morni...

  • January 6, 2014

    The National Marriage Act of 2015 and ObamaMatch.com

    As global warming becomes settled science and ObamaCare successes mount, it's time for the D.C. central planners to fix marriage in American. The current rash of warm temperatures across the nation is reviving the call for a national carbon credit...

  • December 30, 2013

    ObamaCore Public Education

    With the nationalizing of the American healthcare system well underway, nationalizing public education pre-K through 12 is the next big thing on the progressive agenda. Wait for it. It will be called ObamaCore Education, for short. The original ...

  • December 28, 2013

    After ObamaCare, Is ObamaVida Life Insurance Next?

    As we enter a New Year enjoying the ever-mounting success of ObamaCare, it's time we anticipate another federal sortie into the nation's insurance market: life insurance.  Just as former House Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted back in Jun...

  • December 21, 2013

    After Obamacare, ObamaHaus Insurance?

    With the mounting successes of ObamaCare, it's time to anticipate the next federal frontier of statist intervention. The home insurance market - ObamaHaus Insurance. The "Haus" in ObamaHaus Insurance is a hat tip to the father of the modern welfare...

  • December 5, 2013

    Obamacare Conversations for the Christmas Season

    In the spirit of the guidance posted on barackobama.com describing how to plan and provoke Obamacare conversations around the Thanksgiving table, here's a draft of how to conduct Obamacare conversations during the Christmas Season. Let the Yuleti...

  • December 4, 2013

    After Obamacare, ObamaCar Insurance?

    The rollout of ObamaCare is, once again, displaying the federal government's adeptness at managing complexity -- a capability already illustrated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Amtrak (FUBAR), and the United States Postal Service (USPS)....

  • November 23, 2013

    Department of Education civil rights investigators descend on a West Texas school

    Recently, U.S. Department of Education officials visited a West Texas town to investigate its public schools. The investigators were from the Education Department's (DoED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). "The mission of the Office for Civil Righ...

  • November 22, 2013

    Texas Navigators exposed in O'Keefe videos won't face government action

    It looks like the Obamacare navigators captured on videotape telling applicants to lie about their income by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas will face no consequences from any governmental authorities. Eric Holder's Department of Justice, which would...

  • November 19, 2013

    Texas State Senate candidate files complaint against Navigators

    The James O'Keefe Navigator videotapes are attracting attention in the state where they were filmed. The two O'Keefe tapes released to date, with more promised, recorded Navigators working for organizations under contract to the Department of Health...

  • November 18, 2013

    Educator, Heal Thyself

    M.I.T. Economics Professor and Obamacare "architect" Jonathan Gruber offers American education a pathway to fairness. In a recent interview with NBC News reporter Chuck Todd, Gruber said this about America's healthcare system: "We currently hav...

  • November 11, 2013

    GOP's response if Obama delays the ACA individual mandate

    What will the GOP leadership do if Obama calls for a one year delay in the ACA individual mandate? Suppose the software programming wizards at CGI Federal are not able to fundamentally transform their Frankenstein-like monster into an integrated s...

  • November 9, 2013

    Cuccinelli Only the Latest Conservative Candidate Targeted by G.O.P.

    The Republican establishment continues to undercut the campaigns of conservative candidates.  Ken Cuccinelli was just the latest.   In early 2013, a Texas-based Tea Party website posted a series of articles that documented how the G.O...

  • November 1, 2013

    Maybe Republicans Should Heed Harry Reid

    Harry Reid said we all want to pay more taxes, so the GOP should help make it happen, beginning with Reid's own "rich people." In a recent interview with Nevada Public Radio, Reid said, "The only people who feel there shouldn't be more coming in to t...

  • October 21, 2013

    GOP Should Drop Norquist and Follow Maher

    Republicans should forget the tax policies of Grover Norquist and embrace Bill Maher's California model for fiscal success. Purported comedian and political pundit Bill Maher recently touted California's success in turning a state budget deficit int...

  • October 15, 2013

    No Cavalry Is Coming

    Fiscal conservatives wait in vain for the GOP Cavalry to rescue America from further growth in the federal debt, for there is no Cavalry coming. An American Thinker (AT) piece, posted on July 5, 2012, entitled "If the GOP Cavalry Doesn't Come," sugg...

  • October 9, 2013

    The Black Swan in the Perfect Storm

    The Black Swan is Arithmetic. She is coming and she is already here. In Detroit, you see her in the debris of a once great American city. The Perfect Storm is the confluence of events that will wreak economic havoc on America. It need not have anyth...

  • September 14, 2013

    Putin Set-up Obama and Kerry for the Spike in 2014

    When you leave the carnival broke, sometimes you don't know how bad you were had until you find your watch is missing.  And if the watch doesn't convince you, finding your wallet gone, too, should. A September 14, 2013 New York Times article en...

  • September 13, 2013

    The Putin Set-Spike

    When you leave the carnival broke, sometimes you don't know how bad you were had until you find your watch is missing. While the President's spinmeisters struggle to put a happy face on the regime's convoluted pathway to avoid bombing Syria because ...

  • September 23, 2012

    A true life simile for Obama's Middle East policy

    A New York man's encounter with a tiger illustrates President Obama's Middle East policies. Twenty-five-year old David Villalobos explained what he did this way, "I wanted to be one with the tiger." That was after he jumped from an elevated train and...

  • September 21, 2012

    'It's the Country, Stupid'

    There's a word that often describes too much of the inside-the-Beltway, northeast-corridor "conservative" punditry -- snarly. A notion is afoot in that terrain, in these final days leading up to the November election, that this is just one more silly...

  • September 18, 2012

    The November Referendum on the Liberal Media

    The old media is dialing-up its defense of a failed Presidency. It will cost them. As the Obama Doctrine, that ill-defined foreign policy born during the conflagration that brought an end to the dictator Gaddafi not unlike that recently delivered upo...

  • September 18, 2012

    Obama plays the Race Card in Cincy

    He threw down the race card, saying Republicans want him to wash their cars. CNSNews.com reports that Obama said, "While speaking in Cincinnati on Monday [September 17], Obama said, "The only thing they [Republicans] can do is keep trying to bluff t...

  • September 17, 2012

    Which one is real?

    So which one is the real Obama?  The Presidential one with his hand over his heart at the return of the bodies from Libya? Or, the Candidate Obama unwilling to put his hand over his heart?        ...

  • September 17, 2012

    Hillary's 2016 dilemma

    If Hillary Clinton runs in 2016, the failed Obama Doctrine will drag her down. Whether "Obama Destabilized the Middle East on Purpose," as the title of a recent article posted on American Thinker suggests, or, the failure of the Obama Doctrine -- wha...

  • September 12, 2012

    Bill Clinton plays the Obama hole card against Romney

    We predicted the Mormon card was coming, but didn't anticipate the player. In a slobbering BuzzFeed article by Zeke Miller about former President Bill Clinton, the Obama campaign indirectly slapped down the Mormon Church card against Romney, as was p...

  • September 12, 2012

    Obama's Arab Spring becomes the Arab Winter

    The murder of Ambassador Stevens prompts a new question to Obama supporters: "How's that Arab Spring thing workin' out for ya?" The horrific photo of Chris Stevens, who died in service to his country, is the new icon for Obama's naïve Arab Spring man...

  • September 11, 2012

    Obama's Slogan

    Forward, the Obama campaign's collectivist campaign slogan, targets undecided voters. Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), variously described as a French philosopher, legal scholar/law professor, lay theologian and Christian anarchist, wrote the widely-acclai...

  • September 11, 2012

    Moody's threatens lower U.S. credit rating

    Boehner and House Republicans should activate their "Do Nothing" blame shield - pronto. Today, Moody's threatened to lower the U.S. debt rating in this statement. "New York, September 11, 2012 -- Budget negotiations during the 2013 Congressional leg...

  • September 8, 2012

    The New Hermeneutics of Barack Obama

    Barack Obama is a political example of the concept of "language event" as defined by the biblical scholars of the New Hermeneutic School. The New Hermeneutic is a method of biblical exegesis that gained popularity with biblical scholars in liberal, m...

  • September 7, 2012

    Is America's Dance with Utopian Socialism Ending?

    If the dance continues, it will take generations for America to pay off its mortgage to utopian socialism and be free again. Utopianism has seduced mankind before.  It has been, as Thomas Molnar (Hungarian Catholic philosopher, historian, and po...

  • September 7, 2012

    Busting the Democrat myth of the Koch brothers

    Merely mention the monstrous Koch brothers and Democrats go berserk. But what's the truth concerning the extent of the Koch's financial impact on elections? On the website opensecrets.org , we find this list of Top All-Time Political Donors from 1989...

  • September 6, 2012

    Democrat -style democracy, revealed

    The sham vote on revising the Democrats' platform shows us how they rig elections. If you've not yet seen the brief video posted here on American Thinker, it's worth watching. It captures the moment when Democrat conventioneers allegedly voted to ame...

  • September 5, 2012

    DNC ad touches the Unholy Grail of anti-Constitutional thought

    Even in jest, you cannot make up this level of stupidity espoused by a national political party. Here's a video ad put out by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) The punch line is: "The government is the only thing we all belong to." (For...

  • August 29, 2012

    Presidential Debate Advice for Mitt Romney

    The following debate suggestions for Gov. Romney may be worth what his advisers are paying for them -- nothing.  But here goes anyway. TO: Governor Romney's Presidential Debate Preparation Team Since the first presidential debate is only a month...

  • August 25, 2012

    Has the old media worm turned against Obama?

    The answer, in a word, is "No." The old media worm has not turned against Obama, despite the much-publicized Newsweek cover featuring the president's photo with the caption, "Hit the road, Barack." The cover set off a flurry of fireworks from leftist...

  • August 24, 2012

    Has the predicted play of the Mormon Card against Romney begun?

    A recent AT article predicted that the Obama campaign would play the Mormon Church card after Labor Day.  It's begun early. On June 25, 2012, an American Thinker article entitled "Obama Campaign's Hole Card: Romney's Church" predicted that, thro...

  • August 23, 2012

    Obama and the Asphalt Plantation

    President Obama has done nothing to address the problems of the black community defined in a 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. And by doing nothing, he's made the problems worse. Forty-seven years ago, Moynihan (1927-2003) was the assistant se...

  • August 23, 2012

    Congressman Akin: A Rush to a Political Execution

    Google "Democrat senator apologizes," and watch what pops up. Quite a few of the first listings to come up are about Missouri senatorial candidate Todd Akin. Clearly, the firing squad has formed, and the folks at Google are helping load the rifles. T...

  • August 19, 2012

    Madison's cure to 'the dangerous violence of faction'

    The maxim "divide-and-conquer" brings conflict to both military and political venues.  As a military strategy, it can work to bring victory.  As a political strategy, it can backfire -- upon both the initiator and the nation. Today, the Exe...

  • August 17, 2012

    Obama's Impact on Race Relations in America

    America's first post-racial president has damaged race relations in the nation.  In an April 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Obama said, "I never bought into the notion that by electing me, somehow we were entering into a post racial...

  • August 14, 2012

    Obama's sanitized history for Iftar dinner

    President Obama showed off Jefferson's Koran at a recent White House Iftar Dinner, but ignored the book in its historical context. According to a press release from the White House dated August 10, 2012, the President told those gathered at the Iftar...

  • August 13, 2012

    Obama's Three-Tiered Wealth Redistribution Plan: Individual, Regional, and Global

    Stanley Kurtz's newest book fills in the middle tier of President Obama's three-tiered plan to redistribute American wealth. Individual Redistribution The first tier, taking their "fair share" of taxes from the rich, received early attention in the '...

  • August 13, 2012

    Another round of liberal debate moderators

    The best conservatives can do with the announced litany of liberal presidential debate moderators is see it as an opportunity for Romney. DRUDGE today reports that the Presidential Debate moderators representing PBS, CNN, CBS and ABC will be Jim Lehr...

  • August 12, 2012

    A national media that retains its honour

    There's no typo in the title; honour is the British spelling of honor, and their newspaper retain some of it. Each year witnesses a decrease in the circulation of most major U.S. daily newspapers, and a corresponding decline in their credibility. ...

  • August 11, 2012

    Awaiting the Obama PAC ad that jumps the shark

    Don't be surprised when an Obama superPAC ad threatens urban disorder if Obama loses the election. Jump the shark "is an idiom created by Jon Hein that is used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in q...

  • August 10, 2012

    The Chicago Tribune and reporter John Chase are leaking, again

    Why is the Chicago Tribune quoting unreleased DoJ audio tapes of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's phone conversations? And how did Trib reporters get the transcripts? On December 11, 2011, the American Thinker posted the story, complete wit...

  • August 8, 2012

    Did Senator Obama dodge taxes on a $400,000 gift from Tony Rezko?

    Last February, a website focused on Chicago corruption reported that a former business partner of Tony Rezko gave Rezko $400K that Rezko gave to then Senator Barack Obama. The accusation relied on information provided by the star witness in a Chicago...

  • August 6, 2012

    The Morphing of the Tea Party

    The Tea Party movement morphed from protest signs to campaign signs. That's how a Texas Tea Party activist succinctly put it when I asked him what's become of the movement. He said, "We put down our protest signs, and picked up campaign signs." He sa...

  • August 1, 2012

    In Texas, the Tea Party Hobbits Rehearse their November March (updated)

    Someone wake up James "The Raging Cajun" Carville, who recently declared the Tea Party as being "over," and give him the FOX News from Texas. "Tea party darling Ted Cruz convincingly defeated the Republican establishment favorite, Lt. Gov. David Dew...

  • July 30, 2012

    What Role Will White Guilt Play in the 2012 Election?

    The unintended consequence of the white guilt vote for Obama in '08 is in the impact it's had on those most hurt by the president's economic policies: poor urban blacks. In his book White Guilt: How Blacks & Whites Together Destroyed the Promise ...

  • July 10, 2012

    Next on the Progressives' Marriage Agenda: Polygamous Nuptials

    President Obama's acceptance of same-sex marriage logically applies to polygamous relationships. President Obama appointed Chai Feldblum to be a commissioner on the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) in March 2010; the Senate confirmed he...

  • July 5, 2012

    If the GOP Cavalry Doesn't Come

    In the wake of the Supreme Court's ObamaCare decision, conservatives await the arrival of the GOP Cavalry after a Republican victory in November. What if that cavalry doesn't come?  Or what if it arrives poorly armed, on lame horses, with dull l...

  • June 29, 2012

    Another $33 Mil Down The Federal Rat Hole

    The costly failures of Obama's alternative energy policy continue to mount. Here's the front page from the Friday Morning, June 29, 2012 issue of the Albuquerque Journal.    The Obamacare Survives headline shares the space above the fold wi...

  • June 25, 2012

    Obama Campaign's Hole Card: Romney's Church

    One hole card in the Obama campaign's deck of memes remains to be played against Romney: his affiliation with the LDS Church. The campaign's race-based, class-warfare, GOP-war-against-women, blame-Bush, and blame-Republicans cards are already in play...

  • June 1, 2012

    Dallas' Al Sharpton Gets Caught

    Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price got caught.  He's been a fixture in Dallas politics for decades, quick to label others as racists in response to any slight offense he perceives. This just appeared on a Dallas Fox outlet. Price h...

  • March 25, 2012

    President Washington's Forgotten Advice On National Debt

    In President George Washington's valedictory address to the people of the United States in September 1796, he offered this forgotten advice on "public credit." As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of...

  • March 25, 2012

    Obama's 'strong minority perspective'

    (An update -- Kyle-Anne Shiver & Lee Cary Original posters: original blog posted on American Thinker on March 20, 2008.) The headlines of the article written by Fox Butterfield that appeared in the February 6, 1990 issue of the New York Times rea...

  • February 26, 2012

    One Noteworthy Invocation of Divine Guidance in American History

    As religion plays its now nearly routine role in American politics during this silly season, we recall the words of the man who would become our first President, General George Washington. John Marshall (1755-1835), who served in the Continental Army...

  • January 31, 2012

    Alexander Hamilton and the TSA

    In Federalist Paper No. 8, Alexander Hamilton writes about the Transportation Safety Administration, accidently. Nearly every week, the TSA makes news by strip-searching an elderly woman, or suffering an inexplicable breach in security, or detaining...

  • January 22, 2012

    How Chief Justice John Marshall Described Leadership

    John Marshall, who served in the Continental Army and went on to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, once described leadership in action. Marshall (1755-1835) completed the first serious biography of George Washington eight years after Wa...

  • January 22, 2012

    Where is Frank Kent Today?

    A paper presented to journalism educators in 1986 featured Frank Kent, a Baltimore Sun reporter who dared to oppose President Roosevelt's New Deal policies. In early August 1986, Marvin N. Olasky presented a 21-page paper entitled "Scratching the Fir...

  • January 9, 2012

    Chicago Political Turf War Heats Up

    A political turf war in Chicago, pitting the old Machine against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new regime, is underway. The power configuration of the old Machine will be realigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.  That means shifting loyalties.  One such shi...

  • December 22, 2011

    Rezko Gets A Holiday Pass On A Multi-million Dollar Scam

    Today, a U.S. District Judge sentenced Tony Rezko to a 7½-year sentence that will run concurrent with the earlier 10½-year prison term he received last month. That means no additional jail time for Tony. Essentially, Rezko gets a pass for, as the 200...

  • December 8, 2011

    Chicago Tribune Federal Wiretap Leaker Stands By Blago

    When former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich faced media microphones after he was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, the Chicago reporter who told Blago that the feds were bugging his phones stood beside his man. (Video)  The man to Blag...

  • December 7, 2011

    Obama Drafts the Tea Party into the Occupy Wall Street Mob

    In his Kansas speech Tuesday, President Obama linked the motives of the Tea Party movement to those of the Occupy Wall Street crowd. It was revisionist history on parade.  Memes are like genes, in that they can change. In the political arena, me...

  • December 5, 2011

    The Chicago Tribune Reveals the Democrat 2012 Pitch to Independents

    In a November 6 editorial that drew little attention, the Chicago Tribune revealed part of the Obama campaign strategy to attract independent voters in 2012. In comparison, a November 27 New York Times article is still attracting attention, particula...

  • December 4, 2011

    George Mason on How Governments Can Become Oppressive

    In April 1775, founder George Mason (1725-1792) wrote how a government established by free people could, over time, become oppressive. His document entitled "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" came in the context of orga...

  • December 2, 2011

    The Chicago Tribune Stand by Their Man: Barack Obama

    According to Bruce Dold, editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper stands by its October 17, 2008 endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for the presidency. In response to an e-mail asking, "Mr. Dold, if you had it to do again, would y...

  • November 29, 2011

    General Washington Writes to George Mason His Feelings on the War

    In a letter dated March 17, 1779, General George Washington, from his encampment at Middlebrook, wrote a return letter to his Virginia friend, George Mason. It began by the General recounting how he had complied with a request, dated March 8, from Ma...

  • November 25, 2011

    The Father of the Bill of Rights on 'Fundamental Principles'

    George Mason defined what it takes for us to preserve the blessing of liberty in his first draft of the Virginia Bill of Rights. Mason was one member of a committee of twenty-seven Virginians appointed to draft the Virginia Declaration of Rights i...

  • November 20, 2011

    Founder George Mason on the Arrogance of Government

    On June 6, 1766, George Mason (1725-1792) expressed a budding colonial attitude that would, a decade later, give rise to the American Revolution. Mason wrote the first draft of Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted June 12, 1776. Section 1 read: "...

  • October 24, 2011

    The Hobbits March in One Year

    There's a quiet in the Shire these days.  And in Bree in the northwest of Middle-earth, the Hobbits stay close to their Smials, their "hobbit holes."  Meanwhile, the legacy media declares their end as a powerful political force.  They ...

  • August 20, 2011

    Media Matters vs. the Gateway Pundit on Obama as MLK

    Accepting Media Matters' premise in its criticism of Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit requires what a politician once called a "willing suspension of disbelief." A word battle last week between two websites played out this way:  Jim Hoft wrote tha...

  • August 18, 2011

    Arne Duncan's Glass School House

    Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, now hurling stones at Texas Governor Perry by attacking Texas schools, once lived in a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) glass school house. According to TPM (talkingpointsmemo.com): Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...

  • July 31, 2011

    George Washington on Congress

    In December 1778, Silas Lee, former representative of the United States in the Court of France, was embroiled in a dispute with Arthur Lee, also an envoy to France. In the midst of a congressional brouhaha surrounding the dispute, General George Wash...

  • July 29, 2011

    Tim Geithner on the U.S. Debt Rating in February 2010

    As the decibel level of the default and debt-rating debate dials up to deafening levels, let's recall what Tim Geithner said about our Aaa rating once upon a time. According to a Bloomberg.com article dated February 10, 2010, Treasury Secretary Tim...

  • July 24, 2011

    A Forgotten Founder on Amending the Constitution

    James Wilson (1742-1798) of Pennsylvania was one of six persons who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He's also the only Justice of the Supreme Court to be jailed for indebtedness.  Although a failure at land spec...

  • July 15, 2011

    A Forgotten Founder on the Tyranny of Legislative Authority

    James Wilson (1742-1798) of Pennsylvania was one of six persons who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He's also the only Justice of the Supreme Court to be jailed for indebtedness.  It happened shortly before his ...

  • July 5, 2011

    Oops! A slight problem with Obama's plan

    Now the New York Times is realizing what American Thinker posted back in 08 as:  "In the meantime what happens to NASA's cadre of scientists for five years? The answer is they move on because putting the Constellation Program on hold for f...

  • July 5, 2011

    The Case of the Missing U.S. Ambassador (Updated)

    The U.S. Ambassador was conspicuous by his absence at the recent unveiling of a Ronald Reagan statue in London. (update: The Ambassador was at the iunveiling, but skipped the banquet. Thanks to reader M. Miller for bringing this to our attention. We ...

  • July 2, 2011

    Sen. Mike Lee, another GOP Idealist Against the Ideologues?

    When political idealists battle political ideologues, the idealists usually lose. During the Friday, July 1 airing of FOX's Freedom Watch television show, host Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewed Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee concerning the debate...

  • May 14, 2011

    Charlie Chan and the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Dollar

    As the value of the dollar continues to decline, that legendary Honolulu police detective of yesteryear, Charlie Chan, is summoned to question several persons-of-interest.With his Number Three Son, Tommy, Chan enters the plush, mahogany paneled meeti...

  • May 7, 2011

    Charlie Chan and the Mystery of the Mansion Hideout

    As the story of the death of Osama bin Laden grows more curious by the day, it's time we call in that legendary Honolulu police detective of yesteryear, Charlie Chan, to visit the scene.With his Number One Son, Jimmy, Chan arrives at the former hideo...

  • May 5, 2011

    President Obama and the Masked Face of Justice

    President Obama, who aims to avoid offending the Arab Street by withholding the photo of a dead Osama bin Laden, seems to care little about offending the American Street.Here's how Obama explains concealing the photo in question:It is important to ma...

  • April 17, 2011

    Ask George III if Demonizing the Tea Party Works

    Future historians will describe the Democratic Party's demonization of the Tea Party movement as a major political blunder that put them squarely on the wrong side of America's 21st Century financial crisis. When Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on ...

  • April 15, 2011

    Will It Take A New Political Party to Save America?

    It is painful to even consider the possibility that America is moving into its Sixth Party System, as a new, conservative political party emerges to, eventually, replace the Grand Old Party.  Yet events suggest this may be in the cards.We've see...

  • April 6, 2011

    Is a 2012 Clinton 45 Win Unthinkable?

    Hillary Clinton would make a formidable 2012 presidential opponent running against any of the current crop of likely GOP candidates. Maybe that's why so many of them are keeping their powder dry, so far.  They're waiting to see what she does. Po...

  • April 4, 2011

    Do Republicans Want the White House?

    We Americans live in a political era when it's reasonable, perhaps even prudent, to consider the unthinkable.  Before the election of Barack Obama, most Americans were unable, or unwilling, to consider what his campaign promise to "fundamen...

  • December 30, 2010

    Obama's Inaugural Address: Two Years of Broken Promises

    Along with the annual turn of the calendar from one year to the next comes the musing over where our lives have been and where we hope they'll go.  This year the icy currents of our musings as a people will run deep. Certainly, they won't be equ...

  • November 2, 2010

    Palin v. Rove and the Battle for the GOP's Future

    The battle for the future of the Republican Party will fully engage tomorrow morning in the wake of today's election. The opposing forces will be initially represented by two Republicans who hold no elected office: Sarah Palin and Karl Rove.Palin rep...

  • October 25, 2010

    A Tide in the Affairs of America

    There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat;And we must take the current when it serves,Or lose ou...

  • September 24, 2010

    The Pincer Movement against Christine O'Donnell

    Delaware GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is under attack from two directions by otherwise competing interests that, against her, share a common goal -- to damage the Tea Party movement. Consequently, she's caught in a classic double enve...

  • September 20, 2010

    A Political Prisoner in Illinois?

    A voice from inside Chicago's Cook County Jail claims that the Save A Life Foundation (SALF) story implicates both Democrat and Republican pols in Illinois.The American Thinker reported last July 26 that the now-defunct Chicago suburb-based "cha...

  • September 18, 2010

    The Krauthammer-Rove Axis of Disdain

    Washington Post columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer has joined Karl Rove, the consigliere of Establishment Republicans, in a continuing attack on GOP Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell. Some longtime fans of Krautham...

  • September 13, 2010

    We Are the Ones Who'll Show You the Door

    The citizen resistance to Obama's progressive agenda that quickened in the summer of 2009 will soon intersect with an electoral coda. On November 2, Democrats featured in the political ballet we've endured during the last two years will face the vote...

  • September 10, 2010

    Hillary Clinton's Campaign for '12 Is Underway

    Hillary's campaign for the Democrat nomination for president in 2012 began last June 8, when, during an interview with an Ecuadorean television reporter, she announced the Department of Justice's plan to bring a lawsuit against Arizona's immigration ...

  • September 7, 2010

    The Most Profound Victims of the Obama Hoax

    The Fourth Great Awakening in American history continues to expand among those who drank the Obama Campaign Kool-Aid. Statistically, the most zealous believers in hope and change are the most profound victims of the Obama Hoax -- poor, young, unemplo...

  • September 2, 2010

    The Joe Miller Lesson Applied to the GOP Congressional Leadership

    On the cusp of what is trending toward a significant Republican victory in November, the current GOP congressional leadership has yet to make a compelling case that they're ready to lead a majority party. They appear satisfied to run as "Not Dem...

  • August 12, 2010

    How A GOP November Victory Could Bring Its Death

    If the GOP gains control of one or both Houses of Congress in the November midterm elections, and then does not make good on its promises to reverse and counter the Democrats' socialist agenda, we could hear the death knell that signals the end of th...

  • August 9, 2010

    Harry Reid Plays the Religion Card Against Sharron Angle

    Senator Harry Reid can't play the race card in his race against Sharron Angle. He wouldn't dare play the gender card. So he's playing the only face card he holds -- the religion card -- as he aims to frame Angle as a Christian zealot holding extreme ...

  • July 26, 2010

    The Save A Life Foundation Story: Featuring $850K in Unreported Government Grants

    This is about what happens when governments, both state and federal, pump money into a politically connected enterprise with little accountability on both ends. If you're an Illinois taxpayer, be advised: Reading this may raise your blood pressure....

  • July 6, 2010

    Former Chicago Machine Player Issues Warning to Sharron Angle Campaign

    What follows is a non-verbatim account of an interview with Mr. X. His exact language is in quotes. Mr. X was deeply involved in Chicago Machine politics for many years. He has intimate knowledge of those responsible for manipulating the Cook County ...

  • June 9, 2010

    The Save-A-Life Foundation Story: A Study in the Chicago Way

    Several local and national MSM news outlets promoted the Chicago suburb-based Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF), an enterprise that ran unchallenged from 1993 to November 2006, when ABC News Chicago television investigative reporter Chuck Goudie exposed ...

  • December 9, 2009

    The Libertarians' Chance to Matter

    The Libertarian Party is stuck in a loop that sustains its electoral irrelevance. Now is the perfect time for a strategy change.America has long used third parties as forums for statements of dissatisfaction with the big two. But while Theodore Roose...

  • December 5, 2009

    Social Democrats Versus a GOP in Search of an Ideology

    In the struggle between the two major political parties, the advantage goes to the one that can articulate that for which it stands. Democrats today have the advantage.Today's Democrats resemble the Fabian Society born in London in 1884.  Willia...

  • December 2, 2009

    President's Speech Muddles Nation-Building and National Defense

    President Obama's speech at West Point aimed to walk the line between nation-building and national defense. But he muddled the two concepts.Americans look to their wartime leaders for clarity, not ambivalence. The president began his Afghanistan war ...

  • November 20, 2009

    Americans Are Messaging Each Other 'S.O.S.'

    In many and varied ways, Americans are tapping out the international distress signal to each other since Washington, D.C. isn't listening.To all except the most zealous supporters of the Democratic Party, the intentions of the party in power have bec...

  • November 15, 2009

    The AT Readers' Complete Lexicon of Political Speech

    Numerous AT readers suggested additions to a recently posted partial lexicon of political speech. We'll call it "complete" for now, but there are, no doubt, still some oft-used terms missing. Contributing AT readers are noted [in brackets]....

  • November 4, 2009

    The Genie's People Speak at the Polls

    The peoples' Genie spoke yesterday. But will they keep speaking, or will the Genie ease back into the bottle?After watching the cram-down of astronomically expensive legislation and the accompanying explosion in national debt, the people's Genie tipp...

  • November 3, 2009

    "Net Neutrality" Nets Out to Government Control

    The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. -George Orwell, "Politic...

  • November 2, 2009

    Glenn Beck, FOX's 'Rodeo Clown'

    It may look like fun and games to the people in the stands, but this is serious business, and not just any clown can do it. (Anonymous comment on rodeo clowns)Much of what aggravates the Obama administration about FOX News is what Joe Biden would cal...

  • October 30, 2009

    Dodging the Label 'Party of No'

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  • October 27, 2009

    Does the Supreme Court Still Sit?

    Once upon a time a newly elected President, supported by an adoring media, claimed powers beyond the Constitution, and the Supreme Court acted.Does that Court still sit? Some of us are asking ourselves that question these days. A week doesn't pass wh...

  • October 21, 2009

    Obama's EEOC Nominee Would Redefine Marriage

    "We want to change the American workforce and revolutionize social norms...Our current public policies undermine the moral and political unit of same sex couples and families and that's a moral wrong that needs to be rectified."  - Cha...

  • October 2, 2009

    Czar seeks 'chilling effect' on internet

    meta-message: A term, widely credited to Gerard Nierenberg, used to refer to messages that are not directly delivered but emerge from between the written or spoken lines.The meta-message of Cass Sunstein's new book delivers a warning to those who wou...

  • September 30, 2009

    The Patron in Chief's Copenhagen Surge

    Europe leans right. The U.S. leans left. Afghanistan hangs in the balance. And Obama goes to Copenhagen. What's up with that?Patronage is what's up.  And world class patronage at that.  The mayor's son learned the lesson of the father....

  • September 25, 2009

    Czar wants parallel government broadcasting system

    President Obama's diversity Czar at the Federal Communications Commission proposes adding a vast public broadcasting system to the growing list of Obama's parallel institutions.Mark Lloyd has attracted attention for his controversial statements. Most...

  • September 23, 2009

    An Unwelcome Message for Obama

    A recently released economics book will not likely be featured by the legacy media as a selection for the Obama Book of the Month Club. Last March, TIME noted that the White House had been "seized" by a book entitled Animal Spirits: How Hum...

  • September 16, 2009

    Obama Is Redefining the American Presidency

    "The fact of the matter here is that President Obama believes a huge federal government can bring relief and prosperity to the American people. But many Americans do not believe that."  - Bill O'Reilly, September 14, 2009 "Talking...

  • September 10, 2009

    Obama's 'Gift' Has Stopped Giving

    "The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters.  From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the w...

  • September 1, 2009

    Obama's Next Big Push

    Regardless of the outcome of ObamaCare, if past behavior signals the future, the Obama administration's next big push will be to mute its most successful critics.It will come as no surprise when ObamaCare proponents invoke the name of Ted Kennedy to ...

  • August 24, 2009

    A Presidential Learning Moment

    The chaos surrounding proposed healthcare legislation offers President Obama the opportunity for a learning moment. The question is: What insight, if any, will he glean from it?Barack Obama is educated in the street skills of an inner city community ...

  • August 17, 2009

    The Array of WH ObamaCare Tactics Grows

    The White House is deploying an array of tactics to promote ObamaCare. Here's the list to date.1.  Warn about the cost of inaction.  Or the, "Sure it's expensive, but just think of how much it'll cost if we don't do anything!" arg...

  • August 14, 2009

    The People's Genie Is out of the Bottle

    Obama and Democrat Congressional leaders uncorked the bottle and the peoples' Genie is out.  He's not happy, this Genie. In normal times, he sits there quietly inside the bottle. Sometimes watching. Mostly not. He finds politics boring, if not d...

  • August 5, 2009

    The Obama Resistance Grows

    Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate -- citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day. America is no stranger to resistance. The nation was born from citizen resistance that had mixed support among the colonists. About one in five was loya...

  • August 3, 2009

    The Obamacare Strategy: Rush, Muddle & Malign

    Rush, Muddle & Malign isn't a law firm. It's a series of tactics the Democrat leadership is using to promote Obamacare.Rush worked with TARP and the Porkulus bill. The sky was falling, we were told, and we had to support those bills or we were do...

  • July 18, 2009

    Walter Cronkite, Vietnam, and the Decline of Media Credibility

    Walter Cronkite’s remarks at the end of his February 27, 1968 evening news broadcast, four decades ago today, were a watershed in the history of the MSM’s credibility.  Unless you’re at least 55 years old, you probably don...

  • June 11, 2009

    Nationalizing Public Education Comes After Health Care

    After Congress passes a national health care plan, nationalizing public education will be next.John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends (1988), said something to the effect that Ronald Reagan wasn't leading the (conservative) parade; he was riding the hor...

  • June 3, 2009

    Cindy Sheehan on Media Bias

    Media bias cuts not just against the Right, but against those on the Left who don't fit their template of the right Left. On June 1, 2009 I interviewed Cindy Sheehan concerning her thoughts on the MSM coverage she received during her failed attempt t...

  • June 1, 2009

    Chrysler, GM, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

    Entirely predictable, the unintended consequences of  nationalization of GM and Chrysler will still come as a surprise to Obama partisans and the media.Some of the acronyms will remain the same, but their meanings will change. GM becomes Governm...

  • May 22, 2009

    Corporatism comes to America

    "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." Benito Mussolini Some members of the Republican National Committee have recently wondered aloud what others of us wonder privately. What ...

  • May 13, 2009

    Animal Spirits, An Obama Book Club Selection

    White House Budget Director Peter Orszag... has been spending his time recently reading not about spreadsheets, but about psychology. In particular, he has been reading a new book by the economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller called "Anima...

  • May 8, 2009

    Obama's Self-Actualizing Language

    In the minds of his believers, Barack Obama has only to utter words and they become so. It is a phenomenon somewhere on the border between politics and religion.In the arena of Biblical scholarship called the New Hermeneutic, spoken words can become ...

  • May 4, 2009

    A Wind Blows Against The Political Spectrum

    Those who plot people and issues along the political spectrum of left, right, and in-between may be late to perceive a new wind blowing from outside their perspective.It blows invisibly, this wind. We can't see it, only what it occasionally stirs up....

  • April 28, 2009

    Obama's Good Cop-Bad Cop Scam

    President Obama may deplore enhanced interrogation techniques, but he's learned a few things from cops and criminals.Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer's article entitled "The Sting, in Four Parts" may have missed one part. The good c...

  • April 27, 2009

    In Search of the Ultimate Oxymoron: Humane War

    The renewed debate over enhanced interrogation techniques is just another episode in the hopelessly naive search for the ultimate oxymoron -- humane war."Shocks the conscience" is a key phrase in the CIA documents that the Obama administrat...

  • April 20, 2009

    What Releasing the CIA Memos is Really About

    It's realistic, not cynical, to assume political entities generally act out of their own self-interests. And political self-interests are what the CIA memos are really about. The oldest declassified CIA memo is from 2002, the youngest from 2005. So o...

  • April 15, 2009

    The Politicization of the Department of Homeland Security

    The recently released Department of Homeland Security assessment of rightwing extremism represents an alarming politicization of that huge federal agency.The 10-pages document is entitled: "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Cli...

  • March 27, 2009

    Slicing and dicing the Recession

    Explanations of the current recession are often bent by biased analysis, making truth as elusive as it is complex.Language is the first challenge most of us face. "Tranche" (French: to slice or cut - maybe it has something to do with cookin...

  • March 23, 2009

    NYT's David Brooks and 'Moderate Conservative' Journalism

    "David Brooks's Op-Ed column in The New York Times started in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour...

  • March 22, 2009

    The GOP and the Midterm Elections

    Still reeling from their losses last November, the GOP shows no signs of being any closer to defining its midterm election themes than it was last November 5th.Although it may be too soon for the party to evidence preparation for the '10 midterm elec...

  • March 13, 2009

    Obama Administration's Midterm Campaign Themes

    It's not too soon to anticipate the major campaign themes for the Obama administration during the 2010 midterm elections.Not yet two months into his presidency, it doesn't take a NASCAR driver to feel that the wheels on Obama's agenda are wobbly. But...

  • February 23, 2009

    Clinton Grovels at the Panda's Door

    Hillary Clinton, Presidential Candidate, March 2007:"Clinton is making America's dependence on Chinese investors a central theme of her 2008 message. She took to the CNBC airwaves Thursday [March 1, 2007] to declare that America was undergoing ...

  • February 18, 2009

    Awaiting the Awakening of the Forgotten Man

    It took less than a month for the default leadership style of President Obama to appear. How long will it take for the forgotten man who believed in him to awaken to the consequences? Amity Schlaes has written an excellent history of the Depression e...

  • February 3, 2009

    Our Indentured Servanthood Returneth

    Everything old is new again. Indentured servitude helped build America. It threatens to return as we undo the gift of liberty that was our inherited posterity. The nation itself will indentured to massive debt, if the Senate approves the stimulus bil...

  • February 2, 2009

    H.R.1: The House's Pig Pen

    The pork-laden American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 passed by Democrats in the House is a huge pig pen. Thanks to the staff of Congressman Michael Burgess (TX-R., 26th Dist.), I waded through a hardcopy of Division A - Appropriations Provis...

  • January 27, 2009

    Why I Like Blago

    In a political environment these days without humor, I like Blago. He's the political bad boy of our age.I started liking him as soon as the media began calling him "Blago" instead of two-term Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. When "S...

  • January 22, 2009

    President Obama's First Message To The Nation

    "doublethink": "The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and ...

  • October 6, 2008

    Gwen Ifill's VP Debate Bias

    A careful reading of the questions Gwen Ifill asked during the VP debate reveals several that displayed her bias.The revelation that PBS's Gwen Ifill plans to release a book on Barack Obama on Inauguration Day raised the suspicion that her moderator ...

  • September 23, 2008

    Obama and Daley's Public Housing Plan

    [This is the final article in a series that includes "Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers" here, and "Obama's Friends and Chicago's New Slums" here.]"I hope there is not much predictive value in his (Obama's) history and ...

  • September 16, 2008

    Obama 's Friends and Chicago's New Slums

    [See also "Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers" here.]"Mayor Daley's always talking about fair housing and decent housing, and he's got Allison Davis, who he appointed on the planning commission," says Smith, who heads the ten...

  • September 12, 2008

    Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers

    CLINTON: "...I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.OBAMA: No, no, no.(Excerpt from the January, 21, 2008, CNN Democratic pres...

  • September 10, 2008

    The Phantom Foursome: Obama, Rezko, Biden & Cari

    "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of ...

  • September 5, 2008

    A Week Since Invesco: Was It A Symphony or Playing Scales?

    Now that the makeshift temple at Denver's Invesco Field has been dismantled, and all the comments from the big media recorded, the question is: How will history compare the sizzle surrounding Obama's acceptance speech with the steak of its content? W...

  • August 28, 2008

    Whose Voice Will Obama Use Thursday?

    Will Obama deliver his acceptance speech with his own voice, or return to the oratorical style that permeated his primary victory speeches when he used the voice of Martin Luther King?Thursday, Obama will speak on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luthe...

  • August 25, 2008

    Where Did Obama's Mo Go?

    Barack Obama's big shiny campaign bus rolled into Denver with more money in the bank than air in the tires. So, where'd his Mo go? Time works against Obama.Back on June 8, 2007, Charles Krauthammer's article entitled "Two Years of Humble Pie...

  • August 21, 2008

    Tales From The 57 States: John Wins in Shaman Rick's House

    It came to pass in the eighth year of the third millennium that a long race decided who became Leader of the Realm of the Fifty-seven States. A position many called The Potus.Running in this race were two men: John the Warrior, who had long fought fo...

  • July 25, 2008

    Obama's Berlin Transfiguration Speech

    Obama's Berlin speech was the platform for his transfiguration into the presumptive victorious candidate for global leadership.   Back on February 13, 2008, American Thinker ran an article entitled "Obama, The Global Candidate" th...

  • July 20, 2008

    Obama's Civilian National Security Force

    Barack Obama's recent words to promote his image as Community Organizer in Chief were not about forming a paramilitary force of volunteer brown shirts. They were about turning America into one, giant, community organizer's sandbox at enormous co...

  • July 16, 2008

    Obama and the Independent School District

    "I don't want to send another generation of American children to failing schools." (Barack Obama, Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Des Moines, Iowa, November 10, 2007)The signature initiative of an Obama campaign for a second term would be nationa...

  • July 11, 2008

    Seven Steps to McCain Narrowing The Speech Gap

    Foreword: Before retiring, for over twenty years the author coached business executives from hundreds of companies in fourteen countries to become better speakers. McCain can narrow his speech gap with Obama and improve his chances for victory in Nov...

  • July 9, 2008

    Axelrod's Fall Riefenstahl Strategy

    This fall, watch for David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager, to choreograph at least two post-convention mass events at least slightly reminiscent of the stagecraft of Leni Riefenstahl in 1934 Germany.Ms. Riefenstahl first heard her idol at a 1932 r...

  • July 4, 2008

    The Thin Margin of Freedom's Victory

    We the people metaphorically dodged a bullet when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment is still alive. While many of us celebrated, we were also dismayed by the thin margin of freedom's victory.  But that should not surprise us....

  • July 2, 2008

    The Meta-Messages in Obama's Patriotism Speech

    meta-message: A term, widely credited to Gerard Nierenberg, used to refer to messages that are not directly delivered but emerge from between the written or spoken lines. Senator Obama's "The America We Love" speech, delivered in Independen...

  • June 29, 2008

    Old Media News In The Tank

    "in the tank": An idiom with no clear etymology. In finance, a significant fall in the value of a security, stock, etc., as in "Our stock is in the tank."  In boxing, a fighter who intentionally loses a bout, "He went in...

  • June 26, 2008

    James Dobson and Obama's Theory of Abortion Relativity

    Relativity: "Physics. a theory, formulated essentially by Albert Einstein, that all motion must be defined relative to a frame of reference and that space and time are relative, rather than absolute concepts." [as defined by dictionary.com/...

  • June 25, 2008

    It's Time McCain Picks Up The Glove

    Senator Obama's statement at a Jacksonville, Florida fundraiser last Friday is being heralded as a brilliant political move by many in the MSM.  It was, in fact, a shameless and unjustified insult to all Republicans, and all Americans. The man w...

  • June 19, 2008

    McCain's Elevator Speech Needs Work

    "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York." (Excerpt from William Shakespeare, "Richard the Third")"Now is the summer of conservative discontent made fairish fall by this son of Admirals....

  • June 10, 2008

    A Third Option For McCain

    When both options available are problematic, create a third one. That's what the McCain campaign can do to find a way for him to communicate without delivering a prepared speech.The ProblemMcCain's staff acknowledges that he's not a great platform sp...

  • June 6, 2008

    Obama's Oratory and McCain's Problem

    "Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."  - Mark Twain The June 3 general election kickoff speeches by McCain and Obama displayed a contrast in oratorical styles unparalleled in recent U.S. political histor...

  • June 5, 2008

    Obama's Conflicted Message On America

    Senator Barack Obama cannot keep bottled up the clashing visions of America he has on offer for his presidency. His commencement speech to this year's Wesleyan University graduating class conveyed his conflicted message on America."At a time of ...

  • June 2, 2008

    One For The Money, Two For The Votes

    Last week we witnessed two markedly different exercises of political expediency.  One executed with the clumsiness of the Peter Principle poster boy and former POTUS press secretary. The other displayed the smooth linguistic choreography of an e...

  • May 26, 2008

    Beneath Every Flag Lies A Story

    Memorial Day comes every time I drive across the bridge near my home over one of the reservoir lakes made by the Army Corps of Engineers to store water for the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.  Somewhere out there, thirty feet or so beneath the surf...

  • May 16, 2008

    Hawking Retro-Change and Misplaced Hope

    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.  Obama will be, even more, the tall, confident, articulate young ...

  • May 8, 2008

    A Fight Strategy for McCain

    McCain's three-legged campaign strategy may be emerging.  It's one that can lead him to victory in November.  Think of it as the stool in his corner of the ring.The first leg is built on a McCain tactic that puzzles some Republica...

  • May 5, 2008

    Jeremiah Wright's Apprentice

    "Over the past 50 years, thanks to the scholarship of dozens of experts in many different disciplines, we have come to see just how skewed, prejudiced and dangerous our miseducation has been." (Excerpt from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's April ...

  • May 1, 2008

    Thus Endeth the Lesson From Jeremiah

    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.  Some impact may be measured in the vote analysis after next week's Indiana and North Carolina primaries....

  • April 28, 2008

    Barack Obama: The Community Organizer in Chief

    "The more Obama worked as an organizer, the more he became convinced that the most serious problems he confronted couldn't be solved on the local level." (Excerpt from a 2007 Chicago Tribune article quoting Gerald Keller, who hired Oba...

  • April 22, 2008

    Obama's Plan for NASA

    As the legend goes, when the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez landed in what is now Mexico in 1519, he ordered the boats that brought him and his men there to be burned.  Obama seems to have something similar planned for NASA.Although the MS...

  • April 21, 2008

    Barack Obama & the Wisdom of Forrest Gump

    The simple yet profound wisdom of the movie character Forrest Gump -- "stupid is as stupid does" -- has entered the Democratic race for the nomination.  This time, though, the lesson is: arrogance is as arrogance does. Thanks to Americ...

  • April 16, 2008

    Obama, CEO Pay, and the Politics of Class Envy

    Populism uses the politics of discontent. Barack Obama's recurring comparisons between CEO and average worker salaries is a class-warfare play on resentment with just enough truth to make it work with many voters.Senator Obama has made frequent refer...

  • April 14, 2008

    Norman Hsu Who?

    If and when the time comes to perform the autopsy on Hillary Clinton's campaign, some will trace the start of its demise back to the Norman Hsu episode.  Others will ask, "What's a Norman shoe?"Eight months ago, on August 28, 2007, Bro...

  • April 10, 2008

    Obama's Linguistic Trap

    Senator Barack Obama set a trap during Tuesday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker unwittingly stepped into it. Of the three presidential candidates participating in Senate committee hearings on April 9, 2008, Ob...

  • April 8, 2008

    The Siren Song of Populism

    He took possession of the Democratic Party with the mesmerizing power of his oratory as his followers screamed, waved their arms, threw their coats in the air, and rallied to his call that, “This community is ready for healing.”A lawyer f...

  • March 31, 2008

    Today Is Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Day

    On January 30, 2007, Senator Barack Obama introduced the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 in a speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate.  In describing the proposed legislation he said,"This plan would not only place a cap on the number o...

  • March 30, 2008

    McCain's Gauntlet Speech

    McCain's recent speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council delivered many important messages.  Some were aimed at the upcoming general election campaign. Others were international messages directed toward friends, foes and those in the midd...

  • March 27, 2008

    Obama's National Public Education Plans

    While Clinton's and Obama's health care plans attract attention, Obama's plan for public education largely goes unnoticed.  National Health Care is on his first term agenda.  Is National Public Education on his second?When commentators accu...

  • March 24, 2008

    The Clinton Campaign's Opportunity

    Conventional wisdom says the debates between Clinton and Obama lack substance because their proposals are virtually identical.  They do differ, though, in one important area that the Clinton campaign still has time to exploit - Barack's dramatic...

  • March 21, 2008

    Hate Preach: Brite Divinity School To Honor Wright

    On March 29, 2008, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright is scheduled to receive Brite Divinity School's Black Church Leader Award.  Brite and Texas Christian University share a Fort Worth campus, but are independent schools. This week, TCU is probably wishi...

  • March 19, 2008

    Obama's Coming-Out Speech

    After his speech yesterday, we now better understand Obama's church affiliation and have a framework to interpret his intentions. He and his spiritual mentor shape their respective vocations, politics and theology, through the same race-based class d...

  • March 17, 2008

    William Jefferson Obama

    I now have reason to suspect that Barack Obama has a skill of proven value to a U.S. President: the ability to look straight into the camera and not tell the truth, without lying.  Step back in time:  On May 7, 1999, a NATO air strike hit t...

  • March 16, 2008

    A President Obama's Neoliberal Theocracy

    Barack Obama's first vocational choice was to help people in a poor African-American community. Later, he joined a church founded on black liberation theology. This combination could result in an Obama presidency that embodies something new in Americ...

  • March 3, 2008

    Obama's Language Games

    Barack Obama, the candidate, has used nuanced language to evade and deflect in order to avoid being candid.  Here are three examples of Obama language games concerning (1) Louis Farrakhan, (2) driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, and (3) re...

  • February 28, 2008

    When Illegal Immigration Trends Converge

    What happens if trends concerning (1) public school growth driven by illegal immigration, (2) the dropout rate for Hispanic students and (3) the projected U.S. demand for unskilled labor all converge?  No one knows the answer, and few are even a...

  • February 27, 2008

    Walter Cronkite, Vietnam, and the Decline of Media Credibility

    Walter Cronkite’s remarks at the end of his February 27, 1968 evening news broadcast, four decades ago today, were a watershed in the history of the MSM’s credibility.  Unless you’re at least 55 years old, you probably don...

  • February 22, 2008

    Obama's Mentor's Mentor

    The influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone appears in the political philosophy of Barack Obama as well as in the recent controversial statement about national pride made by Michelle Obama.  The spiritual role that Chicago's ...

  • February 19, 2008

    Obama's Global Tax

    Senator Barack Obama's sponsorship of Senate Bill 2433 aligns with the emerging core theme of his general election campaign.  The change he promises will bring much-needed relief, not just to America's victims of economic injustice, but to victi...

  • February 13, 2008

    Obama, The Global Candidate

    If Barack Obama fulfills the MSM's storyline of Obama the Dragon Slayer,  a new theme will surface - Obama the Global Candidate.   In his February 11, 2008 article entitled "Obama, the Democratic Nominee? Yes He Can!" Di...

  • February 6, 2008

    Illegal Immigration and Low Wage Labor

    Leprechauns, unicorns, and the assertion that illegal immigrants take jobs Americans won't do -- they're all myths.  Some myths are harmless, while others, like the medical benefits of bleeding, cause harm.  The assertion about illegal immi...

  • February 3, 2008

    The Elephant In the Immigration Room

    The ignored elephant in the immigration debate is the negative impact of illegal immigration on job opportunities for unskilled, uneducated, native-born U.S. workers -- particularly young African-Americans, but also native-born Hispanics. In their Ho...

  • January 25, 2008

    Can the GOP Reframe the Illegal Immigration Issue?

    One major task facing the eventual Republican presidential nominee will be to reframe the debate toward the real issue: the negative ramifications, to both illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens, that stem from mass uncontrolled immigration from Mexico...

  • January 20, 2008

    Barack, Hillary, Language, and Victory

    Political campaigns are fought with the weapon of language.  Barack's campaign uses it as a subtle and surgically-applied force.  Hillary's uses it as a blunt instrument.  Two items from last week's political news illustrate the differ...

  • January 16, 2008

    Obama's Oratorical Motif

    Senator Barack Obama's New Hampshire concession speech was another example of his default oratorical motif that imitates the speech patterns of Martin Luther King. While imitation is a form of flattery, it can also be a tool of self-promoti...

  • January 9, 2008

    Obama's Glaring Ambiguities

    When infatuation with Barak Obama transitions to examination of his positions, how will he reconcile the racial exclusiveness of his religious environment with the racial inclusiveness of his political speech? On July 27, 2004, the candidate for the ...

  • January 3, 2008

    Bloomberg: Perot With Smaller Ears

    Do we need another diminutive, entrepreneurial, big-ego billionaire promising us relief from partisan bickering? The last one on the political scene, Ross Perot, left us a minority President and partisan bickering in hyperdrive.Despite being quoted a...

  • January 1, 2008

    Obama's Oblique Race Card

    Barack Obama's new stump speech employs the homiletically lyrical style of his well-received Jefferson-Jackson Day delivery, while making oblique reference to the race card.On December 27, Barak Obama rolled out his new, revised stump speec...

  • December 29, 2007

    The Context of Huck's Devilish Question

    Mike Huckabee's rhetorical question -- "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"-- to Zev Chafets in a New York Times Magazine article entitled “The Huckabee Factor” was aimed around evangelical Ch...

  • December 24, 2007

    Dear Santa, Send the Dream Team

    Dear Santa,This Christmas please send me the Dream Team of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich running together on a new 3rd party ticket -- the Contrarian Party.  I know what you're thinking, Santa.  Your wall-sized media scanner is already picki...

  • December 18, 2007

    Huckabee's Middle East Policy

    Mike Huckabee's recently published foreign policy approach toward the Middle East is an advance to the past.In an article entitled "America's Priorities in the War on Terror, Islamists, Iraq, Iran and Paskistan," published in the January/Fe...

  • December 13, 2007

    A Debate on Fast-Forward

    Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Des Moines Register, re-enacted the role of a kinder and gentler version of the nun in the movie The Blues Brothers, minus the habit,  as she moderated yesterday's Republican Presidential debate in Iowa.  In ...

  • December 7, 2007

    How Romney's Speech Worked

    The setting for Mitt Romney's "Faith In America" speech was staged to answer the elementary question of his candidacy: Can we imagine this man as the President of the United States?  Standing before ten American flags, five on each sid...

  • December 3, 2007

    If Obama Beats Clinton to the Nomination

    If Barack Obama beats Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination, will Republicans be ready?  Democrats may eventually decide that Obama is their best candidate (absent Gore) to win the Presidency.  If that happens, the Republicans had bet...

  • November 27, 2007

    Hillary's Texas Money Bundler

    Has the Clinton Campaign cloned another Ms. Chung Seto of NYC Chinatown bundling fame, or a Boss Parr from a long-past Texas Senatorial race? Hillary has a Texas border town bundler, Alonzo Cantu, who, according to the Washington Post,  ...

  • November 24, 2007

    Tom Brokaw's Glass House

    The newspaper industry got a cold dose of impending reality from former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, in comments he made at a promotion of his recent book.  Concerning the Washington Post, he said, "It'll be probably digital 10 yea...

  • November 15, 2007

    Obama's Card Trumps Clinton's

    Both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have played their respective cards from the deck of protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- gender and race.Clinton, with the help (or hindrance) of former President Clinton, slap...